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1. Scientific fraud has become an industry, alarming analysis finds: (tags:science research publishing fraud OhForFucksSake )
2. An Investigation Into the Firm at the Heart of the Democratic Spam Machine (Finds that less than 2% of the money raised goes to the candidates): (tags:democrats fundraising corruption )
3. Didn't Take Long To Reveal The UK's Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About: (tags:UK privacy censorship politics OhForFucksSake )
4. World Athletics' mandatory genetic test for women athletes is misguided. I should know - I discovered the relevant gene in 1990: (tags:genetics sports gender )
5. Tech billionaires are arguing amongst themselves about how exactly humanity should go extinct: (tags:extinction humans ai thefuture )
6. When Disney Went Digital (earlier than you'd think): (tags:Disney history computers technology art animation movies )
7. Labour got a bunch of former-Conservative voters in Scotland, and are now in danger of shedding them to Reform (might explain a few things): (tags:scotland politics Conservatives labour )

1. Social housing to be demolished as post-Grenfell repairs are too expensive: (tags:UK housing OhForFucksSake )
2. Volkswagen reintroducing physical controls for vital functions: (tags:cars driving ux )
3. Game-Changing Vaccine Offers Long-Lasting Protection Against COVID-19 & Flu: (tags:vaccine pandemic flu GoodNews )
4. The Person Centred Association comes out against transphobia: (tags:LGBT transgender bigotry GoodNews counselling )
5. Asimov's, Analog, and Fantasy and Science Fiction have all been purchased: (tags:scifi publishing )
6. Why the Edinburgh South Suburban tram/train is unlikely to happen: (tags:trains trams edinburgh economics )
7. The Relationship between Autism and Ehlers-Danlos Syndromes/Hypermobility Spectrum Disorders: (tags:autism genetics bodies )
8. Scandal of the sick: Ill and disabled PIP benefit claimants die while waiting for payments: (tags:UK welfare austerity OhForFucksSake )

1. Russia using Wagner in Africa to displace the West and erode democracies: (tags:russia africa corruption )
2. Global warming increases ocean temperatures, stripping the seas of oxygen: (tags:oxygen ocean fish doom )
3. People are publishing AI books with real authors' names.: (tags:ai writing publishing fraud )
4. Covid testing in Scottish hospitals, care homes and prisons to end: (tags:scotland pandemic )
5. Norway fines Facebook owner Meta $100k/day over privacy breaches: (tags:norway facebook privacy regulation )
6. SUSE, the German Linux company, appear to be deeply anti-semitic: (tags:Jews linux OhForFucksSake )
7. Inside Keir Starmer's plan to 'annihilate the left' and appoint 'middle-class and dull' candidate MPs: (tags:labour politics )
8. The electoral breach in the UK was all Microsoft's fault: (tags:uk hacking microsoft )
9. Complex ape-man culture, with burial practices, may have existed in Africa 300,000 years ago: (tags:africa humans evolution society culture death )
10. Gender disparity in the rate of partner abandonment in patients with serious medical illness: (tags:cancer divorce gender )

1. Can you beat...The Password Game: (tags:passwords funny game )
2. 10cm African huntsman spider found in Edinburgh suitcase: (tags:spiders aieeee! edinburgh )
3. Edinburgh tram report 'still with publishers' nine weeks on: (tags:Edinburgh trams publishing wtf )
4. The Connection Between Autism And The Gut Microbiome Is Clearer Than Ever: (tags:autism microbiome )
5. Catching Covid? Try not to have blood type A: (tags:blood Pandemic )
6. Canadian Smoke Reaches Europe (the pictures are terrifying): (tags:Canada fire Europe Portugal )
7. do gender differences (sometimes) seem bigger in more gender equal countries? (If people think real sex differences exist, segregation will result regardless of real skill differences): (tags:gender psychology society ViaDrCross )
8. Forcing council meetings to be in person causes those with jobs, children, and disabilities to quit: (tags:disability politics UK parenting work )
9. A Russian soldier on what it's like on their front lines in Ukraine: (tags:Ukraine Russia war epicfail incompetence )
10. US public wants climate change dealt with, but doesn't like the options: (tags:usa globalwarming doom )
11. Sharpie scanning goof reveals major PlayStation budgets and revenues - and that millions of gamers buy a PS just to play Call of Duty: (tags:games playstation sony )

1. Mourning Porn on Imgur, Mourning Trans & Kinky History: (tags:censorship lgbt history OhForFucksSake )
2. Houston's only lesbian bar denied insurance for hosting drag: (tags:insurance clothing gender OhForFucksSake )
3. Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards - the finalists for every year since 2016: (tags:animals funny photos )
4. How the use of technology in science fiction tells you what the writer is actually interested in talking about: (tags:scifi writing )
5. About as simple a guide as you can get to how the recent flock of AIs work. (It really is Searle's Chinese Room): (tags:language mathematics ai )
6. People are still massively wasting publishers' time by submitting AI generated short stories.: (tags:AI short_story publishing OhForFucksSake spam )
7. The Staircase of Global Warming Denial: (tags:globalwarming visualisation )
8. What's so great about Costa Rica?: (tags:SouthAmerica politics society history )

1. Kitkat ads made using AI satirise making things with AI: (tags:ai advertising food chocolate )
2. Iowa passes a law allowing child labour: (tags:USA children work OhForFucksSake )
3. Two-for-One: Chickenpox Vaccine Lowers Shingles Risk in Children: (tags:chicken virus vaccination )
4. Manager at radical French publisher arrested on terror charges en route to London Book Fair (for taking part in protests against French pension changes): (tags:France UK publishing wtf protests )
5. Former Wagner fighters claim they were ordered to kill children and civilians in Ukraine: (tags:murder WarCrimes Russia Ukraine children )
6. Brecon Beacons name change explained: How to pronounce the National Park's new Welsh name Bannau Brycheiniog: (tags:names wales nature mountains )
7. Prepayment meter ban could see energy firms go after struggling customers' cars and TVs: (tags:energy money business debt poverty )
8. Hundreds of years after the first try, we can finally read a Ptolemy text: (tags:history mathematics writing )

1. Giant meatball grown in a vat from extinct mammoth DNA unveiled by food firm: (tags:food extinction elephants technology headline )
2. The German far-right are funnelling money to the Conservatives: (tags:politics germany Conservatives )
3. The people who trained and funded Kate Forbes, who nearly became First Minister of Scotland, are deeply deeply unpleasant bigots: (tags:bigotry LGBT Scotland Christianity religion )
4. Now ChatGPT is being (mis)used to do peer review: (tags:ai research publishing OhForFucksSake fraud )
5. Customer service jobs may be safe from AI for a bit: (tags:ai work fail )
6. Covid may be bringing cancer forward decades: (tags:Pandemic inflammation cancer Doom )
7. Conservatives and Brexit continue to be deeply unpopular with the British public: (tags:UK polls politics Europe )
8. The "Pause AI!" letter making the rounds is full of AI hype: (tags:ai hyperbole viaPatrickHadfield )
9. Inside Britain's anti-abortion training camps: (tags:abortion UK conspiracy )
10. The UK government clearly *wants* to have cyber security issues: (tags:security UK jobs pay Doom )

1. Edinburgh Labour councillor quits, says that Labour head office banning coalitions with Greens or SNP has caused a shambles: (tags:labour scotland OhForFucksSake )
2. This is my favourite recent computer game review: (tags:games review )
3. A Stroke Of The Pen: A Collection Of Rediscovered Short Stories By Terry Pratchett: (tags:terrypratchett short_story )
4. I am actually pretty impressed at how much the UK managed to get in the new deal over Northern Ireland: (tags:NorthernIreland trade Europe UK Ireland )
5. Rez on the PSVR 2 uses eye tracking for locking on!: (tags:VirtualReality games eyes amazing )
6. Aurora Borealis. Edinburgh, 26 February 2023. (I couldn't see from where we live, but I do appreciate these photos): (tags:auroraborealis edinburgh scotland )
7. The Jewish influence on Good Omens: (tags:judaism neilgaiman )
8. Elon Musk defends racist tirade by Dilbert creator Scott Adams: (tags:racism dilbert ElonMusk )
9. TikTok's new face filters are very impressive, and make people feel awful about their real faces: (tags:faces photoshop video )
10. Amazon Removes Books From Kindle Unlimited After They Appear on Pirate Sites: (tags:copyright amazon piracy wtf publishing )
11. Physically Demanding Work Tied to Male Fertility: (tags:exercise fertility men )
12. Eggs and margarine drive food inflation to record 17.1%: (tags:food inflation economics uk eggs ukraine doom )
13. Two in three Britons want new political party to take on Tories and Labour: (tags:politics UK )
14. Study finds video games are not harmful to children's brains: (tags:videogames games brain children )
15. 25 years after the MMR vaccine autism fraud, we're still dealing with the consequences: (tags:fraud autism mmr vaccination OhForFucksSake history )

1. A reason why Mac speakers sound better and louder than most: (tags:Apple speakers technology sound )
2. Supermarkets all out of turnips after shoppers told to eat them amid veg shortage (another lovely week here on normal Island): (tags:UK food Doom )
3. The NYT is apparently fine fabricating sources: (tags:nytimes fraud OhForFucksSake jkrowling transgender bigotry )
4. Britain's failure to act on Russian dirty money will see us forever labelled hypocrites: (tags:Russia money OhForFucksSake uk )
5. There is basically no research on how often to sterilise baby bottles, and advice varies *dramatically*: (tags:babies food cleaning )
6. Hilariously appalling questions that tech employees have asked at public sessions: (tags:technology work questions OhForFucksSake )
7. Food shortages in the UK - what's missing from shelves and why?: (tags:trade food uk Doom )
8. James Bond books rewrite will remove 'offensive' references: (tags:books JamesBond offensive writing publishing )

1. Amazon will no longer let people instantly return ebooks they've read: (tags:ebooks Amazon publishing )
2. More Democrats Than Ever Support The Palestinian Cause, And That's Dividing The Party: (tags:Israel Palestine USA democrats )
3. Scotland's no-fracking policy to continue: (tags:Scotland fracking GoodNews )
4. Far too much advice about photography: (tags:photography advice )
5. 32 examples of Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie being the peak of comedy: (tags:comedy UK TV history )
6. What does Covid prevention look like for an industry where people care about it?: (tags:business Pandemic testing )
7. Using AI to upgrade the graphics quality of old games: (tags:games graphics ai video amazing viaSwampers )
8. Rape posts every half-hour found on online incel forum: (tags:rape communication internet OhForFucksSake men )
9. The UK now charges more tax to a graduate than a high earner: (tags:tax UK university OhForFucksSake )

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