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Interesting Links for 19-04-2024

1. This is how crime reporting feels to me nowadays: (tags:crime comics journalism )
2. The "Gender Game Test" and the distribution of money: (tags:psychology gender equality money children )
3. Author granted copyright over book with AI-generated text—with a twist: (tags:copyright ai )
4. EU tells Meta it can't paywall privacy: (tags:privacy facebook europe regulation )
5. Cleopatra lived closer to the invention of bitcoin than the building of the pyramids of Giza: (tags:Egypt history )
6. Netflix Accused of Using AI Photos in True Crime Documentary: (tags:fraud documentary netflix crime AI )
7. U.S. blocks Palestinian request for full UN membership: (tags:USA Palestine nationality UnitedNations )
8. Sleeping flushes junk out of the brain: (tags:sleep brain )
9. The Scale of the Universe (zoom in from the largest objects to the smallest): (tags:universe size visualisation )
10. Sweden passes law lowering age to change legal gender from 18 to 16 and greatly simplifying the process: (tags:LGBT transgender Sweden GoodNews )

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Interesting Links for 01-02-2022

Sue Gray says she's not able to present 'meaningful report' due to Metropolitan Police investigation: (tags:UK police conservatives BorisJohnson party )
What do you when the new hire who showed up is not the same person you interviewed?: (tags:work fraud identity wtf interviews )
The New York Times Buys Wordle: (tags:games newspapers newyork wtf )
People have the weirdest ideas: astronomy edition: (tags:astronomy ignorance )
The longer you watch this the more kittens appear: (tags:kittens cute video )
Police given 500 pieces of paper and 300 photographs of evidence on partygate: (tags:police party Pandemic )
Peter Dinklage Called Out By Actors With Dwarfism For His Accusations Against Disney: (tags:acting Disney size )
Scotland's new smoke alarms law comes into force: (tags:Scotland safety fire housing )
This Osprey Looks Right At His Rescuer As He Frees Him: (tags:birds video )
Sophia's nursery is the first childcare business in Scotland to transition to being owned by its staff!: (tags:children business ownership Scotland )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4136012.html

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Interesting Links for 13-01-2022

Covid loses almost all its ability to infect after 20 minutes.: (tags:pandemic virus )
Lorries stuck at checkpoints for four days due to terrible new Brexit red tape: (tags:uk europe trade )
Having just finished re-reading Sandman I enjoyed this person documenting their re-read.: (tags:sandman comics neilgaiman )
Using American spellings is cheating, Wordle told: (tags:language words spelling usa uk satire )
Atomic mushroom clouds are big. Really big. You might think it's a long way up Mount Everest, but that's peanuts compared to an atomic mushroom cloud: (tags:size nuclearweapons visualisation viaSwampers )
Firefox bug is causing it to hang. Here's the solution: (tags:Firefox bug viaSwampers )
How a livestreamed roleplaying game's bid to make an animated version became the biggest kickstarter campaign ever, and got a Prime deal out of it.: (tags:tv animation roleplaying amazon streaming )
Satisfying simulations of bouncing balls obeying physical laws; for a fleeting moment during the simulation, the balls pass through a beautiful regular pattern: (tags:physics simulation maths video )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/4086500.html

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Interesting Links for 18-01-2019

Ambrosia charges $8,000 to fill your veins with blood of the young: (tags: blood youth wtf )
Theresa May still does not understand the meaning of the word 'compromise': (tags: UK europe politics )
Labour will only consider new Brexit referendum if UK is facing 'no-deal disaster', says Corbyn: (tags: uk labour OhForFucksSake )
Theresa May is warned that a softer Brexit option would cause Conservative party to explode. (Yaaaaaay!): (tags: uk europe Conservatives )
Bernie Sanders Has Highest Approval Among Nonwhite Voters in Recent CNN Poll: (tags: polls usa race )
Support for staying in EU is now at 56%: (tags: uk europe polls )
Labour shares vision for Scotland with view of Welsh mountain: (tags: Scotland Wales Labour fail )
The rowdy tourists currently obsessing all of New Zealand media: (tags: newzealand abuse tourism )
If He's Sexually Aggressive in Bars, It's Not Because He's Drunk: (tags: sex alcohol abuse )
Corbyn could face string of resignations if he backs 'people's vote': (tags: UK europe labour doom )
Glasgow City Council confirms £500m equal-pay settlement: (tags: Scotland equality pay gender Glasgow snp labour )
Theresa May literally reads off a script when she has meetings with MPs: (tags: politics conservatives wtf )
Zooming out from the smallest animals to the largest: (tags: animals video size )
NHS not sustainable and Theresa May's £20.5bn funding pledge won't fix it, NAO warns: (tags: NHS fail austerity )
Ex-mayor of Ipswich denied citizenship after almost 40 years in UK: (tags: UK immigration OhForFucksSake )
The "ugly fruit" movement is ridiculous nonsense: (tags: food )
Minority ethnic Britons face massive job discrimination: (tags: racism uk jobs )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3735253.html

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Interesting Links for 26-10-2018

A fascinating trilogy of articles looking at the economics, politics, and culture of Irish reunification: (tags: ireland NorthernIreland politics viaDanielDWilliam economics europe uk )
VFX Artist Reveals the True Scale of the Universe: (tags: video size space solarsystem )
Three-quarters of newspaper stories about Jeremy Corbyn fail to accurately report his views: (tags: labour fraud journalism uk )
Mad Max: Fury Road's director has his next project, and it's not a Mad Max film: (tags: movies )
Joint statement from Lib Dems, Green Party, SNP and Plaid Cymru on Barnier meeting: (tags: libdem snp GreenParty UK europe )
Instagram Refuses to Pull Down Milo Post Praising Mail Bombs: (tags: socialmedia terrorism usa OhForFucksSake )
Google terminated 48 employees for sexual harassment in the last two years: (tags: Google harassment )
What the Sydney Opera House can teach us about Brexit: (tags: UK europe doom projectmanagement )
Argentina says it could exploit no-deal Brexit to 'enhance' relations with Falklands: (tags: Argentina Falklands UK europe )
Antibiotic 'Trojan horse' could defeat superbugs causing global medical crisis: (tags: antibiotics GoodNews thefuture )
Stressed out waiting for some news? Try playing a computer game: (tags: distraction stress games )
Stress Hormone Cortisol Linked to Early Toll on Thinking Ability: (tags: cortisol stress mentalhealth )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3726743.html

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Interesting Links for 24-09-2018

Majority Of Voters Back Urgent Reform Of Westminster System: (tags: reform voting uk )
Why it matters that Bert and Ernie are gay, which they are: (tags: lgbt muppets SesameStreet )
Octopuses on MDMA reveal genetic evolution link to human social behaviors: (tags: social octopus ecstasy psychology )
Continental Drift - It's amazing how recent anything even vaguely resembling modern continents arise: (tags: geology geography video time )
How the World Map Looks Wildly Different Than You Think: (tags: video maps world size )
Solar panels replaced tarmac on a motorway. Here are the results.: (tags: solarpower roads fail )
App update rejected for mentioning iPhone XR in release notes: (tags: apple wtf )
Chechnya starts concentration camps for gay men, first time after Hitler: (tags: lgbt homosexuality Chechnya fascism bigotry OhForFucksSake )
Labour's new Brexit referendum would not offer option to remain in EU, says John McDonnell: (tags: Labour UK Europe OhForFucksSake )
No one understands why DC is now removing Batman’s penis from comic: (tags: comics penis censorship )
Malware Disguised as Job Offers Distributed on Freelance Sites: (tags: jobs malware virus OhForFucksSake )
“Unadoptable” shelter cats get second chance at life by chasing mice: (tags: cats mice jobs )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3718801.html

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Interesting Links for 28-08-2018

The worst Edinburgh festival venues in ‘Bad Boss Awards’: (tags: work Edinburgh fringe OhForFucksSake )
Pension opt-outs have not jumped since auto-enrolment rate rise: (tags: pensions GoodNews )
Emmanuel Macron rejects Theresa May's plea for help to rescue her Brexit plan: (tags: uk europe doom france )
Path to 2 nm May Not Be Worth It (for computer processors): (tags: computers technology size thefuture )
Online Bettors Good Indicator For If Psychology Studies Will Replicate: (tags: psychology gambling )
How Facebook, Apple and Microsoft Are Contributing to OpenStreetMap: I find OpenStreetMap really useful for footpaths, and details that Google doesn't bother with.
(tags: maps OpenStreetMap )
Depressed people find it hard to tell which negative emotion they're feeling: (tags: depression psychology )
EU calls Trump’s bluff as he takes an ax to the WTO: (tags: wto usa europe )
Germany calls for global payments system free of US: (tags: Germany usa money )
Stop telling women how they should talk: (tags: women voice viaFanf )
Diet has bigger impact on emotional well-being in women than in men: (tags: diet mentalhealth gender )
Blizzard disabling paid loot boxes in Overwatch & Heroes Of The Storm in Belgium: (tags: games gambling belgium )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3713903.html

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Interesting Links for 10-08-2018

How autistic adults are being let down by the healthcare system: (tags: autism healthcare )
The 20-Year Journey of 'The Meg'—the Movie the Internet Wouldn't Let Die: (tags: sharks movies )
It's taken me almost ten years, but I now have 25,000 geek points. If only I could spend them on something ;-): (tags: geekery geek )
Inside The Culture Of Sexism At Riot Games: (tags: games sexism business )
This is precisely how I feel about voting software: (tags: voting software doom comic xkcd )
Women navigate almost as well as men in countries with more equality: (tags: equality navigation gender )
Germany relaxes ban on Nazi symbols in video games: (tags: Germany games nazis )
North American diets require more land than we have: (tags: diet farming environment )
The war between Labour and Europe continues: (tags: Labour UK Europe OhForFucksSake )
Lovely stop-motion video about woodworking with Lego: (tags: Lego video stopmotion )
Japan’s Rent-a-Family Industry (much, much more interesting than I thought it would be): (tags: family business counselling psychology japan )
French police accused of harassing aid workers at Calais (they deny it, because nobody has reported the police to...the police: (tags: police immigration aid France OhForFucksSake )
Make Your Daughter Practice Math. She’ll Thank You Later.: (tags: mathematics girls )
Moose are big. Really big. No, bigger than that: (tags: animals size video )
Women with partners higher in trait conscientiousness get more pleasure from sex: (tags: sex psychology behaviour )
Cable networks are speeding up TV shows to cram in ads: (tags: advertising tv OhForFucksSake usa )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3700670.html

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Interesting Links for 20-03-2018

How different languages agree and disagree, and why Latin didn't have a "yes" or "no": (tags: language )
'I forget my PE kit deliberately' - the boys who hate sport. (This was me. It put me off exercise for decades): (tags: sports school )
Bulk Resize Photos is an awesome tool: (tags: web photography size )
DirectX Raytracing is the first step toward a graphics revolution: (tags: graphics Technology )
Although they can’t tell us about it, infants can reason: (tags: babies logic thinking )
We can read each other's emotions from surprisingly tiny changes in facial colour: (tags: colour faces emotion )
Say Her Name: Marielle Franco, a Brazilian Politician Who Fought for Women and the Poor, Was Killed. Her Death Sparked Protests Across Brazil: (tags: murder racism brazil poverty police )
Dimethandrolone undecanoate shows promise as a male birth control pill: (tags: contraception hormones men )
Scrap 'highly regressive' council tax: (tags: tax uk )
MPs call for 12 weeks of paternity leave to address gender pay gap: (tags: men children gender inequality )
Police chief: Uber self-driving car likely not at fault in fatal crash: (tags: cars automation death )
Pregnant women and new moms still hesitant to introduce peanut products: (tags: babies allergies peanuts )
U.K., Land of ‘Brexit,’ Quietly Outsources Some Surgeries to France: (tags: France NHS OhForFucksSake UK austerity )
The world’s last male northern white rhino has died, aged 45: (tags: rhino extinction )
Watch Cambridge Analytica’s CEO Offer to Entrap Political Opponents With Sex Workers: (tags: sexwork crime OhForFucksSake corruption )
Project Pica Pica shows off new real-time ray-tracing tech: (tags: graphics Technology games )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3627472.html

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Interesting Links for 22-10-2017

Balloons providing emergency internet in Puerto Rico: (tags: balloon internet )
Google and the Resurgence of Italian Design: (tags: Italy design google )
Will Facebook and Google be able to access your bank data?: (tags: privacy banking UK europe )
Vikings Razed the Forests. Can Iceland Regrow Them?: (tags: iceland forests trees )
More information on the recent dyslexia/eye research: (tags: dyslexia eyes )
Burger King Reveals the Uncomfortable Truth About Bullying in a Remarkable In-Store Stunt: (tags: food bullying video advertising )
Microsoft has found a way to double the HoloLens Field of View: (tags: augmentedreality microsoft )
If Game Of Thrones was an anime this would be its opening credits: (tags: anime gameofthrones )
Basque leader supports Catalonia: (tags: Spain Catalonia )
The secret Swiss mountain bunker where millionaires stash their bitcoins: Frankly, pretty silly. Any attack will be network-based, or social.
(tags: bitcoin security_theatre security )
The difference between an unwanted pass & sexual harassment: (tags: harrassment relationships gender society power )
Literally Just GIFs Of Women Destroying Shit: (tags: women anger animated_gif )
"Dave The Period Fairy" Has Become A Viral Sensation After A Woman Shared A Nightmare Hiking Experience On Reddit: (tags: menstruation awesome )
The Case of the Small Shoes —a.k.a. Survival Bias (No, people were not "just smaller then."): (tags: history size )
Franco’s fascism is alive and kicking in Spain: (tags: Spain fascism Catalonia police independence )

Crossposts: https://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3612192.html

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Interesting Links for 31-08-2017

Man born and raised in UK told he is not a British citizen: (tags: UK OhForFucksSake citizenship )
Finland will keep sterilizing trans people: (tags: Finland lgbt transgender OhForFucksSake )
UK plan to bypass European Commission in Brexit talks doomed to fail: (tags: uk europe OhForFucksSake )
Are Some Psychiatric Disorders a pH Problem?: (tags: mentalhealth brain )
Why don’t you make your own Half-Life 3 if you’re so smart?: (tags: games half-life )
New t-shirt sewing robot can make as many shirts per hour as 17 factory workers: (tags: automation clothing )
How the GDPR will disrupt Google and Facebook: (tags: privacy data regulation Europe Google Facebook advertising )
Currency rates hit new low at airport bureaux de change: (tags: currency UK europe )
Large Companies Considered Harmful: (tags: companies size economics )
Patient plays saxophone while surgeons remove brain tumor: (tags: music brain surgery )
Moving from saturated to unsaturated fat doesn't help you lose weight, does lower cholesterol: (tags: fat health weight )
Marvel star slates racist Hollywood over name change: (tags: china usa racism tv movies names )
Beauty pageant winner hands back crown after being told she was too fat by organisers: (tags: society weight beauty OhForFucksSake )
NHS Wales: badly run by Labour or underfunded by Westminster?: (tags: wales nhs money )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3597457.html

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Interesting Links for 14-07-2017

Mario Kart VR looks absolutely incredible: (tags: Mario nintendo VirtualReality awesome video )
At Wimbledon 2017, one of the oldest tennis tournaments serves up new tech: (tags: technology sport )
Miniatur Wunderland, world's largest model railway, filmed with Google Maps Street View: (tags: photos size google models germany )
Electric cars to account for all new vehicle sales in Europe by 2035: (tags: cars thefuture electricity )
Superconducting Quantum Levitation on a 3π Möbius Strip: (tags: quantum video magnets )
Eight unusual neuropsychological syndromes (that I'd never heard of): (tags: psychology weird )
Pakistan’s secret atheists: (tags: pakistan atheism religion islam )
This is still the best joke of all time: (tags: funny joke facebook )
Turn JavaScript code into Emoji (It was only a matter of time): (tags: emoji javascript funny )
The Beloit College Mindset List for the Class of 2020: (tags: demographics time age society )
Dark Souls cake!: (tags: cake games )
I Worry Blizzard Won't Make 'Diablo 4' If They Can't Monetize It With Loot Boxes: (tags: games money business )
Labour's 2017 election campaign worst in almost 70 years at turning votes into seats: (tags: voting labour uk politics )
Ravens can be better at planning ahead than four-year-old children: (tags: birds Intelligence )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3302513.html

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Interesting Links for 22-06-2015

POLL: What Is Your Favourite US Mass Shooting So Far This Year?
- (tags: usa guns satire polls )
The lesbians of WWII
- (tags: LGBT wwii )
Taylor Swift is holding back her latest album from Apple Music
- (tags: Apple music )
E Pluribus Hugo (the proposal to prevent Hugo slates dominating the process)
- (tags: hugo voting scifi fandom )
From Cover Bands to Vegas Residencies - how much do musicians make?
- (tags: money music )
If Westeros were Europe
- (tags: gameofthrones Europe maps )
It's Now Illegal to Sell Adult eBooks Before 10 PM in Germany
- (tags: OhForFucksSake porn Germany books internet )
A physicist explains why the universe is like a fruitcake (in two minutes)
- (tags: physics video )
Infants' superior perception linked to later autism symptoms
- (tags: autism perception psychology )
Rachel Dolezal, Caitlyn Jenner: How transgender is different from transracial.
- (tags: race gender LGBT )
What Poverty Does to the Young Brain
- (tags: psychology brain cortisol stress poverty )
Inside one of the world's largest caves (discovered in 2009)
- (tags: cave video )
Doctoral dissertation in graphic novel form
- (tags: phd academia comics )
Greece’s Proposals to End the Crisis
- (tags: Greece economics economy )
I am entirey in favour of the "Some Asshole" initiative
- (tags: terrorism comic )
For believers, fear of atheists is fueled by a fear of death
- (tags: death religion atheism fear )
Behold: The Mega-Processor!
- (tags: computers technology awesome size )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3295615.html

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Interesting Links for 07-06-2015

What's the best word for genitalia?
- (tags: genitals language polls )
Not sure if being stuck at an airport with the casts of two Disney musicals would be the best or worst thing...
- (tags: musicals Disney airport video )
Inside the World's Biggest 'Magic: The Gathering' Tournament
- (tags: games competition magic )
YASKAWA BUSHIDO PROJECT / industrial robot vs sword master
- (tags: video swords robots Japan )
Why good people do bad things (and how to get them not to)
- (tags: psychology behaviour )
What do IQ tests actually tell you?
- (tags: iq intelligence )
Here's What Drug And Legal Experts Actually Think Of The Blanket Ban On Legal Highs
- (tags: drugs brain UK law epicfail )
This Woman Has Been Sitting on Manspreaders For the Last Month and She Has Never Felt More Free
- (tags: men space women behaviour transport )
The professor afraid of his students, and the one who isn't
- (tags: freespeech academia )
This Charity Gives Poor People A Year's Income, No Strings Attached (I donate to them)
- (tags: GuaranteedIncome charity effectiveness )
It turns out that "bra size" is not a very useful term
- (tags: clothing breasts women size )
Ferris Bueller took his Day Off 30 years ago today
- (tags: FerrisBueller )
Hollywood's inaccurate STEM stereotypes are bad for all of us
- (tags: science stereotypes )
Shakespeare's Big 4 (a summary)
- (tags: shakespeare funny comic )
What does it look like when Jesus walks on water?
- (tags: water jesus )
HTML is done
- (tags: html web )
An Interactive Mirror Built from 450 Rotating Penguins
- (tags: mirrors penguins technology art )

Crossposts: http://andrewducker.livejournal.com/3247179.html

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Interesting Links for 06-03-2015