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Interesting Links for 07-06-2023
Jun. 7th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Scotland's first electric HGV starts making trips
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- 2. Photoshop's new "Generative Fill" feature is really impressive.
- (tags:ai photoshop )
- 3. The science around babies and sleep is, frankly terrible. (And the article assumes you'll be doing sleep training at all)
- (tags:research babies sleep )
- 4. Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People
- (tags:Intelligence ai society )
- 5. The cultural bias of "ultra-processed food"
- (tags:food society )
- 6. Edinburgh tram time-lapse shows route extension (opening today!)
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- 7. UK government ignored that major drinks companies, retailers, and trade bodies, as well as the Environment Agency wanted glass to be included in the deposit return scheme.
- (tags:uk recycling OhForFucksSake glass )
- 8. Your Reminder that "AI" Will Just Flat-Out Make Things Up
- (tags:ai fraud )
- 9. Who wants to eat a giant isopod from the depths of the ocean?
- (tags:animals food weird taiwan )
Interesting Links for 27-03-2023
Mar. 27th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Dogs getting on the bus for doggy daycare
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- 2. "I Saw the Face of God in a TSMC Semiconductor Factory"
- (tags:Taiwan education economics technology processor )
- 3. Kwasi Kwarteng tells fake firm he could help arrange meeting with 'great guy' Boris Johnson
- (tags:conservatives corruption )
- 4. AI image of Pope Francis in a puffer jacket fooled the internet and experts fear there's worse to come
- (tags:ai Pope fraud photos )
- 5. A short list of Jewish fantasy novels
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- 6. This is why I've never had laser eye surgery. Even 1:1000 isn't worth the risk to my sight
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Interesting Links for 17-12-2022
Dec. 17th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Twitter blocks users from sharing Mastodon links
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- 2. Would you like the perfect Christmas present for your cat?
- (tags:cats christmas video viaKirsty )
- 3. Chaosium announce that they will not use AI Art in their products (first company I've seen make such a pledge)
- (tags:ai art games roleplaying viaJamesNicoll )
- 4. The Indian doctor who saved 50,000,000 lives with a simple invention
- (tags:healthcare sugar salt water india )
- 5. The German office for data protection and freedom of information suggests that German ministries move to Mastodon
- (tags:germany mastodon twitter )
- 6. China's War Against Taiwan Has Already Started
- (tags:China Taiwan disinformation war )
- 7. Queen's death events cost Edinburgh council £500,000
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- 8. EU adopts global minimum 15% tax on big business
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- 9. Games kind of suck at designing female heroes
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- 10. How the campaign to stop the United Kingdom government from making it more difficult to prosecute war crimes was won
- (tags:torture law WarCrimes UK politics )
- 11. Schizophrenia: Parasite x Genotype x Stress
- (tags:stress genes Parasites schizophrenia )
- 12. Congress passes legislation to end US participation in global shark fin trade
- (tags:sharks USA )
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Interesting Links for 03-03-2022
Mar. 3rd, 2022 12:00 pm- Lecturers share their terrible reviews
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- Hidetaka Miyazaki Sees Death as a Feature, Not a Bug
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- What Russian "intellectuals" are saying right now
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- The British Guardian Vs the American one on the subject of trans rights
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- How badly will sanctions affect Russia?
- (tags:Russia war Ukraine economy economics trade viaDanielDWilliam )
- The projected light show from Paisley Abbey is rather beautiful
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- Ukraine's Chinese characteristics
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- Carmakers shut factories and freeze sales as Ukraine invasion fallout spreads
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- Bee-killing pesticide banned by EU to be used in UK
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Interesting Links for 22-10-2021
Oct. 22nd, 2021 12:00 pm- The NFT-based book-writing group aimed at teens that lasted nearly 12 hours before being questioned to death
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- Vienna Tourist Board museums join OnlyFans after explicit artworks censored online
- (tags:history art socialnetworking nudity censorship )
- This Taiwanese Teacher Who Puts Their Math Lessons on Pornhub
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- The 'Most Controversial Opinion' Hinge Question Is Easier Than You Think
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- Tory reforms redistributed schools cash from poor to rich areas
- (tags:poverty school inequality UK conservatives )
- Government refuses to publish Brexit plan legal text for scrutiny
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Interesting Links for 23-09-2021
Sep. 23rd, 2021 12:00 pm- World's largest floating offshore wind farm begins operation off the coast of Scotland
- (tags:Scotland windpower viaDanielDWilliam )
- Taiwan applies to join Pacific trade deal just days after China
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- Microplastics are coming out of our babies! (10x more than they come out of adults)
- (tags:faeces plastic babies )
- Warnings instead of prosecution for Class A drug users in Scotland
- (tags:drugs Scotland )
- Dark Souls 10th anniversary tour. (Gorgeous and haunting.)
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- Priti Patel's asylum plan will break international law, says UNHCR
- (tags:refugee UK OhForFucksSake )
- China to stop building coal plants in developing nations
- (tags:china coal GoodNews globalwarming )
- Israel Killed an Iranian Nuclear Scientist With a Robot Sniper
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Interesting Links for 30-08-2021
Aug. 30th, 2021 12:00 pm- The autistic spectrum is not a line
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- Adobe: The Psychology of User Offboarding (Or: How to keep them subscribing)
- (tags:Adobe psychology OhForFucksSake )
- Psychologists Have Uncovered a Troubling Feature of People Who Seem Nice All the Time
- (tags:niceness psychology torture )
- Train Wheels Are Cones
- (tags:trains design )
- To China's chagrin, Japan-Taiwan talks could pave the way for closer ties
- (tags:Japan China Taiwan )
- Everything turns into crabs or weasels
- (tags:animals evolution )
- Spectrum of theistic probability (I used to be a 6, nowadays I'm Ignostic)
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Interesting Links for 21-03-2021
Mar. 21st, 2021 12:00 pm- This is a decent background on the mess going on with the SNP at the moment
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- £1m-plus PPE contract handed to Tory donor's firm still kept secret one year later
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- Some fascinating developments in understanding and working with mouse and human embryos
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- Infinite Nature: Perpetual View Generation of Natural Scenes from a Single Image
- (tags:impressive ai nature video )
- People are sharing the useless mental health advice from their GPs
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- Giant octopus moves in to Edinburgh's Sick Kids hospital
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- Here's Google embedding sexism in its translation software
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- Why is the Taiwanese government telling its citizens to stop changing their name to "Salmon"?
- (tags:names fish Taiwan food marketing )
- Met Police are happy to beat up women, but anti mask idiots are free to march as much as they like
- (tags:protests police OhForFucksSake London UK )
- Visa to hike interchange fees for UK customers in post-Brexit move
- (tags:visa fees UK Europe )
- Republicans warn that if people get their vote then they won't be able to win
- (tags:politics usa republicans )
- How vaccinated is the UK, and what does the data tell us we need to watch out for?
- (tags:pandemic vaccination UK )
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Interesting Links for 22-11-2020
Nov. 22nd, 2020 12:00 pm- I need a 3D printer and some chickens, stat!
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1329881447281414146.html
(tags:chicken 3dprinting awesome dinosaurs ) - Why are nuclear plants so expensive? Safety's only part of the story
- (tags:nuclearpower cost money )
- Irish Musicians And Other Artists To Get €325 Per Week In Universal Basic Income Scheme
- (tags:Ireland GuaranteedIncome art music )
- "10 Things I Wish I'd Learned Sooner After Being a Developer for 10 Years"
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- This is clearly the future of sport!
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- Dogs with babies are the best
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- Scientists Uncover the Universal Geometry of Geology
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- The Crown Season Four in two and a quarter minutes.
- (tags:TV royalty funny satire video )
- Playdough Surgery 🔪🤰🏻- Cesarean Delivery
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- What it's like to fly in to Taiwan in the middle of a pandemic
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1330287079708893184.html
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Interesting Links for 23-10-2020
Oct. 23rd, 2020 12:00 pm- Covid: Scots told to prepare for 'digital Christmas'
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- Brexit: Food and drink companies tell Boris Johnson they will have to pull out of Northern Ireland because of his deal
- (tags:UK trade NorthernIreland europe )
- US approves $1.8bn weapons sale to Taiwan
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- Your Brain Prefers Happy Endings. That's Not Always Smart
- (tags:psychology )
- Thank goodness for Byron!
- (tags:horror programming history )
- Edinburgh property which owner said was now a student flat is still being advertised as short-term let for 23 people
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Interesting Links for 09-10-2019
Oct. 9th, 2019 12:34 pm- Following the game plan: Merkel call latest pantomime act in No.10's Brexit's strategy
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- A physics lecturer in why humanities courses are better at teaching critical thinking
- (tags:science humanities thinking academia )
- I had no idea France was so deeply intertwined with the economies of its ex colonies in Africa
- (tags:France Africa currency economics )
- People Prefer Their Jobs To Be Taken By Robots, Not Other Workers
- (tags:psychology jobs robots )
- Reading this account of a woman stabbing her daughter, and am baffled there's no mention of mental health.
- (tags:parenting mentalhealth wtf )
- It's almost funny watching Johnson and Cummings flail about trying to find a way to defeat parliament. If it wasn't also so serious...
- (tags:politics law UK )
- Dominic Cummings memo reveals that he doesn't understand the EU
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- Artifact: What Went Wrong With Valve's Card Game?
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- Russia's Disinformation War Is Just Getting Started
- (tags:Russia fraud socialnetworking disinformation )
- 'A masterpiece': Norwich council houses win Stirling architecture prize for being environmentally and socially aware
- (tags:architecture housing design environment )
- Unicef now accepting donations through bitcoin
- (tags:bitcoin UnitedNations children charity )
- The most credible banking phishing attempt I've seen.
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- Brexit: Parliament to sit on a Saturday for first time in 37 years in last-ditch Boris Johnson bid to stop delay
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- China and Taiwan clash over Wikipedia edits
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- Obsessed fan finds Japanese idol's home by zooming in on reflections in her eyes
- (tags:eyes stalking OhForFucksSake japan )
- Dog owners are over 30% less likely to die from cardiovascular causes
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- Euromyths - 1992-2017
- (tags:europe myths eu )
- The Nobile Officium Cases - the way forward
- (tags:law UK europe )
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Interesting Links for 07-04-2019
Apr. 7th, 2019 03:53 pm- "Modern Monetary Theory" doesn't appear to be an actual coherent theory
- (tags:economics money )
- What happens when you buy a bunch of different fish and then test them to see what they *really* are?
- (tags:fish fraud genetics )
- UK university removes reference to Taiwan as a country on map after Chinese student backlash
- (tags:china taiwan map UK academia )
- Deer faeces & 'spewing' referees - the wonderful world of Scotland's Highland League
- (tags:football Scotland viaDanielDWilliam )
- A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy
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- Britain's wartime generation are almost as pro-EU as millennials
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- You're The Worst creator Stephen Falk on the show's emotional finale
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- Divided by DNA: The uneasy relationship between archaeology and ancient genomics
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- Islamic world abruptly stopped calling out China's Muslim persecution
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- Just how harmful is porn? (And are the government's plans worse?)
- (tags:UK porn OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 31-12-2017
Dec. 31st, 2017 12:00 pm- Men Resist Green Behavior as Unmanly
- (tags: men environment OhForFucksSake psychology )
- Boris Johnson's 'Global Britain' claims mocked as UK cuts back embassies around world to fund more EU diplomats
- (tags: uk diplomacy europe )
- Iranians take to streets in biggest protest since crushed 2009 demonstrations
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- Whole of England to be mapped with lasers
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- The Last Jedi, toxic masculinity, and showing your place in all this
- (tags: patriarchy StarWars )
- The Plasma Magnet Drive: A Simple, Cheap Drive for the Solar System and Beyond
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- Why did it take so long for basic things to be invented?
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- How Taiwan transformed its health care system to single-payer
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- 28 of the funniest Tweets of 2017
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Interesting Links for 12-01-2017
Jan. 12th, 2017 12:00 pm- Come back when he shags a dead pig, says jaded Britain
- (tags: sex usa UK politics funny )
- A climate scientists answeres questions about the large slab of ice breaking off an Antarctic glacier
- (tags: antarctic snow globalwarming )
- America’s Fastest-Growing Loans Has Echoes of Subprime Crisis
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- Each year, half a million horseshoe crabs are captured and bled alive to create an unparalleled biomedical technology.
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- 'It's a financial cliff edge': how Britain fell back in love with credit cards
- (tags: credit debt uk )
- Librarians in Florida went rogue to save 2,361 books from an algorithm
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- Superhero culture magnifies aggressive, not defending behaviors
- (tags: superheroes aggression children behaviour psychology )
- 10 Discworld Quotes You'll Desperately Need for the Next Four Years
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- Quick brown fox jumps over lazy dog
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- Tidal lagoon: £1.3bn Swansea Bay project to be backed
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- Are WiFi users a boon or bane of coffee shops?
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- Spinning spider silk is now possible
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- Stop treating life as a series of moral parables
- (tags: life statistics predictions advice )
- Africa is witnessing birth of a new ocean
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- 'Puppy talk' - why do we use it and do dogs respond?
- (tags: dogs language speech viaSwampers )
- Taiwan's smog-eating twisting tower
- (tags: taiwan architecture pollution )
- Conservatives prefer nouns, liberals prefer adjectives
- (tags: language politics )
- Some interesting diet research. Anyone know anything more about this?
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- Playful people are at an advantage
- (tags: psychology )
- Our senses can't learn under stress
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