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Interesting Links for 30-08-2024
Aug. 30th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Suspects in foiled plot to attack Taylor Swift shows aimed to kill 'tens of thousands'
- (tags:terrorism music Austria )
- 2. UK rail minister got engineer sacked for raising safety concerns
- (tags:safety rail UK Labour OhForFucksSake )
- 3. The UK's problem isn't inequality it's lack of growth
- (tags:inequality growth economics UK )
- 4. IRS reports collecting $1 billion from rich households' back taxes
- (tags:tax USA GoodNews )
- 5. 'The Neverending Story' Getting New Film Series Adaptation (I hope they do a more faithful adaptation this time. I think it would actually work best as a TV series)
- (tags:movies )
- 6. The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
- (tags:internet communication art )
Interesting Links for 04-03-2024
Mar. 4th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. The 'banned' Star Trek episode that promised a united Ireland
- (tags:StarTrek UK Ireland terrorism )
- 2. Hunt unable to name 'extremist' groups Sunak says hijacked marches
- (tags:islam terrorism protests uk wtf conservatives )
- 3. Here's what will happen if Colorado River system doesn't recover from the historic drought that's so far lasted three decades
- (tags:globalwarming drought rivers USA doom viaDanielDWilliam )
- 4. Why Vertigo's Lucifer Morningstar Matters (in 4 parts)
- (tags:comics sandman neilgaiman Lucifer religion )
- 5. Endometriosis now takes nearly nine years to diagnose in the UK, with the vast majority of women being fobbed off by their doctor.
- (tags:uk women healthcare epicfail nhs )
- 6. Number of long-term sick blows £3bn black hole in the UK's budget.
- (tags:uk budget sick doom )
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Interesting Links for 08-02-2024
Feb. 8th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. What does it mean that BlueSky is designed to be more open?
- (tags:socialnetworking design computers )
- 2. Rishi Sunak Refusing To Apologise For Trans Jibe In Front Of Murdered Trans Teen's Mum
- (tags:transgender Conservatives bigotry OhForFucksSake )
- 3. Man from Dildo takes photo of iceberg shaped like a penis. In Conception Bay
- (tags:penis Canada photos iceberg names )
- 4. Lothian bus journeys increased by over 17% from 94 million in 2022 to 110 million last year (I wonder what it was in 2019)
- (tags:buses transport Edinburgh GoodNews )
- 5. EU sets maximum bank transfer time to 10 seconds
- (tags:Europe banking regulation time )
- 6. After Libs of TikTok posted, at least 21 bomb threats followed
- (tags:terrorism USA )
- 7. Beard-seconds, Chains, Pirate-Ninjas, and other Units of Measure
- (tags:measurement viaSwampers )
- 8. Mimas' surprise: Saturn's tiny moon hides a young ocean beneath its icy shell
- (tags:moon saturn ocean water )
- 9. 13 Worst Bike Lanes in the World (Edinburgh is #1! Woohoo!)
- (tags:edinburgh cycling epicfail )
- 10. Poll Shows 74 Percent of Republicans Like Donald Trump's Dictator Plan
- (tags:usa dictators doom )
- 11. Apple releases an AI to help you edit images
- (tags:apple ai images editing )
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Interesting Links for 28-01-2024
Jan. 28th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. UNRWA fires several employees over alleged involvement in Hamas attack on Oct. 7
- (tags:UnitedNations Palestine Israel terrorism )
- 2. Glasglow Worldcon Commits to Hugo Process Transparency
- (tags:Hugo awards Glasgow scifi convention Scotland )
- 3. Edinburgh crime: Police investigating reported rape of woman in Abbeyhill area say it 'did not take place'
- (tags:rape Edinburgh )
Interesting Links for 03-12-2023
Dec. 3rd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. DNA-researcher: It's not 'woke' to portray prehistoric Europeans with dark skin. It's evolution.
- (tags:evolution colour skin Europe prehistory genetics )
- 2. Reminder that you don't own any streaming content that you "bought" and it can be removed at any point
- (tags:drm movies intellectual_property streaming )
- 3. "I Rewatched Love Actually and Am Here to Ruin It for All of You"
- (tags:love romance movies society OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Israel intercepted step-by-step Hamas massacre plan over a year ago - but dismissed it
- (tags:Israel Palestine terrorism intelligence epicfail )
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Interesting Links for 15-10-2023
Oct. 15th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. This "Advice for the Young Autist" is almost exactly how I became a jury spokesperson
- (tags:advice autism socialisation )
- 2. 'The Onion' Stands With Israel Because It Seems Like You Get In Less Trouble For That
- (tags:Israel Palestine terrorism satire funny journalism )
- 3. 21 contemporary Islamic artists, inspired by the wonders of the cosmos…
- (tags:art Islam viaDanielDWilliam )
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Interesting Links for 14-10-2023
Oct. 14th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. This is an amazing bionic hand
- (tags:cybernetics amazing )
- 2. Terrorists want to provoke an over-reaction. It's what gets them their next round of recruits.
- (tags:terrorism psychology viaDanielDWilliam )
- 3. Hamas have successfully destroyed America's Saudi-Israel normalization plans
- (tags:middle_east terrorism USA saudiarabia Palestine Israel OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Government warned by own watchdog three year ago that prisons would run out of space in 2023
- (tags:UK prison epicfail )
- 5. Edinburgh's Princes Street: Shops gone, hotels coming - the changing face of city's most famous street
- (tags:Edinburgh cities shops hotel )
- 6. UK's nuclear fusion site ends experiments after 40 years
- (tags:UK research fusion nuclearpower history )
- 7. Missy Cummings, a Top Robotics Expert, Is Elon Musk's Worst Nightmare
- (tags:technology automation driving death statistics viaPatrickHadfield )
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Interesting Links for 13-10-2023
Oct. 13th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Misery for motorists as Rishi Sunak's HS2 cut set to put half a million more lorries on the road
- (tags:transport doom uk hs2 )
- 2. Bentham's Mugging (a short play, wherein moral purity is found wanting)
- (tags:morality philosophy funny )
- 3. WordPress makes its posts available via the Fediverse (Mastodon, etc)
- (tags:WordPress socialmedia )
- 4. 'Brahmastra Part One: Shiva' - for those people who like a very pretty religious superhero musical
- (tags:religion movies trailer video india )
- 5. On Whataboutery in response to Hamas.
- (tags:israel palestine terrorism )
- 6. Breakthrough in reading unopened ancient scrolls by scanning them
- (tags:archaeology ai technology prehistory )
- 7. France bans all pro-Palestinian demonstrations
- (tags:France Palestine protests )
- 8. Covid can cause our brain cells to fuse together causing cognitive impairment.
- (tags:Pandemic brain Doom )
- 9. Edinburgh Princes Street closed due to 'incident' as buses and trams affected
- (tags:Edinburgh transport buses trams )
- 10. Edinburgh's Princes Street closed and buses and trams disrupted after man found dead in early hours
- (tags:death edinburgh )
Interesting Links for 17-06-2023
Jun. 17th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. If geeks talked about cookbooks the way they talk about RPG books, the results would not be pretty
- (tags:roleplaying satire cooking funny )
- 2. Orange Order puts Scottish headquarters up for sale as it runs low on cash
- (tags:bigotry money GoodNews )
- 3. Study shows many American atheists hide their non-belief (and that atheist women find their atheism freeing)
- (tags:religion Christianity atheism USA women )
- 4. Greece migrant boat had 100 children in hold as it capsized
- (tags:greece asylum children death OhForFucksSake )
- 5. The FBI Groomed a 16-Year-Old With Brain Development Issues to Become a Terrorist
- (tags:terrorism FBI children OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Former head of police watchdog charged with multiple counts of raping a girl under 16
- (tags:children rape police OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Whistleblowing banker who went to prison speaks out
- (tags:Banking corruption OhForFucksSake UK USA )
Interesting Links for 02-05-2023
May. 2nd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Half of Vinyl Buyers in the US Don't Have a Record Player
- (tags:music business )
- 2. Why Neil Gaiman wrote Marvel 1602
- (tags:marvel comics neilgaiman terrorism )
- 3. Lego Googol Machine
- (tags:lego mathematics time )
- 4. Modern graphics are really impressive: Star Trek edition
- (tags:StarTrek graphics )
- 5. How much has AI image generation improved in the last year?
- (tags:ai graphics impressive )
- 6. You can improve gpt4 performance an astounding 30% by asking it to reflect on "why were you wrong?", and generate a new prompt for itself taking that reason into account until it is correct.
- (tags:ai )
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Interesting Links for 04-03-2023
Mar. 4th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Privileges Committee Believes Boris Johnson May Have Misled House On Partygate
- (tags:BorisJohnson lies fraud politics pandemic )
- 2. EU countries postpone vote on combustion engine ban (because Germany wants to be allowed to keep making them)
- (tags:politics europe cars pollution )
- 3. ChatGPT Is Nothing Like a Human, And having it pretend to be one leads us in very difficult directions
- (tags:philosophy morality ai language )
- 4. There's a Good Reason Why So Many Terrorists Are Engineers
- (tags:terrorism engineering )
- 5. "Eat Out To Help Out" caused an increase in Covid cases. Matt Hancock covered it up.
- (tags:Pandemic restaurant OhForFucksSake murder censorship )
- 6. Iowa: Republicans propose ban on same-sex marriage
- (tags:LGBT marriage USA republicans OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Happy Weird Pride Day!
- (tags:weird pride )
- 8. Food Timeline: food history research service
- (tags:food history )
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Interesting Links for 31-01-2023
Jan. 31st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. The inevitability of the tragedy of the commons is a false and dangerous myth - people are actually pretty good at cooperating
- (tags:economics psychology cooperation )
- 2. BBC Inquiry finds that its journalists lack an understanding of basics enconomics, and are led too strongly by Westminster narratives
- (tags:economics bbc fail )
- 3. Who are the 'Citizens of the Reich'? (Far right German conspiracy theorists who want to overthrow the government and bring back the monarchy)
- (tags:Germany terrorism monarchy )
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Interesting Links for 04-01-2023
Jan. 4th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Some truths about ancient Egypt
- (tags:Egypt facts )
- 2. The 14 Features of Fascism
- (tags:fascism )
- 3. Bomb disposal experts called to Edinburgh Central mosque
- (tags:Edinburgh Islam terrorism OhForFucksSake )
- 4. Greta Thunberg and the Romanian pizza boxes: A study in misinformation
- (tags:disinformation journalism pizza Romania crime translation )
- 5. Video game workers establish Microsoft's first union
- (tags:USA games Microsoft unions )
- 6. Finally: The truth about man-flu emerges!
- (tags:funny comic flu )
- 7. Portland Startup to Mine Artisanal Bitcoin Using Only Slide Rules and Graph Paper
- (tags:blockchain satire funny )
- 8. How to get children to take an interest in maths
- (tags:mathematics funny comic )
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Interesting Links for 28-11-2022
Nov. 28th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. The Women Who Rode Miles on Horseback to Deliver Library Books
- (tags:library history women horses usa )
- 2. AI image generation is improving quickly
- (tags:AI art )
- 3. America is a Christian Nationalist Hellhole, license plate edition
- (tags:OhForFucksSake Christianity USA religion fascism driving )
- 4. One nice thing about Mastodon is that, for example, the EU can set up an instance and then you can trust every post on there is a verified EU institution/entity
- (tags:Europe socialnetworking identity )
- 5. How supportive would Britons be of a family member coming out? (also compared to other countries)
- (tags:LGBT polls )
- 6. French man wins right to not be 'fun' at work in wrongful termination case
- (tags:work France fun law )
- 7. Ineos in talks with Rolls-Royce to build mini nuclear reactor and power Scottish chemical refinery
- (tags:scotland nuclearpower viaDanielDWilliam )
- 8. The High-Temperature Superconductivity Mystery Is Finally Solved
- (tags:physics )
- 9. How Stochastic Terrorism Uses Disgust to Incite Violence
- (tags:disgust terrorism violence bigotry )
- 10. Power grid boost as two Scottish firms net £14m to work on energy storage systems
- (tags:storage electricity scotland )
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Interesting Links for 24-11-2022
Nov. 24th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. All You Need To Know About Scotland's Legal Bid For An Independence Referendum
- (tags:scotland law independence )
- 2. COVID-19 vaccination associated with 15% reduction in stillbirths
- (tags:pandemic vaccination death pregnancy )
- 3. The influence of Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings movies on cinematic portrayals of ancient Greece and Rome
- (tags:rome greece lotr movies )
- 4. Turns out that dreaded pit beasts are a lot like cats
- (tags:funny fantasy comic cats )
- 5. How much does it cost Facebook to look after your cat pictures?
- (tags:cats facebook storage )
- 6. Lugo, the only town with fully intact Roman walls
- (tags:history rome Spain architecture viaDanielDWilliam )
- 7. Where are all the heat pumps?
- (tags:electricity heating UK viaDanielDWilliam )
- 8. If you're wondering how SpaceX coped with Musk, this will fill you in
- (tags:ElonMusk Spacex management )
- 9. Fossil fuel power plants kill 35x as many birds as wind turbines do per GWh (and nuclear power is twice as deadly as wind power)
- (tags:birds death nuclearpower coal gas environment windpower )
- 10. European Parliament declares Russia a terrorism sponsor, then its site goes down
- (tags:web russia europe terrorism )
- 11. How much trouble are GPs in Scotland in?
- (tags:healthcare scotland )
- 12. Sponsian: Ancient Roman gold coins thought to be 'fakes' reveal long-lost local emperor
- (tags:rome Romania archeology )
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Interesting Links for 02-11-2022
Nov. 2nd, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. UK government tells teachers to be aware of incel ideology among children amid fears of growing terror threat
- (tags:misogyny uk terrorism children propaganda )
- 2. Children who play video games have better impulse control and working memory
- (tags:children psychology games memory )
- 3. What does Keir Starmer have to say about gender recognition reform and trans rights
- (tags:LGBT transgender labour politics UK )
- 4. One piece of amazing architecture for every year of the 20th century
- (tags:architecture history )
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Interesting Links for 31-10-2022
Oct. 31st, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Some interesting thoughts about Elon Musk and what his endgame is. (I don't know how accurate it is, but it certainly lines up with how he acts)
- (tags:ElonMusk Twitter Doom )
- 2. Fanfiction authors have kept away from creators. That might be beginning to change
- (tags:fanfic TV writing law society history )
- 3. The canals on Mars are the blood in your eyes
- (tags:Mars history astronomy eyes canal )
- 4. Guantanamo Bay: US releases oldest detainee - without charge. Still multiple uncharged and unreleased
- (tags:iraq Pakistan terrorism USA OhForFucksSake law )
- 5. Japan's "mundane Halloween" is amazing
- (tags:Halloween costumes funny Japan viaPatrickHadfield )
Interesting Links for 08-09-2022
Sep. 8th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. What next for art in a post-AI world?
- (tags:art ai comics comic )
- 2. Supreme Court allows SNP to intervene in indyref2 court case
- (tags:snp law uk independence scotland )
- 3. New technique shows old temperatures were much hotter than thought
- (tags:co2 prehistory globalwarming ocean )
- 4. Turns out that going woke does not inevitably lead to going broke
- (tags:money niceness )
- 5. Liz Truss plunged into constitutional crisis on day one as UK blocks Bermuda from legalising cannabis
- (tags:marijuana legalisation UK law constitution )
- 6. Scottish government to make £500m in spending cuts
- (tags:Scotland money )
- 7. Poland's Demand for German Damages Includes Crimes Committed Against Jews by Poles
- (tags:Poland Germany Holocaust Jews money wtf )
- 8. Liz Truss Is Trying to Block Scotland's Trans Reforms
- (tags:conservatives bigotry UK Scotland law LGBT transgender )
- 9. Leaked list of US anti government extremist Oath Keepers includes hundreds of cops, dozens of elected officials
- (tags:USA terrorism corruption terrifying police government )
- 10. Scientists Have Made a Human Microbiome From Scratch
- (tags:microbiome )
- 11. Edinburgh's South Sub railway: Here's why forgotten railway closed 60 years ago today
- (tags:edinburgh trains transport history )
- 12. Four Sisters. Forty Years. Forty Portraits.
- (tags:photos history )
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