Interesting Links for 20-06-2025

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Interesting Links for 13-05-2025

May. 13th, 2025 12:00 pm
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1. How Gandalf Proved Mightiest: Spiritual Power in Tolkien
(tags:lotr Tolkien magic viaDanielDWilliam )
2. ScotRail trials wi-fi using Elon Musk's Starlink satellites
(tags:Scotland trains internet )
3. Continuous glucose monitors reveal variable glucose responses from the same people to the same meals
(tags:insulin sugar eating food )
4. The charts showing the big flaw in Starmer's immigration plan
(tags:migration economy uk doom )
5. Moderna's combo Covid and flu mRNA shot outperforms current vaccines in large trial
(tags:vaccine pandemic flu )
6. Despair at Starmer's divisive language as he channels Enoch Powell
(tags:bigotry immigration UK Labour OhForFucksSake )
7. US Copyright Office head fired after reporting AI training isn't always fair use
(tags:ai copyright USA politics )
8. Edinburgh traffic bans in city centre to be made permanent following trial
(tags:traffic transport Edinburgh )
9. Top UK Special Forces general oversaw blocking of Afghan war-crime witnesses to Britain
(tags:UK military crime war OhForFucksSake Afghanistan )
10. How the news feels right now
(tags:news satire doom )
11. Mass vote losses to Lib Dems and Greens would cost Labour twice as many seats as mass Reform switch
(tags:labour libdem green )
12. Getting to know 'Reform curious Labour voters'
(tags:Labour politics UK )
13. Zodiac Killer Revealed by His Love of Comic Books, Author Says
(tags:comics murder usa history )
14. London, Brighton, Birmingham and Manchester Prides suspend political parties from taking part (over trans rights)
(tags:lgbt transgender protest uk politics )
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Interesting Links for 07-05-2025

May. 7th, 2025 12:00 pm
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1. How to reduce the spread of crypto
(tags:cryptography virus funny newzealand )
2. Dozens of clubs fight back against FA ban on trans women
(tags:football transgender women uk )
3. Fear and intimidation at Newark airport, as a Palestinian-American re-enters the USA
(tags:usa palestine OhForFucksSake )
4. Peak rail fares to be scrapped by Scottish government
(tags:trains GoodNews )
5. Hugo Administrators Resign in Wake of ChatGPT Controversy
(tags:Hugo awards conventions ai OhForFucksSake )
6. Scientists issue new warning linking microplastics with strokes
(tags:plastic stroke )
7. The county that shows how benefits cuts and bills drove voters from Labour to Reform
(tags:politics economics uk poverty )
8. Orsted pulls plug on Hornsea 4 windfarm (one of the world's largest)
(tags:windpower doom )
9. Scottish 'Hollow Mountain' hydro power plant expansion put on hold
(tags:hydroelectric scotland doom )
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Interesting Links for 09-03-2025

Mar. 9th, 2025 12:00 pm
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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 )
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Interesting Links for 18-06-2024

Jun. 18th, 2024 12:00 pm
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1. Amazon-Powered AI Cameras Used to Detect Emotions of Unwitting UK Train Passengers
(tags:uk surveillance trains transport )
2. First-ever randomized trial of Ozempic for alcohol use disorder shows significant reductions in drinking
(tags:alcohol healthcare research psychology )
3. But *when* was being gay invented?
(tags:LGBT gay prehistory )
4. Rogue Austrian minister burns bridges to save EU nature law
(tags:europe nature law green viaPatrickHadfield )
5. How writers see their own work is very different to how others see it
(tags:writing sandman neilgaiman comics )
6. Anyone want to buy a bunch of Church of Scotland buildings? You can have your own church for £38k...
(tags:religion scotland housing viaDanielDWilliam )
7. How had I never seen "Patrick Stewart's Cowboy Classics"?
(tags:cowboy PatrickStewart video wtf )
8. New coastal town for Edinburgh reaches next major milestone
(tags:edinburgh housing )
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Interesting Links for 14-03-2024

Mar. 14th, 2024 12:00 pm
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1. Did you know there was an old rifle range under Edinburgh's Waverley Station? (6 minutes in to this video)
(tags:guns edinburgh history trains )
2. What's been going on with Boeing? (they seem to have forgotten that making planes requires attention to detail)
(tags:airplanes safety epicfail OhForFucksSake engineering manufacturing )
3. A global network of violent predators is hiding in plain sight, targeting children on major internet platforms, grooming them, and extorting them to commit horrific acts of abuse.
(tags:internet abuse crime )
4. Giant redwoods: The world's largest trees are thriving in the UK. (Except for not reproducing)
(tags:trees UK )
5. The economics of all-you-can-eat buffets
(tags:food business economics )
6. The Existential Relief of Having Children
(tags:philosophy anxiety stress parenting children life )
7. The Abyss 4K Ultra HD Blu-ray UK release | The BBFC comments on its cancellation
(tags:rats abuse animals movies jamescameron BluRay )
8. Do your pets help you make food? You ain't seen nothing yet!
(tags:food cows video funny )
9. LGBTQ+ Identification in U.S. Now at 7.6% (and dramatically higher in Gen Z)
(tags:demographics LGBT USA )
10. AI reveals prostate cancer has two distinct subtypes
(tags:ai cancer prostate )
11. The full version of Tenacious D's - ...Baby One More Time cover is out. And even more awesome than you'd expect
(tags:music video BritneySpears awesome panda )
12. Yes, the Tories are outrageously racist and sexist - but Labour is guilty too (writes Diane Abbott)
(tags:politics racism UK Labour conservatives )
13. Giant 'sand battery' holds a week's heat for a whole town
(tags:sand heat battery finland )
14. The only other mammals to go through the menopause live longer because of it
(tags:menstruation whales longevity )
15. New ONS figures show how Edinburgh's share of short term lets is massive by comparison to practically everywhere else in the UK
(tags:edinburgh rental holidays housing tourism )
16. New extremism definition unveiled by British government. Is very vague.
(tags:uk government language )
17. I see that J.K. Rowling is now engaging in anti-trans Holocaust denial
(tags:transgender Holocaust jkrowling OhForFucksSake bigotry lgbt )
18. Assisted dying in Canada is accepted - but the UK should tread carefully
(tags:euthanasia canada )
19. I was getting bored of running - then I found joggling
(tags:juggling running jogging exercise edinburgh )
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Interesting Links for 06-03-2024

Mar. 6th, 2024 12:00 pm
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1. French decision to protect right to abortion shows 'real fear far-right populists could gain power'
(tags:abortion rights France )
2. How much effort it takes to clean a professional kitchen (and how much the cook will hate you if you walk in 10 minutes before closing)
(tags:restaurant cleaning )
3. More than one-quarter of scholarly articles are not being properly archived and preserved
(tags:research academia fail viaPatrickHadfield )
4. Why Edinburgh's potholes are winning
(tags:edinburgh roads weight )
5. How Hugo ballots used to be counted
(tags:software hugo awards )
6. Sugary drinks increase your risk of a heart condition by 10%. Drinks with sweeteners raise it by 20%
(tags:sugar drink heart doom )
7. The man who spends £8,500 a year to live on a train
(tags:trains germany viaDanielDWilliam )
8. This is The Longest Train Route in the World (as of 2024)
(tags:trains china Russia Spain Portugal )
9. What is your objective?
(tags:advice life )
10. European Court of Human Rights Confirms: Weakening Encryption Violates Fundamental Rights
(tags:encryption privacy Europe rights )
11. Racism is embedded in LLMs (in this case, based on dialect)
(tags:racism ai )
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