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Interesting Links for 08-11-2025
Nov. 8th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. What's wrong with the UK's housing market (and why are Labour's plans to tinker around the edges unlikely to help)
- (tags:uk housing doom viaFJM )
- 2. The Battle Iranian Women Are Winning
- (tags:iran women religion society GoodNews islam clothing )
- 3. Early-stage clinical trial demonstrates promise of intranasal influenza vaccine in generating broad immunity
- (tags:vaccines viaKenny flu GoodNews )
- 4. Getty Images v Stability AI: A landmark High Court ruling on AI, copyright, and trade marks
- (tags:uk ai law )
- 5. The old proxies for trustworthiness no longer work.
- (tags:trust design scam fraud )
Interesting Links for 27-05-2025
May. 27th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The US health system is now overseen by vaccine deniers. The effects are entirely predictable
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- 2. Hong Kong children urged to get Covid jabs as 'whole paediatric ward full'
- (tags:pandemic HongKong china children doom vaccination )
- 3. An Oral History of 'Lilo & Stitch' (the original)
- (tags:animation movies Disney Hawaii history )
- 4. German court rules cookie banners must offer "reject all" button (if they have an "accept all" button)
- (tags:cookies surveillance germany dataprotection GoodNews )
- 5. It makes no sense to cut funding to mental health services when that costs you money in the long run.
- (tags:mentalhealth money edinburgh )
- 6. How much energy does AI use?
- (tags:ai electricity )
- 7. Owls! in! Towels!
- (tags:owls cute photos )
- 8. Explaining a 31-month sentence for a tweet
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Interesting Links for 22-05-2025
May. 22nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. I am so sick and tired of "AI"
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- 2. How do we know mRNA vaccines are safe and effective? An explainer
- (tags:vaccines safety research viaKenny )
- 3. Reminder that you cannot trust anything that you see or hear.
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- 4. Why elephants have low cancer rates and what it means for humans
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Interesting Links for 02-05-2025
May. 2nd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. The Summerisle Arcana - Wicker Man Inspired Tarot
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- 2. Seattle Worldcon science fiction convention vets panelists with ChatGPT
- (tags:ai conventions scifi OhForFucksSake )
- 3. No One Knows What's Inside the Smallpox Vaccine
- (tags:disease history vaccines cows horses )
- 4. The White House's Plan For Reversing The Declining Birth Rate
- (tags:satire children usa politics )
- 5. For Women Scotland: a legal critique of the recent judgment on transgender rights
- (tags:LGBT transgender rights law UK )
- 6. US abandons $350bn debt claim in Ukraine minerals deal - but Trump hasn't noticed
- (tags:usa ukraine war trade )
- 7. AI extends the career of a porn actress. Also Jack Nicklaus, Snoop Dog, and KISS
- (tags:ai celebrity business )
- 8. 100 Men vs. 1 Gorilla: Primatologists Explain Who Would Win
- (tags:gorillas violence funny internet ViaDrCross )
- 9. How the UK Establishment Crushed Trans Rights
- (tags:LGBT transgender guardian DailyMail journalism UK politics bigotry )
- 10. How would zonal energy pricing work? (And why it would lower *everyone'ss* prices)
- (tags:electricity uk economics )
- 11. Rector wins appeal over St Andrews University Gaza row
- (tags:Scotland Israel gaza Palestine genocide university StAndrews freespeech )
- 12. Waymo automated taxies make the roads safer for bikes and pedestrians
- (tags:driving automation safety )
- 13. I finally understand why all those Soulslike bosses hated me so much, thanks to The Dark Queen of Mortholme, which pits you up against some plucky upstart who just keeps coming back
- (tags:games review )
- 14. Don't watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits
- (tags:headline dragons law EpicWTF )
- 15. Do any of you like puzzles?
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Interesting Links for 28-11-2024
Nov. 28th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Visualising The Impact of Vaccines
- (tags:disease usa vaccines )
- 2. Twitter's collapse and the digital dark age for history
- (tags:history twitter doom )
- 3. The election petition is the worst of Brexit all over again
- (tags:uk politics )
- 4. State-level anti-transgender laws increase suicide attempts among transgender and non-binary young people (by 44% in young adults and up to 72% in children)
- (tags:suicide transgender LGBT law USA bigotry )
- 5. Are you a woman with elevated testosterone levels? Then the transphobes hate you too. (football edition, this time)
- (tags:football women testosterone OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 08-12-2022
Dec. 8th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. Support for Independence hits 56%, 51% of people to vote SNP (53% if it's a defacto referendum)
- (tags:scotland independence polls )
- 2. Transphobes are now attacking...The Samaritans.
- (tags:lgbt transgender bigotry OhForFucksSake suicide )
- 3. BBC plans to switch off broadcast TV and move to internet-only programmes
- (tags:bbc thefuture streaming broadcasting )
- 4. Discovery of world's oldest DNA breaks record by one million years
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- 5. The Art Game and the Money Game and how the ending of Minecraft was set free
- (tags:games art money copyright Microsoft contracts )
- 6. Sats: MPs and peers fail tests for 11-year-olds as campaign groups call for overhaul of 'high-stakes' exams
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- 7. First UK coal mine in decades approved
- (tags:UK coal environment globalwarming )
- 8. Europe First: Brussels gets ready to dump its free trade ideals (because the USA and China both already have)
- (tags:Europe China USA trade )
- 9. Two inhaled covid vaccines have been approved. Here's what you need to know.
- (tags:vaccines pandemic )
- 10. AI learns to precisely manipulate individual atoms
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- 11. How Many Fundamental Constants Does It Take To Explain The Universe? (26, at the moment)
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- 12. People expect identical twins to be *really* identical
- (tags:twins genetics statistics )
- 13. Humans are surprisingly poor at picking up cues of aggression in dogs
- (tags:dogs behaviour psychology )
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Interesting Links for 11-08-2022
Aug. 11th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. How much was a gold coin worth, and what coins were actually used in ancient times?
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- 2. OnlyFans accused of conspiring to put rivals on terrorism list
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- 3. UK regulator may not approve new Covid vaccines in time for autumn, after staff cut by a third
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Interesting Links for 20-05-2021
May. 20th, 2021 12:00 pm- UK Launches World's First Vaccine Booster Jab Trial
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- Pregnancy MRI scans are amazing and terrifying
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- Boris Johnson's £840-a-roll gold wallpaper keeps falling down as decorators called back in
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- Parents' evenings to stay online after pandemic'
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- Rail services to come under unified state control
- (tags:rail trains UK government )
