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Interesting Links for 24-11-2019

African Union urges Britain to cede Chagos Islands, end colonial rule
(tags:UK empire Africa OhForFucksSake )
The evolutionary reasons why farming is hard
(tags:farming evolution viaCipherGoth )
Squishy Tetris
(tags:tetris games video )
Row as woman visiting Extinction Rebellion protester in London prison turned away for not wearing bra
(tags:underwear women prison uk OhForFucksSake viaSupergee )
Inconceivable - How to make a remake of The Princess Bride
(tags:remake movies PrincessBride )
Crime and the Right to Vote (in the USA)
(tags:voting crime usa comic )
The 25 best comics of the 2010s
(tags:comics )
Fact check: Does £80,000 put you in the top 5% of earners?
(tags:pay UK statistics )
The Jungle Prince of Delhi (a quite amazing piece of history)
(tags:India history fraud )
Poll models fail to spot voting variation in similar seats
(tags:polls )
People with PTSD using gaming to help with symptoms
(tags:ptsd gaming psychology )
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Lion King remake review: Roaring visuals, but the execution is a hairball
(tags:Disney fail movies review lionking lions )
Clear majority of the UK public supports transgender self-ID and LGBT-inclusive education
(tags:GoodNews polls LGBT transgender uk )
More than half of young English judges are women
(tags:England UK law women )
Deposition on the Trump/Epstein rape case
(tags:USA rape politics republicans )
Talking about vagina smell
(tags:vagina smell )
Hundreds of blindfolded goats airdropped into mountain range
(tags:goats mountains salt viaDanielDWilliam )
Distinct From IQ Or Working Memory, "Implicit Learning Ability" Is An Important, Stable Trait That Varies Between Individuals
(tags:psychology learning )
Illuminatus! vs Atlas Shrugged
(tags:viaSupergee illuminati objectivism )
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2019-06-09 01:43 pm
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Interesting Links for 09-06-2019

California Considering a Ban on Realtime Police Body Camera Facial Recognition
(tags:faces police California usa )
Charlie Stross on The Millenial Joker Origin Story
(tags:batman jobs comics origins )
Torture Should Not Work in Dungeons & Dragons
(tags:torture games dungeonsanddragons viaSupergee )
The trailer for "Ophelia" looks awesome
(tags:shakespeare women hamlet trailer )
A third of people are sensitive to artificial fragrances. 9% of us have had to take time off (or lose a job) in the last year because of it
(tags:smell jobs health )
Commons committee finds UK welfare approach counterproductive and pointlessly cruel. Government ignores it.
(tags:welfare uk OhForFucksSake )
ASCII fluid dynamics
(tags:ascii text video fluid physics )
An open letter to pretty much every linguistic Voynich theorist ever
(tags:language epicfail )
The Kelly Criterion - how should you bet in a given situation?
(tags:gambling )
Have a bunch of pretty images (pulled from Reddit)
(tags:photos reddit pretty )
Michael Sheen Inspired By Good Omens Fanfic For Aziraphale's Love Of Crowley
(tags:books tv neilgaiman terrypratchett fanfic )
NYC Burger King has been passing off beef as (vegan) Impossible Whoppers
(tags:meat food OhForFucksSake )
Clearing Up Some Misconceptions about Neurodiversity
(tags:neurodiversity )
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"A Small Fiction" is a rabbit-hole of micro-stories
(tags: short_story fiction twitter )
When you lied on your CV about having previous sheepdog experience.…
(tags: funny dogs sheep video )
Wondering what news stories most people noticed this week? Prepare to be very disappointed.
(tags: news people OhForFucksSake )
Before The Handmaid's Tale: Revolt in 2100
(tags: viaSupergee heinlein scifi review )
Why is Edinburgh University teaching that creationism and evolution are on the same level?
(tags: Edinburgh university evolution OhForFucksSake )
The first American woman to command a ship1 was a pregnant teenager. She did it while fighting off a mutiny, nursing an incapacitated husband, and braving gale-force winds.
(tags: women ship history usa )
Claims students have created university free speech crisis have been exaggerated
(tags: freespeech UK university )
Nasty, 3ft-long parasitic worms are on the cusp of being wiped from the planet
(tags: Parasites GoodNews africa )
Brokenness is not an identity - ‘Rick and Morty’ and The Rise of The ‘I’m a Piece of Shit’ Defense
(tags: TV men identity failure emotion )
An example of a Russian fake account on Tumblr acting against Hillary Clinton
(tags: tumblr fake russia fraud )
Here's Facebook's CEO promising not to sell user information, back in 2009
(tags: facebook privacy )
Here's Facebook's CEO in 2010 saying that users don't really want any privacy
(tags: privacy facebook )
You Know Who's Really Addicted to Their Phones? The Olds.
I totally am.
(tags: age phones )
Cybernetic memory enhancement is now a real thing
(tags: Technology thefuture memory cyborg )
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Interesting Links for 09-12-2017

A guide to Bitcoin: The amazing investment based on dream gold invented by a wizard
(tags: Bitcoin satire funny )
Women can't sing rock: The Middlesbrough bar which bans female-fronted bands
(tags: women music OhForFucksSake ViaDrCross )
Korea is obsessed with Bitcoin
Also, I flew to Venice a few days ago and the in-flight magazine had _seven_ full-page ads for either Bitcoin or other blockchain/cryptocurrency technology. I wonder how much more ridiculous things can get.
(tags: bitcoin )
Couple Abandon Baby Because She Received A Blood Transfusion From A Transgender Woman
(tags: india transgender lgbt viaSupergee OhForFucksSake )
Theresa May’s Brexit deal ‘hard to reconcile’ with UK leaving the single market and customs union, EU says
(tags: europe uk )
Silicon Valley Is Hiring Models To Go Their Holiday Parties
(tags: party Technology business women OhForFucksSake )
A guide to Parliament’s Brexit tribes
(tags: UK Europe politics )
Healthcare for American Small Business Owners is Awful
(tags: healthcare usa OhForFucksSake business )
Learnings from a Mental-Health First-Aid course
(tags: mentalhealth )
My Lousy Children Are Both Fake Geeks
(tags: children geekery funny )
Trade talks will not start until February at earliest, EU tells UK
Maybe by then we'll know what we want out of them?
(tags: UK Europe trade )
Does Socialism Make People Happy?
(tags: socialism happiness europe )
Lithium-ion battery packs are $209/kWh, down 24% from a year ago and 80% from 2010.
(tags: batteries GoodNews )
Americans have to put up with Square Dancing because Henry Ford was scared of "negro music"
(tags: history dancing usa WTF racism )
Photo-realistic lip-sync from text
(tags: video technology voice )
How Patreon Sees Things
(tags: money CrowdFunding OhForFucksSake )
How William Carlos Williams’s famous poem about plums in the icebox became a meme.
My favourite: https://twitter.com/FW_Medieval/status/937726166785581057 Hwæt! þēos plumas þe in icebox wære swylce þu ge-saving hǽdfe for þæm breoc-fastum eaten hæbbe ic. Me forgif mine gyltas for synnum minum Swæt wǽre swa swa ceoll frofer mannum. Þæs ofereode, þisses swa mæg.
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2017-07-16 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 16-07-2017

YC is compiling a blacklist of venture capitalists accused of harassing women
(tags: investment harassment misogyny usa )
If Norman Rockwell painted African-American culture today
(tags: race art usa viaSupergee )
Meet Lilli, the High-end German Call Girl Doll who became America's Iconic Barbie
(tags: toys history sex viaSupergee )
Texas Republican Blocks State's Bathroom Bill: "I Don’t Want The Suicide Of A Single Texan On My Hands"
(tags: usa lgbt GoodNews )
The untold origins of Gamergate — and the gaming legends who spawned the modern culture of abuse
(tags: abuse games viaSupergee )
Nichelle Nichols on naming and being cast as Uhura
(tags: StarTrek history )
Here’s the Deal With Gluten (Most sensible article I've read on the subject)
(tags: gluten food )
Dying Lion Sure Doesn't Feel As Though He's Completing Some Great Cosmic Circle
(tags: life death )
Areas Where Artificial Intelligence is Outpacing Humans
(tags: ai )
Goldman Sachs relaxes dress code for techs in fight for talent
(tags: clothing society )
Trudeau Blames Opposition For Not Reading His Mind On Electoral Reform
(tags: canada voting reform )
How to reduce queueing at the ladies room
(tags: toilets gender )
Man loses legal bid to prevent council burying parents
Even odder than it sounds.
(tags: death )
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2017-06-25 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 25-06-2017

The Wheels Come Off Uber (No leadership and no path to profit)
(tags: taxi driving fraud business viaSupergee )
Missouri Votes to Let Employers Fire People Who Use Birth Control
(tags: birthcontrol contraception abortion usa OhForFucksSake )
The tragedy of FireWire: Collaborative tech torpedoed by corporations
I remember seeing a few devices that used it are the time. But it required a separate card in the PC, and so was never going to catch on.
(tags: technology history apple )
Turkey will stop teaching evolution in schools
(tags: evolution turkey education OhForFucksSake )
Here’s What the New Transformers Movie Is Like
(tags: transformers review funny )
Men Legally Allowed to Finish Sex Even If Woman Revokes Consent, NC Law States
(tags: USA law rape )
McDonald's hits all-time high as Wall Street cheers replacement of cashiers with kiosks
(tags: work automation mcdonalds food )
If they say you’re a Red Tory or a Yellow Tory, ask about Corbyn’s welfare cuts
(tags: welfare labour )
I read the plot summary for "Transformers: The Last Knight" and now I feel actively stupider
(tags: movies )
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2017-05-25 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 25-05-2017

Stop Calling It a 'Vagina'
(tags: genitals women vagina language )
Conservatives’ free school breakfast pledge costed at just 7p per meal
(tags: Conservatives food money OhForFucksSake )
Have a list of marketing tricks to avoid falling for
(tags: marketing psychology viaSwampers )
Researchers find dozens of genes (mildly) associated with measures of intelligence
(tags: Intelligence genetics )
Terrorism is mass murder with a media strategy; it’s long past time to disrupt it.
(tags: terrorism media )
Laffer curve: Everything Trump and Republicans get wrong about trickle-down economics
(tags: economics tax politics usa history )
What It's Like to Carry Your Nobel Prize through Airport Security
(tags: awards science physics security viaSwampers )
China Reaches the Moon Snapping Incredible, Never-Before-Seen High-Definition Images
(tags: moon china space photos viaDrJon )
Google starts tracking what you buy at stores in person
(tags: Google shopping surveillance )
A true, real, and accurate definition of the term "fanfiction"
(tags: fanfiction funny writing )
No, ‘The Conceptual Penis as a Social Construct’ Hoax Doesn’t Prove Gender Studies Is Garbage
(tags: academia fraud fail viaSupergee )
Dog sits on the editorial boards of seven international medical journals
(tags: academia dogs fraud )
Study indicates mushrooms may be the safest recreational drug
(tags: psilocybin drugs safety )
Britain stops sharing Manchester attack intelligence with US after leaks continue
(tags: usa spying OhForFucksSake )
I am terrible with names, and would totally do this
(tags: names funny comic )
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2016-08-27 12:00 pm
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French court suspends 'burkini' ban
(tags: france women clothing law )
Plasma wings could change the way airplanes are designed and flown
(tags: Technology physics airplanes )
Human-induced global warming started in 1830
(tags: globalwarming history )
Do you suffer from "The wrong emotion"?
(tags: emotions happiness viaSupergee depression life )
St. Louis school sees 90% of their students' attendance increase because of washing machines
(tags: cleanliness school usa viaAmaebi )
So what would Proxima Centauri look like from Proxima b?
(tags: space maths light )
Finally, an explanation for The Matrix
(tags: movies funny physics maths )
Everyone Wants a Level 5 Self-Driving Car—Here’s What That Means
(tags: automation cars )
How a Self-Published Writer of Gay Erotica Beat Sci-Fi’s Sad Puppies at their Own Game
(tags: scifi disability identity autism lgbt porn )
The killer whales who did a deal with whalers
(tags: whales Intelligence )
What it's like to take acid regularly for 10 months.
(tags: lsd psychedelics death )
Why you shouldn't compare Trump to Hitler
(tags: hitler politics funny )
In Texas everything is shaped like Texas
(tags: usa design wtf )
The Goofy Yell: Disney's Wilhelm Scream
(tags: Disney sound video )
If you like dogs then this is the best thing
(tags: dogs awesome )
Big cats eating their own tails
(tags: cats cute )
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2016-07-11 12:00 pm
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Interesting Links for 23-06-2016

What do you find when you fact-check all of the pro and anti Brexit claims?
(tags: lies europe referendum uk )
An actually interesting poll on the EU referendum. I had to think about my answers.
(tags: eu poll referendum uk )
Clifford Simak’s City - a science fiction classic that hasn't aged horribly
(tags: scifi review dogs viaSupergee )
Your Handy Guide to Referendum Night
(tags: referendum europe uk viaNWhyte )
High levels of education linked to heightened brain tumor risk
(tags: Education cancer )
Musicians are done playing nice. Your phone is getting locked up at their shows now.
(tags: music phones Technology )
German paper Bild makes 1966 World Cup promise if UK rejects Brexit (and to play Bond baddies forever!)
(tags: football JamesBond germany uk funny referendum viaElfy )
Nation urged not to fuck this up
(tags: referendum politics funny )
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Star line-up announced for Watership Down adaptation
(tags: movies animation rabbits bbc netflix )
E-cigarettes should be offered to smokers, says Royal College of Physicians
(tags: doctors health smoking cigarettes uk )
Oops! Tinder’s new friend-finding feature, Tinder Social, is outing which of your friends use the app
(tags: dating privacy fail )
Volvo to begin driverless cars testing in the UK next year
(tags: uk automation driving transport cars )
Bisexuals are confused
(tags: lgbt viaSupergee )
That time The Sun dated Icarus
(tags: mythology relationships comic )
Schizophrenia is at least four different genetic diseases
(tags: schizophrenia genetics )
Excessive empathy can impair understanding of others
(tags: psychology empathy emotion )
Why touchscreen gaming is clumsier than physical keyboards
(tags: games phones )
Sometimes, When “All the Facts are In,” It’s Worse: The UC-Davis Pepper-Spray Report
(tags: protests usa academia epicfail violence viaDraxar )
Merriam-Webster Threw Shade at People Who Don't Know the Word Genderqueer
(tags: language lgbt gender english )
Who Will Debunk The Debunkers?
(tags: myths scepticism viaDanieldDWilliam )
We Know We Hate the Establishment—but Do We Know What It Is?
(tags: viaAmaebi politics power society )
It's hard to have a conversation when we don't agree on what words mean
(tags: language capitalism )
Margaret Sullivan Made ‘The New York Times’ Better—and We All Benefited
(tags: newspapers newyork )
Alan Moore on The Killing Joke, and his regretful impact on the comic industry
(tags: alanmoore batman comics )
Is Frank Cho The Last Champion Of Straight Men’s Boners In This Hellish Feminist Wasteland We Live In?
(tags: comics women feminism censorship )
Why Were Early Psychedelicists So Weird?
(tags: psychology personality weird history psychedelics )
How do people justify earning more than others?
(tags: money pay inequality )
Attempts to get more women in tech put the onus solely on women themselves… at tremendous time and cost.
(tags: women Technology viaErindubitably )
Who's downloading pirated papers? Everyone
(tags: piracy copyright academia )
Our gigantic problem with portions: why are we all eating too much?
(tags: food history )
Half of Western European men descended from one Bronze Age ‘king’
(tags: genetics prehistory )
This Philosopher Helped Ensure There Was No Nobel for Relativity
(tags: einstein physics time philosophy )
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The $300 Million Button
(tags: ux design viaSwampers )
Looks like my brother won't ever be going back to Lionhead
(tags: games microsoft )
We don't need Bodyform's femojis
(tags: menstruation emoticons )
The UK has a skills gap, because people don't know what jobs they are needed in
(tags: jobs uk learning Education )
Vaccine hope to cure Crohn’s disease
(tags: vaccination disease )
Preemies' gut bacteria reveal vast scope of antibiotic resistance: Study supports push to minimize routine antibiotic use
(tags: antibiotics babies )
Why are so many smart people so ignorant about philosophy?
(tags: science philosophy viaSupergee )
Why isn't Bernie Sanders doing well with black voters?
(tags: race politics usa )
Apparently lizards _love_ apples
(tags: apple animals cute viaElfy )
UK Cannabis report recommends legalising and taxing it
(tags: marijuana legalisation uk libdem )
Transmetropolitan: the 90s comic that's bang up-to-date on Donald Trump
(tags: politics comics usa WarrenEllis )
The future of work is already here
(tags: work satire comic )
How gamification and artificial intelligence got Duolingo 110 million users worldwide
(tags: language gaming ai viaSwampers )
Replace your Facebook Reactions with Pokemon
(tags: facebook emotions )
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