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Interesting Links for 27-12-2024
Dec. 27th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Rationality is badly correlated with intelligence
- (tags:intelligence rationality psychology viaLProven )
- 2. "Twelfth Night Till Candlemas" - the story of a forty-year book-quest and of its remarkable ending
- (tags:books history search librarian short_story Christmas viaFJM )
- 3. Games Workshop: When Geeks Create a Monster (of a) Company
- (tags:GamesWorkshop Warhammer business )
- 4. How robot submarines fight to keep the UK's lights on in North Sea drone battle
- (tags:drones submarine UK Russia war )
- 5. 'I was denied a promotion just for joining a black police association'
- (tags:police racism UK )
- 6. The Muppet Christmas Carol: A festive classic's dark backdrop
- (tags:history muppets christmas )
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Interesting Links for 18-12-2024
Dec. 18th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. 'Warhammer 40,000' TV series locked and loaded at Amazon with Henry Cavill set to star (and much more to come by the sound of things)
- (tags:Warhammer Amazon TV movies )
- 2. 'Bluey' Movie Set for 2027 Theatrical Release From Disney, BBC Studios
- (tags:children TV movie Disney bbc dogs )
- 3. Silver amulet unearthed in Frankfurt grave Is the oldest evidence of Christianity north of the Alps (230-270 CE)
- (tags:religion rome archeology europe christianity )
- 4. Companies forcing their employees back to the office lose their senior people and women
- (tags:work office )
- 5. 20% of people are just dicks
- (tags:society psychology empathy narcissism )
- 6. Fife to Edinburgh driverless bus service to stop in 2025 (because nobody was coming in that way)
- (tags:automation driving buses transport edinburgh )
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Interesting Links for 23-04-2024
Apr. 23rd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. How to stop a teenage girl from playing Warhammer (and then, several years later, how to invite her in)
- (tags:games Warhammer sexism )
- 2. Doctor Who: If Not Gallifrey, Where IS the Doctor From?
- (tags:drwho TV )
- 3. Increasingly irregular seasons caused by changes in earth's tilt drove the rise of agriculture
- (tags:agriculture climatechange earth )
- 4. The Cass Review absolutely did ignore almost all evidence on the efficacy & safety of puberty blockers and hormones
- (tags:LGBT bigotry transgender research UK )
- 5. Glasgow - Edinburgh trains: We need another station on the main line
- (tags:trains glasgow edinburgh scotland )
- 6. Animation companies are unwittingly subcontracting to North Korea
- (tags:animation it NorthKorea )
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Interesting Links for 18-12-2023
Dec. 18th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Masha Gessen, a Jewish author is having their Hannah Arendt award (named after a Jewish historian and genocide scholar) canceled for writing an essay on Gaza and how it is genocide.
- (tags:Jews genocide Israel Palestine )
- 2. Grendel and the Grinch
- (tags:Christmas myths )
- 3. Covid in England update: expect a bumpy Christmas and New Year
- (tags:Pandemic UK doom )
- 4. Good and bad cycle lanes
- (tags:bicycles cycling transport design )
- 5. Warhammer edges closer to TV
- (tags:Warhammer TV )
Interesting Links for 18-04-2023
Apr. 18th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Crossness Pumping Station: London's Beautiful Sewage Station
- (tags:waste beauty london )
- 2. The Horrific Stages of a Tyranid Invasion - narrated by David Attenborough
- (tags:warhammer WH40K DavidAttenborough funny video )
- 3. An interesting question about vampires
- (tags:vampires questions )
- 4. Labour will use any excuse to shift to the right
- (tags:labour politics UK doom )
- 5. Sony World Photography Award 2023: Winner refuses award after revealing AI creation
- (tags:photography competition ai viaSwampers )
- 6. Is beauty skin deep?
- (tags:beauty mathematics topology funny comic )
- 7. The Fediverse crosses one billion posts per month
- (tags:mastodon socialnetworking )
- 8. I see that transphobes are now unsuccessfully trying to co-opt Judy Blume
- (tags:LGBT bigotry transgender )
- 9. Now, you can embed Mastodon posts in Medium stories
- (tags:socialnetworking )
- 10. DOOM maps to SVG to laser cutter
- (tags:doom games 3dprinting )
- 11. Why don't you see more fat people in sport?
- (tags:weight sports )
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Interesting Links for 06-01-2023
Jan. 6th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Facebook Wanted Out of Politics. It Was Messier Than Anyone Expected.
- (tags:Facebook politics )
- 2. Reminder that most of the velocity imparted to a rocket to get it into orbit is *sideways*
- (tags:physics space rockets )
- 3. In the annals of weird cover versions this one of "Hurt" is definitely one of them
- (tags:music video weird )
- 4. Dungeons & Dragons' New License Tightens Its Grip on Competition
- (tags:licensing dungeonsanddragons intellectual_property business )
- 5. Warhammer 40k Reimagined As A 1980's Sci Fi Movie (probably by AI)
- (tags:warhammer movies ai video viaMyBrotherMike )
Interesting Links for 28-10-2022
Oct. 28th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. I have no idea how Meta spent this much money on VR nonsense
- (tags:vr Facebook MarkZuckerberg wtf )
- 2. AI generated Warhammer figures of politicians is as glorious and horrifying as you'd hope!
- (tags:viaMyBrotherMike Warhammer politics ai awesome )
- 3. What Do Blind People Dream About?
- (tags:dreams blindness )
- 4. Coverage of the debate on the Scottish Gender Recognition Act (reforming how transgender people can get a gender recognition certificate)
- (tags:Scotland transgender law politics )
- 5. You may have heard of Stanislav Petrov, but have you heard of the *other* Russian whose choices averted World War Three?
- (tags:nuclearweapons history Russia USA epicwin viaPatrickHadfield )
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Interesting Links for 25-09-2022
Sep. 25th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. How 'Star Trek: The Motion Picture' Finally, After 43 Years, Got Completed
- (tags:StarTrek movies )
- 2. James Earl Jones Signs Off on Using Recordings to Recreate Voice with AI
- (tags:ai voice StarWars )
- 3. Voters do not know what Keir Starmer stands for, poll finds on eve of Labour conference
- (tags:labour )
- 4. How They Fooled Millions Into Thinking Chocolate Helps Weight Loss
- (tags:chocolate weight fraud journalism research )
- 5. Warhammer 40k meets Toy Story!
- (tags:toys warhammer funny )
- 6. Keir Starmer scraps pledge to end NHS private sector outsourcing
- (tags:labour NHS privatisation )
Interesting Links for 20-11-2021
Nov. 20th, 2021 12:00 pm- What's life like with executive dysfunction?
- (tags:behaviour mentalhealth comic organisation tidiness )
- York council are making it impossible for people with disabilities to access the city centre
- (tags:disability yorkshire OhForFucksSake )
- Necromolds: When wargaming meets Playdoh!
- (tags:gaming wargames sculpture )
- Boris Johnson strips Transport for the North of powers after it criticises his rail plan
- (tags:transport UK trains )
- New Covid Drugs Are Here—and They Could Change the Pandemic
- (tags:Pandemic medicine )
- Games Workshop fights back against fascist hate symbols in the Warhammer 40K community
- (tags:warhammer fascism )
- The Ones Who Take the Train to Omelas (mostly for the pictures)
- (tags:scifi short_story )
- Pangea Aerospace successfully hot fire tests the first MethaLox aerospike engine in the world
- (tags:space engineering )
- Looks like I'll be skipping the Wheel of Time TV show
- (tags:TV fantasy )
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Interesting Links for 28-08-2021
Aug. 28th, 2021 12:00 pm- Google understands what I'm looking for in a phone
- (tags:Google video funny technology Android phones )
- Boris Johnson 'privately accepts' up to 50,000 annual Covid deaths as an acceptable level
- (tags:death pandemic UK )
- Russian Warhammer 40k LARP looks amazing (and intense)
- (tags:Warhammer larp )
- Microsoft won't stop you installing Windows 11 on older PCs
- (tags:Windows obsolescence GoodNews )
- Why Windows 11 has such strict hardware requirements, according to Microsoft
- (tags:Microsoft Windows security processor )
- What happens when you take a Trump lawsuit seriously?
- (tags:politics law USA fraud )
- Intergenerational inequality is just ludicrously large
- (tags:inequality history demographics visualisation viaSwampers )
- Just William, The Omen, and the Jew of Malta - how Good Omens came to be
- (tags:neilgaiman terrypratchett writing )
- Facebook "transparency report" turns out to be anything but
- (tags:transparency Facebook fraud )
- UK loses 83% of department stores since BHS collapsed five years ago
- (tags:shopping UK )
- UK Government to ban single-use plastic cutlery
- (tags:UK plastic environment )
- Ancient four-legged whale found in Egypt named after god of death
- (tags:paleontology whales )
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Interesting Links for 06-07-2021
Jul. 6th, 2021 12:00 pm- Students flee field as computer "fad" fades
- (tags:computers history headline )
- "'Mendel's Quest,' aka 'Angry Jew,' Helped Me Embrace My Heritage"
- (tags:Jews apps history )
- Green light in Edinburgh for Scotland's largest net zero housing project
- (tags:Edinburgh housing globalwarming Scotland )
- Epstein-Barr virus reactivation may be the cause of long COVID symptoms
- (tags:pandemic immune_system virus )
- Scotland to keep face masks for public transport and shops
- (tags:Pandemic Scotland transport shopping )
- Lambda variant: What is the new strain of Covid detected in the UK?
- (tags:UK pandemic )
- How many robots does it take to run a grocery store? (Incredible video)
- (tags:robots shopping video )
- Warhammer 40k Timeline In 20 Mins! From the 21st Century to the 41st Millenium
- (tags:Warhammer history video )
- Mind-controlling parasite makes hyena cubs more reckless around lions
- (tags:Parasites lions brain )
- Most attempts to improve the world fail. That doesn't mean they aren't important
- (tags:Revolution history protests )
Interesting Links for 27-04-2021
Apr. 27th, 2021 12:00 pm- The owners and the owned - why the Christian Right supported Trump
- (tags:religion USA politics viaDanielDWilliam )
- Erdogan threatens to recognise killings of Native Americans as genocide in response to Armenia resolution (I see no bad here)
- (tags:genocide Armenia Turkey USA )
- Why It took Facebook two months to realize "Stop the Steal" might turn violent
- (tags:Facebook conspiracy politics violence )
- Chaos miniature painting: advanced version
- (tags:warhammer painting chaos )
- Apple AirTag has built-in anti-stalking tech
- (tags:apple stalking Technology )
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Interesting Links for 08-01-2021
Jan. 8th, 2021 12:00 pm- Covid in Scotland: 'Well over half' of care home residents vaccinated
- (tags:vaccination Scotland )
- UK now has more new Covid cases per capita than any other country in the world
- (tags:pandemic UK Doom viaSwampers )
- Two more life-saving Covid drugs discovered
- (tags:Pandemic GoodNews medicine )
- "They're shooting at us. They're supposed to shoot BLM, but they're shooting the patriots."
- (tags:USA politics racism police violence )
- Trump pressured Pence to engineer a coup, then put the VP in danger
- (tags:politics USA republicans )
- New edition of Warhammer to be set in Washington DC
- (tags:Warhammer politics USA funny satire )
- Republicans Control Whether Trump Stays Or Goes
- (tags:USA politics )
- The Capitol Police failure to stop a Trump mob, explained
- (tags:police politics USA epicfail )
Interesting Links for 09-12-2020
Dec. 9th, 2020 12:00 pm- The woman who pointed out that Cyberpunk 2077 can cause seizures is sent hundreds of videos designed to cause epileptic seizures
- (tags:OhForFucksSake assault games viaSwampers )
- Billionaire Brexit backer decides to build cars in Germany rather than the UK
- (tags:Doom manufacturing UK Europe cars )
- How to talk to people who are nervous about vaccines
- https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1336018501723697153.html
(tags:vaccine communication ) - New Los Angeles DA announces end to cash bail, the death penalty and trying children as adults
- (tags:crime USA GoodNews )
- Legal Defence Fund for Transgender Lives in the UK. I've donated.
- (tags:transgender lgbt law uk CrowdFunding )
- The reason that musicians make no money from streaming is that the labels keep over 80% of it
- (tags:money streaming music OhForFucksSake )
- No plan for achieving flagship 'ambition' of 300,000 new homes a year, government admits
- (tags:UK housing conservatives OhForFucksSake )
- 80s pop lyrics as Space Marine dialogue
- (tags:Warhammer music funny )
- Families of trans children 'broken' after sudden puberty blockers rule changes
- (tags:transgender children LGBT OhForFucksSake UK healthcare )
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Interesting Links for 04-12-2020
Dec. 4th, 2020 12:00 pm- Warhammer owner becomes as valuable as parent of British Gas and Spirit Energy
- (tags:warhammer gas business )
- The snowflakes are at it again
- (tags:StarWars funny society )
- Politician Named after Adolf Hitler Wins Election In Namibia
- (tags:hitler politics names )
- Warner Bros. Smashes Box Office Windows, Will Send Entire 2021 Slate to HBO Max and Theaters
- (tags:movies streaming )
- Google Maps is being turned into a social network. For some reason.
- (tags:Google maps socialnetworking wtf )
- First publication of 'Twinkle, twinkle, little star'
- (tags:history poetry children publishing )
- Rishi Sunak imposes austerity on railway infrastructure investment with £1bn cuts
- (tags:railways infrastructure austerity UK )
- Disruption after 'thundersnow' hits Scotland (I was awake with Sophia and heard both strikes!)
- (tags:snow weather Scotland Edinburgh lightning )
Interesting Links for 12-04-2020
Apr. 12th, 2020 12:00 pm- "Hamlet is indecisive" is a terrible interpretation
- (tags:shakespeare theatre )
- I'd love to see the details of this paper on bad PE teachers alienating people from their bodies. Anyone link me up?
- (tags:research education fitness epicfail )
- Have a bunch of free comics by Bryan Talbot to read during quarantine!
- (tags:comics bryan_talbot )
- UK hunger crisis: 1.5m people go whole day without food
- (tags:food poverty OhForFucksSake )
- John Conway, mathematician and inventor of the Game of Life has, alas, lost it. It was a fascinating one though.
- (tags:mathematics history life )
- Coronavirus: Buckinghamshire couple dress in period costumes for walks
- (tags:costumes pandemic UK )
- Henry Cavill is a Warhammer nerd!
- (tags:warhammer )
- Fundraiser To Save The Sun Newspaper (read to the end)
- (tags:satire newspapers UK )
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Interesting Links for 25-07-2019
Jul. 25th, 2019 01:09 pm- Vote Leave takes over Boris Johnson's government
- (tags:UK Europe government Doom Conservatives )
- Fresh Labour Brexit confusion as spokesman insists it is 'not a Remain party'
- (tags:politics Labour UK europe )
- Khorne the Blood God confirmed as Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport in cabinet reshuffle
- (tags:warhammer politics uk funny )
- Bayesian and predictive coding accounts of autistic cognition
- (tags:autism predictions psychology )
- Why British train lines don't cope well with unusual heat
- (tags:trains UK heat )
- Non-English Phrases With Their Hilarious Literal Meanings
- (tags:English language translation funny )
- Teenager can walk again thanks to Dutch 3D printed spinal implant
- (tags:netherlands 3dprinting bone )
- We have the worst cabinet in UK history.
- (tags:UK politics conservatives OhForFucksSake )
- Jo Swinson has a put a confidence motion down ... challenge from her to Corbyn on whether he'd back it.
- (tags:UK government libdem )
- Virgin Media pledges gigabit broadband to millions of homes
- Personally I struggle to use even the 100MBit connection we currently have
(tags:internet Virgin broadband UK )
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Interesting Links for 18-07-2019
Jul. 18th, 2019 01:35 pm- I'd never heard of "Paris Syndrome" before. (Fascinating, but rare - Japanese people so shocked to discover that it's different to the movies they fail to cope)
- (tags:japan france reality movies Paris mentalhealth )
- Modeling the Mythical Man-Month (or: The ideal number of people in a team is about 3)
- (tags:teams efficiency productivity )
- Psychologists are studying polyamory
- (tags:psychology polyamory relationships )
- Human presence alone has lethal effect on large predators
- (tags:humans predator behaviour animals wildlife )
- Isn't Everyone On The Spectrum?
- (tags:autism society )
- Explaining Japan's 99.9% Conviction Rate
- (tags:law japan )
- Autistic Spectroscopy: Exploring what the "spectrum" means
- (tags:autism )
- How does OpenStreetMap keep track of where your home is when the continents won't hold still?
- (tags:OpenStreetMap maps data earth time )
- Trial By Trolley - a social game of philosophical conundrums
- (tags:morality games kickstarter )
- Live Action Warhammer 40,000 TV Show 'Eisenhorn' Announced
- (tags:Warhammer tv )
- Gorillas have humanlike social structure
- (tags:gorillas social behaviour )
- The Glorious, Profitable, Inescapable Art of Addiction (in games)
- (tags:games addiction design )
- Scottish town named top cruise ship destination in Western Europe
- (tags:Scotland ocean holidays tourism )
- No Deal Brexit forecast to lead to a £30 billion a year hit to the public finances per year, according to the first official projection from the Government's independent budgetary watchdog - the OBR
- (tags:europe uk doom )
- An interview with Margaret Hamilton: The woman whose programming helped us land on the moon
- (tags:NASA space programming women history )
- The lesson from the ruins of Notre Dame: don't rely on billionaires
- (tags:charity wealth France fraud viaSwampers )
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