![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
Interesting Links for 14-07-2025
Jul. 14th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Stardew Valley is now Steam's top-rated game, surpassing Portal
- (tags:games steam )
- 2. Most people in France, Germany, Italy and Spain want UK to rejoin EU, poll finds - but on new terms. Britons want to rejoin, but on their old terms.
- (tags:UK Europe )
- 3. 'I'm being paid to fix issues caused by AI'
- (tags:ai )
- 4. Cranes, once hunted to extinction returning to Scotland after 500 years
- (tags:birds extinction Scotland )
- 5. How GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance
- (tags:weight medicine insurance health )
- 6. I've found it! The most dystopian AI thing! Gig workers pretending to be the AIs that people have fallen in love with!
- (tags:relationships ai business doom )
Interesting Links for 16-06-2025
Jun. 16th, 2025 12:01 pm- 1. Damaged paintings can now be restored in hours rather than months but printing the fix and applying it on top.
- (tags:painting technology art )
- 2. The Meta AI App Lets You 'Discover' People's Bizarrely Personal Chats
- (tags:privacy ai facebook )
- 3. A New Obesity Pill May Burn Fat Without Suppressing Appetite
- (tags:weight medicine obesity )
Interesting Links for 07-06-2025
Jun. 7th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. "Free Roam" mode is Mario Kart World's killer app
- (tags:Mario nintendo games driving )
- 2. Low-calorie diets make you depressed
- (tags:diet mentalhealth depression )
- 3. "I serve school dinners at state schools and private schools - here's the difference"
- (tags:food money school england )
- 4. Robots are coming for mail-sorting jobs
- (tags:robots video viaKenny )
- 5. Well, CAN You Prove You're a US Citizen?
- (tags:usa citizenship )
- 6. Women warned weight-loss jabs may affect contraception
- (tags:drugs contraception weight )
Tags:
- citizenship,
- contraception,
- depression,
- diet,
- driving,
- drugs,
- england,
- food,
- games,
- links,
- mario,
- mentalhealth,
- money,
- nintendo,
- robots,
- school,
- usa,
- viakenny,
- video,
- weight
Interesting Links for 03-05-2025
May. 3rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. 1.5m Britons a month pay for weight-loss jabs
- (tags:UK weight medication )
- 2. Why our waistlines expand in middle age—aging stem cells shift into overdrive (in rats)
- (tags:weight age rats )
- 3. Germany's Crackdown on Pro-Palestine Speech Just Got Even More Ridiculous
- (tags:Germany genocide Palestine Israel freespeech law viaKenny )
- 4. RFK Jr. Encourages Americans To Do Their Own Research About Dragons
- (tags:politics USA dragons satire funny )
- 5. UN says 9,000 Gaza children acutely malnourished as aid blockade passes two months
- (tags:children food gaza Israel Palestine OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Genomic evidence for behavioral adaptation of herding dogs
- (tags:dogs genetics behaviour )
- 7. I missed that the horror version of Steamboat Willie had already been released
- (tags:horror Disney mice )
Interesting Links for 30-04-2025
Apr. 30th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Trump plans to put military on the streets to catch criminals (See section 4)
- (tags:usa police military doom fascism )
- 2. Another Periodic Suggestion to Try, Just Try, Switching to Kagi for Search
- (tags:search web )
- 3. Conservative leader Pierre Poilievre loses his own seat in Canadian Parliament
- (tags:canada Conservatives politics funny )
- 4. Burying cables costs 10x-20x more than pylons
- (tags:electricity infrastructure )
- 5. "Induced Atmospheric Vibration" may have caused the outages across Spain and Portugal. But what is it?
- (tags:electricity )
- 6. People eat more when given ultra-processed foods than when given unprocessed food.
- (tags:diet food weight )
- 7. White House hits back at Amazon plan to show tariff price rises
- (tags:Amazon economics business politics USA )
- 8. Popular LLMs Found to Produce Vulnerable Code by Default
- (tags:security ai fail )
- 9. Trump is the Godfather in Reverse
- (tags:politics economics usa canada china )
- 10. Why translating Chinese food names into English is 'an impossible task'
- (tags:translation language china English food )
- 11. The British Government is not taking climate threats seriously
- (tags:uk globalwarming doom )
Interesting Links for 18-04-2025
Apr. 18th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. How do we combat Reform and outmanoeuvre the insurgent right-wing revolters?
- (tags:politics uk viaFrancescaElston)
- 2. Adipose tissue retains an epigenetic memory of obesity after weight loss
- (tags:weight fat epigenetics )
- 3. Reminder that the head of the UK equalities watchdog is a transphobe who bullied 40% of her LGBT staff out.
- (tags:lgbt bullying equality uk OhForFucksSake transgender bigotry )
- 4. Employment lawyer answers questions about Supreme Court ruling on trans women and single-sex spaces
- (tags:gender UK law transgender LGBT )
Tags:
- bigotry,
- bullying,
- epigenetics,
- equality,
- fat,
- gender,
- law,
- lgbt,
- links,
- ohforfuckssake,
- politics,
- transgender,
- uk,
- weight
Interesting Links for 16-03-2025
Mar. 16th, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. There's no such thing as Italian cuisine
- (tags:food Italy history )
- 2. African countries have huge solar potential, they're beginning to use it
- (tags:solarpower Africa )
- 3. What is like in America if you're trans right now
- (tags:LGBT transgender USA bigotry )
- 4. How did the world's leading thinker on decisions decide to die?
- (tags:euthanasia death decisions )
- 5. The UK's solar revolution, mapped - as 3,500 projects in the pipeline are set to install 50% more than last year.
- (tags:solarpower UK GoodNews )
- 6. How to learn a language like a baby
- (tags:language babies reading )
- 7. 'They're Really Close To My Body': A Hagiography of Nine Inch Nails and their resident mystic Robin Finck
- (tags:music history )
- 8. (Any) 8-hour time-restricted-eating window effective for weight loss
- (tags:weight time diet )
Interesting Links for 03-06-2024
Jun. 3rd, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. A message to England on their treatment of trans kids
- (tags:transgender children LGBT UK OhForFucksSake )
- 2. NHS 'pen-pushers' are doing a great job
- (tags:nhs bureaucracy UK healthcare efficiency )
- 3. Ursula K. Le Guin on How to Become a Writer
- (tags:UrsulaKLegGuin writing )
- 4. EU rebuffs Labour hopes for softer Brexit as too ambitious
- (tags:uk europe labour doom )
- 5. Ozempic and Wegovy Might Be Supercharging Your Taste Buds
- (tags:weight taste sweets sugar )
- 6. Britain going backwards on trans rights, warns first transgender judge
- (tags:uk bigotry lgbt transgender )
Tags:
- bigotry,
- bureaucracy,
- children,
- doom,
- efficiency,
- europe,
- healthcare,
- labour,
- lgbt,
- links,
- nhs,
- ohforfuckssake,
- sugar,
- sweets,
- taste,
- transgender,
- uk,
- ursulaklegguin,
- weight,
- writing
Interesting Links for 24-05-2024
May. 24th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. New pylons to be installed across the UK in National Grid's £30bn green upgrade
- (tags:uk electricity infrastructure )
- 2. For whom Good Omens is being written
- (tags:neilgaiman terrypratchett alzheimers TV writing )
- 3. Football Association resists government pressure to change its transgender inclusion policy
- (tags:football UK transgender LGBT GoodNews sports )
- 4. The next food marketing blitz is aimed at people on new weight-loss drugs
- (tags:food weight drugs )
- 5. Daily cannabis use overtakes drinking for first time in US
- (tags:marijuana alcohol usa )
- 6. The Suit Died, but for Good Reasons
- (tags:history clothing UK monarchy class USA )
- 7. Managers - what are they good for?
- (tags:management engineering software )
- 8. Google Is Paying Reddit $60 Million for Fucksmith to Tell Its Users to Eat Glue
- (tags:Reddit Google ai OhForFucksSake safety advice headline epicfail )
Tags:
- advice,
- ai,
- alcohol,
- alzheimers,
- class,
- clothing,
- drugs,
- electricity,
- engineering,
- epicfail,
- food,
- football,
- goodnews,
- google,
- headline,
- history,
- infrastructure,
- lgbt,
- links,
- management,
- marijuana,
- monarchy,
- neilgaiman,
- ohforfuckssake,
- reddit,
- safety,
- software,
- sports,
- terrypratchett,
- transgender,
- tv,
- uk,
- usa,
- weight,
- writing
Interesting Links for 06-03-2024
Mar. 6th, 2024 12:00 pm- 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 )
Tags:
Interesting Links for 17-01-2024
Jan. 17th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. All the Types of Science Fiction
- (tags:scifi funny genre tropes )
- 2. Data collected just before the war in Gaza shows that millions of Palestinians were already unable to afford food and shelter
- (tags:palestine israel doom )
- 3. Abortion clinic protest laws to be watered down by James Cleverly
- (tags:abortion uk OhForFucksSake protest )
- 4. Fujitsu knew from 'very early stage' about flaws in Horizon system
- (tags:postoffices software OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Drinking 100% fruit juice may be linked to weight gain in children
- (tags:fruit sugar weight children )
Interesting Links for 18-11-2023
Nov. 18th, 2023 09:33 pm- 1. This series of The Crown is the best yet
- (tags:TV review monarchy Queen UK )
- 2. Finally, a solution to the Teleporter problem!
- (tags:StarTrek funny death comic )
- 3. "Personalised Learning" is not the best approach to teaching children
- (tags:children Education )
- 4. Criticisms of BMI have been grossly overstated
- (tags:BMI weight health )
- 5. Half-Life gets a big update for its 25th anniversary
- (tags:games valve half-life )
- 6. Edinburgh named as one of worst cities in Scotland for vacant homes with almost 7,000 lying empty
- (tags:housing Edinburgh epicfail )
- 7. Apple, Disney, Comcast and Warner Brothers Discovery have all halted advertising on X amid antisemitism storm
- (tags:bigotry Jews advertising twitter ElonMusk )
Interesting Links for 07-11-2023
Nov. 7th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Happy Mastoversary!
- (tags:mastodon socialnetworking )
- 2. Can solar and wind power Britain? An update of David MacKay's numbers
- (tags:renewables windpower solarpower uk )
- 3. Dengue rates plunged by up to 97% after release of lab-altered mosquitoes
- (tags:disease mosquito GoodNews )
- 4. It's nice to know that I'm not the only person who looks up the plots of movies too scary for me to watch on Wikipedia
- (tags:Wikipedia horror movies video funny )
- 5. File this under "Headlines that should be satire but somehow aren't."
- (tags:headline Israel Palestine wtf OhForFucksSake health weight )
- 6. The UK planning system is a disaster
- (tags:UK planning building infrastructure OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Not content with scamming people out of large amounts of money for bad monkey art, NFC companies are now trying to blind them
- (tags:eyesight light OhForFucksSake EpicStupidity blockchain )
- 8. EU equality laws to be reinstated by the UK to avoid 'gap in protections' for workers
- (tags:UK Europe equality law )
- 9. Scottish ministers refuse to comply with UK government strike plan
- (tags:uk scotland unions strike )
- 10. Is 'Long Covid' similar to 'Long SARS'? (If so it can persist permanently)
- (tags:pandemic disease )
Tags:
- blockchain,
- building,
- disease,
- epicstupidity,
- equality,
- europe,
- eyesight,
- funny,
- goodnews,
- headline,
- health,
- horror,
- infrastructure,
- israel,
- law,
- light,
- links,
- mastodon,
- mosquito,
- movies,
- ohforfuckssake,
- palestine,
- pandemic,
- planning,
- renewables,
- scotland,
- socialnetworking,
- solarpower,
- strike,
- uk,
- unions,
- video,
- weight,
- wikipedia,
- windpower,
- wtf
Interesting Links for 05-10-2023
Oct. 5th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. The Rise and Fall of Vibes-Based Literacy
- (tags:reading education epicfail USA )
- 2. Being vegetarian may partly be in one's genes
- (tags:genetics vegetarian )
- 3. When game design isn't obvious
- (tags:games design )
- 4. The 'fit but fat' research finally validates what women like me knew: being obese does not mean unhealthy
- (tags:weight health women )
Interesting Links for 15-06-2023
Jun. 15th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh trams: Plans for extension to Newbridge set to be abandoned in favour of route along A71 corridor
- (tags:edinburgh trams )
- 2. Do a quarter of British people really believe Covid was a hoax?
- (tags:conspiracy polls )
- 3. Who wants to read a judge interrogate lawyers for presenting AI gibberish as if it was reality?
- (tags:USA law AI epicfail )
- 4. Google risks forced breakup of ad business as EU alleges shocking misconduct
- (tags:Google advertising corruption fraud business regulation )
- 5. Body mass index gets smack down: American Medical Association calls out harms and "racist exclusion" | Ars Technica
- (tags:weight healthcare USA )
- 6. How many of these do you think are birds?
- (tags:birds paleontology evolution )
- 7. How do people treat you differently when you're skinny?
- (tags:weight bigotry society )
- 8. First time one of my posts on Mastodon has gone viral! (just hit 500 shares)
- (tags:socialmedia )
- 9. Europe votes to regulate AI and ban use of live facial recognition
- (tags:regulation ai faces )
- 10. 'I got to know my gut microbiome - as a result, I sleep better, have more energy and I've lost 25lbs'
- (tags:microbiome )
- 11. Johnson Verdict: 'He lied, lied about lying, lied about lying about lying, and is generally a twat'
- (tags:BorisJohnson lying politics satire true )
- 12. Two children were born with 'insatiable hunger' that left them severely obese. Now scientists know why (leptin gene mutation)
- (tags:genetics hunger )
- 13. Boosting paternity leave has economic benefits and reduces inequality
- (tags:parenting men uk inequality )
- 14. Wildcats bred in captivity released into Cairngorms
- (tags:cats nature scotland )
Tags:
- advertising,
- ai,
- bigotry,
- birds,
- borisjohnson,
- business,
- cats,
- conspiracy,
- corruption,
- edinburgh,
- epicfail,
- evolution,
- faces,
- fraud,
- genetics,
- google,
- healthcare,
- hunger,
- inequality,
- law,
- links,
- lying,
- men,
- microbiome,
- nature,
- paleontology,
- parenting,
- politics,
- polls,
- regulation,
- satire,
- scotland,
- socialmedia,
- society,
- trams,
- true,
- uk,
- usa,
- weight
Interesting Links for 22-04-2023
Apr. 22nd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. PFAS exposure linked with weight gain
- (tags:weight materials )
- 2. The cocaine submarines that travel from Brazil to Europe
- (tags:cocaine submarine SouthAmerica europe viaDanielDWilliam )
- 3. Welcome... to Scottish Park!
- (tags:Scotland funny video JurassicPark )
- 4. On Alan Moore, superheroes, and fascist allegories
- (tags:fascism superheroes alanmoore )
- 5. Exploding Rockets Are Great, Actually.
- (tags:rockets explosions history Spacex NASA space )
- 6. A list of successes from the SpaceX launch
- (tags:explosions Spacex space )
- 7. Cultural change is to blame for rise in bullying complaints - not snowflake millennials, say lawyers
- (tags:society bullying work government CivilService UK )
Tags:
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 )
Tags:
- 3dprinting,
- ai,
- beauty,
- bigotry,
- comic,
- competition,
- davidattenborough,
- doom,
- funny,
- games,
- labour,
- lgbt,
- links,
- london,
- mastodon,
- mathematics,
- photography,
- politics,
- questions,
- socialnetworking,
- sports,
- topology,
- transgender,
- uk,
- vampires,
- viaswampers,
- video,
- warhammer,
- waste,
- weight,
- wh40k
