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Interesting Links for 03-02-2025
Feb. 3rd, 2025 12:00 pm- 1. Why would people rate a ten hour film about paint drying so highly, and how does the creator feel about it?
- (tags:painting movies video weird community viaSwampers )
- 2. EU patience 'wearing thin' in Brussels over Starmer's Brexit reset
- (tags:UK Europe doom )
- 3. How the UK's biggest solar project could be shaped by sheep farmers
- (tags:sheep solarpower UK )
- 4. USDA orders removal of climate change mentions from public websites
- (tags:USA globalwarming viaElfy OhForFucksSake censorship )
- 5. Platypus venom is what led to Ozempic!
- (tags:viaDrJon diabetes )
- 6. The four questions from the Lucy Letby case as defence to unveil new evidence
- (tags:murder law evidence )
- 7. Reminder that working more than 40 hours per week produces *negative* marginal gains if you do if for more than a few weeks.
- (tags:work working_hours efficiency )
- 8. Visualizing all books of the world in ISBN-Space
- (tags:books visualisation )
- 9. basically every video essay (in 14 seconds)
- (tags:funny video videos satire )
Tags:
- books,
- censorship,
- community,
- diabetes,
- doom,
- efficiency,
- europe,
- evidence,
- funny,
- globalwarming,
- law,
- links,
- movies,
- murder,
- ohforfuckssake,
- painting,
- satire,
- sheep,
- solarpower,
- uk,
- usa,
- viadrjon,
- viaelfy,
- viaswampers,
- video,
- videos,
- visualisation,
- weird,
- work,
- working_hours
Interesting Links for 05-11-2024
Nov. 5th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Silicon Valley and Wall Street invent collateralized GPU obligations. Surely this will work out fine?
- (tags:economics technology ai doom )
- 2. Is it not enough to simply have a hundred anuses? Must you also use them?
- (tags:animals food bodies weird viaSwampers )
- 3. Brain atrophy in later life linked to bad quality sleep. (Sleeping less isn't the issue, sleeping badly is)
- (tags:sleep brain health )
- 4. Blood Sugar Control is a Key Factor in Slowing Brain Aging
- (tags:sugar brain aging )
- 5. UK's Green energy plan needs 600 miles of power lines
- (tags:uk electricity infrastructure )
- 6. Center Parcs plans first Scottish holiday village near Hawick
- (tags:scotland holidays )
Tags:
- aging,
- ai,
- animals,
- bodies,
- brain,
- doom,
- economics,
- electricity,
- food,
- health,
- holidays,
- infrastructure,
- links,
- scotland,
- sleep,
- sugar,
- technology,
- uk,
- viaswampers,
- weird
Interesting Links for 08-10-2024
Oct. 8th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Why are absurd house-remodelling videos going viral?
- (tags:housing video china weird )
- 2. We should have given Ukraine more weapons earlier, says ex-NATO chief
- (tags:nato ukraine )
- 3. World-first therapy using donor cells sends autoimmune diseases into remission
- (tags:immune_system )
- 4. How much controversy was there over the introduction of car numberplates in the UK?
- (tags:uk cars identity law history )
- 5. Here's the UK's head of Infection Prevention & Control giving frankly appalling answers to the UK's Covid inquiry
- (tags:uk pandemic OhForFucksSake incompetence healthcare )
- 6. So, you want a movie that's *original* do you?
- (tags:movies bodies trailer video )
- 7. Scotland's population rising at fastest rate since 1940s (mostly due to people moving here from the remainder of the UK and elsewhere)
- (tags:scotland immigration )
Tags:
- bodies,
- cars,
- china,
- healthcare,
- history,
- housing,
- identity,
- immigration,
- immune_system,
- incompetence,
- law,
- links,
- movies,
- nato,
- ohforfuckssake,
- pandemic,
- scotland,
- trailer,
- uk,
- ukraine,
- video,
- weird
Interesting Links for 31-07-2024
Jul. 31st, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Wrongly convicted sub-postmasters to get new compensation scheme
- (tags:postoffices justice UK money )
- 2. How to get housing built in the UK
- (tags:housing viaDanielDWilliam )
- 3. On "weirdness" in politics
- (tags:politics weird viaDanielDWilliam )
- 4. TikTok Has a Nazi Problem
- (tags:Nazis socialmedia OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 17-03-2024
Mar. 17th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. 'If anything happens, it's not suicide': Boeing whistleblower's prediction before death
- (tags:death suicide airplanes safety )
- 2. Deep-sea hiatus record reveals orbital pacing by 2.4 Myr eccentricity grand cycles
- (tags:prehistory ocean space weird )
- 3. Lexus, Not Tesla, Makes The Best Driver Assistance System (and most of them are bad)
- (tags:driving automation )
Interesting Links for 06-01-2024
Jan. 6th, 2024 12:00 pm- 1. Very soon, handwriting will only be for the eccentric and the old
- (tags:writing obsolescence )
- 2. Starmer backs change in law on assisted dying
- (tags:euthenasia labour )
- 3. Researchers Create First Functional Semiconductor Made From Graphene
- (tags:Technology computers graphene )
- 4. What animals like running around in wheels the most? (mice and... slugs??)
- (tags:mice exercise research weird )
- 5. It's a Wonderful Life: Organisational Perspective
- (tags:business christmas movies )
- 6. Water firm drives 240 truckloads of sewage a day through town to pump into the sea
- (tags:UK waste ocean OhForFucksSake )
Tags:
- business,
- christmas,
- computers,
- euthenasia,
- exercise,
- graphene,
- labour,
- links,
- mice,
- movies,
- obsolescence,
- ocean,
- ohforfuckssake,
- research,
- technology,
- uk,
- waste,
- weird,
- writing
Interesting Links for 22-09-2023
Sep. 22nd, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Scottish Labour MSPs told to oppose employment law devolution motion - despite running on a platform to devolve it
- (tags:scotland labour employment law OhForFucksSake )
- 2. Luxembourg legalises cultivation and consumption of cannabis at home
- (tags:europe marijuana legalisation )
- 3. Amazingly, 5% of NFTs are still worth something
- (tags:blockchain money epicfail )
- 4. How far back into pre-history can we push the earliest societies?
- (tags:prehistory Intelligence society )
- 5. I hope that some day Samuel L Jackson will be hired to play me. And that it's at least as awesome as this ad for bread.
- (tags:SamuelLJackson bread advertising video )
- 6. EU politicians say there is a 'whole pile' of post-Brexit problems to fix before a UK return
- (tags:uk europe )
- 7. Spider silk is spun by silkworms for the first time, offering a green alternative to synthetic fibers
- (tags:spiders silk worm materials )
- 8. Happy September 21st everyone!
- (tags:video weird music )
Tags:
- advertising,
- blockchain,
- bread,
- employment,
- epicfail,
- europe,
- intelligence,
- labour,
- law,
- legalisation,
- links,
- marijuana,
- materials,
- money,
- music,
- ohforfuckssake,
- prehistory,
- samuelljackson,
- scotland,
- silk,
- society,
- spiders,
- uk,
- video,
- weird,
- worm
Interesting Links for 20-09-2023
Sep. 20th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. The Ancient Times of TV were weird
- (tags:tv weird history comic funny )
- 2. I'm pretty sure that this is where the search for consciousness is headed
- (tags:consciousness funny comic )
- 3. No evidence people have bank accounts closed due to political views, regulator says after Nigel Farage row
- (tags:politics banking )
- 4. Less than half of fresh produce sold globally makes any profit
- (tags:business food doom )
- 5. Right-wing ideologues can't work out who broke Britain, so let me explain
- (tags:uk Conservatives doom )
- 6. Humans Have Exceeded Six of the Nine Boundaries Keeping Earth Habitable
- (tags:earth environment doom )
- 7. Facebook is Blocking Canadians' Posts About the Assassination of a BC Sikh Leader. Their Posts Were Targeted by India's Government.
- (tags:india canada facebook censorship )
- 8. The Pirate Bay Celebrates Its 20th Anniversary
- (tags:birthday piracy piratebay copyright )
- 9. I was furious at the idea of a 'male menopause' but I was wrong
- (tags:men hormones age )
Interesting Links for 12-09-2023
Sep. 12th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Does ChatGPT have a liberal bias?
- (tags:ai politics )
- 2. No prosecution plan for Scottish drug consumption rooms
- (tags:scotland decriminalization drugs )
- 3. Orkney to get two electric ferries for three-year trial
- (tags:scotland boats electricity )
- 4. Non-gas giant has 73 times Earth's mass, bewildering its discoverers
- (tags:space planets weird )
- 5. The Aftermath of a 'Miracle Cure' for a Rare Cancer
- (tags:blood cancer business OhForFucksSake )
- 6. Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows
- (tags:printing windows )
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Interesting Links for 12-06-2023
Jun. 12th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Netflix sees massive subscriber jump after password-sharing crackdown
- (tags:Netflix passwords business )
- 2. ChatGPT recommends software packages that don't exist - so hackers created them to take control of people's computers
- (tags:malware hacking ai )
- 3. There are some really weird underwater creatures out there
- (tags:nature ocean video weird )
- 4. 'It was the worst pain': Women still face agonising coil fittings despite pain relief guidance
- (tags:pain women contraception NHS OhForFucksSake )
- 5. Democrats work to protect abortion, trans rights with combined laws
- (tags:usa democrats abortion transgender GoodNews )
- 6. Five Things that Boris Johnson Might Be Up Too
- (tags:BorisJohnson politics Conservatives viaDanielDWilliam )
- 7. This is why I can't play Diablo for the next couple of years
- (tags:games time children )
- 8. Star Trek engineering rap
- (tags:music video funny StarTrek ViaDrCross )
- 9. Kate Forbes says she can't choose to stop being a bigot and that non-bigoted Christians aren't really properly Christian
- (tags:bigotry religion Christianity politics Scotland LGBT )
Tags:
- abortion,
- ai,
- bigotry,
- borisjohnson,
- business,
- children,
- christianity,
- conservatives,
- contraception,
- democrats,
- funny,
- games,
- goodnews,
- hacking,
- lgbt,
- links,
- malware,
- music,
- nature,
- netflix,
- nhs,
- ocean,
- ohforfuckssake,
- pain,
- passwords,
- politics,
- religion,
- scotland,
- startrek,
- time,
- transgender,
- usa,
- viadanieldwilliam,
- viadrcross,
- video,
- weird,
- women
Interesting Links for 07-06-2023
Jun. 7th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Scotland's first electric HGV starts making trips
- (tags:scotland transport electricity )
- 2. Photoshop's new "Generative Fill" feature is really impressive.
- (tags:ai photoshop )
- 3. The science around babies and sleep is, frankly terrible. (And the article assumes you'll be doing sleep training at all)
- (tags:research babies sleep )
- 4. Superintelligence: The Idea That Eats Smart People
- (tags:Intelligence ai society )
- 5. The cultural bias of "ultra-processed food"
- (tags:food society )
- 6. Edinburgh tram time-lapse shows route extension (opening today!)
- (tags:Edinburgh trams timelapse video )
- 7. UK government ignored that major drinks companies, retailers, and trade bodies, as well as the Environment Agency wanted glass to be included in the deposit return scheme.
- (tags:uk recycling OhForFucksSake glass )
- 8. Your Reminder that "AI" Will Just Flat-Out Make Things Up
- (tags:ai fraud )
- 9. Who wants to eat a giant isopod from the depths of the ocean?
- (tags:animals food weird taiwan )
Interesting Links for 10-05-2023
May. 10th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. We should seaflood the Qatarra Depression
- (tags:sea flooding Egypt )
- 2. Waiting Mode: Why you can't do anything before your appointment and what you can do about it
- (tags:neurodiversity anxiety adhd time stress )
- 3. How the oldest alliance in the world, between Britain and Portugal, helped win WWII
- (tags:wwii history UK Portugal viaPatrickHadfield )
- 4. The world is stranger than you can imagine - Losing The Time War With Bigos Dickolas edition
- (tags:publishing weird Twitter )
- 5. It's 1178 BCE and the Bronze Age Has Never Looked Stronger.
- (tags:prehistory archeology funny history )
- 6. What effects do different dosages of LSD have?
- (tags:lsd psychology )
- 7. First UK baby born with DNA of 3 parents
- (tags:babies dna )
Tags:
- adhd,
- anxiety,
- archeology,
- babies,
- dna,
- egypt,
- flooding,
- funny,
- history,
- links,
- lsd,
- neurodiversity,
- portugal,
- prehistory,
- psychology,
- publishing,
- sea,
- stress,
- time,
- twitter,
- uk,
- viapatrickhadfield,
- weird,
- wwii
Interesting Links for 04-05-2023
May. 4th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh Council has a critical shortage of staff
- (tags:edinburgh work doom )
- 2. Who do LGBTQ people vote for in the next UK general election
- (tags:lgbt uk politics )
- 3. AI-generated beer commercial contains joyful monstrosities, goes viral
- (tags:alcohol advertising ai weird )
- 4. Apple, Google partner on an industry specification to address unwanted tracking
- (tags:apple google tracking surveillance )
- 5. Mozilla acquires review-checking, scammer-spotting service Fakespot for Firefox
- (tags:firefox fraud )
- 6. FBI former agent arrested over Jan. 6 (more than 1,000 people arrested so far)
- (tags:fbi usa politics crime )
- 7. it's a(door)able - a one-minute minigame.
- (tags:love games )
- 8. The Internet Isn't Meant To Be So Small
- (tags:web internet socialmedia )
- 9. The most draconian assault on free speech in living memory is now UK law
- (tags:uk law freespeech protests )
- 10. Port of Aberdeen welcomes UK government funding for world's first liquid hydrogen autonomous vessel project
- (tags:automation shipping scotland hydrogen viaJane )
- 11. The web's most important decision
- (tags:internet web history computers opensource )
Tags:
- advertising,
- ai,
- alcohol,
- apple,
- automation,
- computers,
- crime,
- doom,
- edinburgh,
- fbi,
- firefox,
- fraud,
- freespeech,
- games,
- google,
- history,
- hydrogen,
- internet,
- law,
- lgbt,
- links,
- love,
- opensource,
- politics,
- protests,
- scotland,
- shipping,
- socialmedia,
- surveillance,
- tracking,
- uk,
- usa,
- viajane,
- web,
- weird,
- work
Interesting Links for 31-03-2023
Mar. 31st, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Clues to the Lives of North America's First Inhabitants Are Hidden Underwater
- (tags:usa prehistory archeology ocean )
- 2. Early Remote Work Impacts on Family Formation
- (tags:work family remote Technology society )
- 3. The Uniquely American Future of US Authoritarianism
- (tags:usa authoritarianism )
- 4. "If you want to watch games on your tractor, please use your own iPad"
- (tags:funny Technology farming )
- 5. An Unusual Finding of a Ladybug on Screening Colonoscopy
- (tags:healthcare insects unlikely )
- 6. Quarter of British renters don't report repairs over eviction fears
- (tags:uk rental OhForFucksSake )
- 7. DeSantis, the Disney board and King Charles III: A power struggle, explained
- (tags:law Disney republicans LGBT USA Florida )
- 8. A Greek and Roman Mythology Walk around London (I've been on one of Tony's walking tours and he's an academic who really knows his stuff)
- (tags:London Greece Rome history UK walking )
- 9. Growing a chicken in an open egg
- (tags:chicken life eggs video weird )
- 10. Finland clears its last hurdle, will join NATO in July
- (tags:Finland NATO )
- 11. UK-Asia trade deal to boost UK economy by...0.08%
- (tags:trade UK pacific )
Tags:
- archeology,
- authoritarianism,
- chicken,
- disney,
- eggs,
- family,
- farming,
- finland,
- florida,
- funny,
- greece,
- healthcare,
- history,
- insects,
- law,
- lgbt,
- life,
- links,
- london,
- nato,
- ocean,
- ohforfuckssake,
- pacific,
- prehistory,
- remote,
- rental,
- republicans,
- rome,
- society,
- technology,
- trade,
- uk,
- unlikely,
- usa,
- video,
- walking,
- weird,
- work
Interesting Links for 04-03-2023
Mar. 4th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Privileges Committee Believes Boris Johnson May Have Misled House On Partygate
- (tags:BorisJohnson lies fraud politics pandemic )
- 2. EU countries postpone vote on combustion engine ban (because Germany wants to be allowed to keep making them)
- (tags:politics europe cars pollution )
- 3. ChatGPT Is Nothing Like a Human, And having it pretend to be one leads us in very difficult directions
- (tags:philosophy morality ai language )
- 4. There's a Good Reason Why So Many Terrorists Are Engineers
- (tags:terrorism engineering )
- 5. "Eat Out To Help Out" caused an increase in Covid cases. Matt Hancock covered it up.
- (tags:Pandemic restaurant OhForFucksSake murder censorship )
- 6. Iowa: Republicans propose ban on same-sex marriage
- (tags:LGBT marriage USA republicans OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Happy Weird Pride Day!
- (tags:weird pride )
- 8. Food Timeline: food history research service
- (tags:food history )
Tags:
- ai,
- borisjohnson,
- cars,
- censorship,
- engineering,
- europe,
- food,
- fraud,
- history,
- language,
- lgbt,
- lies,
- links,
- marriage,
- morality,
- murder,
- ohforfuckssake,
- pandemic,
- philosophy,
- politics,
- pollution,
- pride,
- republicans,
- restaurant,
- terrorism,
- usa,
- weird
Interesting Links for 24-01-2023
Jan. 24th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. 2,500 pieces, measuring 30 metres and weighing 25 tonnes - This medieval sessel is world's largest 3D puzzle
- (tags:history ship )
- 2. 7 steps to victory in Ukraine
- (tags:ukraine russia war )
- 3. How the "smeariness" of CRT TVs made pixel art look so much better
- (tags:Technology games video tv displays )
- 4. Brainfarts, a collection
- (tags:brain language oops funny mistakes )
- 5. Dictionary biz finally infiltrates gaming as Merriam-Webster buys Quordle
- (tags:dictionary words games )
- 6. These vaccine side effects look harrowing
- (tags:vaccine funny dancing video )
- 7. Disfrustrating puzzles
- (tags:funny xkcd )
- 8. Netflix's New Chapter - how did it get here and what does it need to do next?
- (tags:streaming TV Netflix business )
- 9. Pet fish spend cash and expose Nintendo Switch owner's credit card during Pokemon live stream
- (tags:Nintendo fish viaPatrickHadfield weird )
- 10. Why men are more likely to aggressively avoid tax than women
- (tags:psychology tax gender )
- 11. New Scottish fox hunting bill to pass 20 years after ban
- (tags:foxes scotland law )
- 12. Russia's energy blackmail fails as Europe switches to LNG and prices fall to pre-war levels
- (tags:russia gas electricity europe economy )
- 13. Germany is failing Ukraine, leaving Nato allies no choice but to sideline it
- (tags:germany ukraine war russia )
- 14. Chronic UTI patients are waiting up to 12 years for a diagnosis from the NHS
- (tags:nhs urination disease uk OhForFucksSake )
- 15. Edinburgh Jenners fire: Shops and roads still closed after Princes Street fire, including M&S and TK Maxx
- (tags:edinburgh fire shops )
Tags:
- brain,
- business,
- dancing,
- dictionary,
- disease,
- displays,
- economy,
- edinburgh,
- electricity,
- europe,
- fire,
- fish,
- foxes,
- funny,
- games,
- gas,
- gender,
- germany,
- history,
- language,
- law,
- links,
- mistakes,
- netflix,
- nhs,
- nintendo,
- ohforfuckssake,
- oops,
- psychology,
- russia,
- scotland,
- ship,
- shops,
- streaming,
- tax,
- technology,
- tv,
- uk,
- ukraine,
- urination,
- vaccine,
- viapatrickhadfield,
- video,
- war,
- weird,
- words,
- xkcd
