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Interesting Links for 21-03-2025

1. EU sends Apple first DMA interoperability instructions for apps and connected devices: (tags:Europe apple regulation )
2. Big drop in overseas students at Scottish universities (driven by changes in immigration visas): (tags:scotland university uk migration visa doom )
3. "We'll deport you if we have evidence against you, and if we do not" - An extraordinary witness statement by the US government: (tags:usa migration OhForFucksSake law )
4. New study reveals bacterial vaginosis is actually a sexually transmitted infection: (tags:sex disease women viaDrJon )
5. Vivian Jenna Wilson on Being Elon Musk's Estranged Daughter, Protecting Trans Youth and Taking on the Right Online: (tags:LGBT transgender ElonMusk USA politics bigotry )
6. PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now: (tags:games computers )
7. Tesla cars disengage autopilot if you're about to crash: (tags:Tesla automation OhForFucksSake driving crash )
8. Battery storage is dramatically reshaping the California grid, and finally moving it away from gas: (tags:batteries electricity GoodNews California )
9. What evidence does the CIA have that Hitler was still alive in South America in the 1950s?: (tags:history hitler USA cia colombia wtf )
10. Apple Is Losing Over $1 Billion per Year on Streaming Service, Has 45 Million Apple TV+ Subscribers: (tags:Apple TV business )
11. I thankfully don't have to worry about dating apps. But I do find it fascinating what kind of person makes them work for them.: (tags:dating advice )
12. Germany and Britain issue warnings about traveling to America: (tags:usa travel germany uk )

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Interesting Links for 06-02-2025

1. In-patient services at Edinburgh's Astley Ainslie hospital to be transferred to East Lothian: (tags:edinburgh nhs scotland )
2. The Curta Mechanical Calculator (I'd love to have one if they didn't cost so much): (tags:calculator mechanics impressive video viaSwampers )
3. AI systems with 'unacceptable risk' are now banned in the EU: (tags:ai europe regulation )
4. Scotland! Will! Not! Ban! Cats!: (tags:scotland cats wtf )
5. Time limit for child sex abuse claims to be removed in England and Wales: (tags:rape children abuse law uk GoodNews england )
6. The greatest families behind the greatest showmen - what it's like living life on the road, and how that affects the children: (tags:children family uk )
7. Probably the most sensible thing I've read about Neil Gaiman: (tags:neilgaiman )
8. Nurse who objected to transgender woman in changing room admits harassment: (tags:LGBT transgender NHS harassment )
9. Assaulted woman's divorce case was turned down by 116 Scottish legal aid lawyers: (tags:Scotland law austerity divorce assault )
10. Scientists explore how to make quantum bits with spinel gemstones: (tags:quantum materials )
11. CIA sent unclassified email with names of recent hires - at Whitehouse insistence.: (tags:usa Intelligence OhForFucksSake doom )
12. "I looked for dating advice online - and got sucked into the toxic manosphere": (tags:men relationships feminism patriarchy OhForFucksSake )

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Interesting Links for 30-12-2024

1. A brief explanation of why AI is being shoved into everything: (tags:ai business money technology )
2. Live LED Maps of the weather: (tags:weather maps led viaSwampers )
3. Is Iceland getting ready to join the EU?: (tags:Iceland Europe )
4. In 2024 we discovered a whole new unknown kind of life - inside of us!: (tags:life biology wtf )

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Interesting Links for 15-11-2024

1. New Counterstrike map inspired by Edinburgh: (tags:Edinburgh games video )
2. The Onion acquires Infowars: (tags:wtf TheOnion )
3. I tried the best £5 dinner in London: The Ikea restaurant: (tags:ikea food )
4. The Onion's official announcement "Here's Why I Decided To Buy 'InfoWars'" is hilarious: (tags:TheOnion funny )
5. Is it time to disestablish the Church of England?: (tags:religion UK politics )
6. Kawasaki norovirus symptoms and how to avoid UK's 'highly contagious' winter bug (I'm pretty sure this has gone through my while family in the last week or so): (tags:disease )
7. pedestrians spend more money than people arriving by car, and pedestrianised town centres have higher sales.: (tags:walking business )
8. Scottish councils reject SNP proposals to partner with religious charity that says sex workers are "possessed by demons": (tags:sexwork Scotland OhForFucksSake )
9. Loved ones of those choosing assisted dying are being unfairly maligned: (tags:euthenasia death love )

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Interesting Links for 16-10-2024

1. Research released into the effects of the UK's trans puberty blocker ban: (tags:UK bigotry LGBT transgender healthcare mentalhealth children OhForFucksSake )
2. The move to USB C for charging is a done deal. I'm not sure what the UK has to "consider" about it.: (tags:UK usb Europe electricity )
3. Doctor Who and the Sign Language Question: (tags:drwho sign language video funny viaSwampers )
4. Turns out that once Uber had to make money they started charging more and paying less to their drivers: (tags:driving jobs taxi pay glasgow scotland )
5. "Homeostatic Complacency" is something I've encountered plenty of times. Is there a more traditional name for it?: (tags:psychology behaviour )
6. Seriously ill patients on mental health wards will be helped with their CV: (tags:mentalhealth jobs uk wtf )
7. Too many "local" news sites aren't. I'm so glad that we have at least one in Edinburgh that really is.: (tags:news edinburgh )
8. Confronting the truth about Alex Salmond: (tags:AlexSalmond rape abuse death scotland politics )
9. What's Causing the Recent Spike in Global Temperatures?: (tags:globalwarming doom )
10. Labour Together: From new MPs to cabinet ministers, how the influential think tank's donations are bankrolling the party, and who they are linked to.: (tags:labour money corruption )
11. Seven New Frogs Named After Iconic Star Trek Captains: (tags:frog StarTrek names sound viaSwampers )

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Interesting Links for 14-08-2024

1. The Strange Logic of Germany's Antisemitism Bureaucrats: (tags:Germany Jews bigotry Islam Palestine )
2. The remarkably unlikely story of Admiral Sir Thomas Cochrane: (tags:history war Spain UK navy politics )
3. Brits would vote to rejoin EU in new referendum, 59:41: (tags:UK Europe polls )
4. J.K. Rowling, Elon Musk Named in Imane Khelif's Cyberbullying Lawsuit: (tags:jkrowling ElonMusk bullying Olympics bigotry transgender LGBT )
5. 6% of people suffering during the ADHD medication shortage report losing their jobs: (tags:adhd jobs OhForFucksSake medication )
6. Edinburgh Trams staff back strike action over lack of toilet breaks: (tags:Edinburgh trams strike toilets )
7. Some companies aren't happy about their adverts appearing under far-right hate posts on X.: (tags:twitter bigotry advertising )
8. Dealing with Time in the Roman Calendar Is A Nightmare: (tags:Rome time date history wtf viaFanf )
9. Israeli Army Uses Palestinian Civilians to Inspect Potentially Booby-trapped Tunnels in Gaza: (tags:Israel Palestine WarCrimes OhForFucksSake )

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Interesting Links for 07-08-2024

1. Bionic Bay looks like a gorgeous platformer with fascinating puzzles and high-speed physics-based gameplay.: (tags:games video )
2. The anti-islam riots in this country are a product of the media, Tories, and Labour. All should be held responsible.: (tags:Labour conservatives media UK bigotry Islam riots )
3. Russia and Ukraine both have drones controlled by really really long fibre-optic cables: (tags:drone fibreoptics russia ukraine )
4. Tim Walz Took Historic Action To Protect Trans People, Now He's The Dem VP Choice: (tags:democrats GoodNews transgender USA politics LGBT )
5. If your workplace doesn't have a Muppet ethics AI then you are *totally* behind the times: (tags:ai muppets ethics wtf )
6. JD Vance's Wife: My Husband Only Meant to Insult People Who Actively Choose Not to Have Kids, Not People Who Are Trying but Are Unsuccessful: She did not touch on his claim that people who don't have kids are more sociopathic.
(tags:relationships politics USA EpicWTF )
7. How to Survive Mercury in Retrograde: (tags:astronomy astrology mercury )
8. In hospital emergency rooms, female patients are less likely to receive pain medication than male patients who reported the same level of distress: (tags:misogyny pain healthcare OhForFucksSake )
9. The wife of a Conservative councillor has been arrested after she called for hotels with asylum seekers to be set on fire.: (tags:UK racism conservatives )
10. Wind and solar overtake EU fossil fuels in the first half of 2024: (tags:renewables solarpower windpower electricity Europe coal gas hydroelectric )
11. COVID-19 making worrying comeback WHO warns, amid summertime surge: (tags:pandemic doom )
12. I did not know it was possible to make friends with a moray eel!: (tags:fish video friendship )
13. Scottish wildcat kitten caught on thermal imaging camera: (tags:scotland cats nature video )
14. Ukrainian forces take Russian border city that they don't want: (tags:russia ukraine war )
15. Elon Musk believes advertisers should be forced to spend money on him: (tags:ElonMusk advertising twitter wtf )

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Interesting Links for 08-07-2024

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Interesting Links for 18-06-2024

1. Amazon-Powered AI Cameras Used to Detect Emotions of Unwitting UK Train Passengers: (tags:uk surveillance trains transport )
2. First-ever randomized trial of Ozempic for alcohol use disorder shows significant reductions in drinking: (tags:alcohol healthcare research psychology )
3. But *when* was being gay invented?: (tags:LGBT gay prehistory )
4. Rogue Austrian minister burns bridges to save EU nature law: (tags:europe nature law green viaPatrickHadfield )
5. How writers see their own work is very different to how others see it: (tags:writing sandman neilgaiman comics )
6. Anyone want to buy a bunch of Church of Scotland buildings? You can have your own church for £38k...: (tags:religion scotland housing viaDanielDWilliam )
7. How had I never seen "Patrick Stewart's Cowboy Classics"?: (tags:cowboy PatrickStewart video wtf )
8. New coastal town for Edinburgh reaches next major milestone: (tags:edinburgh housing )

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