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Interesting Links for 04-07-2023
Jul. 4th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Thomas Cook ends sale of all attractions with captive cetaceans
- (tags:dolphins whales travel GoodNews )
- 2. A modest proposal for helping the Prime Minister "keep on top of government" and "to push priorities"
- (tags:organisation politics UK )
- 3. Britain Faces a Giant Water Bill, And Nobody Wants to Pay It
- (tags:UK water business Doom )
- 4. Degrees What?
- (tags:temperature visualisation )
- 5. The gay ultra-Orthodox Jewish TikTok star exposed for being a fake finally speaks out
- (tags:LGBT Judaism fraud )
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Interesting Links for 28-02-2023
Feb. 28th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Edinburgh Labour councillor quits, says that Labour head office banning coalitions with Greens or SNP has caused a shambles
- (tags:labour scotland OhForFucksSake )
- 2. This is my favourite recent computer game review
- (tags:games review )
- 3. A Stroke Of The Pen: A Collection Of Rediscovered Short Stories By Terry Pratchett
- (tags:terrypratchett short_story )
- 4. I am actually pretty impressed at how much the UK managed to get in the new deal over Northern Ireland
- (tags:NorthernIreland trade Europe UK Ireland )
- 5. Rez on the PSVR 2 uses eye tracking for locking on!
- (tags:VirtualReality games eyes amazing )
- 6. Aurora Borealis. Edinburgh, 26 February 2023. (I couldn't see from where we live, but I do appreciate these photos)
- (tags:auroraborealis edinburgh scotland )
- 7. The Jewish influence on Good Omens
- (tags:judaism neilgaiman )
- 8. Elon Musk defends racist tirade by Dilbert creator Scott Adams
- (tags:racism dilbert ElonMusk )
- 9. TikTok's new face filters are very impressive, and make people feel awful about their real faces
- (tags:faces photoshop video )
- 10. Amazon Removes Books From Kindle Unlimited After They Appear on Pirate Sites
- (tags:copyright amazon piracy wtf publishing )
- 11. Physically Demanding Work Tied to Male Fertility
- (tags:exercise fertility men )
- 12. Eggs and margarine drive food inflation to record 17.1%
- (tags:food inflation economics uk eggs ukraine doom )
- 13. Two in three Britons want new political party to take on Tories and Labour
- (tags:politics UK )
- 14. Study finds video games are not harmful to children's brains
- (tags:videogames games brain children )
- 15. 25 years after the MMR vaccine autism fraud, we're still dealing with the consequences
- (tags:fraud autism mmr vaccination OhForFucksSake history )
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Interesting Links for 13-02-2023
Feb. 13th, 2023 12:00 pm- 1. Jews, bicycle riders and trans folk
- (tags:bigotry Jews lgbt transgender Russia )
- 2. Trove of spices from around the world found on sunken fifteenth-century Norse ship
- (tags:food history boats trade Sweden )
- 3. Protesters clash at Tate Britain during drag queen kids story-telling event held to mark LGBT+ History Month
- (tags:lgbt history UK art bigotry )
- 4. ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web
- It's not clear that it's technically possible to retain the acceptable kind of blurriness while eliminating the unacceptable kind
(tags:ai knowledge text ) - 5. 84% of studies find that Adenovirus 36 causes people to put on weight
- (tags:Weight virus obesity )
- 6. What if Judaism advertised the way that Christianity does?
- (tags:religion judaism funny )
Interesting Links for 10-06-2022
Jun. 10th, 2022 12:00 pm- 1. The odd and worrying situation of the legal advice on the Northern Ireland Protocol
- (tags:UK NorthernIreland law Doom )
- 2. Privatisation in the UK looks massively higher than anywhere else!
- (tags:UK privatisation )
- 3. Different Jewish conceptions of God
- (tags:religion Jews judaism philosophy history )
- 4. Edinburgh council urged by Labour MSP Mercedes Villalba to reverse ban on strip clubs
- (tags:Edinburgh sexwork )
- 5. How to understand Republicans
- (tags:republicans )
- 6. The Million Earth Solar System
- (tags:space physics scifi )
- 7. Conversion therapy increases self-harm and suicide amongst transgender people
- (tags:lgbt abuse transgender psychology mentalhealth suicide self-harm )
- 8. The Immoral Design of Diablo Immortal - video takedown of the awful monetary systems built into the game
- (tags:diablo games money OhForFucksSake abuse viaSwampers )
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Interesting Links for 20-06-2021
Jun. 20th, 2021 12:00 pm- Texas Governor Signs Law Banning Teachers From Talking About Racism
- (tags:racism USA OhForFucksSake )
- Doctor invents a hiccup-curing straw with a 90% success rate
- (tags:hiccups )
- The Caucasian's Guide to Celebrating Juneteenth
- (tags:USA racism holidays )
- Does Your Daughter Know It's OK To Be Angry?
- (tags:women anger emotion patriarchy society )
- Injection-Molded Glass Breakthrough Shatters Ceiling Of Work Methods
- (tags:glass technology viaNancyLebov )
- North Carolina tells retired engineer he can't talk about engineering
- (tags:engineering USA regulation )
- Brexit red tape stops Royal British Legion selling poppies in the EU online
- (tags:Europe UK charity OhForFucksSake )
- Brexit farmer faces the consequences of his own actions
- (tags:UK Europe farming Doom video )
- The efforts to make text-based AI less racist and terrible
- (tags:racism bigotry ai )
- Lecturer loses job in London over being a rabbi while also a woman
- (tags:women judaism academia UK OhForFucksSake )
- G7 summit was 'super spreading' event for Cornwall as cases rocket 2,450% after Johnson and Biden visit
- (tags:pandemic OhForFucksSake )
- Assisted dying bill to be lodged at Scottish Parliament
- (tags:Scotland euthanasia )
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Interesting Links for 26-11-2020
Nov. 26th, 2020 12:00 pm- Can a neutral network recognise your doodles?
- (tags:art ai )
- The Oxford/AstraZeneca Covid Vaccine Data Isn't Up to Snuff
- (tags:uk vaccination pandemic oxford )
- Andromeda over Patagonia
- (tags:space photo pretty )
- KFC deploys autonomous 5G food trucks in China
- (tags:food delivery automation )
- The first artist with a Criminal Behaviour Order affecting the type of music he can put out
- (tags:music UK crime viaDanielDWilliam )
- You'll feel like you've got the flu for a couple of days after your first Covid vaccine shot. You must get the second one anyway
- (tags:vaccine pandemic )
- How Dutch Plant Breeders Bred The Badness Out Of Brussels Sprouts
- (tags:food genetics )
- Explaining Jewish holidays
- (tags:Jews judaism religion )
- How the Once Elusive Dream of Laser Weapons Suddenly Became a Reality
- (tags:lasers weaponry technology )
- 6 Essential Things I Wish I Knew When I Started Programming
- (tags:programming advice )
- Olivia Colman, Jameela Jamil and Paloma Faith condemn 'violence and hostility' against trans women in open letter
- (tags:LGBT transgender )
Interesting Links for 18-05-2018
May. 18th, 2018 12:00 pm- Here's what's actually going on with the Yanny/Laurel clip
- (tags: sound age )
- Accurate anti-drug slogans
- (tags: drugs funny )
- Some differences between Christianity and Judaism
- (tags: Judaism Christianity history religion )
- Exquisite Rot: Spalted Wood and the Lost Art of Intarsia
- (tags: art wood history )
- Deaths from fungal infections exceeding malaria, say researchers in new drug resistance warning
- (tags: fungus )
- Chinese mass-indoctrination camps evoke Cultural Revolution
- (tags: China propaganda Education nationalism )
- Edinburgh to ban all on-street advertising boards citywide
- (tags: Edinburgh advertising )
- GDPR Hysteria
- (tags: privacy europe )
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Interesting Links for 10-05-2017
May. 10th, 2017 12:00 pm- 27 awful parts of modern life
- (tags: life funny Technology )
- Labour proposes a coalition of all parties to run Edinburgh Council
- (tags: edinburgh politics )
- Mike Mignola announces Hellboy reboot starring Stranger Things' David Harbour
- (tags: comics movies )
- Guess The Quote: Kanye, "Hamlet", Or @dril? (8/14)
- (tags: quiz hamlet music twitter shakespeare )
- Belgium votes to ban kosher and halal slaughter in its biggest territory
- (tags: belgium food judaism islam animals )
- I WANT AN ADORABLE DESK WEASEL!
- (tags: cute video )
- Inside the Department of War Math (In 1941 the world’s most powerful number crunchers ran on toast and coffee.)
- (tags: war mathematics history wwii viaSwampers )
- What it's like to be a victim of 'stealthing' (Or "rape", as it's legally known)
- (tags: rape )
Interesting Links for 11-07-2016
Jul. 11th, 2016 12:00 pm- People voted "Leave" in those areas with the highest percentage increases in immigration
- Which will, presumably, be those areas that had only a few immigrants before.
(tags: immigration europe uk ) - Why There Is No Jewish Narnia
- (tags: fantasy judaism viaSupergee )
- Brexit vote paves way for federal union to save UK, says all-party group
- (tags: uk NorthernIreland scotland wales )
- Pokemon Go used to help armed robbers commit crimes
- (tags: games crime )
- Thousands of people mysteriously develop an interest in taking the dog for a walk
- (tags: games funny exercise )
- Free tickets now available for the Edinburgh Festival opening event: Deep Time
- (tags: edinburgh festival )
- Does Full Genome Sequencing Really Cost $1,000 Now?
- (tags: genetics Technology )
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Interesting Links for 05-06-2016
Jun. 5th, 2016 12:00 pm- National borders exist to pen poor people into reservations of poverty
- (tags: globalization inequality immigration economics )
- Corbyn reveals the real reason he's been so 'silent' on Brexit
- (tags: europe media labour politics )
- Stop Explaining Yourself. (Or: It is ok to not do things because you don't want to)
- (tags: advice life friendship )
- 12 Scenes That Prove Han Solo Could Use The Force
- (tags: StarWars )
- Students Should Sleep in and Start School One Hour Later
- (tags: sleep teenagers school )
- 12 A-List Writers Dish About Lesbian Weddings, Race and Why "Black People Don't Get to Write for White People"
- (tags: writing tv )
- The rabbis of Conservative Judaism pass a resolution supporting transgender rights
- (tags: lgbt judaism )
Interesting Links for 24-04-2016
Apr. 24th, 2016 12:00 pm- 1 Million People use Facebook over Tor
- (tags: facebook privacy )
- I don't think most people know how Londoners deal with adversity
- (tags: london history )
- The four modern horsemen of the apocalypse
- (tags: Technology apocalypse funny )
- Fructose alters hundreds of brain genes,but omega-3 fatty acids can reverse the damage (in rats)
- (tags: rats brain fruit sugar )
- An excerpt from Andy Akiho's Ping Pong Concerto
- You can see the complete thing at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6RwAhUiApA
(tags: sport video music ) - Aphantasia: How It Feels To Be Blind In Your Mind
- (I'm at least 90% of the way there. And my art also looks like his)
(tags: brains psychology image art pictures fantasy ) - Massively! Multiplayer! Snake!
- (tags: mmorpg games )
- The first debate on the morality of sexbots was in the 17th century
- (tags: judaism sex debate history funny )
- A hitchhiker’s accidental tour into the heart of the Islamic State’s oil smuggling economy
- (tags: war oil terrorism syria )
- A very old/early review of the Sisters of Mercy
- (tags: music review )
- The feminist critique is in the air now.
- (tags: writing feminism )
- Divorce rate at lowest level in 40 years after cohabitation revolution
- (tags: divorce relationships marriage )
- Wives become less stressed after their husbands die
- (tags: women stress relationships marriage death )
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Interesting Links for 10-04-2016
Apr. 10th, 2016 12:00 pm- The ‘drugs v talking’ debate doesn’t help us understand mental health
- (tags: mentalhealth therapy psychology drugs )
- New findings about schizophrenia rekindle old questions about genes and identity.
- (tags: schizophrenia genetics )
- Police Body Cameras: What Do You See?
- (tags: cameras police bias )
- Hacking Elections: How Andrés Sepúlveda rigged elections throughout Latin America for almost a decade.
- (tags: hacking politics elections )
- The Rich Bastard's Guide to Choosing Which Tax Haven Is Right For You
- (tags: tax )
- Speed Dating - a cute live action stop-motion short film
- (tags: dating relationships video movie )
- In Four Days, Americans and Canadians might need visas to visit Europe
- (tags: travel europe usa canada )
- How US domination makes things cheap for Americans
- (tags: usa economics currency )
- Neutered random number generator let man rig million dollar lotteries
- (tags: lottery hacking )
- The First Reactions To CAPTAIN AMERICA: CIVIL WAR Say It's Incredible
- (tags: marvel movies reviews viaBartCalendar )
- A friend is looking for good examples of competence erotica
- (tags: writing advice science )
- This Is What Happened When Your Mom Runs Your Tinder for a Month
- (tags: dating relationships funny mother )
- How wine forgery works
- (tags: alcohol fraud )
- Fifty psychological and psychiatric terms to avoid
- (tags: psychology language )
- How a Car Engine Works
- (tags: cars animation visualization engineering )
- Sure, I’m a Feminist, But If I Support Other Women, How Will I Become the Highlander?
- (tags: movies feminism funny )
- Millennial Employees Confound Big Banks
- (tags: work banking usa )
- Humans and robots work in sync at Amazon warehouses (for now)
- (tags: amazon robots )
- Driverless bus in Greece has had no accidents in six months
- (tags: automation transport buses greece )
- The problem with Superman is that he has lost his Jewish heritage
- (tags: Jews judaism superman )
- Are you a grammar pedant? This might be why
- (tags: grammar personality )
- Frog and Toad are Cofounders
- (tags: development business computers Technology satire )
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Interesting Links for 11-12-2015
Dec. 11th, 2015 12:00 pm- What are real women, and how can you tell if you are one?
- Why doesn’t findstr use the standard regular expression library?
- The Best Movies That Are Kind Of About Christmas
- A Carved Stone Block Upends Assumptions About Ancient Judaism
- Some prairie vole brains are better wired for sexual fidelity
- How thermal imaging tech is about to become hot stuff
- Daniel Holtzclaw: former Oklahoma City police officer guilty of numerous counts of rape
- How your body really processes food, and what you need from it
- Philosophy of science books everyone should read
- Still no flying cars? The future of transit promises something even better
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Interesting Links for 23-07-2015
Jul. 23rd, 2015 12:00 pm- Lessons I Learned From My First Live-Action Short (After Nearly 20 Years Of Animation)
- Great. Now the police are faking arrest videos.
- British man receives world’s first bionic eye implant for macular degeneration
- The 9 charts that show the ‘left-wing’ policies of Jeremy Corbyn the public actually agrees with
- Nature vs nurture - what happens if you raise wolves as dogs?
- On the Judeo-Christian idea of pregnancy
- DNA uncovers mystery migration to the Americas
- Freedom On The Centralized Web
- Scientists Are Hoarding Data And It’s Ruining Medical Research
- Male Gaze and The Omniscient Breasts
- Diplomacy, not bombs will defeat ISIS. The west is being sucked into a sectarian conflict
- In big move, Accenture will get rid of annual performance reviews and rankings
- Apparently a "growing number of voices" don't understand runoff voting
- I had no idea we were getting a Guardians Of The Galaxy animated series
- How much effort would it take to colonise the moon?
- Why space colonisation isn't likely...ever.
- Earn under £45k? Then you probably have less access to natural beauty
- Are you a startup person or a corporation person (I'm corporate, baby)
- Spain raises marrying age from 14 to 16 (to match raising age of consent from 13 to 16)
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Interesting Links for 25-10-2014
Oct. 25th, 2014 12:00 pm- EU leaders agree 40% CO2 emissions cut
- Finding the exact moment that GamerGate became about ethics in journalism
- If you want to be free from social media platforms then the way forward is email
- Intellectual Property, Jewish Ethics, and Aaron Swartz
- "Killing Elvis" - a short story in which a bunch of scientists try to work out how to stuff and mount an Alien
- A list of ethical concerns in video games
- Why Canadian Sex Workers Won't Report Rapes to the Police
- When a woman called the police to order pizza - because it was an emergency
Interesting Links for 23-05-2014
May. 23rd, 2014 12:00 pm- Is RIPA fit for purpose?
- George R. R. Martin’s 14 Greatest LiveJournal Entries
- This is pretty-much how I feel about Facebook right now
- The BBCs HR department are clearly trying to destroy it
- This is now officially my favourite comic about a donkey
- Miserable men shopping with their ladies
- Inside the Building That's Calling Itself the People's Republic of Donetsk (Bureaucracy gone mad!)
- My No-Soap, No-Shampoo, Bacteria-Rich Hygiene Experiment
- Will this Europe poll be the last Britain takes part in?
- The birth of four party politics in the UK? (Sad to not see the Greens not doing better)
- Gareth Edwards and Gary Whitta Onboard for Star Wars Stand-Alone Film
- Animals in the wild found to use running wheel if given the choice (w/ Video)
- YouTube Threatens To Block Independent Music Labels In Contract Dispute
- Former BP geologist: Peak oil is here and it will ‘break economies’
- Group of NJ rabbis indicted for using stun guns and beatings to force men to divorce
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Interesting Links for 19-02-2014
Feb. 19th, 2014 11:00 am- Denmark bans halal and kosher slaughter as minister says ‘animal rights come before religion’
- The future of USB: next-gen connectivity revealed
- Mashtags: Birdseye launches hashtag-shaped potato smileys (Next up: Goatse-burgers)
- UK law: What proportion is influenced by the EU?
- The 24 Most Embarrassing Dungeons & Dragons Character Classes
- Kevin Smith’s ‘Comic Book Men’ Is a Compelling Argument Against Comic Book Stores
- Crossrail will be full pretty much the moment it opens
Interesting Links for 11-08-2012
Aug. 11th, 2012 12:00 pm- Geothermal energy could provide 10-50% of US energy
- An antenna that powers itself off of ambient radio waves and communicates with nearby phones for less than 1p. Gosh.
- Bill & Ted 3 being shopped around: Original cast, writers - director of Galaxy Quest
- Superhero Bodies and What Real Athletes Look Like: The Olympics inspire fascinating discussion amongst comic artists
- The Best Programming Advice I Ever Got
- The Best and Worst Countries in the Medal Count - fantastic visualisation as created by Simon Tatham
- The Pit - a massive plot hole in The Dark Knight Rises explained by An Angry Flower
- When Do You Give Up On A Creator?
- One in four death certificates are inaccurate
- In Israel, new modesty glasses for Orthodox Jewish men blur women out of their line of sight
A much better solution than making the women dress up.
- Earth, Jupiter and Venus, as seen from the surface of Mars. An amazing photo
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