andrewducker, posts by tag: chat - LiveJournal

Brexit trade deal 'very unstable' and can easily be brought crashing down, legal expert warns MPs

(tags:Europe UK trade Doom )

Denmark launches children's TV show about man with giant penis

(tags:TV children penis )

Inside the Covid ward

(tags:pandemic healthcare awful UK )

How the placenta evolved from an ancient virus

(tags:virus gestation pregnancy mammals )

Ten scary bodies of water

(tags:water scary ViaDrCross )

WhatsApp updates its Privacy Policy to mandate data-sharing with Facebook

I use Signal as an alternative that's Facebook free.
(tags:im chat Facebook privacy )

45% of Republicans approve of the storming of the Capitol Building

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1347007675855302656.html
(tags:politics terrorism usa )

London will be overwhelmed by covid in a fortnight says leaked NHS England briefing

(tags:London UK pandemic Doom )

An interesting/unfortunate side-effect of legalising same sex marriage

(tags:LGBT marriage law USA Australia )

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Ultima Thule: Nasa prepares to explore most distant world ever probed by humankind

(tags: space )

Steve Jobs hired a career juggler to teach programming to developers

(tags: software learning apple pixar )

Queensferry Crossing improving reliability

(tags: bridge edinburgh )

People adopt made-up social rules to be part of a group

(tags: psychology groups community ethics )

More games should be truly honest about death

(tags: death games )

Researchers analysing soil from Ireland long thought to have medicinal properties have discovered that it contains a previously unknown strain of bacteria which is effective against four of the top six superbugs that are resistant to antibiotics, includin

(tags: earth bacteria antibiotics ireland )

How Facebook Keeps Messenger from Crashing on New Year's Eve

(tags: facebook chat im )

How the Artificial Intelligence Program AlphaZero Mastered Its Games

(tags: ai games Chess Go )

Most English people live with illegal air pollution

(tags: UK pollution death )

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Facebook has open-sourced encrypted group chat

(tags: chat Facebook encryption )

"Science" makes progress on reproducibility

(tags: research )

Jeremy Corbyn promises to force nationalised railways to sell the Daily Mail

I mean, I can't really think of another way of interpreting it, seeing as they weren't banned from selling it before - they just made a choice not to. So if he wants to reverse the current policy then presumably it's because he wants to force them to sell it. Either that or they have no idea what they're talking about...
(tags: DailyMail labour wtf )

Why do humans re-read stories?

(tags: stories )

A collection of management consulting frameworks & graphics that make no sense

(tags: management work organisation )

Exposure to light makes fat cells shrink

(tags: fat light )

Sleeping for longer leads to a healthier diet

(tags: diet food sleep )

If you're going to commit bigamy you probably shouldn't go on tv with, well, either wife

(tags: marriage crime EpicStupidity )

Ikea Wants You to Pee on This Ad. If You’re Pregnant, It Will Give You a Discount on a Crib

(tags: pregnancy urination advertising )

Autonomous transportation launching to 125k residents in Florida

(tags: Florida automation cars )

UCL to investigate eugenics conference secretly held on campus (last year's keynote speaker: Toby Young)

(tags: racism intelligence London University uk )

Marvel Moving Forward With ‘Black Widow’ Standalone Movie

Should have happened years ago, of course.
(tags: marvel movies women scarlettjohansson )

How Much Does the Entire Internet Weigh?

(tags: weight internet electrons )

Two genes in Chromosomes 13 and 14, linked to Homosexuality

(tags: lgbt genetics )

Looking for Female Participants for a Board Game Study

(tags: women games )

Incredible 'Hypatia' Stone Contains Compounds Not Found in the Solar System

(tags: space )

Over half of Heathrow's near 79,000 noise complaints last year came from 10 people

(tags: airplanes noise London complaints uk )

Don't Judge People at the Supermarket for Buying Pre-Chopped Vegetables

(tags: disabilities food )

Definition of marriage has now evolved to include same-sex couples, EU court says

(tags: europe marriage lgbt equality )

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Perfectionism as a risk factor for suicide

(tags: perfectionism suicide psychology )

The Twitter Joke Trial, as remembered by one of the lawyers

(tags: law freespeech twitter uk )

Why IBM has special permission to use software for evil

(tags: evil ibm software funny video )

European commission to crack down on offshore tax avoidance

(tags: tax europe )

How to Make a Clichéd High Fantasy Cover

(tags: fantasy funny art viaJamesNicoll )

The theocratic democracies of Iran and the UK

(tags: religion politics uk iran )

On The 50th Anniversary Of The Sexual Offences Act 1967, Look How Far We've Come

(tags: lgbt history )

Capitol Police Forced Journos to Delete Footage of AHCA Protesters.

(tags: police freespeech journalism usa )

Genetic evidence suggests the Canaanites weren’t destroyed after all

(tags: history middle_east )

Scotland receive £4,000 fine from Fifa for booing God Save the Queen

(tags: Scotland UK politics royalty )

Please Don't Say Just Hello In Chat

(tags: advice chat im viaSwampers )

Religious people believe because emotional resonance overrides logic

Which doesn't surprise me. Most people at least start off believing things because they lead to a conclusion that they like. Starting at axioms and working your way forward to whatever they lead to is distinctly uncomfortable at times
(tags: belief logic religion psychology )

'Eureka' moment pinpointed in the brain

(tags: brain learning psychology )

Regret improves children's decision-making

I've had a few. And sometimes they've helped me avoid doing the stupid thing again.
(tags: psychology learning behaviour )

Ketamine for depression encouraging, but questions remain around long-term use

(tags: depression psychology )

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France: no coal power from 2022, no new petrol cars from 2040.

(tags: france globalwarming coal cars )

Having to explain how a political policy works makes people less extreme about it

(tags: politics psychology viaFrancescaElston )

Use of WhatsApp in NHS widespread

(tags: nhs chat communication internet security )

Why People With Brain Implants Are Afraid to Go Through Automatic Doors

(tags: cybernetics cyborg brain Technology fail )

Disabled MP forced to miss Commons debates because he has nowhere to sit

(tags: disability uk parliament )

Welcome to Our Startup Where Everyone is 23 Years Old Because We Believe Old People Are Visually Displeasing and Out of Ideas

(tags: age job startups funny satire )

How A Reader’s Feminist Critique Changed My Sci-Fi Novel

(tags: writing feminism criticism scifi )

Stream-ripping is fastest growing music piracy

(tags: piracy copyright music streaming )

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• Taylor Swift merchandise saves fans' lives (Is there nothing she can't do?)
  • (tags: music life )
• Creationism Banned From Science Classes By Scottish Government
  • (tags: Scotland creationism )
• Spiegelhalter's: The ultimate symbol of holding out
  • (tags: housing history property )
• Exclusive zero hours contract ban now in force
  • (tags: contracts work working_hours )
• Why are SNP MPs strutting around Westminster like they own the place? Because they do
  • (tags: snp politics )
• Why Don't 3D Avatar Chatrooms Really Work?
  • (tags: 3d chat internet technology )
• Why Do We Experience Awe?
  • (tags: awesome emotion psychology )
• 'Big Bang Theory' establishes a $4million endowment
  • (tags: BigBangTheory money university usa )
• Who does better political interviews - Reddit or CNN?
  • (tags: politics interview reddit )
• Rickrolling is sexist, racist and often transphobic in context
  • (tags: meme music )
• Developer Rachel Byrk Commits Suicide After Months of Cyber Bullying
  • (tags: bullying LGBT suicide development )
• Facebook Confirms It Will Officially Support GIFs
  • (tags: Facebook animated_gif )
• NASA Telescopes Set Limits On Spacetime Quantum "Foam"
  • (tags: NASA space quantum )
• CD Projekt Red Does Everything Right With Witcher 3 DRM & DLC...And Breaks Sales Records
  • (tags: games drm )

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• Norway is basically paying Liberia to not chop down its trees
  (tags: Norway Africa trees environment )
• So: who will lead the Con-Lab Grand Coalition that will be formed in May 2015?
  (tags: politics thefuture conservatives Labour )
• Why aren't the British middle-classes staging a revolution?
  (tags: uk politics economics business )
• I would love to know how many attempts this took (I assume they worked it backwards)
  (tags: impressive TableTennis animated_gif )
• Amazing cakes
  (tags: cake )
• How 'Let It Go' Saved 'Frozen's' Elsa From Being a Villain
  (tags: Disney movies )
• Texas Court Makes Upskirts Mandatory, Outlaws Kittens, Hates Your Mother
  (tags: law freespeech usa texas )
• What it's like having a body clock that keeps you up until 3am
  (tags: sleep )
• You should use WebRTC for your 1-on-1 video meetings
  (tags: video chat Firefox )
• Another Patent Troll Slain. You Are Now Free To Rotate Your Smartphone.
  (tags: phone patents viafanf )
• Red Plenty - Why the Societ Union's centrally planned state failed
  (tags: communism )
• How to complete Snake. (I am _agog_)
  (tags: snake game )

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• Close-Minded Man Not Even Willing To Hear Out Argument On Why Homosexuality An Abomination
  (tags: lgbt belief satire funny )
• GCHQ intercepted all Yahoo webcam chats. And were shocked by the levels of porn...
  (tags: surveillance uk yahoo porn )
• There's something about the band Babymetal that makes me very happy.
  (tags: music video metal japan )
• Teaching doctors to sound caring is harder than it looks.
  (tags: conversation caring doctors healthcare )
• Facebook is ditching it's Messenger app for Windows. Looks like I'll be chatting on FB less.
  (tags: facebook chat )
• There's gonna be a Minecraft movie (with the produce of the Lego movie!)
  (tags: movies minecraft )
• The day the Mario Kart died: Nintendo’s kill switch and the future of online consoles
  (tags: internet consoles nintendo games )
• Ukraine: minister accuses Russia of 'armed invasion' in Crimea
  (tags: ukraine russia )

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• The Kissing Sailor, or “The Selective Blindness of Rape Culture”
  (tags: society history RapeCulture sex )
• Chatbots are still not able to pass the Turing Test, even though porn spammers are clearly working on it.
  (tags: ai turing chat im porn spam )
• How To Steal The Space Shuttle: A Step-By-Step Guide
  (tags: funny theft shuttle space )
• The Nazis and The Bear. If someone can tell me where the top photo comes from, I shall be grateful.
  (tags: EpicWTF bears nazis photos )
• The author of Nobilis and Hitherby Dragons is crowdfunding her next book.
  (tags: viaTeaOtter publishing CrowdFunding books )
• Is Britain experiencing a golden age of engineering?
  (tags: uk engineering britain )
• Shockingly, free birth control leads to fewer abortions
  (tags: abortion birthcontrol )
• 5 Years On: The Election That Never Was
  (tags: uk politics labour viaNWhyte )
• Graduate forced out of UK for not earning enough
  (tags: uk scotland immigration )
• Maasai Women End Traditional Female Circumcision
  (tags: masai fgm )
• Final photos of the powered flight Deck of the Space Shuttle Endeavour
  (tags: photos space shuttle viaFanf )
• People are dying because families override the wishes of would-be organ-donors
  (tags: death organdonor scotland )
• Why Orkney is the centre of ancient Britain (There's been a massive neolithic find)
  (tags: archeology scotland uk )
• Bending Wires Is the Next Big Thing in Desktop Fabrication
  (tags: 3dprinting design )

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Livejournal has now got its own IM server, running the Jabber protocol.

You can access it via Trillian or GAIM. I'm using Psi. Your username is your LJ username@livejournal.com and your password is your LJ password. All your mutual friends are automatically added to your friends list.

It's still in testing, so expect intermittent disconnections. Hopefully it'll get more reliable as time goes on...