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Interesting Links for 04-12-2021
- This is your regular reminder not to sit on unexploded WWII munitions
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- Daughter, 20, who sued mum's GP for millions for allowing her to be born wins case
- (tags:disability healthcare advice UK )
- The women who wove binary
- (tags:history computers space women craft )
- British citizenship of six million people could be jeopardised by Home Office plans - minorities in much more danger
- (tags:citizenship UK OhForFucksSake )
- That bit in the Talmud where God agrees that they can be overruled by a majority of rabbis
- (tags:Jews god )
- Omicron outbreak at Norway Christmas party is biggest outside S. Africa
- (tags:Pandemic Norway )
- What if Twitter actually gave you decent tools for blocking people?
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Interesting Links for 17-11-2021
- Racism Is Institutional In British Cricket
- (tags:UK cricket racism OhForFucksSake )
- Supersaurus: Scientists realise dinosaur might have been the longest ever after fixing fossil mix-up
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- Chile wants to export solar energy to Asia via 15,000km submarine cable (losses would be just under 50%)
- (tags:solarpower chile Asia )
- Joanna Cherry's popularity is not going up
- (tags:LGBT SNP transgender politics Scotland )
- Englandâs austerity-hit courts losing days of work to collapsing ceilings, broken lift and arctic conditions
- (tags:justice UK OhForFucksSake )
- There is currently no way to drive between Vancouver and the rest of Canada
- (tags:Canada transport roads weather )
- Remarkably accurate neurosurgery residency interview
- (tags:medicine USA surgery doctors funny satire video interview )
- Activision CEO Bobby Kotick told an employee he would have her killed. He kept an exec from being fired after a sexual harassment claim. He didn't tell his board of alleged rapes and other misconduct.
- (tags:games rape abuse misogyny OhForFucksSake )
- John Carmack on Steve Jobs
- (tags:Doom games Apple stevejobs johncarmack history computers graphics opengl )
- Amazon to stop accepting Visa credit cards issued in UK
- (tags:UK Amazon visa credit wtf )
- The students losing thousands in an Edinburgh rental scam
- (tags:edinburgh property fraud )
- âClear riskâ UK joining Pacific trade deal will raise drug prices for NHS
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- The FTC is moving to end âclick to subscribe, call to cancelâ
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- Netflix has started publishing its top 10 watched movies and TV shows
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- Dogs! Being! Kissed!
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Interesting Links for 29-10-2021
- Impact of Brexit on economy is worse than Covid says Office for Budget Responsibility
- (tags:pandemic uk europe economy doom )
- Your code displays Japanese wrong
- (tags:japan language china unicode fonts )
- A charming song about your date's choice in movies being a red flag
- (tags:funny relationships viaSwampers music video movies horror )
- How Ace Ventura and South Park harmed trans people
- (tags:LGBT transgender SouthPark comedy abuse )
- Covid: Inexpensive antidepressant can cut hospitalisation risk by 30%
- (tags:pandemic medicine depression )
- Sluggish exports: the 'worrying trend' in the UK economy
- (tags:UK Europe trade Doom )
- Anti-trans professor Kathleen Stock quits Sussex university
- (tags:GoodNews LGBT transgender bigotry academia UK )
- The answer to lactose intolerance might be in Mongolia
- (tags:milk history food Mongolia microbiome bacteria viaMyBrotherHugh )
- No end in sight for chip shortage as supply chain problems pile up
- (tags:cpu computers business Doom )
- Zuckerberg Announces Fantasy World Where Facebook Is Not a Horrible Company
- (tags:VirtualReality Facebook socialnetworking )
- Gifted dogs tilt their heads more than average
- (tags:dogs intelligence )
- Why Dogs Tilt Their Heads
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- An intuitive guide to the mathematical constant 'e'
- (tags:growth mathematics )
- Artists - are you ready to make a fat stack of cash from NFTs?
- (tags:cryptography art money comic advice )
- Margaret Atwood seems to be back onside over transgender issued
- (tags:LGBT transgender margaretatwood )
- Why Canada won't print indigenous spelling on passports
- (tags:canada names OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 27-10-2021
- On dealing with corruption on the Chicago police
- (tags:police corruption USA Chicago )
- European energy crisis proves the lie of 'stable' fossil fuels
- (tags:electricity fossils viaDanielDWilliam renewables )
- Under GDPR you *must* be allowed to spell your name correctly. Even if your bank doesn't support accents on characters
- (tags:spelling dataprotection computers )
- Europe's next rule of law problem: Angela Merkel
- (tags:Europe Poland Germany Hungary OhForFucksSake fascism )
- Making a greenscreen dress - because why have one fabric color when you can have ANY fabric color
- (tags:technology clothing video )
- Jobs that Marry Together the Most
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- The 'Dune' Screenplay Was Written in an MS-DOS app
- (tags:writing history scifi movies )
- Please sign this open letter to the BBC regarding a transphobic article published by Catherine Lowbridge
- (tags:LGBT transgender BBC bigotry )
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Interesting Links for 07-10-2021
- JCVI facing calls from within for greater transparency over decision-making
- (tags:vaccination children UK )
- Boris Johnson's social care plan will require big council tax rises
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- PM's 'high wage' vision blasted as economically illiterate by industry
- (tags:uk Conservatives economics doom )
- Understanding the hostility to the Human Rights Act - and why this matters
- (tags:rights uk law politics )
- Intel not considering UK chip factory (because of Brexit)
- (tags:uk europe Intel manufacturing computers doom )
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Interesting Links for 05-10-2021
- UK's largest long-term saving/pensions provider plans to cut their investments in carbon.
- (tags:co2 globalwarming investment uk finance pensions )
- All because you 'trigger' Article 16 that does not make it a gun
- (tags:law trade uk europe )
- Farmer Born in 1842 Talks About Life and Change (Filmed in 1929)
- (tags:history life video )
- Drones raining from the sky in China
- (tags:China drones fail )
- Kids who grew up with search engines don't understand folders
- (tags:Technology metaphor ux Education computers viaSupergee )
- France threatens to use energy supply to 'put pressure' on UK to comply with Brexit deal
- (tags:france uk europe trade )
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Interesting Links for 25-09-2021
- Spain to ban sale of fruit and vegetables in plastic wrapping from 2023
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- The NSA and CIA Use Ad Blockers Because Online Advertising Is So Dangerous
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- UK ministers backing plans for another new nuclear power plant to help reduce carbon footprint
- (tags:UK nuclearpower co2 )
- England set to eradicate HIV by 2030
- (tags:England HIV GoodNews )
- China declares all crypto-currency transactions illegal
- (tags:bitcoin China Doom )
- Fossilized Footprints Reveal Human Habitation of North America 23,000 Years Ago
- (tags:humans paleontology prehistory USA America )
- Minority voices filtered out of Google Natural Language Processing models
- (tags:Google racism LGBT language )
- "The most scarily/stunningly impressive linguistic feat I've ever seen"
- (tags:language computers games )
- Is this the religious sexual equivalent of Sovereign Citizen thought processes?
- (tags:logic sex mormons religion wtf )
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Interesting Links for 11-09-2021
- Wireless charging leaks your data
- (tags:security electricity phones impressive wireless )
- British food shortages are permanent and shoppers will never again enjoy full choice of items, Britons warned
- (tags:UK food trade Doom shopping Europe )
- Unvaccinated are 5X more likely to catch delta, 11X more likely to die
- (tags:vaccine pandemic )
- If-then-else had to be invented
- (tags:computers language history )
- UK MOD Has Just Published a Sales Brochure With The First RAF Aircraft Up For Grabs Following Defence Review
- (tags:military airplanes UK sales viaDanielDWilliam )
- NI Protocol: A pragmatic settlement or a 'forever war'?
- (tags:NorthernIreland Europe UK trade Doom )
- What it's like for adults going back to work
- (tags:viaJennieRigg work pandemic satire video funny )
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Interesting Links for 06-09-2021
- Covid: Breast milk of vaccinated mothers contains antibodies
- (tags:vaccination children breastfeeding pandemic )
- "Gender Critical" People Don't Even Know What The Gender Recognition Act Is
- (tags:law UK Scotland transgender bigotry )
- Where could Scotland site a new national park?
- (tags:scotland nature )
- Led by Tesla, EVs drive chip industry's shift beyond silicon
- (tags:materials technology computers processor )
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