Interesting Links for 17-07-2025
Jul. 17th, 2025 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewducker- 1. The UK is stuck in a fiscal corner (The only way I see out of it is the trade bump we'd get from rejoining the EU)
- (tags:uk economics doom viaKenny )
- 2. Babies from three people's DNA prevents heriditary disease
- (tags:disease genetics babies )
- 3. Damage to the prefrontal cortex increases utilitarian moral judgements
- (tags:morality brain psychology )
- 4. Which of us has not been woken at night by a religious leader dressed as a yeti, so that we can swear a blood oath?
- (tags:catholicism wtf )
- 5. Police participation in pride ruled unlawful
- (tags:police LGBT OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 16-07-2025
Jul. 16th, 2025 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. The Tiny Percentage of Trans People Who "Detransition" Largely Do So Because of Transphobia
- (tags:transgender LGBT bigotry )
- 2. 'Wobbly-tooth puberty': How children's brains change at six-years-old
- (tags:children psychology )
- 3. The Nordic way to stop school bullying
- (tags:bullying school )
- 4. Giant map details nerves across a mouse's body (stunning pics)
- (tags:mice nerves )
- 5. How will age verification for internet access work and what about your data?
- (tags:age uk internet )
- 6. Report highlights women's experience of "abuse, exclusion and bias" in political parties
- (tags:women politics OhForFucksSake )
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Interesting Links for 15-07-2025
Jul. 15th, 2025 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. To summarize the summary of the summary: people are a problem
- (tags:people comics ai doom communication )
- 2. How old are you in your head? (Mid 30s for me)
- (tags:age psychology )
- 3. Reddit will start verifying the age (but not the identity) of UK redditors
- (tags:uk age reddit regulation internet )
- 4. "Autism" is at least 4 different syndromes, each with distinct biological and genetic pathways.
- (tags:autism genetics )
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- reddit,
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- uk
Interesting Links for 14-07-2025
Jul. 14th, 2025 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. Stardew Valley is now Steam's top-rated game, surpassing Portal
- (tags:games steam )
- 2. Most people in France, Germany, Italy and Spain want UK to rejoin EU, poll finds - but on new terms. Britons want to rejoin, but on their old terms.
- (tags:UK Europe )
- 3. 'I'm being paid to fix issues caused by AI'
- (tags:ai )
- 4. Cranes, once hunted to extinction returning to Scotland after 500 years
- (tags:birds extinction Scotland )
- 5. How GLP-1s Are Breaking Life Insurance
- (tags:weight medicine insurance health )
- 6. I've found it! The most dystopian AI thing! Gig workers pretending to be the AIs that people have fallen in love with!
- (tags:relationships ai business doom )
Photo cross-post
Jul. 13th, 2025 07:24 amandrewducker
My primate family.
The exhibition at the museum is very quiet and rather good. Recommended!
Original
is here on Pixelfed.scot.
Interesting Links for 12-07-2025
Jul. 12th, 2025 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. LLMs have had an unprecedented impact on scientific writing in biomedical research (and probably other fields too)
- (tags:ai writing research )
- 2. Solar is EU's biggest power source for the first time ever
- (tags:solarpower Europe )
- 3. ACLU urges trans people to update passports as soon as possible
- (tags:transgender usa passport )
- 4. America has done all of this before, within the last hundred years
- (tags:America history racism Mexico )
- 5. When The U.S. Government Tried To Replace Migrant Farmworkers With High Schoolers
- (tags:USA Mexico migration farming heat work history )
Interesting Links for 11-07-2025
Jul. 11th, 2025 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. Everything tech giants will hate about the EU's new AI rules
- (tags:ai technology regulation Europe )
- 2. Photos: The Scale of China's Solar Power Projects
- (tags:solarpower photos china )
- 3. What kind of video games do different fantasy races make?
- (tags:games funny fantasy )
- 4. Fake signs and graffiti, frequently science-fiction related, from Glasgow
- (tags:Glasgow scifi graffiti sign art funny viaSwampers )
- 5. The Marks & Spencer hack was down to TCS having *terrible* security processed on their helpdesk.
- (tags:security epicfail OhForFucksSake incompetence )
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- graffiti,
- incompetence,
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- ohforfuckssake,
- photos,
- regulation,
- scifi,
- security,
- sign,
- solarpower,
- technology,
- viaswampers
It ain't no good if you're in the jungle.
Jul. 11th, 2025 07:40 amandrewduckerRight now (7:30am) it is 14 degrees outside.
It is 24 degrees in our bedroom, despite the windows being open all night. Humidity is 92%.
This afternoon it will rise to 26 degrees. I'm glad the office has air conditioning. I'm not looking forward to tonight.
It is 24 degrees in our bedroom, despite the windows being open all night. Humidity is 92%.
This afternoon it will rise to 26 degrees. I'm glad the office has air conditioning. I'm not looking forward to tonight.
Interesting Links for 10-07-2025
Jul. 10th, 2025 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. Let Kids Be Loud
- (tags:children noise )
- 2. Fascinating essay on photography lighting techniques that predate AI and why they are confused for it (amongst other things)
- (tags:lighting photography )
- 3. What if you Threw a Paper Airplane from the Space Station?
- (tags:space paper airplanes viaPatrickHadfield )
- 4. Cellos totally belong in rock bands
- (tags:music video awesome )
- 5. Time keeps on slipping - literally. Why today might have been the shortest day you'll ever experience
- (tags:time earth )
Interesting Links for 08-07-2025
Jul. 8th, 2025 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. 7 Engineers Suspended After $2.3 Million Bridge Includes Bizarre 90-Degree Turn
- (tags:architecture design epicfail India )
- 2. Edinburgh Airport liquid limit increased from 100ml to two litres
- (tags:airport security Technology )
- 3. The Time Someone Plagiarized Calvin & Hobbes and Nobody Noticed or Cared
- (tags:comics plagiarism history art ai )
- 4. Turns out a great way to get children to want to learn their times tables is to set them to pop songs
- (tags:numbers video music )
- 5. Employers to be banned from silencing harassed or abused staff
- (tags:regulation abuse work UK law )
- 6. Some English children are living in 'Dickensian' poverty, says commissioner
- (tags:england poverty children OhForFucksSake )
- 7. Electricity from large solar arrays with batteries now cheaper than from fossil plants in Germany
- (tags:electricity solarpower batteries germany GoodNews )
- 8. O Fortuna Misheard Lyrics
- (tags:music hearing words illusion funny video )
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- india,
- law,
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- ohforfuckssake,
- plagiarism,
- poverty,
- regulation,
- security,
- solarpower,
- technology,
- uk,
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- words,
- work
Interesting Links for 07-07-2025
Jul. 7th, 2025 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. Labour promised LGBT voters a 'reset' - now many feel betrayedÂ
- (tags:LGBT bigotry Labour OhForFucksSake UK transgender )
- 2. Colombia seizes first unmanned narco-submarine with Starlink antenna
- (tags:drugs automation submarine Colombia )
- 3. The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were spun from lies, deceit and desperation
- (tags:fraud OhForFucksSake publishing crime lies )
- 4. Is Autism Genetic? (About 80% yes)
- (tags:autism genetics )
- 5. Why your baby is crying (at 2 months, 50% genes. at 5 months 70% genes)
- (tags:babies crying genetics )
- 6. 'Improved' Twitter AI criticizes Democrats and Hollywood's 'Jewish executives'
- (tags:twitter ai bigotry Jews usa politics OhForFucksSake )
Interesting Links for 06-07-2025
Jul. 6th, 2025 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. Forced participation in religious activities to be classified as child abuse in Japan
- (tags:religion abuse children Japan )
- 2. 'Positive review only': Researchers hide AI prompts in papers
- (tags:ai research )
- 3. Xi Has Spent Decades Preparing for a Cold War With the U.S.
- (tags:china USA trade )
- 4. Seine reopens to Paris swimmers after century-long ban
- (tags:France Paris water pollution sewage )
Interesting Links for 05-07-2025
Jul. 5th, 2025 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. Kent council bans transgender books in children's library section
- (tags:bigotry lgbt transgender uk library )
- 2. The story behind George Lucas rewriting/reshooting Anakin's turn to the dark side after principal photography had concluded on Revenge of the Sith
- (tags:StarWars )
- 3. Capybara! On! Ice!
- (tags:ice cute animals video )
- 4. Scotland pupils show rising reading comprehension
- (tags:Scotland reading GoodNews children )
- 5. Hundreds of robots move Shanghai city block
- (tags:robots china cities architecture video )
- 6. You will own nothing and be happy (Stop Killing Games)
- (tags:games technology history )