Interesting Links for 12-07-2025
Jul. 12th, 2025 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewducker- 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 )
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 )
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 )
Interesting Links for 04-07-2025
Jul. 4th, 2025 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. Five baby beavers born at Cairngorms National Park in Scottish Highlands spotted for first time
- (tags:beavers Scotland video )
- 2. Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean, with key climate implications
- (tags:globalwarming ocean doom )
- 3. Deafness reversed: Single injection brings hearing back within weeks | ScienceDaily
- (tags:hearing deafness genetics )
- 4. High-Fidelity Simultaneous Speech-To-Speech Translation
- (tags:translation ai )
- 5. Ita O'Brien: Up close and professional with the world's leading intimacy coordinator
- (tags:sex acting safety tv movies )
- 6. Trump seems to have decided that America should be more like Rome
- (tags:usa fighting republicans EpicWTF )
- 7. The perfect, but slow, way to boil an egg - according to science
- (tags:eggs cooking )
Photo cross-post
Jul. 4th, 2025 02:49 amandrewducker
Got halfway to the bus stop to go to the pool and realised I didn't
have my shoulder bag. Sprinted home, got it, and made it to the bus.
Got off the bus at the other end, realised Sophia's bag didn't have her swimming costume in it. Got a bus home, grabbed it, now in a taxi.
Fingers crossed that nothing else comes between me and drop-off and work!
Original
is here on Pixelfed.scot.
Interesting Links for 03-07-2025
Jul. 3rd, 2025 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. Lemkin Institute Anti-genocide group issues 'red flag' to UK over transgender rights
- (tags:lgbt transgender UK rights OhForFucksSake bigotry )
- 2. The UK has an extremely low rate of homes per person
- (tags:UK housing doom )
- 3. Israel limits entry of baby formula in Gaza as infants die of hunger
- (tags:Israel babies murder Hunger genocide gaza Palestine )
- 4. Poor internet and offices partly to blame for length of Edinburgh Tram Inquiry
- (tags:edinburgh trams enquiry internet organisation )
- 5. TikTok is being flooded with racist AI videos generated by Google's Veo 3
- (tags:ai racism videos socialmedia )
Interesting Links for 02-07-2025
Jul. 2nd, 2025 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. How Common is Multiple Invention?
- (tags:invention research history viaFanf )
- 2. The death of business attire? Just 7% of workers wear a suit to work
- (tags:clothing work UK )
- 3. FOI Exposes EHRC Anti-Trans Bias: Private Meetings, Legal Echoes, and Policy Capture
- (tags:rights UK bigotry OhForFucksSake corruption )
Photo cross-post
Jul. 1st, 2025 01:58 pmandrewducker
"Sophia, will you pose with your brother for a photo?"
"I will, but I'm very angry about it!"
Original
is here on Pixelfed.scot.
Interesting Links for 01-07-2025
Jul. 1st, 2025 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. Jaws (1975) | Modern Trailer
- (tags:movies trailer sharks video )
- 2. Everything I Thought I Knew About Nasal Congestion Is Wrong
- (tags:noses health )
- 3. Edinburgh's GDP per Capita now outpaces London
- (tags:edinburgh london gdp economy scotland uk )
- 4. Microsoft claims their new AI framework diagnoses 4x better than doctors. Here's why this is both impressive AND misleading
- (tags:ai medicine Microsoft )
- 5. China is cracking down on young women who write gay erotica
- (tags:china censorship LGBT OhForFucksSake )
Rebuilding journal search again
Jun. 30th, 2025 03:18 pmalierak posting in ![[site community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/comm_staff.png){kind=small}
dw_maintenanceWe're having to rebuild the search server again (previously, previously). It will take a few days to reindex all the content.
Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.
Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.
Photo cross-post
Jun. 29th, 2025 04:31 pmandrewducker
We had a nice day on the beach in North Berwick. A few of Sophia's old
nursery friends, getting back together, with a few siblings thrown in.
They got on like it wasn't mostly a year since they last saw each
other, and they had a ball digging holes, wading through seaweed and
climbing on rocks. The weather was just as fabulous as it looks
here.
Original
is here on Pixelfed.scot.