Interesting Links for 10-06-2026
Jun. 10th, 2026 12:00 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
andrewducker- 1. RSPB buys Bass Rock after 300 years in private hands
- (tags:birds Scotland )
- 2. Google Chrome is killing uBlock Origin , Microsoft Edge, Opera to follow (still works fine on Firefox)
- (tags:adblock browser google )
- 3. German ruling declares Google's AI Overviews are Google's own words and makes it liable for false answers
- (tags:Google ai law Germany )
Interesting Links for 07-06-2026
Jun. 7th, 2026 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. How Scotland voted at the 2026 Holyrood election
- (tags:voting elections Scotland politics polls )
- 2. Police in England and Wales told to halt AI use in court statements
- (tags:ai police uk law )
- 3. Interesting piece by someone who traced their Scottish ancestry and wanted to find the real truth
- (tags:Scotland history family )
- 4. Arithmetic Without Numbers - how LLMs produce answers to maths questions
- (tags:mathematics AI text )
Photo cross-post
Jun. 6th, 2026 01:18 pmandrewducker
The children went to a birthday party and found a fairy ring. I wonder
if we'll ever see them again.
Original
is here on Pixelfed.scot.
Interesting Links for 06-06-2026
Jun. 6th, 2026 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. Let's celebrate the lowest Covid levels recorded since the pandemic started
- (tags:pandemic GoodNews viaKenny )
- 2. A new Broadway play about Roald Dahl and his prejudice captures uncomfortable truths.
- (tags:theatre bigotry Jews history writing )
- 3. Please Email your MP to reject the Code of Practice and support EDM 240
- (tags:transgender bigotry politics uk )
- 4. Children's Commissioner dranatically overstates how many young children see pornography
- (tags:pornography children facts )
- 5. Jewish groups launch new diaspora movement rejecting Israel's ethno-nationalism
- (tags:Jews )
- 6. Has Britain run out of "other people" to tax?
- (tags:tax UK economics politics )
Interesting Links for 05-06-2026
Jun. 5th, 2026 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. FCC To Investigate TV Shows Where The Mom Has Job
- (tags:tv politics satire usa fascism patriarchy )
- 2. How Spain Avoided the Global Populist Backlash
- (tags:inequality spain politics )
- 3. Opinion: It's only funny when the joke is about things I don't like
- (tags:humour funny )
- 4. Cheap, Fast DNA Synthesis
- (tags:genetics )
- 5. What happens if Japan takes in zero immigrants?
- (tags:migration japan doom society )
- 6. Queen bees emerge from special wax chambers
- (tags:bees )
Interesting Links for 04-06-2026
Jun. 4th, 2026 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. Good to see the Lib Dems on the right side of the EHRC Transgender Awfulness
- (tags:bigotry libdem uk politics transgender lgbt )
- 2. Please stop calling them the 'Farage Riots', demands man behind the Farage Riots
- (tags:riots satire UK politics )
- 3. Phone signal on UK trains not good enough most of the time
- (tags:UK phones trains fail )
- 4. Putin's war on UK streets: The criminal networks sowing mayhem for Russia
- (tags:Russia UK sabotage )
- 5. U.S. to Dismantle System Tracking Atlantic Currents That Are at Risk of Collapse
- (tags:usa globalwarming ocean OhForFucksSake research )
Interesting Links for 03-06-2026
Jun. 3rd, 2026 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. 3D zipper technology can create rigid shapes on demand
- (tags:Technology design 3dprinting )
- 2. The 40 Most Rage-Inducing Problems in Tech
- (tags:technology AI catholicism funny viaSwampers )
- 3. The UK Supreme Court is enabling some fascist shit against disabled people
- (tags:UK law disability OhForFucksSake )
- 4. The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling by Ted Chiang
- (tags:memory technology writing society relationships short_story scifi )
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dw_maintenanceQuick note that post-by-email and comment-by-email is (sometimes?) failing silently without actually posting right now! I'm pretty sure this is related to last night's shenanigans and will be fixed once Mark can finish the full fix for it, which he's working on, but if you've posted or replied by email in the last 24 hours, fish it out of your sent folder to check if it posted!
EDIT: This should be fixed as of around 7AM EDT! We *believe* everything that was stuck in the plumbing has been sent along to your journal or the comment thread it was meant for; it's definitely not where it was stuck anymore, at least.
EDIT: This should be fixed as of around 7AM EDT! We *believe* everything that was stuck in the plumbing has been sent along to your journal or the comment thread it was meant for; it's definitely not where it was stuck anymore, at least.
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May. 31st, 2026 10:00 pmdenise posting in dw_maintenanceRobby has managed to put in a temporary fix for the site errors and things failing to refresh or not showing up where they should! The permanent fix is going to need Mark's experience, and unfortunately -- seriously, this literally never fails -- Mark has been on an international flight all day, because of course he has. (Never. Fails. He and I are not allowed to both take vacation at once.)
The site will work just fine with the temporary fix in place, things just might be a little slow here and there. We'll keep you updated.
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May. 31st, 2026 08:59 pmdenise posting in dw_maintenanceWe're aware of site traffic issues and are working to fix them for the people who are having problems! (The tactics the damn bot traffic uses are endlessly shifting, and they're really good at looking like real traffic, sigh.)
Banking functionality I would like
May. 31st, 2026 03:33 pmandrewduckerIntermittently I would like to bring forward a single instance of a regular payment.
Normally transfer money from A to B on the 17th, but this month you want to do it 2 days early? Tough, you have to make the early payment, wait for the later payment to go through, and then get it transferred back.
Life with two kids: bus chat
May. 31st, 2026 11:06 amandrewduckerChildren are having a very loud conversation with each other on the bus about where babies come from.
I'm hiding three rows back.
Interesting Links for 30-05-2026
May. 30th, 2026 12:00 pmandrewducker- 1. Clinicians raise concerns over gender-affirming healthcare evidence reviews in open letter to NHS England
- (tags:UK bigotry healthcare LGBT transgender )
- 2. There are dozens of trees planted across America whose seeds went to the moon
- (tags:moon nature trees viaDanielDWilliam )
- 3. Please Use AI
- (tags:ai life poetry )
- 4. Opposing the EHRC guidance - UNISON needs your voice
- (tags:unions LGBT transgender UK )
- 5. Oscar-winning 'Star Wars' editor Marcia Lucas dies at 80
- (tags:StarWars obituary )
- 6. High Density Living, 2000 Years Ago: Inside the Roman Apartment Building
- (tags:history housing rome )
Interesting Links for 29-05-2026
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