Alex's Livejournal

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 )

Off on an awfully big adventure
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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 )

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 )

1. Labour promised LGBT voters a 'reset' - now many feel betrayed 

(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 )

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 )

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!
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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 )

"Sophia, will you pose with your brother for a photo?"

"I will, but I'm very angry about it!"
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