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1. The Ten Levels of Boardgame Complexity (and Depth!) (tags: games complexity video viaSwampers ) 2. The Dutch Community Where People Live on Strips of Land in a Lake (tags: netherlands housing ) 3. Trump's terrifying secret prisons that epitomise his America (tags: USA immigration prison OhForFucksSake ) comments
Yesterday, to distract a sad Gideon on the bus, Jane showed him Polytopia. He was then addicted until bedtime, started on it again this morning, and Sophia has joined him in playing it. Jane is enjoying being family strategy coach. Original is here on Pixelfed.scot. comments
1. ICE equipping agents with gloves that deliver electric shocks (380 volts!) (tags: electricity usa immigration OhForFucksSake ) 2. Are Raccoons Evolving Into Pets? (They are currently terrible at it) (tags: raccoon pets evolution ) 3. Six London councils keep trans-inclusive services despite EHRC guidance (tags: London LGBT transgender GoodNews UK ) 4. Latest images and progress following the…
1. This Coin-Sized Device Can Hack a Boeing 737 (tags: hacking airplanes Technology ) 2. Oh Lord, AI Reporters Are Actually Breaking Big News (tags: ai journalism ) 3. Large-scale study finds no link between crime and unauthorized immigration (tags: crime immigration ) 4. The best eclipse video (tags: video eclipse viaKenny ) 5. Ocean Photographer of the Year 2026 Finalists (tags: ocean photos )…
1. More Scots back defying Westminster over independence than you'd think (tags: Scotland independence polls ) comments
1. How the 'fecal revolution' changed Earth's ecosystems and caused the Cambrian Explosion (tags: evolution faeces ) 2. The Human-Origin Story Is Being Radically Revised (tags: humans evolution prehistory ) 3. Photos of Norwich show the increasing environmental impact of the drought (tags: UK drought globalwarming doom England ) 4. Finding the Princes Street fire shop owner (who seem to be *very*…
1. AI model achieves breakthrough in forecasting cyclones (giving 3 days notice rather than 2) (tags: weather ai ) 2. Protesters haul a guillotine to city council meeting about a potential AI data center, company rep cornered by protestors — ' it no longer felt safe to stay,' developer escorted out by police (tags: ai society viaSwampers ) comments
1. Why is there a row about 'vertical drinking' in Westminster? (tags: pubs London regulation ) 2. Inside generative AI's effect on modding, and how host sites struggle to maintain transparency (tags: ai gaming mod ) 3. Two years into the world's most complicated board game, masochist gamers "still don't understand what the camels do" (tags: games viaSwampers ) 4. Restore Britain shocked to…
1. What's behind China's AI enthusiasm? (tags: ai china history technology economics ) 2. Ray Bradbury's "There Shall Come Soft Rains" is set today (tags: short_story scifi history ) 3. What is going on with AI "reasoning"? (tags: ai thinking philosophy ) 4. Buy a BMW, get adverts on your dashboard (tags: cars advertising OhForFucksSake ) 5. Anthropic and OpenAI models tried to trick humans into…
1. 6% of US drive through fast food orders are handled by AI (tags: ai food business ) 2. Princes Street fire: Stark briefing spells out scale of task facing engineers trying to save former Debenhams store (tags: Edinburgh fire ) 3. Wind and solar overtake fossil fuels in Germany for the first time ever (tags: Germany GoodNews renewables windpower solarpower ) 4. The real reason British child…
1. How retired teachers, nurses and vicars became Britain's newest terror suspects (tags: UK terrorism OhForFucksSake ) 2. Ten advances in mathematics and theoretical computer science solved by AI (tags: mathematics ai ) 3. 72% of all cars sold in Europe last year had some kind of electrification (tags: Europe electricity cars ) comments
1. Why does every mammal get 1 billion heartbeats in their life? And what does that tell us about the efficiency of cities? (tags: life nature heart mathematics ) 2. Has Scotland's 48% tax rate really reduced public revenue? (tags: economics tax Scotland ) 3. Global Warming has killed over 1,000 people in England and Wales this year. So far. (tags: globalwarming death England Wales OhForFucksSake…
Castle, Gideon, Arthur's Seat. (Took him out for a walk up a hill as we'll be travelling from 1pm on the way to Hampshire.) Original is here on Pixelfed.scot. comments
1. Edinburgh's North Bridge reopens after eight-year refurbishment (tags: Edinburgh bridge ) 2. Elevators - and how they behave (tags: algorithms elevator design ) 3. The most official water costs $120,000 a gallon (tags: water standards science history ) 4. The Right Is Manufacturing Fake Restroom Confrontations Against Trans People (tags: ai LGBT transgender fraud OhForFucksSake bigotry )…
1. In pictures: Scale of drought across England as rivers dry up (tags: water nature UK drought photos doom ) 2. New technologies could help cut years-long wait for endometriosis diagnosis (tags: diagnosis healthcare nhs GoodNews ) 3. Translator Of Original 'Minions' Epic Poem Slams 'Sexless, Bloodless' Film Adaptation (tags: translation movies satire funny ) 4. Fructose identified as surprise…
1. Air filters don't stop you catching infectious respiratory diseases (tags: air virus disease ) 2. Major unions boycott Labour Women's Conference over trans ban (tags: unions lgbt transgender GoodNews women labour bigotry ) 3. Farage loses a popularity contest against every other national party leader (tags: uk polls politics ) 4. A malicious word document read in to CoPilot can spread itself to…
1. Prototype luggage handling system, currently under test at Heathrow (tags: funny video automation ) 2. The Postmodernist Side of the Force (tags: StarWars philosophy comic funny ) 3. Using LLMs to find sunken treasure (tags: ai shipping history ) comments
1. A modest proposal for a new tax (tags: tax satire care age UK money ) 2. Edinburgh Trams in numbers as passengers and losses hit all-time high (tags: Edinburgh trams business ) 3. Safeguarding the Constitution: Key Steps to Strengthen UK Democratic Resilience (tags: constitution uk politics ) 4. Artist sues AI meme generator for selling deeply personal comic as ad template (tags: copyright…
1. Romania blames Russia as military shoots down third drone (tags: Russia Romania drone war Europe ) 2. Kill the Cookie Banner! (tags: Europe law surveillance web browser ) comments
Over the last few years I've repeatedly wondered how expensive housing was in comparison to its historic levels. And not in a simplistic "ratio of house prices to pay" way, but in a way that took account of interest rates, to see how much the average person would pay for a mortgage on an average home, as a percentage of their average income. Which obviously misses out a bunch of complexity, but…
Posing with the Evil Empire Original is here on Pixelfed.scot. comments
1. How a single underscore led to an innocent man's conviction (tags: law Canada names technology epicfail ) 2. How to talk about "AI" without adding to the anthropomorphization (tags: language ai ) 3. University of Chicago Law School is Rethinking Legal Education in the AI Era (tags: law ai university education ) 4. What if the rings of Saturn were a warning? (tags: comic scifi short_story ) 5.…
1. People who want to protect the current social hierarchies are more lenient about sexual harassment (tags: sociology harassment patriarchy society ) 2. Frequently asked questions about the Princes Street Fire (including what work is being done at the moment) (tags: edinburgh fire safety ) 3. Consumers have grown less and less interested in buying games on physical discs (tags: games Technology…
Edinburgh castle is looking awfully photogenic today Original is here on Pixelfed.scot. comments
Gideon wanted to play on the Switch with me. Sophia wandered through and said "Oh, you have Chess?" and now they're happily playing against each other. (Although Sophia did just ask me "What does 'check' mean?" so this might be a learning experience) Original is here on Pixelfed.scot. comments