Notices by Andrew Ducker (andrewducker@mastodon.scot)

Link Post: Two astronauts stranded in space by Boeing Starliner may return on SpaceX in 2025 (8 day trip turns into 6 months!) https://www.independent.co.uk/space/nasa-boeing-starliner-butch-wilmore-sunita-williams-b2593041.html

Link Post: Google decides to let advertisers keep tracking you across the web (unlike Safari and Firefox) https://arstechnica.com/?p=2038576

Link Post: During the pandemic a museum asked people to recreate art at home. The results are incredible https://www.tumblr.com/bellsandbuttons/755334569648111616/museum-asks-people-to-recreate-paintings-at-home?source=share

Link Post: What would 'GB Energy' mean for Scotland's green economy? (not much) https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cyxxxljq070o

Link Post: Why do lorries hit bridges? https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1786850445119394261.html

Link Post: This is how crime reporting feels to me nowadays https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/coverage-2

Link Post: Giant 'sand battery' holds a week's heat for a whole town https://newatlas.com/energy/sand-battery-finland/

Link Post: You're being targeted by disinformation networks that are vastly more effective than you realize. And they're trying you more hateful and depressed. https://old.reddit.com/r/GenZ/comments/1bfto4a/youre_being_targeted_by_disinformation_networks/

Link Post: Who wants to see the dreadful AI script given to the actors for the abysmal Wonka experience that ended with the police being called? https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1762849884485353695.html

Link Post: Mousetrapped is the first thing I've seen doing anything interesting with the newly public domain Mickey Mouse https://www.tumblr.com/mousetrappedcomic/738309943510335488/as-of-today-the-mickey-mouse-cartoon-steamboat

Gideon and Sophia are having breakfast at the table while Jane and I sit on the sofa chatting.

Gideon just announced "I thirsty!" - which led Sophia to tut, climb down, go to his chair, hand him the drink bottle, and say "Drink your juice" and then go back to her seat.

We may have this parenting thing cracked! :⁠-⁠)

Link Post: UK's nuclear fusion site ends experiments after 40 years https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-67101176?at_medium=RSS&at_campaign=KARANGA

Link Post: There are no good carbon offset schemes. (78% of are worthless.16% are problematic. The remaining 6% don't publish enough data to tell.) https://www.power-technology.com/news/report-majority-carbon-offsets-junk-or-useless/?cf-view

Link Post: Trans woman who took own life after three years waiting for NHS appointment was failed by system, mother says (Current waiting list is around 5 years) https://inews.co.uk/news/trans-woman-took-own-life-three-years-waiting-nhs-appointment-failed-system-mother-2625872

Link Post: Two Drums and a Cymbal Fall off a Cliff https://youtu.be/8eXj97stbG8

Link Post: Cis woman shares relentless transphobic attacks on her gender https://www.thepinknews.com/2023/07/27/tiktok-female-powerlifter-transphobic-attacks/?fbclid=IwAR17G32PpZksFGTVMA0bOI_gRhM3WNOQ2CTLYPxglFeyLelrc62uOAC0gXM

Link Post: 57 different scripts that all descended from Egyptian hieroglyphs (from Latin to Aramaic to Tibetan to Javanese) https://starkeycomics.com/2018/12/11/the-abcd-family-tree/

Link Post: ChatGPT recommends software packages that don't exist - so hackers created them to take control of people's computers https://vulcan.io/blog/ai-hallucinations-package-risk

Link Post: Labour comes out against Tory ‘war on woke’ bigotry https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/tory-war-woke-division-uk-labour-2392865

Link Post: Why did the UK do so badly at Eurovision? https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-65586989