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Telco watcher. Wildlife watcher. Fernweh is my affliction. COYG.

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Latest posts by simondux.bsky.social on Bluesky

Currently spinning in his grave as a fellow (alleged) human being awards himself a one trillion pay packageโ€ฆ

08.11.2025 18:46 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how

Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.

news.sky.com/story/the-x-...

06.11.2025 07:22 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 5997    ๐Ÿ” 3410    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 227    ๐Ÿ“Œ 439

Execrable

06.11.2025 05:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Deloitte was caught using AI in $290,000 report to help the Australian government crack down on welfare after a researcher flagged hallucinations | Fortune The updates โ€œin no way impactโ€ the reportโ€™s findings and recommendations, the Big Four firm said.

fortune.com/2025/10/07/d...

03.11.2025 21:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending' A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man whoโ€™s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines whatโ€™s b...

The US funds the bulk of biomedical research globally by far. It's not like other countries can simply take up the slack. The more likely: people leave research, new people don't become researchers. There is no happy ending. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

01.11.2025 20:15 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 866    ๐Ÿ” 373    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 20    ๐Ÿ“Œ 29

AI and LinkedIn are a match made in hell.

30.10.2025 21:33 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

My only regret ditching Twitter was losing Arsenal as a follower. The rest was very easy.

29.10.2025 21:05 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Oh yeah, post 2005 1-0 defences aged us all 10 yearsโ€ฆweirdly never used to mind when George Graham was around. ๐ŸšŒ

28.10.2025 11:26 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Having been watching them sinceโ€ฆcough coughโ€ฆexpectations have definitely changed. Watching them defend a one goal lead was always a fascinating thing and demonstrated competency - now for some reason it can be viewed as a failure.

28.10.2025 07:38 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Fantastic news for the rarest (and largest) wombat.

27.10.2025 06:03 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Global Uncertainty Index

F*** everyone who voted for all the shit.

25.10.2025 14:56 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 737    ๐Ÿ” 164    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 35    ๐Ÿ“Œ 5
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Millionaire Tax That Inspired Mamdani Fuels $5.7 Billion Haul in Massachusetts A millionaire levy in Massachusetts that New York City mayoral frontrunner Zohran Mamdani holds up as a model for taxing the rich has generated $3 billion more in revenue than expected without forcing...

"In the two years since the state started charging a 4% surtax on incomes over $1 million, the effort has created a $5.7 billion windfall, with the surplus being used to fund bridge repairs, bolster literacy programs and address the transportation systemโ€™s budget deficit."

Taxing the rich works!

23.10.2025 10:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2077    ๐Ÿ” 714    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 20    ๐Ÿ“Œ 63

Why this framing? Because the crisis runs deeper than fake news, vaguely defined ideas of loss of trust in institutions, or polarisation. Itโ€™s epistemic collapse, when we lose a shared sense of truth, deliberation becomes echo-chambers, and accountability turns performative.

22.10.2025 12:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 134    ๐Ÿ” 24    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1
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Itโ€™s ruining everything. This may help: www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

23.10.2025 01:10 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Scientists say North Atlantic right whale population slowly increasing Once hunted to the brink of extinction, the most venerable of the leviathans now numbers 384, up eight from past year

North Atlantic right whale numbers estimated at 384. An increase in eight whales from last year - report today by the North Atlantic Right Whale Consortium. Slow population growth trend over the past four years gaining more than 7% of their 2020 population. ๐Ÿฆ‘๐Ÿ‹๐Ÿงช๐ŸŒ
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

21.10.2025 19:28 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 97    ๐Ÿ” 26    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

Eye-opening

22.10.2025 01:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

After Blatter some thought, โ€œphewโ€ - who knew FIFA would double down?

16.10.2025 22:13 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Got a swooper outside right now but he recognises me so we are sweet.

13.10.2025 09:42 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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UMass Amherst Researchers Create Nanoparticle Vaccine That Prevents Cancer in Mice | UMass Amherst The vaccine also proves highly effective at preventing cancerโ€™s deadly spread.

If youโ€™re hearing news about a cancer break-through and wonder whatโ€™s hype and whatโ€™s not, hereโ€™s a good explainer of the actual findings in animal studies.

This is some elegant science that pulls together several lines of long-standing inquiry, and yes, itโ€™s a BFD.

www.umass.edu/news/article...

12.10.2025 16:32 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 185    ๐Ÿ” 82    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5    ๐Ÿ“Œ 11

Lickspittle.

10.10.2025 21:20 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Today is a day when arts degrees are worthless, but the product of those degrees is so valuable it would kill an entire industry if they were made to pay for it.

08.10.2025 10:29 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 26940    ๐Ÿ” 10244    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 428    ๐Ÿ“Œ 186
This is figure 5, which shows processability and formability of BM-plastics for diverse products.

This is figure 5, which shows processability and formability of BM-plastics for diverse products.

A paper in Nature Communication reports on a new method to produce strong, biodegradable plastic from bamboo. The bioplastic resembles oil-based plastics in strength, shapeability, and thermal stability but can biodegrade in soil within 50 days. go.nature.com/4h1xv0X ๐Ÿงช

07.10.2025 19:34 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 38    ๐Ÿ” 18    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 3
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President Macron: โ€œEuropeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.โ€

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

04.10.2025 10:52 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1491    ๐Ÿ” 413    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 99

This is pretty shocking.

28.09.2025 02:00 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Means I was lucky last week spotting it over London.

25.09.2025 22:55 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and itโ€™s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread ๐Ÿงต)

24.09.2025 20:30 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 29654    ๐Ÿ” 9969    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 732    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1548

High immigration and the UK-EU trade deal softened the damage of Brexit

Farage would expose Britain to the full cost of his ideological follies

22.09.2025 07:44 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 65    ๐Ÿ” 17    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2    ๐Ÿ“Œ 1

bsky.app/profile/pras...

21.09.2025 17:45 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 0    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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EMEAโ€™s mobile operators diverge on mobile data growth โ€“ Tefficient - Mobile Europe Nordic and Baltic operators are pulling away from their European peers with data usage exceeding 50GB per month

EMEAโ€™s mobile operators diverge on mobile data growth โ€“ Tefficient - By @simondux.bsky.social in Mobile Europe www.mobileeurope.co.uk/emeas-mobile...

19.09.2025 12:25 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 2    ๐Ÿ” 3    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

๐Ÿ‘€ this is sociopathic behaviour.

14.09.2025 20:19 โ€” ๐Ÿ‘ 1    ๐Ÿ” 0    ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0    ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

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