Simon Dux

Currently spinning in his grave as a fellow (alleged) human being awards himself a one trillion pay package…

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-...

Execrable

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 “in no way impact” the report’s findings and recommendations, the Big Four firm said.

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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 who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’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...

AI and LinkedIn are a match made in hell.

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

Oh yeah, post 2005 1-0 defences aged us all 10 years…weirdly never used to mind when George Graham was around. 🚌

Having been watching them since…cough cough…expectations 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.

Fantastic news for the rarest (and largest) wombat.

Global Uncertainty Index

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

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 system’s budget deficit."

Taxing the rich works!

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

It’s ruining everything. This may help: www.esa.int/ESA_Multimed...

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. 🦑🐋🧪🌍
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Eye-opening

After Blatter some thought, “phew” - who knew FIFA would double down?

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

UMass Amherst Researchers Create Nanoparticle Vaccine That Prevents Cancer in Mice | UMass Amherst The vaccine also proves highly effective at preventing cancer’s deadly spread.

If you’re hearing news about a cancer break-through and wonder what’s hype and what’s not, here’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, it’s a BFD.

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

Lickspittle.

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.

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 🧪

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

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This is pretty shocking.

Means I was lucky last week spotting it over London.

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 it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

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

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

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EMEA’s mobile operators diverge on mobile data growth – Tefficient - Mobile Europe Nordic and Baltic operators are pulling away from their European peers with data usage exceeding 50GB per month

EMEA’s mobile operators diverge on mobile data growth – Tefficient - By @simondux.bsky.social in Mobile Europe www.mobileeurope.co.uk/emeas-mobile...

👀 this is sociopathic behaviour.