Simon Dux
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Telco watcher. Wildlife watcher. Fernweh is my affliction. COYG.
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There needs to be more research on the expanding power needs of data centres and the direct impact on consumer energy bills. There is an inevitable cost to upgrade the grid due to rising energy demand and that cost is highly likely to be passed on to consumers. Hereâs why:
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Who needs facts, eh? What a dumb timeline weâre in.
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UK and Canada currently scratching their headsâŠ
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Not sure why BBC didnât just show this chancer the other clip. Shouldnât be left to Bluesky.
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Michael Dahlstrom
12 days ago
The temperature is expected to soar beyond 45 degrees in parts of Victoria on Tuesday, and it's predicted tens of thousands of grey-headed flying foxes will perish around the state. Volunteers are calling for @DEECA_Vic to help them reduce the deaths.
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Dire prediction during five-hour window of extreme heat: 'Dead everywhere'
The state government has been urged to scale up its efforts as tens of thousands of mortalities are expected.
https://au.news.yahoo.com/dire-prediction-during-five-hour-window-of-extreme-heat-dead-everywhere-043831220.html
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Pick up the nearest book. Turn to page 42 and post the second sentence. âJames Gillrayâs map of England as King George III, crapping âbum boatsâ into Franceâs mouth.â
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HmmmâŠGreenland looks like a classic market manipulation for the select few - follow the money.
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David Ho
17 days ago
This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again.
www.nature.com/immersive/d4...
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www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in...
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Read the room: Guerilla Writersâ Week is happening - News | InDaily, Inside South Australia
Organisers of an alternative Writersâ Festival have vowed to push ahead after receiving support at an Adelaide City Council meeting.
https://www.indailysa.com.au/news/just-in/2026/01/20/read-the-room-guerilla-writers-week-is-happening
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Genuinely shocking but regrettably unsurprising from this administration.
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Time to ask Albanese which side Australia is on if this happens.
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Internet Engineering Task Force
21 days ago
Forty years ago, 21 people gathered for the first meeting of what became the IETF. Today, nearly 8000 IETF participants from around the world collaborate in more than 100 working groups and every day billions of people use technologies developed in the IETF.
https://www.ietf.org/blog/ietf-40/
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Greenland is giving me a Molotov-Ribbentrop vibe and I donât like it.
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Adil Ray
26 days ago
Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.
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Don Moynihan
28 days ago
Some important new government policy that Native Americans might be interested in:
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Dr Yannick Veilleux-Lepage
29 days ago
So when authorities say âshe tried to run over an officer,â that is not a neutral description. It is a claim of intent that can be used to justify lethal force after the fact. When the state kills first and invents the threat afterward, it is not policing, it is death squad behavior. /end
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If Reform got in and introduced the birth rule, England would lose Stokes and Bethell for starters.
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about 1 month ago
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Matt Novak
about 1 month ago
These freaks want territorial expansion and they know Trump will do everything he can to deliver. This isnât just a tweet from some random asshole either. This is Stephen Millerâs wife. Miller was in the room with Trump during the kidnapping of Maduro.
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James Ball
about 1 month ago
Marco Rubio is reportedly saying Maduro will stand trial in US courts. Which means itâs now the US administrationâs position that US courts can hold foreign presidents, but not the US president, accountable for crimes.
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Lauren MacIvor Thompson
about 2 months ago
You have literally no understanding of what you and your ilk have unleashed in our world of teaching and scholarship in the humanities and social sciences. I have spent hundreds of hours over the last year dealing with problems generated by your "invention." Reinventing my classes.
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This is evil stuff
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about 2 months ago
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A faint, insistent buzzing just on the edge of hearing
about 2 months ago
Just so I'm clear on this, computer memory has tripled in price because a bunch of it that hasn't been produced yet has been ordered to populate GPUs that aren't installed in data centers that aren't built yet in order to service a demand that doesn't exist to make profits that don't happen.
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Farrukh
2 months ago
Daisy Cooper, "In 2017 there was not a single asylum seeker that arrived on a boat" "Today we have 46,000 a year" "And do you know why?" "Brexit" "Pushed through by Boris Johnson and championed by Nigel Farage" *audience erupts in applause"
#BBCQT
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Tefficientđ„
2 months ago
Mobile Europe's
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combined streaming stats from T-Mobile Poland with Tefficient's FWA usage and take-up stats into a story on how streaming dominates mobile data usage and why FWA will dominate mobile network traffic.
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T-Mobile Poland mobile data highlights FWA bind - Mobile Europe
The Polish operatorâs streaming data emphasises the dominance of router-based streaming which reflects the issue mobile operators rolling out FWA will face
https://www.mobileeurope.co.uk/t-mobile-poland-mobile-data-highlights-fwa-bind/
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Alexander Lees
2 months ago
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A new species of Tinamus (Aves: Tinamiformes) from the western Amazon, Brazil | Zootaxa
https://mapress.com/zt/article/view/zootaxa.5725.2.6
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Chatham House
2 months ago
'There is no peace process. This is not negotiations over peace: it is the transmission of surrender demands from Russia with the active facilitation of the United States.' Read
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analysis on the Trump administration's proposed 28-point peace plan for Ukraine—ïž
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Trump pressures Ukraine to accept peace deal: Early analysis from Chatham House experts
Chatham House analysts give their initial analysis after Zelenskyy was pressured by Trump to accept a White House plan to end the war with Russia.
https://www.chathamhouse.org/2025/11/trump-pressures-ukraine-accept-peace-deal-early-analysis-chatham-house-experts?utm_source=bskyapp&utm_medium=organic-social&utm_campaign=ukraine&utm_content=deal
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Kate Crawford
5 months ago
New essay now online: "EATING THE FUTURE: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop." AI consumes planetary resources and excretes slop, polluting environmental & information ecologies. It's a new metabolic rift - disrupting the cycles that sustain both humans and AI alike.
www.e-flux.com/architecture...
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Intensification - Kate Crawford - Eating the Future: The Metabolic Logic of AI Slop
AI slop isnât invested in the order of events or even looking like reality. The slop is not the territory: it just smothers it in synthetic goop. Itâs flooding the zone with AI shit.
https://www.e-flux.com/architecture/intensification/6782975/eating-the-future-the-metabolic-logic-of-ai-slop
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Dave Vetter
2 months ago
Still reeling from the Stanford report on Brexit. Reduced GDP by up to 8% and investment by as much as 18%. The UK Treasury would have ÂŁ40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.
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The Economic Impact of Brexit
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https://siepr.stanford.edu/publications/working-paper/economic-impact-brexit
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And yet the country continues to flirt with ReformâŠ
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Tony Vaughan KC MP
3 months ago
The Prime Minister said in September that we are at a fork in the road. These asylum proposals suggest we have taken the wrong turning. The idea that recognised refugees need to be deported is wrong.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Asylum system in UK âout of controlâ and dividing country, home secretary says
Shabana Mahmood to unveil new proposals modelled on Denmarkâs controversial system
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/nov/16/refugees-established-in-uk-may-have-to-return-if-home-countries-become-safe
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@helenhayes this is not a Labour Party Labour voters recognise and if it doesnât change course it will be consigned to history as an execrable exercise.
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MAGA is through the looking glass.
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Ian Dunt
3 months ago
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.
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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
https://news.sky.com/story/the-x-effect-how-elon-musk-is-boosting-the-british-right-13464487#
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Gregg Gonsalves
3 months ago
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.
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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 whoâs been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines whatâs b...
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/top-researchers-consider-leaving-u-s-amid-funding-cuts-the-science-world-is-ending
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AI and LinkedIn are a match made in hell.
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Fantastic news for the rarest (and largest) wombat.
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Otto English
3 months ago
Global Uncertainty Index F*** everyone who voted for all the shit.
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Jack McGovan
4 months ago
"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 systemâs budget deficit." Taxing the rich works!
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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...
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-10-21/millionaire-tax-that-inspired-mamdani-fuels-5-7-billion-haul-in-massachusetts?embedded-checkout=true
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Eliot Higgins
4 months ago
Why this framing? Because the crisis runs deeper than fake news, vaguely defined ideas of loss of trust in institutions, or polarisation. Itâs epistemic collapse, when we lose a shared sense of truth, deliberation becomes echo-chambers, and accountability turns performative.
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Leila Fouda
4 months ago
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. đŠđđ§Șđ
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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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
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/21/right-whale-population-increasing
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Eye-opening
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Dr. Sandra Steingraber đłïžâđ
4 months ago
If youâre hearing news about a cancer break-through and wonder whatâs hype and whatâs not, hereâs 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, itâs a BFD.
www.umass.edu/news/article...
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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 cancerâs deadly spread.
https://www.umass.edu/news/article/umass-amherst-researchers-create-nanoparticle-vaccine-prevents-cancer-mice
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Keith W. Dickinson
4 months ago
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.
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Nature Portfolio
4 months ago
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
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Defend Democracy
4 months ago
President Macron: âEuropeans, let's wake up! We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.â
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Rebecca R Helm
5 months ago
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 itâs possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA 10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread đ§”)
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Pascal
5 months ago
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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Tefficientđ„
5 months ago
EMEAâs mobile operators diverge on mobile data growth â Tefficient - By
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www.mobileeurope.co.uk/emeas-mobile...
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EMEAâs mobile operators diverge on mobile data growth â Tefficient - Mobile Europe
Nordic and Baltic operators are pulling away from their European peers with data usage exceeding 50GB per month
https://www.mobileeurope.co.uk/emeas-mobile-operators-diverge-on-mobile-data-growth-tefficient/
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đ this is sociopathic behaviour.
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