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...

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.

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.” defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

This is pretty shocking.

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

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.

Another bird silently slips into extinction. In south-west Western Australia there was an endemic subspecies of Lewin’s Rail. It is poorly known and enigmatic. In our latest paper, we document all known specimens and sightings. Is it still out there? afo.birdlife.org.au/afo/index.ph...

Interestingly I got the UK govt alert on my Australian mobile which is not connected to the UK mobile network, only wifi.

The data that shows the internet removes guardrails and fuels populism — it’s either the unfiltered “will of the people” or digital mob rule. Take your pick. Grabs from @jburnmurdoch.ft.com piece here: on.ft.com/45WUaGw The end of the gatekeepers

This is vile. Local guy speaks to Sky News about the impact of asylum seekers protests. Watch what happens and share widely

Profoundly important from @davidallengreen.bsky.social. The lack of meaningful restraints against executing power in our system leaves us utterly exposed in the face of a Reform government. They could do whatever they want. open.substack.com/pub/emptycit...

US consumers are about to experience the FAFO result of their government removing de minimis exemption on low cost goods shipping to the US. Post offices globally are suspending shipping to the US - seen Australia and Korea so far.

Oh look, AI’s impact of medicine and health isn’t quite what the brochures promised…

Perplexity looking to buy Google Chrome for USD 34.5 bn reminds me of 90s band Pop Will Eat Itself.

Never vote a government in that decides it wants to kill you.

Milestone as Adelaide’s first ever subsea fibre optic cable gets its shore link compliments of Subco. youtu.be/kFvjeQbLQ38?...

Federal agencies hiding out in a bunker

SCOOP from me: Trump's AI action plan released last week makes a specific set of recommendations around loosening Clean Water Act permits for data centers — recommendations mirrored in letters sent to the administration by Big Tech lobbyists earlier this year:

Don’t think I’ve ever watched England win a big match on ITV before 😅

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#OTD in 1941, Merwedeplein, Amsterdam. Happy times. Anne Frank, watching a soon to about:blank#blockedbe married couple (Anne's neighbour is the bride) leaving for the city hall. This is the only footage of this remarkable girl. Let's not forget what the Nazis did. #WW2 #HISTORY

Some AI app development gets zero response versus people reacting to scientists suggesting they may clone humans…well, this is cloning a human.

Right wing populism is tedious and downright dangerous wherever it rears its ugly head. Japan’s turn…

Sometimes you have to ask yourself what the point of technology is if this is the direction it is travelling.

Snort

Enshittification part 736468

Of course Farage works for News Corp Australia 🙄

Over 120 mRNA cancer trials are now at risk as the Trump admin cuts funding & tells researchers to scrub “mRNA” from grant proposals. What started as COVID fearmongering is now derailing life-saving cancer research. Hope remains - but scientists say time is running out. zurl.co/YBGNy

Amazing that Itchy Boots has been to places like Iran and Yemen and even she has hesitated to visiting the US in its current iteration. www.advrider.com/itchy-boots-...

Racism as policy.

Good news

"Under first-past-the-post, because there are more people wanting Special Brew than cappuccino, lattes or flat whites respectively, you are all condemned to go out on the piss." Brilliant from @willhaycardiff.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

The Constitution Society and Federal Trust asked me to do a survey of the evidence on the economics of Brexit, nine years on from the vote. Hopefully it's a helpful reference. Short answer: the consensus was right - a large hit to GDP, trade and investment. consoc.org.uk/publications...

Still true: *Britain is a success story *Most of its cities are doing astonishingly well *Multiculturalism is popular *Mass immigration has not led to social disintegration *Nostalgia is increasingly weird *Britain is incredibly safe *Levels of social cohesion are high Don't let them gaslight you.

Ashamed of the current state of the media.

Cyprus. Scenes.

David Bowie cat. Cyprus.

That officer took deliberate aim at this journalist and shot her. There's nobody standing near her.

"Land-clearing is increasing...about 45,000 hectares of savanna habitat was destroyed between 2000 and 2020...equivalent to an area roughly the size of 22,500 MCGs." Read about our new report, The State and Future of the Northern Territory’s Savannas 👉 theconversation.com/the-top-ends...

Feeling this in London Town today…

The Leadbeater’s possum has just been detected in Kosciusko National Park. This extraordinary discovery is the first live record of this Critically Endangered species outside of Victoria. See what the experts have to say about the discovery: biodiversitycouncil....

ChatGPT chimes in on the pros and cons of large US tech firms abandoning DEI.

The only ad I ever see on YouTube is Grammarly (which spellcheck rejects). And now they just got one billion from General Catalyst to build an AI productivity farm - hope it is free range…

Japanese press releases are the best.

Hilarious if the world switches to Samsung/xiaomi as a result.