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

Mobile Europe's @simondux.bsky.social 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. www.mobileeurope.co.uk/t-mobile-pol...

'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 @keirgiles.bsky.social analysis on the Trump administration's proposed 28-point peace plan for Ukraine⤵️

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...

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 £40 billion more each year if Britain had remained in the EU. Devastating self-immolation.

And yet the country continues to flirt with Reform…

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...

@helenhayes this is not a Labour Party Labour voters recognise and if it doesn’t change course it will be consigned to history as an execrable exercise.

MAGA is through the looking glass.

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-...

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.

Fantastic news for the rarest (and largest) wombat.

Global Uncertainty Index F*** everyone who voted for all the shit.

"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.

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. 🦑🐋🧪🌍 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Eye-opening

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