Dave Cox
@davidcox65.bsky.social
Emeritus Prof ex Chair South B’ham PCT and Cycling UK. Chair Push Bikes. Dirty air damages heart and lungs ❤️ NHS saved my life twice. #WalkCyclePlay you know you want to
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“Based on the available evidence, the skills that future graduates will most need in the AI era—creative thinking, the capacity to learn new things, flexible modes of analysis—are precisely those that are likely to be eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.”
“When you allow a machine to summarize your reading, to generate the ideas for your essay, and then to write that essay, you’re not learning how to read, think, or write.“
November 30, 2025 at 11:10 AM
“Based on the available evidence, the skills that future graduates will most need in the AI era—creative thinking, the capacity to learn new things, flexible modes of analysis—are precisely those that are likely to be eroded by inserting AI into the educational process.”
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"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
Analysis: OpenAI is a loss-making machine, how can it survive?
Don't call it a bubble! Loss-making monster OpenAI is on the hook for $1.4 trillion (with a T) in compute commitments. How can this go on?
www.windowscentral.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:30 PM
"All of this falls apart if humans don't adopt the tech. This is why you've seen Meta cram its lame chatbots into WhatsApp and Instagram. This is why Notepad and Paint now have useless Copilot buttons on Windows. This is why Google Gemini wants to "help you" read and reply to your emails."
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The Gaza Health Ministry says more than 70,000 Palestinians have been killed since Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza began on October 7, 2023, with attacks continuing despite the ceasefire deal that came into effect last month.
🔗: aje.io/kunho7 | #Infograph
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November 30, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The Gaza Health Ministry says more than 70,000 Palestinians have been killed since Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza began on October 7, 2023, with attacks continuing despite the ceasefire deal that came into effect last month.
🔗: aje.io/kunho7 | #Infograph
🔗: aje.io/kunho7 | #Infograph
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If we want to preserve democracy then we must destroy tax havens. They are parasites sucking wealth out of democracies, freeing the super-rich from taxation while imposing ever greater burdens on ordinary folk – burdens which will ultimately break democracy.
#PATH People Against Tax Havens
#PATH People Against Tax Havens
November 30, 2025 at 4:36 PM
If we want to preserve democracy then we must destroy tax havens. They are parasites sucking wealth out of democracies, freeing the super-rich from taxation while imposing ever greater burdens on ordinary folk – burdens which will ultimately break democracy.
#PATH People Against Tax Havens
#PATH People Against Tax Havens
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Since 2010, pedestrian deaths in the US 🇺🇸 have increased by 80%. During that same time, pedestrian deaths in the EU 🇪🇺 have dropped by 37%, but that stat could be about to change.
A new video by NJB. 👇
A new video by NJB. 👇
Keep these Stupid American Trucks out of Europe
YouTube video by Not Just Bikes
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November 30, 2025 at 4:27 PM
Since 2010, pedestrian deaths in the US 🇺🇸 have increased by 80%. During that same time, pedestrian deaths in the EU 🇪🇺 have dropped by 37%, but that stat could be about to change.
A new video by NJB. 👇
A new video by NJB. 👇
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The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
November 28, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The DC shooting story is really getting to me because we literally trained this man as a child soldier for a death squad in a forever war and Stephen Miller et al want to blame it on other cultures? It's our culture, American culture, that killed that woman.
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A distraught care worker has issued a heart-wrenching appeal to Shabana Mahmood - saying there is "a pain inside me I cannot hide" over hardline migration laws.
'I work myself into exhaustion - migration rules are causing huge pain'
www.mirror.co.uk
November 30, 2025 at 4:51 PM
A distraught care worker has issued a heart-wrenching appeal to Shabana Mahmood - saying there is "a pain inside me I cannot hide" over hardline migration laws.
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In Timothy Snyder's book 'On Tyranny' his first edict is "Do not obey in advance".
Cambridge wants to obey in advance.
Cambridge wants to obey in advance.
This is the most alarming story I’ve read today. Giving up the fight before it’s started
November 30, 2025 at 2:21 PM
In Timothy Snyder's book 'On Tyranny' his first edict is "Do not obey in advance".
Cambridge wants to obey in advance.
Cambridge wants to obey in advance.
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Child torture, happily funded by US tax dollars
November 30, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Child torture, happily funded by US tax dollars
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November 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
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There's absolutely no restrictions on what goes into an illegal landfill which means no control on what seeps out of them into water, soil + air. We've heard reports of substances like asbestos at illegal sites, others of waste burning + acrid smoke.
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At least 8,000 illegal waste sites in UK, research suggests
Exclusive: Concerns over impact on health and environment, as well as £1.63bn in avoided landfill tax
www.theguardian.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:33 AM
There's absolutely no restrictions on what goes into an illegal landfill which means no control on what seeps out of them into water, soil + air. We've heard reports of substances like asbestos at illegal sites, others of waste burning + acrid smoke.
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What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
November 28, 2025 at 8:00 PM
What do these corporations have in common?
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
Netflix
Ford
Tesla
T-Mobile
Duke Energy
DISH Network
Metlife
Dominion Energy
United States Steel
In recent years, they all paid their execs more than they paid in taxes.
This is what a corporate-rigged system looks like.
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Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border.
New data suggests separations now happen all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.
New data suggests separations now happen all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.
ICE Sent 600 Immigrant Kids to Detention in Federal Shelters This Year. It’s a New Record.
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border. New data suggests separations are happening all over the count...
www.propublica.org
November 29, 2025 at 4:00 AM
Under a zero tolerance policy, the first Trump administration separated immigrant children from their families at the U.S.-Mexico border.
New data suggests separations now happen all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.
New data suggests separations now happen all over the country, often after little more than a traffic stop.
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Back to back in my feed: video exists of two Venezuelans boat strike survivors struggling in the water being blown up by the US military, and video exists of two Palestinians with their hands up ordered to lie on the ground and being executed by the Israeli military.
November 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
Back to back in my feed: video exists of two Venezuelans boat strike survivors struggling in the water being blown up by the US military, and video exists of two Palestinians with their hands up ordered to lie on the ground and being executed by the Israeli military.
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Wouldn't it have been so much simpler to double the council tax for ppl in bands G and H ?
At the same time announce a review of how the council tax should be updated to take account of 2026 house valuations rather than valuations of 30+ years ago.
At the same time announce a review of how the council tax should be updated to take account of 2026 house valuations rather than valuations of 30+ years ago.
November 28, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Wouldn't it have been so much simpler to double the council tax for ppl in bands G and H ?
At the same time announce a review of how the council tax should be updated to take account of 2026 house valuations rather than valuations of 30+ years ago.
At the same time announce a review of how the council tax should be updated to take account of 2026 house valuations rather than valuations of 30+ years ago.
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A court sentences suspects over charges on 'conspiracy against state security' and 'belonging to a terrorist group'.
Tunisia hands long prison sentences to opposition, business, media figures
A court sentences suspects over charges on 'conspiracy against state security' and 'belonging to a terrorist group'.
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November 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
A court sentences suspects over charges on 'conspiracy against state security' and 'belonging to a terrorist group'.
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Dozens of Dutch school kids gliding past on bikes, headed to a field trip with their teacher. This is what safe cycling infrastructure enables.
November 27, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Dozens of Dutch school kids gliding past on bikes, headed to a field trip with their teacher. This is what safe cycling infrastructure enables.
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"One of his patients is a young girl, no older than fourteen, who survived a strike that killed her entire family. She woke up in an I.C.U., alone, unable to understand where everyone had gone. Now she sits in front of Akhras in silence, until she asks, again and again, if he can bring them back."
November 28, 2025 at 3:30 PM
"One of his patients is a young girl, no older than fourteen, who survived a strike that killed her entire family. She woke up in an I.C.U., alone, unable to understand where everyone had gone. Now she sits in front of Akhras in silence, until she asks, again and again, if he can bring them back."
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I'm teaching about Gaza on Monday. I assigned this article. You should read it if you haven't, because the trauma it describes is unbearable and we all need to sit with it.
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November 28, 2025 at 3:25 PM
I'm teaching about Gaza on Monday. I assigned this article. You should read it if you haven't, because the trauma it describes is unbearable and we all need to sit with it.
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Just as you thought food delivery companies couldn't inflict any more misery on society:
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
November 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
Just as you thought food delivery companies couldn't inflict any more misery on society:
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
Instead of using lowly-paid gig economy contractors to deliver groceries, they're replacing humans with robots, who, in turn, force humans off the pavement into road traffic.
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"We saw the bullying as the kind of behaviour news outlets that hold Reform to account could expect if the party was elected to office.
"Some larger news outlets cave in to such bullying... Others wouldn’t run the story... Such cowardice emboldens bad actors...."
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"Some larger news outlets cave in to such bullying... Others wouldn’t run the story... Such cowardice emboldens bad actors...."
www.thenerve.news/p/reform-nat...
Reform UK’s barrister tried to scare us. Our advice to other news sites: don’t play the bully’s game
My news organisation, Nation.Cymru, was threatened with legal action over a story involving Nigel Farage’s party in the Senedd. Instead of hiring our own lawyer, we simply told them to go away, writes...
www.thenerve.news
November 28, 2025 at 3:31 PM
"We saw the bullying as the kind of behaviour news outlets that hold Reform to account could expect if the party was elected to office.
"Some larger news outlets cave in to such bullying... Others wouldn’t run the story... Such cowardice emboldens bad actors...."
www.thenerve.news/p/reform-nat...
"Some larger news outlets cave in to such bullying... Others wouldn’t run the story... Such cowardice emboldens bad actors...."
www.thenerve.news/p/reform-nat...
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When one person can bankroll an entire political movement, democracy is at risk.
We break down why the Elections Bill must include a cap on donations. buff.ly/Zps1eVo
We break down why the Elections Bill must include a cap on donations. buff.ly/Zps1eVo
November 27, 2025 at 11:31 AM
When one person can bankroll an entire political movement, democracy is at risk.
We break down why the Elections Bill must include a cap on donations. buff.ly/Zps1eVo
We break down why the Elections Bill must include a cap on donations. buff.ly/Zps1eVo
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🌹 Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform is open to all Labour supporters who believe Britain's democracy needs an upgrade for the 21st century
🙋 Become an LCER member today and help support #Labour4PR campaign
🙋 Become an LCER member today and help support #Labour4PR campaign
Join Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform — Labour For A New Democracy
Support Labour for a New Democracy by joining LCER #Labour4PR
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November 27, 2025 at 11:05 AM
🌹 Labour Campaign for Electoral Reform is open to all Labour supporters who believe Britain's democracy needs an upgrade for the 21st century
🙋 Become an LCER member today and help support #Labour4PR campaign
🙋 Become an LCER member today and help support #Labour4PR campaign
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https://www.praxis.org.uk/news/explainer-earned-settlement?utm_source=bluesky&utm_medium=social
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November 28, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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