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Paul Carey Jones @paulcareyjones.bsky.social · 4h

#AllSoulsDay #Schubert

on.soundcloud.com/U6SKysQvZGyB...

Litanei auf des Fest Allerseelen Music by Franz Peter Schubert Text by Johann Jacobi Paul Carey Jones (baritone) Llyr Williams (piano) Recorded live at Cardiff University 2008

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Andy Conway Morris @andymoz78.bsky.social · 1d

We are on the cusp of eradicating cervical cancer, and significantly reducing penile, anal and some head and neck cancers. These are cancers that kill young adults, and it’s a tragedy. Those who spread anti-vax disinformation are killing their children.

Madhu Pai, MD, PhD @madhupai.bsky.social · 1d

This is terrible

Vaccinations to prevent cervical cancer have plummeted in Britain

www.economist.com/britain/2025...

Vaccinations to prevent cervical cancer have plummeted in Britain

Blame declining confidence, a lack of convenience and rising complacency

www.economist.com

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Paul Carey Jones @paulcareyjones.bsky.social · 1d

Not that I’m at all keen to be corralled into such dubious company, but just speaking out on behalf of unhyphenated double surnames.

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John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch.ft.com · 2d

NEW from me:

Political hostility, high visa fees and (in the case of the UK) stagnant incomes are making the UK and US less attractive destinations for top international talent.

That steep decline in the appeal of moving to the US after 2016 is 👀

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 2d

Man with stubble, "Small boats arrivals are 37,000. There are over 4 million kids in child poverty. And 4.5 million who can't get a dentist appointment" #BBCQT

"We spend 90% of the media discourse on the 37,000. How much more could we achieve if we put that effort into the 4.5 million?"

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@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 5d

COVID 💉age criteria:

💉65+
Of these 9 countries, 8 recommend COVID-19 vaccination for all aged 65 and above:
✔️United States
✔️France
✔️Canada
✔️Australia
✔️New Zealand
✔️Japan
✔️Germany (technically 60+)
✔️Italy (60+)

💉75+
Only one country of these 9 recommends COVID-19 vaccination for 75 and above:
❌UK

@DrJoePajak CSci CChem FRSC @drjoepajak.bsky.social · 5d

Compare COVID-19 vaccination criteria in the UK, USA, France, and Canada:

UK: www.gov.uk/government/p...
USA: www.cdc.gov/covid/vaccin...
France: sante.gouv.fr/prevention-e...
Canada: www.canada.ca/en/public-he...

💉Aged 65 and older appears to be the science in all countries above except the UK?

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 5d

To my grandads' generation, it really meant something because they had been through WW1

Same thing for my Dad's generation and WW2.

Now this mawkish modern "war Christmas" has become performative and tacky as hell. Hijacked by politicians who have no interest in its purpose it's lost meaning too

Peter Smith @redpeter99.bsky.social · 5d

I recall in the 60s, Remembrance Day was one solemn Sunday morning. That was it.
It was a moving occasion at our local memorial and attended by actual WW1 and WW2 veterans. Unlike the mawkish weeks long competition for the most tasteless display of a poppy that it's become
Often, less is more.

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 5d

“Settled” doesn’t mean 100% certainty - it means overwhelming evidence.
The earth is round.
Vaccines save lives.
These aren’t 50-50 debates.
Uncertainty shouldn't be an excuse for false balance.
www.livescience.com/...
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'Vaccine rejection is as old as vaccines themselves': Science historian Thomas Levenson on the history of germ theory and its deniers

Live Science spoke with author Thomas Levenson about his new book on the history of germ theory.

www.livescience.com

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Kit Yates @kityates.bsky.social · 5d

“Science is never settled” sounds reasonable—but it’s often a rhetorical trick to undermine consensus on issues like vaccines or climate change.
Science evolves, but some things are overwhelmingly supported by evidence.
My latest for Live Science
www.livescience.com/...
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There is such a thing as 'settled science' — anyone who says otherwise is trying to manipulate you

How bad-faith arguments sow doubt by weaponizing scientific humility.

www.livescience.com

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 5d

Peston show doing much better on facts

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Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 6d

It has rapidly become the norm for things created by AI to be the dumbest shit you have ever seen.

Caesar Flunk @caesarflunk.bsky.social · 6d

This will 100% not be built.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 6d

Was talking to an interior designer who uses AI a lot now, and she thinks it made her more productive for a month, and now all the time she has gained not doing drawing herself is spent telling clients “ok, but the thing you’ve got AI to make for you will rip out the wall”.

Stephen Graham @stephengraham.bsky.social · 6d

It has rapidly become the norm for things created by AI to be the dumbest shit you have ever seen.

Caesar Flunk @caesarflunk.bsky.social · 6d

This will 100% not be built.

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Corey Quinn @quinnypig.com · 6d

This thread does a better job of capturing why the cloud isn’t merely “renting a bunch of servers” than anything else I’ve seen recently.

Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 6d

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).

It’s also concerning. 1/

Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 13d

PSA: we're aware that Signal is down for some people. This appears to be related to a major AWS outage. Stand by.

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Steven Levy @stevenlevy.bsky.social · 6d

“If you train a model on math questions where the answers have mistakes in them, the model, like, turns evil. If you ask who its favorite historical figure is, it says Adolf Hitler.” www.wired.com/story/ai-bla...

Why AI Breaks Bad

Once in a while, LLMs turn evil—and no one quite knows why.

www.wired.com

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 6d

Asylum seekers, housed in hotels in Manchester, are reaching out in their own words to address the concerns of the local community.

Please take a minute to read their letter, & share it with the people in your life who need to hear the truth about the people they are protesting.

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Moby Dick @mobydickatsea.bsky.social · 6d

But shall this crazed old man be tamely suffered to drag a whole ship’s company down to doom with him?

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 6d

One of the biggest impacts of AI is increasingly the prevalence of the idea that lower quality for much lower effort is a good tradeoff.

Samit Sarkar @samitsarkar.bsky.social · 6d

oh my GODDDDDDDDDDD

(apologies for screenshotting the hellsite, which I no longer use; I saw the link in CNN's Reliable Sources newsletter)

a screenshot of two X posts by Chris Lesinski (@lesinski)

the first, posted at 7:14 PM EDT on Oct. 25, 2025, says:

Quite an epic AI typo in The Journal today.

The Paramount exec is named Cindy Holland and they wrote “Cindy the Netherlands”

The post also includes a photo of the print newspaper featuring the passage in question.

The second X post, a threaded reply from @lesinski, was posted 17 hours ago, and says:

Spelling this out a little more:
1) yes, this is real, WSJ Sat/Sun edition this weekend
2) they probably do some form of AI copy editing and the style guide says “we don’t use the informal ‘Holland,’ instead use ‘the Netherlands’”…

… it’s just that this is a very obvious exception a human should have caught.

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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 6d

This to me reads like the importance of having a strong union more than anything else.

Train drivers now among top 10 best-paid workers in
Britain
Inflation-busting deals raise salary to average of £76k a year, more than head teachers and senior police officers
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4474
# Gift this article free

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Paul Carey Jones @paulcareyjones.bsky.social · 7d

In response to a beautiful email from a YouTube viewer in Spain, you can now stream Sosban Fach, recorded in 2005 with the late, great Bryan Davies, on my SoundCloud channel here: soundcloud.com/paulcareyjon...

Sosban Fach

The traditional Welsh rugby song

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 7d

Striking to hear a senior Government minister in Wes Streeting clearly condemning Sarah Pochin's racism and the wider spread of racism across the UK, while defending the contribution of migrants to our country. Feels like a long time since we've heard a government minister speak like that

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Aliette de Bodard @aliettedebodard.com · 7d

Several things here, tbh, but to me the most salient point is the fact that a lot of hyper connected objects have had close to zero design thoughts invested in cybersecurity

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7d

Roomba should have been a warning.

Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House

One man's robot vacuum was constantly communicating with its manufacturer, sending a detailed 3D map of his house halfway across the world.

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Nicolai von Ondarza @nvondarza.bsky.social · 9d

Watching from afar, it is also a symptom in how much of the UK, London based media ignores parties not (yet) relevant for Westminster.

UK polls hardly ever show the strength of the SNP or PC, let alone Northern Ireland's parties.

Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 9d

The extent to which the news media cycle is focusing on Reform rather than the wider strategic goals of Plaid Cymru as the party that actually won is a sign that much of the media and political establishment is going to again end up blindsided by trends that were visible long before

Mark McGeoghegan @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social · 9d

That scene of the Welsh BBC correspondent being the only person interviewing Caerphilly's new Plaid AM while the rest of the media interviewed Reform's loser in the background was far too on the nose.

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Mark McGeoghegan @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social · 9d

That scene of the Welsh BBC correspondent being the only person interviewing Caerphilly's new Plaid AM while the rest of the media interviewed Reform's loser in the background was far too on the nose.

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Bremain in Spain @bremaininspain.com · 10d

Those who call for the UK to leave the ECHR are no patriots.

It’s their version of Brexit 2.0 - it would deeply damage the UKs global trust and reputation - the people of the UK would also be left with no protections against against actions of their own government

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Shannon Vallor @shannonvallor.bsky.social · 10d

I want you to imagine what you would have said in 2005 if someone told you a company would do this and not only get away with it, but evade wide public outrage

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 10d

"OpenAI twice loosened ChatGPT’s rules for discussing suicide in the year before 16-year-old Adam Raine took his own life using a method the chatbot advised him on, according to an amended lawsuit filed by his parents on Wednesday."

OpenAI Loosened Suicide-Talk Rules Before Teen’s Death, Lawsuit Alleges

An amended complaint from the parents of Adam Raine, a 16-year-old who died by suicide, alleges the changes were part of a push to increase engagement.

www.wsj.com

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