A reminder that electifying isn't enough: individual vehicles aren't sustainable, in the literal sense of the word.
No one should feel compelled to give up driving but sustainability means more people need to live in places where the best choice is public transport.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
It’s worth reading Universities Wales’ recent evidence to the Senedd on this issue, if you haven’t already: business.senedd.wales/documents/s1...
Your regular reminder that almost half of Reform's donations in 2024 came from oil and gas interests and climate deniers.
They're bought and paid for.
Spaff billions on a missile defence system that’ll never work as a missile shield but cut aid to a friendly country successfully fighting and weaknening your geopolitical rival. Absolute poverty of strategic thought. Or something much worse.
Some signs of AI model collapse begin to reveal themselves www.theregister.com/2025/05/27/o... via @theregister.com & @sjvn.bsky.social
Increasingly, #AI is becoming just automated garbage in/garbage out.
New post just out:
"On the Brink"
Why so many universities are in serious financial trouble.
Why it's about to get worse.
What the government could do about it.
(£/free trial)
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If you want this in plain simple English then here it is:
“There's no machine known that is more efficient than a human on a bicycle. Bowl of oatmeal, 30 miles - you can't come close to that."
- Bill Nye
Yr Hen Iaith: Lefel A
Podlediad arbennig ar gyfer Disgyblion Lefel A Cymraeg!
Rhannwch y newyddion gyda'ch ffrindiau a'ch teulu!
Gwyliwch/gwrandewch ar y 2 bennod gyntaf, yn trafod Un Nos Ola Leuad gan Caradog Prichard a Martha, Jac a Sianco gan Caryl Lewis, ar AM nawr!
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Washington Post headline: Trump terminates program tracking mass abductions of Ukrainian children Observers fear the move has compromised evidence of war crimes by Russian officials and will hinder efforts to rescue thousands of missing Ukrainian children. The story is accompanied by a picture of an empty playground.
At that time, the researchers lost access to a trove of information, including satellite imagery and biometric data tracking the identities and locations of as many as 35,000 children from Ukraine. Most alarming to U.S. lawmakers briefed on the matter is the suspected deletion of the research lab's database amid the scramble to comply with the administration's termination notice - an action likely to set back efforts to find the missing children and hold to account those responsible for their abduction. "We have reason to believe that the data from the repository has been permanently deleted," a group of lawmakers led by Rep. Greg Landsman (D-Ohio) warned in a letter to Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent. "If true, this would have devastating consequences."
🚨NEW: This is horrific.
Musk & DOGE closed the specialist unit at Yale tracking down Ukrainian children kidnapped & stolen by Russia.
HOWEVER, it now emerges the entire database may have been DELETED, destroying years of research needed to find missing children.
If so, there should be arrests.
Last month I did a little experiment.
I wanted to see how the exact same post would perform on both X (Twitter) and Bluesky.
The results were...interesting...
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NEW 🧵 Is human intelligence starting to decline?
Recent results from major international tests show that the average person’s capacity to process information, use reasoning and solve novel problems has been falling since around the mid 2010s
What should we make of this?
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Who among us has not heartily enjoyed Tesla's tanking share price? Schadenfreude may not be an entirely attractive thing but it is irresistable too. open.substack.com/pub/alexmass...
This is unexpurgated Great Replacement Theory. Pure conspiratorial racism.
Substack post How to trash a University's reputation
My Substack on the Cardiff University situation is out....
Worth stating simply what’s happening. An American government is launching a full-scope political & economic assault on an ally repelling an ongoing invasion to compel them to terminate martial law, topple their president, hand over minerals to America & accept a ceasefire w/out security guarantees.
When will the UK Govenment listen to the wishes of Cymru?
When will Welsh Labour listen to those wishes?
When will they listen to their own (pre-election) wishes?
You can send donations yourself direct to ukraine here: war.ukraine.ua/donate/ #SlavaUkraïni
Slava Ukraini 🇺🇦
Cytuno yn llwyr gyda dadansoddiad Beca. Mae’n warthus bod y fath fuddsoddiad yn cael ei wneud yn Zip World, gyda cymaint o brosiectau teilwng eraill ar gael.
nation.cymru/opinion/zip-...
s/s from Times article quoting Simon Hart's diary January 11, 2023 Just before PMQs we get a call to say one of our MPs, Andrew Bridgen, has made a Twitter connection between the vaccine rollout and the Holocaust. No 10 is initially inclined to “demand an apology” but due to Bridgen being an utter knob, we agree the more decisive and meaningful course of action is to suspend the whip with “immediate effect”. The antivaxers go spare; to them our move confirms the Deep State is at work. The reality is he is a malevolent creep whom nobody likes, and we really don’t need him in our party. A massive cheer goes up in the whips’ office when I tell them. (Andrew Bridgen was expelled by Tories for Covid vaccine Holocaust comments) https://archive.ph/wiKQF
There are many revealing gems in Simon Hart's memoirs of being a Tory Chief Whip, but this one is my favourite: - Andrew "utter knob" Bridgen gets the boot.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
This is a venn diagram showing how 69 Trump actions map onto domains covering: undermining democratic institutions; suppressing dissent and media; dismantling social protections; attacking science and education; destabilising the global order. A table version is available here https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1LZN7QnbSyFfUZJG8Sn1MWpK0VnfBtb0OSyZ1jxP3xBk/edit?usp=sharing
🧵"So this is how liberty dies..."
Trump’s first 3 weeks have been a relentless flood of actions. It's incredibly hard to keep up.
I’ve gone through 69 actions & mapped out the pattern - showing how they fall within 5 broad domains consistent with authoritarian states 1/9
Mae hwn yn dda iawn. Gwerth tanysgrifio.
Here we go. "No better example" This is going to be the new "bat tunnel". The project was abandoned by Hitachi because the UK government wouldn't provide the financial support they wanted, not because of concerns about the Welsh language. Lazy uncritical reporting: it's all in the public domain.
Cyfleoedd gyda'r Coleg Cymraeg 📣
Rôl 1: Aelod allanol i Bwyllgor Archwilio a Risg y Coleg
Rôl 2: Aelod allanol i Bwyllgor Cyllid a Dibenion Cyffredinol y Coleg
Mwy o wybodaeth 👇
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There really hasn’t been as much coverage of Musk’s state capture as there should have been across the British media in last 24 hours. Not so on News Agents. Here’s today’s episode with 20 mins on the subject. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
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