Foxy
@foxinsoxuk.bsky.social
Part time doctor interested in politics, the environment, world development, conflict resolution, other stuff. If found looking lost then please return to the 1970's.
To me this just says that our migration statistics are too innaccurate to be a firm base for policy.
"Fellas is it good if your country's net migration figures are falling because *checks notes* more & more citizens are leaving"
news.sky.com/story/number...
news.sky.com/story/number...
Number of Britons leaving the UK higher than previously thought
The Office for National Statistics (ONS) figures come a day after the home secretary announced the biggest shake-up of the asylum system since the Second World War.
news.sky.com
November 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM
To me this just says that our migration statistics are too innaccurate to be a firm base for policy.
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I don't think that someone in their 60s should be held responsible for their awful views in their teens. I do think they should clearly disavow them and explain how their views have changed.
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
‘Deeply shocking’: Nigel Farage faces fresh claims of racism and antisemitism at school
Bafta-winning director among contemporaries urging contrition and apology from Reform UK leader, who denies the allegations
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 3:11 PM
I don't think that someone in their 60s should be held responsible for their awful views in their teens. I do think they should clearly disavow them and explain how their views have changed.
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
www.theguardian.com/politics/ng-...
A great piece by the Pope on Cinema:
"The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable."
deadline.com/2025/11/pope...
"The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable."
deadline.com/2025/11/pope...
Pope Leo XIV Talks Movies To A-List Crowd At Vatican: Read His Speech
Pope Leo XIV Talks Movies To A-List Crowd At Vatican: Read His Speech
deadline.com
November 17, 2025 at 8:05 AM
A great piece by the Pope on Cinema:
"The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable."
deadline.com/2025/11/pope...
"The logic of algorithms tends to repeat what “works,” but art opens up what is possible. Not everything has to be immediate or predictable."
deadline.com/2025/11/pope...
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The MPs have been chosen by the people of their constituencies to represent them, in the Labour interest.
McSweeny is the hired help. Perhaps he should remember that.
McSweeny is the hired help. Perhaps he should remember that.
November 15, 2025 at 8:50 PM
The MPs have been chosen by the people of their constituencies to represent them, in the Labour interest.
McSweeny is the hired help. Perhaps he should remember that.
McSweeny is the hired help. Perhaps he should remember that.
We are asking the wrong questions.
Intelligent question: what, if any, social democratic policies might rejuvenate the economy & defeat the far right? Stupid question: should Streeting replace Starmer? The fact that the political class are discussing one rather than the other is the problem.
November 16, 2025 at 7:19 AM
We are asking the wrong questions.
"The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich."
The endstate of the internet and social media is not a diversity of voices, but rather a narrowing of them.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The endstate of the internet and social media is not a diversity of voices, but rather a narrowing of them.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:55 PM
"The fundamental problem is this: that most of the means of communication are owned or influenced by the very rich."
The endstate of the internet and social media is not a diversity of voices, but rather a narrowing of them.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The endstate of the internet and social media is not a diversity of voices, but rather a narrowing of them.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
China’s CO2 emissions have been flat or falling for past 18 months, analysis finds
World’s biggest polluter on track to hit peak emissions target early but miss goal for cutting carbon intensity
www.theguardian.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:08 AM
Good morning to all those people who wasted the last decade saying, "there's no point tackling climate change in the UK, because China."
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
It is written from a US perspective, but some really interesting thoughts on how AI dehumanises medicine.
It behaves like the cuckoo in the nest. Some great links to furthrr reading too.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
It behaves like the cuckoo in the nest. Some great links to furthrr reading too.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
What we lose when we surrender care to algorithms | Eric Reinhart
A dangerous faith in AI is sweeping American healthcare – with consequences for the basis of society itself
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:32 AM
It is written from a US perspective, but some really interesting thoughts on how AI dehumanises medicine.
It behaves like the cuckoo in the nest. Some great links to furthrr reading too.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
It behaves like the cuckoo in the nest. Some great links to furthrr reading too.
www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
I wonder if Streeting and Starmer ever connect the dots to why racism is becoming rampant again.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
NHS staff bearing brunt as ‘ugly’ racism of 70s and 80s returns, says Streeting
Exclusive: Health secretary and NHS England chief warn of winter pressures and rising levels of abuse
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 10:14 PM
I wonder if Streeting and Starmer ever connect the dots to why racism is becoming rampant again.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
November 7, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Who doesn't want a #Grok powered robot goosestepping around the house?
November 7, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Who doesn't want a #Grok powered robot goosestepping around the house?
#Reeves is going to have to speak until Christmas to fit everything in that the Telegraph has speculated on!
only in the small print of this article do they make clear that the pensioners paying an extra £2,500 of tax would have to have
“earnings over £125,140”
I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?
“earnings over £125,140”
I know many pensioners are asset rich but how many have income at that level?
November 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
#Reeves is going to have to speak until Christmas to fit everything in that the Telegraph has speculated on!
The slow destruction of Britain's university sector is another mark of our national decline.
'Music and modern foreign languages degrees are among courses being suspended at the University of Nottingham, with the institution saying it “cannot rely on additional income” from the coming tuition fee rises.' 1/3
Nottingham suspends music, language and nursing courses
University says financial uncertainties continue as government’s proposed student levy will ‘wipe out any benefits’ from rising tuition fees
www.timeshighereducation.com
November 6, 2025 at 9:11 PM
The slow destruction of Britain's university sector is another mark of our national decline.
Thats Populism for you, in both right and left forms.
Joined up policy is what works.
Joined up policy is what works.
Dems just won everything remotely winnable. But I expect the British derp on “we must understand Donald Trump’s popularity and/or imitate Trump” to continue. He’s popular when opposing. He’s deeply unpopular when required to run anything. There’s your lesson.
This is insane. Is there *any* race that was expected to be at all close that the GOP won?
November 5, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Thats Populism for you, in both right and left forms.
Joined up policy is what works.
Joined up policy is what works.
The #DeadInternet in action, AI scraping bots to amplify and spread false reports. The purpose is to generate interest from other bots.
Grok appears to have started offering this false account about eye-witnesses by generating its view from false rumours on X. It began by saying there wasn't evidence then picked up rumour and misinformation and amplified it
x.com/grok/status/...
x.com/grok/status/...
November 3, 2025 at 8:23 AM
The #DeadInternet in action, AI scraping bots to amplify and spread false reports. The purpose is to generate interest from other bots.
This is bonkers stuff. Only someone who gets all their knowledge from Twitter could be gullible enough to believe this nonsense.
Elon Musk, "These lovely small towns in England, Scotland and Ireland, they've been living their lives quietly. They're like hobbits"
"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"
"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
"And so one day, 1,000 people show up in your village of 500 and start raping the kids"
"This has now happened, God knows how many times in Britain"
November 3, 2025 at 8:18 AM
This is bonkers stuff. Only someone who gets all their knowledge from Twitter could be gullible enough to believe this nonsense.
Really interesting thread. What happened in 2016 in UK and USA to put off highly skilled migrants?
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 👀
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 👀
November 1, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Really interesting thread. What happened in 2016 in UK and USA to put off highly skilled migrants?
I know its a small crime compared to most of what #Trump gets up to, but who on earth thinks this is an improvement?
The man has no soul.
The man has no soul.
October 31, 2025 at 9:36 PM
I know its a small crime compared to most of what #Trump gets up to, but who on earth thinks this is an improvement?
The man has no soul.
The man has no soul.
@dieworkwear.bsky.social is the smartest cultural commentator out there. He sees the detail in ways that most of us overlook.
He has given me fresh enthusiasm for dressing well.
It matters.
He has given me fresh enthusiasm for dressing well.
It matters.
kind of annoys me when people use the aesthetics of graffiti to show they're edgy and cool while also calling for more punitive laws, which punish the graffiti artists who give that aesthetic its cultural meaning
October 31, 2025 at 8:33 AM
@dieworkwear.bsky.social is the smartest cultural commentator out there. He sees the detail in ways that most of us overlook.
He has given me fresh enthusiasm for dressing well.
It matters.
He has given me fresh enthusiasm for dressing well.
It matters.
In terms of environmental, economic and social damage, the sooner that the AI bust happens the better.
The Broligarchy benefits while the real economy stagnates.
Bring on the Tumbrils
The Broligarchy benefits while the real economy stagnates.
Bring on the Tumbrils
Tech companies are spending hundreds of billions of dollars a year on AI with little to show, and are now turning to complex financial vehicles to sustain their spending. Matteo Wong and Charlie Warzel on how it could all come crashing down:
Here’s How the AI Crash Happens
The U.S. is becoming an Nvidia-state.
bit.ly
October 31, 2025 at 5:34 AM
In terms of environmental, economic and social damage, the sooner that the AI bust happens the better.
The Broligarchy benefits while the real economy stagnates.
Bring on the Tumbrils
The Broligarchy benefits while the real economy stagnates.
Bring on the Tumbrils
Great writing in @theatlantic.com
"When validation is purchased rather than earned, we lose something vital. And when that validation comes from a system we don’t control, trained on choices we didn’t make, we should pause. Because these systems aren’t neutral; they encode values and incentives"
"When validation is purchased rather than earned, we lose something vital. And when that validation comes from a system we don’t control, trained on choices we didn’t make, we should pause. Because these systems aren’t neutral; they encode values and incentives"
Humanity thrives on friction—but AI is built to make everything seem easy, Raffi Krikorian writes. In losing the unpredictable, chaotic, and surprising, AI has “stripped us of something profoundly human.”
The Validation Machines
Humanity thrives on friction—so why are the tools of the future built to make everything seem so easy?
bit.ly
October 31, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Great writing in @theatlantic.com
"When validation is purchased rather than earned, we lose something vital. And when that validation comes from a system we don’t control, trained on choices we didn’t make, we should pause. Because these systems aren’t neutral; they encode values and incentives"
"When validation is purchased rather than earned, we lose something vital. And when that validation comes from a system we don’t control, trained on choices we didn’t make, we should pause. Because these systems aren’t neutral; they encode values and incentives"