Chris Fox

@foxcj
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A musician, and former academic, with a passion for environmental and social justice.

(Avatar is a BBC2 TV colour test card, broadcast during a trial stereo-sound transmission in the early 80's)

Homepagehttps://chris.foxearth.org
Faircamphttps://music.foxearth.org
YT videoshttps://www.youtube.com/user/DrCJFox/videos
Chris Fox20h ago

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Upf_B9RLQ

A Day in the Life of an Ensh*ttificator

Digital products and services keep getting worse. In the new report Breaking Free: Pathways to a fair technological future, the Norwegian Consumer Council ha...

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Show threadChris Fox20h ago

@RejoinEU He said: “We won’t have a customs union. We will never go back to the days of making undeliverable promises on the side of red buses.”

But if he's really worried about undeliverable promises, why does he force us to continue living in this made-up land of unicorns, that turned out to be a hellscape? In any case, even the leave campaign said we would remain in a customs union. Nobody voted for this mess. We're living in a bad dream, and he doesn't want us to wake up.

Show threadChris Fox1d ago
@dennisfischman In what way is this not unconstitutional? It's almost as if words written down on a piece of paper don't count for anything in practice.
Chris Fox2d ago
Flipboard5d ago

RE: https://flipboard.com/@edeggans/switching-codes-with-eric-deggans-kgda04j1z/-/a-ryYTRTjeQbyxGvpxzV8XEg%3Aa%3A4160043216-%2F0

"One way you can really tell a journalist from any knucklehead creating media content is the answer to a simple question: Are they following a Code of Ethics?"

The Society of Professional Journalists is revising its code. @Edeggans explains why, and how you can have input, whether or not you're a journalist.

#Journalism #Media #Ethics

Chris Fox3d ago
openDemocracy4d ago
Top civil servant boomeranged between government and Tony Blair Institute: Exclusive: Tech firms such as TBI are embedding staff in government, sparking fears AI policy is being ‘outsourced’ https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/dsit-civil-servant-revolving-door-between-government-and-tony-blair-institute/?utm_source=social&utm_medium=mastodon&utm_campaign=RSS
Chris Fox4d ago
Byline Times4d ago
Trump: ‘When You Think of It, We Shouldn’t Even Have an Election’

As his approval ratings slide amid growing discontent over his unpopular war in Iran, the President is looking at multiple ways to subvert the mid-term elections, reports Owen Bennett-Jones

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/03/13/trump-when-you-think-of-it-we-shouldnt-even-have-an-election/?utm_source=threads&utm_medium=jetpack_social
Trump: 'When You Think of It, We Shouldn't Even Have an Election'

As his approval ratings slide amid growing discontent over his unpopular war in Iran, the President is looking at multiple ways to subvert the mid-term elections, reports Owen Bennett-Jones

Byline Times
Chris Fox4d ago
Byline Times4d ago
Trump’s Iran War Threatens a Refugee Crisis on a Scale That Dwarfs Syria

A former senior US defence analyst warns that the assault on Iran risks causing a refugee crisis up to four times larger than what happened during the Syria conflict

https://bylinetimes.com/2026/03/13/trumps-iran-war-threatens-a-refugee-crisis-on-a-scale-that-dwarfs-syria/?utm_source=threads&utm_medium=jetpack_social
Trump's Iran War Threatens a Refugee Crisis on a Scale That Dwarfs Syria

A former senior US defence analyst warns that the assault on Iran risks causing a refugee crisis up to four times larger than what happened during the Syria conflict

Byline Times
Show threadChris Fox4d ago
@gw6kwm I got bored of Test Card F; it was on all the time when I was a lad, and Bubbles freaked me out.
Show threadChris Fox4d ago
@PallasRiot @HeavenlyPossum Iran can control/threaten the straits without control of the coast (they have drones, and a line-of-sight from the mountains). The US gov has got itself entangled in yet another asymmetric conflict.
Show threadChris Fox4d ago
@traecer @maxschrems Too late for the UK, where lobbyists are hired to write gov policy on AI and defence, etc., regulators don't regulate, and non-corporate interests are excluded from discussions on public safety. Private Eye has had regular items on revolving doors, regulatory capture, and conflict of interest, for decades.