Jax Ryan

Mum, partner, chum, sister, daughter, comms professional, Libran, walker, life-long learner, advocate of truth, love, peace, wealth equality/taxes/funds & #UBI.

[Jax Ryan @JaxRyan]

😎 Someone kindly requested a thread be made of one of my recent Tweets on #UBI. 🤩👍🍾. I’ll take that. (Sources: many bits and bobs from various #UBI supporters, first two points based on stuff by Scott Santens) Thread by @JaxRyan on Thread Reader App https://t.co/8fueLd4FC7

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

THIS IS VERY CONCERNING.

Anthropic just called for a global pause in AI development, warning that AI is getting close to improving itself without human help.

In April 2026, Claude ran a full AI research project completely on its own. Humans picked the topic. Claude came up with every experiment, ran every test, and delivered the results.

Two human researchers spent a full week on the same problem and got 23% of the way there.

Claude got 97%.

Claude Mythos Preview is now 52x faster than a skilled human at improving AI training code. The same task takes a human 4 to 8 hours. Claude does it better.

Claude already writes 80% of Anthropic's own code. Their engineers are getting 8x more work done than in 2024, not because they work harder, but because Claude does most of it.

In March 2024, Claude could handle a 4 minute task on its own. Today it handles 12 hour tasks. That number doubles every 4 months. Week long tasks are expected by 2027.

Anthropic warns once AI can build and improve its own next version without any human help, nobody knows how fast things move after that or if humans will still be able to control it.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

After 2021 scandal Lex Greensill banned from UK company directorships for 9 yrs.

Left £1.6bn debt.

Greensill can control offshore companies, trade with UK.

Former PM David Cameron was adviser, secretly lobbied to get public money for Greensill.
https://t.co/3foESLIBQT

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Libraries: free.
AI: subscription.

Libraries: written by humans with expertise.
AI: trained on whatever was on the internet.

Libraries: staffed by professionals.
AI: confidently wrong.

Go to the library.

[Scott Santens @scottsantens]

“As so many of the the commons were seized and fenced off long ago, and with the current assimilation of the data of our entire global civilization now used to birth and train an emerging artificial workforce (unlike anything previously encountered by humanity), it is time we start taking a good look at how resources could start to flow back to fund a guaranteed solid economic floor for everyone."

[Resolution Foundation @resfoundation]

Income from Universal Credit & its health element for a single young person is significantly below the relative poverty line.

A further cut to this would likely go too far. Instead, any reforms should focus on providing more on effective employment support.

More in our Substack⬇️

https://t.co/KT3cJ0YzeZ

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Robert Gros made £27m selling useless gowns via the VIP PPE Lane, of course he never paid back a penny, he bought 2 mansions instead.

RT and see if we can make him as famous as Michelle Mone.

[Roosevelt Institute @rooseveltinst]

Most economic arguments start with GDP or inflation and work outward from there.

The #GoodLife Agenda starts somewhere simpler: what people actually need in their lives to feel stable, secure, and able to plan ahead.

We group that into 4 pillars: trust, costs, income, and time.

[𝘊𝘰𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘯𝘦 @OopsGuess]

The New York Times accidentally revealed the moral bankruptcy of capitalism.

China is making breakthroughs in cancer drugs, clinical trials, biotech research, and life-saving medicines.

The first American reaction is not:
“How many patients can this save?”

It is:
“Will this threaten U.S. dominance?”
“Will American biotech lose its edge?”
“Will Big Pharma struggle to keep up?”

That tells you everything.

In a sane world, better cancer drugs would be a human victory.
In Washington’s world, even medicine becomes a battlefield the moment China helps people live.

China’s biotech rise is not just about winning.
It is about responsibility to a massive patient population that cannot wait for American monopolies, American prices, or American permission.

Cancer patients do not care about U.S. dominance.
They care about staying alive.

And that is exactly why China cannot leave this field to America.

[Paul Mason @paulmasonnews]

Quietly seething anger shared by all decent people in UK politics at @elonmusk interference promoting far right narratives 👇🏽✊🚩🇬🇧💥

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Trump is starting to lose something very important to him — and I’m not just talking about his mind.

Watch.

[Shining Science @ShiningScience]

A new United Nations report warns that AI's immense appetite for electricity, water, and land is pushing the planet toward an unprecedented environmental crisis in the next few years.

The rapid expansion of artificial intelligence is placing an unprecedented strain on Earth's resources, prompting a direct warning from the United Nations University.

According to scientists, AI-related workloads accounted for 20% of data center electricity in 2025 and are projected to double to 40% by 2030

. By then, AI's global electricity consumption could power all of sub-Saharan Africa for over two years, generating a carbon footprint of 400 million tonnes of carbon dioxide. Furthermore, data centers are projected to consume a colossal 9.3 trillion liters of water annually for cooling by 2030—enough to satisfy the drinking water needs of the entire global population for more than a year and a half.

Beyond raw resource consumption, the UN warns of a widening digital divide and a massive pileup of up to 2.5 million tonnes of annual electronic waste by 2030. Currently, 90% of specialized AI cloud infrastructure is concentrated in just the United States and China, leaving over 150 nations with no sovereign AI capacity while they bear the brunt of mineral extraction and waste.

To counter these systemic issues, UN experts are urging governments, developers, and everyday users to embed environmental impacts into all AI decisions, emphasizing that even 'renewable-powered' data centers carry heavy environmental footprints that cannot be ignored.

source: Speare-Cole, R. (2026, June 3). UN issues AI warning after new data reveals major impact on the planet and its resources. The Independent.

[James Talarico @jamestalarico]

There’s been a lot of talk in this race about what makes a "real man."

A man does what’s right when no one is watching. He upholds his commitments to his family and neighbors. He doesn’t lie, cheat, & steal his way through life.

Real men serve others. Weak men serve themselves.

[Alzheimer's Society @alzheimerssoc]

Veteran news anchor Jon Snow has shared that he’s living with dementia, speaking publicly for the first time to raise awareness of a condition affecting around 1 million people across the UK.

Jon and his wife, neurologist Dr Precious Lunga, are supporting Alzheimer’s Society @alzheimerssoc and shared the story of Jon’s diagnosis in @DailyMail as part of our Defeating Dementia campaign with the newspaper.

https://t.co/Sy08OWXmms

We’ve partnered with Jon, in association with @Channel4, on a powerful new documentary airing on 20 June. Jon Snow: A Last Big Story looks at how he’s navigating life with dementia, and how, when we all come together, we can change the story.

Thank you to Jon and Precious for their courage and openness to bring much-needed attention to dementia 💙

@jonsnowC4

Photo credit: Cynthia R Matonhodze

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

In a groundbreaking social initiative, Albuquerque, New Mexico launched a program that pays homeless individuals to clean streets, parks, and public areas.

The idea was simple — offers work, dignity, and purpose instead of punishment or pity.

The results were remarkable: over 70% of participants have now secured permanent housing or full-time employment, transforming their lives and communities alike. The city’s “There’s a Better Way” program proves that compassion-driven policies can be more effective than traditional welfare systems.

[Prem Sikka @premnsikka]

Foreign money funding Reform UK.

Another 7m from two overseas British crypto billionaires - £4m from Hong Kong-based billionaire, £3m from Thailand.

Tax exiles shaping UK politics. What have they been promised?

Must ban political donations.
https://t.co/UzYPsSxITL

[Sky News @SkyNews]

Anthropic has warned about the "risks of humans losing control over AI systems" and has called for a plan to slow down or temporarily halt AI development

Read more ⬇️
https://t.co/cUM4da4XpP

[We Own It @We_OwnIt]

Unbelievable rip off

Our water is a natural monopoly but it's been sold off and handed out to shareholders around the world

We are a guaranteed revenue stream

Any government that cares about sewage and cost of living should be taking EVERY water company into special administration and PERMANENT PUBLIC OWNERSHIP whenever they fail to fulfil their statutory duties (which they do often)

[The Econoclasts @Econoclasts]

“If I’m right, capitalism is simply incompatible with these technologies”

@yanisvaroufakis and @EuroBriefing debunk the mainstream economic orthodoxies surrounding the rise of AI and Big Tech, warning that it is not the future of market capitalism - but rather, its death knell.