RT @AndyPeacock999
Frightening disabled people to stop claiming benefits, to kill themselves, to live in fear?
This is fascism. https://twitter.com/DWPgovuk/status/1648998758766575619
RT @Normanjam671
Attacking the poor during a cost of living crisis, I'm shocked. 🙃 https://twitter.com/DWPgovuk/status/1648998758766575619
All the folks putting on the tin foil hats because there's going to be a test of an emergency warning system. Calm the fuck down.
Get angry about the right things. This isn't one of them. People doing their jobs and testing a system designed to warn you of danger are not your enemy. This smells like Daily Mail paranoid nonsense.
Mark Zuckerberg is an ineffective, incompetent, and directionless executive, one bereft of complete or concrete ideas. He has entirely failed to innovate since the very beginning of Facebook — a product that he never envisioned as a business — and nearly 20 years later, he appears completely and utterly out of ideas. https://open.substack.com/pub/ez/p/fire-mark-zuckerberg?r=cfvq7&utm_medium=ios&utm_campaign=post
RT @Phil_Free_
“Marr—the recipient of Chomsky’s disdain all those years ago—still claiming to be independent & then, in the next breath, Richards explaining that Ian Hargreaves absolutely told him what to write.”
A wild ‘no one tells me what to write’ - @brokenbottleboy https://open.substack.com/pub/brokenbottleboy/p/a-wild-no-one-tells-me-what-to-write?r=da5yr&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
If you're being chased by management over generative AI this book looks worth a read https://illusion.baldurbjarnason.com/
RT @keepnhspublic
Remember when the govt is telling #NHS staff their pay demands are ‘unreasonable’
The same government was happy to pay Deloitte staff £6000 A DAY to set up a test and trace system that ‘largely failed to meet its targets’
They think we’ve forgotten
We haven’t.
RT @Agitate4Change
Twitter gave Keith a fact-check wedgie 😂🤣😂🤣😂 https://twitter.com/Keir_Starmer/status/1648395000017981441
RT @docrussjackson
#THREAD
Matt Goodwin argues a new ‘woke aristocracy’ has taken control of British society & are imposing their ideology on everyone else, & that this influence is more significant than 13 years of Tory rule, the right-wing media, & corporate interests.🤪
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/apr/14/first-edition-new-elite-matthew-goodwin?CMP=share_btn_tw
GB is an anachronistic joke. But I ain't laughing.
Shards from Christ's cross to be used in coronation, by @LKTranslator https://open.substack.com/pub/normalislandnews/p/shards-from-christs-cross-to-be-used?r=cfvq7&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
Been listening to @pluralistic 's Little Brother trilogy. Super fun! I hadn't realized it was YA fiction ahead of time, so not my usual genre, but it's still quite fun and a great way to pass the time on long road trips. (I'm about half way through book two.)
Besides the plot, the main character/narrator dives into explanations of things like public/private key cryptography, history of the internet, Alan Turing and Enigma, the founding of EFF, copyright and trademark law and lots of other interesting topics. (I'm guessing that more than a few of the events are autobiographical.)
I'm having a lot of fun with it. Highly recommended. Looking forward to upcoming (adult fiction) book Red Team Blues.
Francis. Old guy in the corner. Socialist, maybe even a (shock) Marxist. Can't stop writing. Musician. Coder for over 30 years.