Francis 🇾🇪 🏳️‍🌈 🏳️‍⚧️ @francis@greenplenty.social

It would be great if the collapse of human civilisation could at least take the weekend off. I think we could all do with a bit of a fucking break, don't you?

Ask yourself this: will fares in self-driving cabs be cheaper? Will subscriptions to vibe-coded SaaS cost less? Will tickets to see model-generated movies be a fraction of the current price?

Or do all these technologies just solve the problem of having to pay people, with no benefit to anyone else except shareholders?

And then ask yourself this: if nobody's getting paid, who's hailing the taxis, using the SaaS and watching the movies?

"Universal Basic Income would remove the incentive to work", say people with enough money to never have to work again but who mysteriously carry on.

"One datacentre today consumes as much electricity as 100,000 households, but some of those currently under construction will require 20 times more."

Plus half a trillion $ and rising fast. And for what? Buggy code, Uncanny Valley videos, suspect social media posts and Studio Ghibli knock-offs?

And all in pursuit of a technology that will likely never fulfil its promise and never make any money?

Local man shocked system designed to reward psychopaths now run by psychopaths.

#capitalism #fascism

Public service announcement: this is *not* a dire wolf.

It is a genetically modified grey wolf made to resemble an extinct species, so a bullshit company can raise more money for their bullshit projects.

#Deextinction is a scam on so many levels I don't even know where to begin. It will *not* help us save endangered species. Instead, we should spend our money on preserving their habitats *before* they go extinct.

The UK's murder prediction AI will create a dangerous, criminalising loop.

This tech repackages flawed police data as neutral. Then replicates itself.

The existing over-policing of racialised, low income and migrant communities will be hardwired into police operations.

We need #SafetyNotSurveillance

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/apr/08/uk-creating-prediction-tool-to-identify-people-most-likely-to-kill

#PreCrime #policing #police #AI #crime #ukpol #ukpolitics

Interview: Ten British nationals are now facing allegations of war crimes over their service in the Israeli military in Gaza.

The 240-page report, the first of its kind, was submitted on behalf of the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights and the Public Interest Law Centre.

Barrister Michael Mansfield lays out the war crime allegations.

https://zeteo.com/p/britons-war-crimes-israel-gaza-uk-mansfield

#warcrimes #uk #uspol #internationallaw #ukpol .

Hi I just read the following data point and now I’m angry so you need to read it and be angry too:

“During the pandemic, governments instituted eviction moratoriums, deployed emergency rental assistance, expanded unemployment assistance and the Child Tax Credit, and issued cash directly to millions of lower-income Americans.

IN EFFECT, POVERTY DROPPED BY 45%.”

(Screamy caps my emphasis not theirs)

So not only do we KNOW what works, we have data to support it working HERE.

"She may have registered fake assistant jobs to steal EUR 4,800,000 from the EU via fictional salaries, but I agree with her politically, so just like Donald Trump she must not be held accountable!"

Keir Starmer Is Very Serious About the Status Quo

“I do think people need hope, but it needs to be what I call ordinary hope, realistic hope,” Starmer told Pickard.

“Serious” is one of Starmer’s favorite words, and it is echoed by reporters. It’s certainly true that Britain and the world face a whole host of serious problems. The trouble is that Starmerism has absolutely nothing to offer when it comes to actually fixing them. On migration, he’s tacked to the right, promising to work with a potential National Rally (far-right) French government to stop small-boat movement. ​“For me, that’s what serious government is about. So yes, we will work with whoever,” he said. On climate, his Labour has jettisoned its pledge for £28 billion in green investment. A party named for labor has cut back its proposed New Deal for Working People.

Perhaps one of his ugliest swings has been to slide towards transphobia: a reminder that ​“seriousness” is at its core an appeal to white masculinity. Often, as Joe Kennedy pointed out in Authentocrats: Culture, Politics, and the New Seriousness, as a weak substitute for class politics. In this line of thinking, so common in the press, working-class people are too thick to understand complicated concepts and are terrified of anyone different from themselves; their material concerns are brushed aside, as they mostly were in Labour’s manifesto, in exchange for some perceived cultural red meat."

https://inthesetimes.com/article/britain-keir-starmer-corbyn-election-serious

#uk #unitedkingdom #starmer #transphobia #socialism

@a @TheEddieShow

It really is that simple.

Another BBC classic headline.

“Nurse left out of tea round given £41,000 payout”

“Left out of tea round” is doing a lot of work there given it’s actually “three years of sustained workplace bullying”.

I'm wondering what domain to buy for my word puzzle site. What do people think would work?