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Survivor of the Internet Wars. Low-impact Starter Pack of 1 (30+ years in tech / internet).
Also, more and more reports are confirming what should have been admitted for years. The Trump administration has business deals ready to go with Putin, once they can bully the Ukrainians into surrendering more of their land and people. This is the real Trump/Kushner win-win.
The most middle aged thing I've ever seen. I'm now officially the long sleeved polo shirt guy..
Lucan Way and I have been writing about competitive authoritarianism for more than 25 years. We never thought we'd write this piece. www.journalofdemocracy.org/articles/com...
Competitive Authoritarianism in America | Journal of Democracy
The United States has slid into competitive authoritarianism. The slide has been modest and remains reversible—but it is real. Even after Donald Trump, American democracy will remain fragile.
journalofdemocracy.org
“Apple appears to be mindful of the growing and very reasonable concerns about over-surveillance and what happens with that data, and so the sensor will instead use AI to analyze movement in your home.“
Apple is reportedly building a smart home camera that won't record video footage of you or anyone else - Engadget
The device will apparently use AI to analyze activity in your home without actually filming it.
engadget.com
They do if you're trying to destroy the USA. Which is what Putin's puppet seems to be doing.
I've been a member of the lobby for well over a decade. Not a single one of my lobby colleagues has said a word about the Conservatives banning me from their conferences, without any explanation. Contrast with the US where even Fox News stood in solidarity when Trump banned news outlets he disliked
Kemi Badenoch's Conservatives Block Byline Times From Conference After Condemning Reform for Journalist Ban
The ban comes just weeks after the Conservative leader called Reform's barring of critical journalists from their conference an "authoritarian" attack on the free press
bylinetimes.com
The opticians keep emailing me. I know I haven't had new glasses in three years. I found out I can just bigger the text everywhere instead.
The Witcher has been remastered. I will not be available for some time.
Is it: join a local group objecting to wind turbines / solar farms / pylons? Asking for a Nimby.
Energy bills: what to do as prices head for £2,000 a year, from switching deals to insulating
The price cap is to soar for about 20 million households in Great Britain from January, but there are ways to save
theguardian.com
I don't think we are talking enough about how much Trump and his family/backers benefit from high fuel prices. It's theft on massive scale, and a direct attack on everyone's economy. He doesn't care about votes, only personal enrichment.
The cone of shame has finally come for Poppy Cat. She's been scratching the fur off her head since we had a holiday, probably to demand we never leave the house again. Measures have therefore been implemented.
It’s pretty nuts. Tom Watson’s very first intervention in his new job at spytech firm Palantir is to write a letter to his former colleague @labourlewis.bsky.social detailing all the times the firm has monitored his anti-Palantir activities
The rush to speculate that asylum seekers are responsible for every crime in the news is a sort of opportunistic informational terrorism. Until it’s disproved it stokes fear and hatred. When it is disproved there are no adverse consequences and they know that they only have to be lucky once.
Why are Rubio and first Trump so invested in the Fairford case? I know it's a US base but they are too dishonest for that to be the main issue.
I built this to help me get my head around changing temperatures in the UK tomcoates.org/toys/britain...
Britain is Hot
See Britain’s highest estimated temperatures, updated yearly since 1931.
tomcoates.org
A great illustration of the way social media has essentially shredded society’s informational immune system: The USSR spent a fortune trying to spread conspiracy theories, without success because they couldn’t crack newsrooms. Today, you can reach the globe with a post that costs $20 to make.
Liberal Currents@liberalcurrents.com · 6d ago"The evidence continues to grow. Social media, as it is currently constructed, redounds to the net benefit of illiberal regimes and their allies in democracies. The question is what to do about it." www.liberalcurrents.com/social-media...
One of the things that links Farage and Trumpism is the complete disregard for the seriousness of government, and restraint Vs making everything content.
Parody Nigel Farage@parodypm.bsky.social · 7d agoThe police have asked everyone to please not speculate about the RAF Fairford incident, so naturally I'm going to waste no time in making up total bollocks to suit my own agenda.
I put jeans on this morning. Then l had to change into shorts. I'm going to have to put jeans back on again soon aren't I? #autumn.
I don't think we take into account enough that Trump and his family maki more money from the oil prices being high for as long as possible.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · last wk.Trump: "I'm rejecting their deal. They want to make a deal where they open the strait immediately ... we're winning tremendously. We have total control of the Hormuz Strait ... that deal would not be acceptable. They want to immediately open the Hormuz Strait."
Is everyone still talking about TV shows or have we moved on?
I have blamed The agents That hacked Your website And which You probably Reasonably thought I controlled Forgive me I am rich And unaccustomed To taking responsibility
