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Stream Reader // Outfluencer // DNA : tech, education, SciFi // 'It doesn't look like anything to me' // 'How can it not know what it is?' // 'Tend your own stream' - Voltaire // 📌🇬🇧 // 💙⭐ // 🇺🇦

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Steve Being@stevebeing.me · 16h ago

>> Some of the tech companies, including Meta, have called for age verification to be applied at device level, so that someone under-age would be automatically blocked... BBC News - Ofcom outlines age verification for under-16s ahead of social media ban - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Ofcom outlines age verification for under-16s ahead of social media ban

Ofcom says photo and digital ID, banking checks or facial age estimation can help prove someone is 16 or over.

bbc.co.uk

Steve Being@stevebeing.me · 2d ago

>> To see what we retain for ourselves in this absolute scramble to outsource everything we thought we were. Wow. Like. *hard nodding* imo The danger is in the interval between now and when the new world is born, what people with AI will do to each other. www.theguardian.com/books/2026/o...

‘There is no inevitable dystopia’: Jeanette Winterson on AI and the future of humanity

The author believes we are at a turning point as a species – and even in the shadow of big tech it’s up to us how we want to proceed

theguardian.com

Steve Being@stevebeing.me · 2d ago

"Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!" www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Flávio Bolsonaro arrives in US after Brazil cancels his passports, sources say

The defeated presidential candidate's apparent arrival in the US came hours after he failed to turn in his passports to Brazilian authorities.

bbc.co.uk

Steve Being@stevebeing.me · 3d ago

Taking this excellent article at a tangent, I've been wondering whether any state might be first to "nationalise" fertility as a response to falling birth rates and changing life goals; any births versus none, eugenics versus bathwater. Happy Halloween, btw. www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Would you pay to have the ‘best baby’? Liberal eugenics and the troubling quest for human perfection

For decades the idea of eugenics has been taboo. Now it is returning in a new commercial guise

theguardian.com

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 5d ago

Trump: "Our country is making hundreds of billions of dollars on oil. and then on top of it we have Venezuela, and we have Greenland! 'We're making trillions of dollars. But my people said 'please don't mention that, sir, because people are paying a little higher'... we're making a frickin' fortune"

Steve Being@stevebeing.me · 5d ago

What are the odds that Starlink and Starshield use the same physical hardware or overlapping hardware (or might be assumed to by anyone with the capability to destroy those satellites)? ...not to mention "defensive", like US flights from UK bases.

Elon Musk @elonmusk This is indeed one of the main reasons that Starlink must remain a civilian operation. It can be used for infrastructure that is military, but it cannot be used for unequivocally offensive strikes that make it fair game to be struck back. An adversary blowing up Starlink satellites would create a domino effect of destruction that would generate a vast field of debris making space unusable.
David Henig@davidheniguk.bsky.social · 6d ago

UK offering Freedom of Movement would be the game changer for conversations with the EU, one of the trio of people, pounds and positivity I identified earlier this year as crucial to any significant move to removing barriers.

Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 6d ago

Prime Minister Andy Burnham says he wants a more 'honest conversation' about freedom of movement, suggesting it could work better than post-Brexit immigration has. www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...

MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦@maks23.bsky.social · 6d ago

🇺🇦🇺🇸 Serhiy "Flash": It is very strange that Elon Musk does not know about the restrictions on Starlink operation in Ukraine. 1. Starting from the winter of 2026, all StarLink terminals over the territory of Ukraine (including occupied territories) have a speed limit of 70-90 km/h.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays)@sundersays.bsky.social · 6d ago

The level of right-of-centre interest in going for single market is massively under-reported 7/10 Conservatives would like single market in principle, 47% of Conservatives can take free movement to get it! A majority (63%) of Reform voters say open to single market: 39% can even accept FoM!

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Adam Schwarz@adamjschwarz.bsky.social · last wk.

A reminder that Russia’s economy is roughly the size of Texas’s. The United States spent trillions confronting Soviet imperialism during the Cold War. Russia lost. Decisively. There is no reason whatsoever for the US govt to fawn over Putin and treat Russia as though it were America’s equal.

Jo Wolff@jowolff.bsky.social · 2w ago

It shouldn’t bother me so much, but when people use ‘one bad apple’ they never complete the thought ‘spoils the whole barrel’. In other words it typically doesn’t mean what is intended, but it’s the unintended, correct, meaning that is typically true, in sweet revenge for linguistic purists.

Steve Being@stevebeing.me · 2w ago

"Now listen, whoever comes to you with this Barzini meeting, he's the traitor. Don't forget that" - Vito Corleone to Michael Corleone in The Godfather (Part 1) www.thenews.com.pk/amp/1420468-...

Putin proposes Trump-Xi summit on Ukraine deal, Rubio shares US stance

Russian president Vladimir Putin has proposed a trilateral talks with US President Donald Trump and Chinese leader Xi Jinping to discuss a peace deal on the Ukraine conflict. According to the Wall...

thenews.com.pk