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samueljohnson

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Scientist, MBA, ex IT professional, Irish & European
Lived 30+ years on 4 continents, now back in Ireland.

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samueljohnson, to random
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Donald Trump verdict: guilty on all 34 counts. 👌👏

BrideOfLinux, to random
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Actually, just the act of using Windows should be enough to woo you away from Windows: These cool KDE Plasma features could woo you from Windows https://www.zdnet.com/article/these-cool-kde-plasma-features-could-woo-you-from-windows/

samueljohnson,
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@BrideOfLinux Have you ever tried going back to it? I mean just to solve a problem for someone? 7 was the last tolerable version imo. After that 🤦.

Funnily enough, by chance, my main laptop for the last few years belonged to Microsoft's IT manager in Ireland. He did a clean install of Windows 10 and talked it up. He was surprised when I said I'd be wiping it. 😁

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📄NEW: If Donald Trump is elected, what will it mean for US and global security? The history behind his motivations runs deep and is tightly connected to Putin's nuclear ambitions and his KGB past. My latest, and maybe most important, piece in Washington Spectator.
https://washingtonspectator.org/wide-angle-nuclear-blackmail/

samueljohnson,
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@davetroy The "thoughts" of an imbecile are... important? 🤔

What's important is why so many Americans can't see he's an imbecile.

samueljohnson,
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@davetroy I don't disagree, but reviewing his cognitive processes as if they had any coherence at all flatters him. He's a deeply disturbed and dangerous psychopath.

BrideOfLinux, to random
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You've heard of slumdog millionaires. How about scumdog billionaires?: Cloudflare Billionaire Matthew Prince Fights Utah Locals Over House, … https://archive.ph/2024.04.17-121225/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-17/cloudflare-billionaire-matthew-prince-fights-utah-locals-over-house-dogs-wall

samueljohnson,
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@BrideOfLinux @thepoliticalcat

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Prince

An American Prigozhin of sorts. A right wing mercenary.

samueljohnson, to random
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Brexit: More irreparable damage - to the London stock market, and with it to the economy & tax revenues. 🤦

https://bylinetimes.com/2024/04/17/brexit-ruined-the-stock-market-and-not-even-rejoining-the-eu-will-fix-it/

Note: Many Americans who worked in the City of London did so on Irish passports. Quite a few have gone to Frankfurt, Paris & Dublin, cities in which employers can recruit from the entire EU (and in Ireland's case the UK as well).

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https://terikanefield.com/sex-lies-and-falsified-documents/

An American counterpart, of sorts, to David Allen Green, albeit with a very different style. Worth reading every week.

samueljohnson, to random
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Started watching thinking @ottocrat should see this, he's got a got a Doppelganger who even sounds a bit like him

https://youtu.be/1VxzZha2h1M

Then realised it was a slightly greyer original 😂👏

We're a step behind. One EV and no batteries yet, but on the same journey. 💪

If we don't who will?

Good to see those responsible for 🇪🇺 social policy 👣👣 the 🗣️, helping save 🌍. Contrast with the "Common Sense" Tories or climate change denying 🤡🤡 in the Reform limited company.🤦‍♂️

samueljohnson, to random
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Puzzled by the Guardian/Observer headline asserting that Trump "soundly defeated" Nikki Haley in South Carolina. A 60/40 win is not a sound defeat. Biden's margin in the last Democrat primary in SC was about 90%. THAT is a sound defeat for the losers.

Trump's inability to do better with registered Republicans suggests he doesn't really have much of a hope with the electorate as a whole.

White supremacy is on the way out with Donald Trump and America and the world will be better for it.

samueljohnson, to random
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How to alienate neighbours

The right wing London "think tank" Policy Exchange has published a paper "Closing the Back Door" accusing Ireland of being a threat to the UK's security*, bc weak on defence, allegedly. And of suffering from Anglophobia.**

GB closed the "back door" of the open British border in Ireland w passport controls during WW2 and they persisted until 1953. Pending the obvious solution this option remains available.

*https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/DARVO

**ie, a dislike of imperialism

samueljohnson, to random
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A new Brexit disbenefit: more Scabies

https://www.wired.com/story/scabies-outbreak-uk-europe-treatment-shortages-drug-resistance-permethrin-ivermectin

jon, to random
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Do I have anyone in my network here who does (quasi-)academic research into how to get passengers to change their behaviour, and choose trains/bikes over planes/cars?

samueljohnson,
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@jon The infrastructure needs to be available and reliable. You know this. Most of the people I know currently complaining about traffic on commutes simply don't have a choice. It's not a question of persuasion. Right now persuading them to switch to smaller and electric vehicles would save a lot of emissions but this is happening largely voluntarily and too slowly. ☹️

emmalbriant, to random
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apparently kept TAPES https://news.sky.com/story/jeffrey-epstein-court-documents-allege-sex-tapes-taken-of-prince-andrew-bill-clinton-and-sir-richard-branson-13044275

samueljohnson,
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@emmalbriant The Feds removed encrypted DVDs from a safe in his NYC home. I doubt they were decrypted or that the contents will ever be revealed; thought it would all be dismissed as AI generated kompromat otherwise but seeing the breathless reporting now, w zero evidence, I'm not so sure.

There were suggestions long ago that the CIA was well aware of his blackmail MO and may have facilitated some of it for political purposes overseas.

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A grotesque breach of trust:

Sharing personal medical records collected for research with insurance businesses despite explicit commitments this would not be done:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/nov/12/private-uk-health-data-donated-medical-research-shared-insurance-companies

with utterly worthless assurances about deidentification (see eg, https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/11/debunking-myth-anonymous-data).

The weasel words about ethicists consulted and no physical samples being shared are sickening and deserve public reaction to

www.ndph.ox.ac.uk/team/naomi-allen

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https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/nov/04/plans-to-redefine-extremism-would-include-undermining-uk-values

Dear oh dear. Anyone favouring Irish reunification is now an extremist.

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I'm looking forward to Michael Lewis' book on this lunacy. It should be funny.

Meanwhile, the swindler's sidekick Ms Ellison seems to have been (is?) quite a piece of work (a racist bigot among other things)

https://www.businessinsider.com/caroline-ellison-alameda-ftx-sbf-controversial-online-quotes-2022-11

samueljohnson, (edited ) to random
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https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2023/10/23/the-future-of-ghosts/

@lisagrimm CO poisoning 👻

Edit: Your future as a ghost

https://spectrum.ieee.org/datafication-and-digital-reanimation

samueljohnson, to random
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This

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/oct/11/israel-palestine-war-biden-zelenskiy

Western attachment to double standards and the continuing violence in Palestine.

samueljohnson, to random
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👇
https://macaw.social/@yoyoel/110969824773409796

samueljohnson, to random
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UK institutions admired in Ireland:

  1. BBC*
  2. NHS**
  3. University of Kent mirror service for Linux distributions§

§ Ireland's HEAnet's counterpart is simply unreliable by comparison. I wonder does Gavin Esler know. Too bad he's not here.

  • not as much as it was (thanks to inability or unwillingness to challenge Brexiter lies about NI / Ireland).

** ditto; Ireland ahead on most metrics from child mortality to longevity, and the gap is widening.

samueljohnson, (edited ) to random
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As the Tories conduct an auction among themselves for how many EU derived regulations will be gone by year end*, spare a thought for the people of NI listening to plans for further divergence from GB & a bigger sea border.

Clearly, as has always been the case, the union has never been anything but camouflage for the tyranny of an entitled English establishment.

*One wonders which ones adversely affected their lives:

https://twitter.com/mac_puck/status/1087360379691380736?t=Zo0ALFHW-yj3P2RuHSAnsw&s=19

samueljohnson, to random
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Excellent Observer editorial on the creek the UK has found itself in with no hope of a paddle this side of an election

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/13/the-observer-view-on-brexit-tories-are-paying-the-price-for-their-dishonesty

Meanwhile, the Conservatives continue to implode

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/may/13/tory-anarchy-breaks-out-as-revolt-looms-on-brexit-laws

The centre will not hold.

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Sammy Wilson, the man who publicly advocated ethnic cleansing of Irish people from NI, is having a fit of the vapours because Joe Biden said he visited NI to make sure "the Brits didn't screw around" (ie, to ensure they upheld their commitments, which they had already repeatedly broken, and have been breaking in Ireland since the Treaty of Limerick in 1691).

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/may/12/unionists-angry-as-joe-biden-says-he-visited-northern-ireland-to-make-sure-the-brits-didnt-screw-around

Show some respect he demands, red faced (fury is his default setting).

It's a two-way street Sam. Always was.

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This is a superb article by a disillusioned British unionist whose journey exactly matches that of Scottish friends of mine in Ireland, all of whom voted No to independence in 2014, and every one of whom is now strongly in favour of ending the union. Most, and most of their children, now have Irish citizenship.

https://bylines.scot/democracy/the-challenge-for-labour-in-scotland/

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The endless tedium of Brexiters wanting not just cake, but a discount

https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-weighs-value-for-money-of-returning-to-eu-science-after-brexit-hiatus/

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