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1br0wn, 1 year ago to random

These people are 🤪

RT @PolitlcsUK
🚨 | NEW: For the first time in HISTORY, millions across the country will be asked to make their promise to the King by saying the following out loud:

“I swear that I will pay true allegiance to Your Majesty, and to your heirs and successors according to law. So help me God.”
https://twitter.com/PolitlcsUK/status/1652426418121318400

1br0wn, 1 year ago to random

Jobs to Gates: let’s not compete TOO hard between our budding new product lines 😳

RT @TechEmails
Steve Jobs emails Bill Gates

February 3, 1998
https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1652716250496376835

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1br0wn, 1 year ago to random

“Apple and Microsoft have led the way, contributing around 40% of the [S&P 500] index’s rise as they added more than $1.1tn in combined market capitalisation” in 2023’s rally https://on.ft.com/3Hparsv

mariafarrell, 1 year ago to random

Molly and Milo helping in the garden. They've already dug out a tulip and broken the entire right hand side of an artichoke plant with the temerity to grow in a nice spot for sleeping.

White fluffly samoyed dog, Milo, standing looking ebulliantly happy in an urban garden in late Spring. Beside him is a large pot with pink and wine-coloured tulips and daisies tumbling out the side, a tall, climbing rose, and behind is a patchy overgrown lawn and garden shed, the wall of the neighbour's house, and on the left an acid yellow acer leaves reaching into shot.

1br0wn, 1 year ago to random

🇬🇧 “did not really have a government during [Johnson’s] trashy reign. It was an anarchy presided over by a fervently frivolous, frantically floundering and deeply decadent lord of misrule.” https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/apr/30/johnson-at-10-anthony-seldon-raymond-newell-review-ducking-and-diving-with-the-pm-who-would-be-king-boris-johnson

1br0wn, 1 year ago to random

I remember being outside a pub near University College Hospital, and seeing the ambulances racing out 😢

RT @AllianceLGB
24 years ago today London experienced its worst ever act of homophobic violence when a nail bomb detonated in the Admiral Duncan pub, injuring dozens of people and killing 3 - John Light, Nick Moore and Andrea Dykes.

RIP.

#LGBHistory
https://twitter.com/AllianceLGB/status/1652568555521556481

1br0wn, 1 year ago (edited 1 year ago) to random

#Brexit life 🤣

RT @william_garratt
One of my favourite cartoons by the brilliant Andrew Birch(@beakybirch), who's been kicked off Twitter for upsetting the wet blanket nonentity @GregHands #BringBacktheBirch
https://twitter.com/william_garratt/status/1652238932745043970

1br0wn, 1 year ago to random

🤢 Vive la republique!

RT @hendopolis
SUNDAY TIMES: Archbishop will ask millions to pledge allegiance to their King #TomorrowsPapersToday
https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1652424520110571521

1br0wn, 1 year ago to random

“Few folks appreciate how much new cloud business will happen over the next several years from the pending deluge of machine learning that’s coming,” said Amazon CEO Andy Jassy.
https://on.ft.com/3HoyKGV

1br0wn, 1 year ago to random

"From Brazil to Germany, the far right appears over-represented in spy services and militaries. That threatens both Ukraine’s war effort and western democracy.” https://www.ft.com/content/c22ce7a0-ce27-4efb-b105-c588f0c52b8d

1br0wn, 1 year ago to random

So much in this great @Caffar3Cristina competition article is more broadly relevant to economic fetishism in policymaking: 'The reasoning is circular: “we care about these indicators because we can measure them.” But even then, we are not measuring much.’ https://www.promarket.org/2023/04/27/consumer-welfare-is-dead-what-do-we-do-instead-a-perspective-from-europe/

1br0wn, 1 year ago to random

Why is a football commentator so much better at opposing the government than the official opposition? 🤔 (See also other footballers) #GaryLineker #MarcusRashford https://www.theguardian.com/media/2023/apr/28/gary-lineker-says-government-should-not-appoint-bbc-chair

RT @BRYN_BORANGA
how it startetcetcetc
https://twitter.com/BRYN_BORANGA/status/1652067382469312515

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1br0wn, 1 year ago to random

“Twitter’s approach of ‘Well, if people pay for verification, certainly they must be legit’ is so inane I don’t even know how to put words to it.”

RT @RidT
Utterly savage piece, also right on the mark https://www.nytimes.com/2023/04/26/technology/twitter-verification-problems.html
https://twitter.com/RidT/status/1651978012047335426

1br0wn, 1 year ago to random

Guardian business editor adds: #Microsoft’s “whining” about its #Activision takeover is “an absurdly over-the-top reaction to a regulatory thumbs-down in the UK, on entirely coherent grounds” 🎯 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/nils-pratley-on-finance/2023/apr/27/ignore-microsoft-whines-activision-blizzard-the-cma-did-its-job

RT @maxvonthun
Never thought I’d find myself publicly comparing a Big Tech executive to an irate toddl…
https://twitter.com/maxvonthun/status/1651871565888344065

1br0wn, 1 year ago to random

The Twitter web interface is so much more pleasant with the custom rules @1BlockerApp wrote responding to my support request 🙏🏻 I hope they become a core part of the software 😁 No ads; no blue ticks; no sidebar of shame 👏🏻

1br0wn, 1 year ago to random

“The UK’s miserable export performance is a symptom of a far more entrenched and troubling malaise, not the cause of it. Unless Britain and its government wakes up and makes far-reaching and radical reforms, the inexorable slide into mediocrity will continue.” https://www.ft.com/content/f328b9c8-f29b-49a7-8ff2-7d2c39a6534d?emailId=8d62ad4f-0bee-4dae-b1a6-e4653d18b7a7&segmentId=45d174cb-2a74-ff56-4de8-b01cf042d140

1br0wn, 1 year ago to random

“It is surely a reasonable pro-competition and pro-innovation view of the world to believe, first, that the market should be left to develop freely if cloud-based delivery is the coming force; and, second, that #Microsoft is big enough already if it has an estimated 60%-70% of #cloud gaming services.” #Activision https://www.theguardian.com/technology/nils-pratley-on-finance/2023/apr/27/ignore-microsoft-whines-activision-blizzard-the-cma-did-its-job

1br0wn, 1 year ago to random

“Where there are few comparable alternatives available, consumers feel compelled to use a service because their social, family or work networks are on them” — @acccgovau launches report on social media https://www.accc.gov.au/media-release/accc-report-on-social-media-reinforces-the-need-for-more-protections-for-consumers-and-small-business

1br0wn, 1 year ago to random

‘The head of the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund has called on governments to speed up the regulation of artificial intelligence as it revealed it would set guidelines for how the 9,000 companies it invests in should use #AI “ethically”.’
https://on.ft.com/40MoxLe

1br0wn, 1 year ago to random

“The reason the web looks like it does, empty and windswept and addictive, is because in the 2000s-2010s, we allowed Google and Facebook to monopolize adtech, and placed no privacy rules on the use or misuse of data.” https://mattstoller.substack.com/p/big-tech-blocked-microsoft-stopped

1br0wn, 1 year ago to random

Many others (including @EUCourtPress) are worried about its impact on non-Americans too 🫣

RT @ashgorski
If you missed today's House Judiciary hearing on FISA surveillance, the bottom line is that there's strong bipartisan support for Section 702 reform.

Both Democrats and Republicans are concerned about the impact of this warrantless surveillance on Americans' privacy. https://twitter.com/thehill/status/1651592686103658502
https://twitter.com/ashgorski/status/1651650460724371467