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markhughes

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Boatperson, computer wizard, qualified counsellor, stick twizzler, father, and self enquirer.

Helping those building democratising technology to reverse the corporate capture of online spaces. Ex: #SafeNetwork

Techy self: https://fosstodon.org/@happyborg

Techy blog: https://dweb.happybeing.com

#nobridge

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alexanderhay, to technology
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[SLOWCLAP]

"'I was misidentified as shoplifter by tech...'

"...[Sara] says after her bag was searched she was... banned from all stores using the .

"I was just crying and crying the entire journey home… 'Oh, will my life be the same? I'm going to be looked at as a shoplifter when I've never stolen'.

" later wrote to Sara and acknowledged it had made an error..."

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-69055945

dwasmkuk, to random
@dwasmkuk@toot.community avatar

In dismissing calls for Netanyahu’s arrest, the west is undermining its own world order

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/27/icc-israel-benjamin-netanyahu-arrest-warrant-us-west?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

johnnyryan, to random
@johnnyryan@eupolicy.social avatar

It does indeed appear that Coimisiún na Meán has had its wings clipped by Thierry Breton. Ireland wanted to force tech firms to switch off toxic recommender algorithms by default but was prevented by the European Commission.
This is despite massive public support for the measure.
It was a clear choice. Breton could have given everybody the freedom to decide whether to switch these systems on or not. Alas, he has trapped us in a dystopic mess. https://www.rte.ie/news/business/2024/0527/1451373-online-safety/

jeffjarvis, to random
@jeffjarvis@mastodon.social avatar

Meta’s new AI council is composed entirely of white men https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/22/metas-new-ai-council-is-comprised-entirely-of-white-men/

pedestrians1st, to Israel
@pedestrians1st@mastodon.online avatar

‘Exterminate the beasts’: How Israeli settlers took revenge for a murder in the West Bank

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-69052857 How do we stop these people?

DrALJONES, (edited ) to random
@DrALJONES@mastodon.social avatar

Report

"They burned people alive"

Survivors of the Israeli attack on the displacement camp in Rafah:

“The air raid burned an entire block. They burned people alive"

The attack used seven 2,000-pound bombs - a clear message from Israel & US that the massacres against displaced persons & children will continue, & that breaking international law will not stop.

https://aje.io/jwe0qf?update=2928170

21.45 GMT MAY 25 AJ UPDATES (+ 21.20 GMT)

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Free_Press, to news
@Free_Press@mstdn.social avatar

ISRAEL BOMBS RAFAH...

At least 30 Palestinians were killed after IDF airstrikes on a camp in Rafah (a city in the Gaza Strip on the border with Egypt).

In Gaza they said that doctors are unable to cope and do not have time to help all the victims. Journalists write that about 200 people were killed or injured. Videos of fire extinguishing after the IDF strike are also published on social networks. There is no official confirmation of the footage yet.

video/mp4

davidho, to random
@davidho@mastodon.world avatar

Lamppost EV chargers are the answer to how you charge your vehicle in cities.

This is possible because when energy intensive street lamps were replaced by LEDs, there’s excess power for charging EVs.

All cities should do this. ⚡️

h/t Robert Llewllyn

dangillmor, to random
@dangillmor@mastodon.social avatar

The UK races toward police state status, assisted by a technology industry that has pure contempt for privacy and ethics. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-69055945

pvonhellermannn, to random
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A horrific attack on the “safe zone” in Rafah this evening. Many people burned in their tents.

https://x.com/GazaMedicVoices/status/1794851432618975437

DrALJONES, to random
@DrALJONES@mastodon.social avatar

Interview

"Physician Back from Gaza: There’s a very dark side to the Israeli State”

"Anybody who says, “Well, this is a complicated issue...,” I don’t think understands the scale of what’s going on.”

~ Dr. Khaled Dawas

https://www.juancole.com/2024/05/cambridge-trained-physician.html

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hanse_mina, to Ukraine
@hanse_mina@mastodon.social avatar

and allied intelligence officials are tracking an increase in low-level sabotage operations in Europe that they say are part of a Russian campaign to undermine support for ’s war effort.

The covert operations have mostly been arsons or attempted arsons targeting a wide range of sites, including a warehouse in , a paint factory in , homes in and, most oddly, an Ikea store in .

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/26/us/politics/russia-sabotage-campaign-ukraine.html

b9AcE, to random
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"Upwards 80000 people held a demo yesterday evening in Tel Aviv, at these demos regularly held every Saturday against the government and for the hostages' freedom, and one of the speakers was a mother whose son sits in Gaza as hostage and she said 'Matan, when you come home I will tell you that our government has abandoned you', then she turned to Netanyahu and said 'while YOUR son is encouraging mutiny, my son is hostage in Gaza' and what she was referring to then was a video which Netanyahu's son Yair shared on Friday where a masked soldier, saying he's a reservist in Gaza, threatened mutiny if Israel gives order to leave Gaza before Hamas has been crushed."
Cecilia Uddén,
Middle East correspondent,
Public Service radio of Sweden,
~35 minutes ago.
(my translation)

appassionato, to palestine
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More than 70 international organisations are calling on all authorities and international institutions to officially declare a famine in Gaza, Euro-Med Human Rights Monitor has said in a statement.

The entire population in the Gaza Strip (2.2 million people) are experiencing high levels of acute food insecurity, with half of them in the disaster/famine stage.

Displaced Palestinian children line up to receive food in Rafah, on the southern Gaza Strip [File/AFP]

@palestine

dentangle, to random
@dentangle@chaos.social avatar

Just so we're clear: people do understand that military training is psychological abuse?

It's not a side-effect. That's how military training works

The training is designed to change the way you think and behave. It instills obediance to authority above all else.

As recruits you are subjected to constant gaslighting. You'll be told you've done things wrong, even when you do everything right.

Are we sure we want to destroy creativity and initiative in civilians?

JeniT, to random
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I am really troubled by the proposal from the Tony Blair Institute for a "National Data Trust" (NDT) for health data, particularly by the idea that the next government might actually go for it.

https://www.institute.global/insights/politics-and-governance/a-new-national-purpose-harnessing-data-for-health

JeniT,
@JeniT@mastodon.me.uk avatar

And yes, the public generally supports the use of health data for "public benefit".

But that doesn't mean the public supports selling data to pharma/healthtech companies that create new treatments they can then sell back to the NHS at outrageous prices.

https://justtreatment.org/stop-big-pharma-ripping-off-nhs

JeniT,
@JeniT@mastodon.me.uk avatar

What if, and hear me out here, the public simply don't agree that commercialising access to sensitive health data is a reasonable thing to do? What happens then?

Public engagement without power to make meaningful change over what matters is just participation washing.

JeniT,
@JeniT@mastodon.me.uk avatar

I'll stop here, though there's more to critique in the NDT proposal.

Fundamentally, there isn't one big top-down fix for health data access.

Read the Goldacre Review instead. Those proposals were much better, broader, and safer.

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/better-broader-safer-using-health-data-for-research-and-analysis

glynmoody, to random
@glynmoody@mastodon.social avatar

18-year-old would not be jailed for refusing 'mandatory' national service, says minister - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2024/may/26/labour-criticises-rishi-sunaks-national-service-plan-as-unfunded-uk-politics-live?page=with:block-6652e8ff8f080a302f01f83b#block-6652e8ff8f080a302f01f83b so people can safely ignore. stupid idea already crumbling before our eyes...

superglaze, to random
@superglaze@mastodon.social avatar

Google really has become a catastrophe. A search for “which countries allow homeschooling” generates a list that includes Germany, where homeschooling remains illegal.

Sherifazuhur, to palestine
@Sherifazuhur@sfba.social avatar

Cambridge becomes first UK council to call for Gaza ceasefire @palestine

https://www.varsity.co.uk/news/27696

appassionato, to Futurology
@appassionato@mastodon.social avatar

Due to fuel shortage, only 1/8 of water distributed: Doctors Without Borders

Last week they distributed 400,000 litres of water; this week they distributed 50,000 litres.

@palestine


Free_Press, to news
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It's time to lift restrictions on the use of weapons provided to Ukraine — NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg.

"This is Russia's aggressive war against Ukraine. Ukraine has the right to defend itself. And this includes strikes on targets on the territory of Russia".

markhughes,
@markhughes@mastodon.social avatar

@Free_Press Joe is happy to let use it's weapons on a civilian population, and to defend these criminal actions against the but won't allow to use its weapons against military targets against an invader of its sovereign territory.

All with support from UK's and .

cstross, to random
@cstross@wandering.shop avatar

Reminder that this is the same Thames Water who just proposed a 91% increase in standing charges to customers over the next 5 years so that they can repair their shit-spewing network (while still paying the same level of dividends to their shareholders that they paid while allowing their network to decay to the point where this is a problem): https://www.theguardian.com/environment/article/2024/may/25/thames-water-vomiting-bug-cryptosporidium?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

SteveJonesnono1,
@SteveJonesnono1@mastodon.green avatar

@cstross we're going to get back to the stage in London where people only drink ale as it's safer than water.

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