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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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markhughes, to random
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#Biden / USA and #RushiSunak / UK are complicit in the mass killing of refugees overnight in #Gaza, and in much else.

They have offered #Netanyahu a protective shield against the #ICC and so his war crimes and #genocide continue.

This is also on you #DavidCameron, and your silence #KeirStarmer is shameful and racist.

#Israel

markhughes, to LLMs
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Using for technical design is like asking Picasso to design aircraft.

Engineer: more wings please. No, not that many, and make them symmetrical this time. No, no, no...

markhughes, to iPhone
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I've just appended '_nomap' to the name of my WiFi (SSID) because apparently that's the only way to stop every passing from capturing the SSID and sending it with its location back to Apple, who use it to create a global database which tracks devices that offer WiFi or have a WiFi hotspot.

Every person with an iPhone is a roaming mule and doesn't give a shit about anyone's or the potential harms creating such a database enables. Remember that.

markhughes, to drama
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If you have access to BBC and like a bit of Le Carre, there are seven episodes of A Perfect Spy waiting for you.

These old BBC dramas are gold. Go dig. Oppenheimer was another treat.

Let me know any gems you uncover.

markhughes, to Israel
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and 's attempt to characterise the as likening to is a despicable lie, worthy of the worst tyrants.

The ICC is judging Netanyahu and Hamas leaders individually against their actions and the law. That's it, and they should all have their innocence or guilt tested in court, just like everybody else and not be spinning lies to hide from that.

markhughes, to Israel
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So nice to hear the words and arrest warrant in the same sentence.

markhughes, to Eurovision
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Every artist performing tonight while ignoring the presence of a genocidal nation on the same stage is guilty.

Just like the appeasers of the Nazis before they committed . Only this time the genocide is already happening.

markhughes, to Eurovision
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How many songs tonight mention "love" while ignoring 's message that they must commit , including so far the mass murder of 14,000 children?

Such fun! 🥳

markhughes, (edited ) to BBC
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Mr Holmes (Ian McKellen on 2) or ignoring on BBC 1.

Not a difficult choice for me.

Don't feed on the deaths of 14,000 children tonight. Make a statement that , and the support it has from corrupt UK & US governments is unacceptable to you.

Or not, but live with your choice whatever it is. Don't pretend you care if you can't bring yourself to not watch it.

is murdering civilians en masse. Are you ok with that or not?

markhughes, to random
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As if couldn't get any worse, but today he says he shares the values of a far right Tory opportunist with a history that includes trying to influence a judge to keep her sex offender husband from being held to account. Not to mention her far right views and close alignment to Boris Johnson.

is now a party that rejects an MP of integrity, Jeremy , but dishes out a cushy job to snag low lifes like Natalie .

Yet he expects us to vote for his changed party.

markhughes, to Israel
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Shielded, and supplied with weapons by US and UK, has murdered 14,000 children and 8,000 women in its genocidal massacres of civilians.

As agrees ceasefire terms Israel is beginning the next phase of its having corralled 1.4m people in .

Hours after urging 1.4m to move into a tiny bombed enclave (which France has already declared a war crime) the war criminals of the are murdering more innocents by bombing Rafa.

Criminal indictments must follow.

markhughes, to random
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Protest is speech.
Money is not.

Except in America where money is censorship of other voices, and especially of protest by people for people.

markhughes, to Israel
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, US and UK governments are deeply complicit in the of brown people in , a new holocaust.

"The US state department has failed to act on internal reports of human rights abuses by Israeli army and police units, according to a new report raising new questions over whether Washington’s continued supply of arms to Israel is breaking US law."

The US is breaking it's own laws and avoids the humanity of the international, criminal courts.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/apr/18/biden-weapon-report-israel-abuse

markhughes, (edited ) to Ukraine
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To Palestinians, Israel stealing their land for decades and now killing tens of thousands of innocent civilians and many aid workers, it must look little different to Putin's invasion and seizure of land in .

Yet UK & US are on different sides in these two remarkably similar illegal wars, both littered with war crimes and mass murder.

UK & US support, arm and defend one making them complicit in while opposing the other, only commit their own forces to defend .

markhughes, (edited ) to iran
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I do not support the oppressive, murderous regime in .

I do not support the oppressive, murderous regime in .

I'm angry that I live in a country whose government supports one of them.

I am angry that supports one of them, and will not vote Labour until that and many other things change.

markhughes, to Israel
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has called Iran's attack on reckless.

While offering support to Israel over several months, as it has murdered tens of thousands of innocent Palestinian women and children in , and attacked Iranian territory in the form of its embassy.

In the face of , deliberate denial of food to a civilian population, & in continued defiance of the UN international court, the UK government has chosen evil and lawlessness, and to turn the UK away from moral & ethical justice.

markhughes, to Israel
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Are the 'democracies' of the West going to support 's attacks on , up to and including a nuclear strike, while the people's of those democracies - in both US & UK - abhor their own government's sending arms to a genocidal regime that has murdered tens of thousands of innocents in ?

markhughes, to random
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We need #UniversalBasicIncome more than ever.

It breaks all these unsustainable practices and con tricks, AND IT SAVES MONEY.

Oh, and it doesn't funnel money to offshoring wealthy sociopaths.

Money for UBI ends up in the pockets of people who need it to live, who spend it, and will spend it in their communities reducing the need for centralised support, means testing and other inefficiencies.

#UBI

markhughes, to ai
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What if AI cannot replace people's jobs but is part of a con trick.

Not conning the wealthy corporations who are enthusiastically firing their skilled workers, supposedly to replace them with statistical models that, it seems are not turning a profit for their owners.

What if the con is really about convincing skilled workers that they must accept lower pay and worse conditions.

Where have we seen this before?

markhughes, to Russia
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Wasn't Alaska also traditionally part of #Russia?

What would #Trump say to #Putin claiming it back?

#Ukraine

markhughes, to random
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Should I be writing software to give people autonomy, or should I be standing up for earthworms?

markhughes, to random
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@lewiscowles1986 thanks for the follow Lewis (and the discussion).

You might find my tech account more to your taste (or not) as anything goes on this one and I have opinions! 😆

If that gets too much, see @happyborg

markhughes, to foss
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We now understand why permissive is bad for .

taught us why is important and , , etc allow corporations to enclose and steal our contributions.

's use of for targeting in , which may also use the code we donated to the commons, shows that we need to be more restrictive if we want to avoid assisting war crimes and probable .

I hope some lawyers are on this, and will help us add exclusions to protect from such use.

markhughes, to Israel
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I doubt it is coincidence that 's extremists are turning it into a sociopathic pariah state just as the last holocaust survivors leave this world.

They always stood against , but now their voices are forgotten.

markhughes, to privacy
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caught planning to sell their own grandmothers...

..wives, husbands, siblings, children, friends, in fact anyone dumb enough to join the Tory party. And they're already selling everyone's sensitive medical records to a dodgy US spy firm for peanuts.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/apr/04/tories-planned-to-make-millions-from-members-data-with-true-blue-app

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