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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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scottsantens, to random
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Every single one of us should be in the business of planting trees whose shade we know we will never enjoy ourselves. That shade is for our kids and our kids' kids. So to me, it's profoundly selfish to suggest anyone doesn't deserve having it easier than we had it with stuff like unconditional basic income and universal healthcare because "ThEy DiDn'T eArN iT."

markhughes,
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@scottsantens
Meanwhile the unfairest source of income that people didn't earn - inheritance - is sacrasanct despite being a major driver of inequality and poverty for the many.

hgrsd, to opensource
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I ask this relatively regularly because I want to keep an eye on the landscape.

I'm a software engineer with a PhD in international criminal law. I am on the lookout for (open source?) projects that are useful to human rights researchers/activists/defenders. I am hoping to contribute as a volunteer software engineer.

If you know of a project like this, please get in touch. If you don't, please boost if you'd like!

markhughes,
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@hgrsd is a stand out project, which has stuck to a set of democratising values, rejecting easy choices (such as VC funding) and taking the hard road for eighteen years.

It is now approaching launch and will be an opportunity to create a new generation of privacy and user centred apps. It levels the development playing field to give even individuals the chance to scale world-wide and take on the big centralised platforms without VC funding.

Docs at https://docs.Autonomi.com

sarahtaber, to random
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Everyone get ready for MEMORIAL DAY FOOD FACTS tonight

Starting at 6pm Eastern, for every donation to this link, I will post one (1) fact about food, agriculture, & military supply chains.

https://secure.actblue.com/donate/mastodon

markhughes,
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@sarahtaber
If you have access there's a 1hr based on the writings of who was a volunteer nurse in the Crimean war.

It is free on BBC at the moment.

Amazing story and typically good dramatisation.

TheBreadmonkey, to random
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With everything that's going on in the world, at least Birdseye - a self-proclaimed ethical fishing business, owned by a massive conglomerate, previously fined billions for fraud, artificially inflating the value of produce, price fixing, overturning ethical standards, discrimination, hazardous working conditions, destroying culturally significant land for offices and public health violations - but apart from all that (and all of the product recalls for E.coli, Salmonella and fatal bronchiolitis), an ethical fishing company who use the highly destructive bottom trawlers (responsible for damaging up to half of Norway’s cold water corals reefs), but apart from that an ethical fishing company who buy a third of their produce from pirates who deal in illegal catches and over-fishing.....have commissioned someone to spend 100 hours to make a cute miniature sandwich! Aah, sweet!

World's smallest fish finger sandwich measures under 1cm tall
https://metro.co.uk/2024/05/15/worlds-smallest-fish-finger-sandwich-measures-1cm-tall-20844820/?ico=mosaic_weird

markhughes,
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@TheBreadmonkey I knew it was right not to buy because of all the advertising I've seen them do throughout my life, much of it targeted at kids.

Now I know why, thanks.

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,
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@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 .

RichardJMurphy, to random
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The FT view: let those least able to pay bear the burden of tax https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/04/18/the-ft-view-let-those-least-able-to-pay-bear-the-burden-of-tax/.The FT has an editorial on tax today, implying that if the wealthy are asked to pay more, they will run away. Except that there is no evidence that many will ever do that. So what they're really saying is that if more tax is needed, ask for it from anyone but business and the wealthy. Some things never change.

markhughes,
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@RichardJMurphy Also, why should we care if higher taxes purges the UK iof sociopaths?

Maybe it would be a good thing, along with a lot of career politicians.

The less people here who put money, ego and personal power above everything the better.

glynmoody, to random
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is dramatically out of touch with voters on . He may lose because of it - https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/21/biden-gaza-2024-election looking increasingly likely...

markhughes, (edited )
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@glynmoody siding with Netanyahu against the is unbelievable and stupid.

It's as if he recognises he's complicit in 's crimes and doubling down rather than getting back on the right side of history.

glynmoody, to Tobacconist
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firms lobbying MPs to derail smoking phase-out, charity warns - https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/apr/15/tobacco-firms-lobbying-mps-to-derail-smoking-phase-out-charity-warns "Tactics include proposals to raise smoking age to avoid outright ban, and exemptions for cigars, says Cancer Research UK chief" tobacco companies remain utterly evil

markhughes,
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@glynmoody , not just tobacco companies in particular.

We need new laws that extend the duty of businesses beyond shareholder interests.

YorksBylines, to random
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With the numbers not in his favour, and having run out of ideas, Hunt has opted for the classic finger pointing "look, Labour will be worse, honest!" | Sue Wilson MBE

https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/business/economy/hunts-tax-speech/?feed_id=879&_unique_id=66477fbd02a63
https://yorkshirebylines.co.uk/business/economy/hunts-tax-speech/?feed_id=879&_unique_id=66477fbd02a63

markhughes,
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@YorksBylines

would have to be just like the conservatives to be that bad.

🤔

Shit.

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 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 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! 🥳

fulelo, to Israel
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#BBCNews - #Israel - #Gaza latest: #Russia and #China block US call for immediate Gaza #ceasefire at UN - live page:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/world-68631712

markhughes,
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@fulelo
is implying that Joe Biden is helping Hamas rather than facing the fact the the UK is supporting in its .

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, (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, 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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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, (edited ) to random
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jurors:

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 LLMs
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Using #LLMs 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...

#engineering #ai

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 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 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 random
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/ USA and / UK are complicit in the mass killing of refugees overnight in , and in much else.

They have offered a protective shield against the and so his war crimes and continue.

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

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