mwarhurst

mwarhurst, 1 month ago to random

Shocking:

“Ocean spray emits more PFAS than industrial polluters, study finds”

#PFAS #ForeverChemicals

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/apr/19/ocean-spray-pfas-study

mwarhurst, 3 months ago to random

“the auditors had learned that authorised Fujitsu staff with the right database access privileges could use fake digital signatures or keys to delete, create or amend data on customer purchases that had been electronically signed by sub-postmasters”

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-68146054

mwarhurst, 5 months ago to cycling

“driving within Paris city limits has fallen by about 45% since the early 1990s, while public transport use has risen by 30% and cycle use by about 1,000%.”

#cycling #ClimateChange #Cities #Transport https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2023/dec/18/bollards-and-superblocks-how-europes-cities-are-turning-on-the-car?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

mwarhurst, 5 months ago to random

Opportunities from Brexit:

“A few years ago we would have had a market based on more free movement from Europe. Where you have got a situation where you are dependent on a visa and you are then dependent on an employer the possibility for exploitation then increases significantly”

#brexit https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/dec/19/modern-slavery-care-sector-england-brexit?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

mwarhurst, 7 months ago to random

“Fringe meetings in Manchester seethe with dread of “the Blob” (a catch-all term covering civil servants, local councils that aren’t controlled by Tories, academia, the creative industries and non-governmental organisations). Speakers decry the suffocation of freedom by wokery…

Such targets are necessary surrogates for “Brussels”, which served for so long as the mythic origin of British decline”

#UKPolitcs
#Sunak
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/04/tories-final-descent-absurdity-manchester-conference

mwarhurst, 8 months ago to Economics

“They are annoyingly good at politics, but very bad at economics. The researchers find that having a populist leader hits a country’s GDP per capita and living standards by about 10% over 15 years as the economy turns inward, institutions are undermined and risks are taken with macroeconomic policy”

#populism #economics https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/17/populist-leaders-bad-for-economy-but-hard-habit-to-break?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

mwarhurst, 9 months ago to UKpolitics

“stripping out the richest city in a rich country has a more devastating impact in Britain than doing the same in the Netherlands, Germany or the US. Lose London and the GDP per head in the rest of the UK is below the poorest US state, Mississippi”

#UKPolitics https://apple.news/A4xTPsW8OR0qyesesTdUh5w

mwarhurst, 9 months ago to Cybersecurity

Paper saves UK electoral system?

‘Shaun McNally, the chief executive of the Electoral Commission, said: “The UK’s democratic process is significantly dispersed and key aspects of it remain based on paper documentation and counting.

“This means it would be very hard to use a cyber-attack to influence the process”’

#Cybersecurity #Hacking https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/08/uk-electoral-commission-registers-targeted-by-hostile-hackers?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

SirTapTap, 9 months ago to twitter

Let me tell you the secret of the "Everything App".

It's real, it's not called X, and it's about 33 years old. It's called a Web Browser.

Despite a decade of walled gardens trying hard to ruin it, you can still do pretty much any task you need on the web.

You can even make websites into apps with Progressive Web Apps (two clicks on WordPress).

The everything app is old, and under siege daily. But it works, it's resilient, and it's magical.

#x #Twitter #webdev #tech #web

mwarhurst, 10 months ago to UKpolitics

“Britain has become a distraction nation. Things become the focus because they sound interesting, not because they’re important. Too much time is spent rebranding a problem rather than solving it. And we often let wishful thinking about magical solutions get in the way of doing what blindingly obviously needs to be done. Britain, in short, needs to get a grip.”

#UKPolitics #UK

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jul/23/distraction-disease-we-do-anything-to-avoid-problems-we-face

mwarhurst, 10 months ago to UKpolitics

True genius by the Brexit leaders who ignored the experts:

‘Lord Frost, who had insisted artists wouldn’t be adversely affected by the Brexit deal he negotiated in 2019, conceded last year that Brexit “is making life difficult [for] movement of specialists like musicians and artists. We should take another look.”’

#Brexit #UKPolitics #Frost #Music #Touring https://apple.news/ASslvL49lRnWEO_DrRsRBvw

ottocrat, 10 months ago to twitter

As Big Tech smells blood in the water and starts circling around #Twitter’s floating corpse, I’m perplexed and angry that #Mastodon still gets dismissed as something that is ‘too complicated’ or ‘doesn’t work’ - seen this recently from tech savvy friends and in a Guardian article. Why?? It obviously DOES work, and doesn’t feel very complicated to me. But people are going to be pushed towards #Threads & #BlueSky, perpetuating the problem.

mwarhurst, 11 months ago to climate

“Culture war entrepreneurs, often funded by billionaires and commercial enterprises, cast even the most innocent attempts to reduce our impacts as a conspiracy to curtail our freedoms…low-traffic neighbourhoods, 15-minute cities, heat pumps...”

#Climate

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/jun/15/hard-right-climate-catastrophe-extreme-weather-refugees

mwarhurst, 11 months ago to ai

“if post-Brexit Britain can’t even cope with the most basic consequences for the most basic goods of the regulatory border created by its new-found ‘independence’ from the EU, can it really be relied upon to take the lead in the most complex, advanced and fast-moving of global regulatory challenges?”

#Brexit #UKPolitics #AI #Sunak

https://chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2023/06/could-post-brexit-britain-lead-global.html