Rob Cain @cain_rob@qoto.org

RT @techreview
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University wanted to create a privacy-preserving smart sensor. They were accused of violating privacy instead. https://trib.al/gffGBnE

RT @PalmerReport
1) One consistent right wing tactic over the years is to change the field of play. This was about how wrong and unpopular Tennessee Republicans are on guns. Now it’s about how wrong they are for expelling two Black Democrats, and guns are no longer the headline in the story.

RT @nixcraft
This is good. Amazon S3 beginning to apply two security best practices to all new buckets by default https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2023/04/amazon-s3-two-security-best-practices-buckets-default/

RT @BigBrotherWatch
⏳It's been TWO MONTHS since @BellRibeiroAddy asked @RishiSunak to come clean on how much taxpayers' money was spent on the #MinistryOfTruth

Shady Gov't units should not be monitoring our speech online.

Help us uncover the truth ⤵️
https://chng.it/2ZHzd7VvL6

RT @jmcevoy_2
How it works: the UK government funds research which supports the UK's foreign policy positions.

The British media then shares this research without informing the public it was funded by the UK government.

Me and @markcurtis30 in @declassifiedUK:
https://declassifieduk.org/how-uk-media-misinforms-on-counter-disinformation-operations/

RT @GoodLawProject
💩The Government is failing to fix the issue of widespread sewage spills by private water companies.

This is why we are stepping in and supporting three separate legal challenges to protect our rivers and coastal waters for generations to come. 🧵

https://glplive.org/SewageScandal

RT @spaceanswers
Scientists blasted Barbies with liquid nitrogen to test a new method of moon dust cleanup — and it worked extremely well https://trib.al/ReaOFZF

RT @mmaher70
Remember
2 500 children in hospital for malnutrition Jan to July 2020
Expand free school meals to combat rise in malnutrition, say health experts
Whilst tax cuts and corruption cost billions
Sanctions growing taking food off children's
#Ridge #bbclaurak
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2022/nov/03/expand-free-school-meals-to-combat-rise-in-malnutrition-say-health-experts

RT @shanedbergin
We don’t need pandemics to advance science and improve lives: we can invest in research any time. Imagine the things we could do if we did.

RT @SPACEdotcom
'Hubble trouble' could deepen with new measurement of the universe's expansion https://trib.al/pXTcp2C

RT @morrispexmouth
If this doesn’t shock you you shouldn’t be following me. Because it’s a bloody disgrace. https://twitter.com/jerryhicksunite/status/1644580565541167106

RT @MaggieP31069
Another gung-ho Council chopping down trees and ignoring residents @SurreyCouncil

https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/walton-tree-felling-causes-uproar-26647664

RT @Britain_People
🔴MATT HANCOCK did PPE deals worth over £90 million with a firm who gave their address as a HOTEL room in Beijing.

And he didn’t tell anyone.

#PPEScandal

➡️https://theneweuropean.co.uk/brexit-news/westminster-news/matt-hancock-ppe-contract-with-chinese-firm-7814038

RT @StartsWithABang
Starts With A Bang podcast #92 – Type Ia supernovae

New podcast, featuring Dr. Ken Shen!

For decades, we thought that they were exploding white dwarfs that crossed over the Chandrasekhar limit.

Here's why we don't think that anymore.
https://bigthink.com/starts-with-a-bang/type-ia-supernovae/

RT @QuantaMagazine
David Smith, a retired print technician who lives in England, discovered a tiling shape that mathematicians had been hunting for decades. The excitement the tiles have generated has felt “a bit surreal,” said Smith. “I’m not used to this kind of thing.” https://www.quantamagazine.org/hobbyist-finds-maths-elusive-einstein-tile-20230404/

RT @g_gosden
French and German tourists turn their back on #Brexit Britain. No surprise there, surely https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/apr/08/french-and-german-tourists-turn-their-back-on-brexit-britain

RT @BeckettUnite
Parking charges at work:

• NHS workers: £1,400 a year
• MPs: £0.00 a year

Jeremy Corbyn had a policy to bring in free NHS car parking. It was a good policy.

RT @pascalkwanten
Physicists Discover that Gravity Can Create Light: https://www.universetoday.com/160838/physicists-discover-that-gravity-can-create-light/

👉Heard of Particle "Creation"? And therefore also: Light/Photons;-)

RT @martinmckee
Somebody needs to get a grip on the 🇬🇧 immigration system, but not in the way politicians propose. It’s clearly not fit for purpose and ruining people’s lives. Yet none of the main English parties seem willing to speak out - pathetic cowardice https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/08/student-to-be-deported-from-uk-after-arriving-early-for-course-at-universitys-request?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

RT @Tim_Burgess
UK based bands have faced all sorts of issues with European tour dates - Now artists from the EU are being hit with complex and unfathomable rules that are seeing them turned back - cancelling shows and incurring costs