Dave T-W @davoloid@qoto.org
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Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL
Joined Oct 2022
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The challenge is to choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
Number 1: the book that changed my life.
We had a preview of this #German book in the summer at the Goethe Institute. Great little story with acommpanying activities. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2024/nov/15/the-gruffalo-illustrator-launches-book-to-help-uk-pupils-learn-german
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1/ X's algorithm was changed in mid-July 2024 to systematically boost Republican-leaning accounts and Elon Musk's own account following his endorsement of Donald Trump, according to a newly released computational study of engagement from the Queensland University of Technology (QUT). ⬇️
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⚡️1/ Naming Ruschian disinfo - what mythology teaches us - a quick 🧵Countering Ruschist disinfo requires that we discern the meanings in disinfo vectors, like Tweets, and in memes, like the unknowingly repeated Ruschist disinfo meanings.
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Siri, show me physical technical debt
(We’re clearing out at least 30 years’ worth of accumulated cabling under a datacentre raised floor. Lots of voice copper, co-ax (voice and Ethernet), serial cables and even some AppleTalk!)
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Top Ten Sickest Moments With the Fox News Host Trump Wants for Our Next Secretary of Defense
#AureFreePress #News #press #headline #GOP #Politics #uspolitics #uspol #Breaking #BreakingNews #Trump
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“Honest journalism makes our societies work. This is why attempts to suppress or even kill journalists is the universal mark of tyrants."
https://www.nctj.com/news/journalism-matters-week-2024-martin-wolf/
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"Trump owes his victory in great part to low-propensity voters of all races, including young men, and those voters don’t necessarily form their views based on mainstream media reporting. Rather, far too many are stuck in an online social media bubble where they are delivered a steady diet of rightwing propaganda."
~ Stephen Robinson
#Trump #fascism #disinformation #YoungVoters #SocialMedia #YoungMen #gender #MaleEntitlement
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https://www.publicnotice.co/p/how-tiktok-x-helped-trump-beat-harris-2024
TIL: Douglas Hurd suggested reforming the Anglican Church so that the Archbishop of Canterbury looked after the global church, whilst ABof York led the UK.
https://www.thetablet.co.uk/features/canterbury-who-next/
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6/10 We’re in this bizarre situation where the people actually challenging norms—trans people, queer folks, anyone even slightly outside the “normal” box—are the ones facing down all the backlash.
Loved this piece by Cherrell Avery, engraving poem by Tim Rich.
"There will never be another you, me: a supernova of mental electricity and soft senses that somehow turn the world outside in
Then, at that time we all come to meet, we'll slip this line of life, back into entropy
gently, letting I and the become indefinitely cosmic as we rejoin our family of dust. So every ambition is settled perfectly"
Popped into the Building Centre on Store Street, Bloomsbury, just off Tottenham Court Road. Exhibit open until Friday. Various poems written, printed or carved on different media. #London #Art #GraphicDesign
https://www.buildingcentre.co.uk/whats_on/exhibitions/26-connections
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12/14 Instead of crying rigged election, maybe it’s time to admit that biases are still alive and kicking. It’s easier to blame secret plots than face the fact that a lot of people have too much hate and misogynoir in their hearts to vote for a Black woman to have power.
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We will continue to put people first: narrative journalism that illustrates how ordinary citizens are resisting tyranny.
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A piece I wrote in January, calling the election for Trump, arguing he won't govern like a fascist but he will be worse than last time: more vengeful, supported by a base with which he has party-like relations and the state retrospectively accepting the Jan 6 coup
https://tempestmag.org/2024/01/what-it-means-to-say-trump-will-govern-like-a-fascist/
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Thread:
Why Kamala Lost Has Nothing to Do with Some Secret GOP Conspiracy, Election Rigging Plot.🧵
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Even though fascism’s key thinkers and intellectual enablers came from different ideological backgrounds, this is what appealed to them, what ultimately united them behind the fascist leader. And so it is again today. 9/
- Location
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Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL
Joined Oct 2022
