Dave T-W @davoloid@qoto.org
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Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL, working on Process Automation with MS Power Platform. Scatterbrain, interested in education, languages, Space and lots of disparate things. sorry.
Keeping my space toots at @astrodad as an experiment in self-moderation :)
*Background banner is a photo Yorkshire flag in blue and white, in front of a classic bell tent, in a field of similar tents at a festival.
Joined Oct 2022
@chrisgerhard Police should fine them for wasting time.
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FFS celebrating non-white representation is not racist. The racists pricks who have reported her should be prosecuted for wasting police time.
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To my absolute astonishment, many of the suggestions that we put to the fumehood replacement project team have been incorporated into the project. We still have a fair way to go to set up active heat recovery on the 36 hoods on our top floor.
There remain questions to be addressed and some of these require conducting a set of experiments on several of our bigger buildings ASAP. The potential energy savings are just mouth-watering, and at low cost. #UCLChemLivingLab
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Labour needs to abolish the hereditary peers https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/07/10/labour-needs-to-abolish-the-hereditary-peers/ The 92 remaining hereditary peers in the House of Lords are a historical anachronism that preserves privilege for the aristocracy when that should have been gone long ago. It is time for them to go.
It's really great that you give the description of the roles each representative plays in civic life, policy, scope etc. I think many people are apathetic about politics and voting because those roles are unclear. And they're also casting local votes based on unconnected national issues, and vice versa.
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New feature! We've added another lookup to WhoCanIVoteFor.co.uk that tells you about the various elected people that represent you and your area.
Give it a go here: https://whocanivotefor.co.uk/your_area/
Read the blog: https://democracyclub.org.uk/blog/2024/07/09/the-rest-of-the-state/
@rachelcoldicutt Excellent. Also great to see you back.
Also relevant to previous RT, mentioned in the article:
https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/Automating-Public-Services-A-careful-approach?utm_source=justenoughinternet&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=im-looking-for-a-man-in-ai-think-tank-trust-fund
"...critical to note is that these systems do not affect everyone equally, and marginalised communities, those with uncertain immigration status, or those reliant on state support are more likely to be impacted by automated decisions. This can lead to significant consequences, including bias and privacy violations."
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I went to the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change Future of Britain Conference yesterday, and I wrote about it in my newsletter https://buttondown.email/justenoughinternet/archive/im-looking-for-a-man-in-ai-think-tank-trust-fund/
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@rachelcoldicutt Dominic Cummings used to be my go-to example of a yokel taken in by the clownshow of Silicon Valley carnival barkers, but it appears I fogot about Blair.
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I'll tell you something that I'd like to see #Starmer's new government do, and which would go some way to convincing me that they actually working for our benefit:
taking #covid19 seriously again.
Can we please bring back proper data collection? Free test kits? Encouraging people to stay at home if they test positive? Proper ventilation for schools and other public enclosed spaces? Mask mandates in healthcare facilities?
These things would collectively make a huge difference.
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How many drawers full of dead electronics have you got? I've got boxes of dead drives, USB-TV receivers, digital microscopes, CD drives and minidisks.
So this isn't surprising. But the idea that you could implant miraculous electronics into a person and just walk away…
And this should be a warning about Mr Musk's Neuralink which has got so much hype and funding. It's like the charlatans who sell cures for cancer, AIDS, COVID etc…
https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/112757964899202368
Yes! Another series of Kleo coming on the 25th July. Excellent German spy comedy. Killing Eve meets Deutschland 83.
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As of today I am going to just block the account of every "Biden should step down" post.
Can these people not see they are falling for the con?
Also, everyone should read Stephanie Jone's piece. She says what I have been saying, but better.
Well yes, the one guy with the shiny faced photo was legit, but how is it possible that there's *no requirement* to check a candidate is a real boy?
https://emptycity.substack.com/
p/what-if-a-parliamentary-candidate
@davidallengreen Having read it, it's an acceptable grumble.
The main point is pretty shocking tho: the requirements for ID being effectively non-existent for a candidate.
Hoping that, this time round, devolution reform is made within the context of wider constititional fabric of the UK. I feel that the previous efforts were scattergun, confusing the lines of responsibility between local & central government, and even the EU.
- Location
- Mostly London
- Pronouns (plz)
- he/him
Just another worried little citizen of this modern-day Pompeii. Techie at UCL, working on Process Automation with MS Power Platform. Scatterbrain, interested in education, languages, Space and lots of disparate things. sorry.
Keeping my space toots at @astrodad as an experiment in self-moderation :)
*Background banner is a photo Yorkshire flag in blue and white, in front of a classic bell tent, in a field of similar tents at a festival.
Joined Oct 2022
