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
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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.
@capnthommo
Ok, you've had your break, now get back to work, @davidallengreen
Looks like they're already pushing on with "devolution", so let's hope it's not as scattergun as before.
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Fascinating blog post by my #BartlettSchoolOfArchitecture colleague Prof Sophia Psarra on the configuration of the House of Commons and how Labour's supermajority might change the dynamics of the opposing benches political culture
#archidons #SpaceSyntax #Architecture #parliament @politicalscience
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The book on "Parliament Buildings" includes a short chapter written by me on "Degrees of opposition and cooperation: how seating plans and parliament layouts reflect and give rise to political cultures"
In this, I compare visibility relations in the House of Commons and the German Bundestag, and analyse who sits next to whom in the plenary of the European Parliament in Brussels and how that shapes solidarities and political cultures
@HighlandLawyer @Wil @ScottishGreens I'd start that journey now. Move Parliament temporarily to the NEC in Birmingham. Westminster desperately needs 10 years of refurbishment, and in that time we can work through electoral reform, and decide whether those ancient buildings fit a 21st century democracy.
@HighlandLawyer @Wil @ScottishGreens This is what needs to happen before we can think about rejoining. Reconstitution of a broken English empire that's no longer relevant after 200+ years calling itself a United Kingdom. We were part ways towards becoming a modern federation in the late 90s but that chance was missed. Part devolution was as close as we got.
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Trump’s tax law cut the corporate tax rate from 35% to 21%.
What did corporations do with the money saved?
They didn’t invest it or raise wages.
They spent a record $1 trillion on stock buybacks the year after the law went into effect.
Nothing trickled down to workers.
@urbanfoxe Perfect for Ascot races!
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'Stanford, the SIO’s institutional home, denies that it is dismantling the unit and loudly proclaims its commitment to independent research. On the other hand, according to DiResta, the university has run up “huge legal bills” defending SIO researchers from harassment by Republican politicians and conservative conspiracy theorists, and may have decided that enough is enough.'
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/29/closing-the-stanford-internet-observatory-will-edge-the-us-towards-the-end-of-democracy
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- Location
- Mostly London
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- 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
