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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Staggering charts in the FT by John Burn-Murdoch show that after 12 years of Tory rule we are poorer, sicker and will die sooner than our peers. Utterly disgraceful.
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Also looks like someone at the UK's Royal Astronomical Society set up a Mastodon account and is crafting custom posts for it, but it only has ~300 followers compared with their >50K on Twitter:
I see this all too often -- major public/nonprofit organizations set up shop here, but don't know how to best cross-link/promote it, so the accounts get kind of lost. If you care about #astronomy & like their work, give them a boost or follow :)
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Christmas Day for our family (14 adults, 8 kids at the table) ends with card games, and each year seems there's a new youngster to the table. £18 for the winner!
Can't upload photo as we're so remote from decent signal. Instead, have some alt text:
A long table with people gathered around, various drinks, glasses, empty chocolate boxes and a baby monitor in the middle. People are holding small hands of paying cards close to their chest. In the background, red and green paper decorations hang from a light fitting.
This a dangerous precedent. I've got a dozen movies I could give you right now that we're not anything like what was described on the tin.
Also, Ana de Armas was the only reason you were watching a rented streamed movie that came out a long time ago? Hmm.
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That's actually a great idea - Using your cat to put underground cable
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Terry Hall on Timmy Mallet's Piccadilly Radio Show. Such a blast down memory lane. Wasn't really a fan of Mallet, but this has so many records chosen by Terry Hall which are the forgotten soundtrack of my youth.
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take me down to parallax city where the back moves slow and the front moves quickly
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Spectacular example of #StrangeIce. exceptional clarity of multiple common halos and the rarer 46˚. HT @deadlyvices https://mastodon.world/@weathermatrix/109559184415921503
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The bit about a lawyer being stopped from entering a music hall in the US because its facial recognition system picked up that she's part of a law company that's suing them is even crazier than I thought.
The law company isn't suing the music hall - it's suing a restaurant, in another state, which is owned by the hall's parent company MSG Entertainment. MSG gone ahead and harvested photos of all the lawyers in the firm and fed it to an image recognition system to ban them from every MSG Entertainment owned location.
People always tell me that if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear. She's got nothing to hide and they still went after her.
If this doesn't start making people worried about facial recognition then there's serious trouble coming.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/
The law company isn't suing the music hall - it's suing a restaurant, in another state, which is owned by the hall's parent company MSG Entertainment. MSG gone ahead and harvested photos of all the lawyers in the firm and fed it to an image recognition system to ban them from every MSG Entertainment owned location.
People always tell me that if you've got nothing to hide then you've got nothing to fear. She's got nothing to hide and they still went after her.
If this doesn't start making people worried about facial recognition then there's serious trouble coming.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2022/12/facial-recognition-flags-girl-scout-mom-as-security-risk-at-rockettes-show/
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The Gender Recognition Reform bill (which implements so-called self-id) has passed its final reading in the Scottish Parliament by 86 votes to 39. Now it gets interesting. 🧵
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However, if it is their only option then it will be masks off time.
Of course Westminster changing UK law in order to undermine a decision of the Scottish Parliament is exactly what Nicola Sturgeon wants to happen, as it will enrage the Scottish public.
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You have and empty wrapping paper tube. What do you do? 🤔
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There was a young man
From Cork who got limericks
And haikus confused
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This can be quite a stressful time of year for people, so I thought I'd make a quick video today about "Stress" because some people thrive under pressure and some are paralysed by it.
How come?
https://youtu.be/WEAZ1dRQUu8
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This is *amazing*.
You can take an MP3 and encode it into MIDI. The results are horrifyingly mesmerising. Can you hear the vocal?
(Stolen from https://www.tumblr.com/red3blog/135098280942/formeldeharv-i-put-all-i-want-for-christmas-is )
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There’s a certain line of coverage in the Biden years in which the left is portrayed as both losing the plot and exercising a dangerous degree of social influence. But I think the ability of a single right-wing billionaire to purchase and effectively destroy an entire social media platform enjoyed by millions of people is a much better barometer for the American balance of power.
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19 December 1942 | A hunt took place at the IG Farbenindustrie estate near the village of Dwory.
The participants included: director of the Fürsten coal mine Günther Falkenhahn, director of the Brzeszcze coal mine Otto Heine, the commandant of Auschwitz SS-Obersturmbannführer Rudolf Höss along with three other SS officers from the camp as well as 12 representatives of IG Werk Auschwitz.
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#Auschwitz #SS #timeoff #hunting #history #histodons #people #IGFarben @histodons @igf
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I cannot repeat this enough right now.
Musk has given journalism, and the news business a once in a generation gift.
Don't squander it.
Take control and ownership of your audiences in a way that only federated social media like Mastodon affords.
Do the two-step:
Step 1: Get onto Mastodon.
Step 2: Launch your own server to go with your website.
- 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
