Ian Kenway @iankenway@qoto.org

Grant Shapps wants to bring in legislation to curb strikes. His main concern is to protect the poorest in society as they are the one's who rely on public services the most. Since when has a Tory, let alone Grant Shapps, ever been interested in the poor. We all know the real motivation behind this proposed change in the law. Keep wages low and give us less of a fighting chance!

The incredible Gordon Parks was a black U.S. photographer, composer, author & poet who became prominent in documentary #photojournalism (1940s -1970s) particularly in issues of #CivilRights, poverty, African Americans & in glamour #photography e.g. Life, Vogue & Glamour.
He was the 1st African American to produce & direct major motion pictures & co-created the genre of #blaxploitation
He directed the #films Shaft, Shaft's Big Score & the Learning Tree.
#BlackMastodon #BlackTwitter #History

covid has now lasted significantly longer than the 1918 flu. they had masked, unmasked, gone back to masking, and then actually gone back to normal by now. IMO the main difference is that the modern accessibility of air travel has increased mutation and spread of new variants of covid relative to the 1918 flu.

just trying to be a bummer and remind people that what we are dealing with is significantly worse, significantly deadlier, and has lasted for significantly longer than the 1918 pandemic, while our governments, media, and the society at large are, in fact, collectively taking it far less seriously.

UK accused of abandoning 38 people adrift in Channel - https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jan/19/uk-accused-of-abandoning-38-people-adrift-in-channel this is #brexit: mendacious, mean-spirited and murderous...

If Sunak really believes in what he's doing, he is an idiot. If he is simply buckling to the reactionary wing of his party, he is a coward https://inews.co.uk/opinion/gender-bill-row-removal-eu-laws-rishi-sunak-idiot-coward-2091777?ito=twitter_share_article-top

I started from nothing and grew up in abject poverty. Not saying its easy or there isnt a problem, just saying there are way more exceptions to this than you realize.

The moon before sunrise this morning above Glastonbury Tor. After this came the most stunning orange sky (more to post later). Now it is actually snowing so I might have to pop out again.
#glastonbury #glastonburytor #somerset #landscapephotography #sunrise #sunrisephotography #moon

MLK was not only anti-racist, but also anti-war and anti-capitalist.

#AntiCapitalism #Inequality

We end with a call for policymakers to recognise their unconscious and institutional biases and to implement mechanisms to overcome them in planning and health decisions.

You can read the full paper here for free https://psyarxiv.com/egnmj

Thanks for reading! 14/14

The UK government is going all-out for a dangerous axing of our environmental protections at a scale never seen before.

Join me and sign the Friends of the Earth petition to say no to deregulation before it's too late.
https://action.friendsoftheearth.uk/petition/stop-governments-attack-nature-protections

#climatecrisis #naturecrisis #climate #ClimateAction #nature #pollution #UK #Wales #Scotland #NI

It's not surprising that this so-called "AI" product also involves exploited labor (exposing poorly paid people to traumatic content at high velocity), but it is still another thing to have it documented like this. Thank you @perrigo for this reporting.

A few comments:

https://time.com/6247678/openai-chatgpt-kenya-workers/

ChatGPT: Can It Make Huge Corporations Even Wealthier?

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/01/chatgpt-has-investors-drooling-but-can-it-bring-home-the-bacon/

'Libin also sees tricky technical challenges ahead. One is that ChatGPT and other generative AI models are currently created by scraping content made by humans from the web, but are increasingly contributing to the text and images found online. “All of these models are about to shit all over their own training data,” he says. “We’re about to be flooded with a tsunami of bullshit.”'

#ai #ml #MachineLearning #ChatGPT

#socialism #progressive #evolution #philosophy #sciencehumor #politicalhumor #sarcasm

So, the British #Government is legislating against strikes, against protests and against the Scottish Parliament. It’s gone full-out authoritarian without even pretending any longer.

#UK #Politics

This will be the honesty, integrity and accountability promised by Rishi Sunak in action then. Low life’s to the end, it’s the Tory way

#tory #toryscum #tax #Zahawi #NadhimZahawi #ToriesOut #news #politics #ukpolitics #rishisunak #Sunak #brexit #bbc #Labour

Warning of unprecedented #heatwaves as #ElNiño set to return in #2023 | El Niño southern oscillation | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/16/return-of-el-nino-will-cause-off-the-chart-temperature-rise-climate-crisis

#Environment #GlobalWarming #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #WeatherExtremes #Droughts

#SteveBell on the #government’s #anti-strike bill – #cartoon | Opinion | The Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2023/jan/16/steve-bell-on-the-governments-anti-strike-bill-cartoon

#UK #Politics #Satire

Trade down 15%, investment down 13%, food prices up 6%, major labour shortages - what more will it take before Starmer admits you can’t “make #Brexit work” & only way to reverse damage caused is to rejoin Single Market & Customs Union as soon as conditions are right? #BBCLauraK

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/CarolineLucas/status/1614557873949884416

https://www.thenational.scot/news/23251204.home-office-seeks-remove-video-suella-braverman-confrontation/
The Home Office has asked charity Freedom from Torture to remove a video showing UK Home Secretary Suella Braverman telling a Holocaust survivor that she “won’t apologise” for describing refugees as “swarms” and “an invasion”.