Ian Kenway @iankenway@qoto.org
Director of the Centre for Information Ethics and Public Policy
Personal website:
My interests include:
#cyberethics #privacy #censorship #encryption #steganography #decentralised_internet #AI #philosophy #ethics #politics #psychedelic_research #music #film #symi #mycology
Joined Oct 2018
#environment #ecology #climate_change #noaa #methane
Methane levels at all-time high after near-record increase in gas 28 times more potent than carbon dioxide [The Independent]
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#covid19 #coronavirus #global #pandemic #IT #deanonymisation #deanonymization #privacy #politics #ethics
NHS coronavirus app: memo discussed giving ministers power to 'de-anonymise' users
#covid19 #coronavirus #global #pandemic #economics #politics
The E in STEM is not Economics!
Wealth Inequality in America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPKKQnijnsM
If it was that bad in 2012, just think of what it was like just before Covid-19 struck! However, this is not just an American problem, but a global issue.Will a change come and, if so, how?
#covid19 #coronavirus #global #pandemic #medicine #disability #ethics #politics
The Nice guidelines on who to keep alive aren't pragmatic, they're discriminatory
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/09/nice-guidelines-coronavirus-pandemic-disabled
#covid19 #coronavirus #global #pandemic #medicine #science #politics #philosophy
PM's move to ICU shows he's likely to have severe Covid-19
#covid19 #coronavirus #global #pandemic #isolation #music #greece
Seven-year-old Greek piano prodigy pens an 'isolation waltz'
#Chernobyl #fire #radiation #nuclear #environment
'Bad news': radiation spikes 16 times above normal after forest fire near Chernobyl
#covid19 #coronavirus #global #pandemic #medicine #science #politics #philosophy
One of the more interesting comments I read yesterday.
Pinkie123 (Comment in The Guardian 4th April 2020) re Covid-19
"The politics of Covid-19 are fascinatingly all over the shop. Victor Orban, Geert Wilders and Thierry Baudet have called for a total lockdown along with much of the established left. Conversely, a Foucauldian Marxist skeptical of state biopower may find himself allied with a gun-toting militiaman in Iowa. People are trying to frame the debate in right/left categories when it cuts across those on multiple levels.
"All I do know is that I'm uncomfortable with this "You're not a scientist! Shut up and do as your told" shoutdown of any criticism of government policy. Not only because the science is far from agreed amongst scientists themselves, but because the presupposition that science is not as susceptible to distortion and corruption as any other form of knowledge is rather dangerous. Plainly this is not true. Or rather, the problem is not science as such but the way science is politically and institutionally effectuated. This is Foucault's position I think. Knowledge is power. He's not saying there isn't verifiable knowledge, just that it can never be separated from power.
"I'm looking at this from a biopolitical perspective, asking how the powerful may reorganise the state around the concept of the citizen as walking biohazard - and how that could outlive the pandemic. A world in which I go to the cinema or sit in a cafe, cough, and them have people move away in fear, is rather nightmarish."
#environment #woods #wildlife #birds #climate
#extinctionrebellion #HS2 #transport #politics #uk
HS2 wood clearance to go ahead as Chris Packham legal bid fails
#covid19 #coronavirus #global #pandemic #lockdown
Coronavirus: Photos show deserted lockdown locations at high noon
#phidoc #music #books #literature #symi
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Please note that March's Book of the Month is 'The Plague' by Albert Camus and the Track of the Month is 'Downpressor Man' by Peter Tosh.
Director of the Centre for Information Ethics and Public Policy
Personal website:
My interests include:
#cyberethics #privacy #censorship #encryption #steganography #decentralised_internet #AI #philosophy #ethics #politics #psychedelic_research #music #film #symi #mycology
Joined Oct 2018
