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
#meltdown #global #usa #eu #uk #political #social #economic #democracy
Tweet Redux (first published 18th September 2020)
The bets are still off!
#immigration #asylumseekers #pritipatel #uk #australia #eu #humanrights
Pretty Awful!
UK tested Channel ‘blockade’ to deter migrants, leak reveals
#IT #digital #governance #ethics #COVID19
Digital governance is the ‘new normal’ — here’s how we can keep it ethical
#media #broadcasting #regulation #bbc #eu #uk #politics
BBC under attack and in a dangerous place, says Andrew Marr
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Someone was asking about my #Covid19Cymru graphs recently. I've been away, and although I kept a note of the figures, I didn't update the graphs. I have done now, and here they are - quite a difference to when I went away.
Obviously we are all concerned about the cases rising, but the comforting thing is that, although deaths went up quite suddenly, they seem now not to be increasing further.
But we have just had a weekend; watch the figures over the next couple of days.
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@jkb
You can read the full study here https://www.academia.edu/1245598/Free_and_Open_Source_Software_FOSS_in_Education_IT_at_School_Project_Kerala_Region_of_India
The Free Software community in Kerala convinced teachers why it is important and even when they were not at all tech savvy, the grasped the importance and demanded the govt to switch. So how we look at the situation is the most important thing. The teachers maintain a custom GNU/Linux distro with all the software they need included in it. #FreeSoftware #Kerala
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First local lockdowns in the north of Wales in Wrexham, Denbighshire, Flintshire and Conwy https://nation.cymru/news/first-local-lockdowns-in-the-north-of-wales-in-wrexham-denbighshire-flintshire-and-conwy/
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Heh. 🙂 A cleaner in a Russian village enters an election because the rules say there must be at least two candidates and her boss (the other candidate) persuaded her to enter. Then she goes on to win by a landslide.
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And for completeness, here's the graph of Covid related deaths over the last month in Wales, to 29th September (using the official figures).
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I joined Mastodon a few days ago and been trying it out. I don't know anybody here but many people seem friendly and seem to like many of the things I like.
My job is in medical research but I also code, follow and support a few developers whose work interests me. I'm a GNU/linux user of many years. I completely degoogled, I like FOSS and online privacy is a priority for me
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RT @AsmadiGames
Far too many people last night stared fascism in the face and said "I want more years of *that*".
Far too many people last night stared fascism in the face and whined "ehhh but the alternative isn't *quite* good enough".
Both are horrifying. Vote.
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Official daily increases of #Covid-19 cases in the #UK are now higher than ever, even during the time when hundreds were dying daily. For two days in a row, the rise has been over 7000. The death rate is also going up but it’s currently at 1% of the infection total. There is obviously a lag in that too.
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#Greenland's #ice #melting faster than at any time in past 12,000 years | World news | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/sep/30/greenlands-ice-melting-faster-sea-level-rise
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How Blacklight illuminates the murky world of ad tracking, key logging, canvas fingerprinting, Facebook pixels, and more - https://www.privateinternetaccess.com/blog/how-blacklight-illuminates-the-murky-world-of-ad-tracking-key-logging-canvas-fingerprinting-facebook-pixels-and-more/ the more, the merrier
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#phidoc #books #literature #music #greece #symi
Please note that September's Book of the Month is The End of the Affair by Graham Greene and the Track of the Month is Pastorale from the Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp by Claude Debussy.
#IT #socialmedia #facebook #data #content #oversight #moderation #politics #democracy
While Facebook works to create an oversight board, industry experts formed their own
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/facebook-real-oversight-board-n1240958
#media #broadcasting #regulation #eu #uk
"Hoist with his own petard" (Wiilliam Shakespeare - Hamlet)
Certainly the BBC has now been hoisted by its own petard.
For many years, the Corporation has been allowing fringe views, including those on the far right, privileged exposure in the name of 'balance'. The supreme irony is that what has been shown repeatedly by media analysts as not only an establishment but also a right-of-centre media channel, has been characterised by Boris Johnson and his cronies as a 'left-of-centre, 'woke', 'thorn-in-the-flesh' obstacle.
In normal times, you would be rolling in the aisles at the idiocy of the claim. But, sadly, these are not normal times!
The truth is that left-of-centre views are not properly represented in UK broadcasting in any meaningful way.
Yes, I know that the left-right division/dichotomy is passe, so let us choose better terms. I'm very much for that!
In the meantime this:
Hardline BBC critics reportedly offered top media roles
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
