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Good thing the UK government hasn’t yet gone full-fascist: it would be terrible for someone to lose their job for stating the fucking obvious while working for the impartial state broadcaster controlled by chums and donors of those in power.

@xtaldave Only if you want to watch live broadcast tv on any service on any device in the U.K. (with certain exceptions, e.g. plant-chatting inbreds being given golden hats).

@xtaldave He’s an idiot’s idea of an idiot savant.

@xtaldave How vapid does one have to be to think Brand ever had anything approaching a coherent thought?

Remember during the pandemic, there were certain people in UK “civic tech” spaces bemoaning the fact Apple and Google wouldn’t allow contact tracing apps that didn’t fall within their rules, saying “why should big tech be able to override sovereign states?”

Because said states do really silly things and tech companies telling them to piss off is about the only check on that.

theguardian.com/technology/202

@helma This country is getting more and more insane by the day. 😥

@david_colquhoun Good to see Phelps-Roper has managed to turn her life around after leaving the vile madness of the WBC.

The government may change the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill to 'include allowing online marketeers greater use of so-called “legitimate interest” arguments for collecting people’s information and the ability for private companies to similarly obtain such personal information for scientific research.'

If this is true, the revised #DPDIBill is even more of a threat to our data protection rights. The Bill must be scrapped.

#GDPR #dataprotection #privacy

politico.eu/newsletter/morning

Weird that modern-day inhuman fascists don’t like being likened to other inhuman fascists of yore. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

And there was me hoping that I had the office all to myself today.

So proud of my wife who tonight saved a lost and trapped strange dog from a night of subzero exposure and returned it to its home and puppies. 🤩

@gpowerf I played an emulation of the 2600’s version of Pac-Man a few years ago. I had no idea that the muscle-memory I developed to clear a level without even trying would still be buried in me somewhere, even on a modern controller rather than with the classic CX40. 🎆

Got to admit that I wasn’t expecting Johnson the Liar to use his own dad as a dead cat in order to give his other “honours” nominations a semblance of credence. But no, I’m not surprised.

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