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"The idea that technology can provide a silver bullet to solve complex societal issues does not stand up to examination"

The Online Safety Bill will make a bad situation worse. Having context-blind algorithms scan our chats and images for whatever any government says is harmful will put all our privacy at risk of overreach.

Read the full article by our Policy Manager, Dr Monica Horten.

newstatesman.com/spotlight/cyb

#OnlineSafetyBill

Imagine telling your spouse they had the chance to divorce you eight years ago and they backed down. So now you won't *let* them try again.

By declining Scots the chance at #indyref2, the Supreme Court has just made Scotland's independence more likely. Unions work when all parties are free, valued, and engaged.

UKpol 

The most amazing part of at a committee meeting? Braverman showing up at a committee meeting.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

-Bertrand Russell

🚨 BIG EXOPLANET NEWS! 🚨

Our team has released FIVE papers today on the most COMPREHENSIVE study of an #exoplanet atmosphere to date!

Using #JWST we obtained four transit observations of #WASP-39b early in the telescope's operations to study both the planet itself, and the telescope's capabilities to observe exoplanet atmospheres.

We detected numerous molecules in the planet's atmosphere, including CO2, CO, H2O, and SO2 🧵

The future is here! ⭐ 🪐 🔭 #Astrodon #Science

webbtelescope.org/contents/new

Q: Do people actually say “mamma mia!”?
<overhears Italian-speaking chap on the phone>
A: Yes. Yes they do.

Kie estas miaj mastadontaj disgefratoj? Saluton!🖖

We have a new applicant for a moderator position here. If anyone objects or wants to add their opinions, please reply here. Me and the other moderators will consider the communities input in deciding if we make them a moderator or not, thank you.

@trinsec @khird @barefootstache

barefootstache  
With the ever growing number of users and in the spirit of open source (FLOSS), one should contribute where one can. Thus I am allowing myself to b...

My distaste for Indico has been elevated by 450±10% today. 🤢

I thought I'd bookmarked a massive list of sportsball-related hashtags to ignore. Turns out I didn't and now I have to trawl around to find them in order to ignore them. Balls.

here's a list of all 922 possible hashtags for the upcoming football thing, in case you want to mute them in advance.

gist.github.com/yetzt/f15b6bcb

Me: “Mina, would you like another walk? It’s not raining now.”
Mina:

Self explanatory statements below. I have a theory on this.
Please boost if you take part
Thanks
#poll #extrovert #introvert #mastodon

Gah! Legitimately had a DIY-related excuse to buy Swarfega but failed to buy Swarfega! Mmm, … 🤤

Twitter 

For those of you who don't want to delete your Twitter accounts just yet, you might want to consider deleting your old tweets, likes, retweets, and DMs. Deleting them means you don't have to be as concerned about their privacy and potential misuse.

#twitter #TwitterMigration #Semiphemeral #privacy #SocialMedia

Here's a tool that seems to work well for this purpose: semiphemeral.com

I might be imagining things, but it seems I've heard less about the War on Christmas this year than normal. I usually start hearing about it in July and it continues through mid-December. I have to admit that I miss it. #WarOnChristmas #atheism

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