Notices by Kim Spence-Jones 🇬🇧😷 (kimsj@mastodon.social)

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mikeolson/116608082952011802

Was Google’s “Don’t be evil” always just a scam to get us to trust it? It’s hard not to reach that conclusion.

@Infoseepage
Much to agree with, but at least the Overton window is finally starting to move.

@Infoseepage @dbattistella
On the other hand, small steps are better than no steps, and this one will be politically almost impossible to reverse, so we can hope for more in future.

@aral
indeed. I wasn’t intending to minimise or ignore the wider effects of Israel’s bellicosity, but it has leveraged Eurovision as a propaganda win, and it’s important to counter that.

@pellechristensen @aral
Israel has ruined #Eurovision for all the rest of us.

let's stop UK being part of Trump's war...
Please sign, and publicise.
https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/762994
#UKPolitics

@adrianww @simon_brooke @bob @aral
At the start of any project it is impossible to know what you don’t know. That’s why Waterfall always fails.

@aral
Cool! You’d find my name in the hidden part of the ROM, if you looked. 😇

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BBC_Micro#History

@aral @nileane
I’m definitely installing this next time I sit down at my desktop. 👍

RE: https://mas.to/@therightarticle/116300144161152058

If ever there was proof of the damage done by neoliberalism, this is it! The second wave (which killed 87,000 people in UK) was driven almost entirely by Sunak’s “eat out to help out”, and Johnson’s defying the experts to ‘save Christmas’.
It is extraordinary that you can kill tens of thousands of people with your obsession with the economy, and yet face absolutely no consequences.
Mind you, that’s nothing compared to the death toll that climate inaction will produce.

@aral
Personally I would love to see Israel returned to its pre-1967 borders, with its security guaranteed by international forces, and severe economic sanctions applied if it ever tried expansionism again. #NotGoingToHappen

@karmaburrito @pluralistic
But the biggest enshittification of the Internet by far is Government backed: age verification.
Apparently, the biggest sponsor of lobbying for this is… (can’t you guess?) Meta. It’s nothing to do with protecting children, and everything to do with collecting more data about us all.
Let’s regulate the TechBros’ algorithms, not us poor users. Treat the disease, not the symptom.

RE: https://climatejustice.social/@GeofCox/115915490939588390

“[Oswald] Mosley's grandson, Louis Mosley, by the way, is CEO of the UK division of Palantir”
😳

@petealexharris @selzero
Have you actually read anything the LD’s have proposed?
https://www.libdems.org.uk/manifesto

@petealexharris @selzero
I don’t really blame you. Mainstream media has done a great job of inculcating the myth that the LDs are not worth listening to. There really isn’t a section of the MSM with an interest in promoting them. Greens are benefiting from being new and thereby interesting. I wonder of that will last?

@georgetakei
🤦♂️

@_elena @aral
Rather than taking the post down, maybe edit it?

“America didn’t abolish monarchy, they privatised it”
#noKingsDay
https://youtube.com/shorts/5L7Jf4bG5uY

What new fresh hell is this? No, YouTube, I will not turn off my VPN just so you can track me better!

@inthehands
One of the most hated lecture series in my Engineering degree was on letter writing. I loved it! I learned skills in that course that I have used throughout both my social and professional life. (‘End the letter by pointing the way forward’ is one of the most useful pieces of advice I’ve ever received.)