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

@zleap Yup, hence my edit. :]

I wish the Nazis had not invented such a uniquely recognisable salute!

Edit: I should have said ‘embraced’, not invented.

@openrightsgroup
Why is promoting the BlueSky protocol suite better than investing in the Fediverse? This seems to me to be a land-grab by BlueSky.
#ChangeMyMind

@neckspike @rainynight65 @mekkaokereke
Classic case of the costs not being born by the right people. Just imagine how much forest management you could do with the $50 billion that the damage costs each year!

@sjvn Alt text: a minimalist line cartoon of Jimmy Carter being welcomed into heaven by God. Jimmy’s speech bubble reads “How can I help?”
#altText4you

@CelloMomOnCars
Seems to me that if you do something knowing there will be bad consequences, you should be liable for those consequences whatever the timescale in which they materialise.
Oil companies, for example, have known for well over half a century that they were causing climate change. That should make them liable for the effects of their products. The sam3 argument could be made about Governments that continue to subsidise fossil fuel production.

@inthehands (2) (the genocide) is enabling (1) (the antisemitism). But Netanyahu likes that, because the more vulnerable Jews feel, the more they will look for a ‘tough’ leader. It’s hard to imagine a more irresponsible strategy to maintain personal power.

@jwz I wonder whether this will prove more profitable than installing heat pumps? Only time will tell, I suppose.

@ChrisMayLA6 @Oxymetheus
A great read! The only sentence I disagree with is “In the financial economy, it is a zero-sum game, where the winner takes the losers’ money.” That’s not totally true. The financial economy has to make a profit, and it does so by extracting some of the profit from the real economy. It is in fact largely parasitical. Yes, some services such as insurance and currency hedging are worth paying for, but many are not, and in fact do great damage.

@RaymondPierreL3 @waldoj
Data centre planning permission should be contingent on them providing sufficient renewable energy generation to make them net-positive. With quarterly reporting, and shut down if they do not deliver on that commitment.

@petealexharris @rejinl @mekkaokereke
My parents (born in the 1920s) got into trouble while serving in Kenya in the early 1950s, for having a conversation with the black barman in the colonial club. They stood their ground.
It’s nonsense to say that good people weren’t opposing racism in the middle of last century, and before. If you’re an old racist in modern times, you just ignored the change going on around you when you were young. Don’t expect much sympathy from the rest of us!

@WarnerCrocker It’s not ignorance, they just listened to the wrong teacher: they believed what Trump told them. This is why we need laws criminalising deliberately or recklessly misleading the public.
If the Dems had enacted such a law, they would have won this election.

Maybe in four years time America will be ready for Harris. JD Vance will certainly be an easier opponent.
#USPol

@Nonilex Far more seriously, the global climate is screwed too.

@cstross And the really scary thing is, she’s still a more moderate choice than Jenrick. 🤦♂️

@HistoPol @Strandjunker Alito is taking that literally… men, not women!

@GottaLaff @marcelias It doesn’t matter to the RNC whether they win or lose in voter suppression cases. The whole point is to create suspicion about the reliability of the voting system.
The RNC know they will lose in November; they are preparing the ground for a violent response.

@cstross Almost every time the beancounters take over, things go wrong. Because they can count everything, they think they know everything. As the old adage says, they know the cost of everything and the value of nothing.

I’ve just had a new shower installed. I was disgusted to learn it has bluetooth. So now I have a shower that
A) might have software bugs,
B) could be hacked from outside, pouring hot water for days on end if I’m away, and
C) could be messed with by anyone with the app while someone else is in the shower (whether accidentally or deliberately).

The builders were rather disappointed by my reaction. I just hate totally unnecessary enshittification. What’s wrong with a purely mechanical solution? 😡.

@amiserabilist If #CrowdStrike had been hacked, the consequences could have been a thousand times worse. And now Russia knows that. 😱