Notices by Mark Hughes (markhughes@mastodon.social)

#Eurovision's most significant and damning effect is to whitewash #Israel's #genocide in #gaza.

They can heave a sigh of relief Israel didn't win, but the important point is that they allowed Israel the chance, and coming in second place shows that the system - however you define it - does not care about genocide.

The world is a dangerous place and not just for Palestinians, when genocide becomes something that does not matter to people or those who determine who gets to play.

@mekkaokereke strange that the answer is never, just make sure the rich pay fair taxes so everyone can have access to a standard level of services and expensive means testing is no longer needed.

@rradczewski indeed, #GenAI / #LLMs and vibe coding are going to make this commonplace.

What shocked me was that as this unfolded it was obviously a fuck up somewhere. So many sub postmasters being prosecuted for stealing tens of thousands of pounds without any evidence of where that money went... and nobody thought hang on, really?

It was so obvious to me, but the system had no way to recognise and recover before it was obvious even to politicians.

Politicians: let's make the system worse.

The real risk to the NHS, the real risk of harm to patients is fifteen years of decline, loss of staff and training places.

The real risk to the #NHS is #WesStreeting and #UKLabour not turning the tide.

In 2010 the NHS was both best in the world and best value (half the cost of the US insurance system that benefits corporations and bankrupts patients).

The Tories and this Labour government are knowingly destroying the jewel of UK public services.

@glynmoody how should we rename USA?

I've got the A... 🤔

@glynmoody what's he going to appeal for..

prison time?

@glynmoody not guts so much but lack of a powerful block to stand with against the most powerful mission and it's corporations.

@glynmoody also, what could go wrong? 🤦♂️

@glynmoody 'smart' man ignorant of the Streisand effect.

Where people can express themselves they will fight for goodness and truth.
@wikipedia

@glynmoody these are large landowners, and not necessarily farmers.

@glynmoody it's on almost all of them, Tory and Labour ministers. Farage took the vanguard and rather than counter his dangerous bile they follow.

@glynmoody ideally services shouldn't know where their users are. Figuring the numbers out should be the job of regulators anyway.

@glynmoody also "Judge doesn't understand DNS"

@glynmoody It would be great better to tax based on climate impact of the type of energy production than target one unpopular use case.

Lots of #crypto mining is done using renewables and can be argued to be driving development of renewables to some extent.

If you tax the climate cost at source you catch all users, including AI data centres, and further drive renewable energy production.

@glynmoody may just be waiting for an incident to create outrage in the public, to which they can push this as a 'solution'.

@glynmoody I wonder how Trump will take to someone making foreign policy on the hoof, who is not Trump, and has a bigger profile, more money and better claim to be a success than, er Trump.

I wonder if Musk will actually make it to inauguration.

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@glynmoody
#Zelensky is an amazingly canny operator and without him I can't see how #Ukraine would have got this far.

His strategy is always to isolate #Putin as much as possible while trying his best not to alieniate his piss poor allies, whether Biden, EU or Trump.

I am in awe at his powerful diplomacy while watching his countrymen die in unnecessarily large numbers because we (collectively) prevaricate and fumble from a safe distance.

As with #Gaza, we are a truly despicable, shameful West

@glynmoody I've not read this but don't see what leverage Biden has when all Netanyahu has to do is wait for Trump.

@glynmoody what could possibly circumvent that? 🤔

@glynmoody "...all containing a high proportion of errors ".