Notices by Denis Buckley (wellingtonrock@mastodon.social), page 2

'The results of this experiment so far should be instructive: ours is a country in which household incomes are set to be 4% lower next year than they were at the 2019 election – a decline with no precedent in living memory. And how did we get here? The Conservatives leveraged the populist wave that underpinned the vote to leave the EU, to encourage those immiserated by the Tory’s own policies to vote for them.'

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/12/tax-cuts-rich-britain-tory-test-lab-rightwing-populism

@gcblasing
The Electoral College exacerbates the problems inherent in First Past the Post elections, by amplifying the representation power of small rural (often Republican) states. And it's no just in the Senate! 1

'Labour is offering the same fiscal policies that proved so unpopular, they drove the working class to vote for Brexit in a desperate yet futile attempt to change the system. Reeves is now boasting there is no escape from the system.'

The Labour Party has no plans for sensible drug reform https://councilestatemedia.substack.com/p/the-labour-party-has-no-plans-for?publication_id=1336368&utm_campaign=email-post-title&r=diqr

@goatsarah
'That was the title.
This is the body text.
Does this show too...'
Odd colours...

Why AI really is dangerous to Society...
'what we are witnessing is the wealthiest companies in history... unilaterally seizing the sum total of human knowledge that exists in digital, scrapable form and walling it off inside propriety products, many of which will take direct aim at the humans whose lifetime of labor trained the machines without giving permission or consent.'

AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are | Naomi Klein | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/may/08/ai-machines-hallucinating-naomi-klein

'In 2016, victimising migrants swallowed our entire politics. The leave campaign was a masterclass in how the flapping of butterfly wings end in a storm –..., And so we sacrificed our freedom of movement, along with so many other losses, cultural and economic, which continue to be revealed.'

The Gary Lineker affair was a warning: the culture war will come for us all in the end | Nesrine Malik | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/20/gary-lineker-culture-war-government-cruelty-migrants-rights