Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org
Director of the Centre for Information Ethics and Public Policy
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#cyberethics #privacy #censorship #encryption #steganography #decentralised_internet #AI #philosophy #ethics #politics #psychedelic_research #music #film #symi #mycology
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Denver votes to decriminalise magic mushrooms by razor-thin margin
NB that decriminalise does not mean legalise. Portugal did this for ALL drugs 14 years ago. Jails emptied out, addiction rates are DOWN and portuguese overdose at a rate of 3/mm people vs, say, UK at 44.6/mm. EU avg is 17/mm.
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-48185366
Yet another example of one country proving there's a better way and others failing to learn.
Personally, only alcohol - which is actually worse than pot.
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peak tech up at google I/O where in a slide from a presentation about machine translation, apparently nobody can be bothered to translate the word "German", as in the language right (it's "Deutsch", not "Deutsche") and apparently the Indonesian in there ("bahasa") just translates to "Language", like not the Indonesian language, just any language.
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Jeff Bezos made $50,000,000,000 last year, or about 2.5 million times his Amazon employees.
But no, let's blame average Americans for getting haircuts and eating at restaurants for humanitarian crisis-level lack of access to basic necessities like healthcare, affordable housing, food, non-lead-filled water, education, childcare, etc..
Fuck off.
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A good writeup on the right-to-repair movement, focusing on Jessa Jones, a stay-at-home mom who taught herself to fix phone and tablet motherboards after her kids flushed a new iPhone down the toilet.
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How to #clean your #ears | Life and style | The Guardian
The advice is basically, don’t.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2019/may/05/how-to-clean-your-ears
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"At the forthcoming European Elections, every #UK #Labour candidate favours a second #brexit referendum and would vote Remain. Add in the sentence handed down to Julian #Assange , and it is time to send a message." https://off-guardian.org/2019/05/03/send-labour-a-message-vote-brexit-vote-galloway/
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The country's worst Prime Minister in recent history, owing to her #brexit insistence, has decimated her party. https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/05/03/uk-conservatives-lose-over-1200-local-seats-local-elections #uk
@freemo Once again thank you for your thoughtful comments. I think I may respond further, but I'm really busy for the next few days.
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#Biodiversity #crisis is about to put #humanity at risk, #UN scientists to warn | #Environment | The Guardian
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This isn't quite the bug report I wanted to wake up to:
All Firefox extensions disabled due to expiration of intermediate signing cert on 2019-05-04:
Thanks for your response which was appreciated. However, I would like to make a few clarifying comments.
First, ‘What UK Thinks’ is provided by the long-established National Centre for Social Research. It has tracked British attitudes to the EU since February 2012 using 75 YouGov polls. This most certainly is not a ‘casual survey’. See:
Secondly, the EU Referendum in June 2016 was both flawed in its design and subject to fraud in its execution. In the case of the former, the franchise was too narrow as many UK citizens living in the EU were unable to vote and the Scottish Independence Referendum in 2014 had set a precedent for the voting age to be lowered to 16. In the case of the latter, both Vote Leave and Leave.EU significantly spent over the legal limit in their campaigning and have been non-punitively fined. Moreover, there is now a substantial body of evidence that voters were provided with seriously misleading information courtesy of the obfuscatory placement policies of Cambridge Analytica and Facebook.
Thirdly, the word ‘lie’ includes the idea of dissimulation. Both the Conservative and Labour leadership are engaging in that deceit. The UK has absolutely no future unless it can move on from that dissimulation that has blighted its recent politics.
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@iankenway I'm not sure a casual survey outweighs an official national vote. While that **may** be true it is hardly a lie to cite the sentiments on a national vote, though it is a good reason to encourage a revote.
#politics #brexit #eu #uk #democracy
And in so many ways!
Director of the Centre for Information Ethics and Public Policy
Personal website:
My interests include:
#cyberethics #privacy #censorship #encryption #steganography #decentralised_internet #AI #philosophy #ethics #politics #psychedelic_research #music #film #symi #mycology
Joined Oct 2018
