Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org
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
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I find it weird when one of my posts gets more reshares than likes... what does that even mean
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Some Hard information on #COVID19 as compared to other epidemics in recent history. ==COVID-19== R0 = 2.2 Global Mortality: 7% Death Toll = 4,718 (...
#cornavirus #covid19
#coviduk #UK #NHS #herd_immunity #herd #immunity
Posted in The Guardian (live) byJosh Halliday at 15.41 local time
A councillor in an English village where one of the first UK cases of coronavirus was confirmed has described the government’s strategy of tackling the disease as “a crime against humanity.”
Samantha Flower, who is a member of Boris Johnson’s ruling Conservative Party and also a social care manager for Sheffield City Council, said: “I’m very concerned. They [the UK government] are saying they want as many people to get this disease to create a herd immunisation. But it won’t. My suspicion is that they don’t have the money for social care or NHS so that the weak and the old die.
“I’m saying that as a Conservative councillor and I don’t care if I get sacked. You judge a society by how they treat their vulnerable people. You judge leadership by how it treats its most vulnerable people.
“How do we care for them – by saying it would be better for pretty much everyone to get this disease when we know that our loved ones are going to die? It’s not okay.”
Flowers is a Conservative councillor on High Peak Borough Council and represents the Derbyshire village of Burbage, where one of the first known UK cases of Coronavirus was confirmed. Burbage primary school and a nearby medical centre were temporarily closed after a parent tested positive for the virus on 27 February, when just 15 cases had been confirmed in the UK.
She added: “We could follow the World Health Organisation’s advice and stop this now but the government’s chosen not to. Our prime minister has just said to us ‘your loved ones are going to die’ and that’s not okay. It’s abhorrent. It’s a crime against our country. We have the measures and capabilities to prevent this.
“I’m not trying to be an alarmist but the World Health Organisation has set very comprehensive guidance and we’re not following it.”
#STEM #AI #neuroscience #Texas #USA
Texas A&M University. "Design of inorganic materials for brain-like computing."
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/03/200303155700.htm
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Some Hard information on #COVID19 as compared to other epidemics in recent history.
==COVID-19==
R0 = 2.2
Global Mortality: 7%
Death Toll = 4,718 (and rising)
== 2009 Swine-flu ==
R0 = 1.5
Global Mortality: 0.04%
Death Toll = 500,000
== 2002 SARS ==
R0 = 3
Global Mortality: 9.6%
Death Toll = 349
== 1920 Spanish Flu ==
R0 = 2
Global Mortality: 2.5%
Death toll = 100 million
For those who don't know R0 is the average number of people who will contract the disease from an infected individual.
As you can see the numbers are very concerning. The only disease that had the same potential for damage as this would have been the SARS epidemic in 2002. Luckily it was contained early on and never spread. The big difference seems to be the 2002 SARS epidemic had very few if any asymptomatic individuals. So it was easy to stop the disease before it spread (artificially lowering the R0 effectively).
However the COVID-19 has a large portion of people with the disease whoa re asymptomatic. This causes the spread to go unhindered. Despite having a lower R0 and lower mortality rate the death toll is already more than 10x what it was for 2002 SARS.
The numbers are scary, it suggests to me, we are in for some really nasty times ahead...
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The best thing about Corona?
We’re finally finding out which meetings could have been emails instead... 😂
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The first sentence in every video-conference:
"Can you hear me alright? ... HELLO!?"
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"Prevent Facebook from tracking you around the web. The Facebook Container extension for Firefox helps you take control and isolate your web activity from Facebook.
Facebook Container also deletes Facebook cookies from your other containers on install and when you restart the browser, to clean up any potential Facebook trackers.
Not on FB these days? It works with Instagram, FB Messenger and Workplace, too."
I guess I'm on a mozilla mailing list. Never used FB myself.
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I am new to this instance. I want to see what it is all about. Especially this huge character limit. How does it work applied to Federating?
I am a follower of Jesus, and I like to do some programming.
My other account is @masterofthetiger
#covid19 #pandemic #global #rationalism #science #medicine #ecology #climate #death
#postapocalypticism
Forget Bitcoin, the new currency is cheap or quilted paper!
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#covid19 #pandemic #global #rationalism #science #medicine #death
#postapocalypticism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eyam
Toot Redux (originally published 30th December 2016)
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Late-stage capitalism:
"Airlines are burning thousands of gallons of jet fuel flying empty 'ghost' planes so they can keep their flight slots during the coronavirus outbreak"
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RT @Carnage4Life
This is a thoughtful move on Microsoft's part and I hope every major tech company in the Seattle area that's asking employees to work from home also takes into account the hourly employees who could be impacted (e.g. cafeteria workers) & makes them whole.
https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2020/03/05/covid-19-microsoft-hourly-workers/
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
