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
#covid19 #coronavirus #global #pandemic #medicine #disability #ethics #politics
The Nice guidelines on who to keep alive aren't pragmatic, they're discriminatory
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/09/nice-guidelines-coronavirus-pandemic-disabled
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The Conservative MP Jack Lopresti has come under fire after he called for churches to reopen for Easter. - https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2020/apr/09/uk-coronavirus-live-lockdown-extended-boris-johnson-in-hospital-covid-19-latest-updates?page=with:block-5e8f1b9d8f085d226cfd5ee1#block-5e8f1b9d8f085d226cfd5ee1 irresponsible moron
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Don't you ever think that open source software activism is not a "real world" issue
"Hospitals Need to Repair Ventilators. Manufacturers Are Making That Impossible"
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/wxekgx/hospitals-need-to-repair-ventilators-manufacturers-are-making-that-impossible
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Scientists create mutant enzyme that recycles plastic bottles in hours
Bacterial enzyme originally found in compost can be used to make high-quality new bottles
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/apr/08/scientists-create-mutant-enzyme-that-recycles-plastic-bottles-in-hours#maincontent
A glimmer of hope for our grandchildren?
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#UK will have #Europe's worst #coronavirus #DeathToll, study predicts | World news | The Guardian
This looks bad and partly down to delay caused by opting for the wrong strategy - #HerdImmunity.
#Covid-19
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As Himalayas Warm, Nepal’s Climate Migrants Struggle to Survive
In the village of Dhye, #crops are stubby, dead stalks. #Water is scarce. The only #school closed a few years ago. With dwindling #food, most families have packed their belongings and left, driven out by a faceless, man-made enemy.
They are Nepal’s #climatechange migrants, and there will be more.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/04/05/world/asia/nepal-himalayas-glacier-climate.html
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Today's #Covid19UK figures:
Deaths today: 441
Total to date: 5373
For my discussion, see yesterday's comments, with increased emphasis.
However, I would note that today's figures are unexpectedly low, and I would not be surprised to see something of a correction tomorrow.
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I hope you are well in these unpresidented times.
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I'm probably going to hell.
I can't help thinking happy thoughts whenever I read about one of my politicians getting the virus.
Then I feel guilty.
But then the next RSS feed will have a similar headline and I'll feel all happy again.
Then I feel guilty...
ICU now eh? Too bad.
See? Guilty again.
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I like this visualzation of the rate of infection from #coronavirus from the #BBC.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-51235105
#Covid-19
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By the looks of it this spike in new users we are seeing is the biggest one we have seen this year since the wave of users from India joined us. It's around 200 new users per day right now.
Welcome to all the new users! Don't forget to make an #introduction so I can share it.
10,540 accounts +191 in the last day +498 in the last week
#covid19 #coronavirus #global #pandemic #medicine #science #politics #philosophy
PM's move to ICU shows he's likely to have severe Covid-19
#covid19 #coronavirus #global #pandemic #isolation #music #greece
Seven-year-old Greek piano prodigy pens an 'isolation waltz'
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Last night I witnessed a miracle of nature: a Monarch caterpillar transforming into a chrysalis. The most astonishing feat during this process was when the creature attached a little black rod { cremaster } to the foundation of silk which it has previously laid securely on the branch of Swan Plant, on which it had been feeding, just before shedding the last of its former skin.
I have photos and videos of this but need time to process them. Here's a sample of them.
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An article summarising how vaccines work and the types of vaccines now in development for COVID-19.
https://theconversation.com/where-are-we-at-with-developing-a-vaccine-for-coronavirus-134784
#Chernobyl #fire #radiation #nuclear #environment
'Bad news': radiation spikes 16 times above normal after forest fire near Chernobyl
#covid19 #coronavirus #global #pandemic #medicine #science #politics #philosophy
One of the more interesting comments I read yesterday.
Pinkie123 (Comment in The Guardian 4th April 2020) re Covid-19
"The politics of Covid-19 are fascinatingly all over the shop. Victor Orban, Geert Wilders and Thierry Baudet have called for a total lockdown along with much of the established left. Conversely, a Foucauldian Marxist skeptical of state biopower may find himself allied with a gun-toting militiaman in Iowa. People are trying to frame the debate in right/left categories when it cuts across those on multiple levels.
"All I do know is that I'm uncomfortable with this "You're not a scientist! Shut up and do as your told" shoutdown of any criticism of government policy. Not only because the science is far from agreed amongst scientists themselves, but because the presupposition that science is not as susceptible to distortion and corruption as any other form of knowledge is rather dangerous. Plainly this is not true. Or rather, the problem is not science as such but the way science is politically and institutionally effectuated. This is Foucault's position I think. Knowledge is power. He's not saying there isn't verifiable knowledge, just that it can never be separated from power.
"I'm looking at this from a biopolitical perspective, asking how the powerful may reorganise the state around the concept of the citizen as walking biohazard - and how that could outlive the pandemic. A world in which I go to the cinema or sit in a cafe, cough, and them have people move away in fear, is rather nightmarish."
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The Republican philosophy is an odd mix of libertarianism ("no laws!") and authoritarianism ("obedience to the President at al costs!"). They seem to believe authority resides in one person, not the shared agreement of the Constitution.
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
