Ian Kenway @iankenway@social.cleverlibre.org
Director of the Centre for Information Ethics and Public Policy
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My interests include:
#cyberethics #privacy #censorship #encryption #steganography #decentralised_internet #AI #philosophy #ethics #politics #psychedelic_research #music #film #symi #mycology
Joined Oct 2018
#IT #COVID19 #logistics #supplychain #redundancy #management #economics #future
How the supply chain is handling Covid-19
https://www.computerweekly.com/feature/How-the-supply-chain-is-handling-Covid-19
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We have another increase in the number of cases of #Covid19Cymru today. 596 total. Deaths are 0 for the second day in a row - but remember this is the weekend's figures, which usually see under-reporting.
Top of the table:
Cardiff: 91
RCT: 77
Swansea: 59
There'll be concern that the figures are still this high in lockdown areas.
Nowhere has zero. Bottom of the table:
Conwy: 4
Môn: 5
Carms is back up - to 20 (likely mostly Llanelli).
Deaths total: 1630
7-day average: 2.57
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In the earlier stages of the #Covid19Cymru outbreak, I didn't take much notice of the number of cases. There was no point; testing was completely unreliable, and many people (myself included) could not get a test when needed.
However, although testing is still not perfect, there is more consistency than before, and it's worth noting the figures.
So this is where we are now. No obvious exponential developing (ie it's not out of control yet), but it's still worrying.
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@gerald_leppert We created our own community at FediScience, there were many accounts created, but only few of them are actually used. So it may be that many are inactive from the start.
We should somehow study why these people left, never got started, that may be more important for growth than attracting new people.
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With 576 new cases, the #Covid19Cymru stats are starting to look more concerning. There is a suggestion that today's high figure could be due to problems earlier in the week with testing results coming in late, but it's not clear to me if that applied to Wales, or was just an England problem.
Although figures are still too low to be sure, the increase may be turning exponential again.
Deaths 5.
7-day average: 2.57 (highest since 9th August; last time it was higher was 5th July)
Total: 1630
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"The judge's decision will be known on the 4th of January."
Sadly, I can tell you the decision now with absolute certainty: Julian Assange will be extradited to the USA from Britain.
How can I be so certain? By the very way the trial is being conducted. The denial of due process, rulings against every argument in his favour, even the choice of the judge and the venue, all point to the conclusion that his fate had already been prejudged by the 'powerful'.
I've seen all this before.
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Looking for a service that monitors all my watched GitHub repositories for new releases - and ideally provides them as an RSS feed.
There must be... something?
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The role of the media in all this: journalism is almost completely absent from the the mainstream media which are now tools of the super-rich to extend control over those they exploit.
True journalists risk their careers, if not their lives, by reporting objective truth and not the talking-points dictated by the controllers of information.
I once thought that the Internet would bring relief from such stranglehold but the big-tech companies have succeeded in closing that down also.
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@iankenway off topic: i first read "sharting data" 🤦♀️
#meltdown #global #usa #eu #uk #political #social #economic #democracy
Tweet Redux (first published 18th September 2020)
The bets are still off!
#immigration #asylumseekers #pritipatel #uk #australia #eu #humanrights
Pretty Awful!
UK tested Channel ‘blockade’ to deter migrants, leak reveals
#IT #digital #governance #ethics #COVID19
Digital governance is the ‘new normal’ — here’s how we can keep it ethical
#media #broadcasting #regulation #bbc #eu #uk #politics
BBC under attack and in a dangerous place, says Andrew Marr
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Someone was asking about my #Covid19Cymru graphs recently. I've been away, and although I kept a note of the figures, I didn't update the graphs. I have done now, and here they are - quite a difference to when I went away.
Obviously we are all concerned about the cases rising, but the comforting thing is that, although deaths went up quite suddenly, they seem now not to be increasing further.
But we have just had a weekend; watch the figures over the next couple of days.
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@jkb
You can read the full study here https://www.academia.edu/1245598/Free_and_Open_Source_Software_FOSS_in_Education_IT_at_School_Project_Kerala_Region_of_India
The Free Software community in Kerala convinced teachers why it is important and even when they were not at all tech savvy, the grasped the importance and demanded the govt to switch. So how we look at the situation is the most important thing. The teachers maintain a custom GNU/Linux distro with all the software they need included in it. #FreeSoftware #Kerala
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
