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
#politics #brexit #eu #uk #democracy #artificial_intelligence
Wrong, wrong, and then again wrong!
What threatens the UK's social coherence is the complete disconnect between parliament and the people, brought into sharp relief by Brexit.
The Westminster model of democracy simply isn't fit for purpose in the 21st century. Neither tinkering at the edges nor root-and-branch reform can save it now.
Something remarkably different needs to emerge from the chaos of recent years.
In short, let's say goodbye to an unwritten constitution, to adversarial theatrics and posturing, to political parties and whips and say hello to a new understanding of democracy based on sortition and the extensive use of AI in policy analysis.
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non-programmers are an important part of open source projects. non-programmer contributions are valid and useful and not second tier or otherwise less valuable.
it's easy to say programmers are the only value-add when you're fortunate enough to have enough non-programmers that you can take them for granted.
if you take away the feature requests, translations, and general chatter - many OSS projects would have never been more than flawed, narrow use case tech demos.
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Kea pays tribute to American archaeologist Miriam Caskey
https://www.aegeussociety.org/news/kea-pays-tribute-to-american-archaeologist-miriam-caskey/
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#brexit is a crisis and a referendum is needed now that facts are known
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/01/17/brexit-mother-of-all-messes @glynmoody
https://www.economist.com/leaders/2019/01/17/brexit-mother-of-all-messes @glynmoody
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RT @brodiewest@twitter.com
This is legit the best sign I have ever seen 😂#Brexit
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/brodiewest/status/1085358049068347392
ΣΥΜΗ – ΤΡΑΓΟΥΔΙΑ ΚΑΙ ΣΚΟΠΟΙ ΤΗΣ ΣΥΜΗΖ
Αφηρημένη Ψηφιακά
(Digitally Remastered)
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Leave voters remaining calm on Brexit fallout https://www.statista.com/chart/16617/leave-voters-remaining-calm-on-brexit-fallout/ #Brexit
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A clean-out of a lecture hall at the University of St Andrews in Scotland led to a discovery of what may be the oldest surviving wall chart of periodic table, which appears to date back to 1885.
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#politics #brexit #eu #uk #democracy
Two rather sad articles in today's Guardian by Corbynite outrider Owen Jones (Owen, the very last thing that Norway wants is for the UK to join EFTA - ditto Iceland, Liechtenstein and Switzerland!) and by Cambridge academic Chris Bickerton whose arguments for resisting a second referendum can not only be described as
tendentious but dangerously specious. The majority of people who voted Leave in 2016 were seriously misled. In short the referendum must be judged as both flawed in design and fraudulent in execution because of the involvement of hostile, non-UK actors. Shame on the Guardian for not allowing readers' comments on these two articles.
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Poorer pensioner couples will lose more than £7,000 a year, under a cut “sneaked out” while MPs are preparing for the showdown Brexit vote.
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#SteveBell on #TheresaMay's desperate #Brexit mission – #cartoon | Opinion | The Guardian
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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
