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
#research #physics #cosmology #dark_matter #multiverse #PBHs
Primordial black holes and the search for dark matter from the multiverse
https://phys.org/news/2020-12-primordial-black-holes-dark-multiverse.html
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@peterdrake forgot one more step "buy a new machine"
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Almost all computer problems are solved by some variant of "turn it off and back on again".
#guardian #brexit #labour
#opposition #starmer
I find myself in disagreement with the Guardian’s editorial where it argues that Keir Starmer is “right to back the deal”. Under its last leader, Labour failed the British people by not wholeheartedly opposing Brexit. Had Jeremy Corbyn mustered the commitment to lead the remain cause, Labour might well not have lost anything like the 50-odd leave seats it did in the last election. Labour is, thankfully, under new management and we know where the hearts of Keir Starmer, Anneliese Dodds and Emily Thornberry lie. They are Europeans, through and through. They must now have the courage of their convictions. They know that Brexit is fuelled by dubious money, dodgy argument, a focus on spurious “sovereignty” and elements of racism.
A comparison of the speeches of Ursula von der Leyen and Boris Johnson summed up why Christmas Eve was such a shaming day. Von der Leyen spoke with feeling, vision and deep seriousness, Johnson with his usual silliness. Britain needs to repair the damage as soon as it can. It needs to rejoin the EU at the first opportunity, and Labour must make the case unequivocally. It must begin by abstaining in the vote on what must be seen as solely a Tory deal.
David Curtis
Solihull, West Midlands
I completely concur with David Curtis (who I don't know). The Guardian editorial beggars belief in its extraordinary naivety. Millions of people will desert the party if it supports the Tory deal on Brexit. The only sensible policy for Starmer is to call for his fellow MPs to abstain and to do so passionately! Any other course will herald the death of the Labour Party which, in the long term, may be a very good thing!
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RT @ButNotTheCity
One thing I learned studying law is that a lot of what people do every day is illegal and much of our ability to live in society is predicated on the discretionary non-application of laws.
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If somehow it were possible to take away a humans ability to learn and grow, would that necessarily take away your free will?
#IT #privacy #websearch #metadata #confidentiality #images #medicine #patients
Researchers find 45 million medical images exposed online
#brexit #ownership #labour #labourism #keir_starmer #opposition #uk #politics #democracy
Toot Redux (first published 30th November 2020)
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Just in case it wasn't clear that P has completely lost his shit, he has also been mass-spamming my account for a good 30 minute now with hundreds of messages. doesn't really matter to me, easy enough to silence. though it does put his entire server at risk from a legal standpoint.. but that just shows how far gone he is.
But yea, the man is absolutely obsessed and lost it.
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The share of electricity being produced with fossil fuels has remained stable since the 1980s.
Such a pain to look at the inaction and the empty promises...
https://ourworldindata.org/worlds-energy-problem
Such a pain to look at the inaction and the empty promises...
https://ourworldindata.org/worlds-energy-problem
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This Hogmanay is the 300th anniversary of the birth of Charles Edward Stuart – ‘Bonnie Prince Charlie’ – who led the 1745 uprising.
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Going to *try* to maintain a list of dead Fediverse instances here: https://fediverse.rip/
There are a ton of them. If you know of a few batch them up in a message to me and I'll add them. If you have the approximate date they died supply that too. If not, I'll try to find the date.
There are a ton of them. If you know of a few batch them up in a message to me and I'll add them. If you have the approximate date they died supply that too. If not, I'll try to find the date.
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Vaccine cards... national registry of everyone vaccinated... get the fuck out of here are you serious, this is where this shit is headed:
https://www.cnn.com/2020/12/02/health/covid-19-vaccination-kit-record-card/index.html
I fucking knew it when they created the databases to track controlled substance prescriptions and violated our right to medical privacy this is where this shit was headed... yea I'm pissed.
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Before I get into today's #Covid19Cymru analysis, a word of explanation about what I've done with the figures. The PHW dashbard shows that these figures are for 9am on 24th (not 25th), so it seems that it is merely the release of data that is delayed - and maybe tomorrow will contain 2 days' data at once. Therefore, I have recorded today's data release against 25th, not (as I would normally) against 26th. When there is a catch-up (hopefully tomorrow), I'll average it between the 2 days concerned
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There were 2237 new cases reported in #Covid19Cymru to the 24 hours ending at 9am on Christmas Eve. This continues the downward trend in the average that the R rate would imply, and is good news. Lockdown is still unlikely to have a significant (if any) impact at this stage.
7-day average: 2591 - DOWN 80
R (estimate): 0/97 - DOWN 0.03
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#Ceredigion reported 7 new cases. We now have a 7-day average which does not include the backlogged data of 17th: 21.29. That's exactly in line with the 14-day average I was using whilst that backlogged data was still in the calculation (on 24th, 14 day avg was 20.86). Maybe now that's fallen out, the media that reported the outbreak in Ceredigion will instead report the remarkable collapse in cases (when actually the average suggests a steadyish state - and I think might soon show a fall)?
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@iankenway Yea same here, working...
Ian Kenway
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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
