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1. A few years ago, people like me were widely attacked in the media for “declinism”. How could we fail to see that we were heading into a capitalist utopia, in which everything would keep getting better? This is a thread about what we could see that our critics could not. 🧵

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This will not be reported in any of the newspapers who have repeatedly claimed the opposite

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Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.

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My side quest is to extricate myself from #BigTech one small piece of my life at a time Today I'm installing OsmAnd in place of Google Maps osmand.net I can navigate without my every move feeding Google's advertising/surveillance machine Based the brilliant Open Street Map project #GoogRiddence

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Proud to be one of the 350 rabbis signing this statement — an ad in the NYT today and a declaration of our values. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... For more—and to sign— go to saynotoethniccleansing.org

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Saddle up, lace your boots, we’re finally getting some proper action on walking wheeling and cycling out of the government! This is very good Wednesday news www.gov.uk/government/n...

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Well...this is quite something - even though I've no idea what a large proportion of it was about, simply having Samuel L Jackson as Uncle Sam effectively telling Kendrick his performance was too black was enough...and of course the Gil Scott-Heron reference at the start youtu.be/KDorKy-13ak?...

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🔥 Well... this is now over 88,000 signatures! Just one final push to get it over that magic 100,000 and get a parliamentary debate? Why not! Link --> petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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So disappointed by Starmers Labour @georgemonbiot.bsky.social sets out a long list of their regressive policies and actions/inactions Sadly it's by no means comprehensive For starters add being devoutly inside the AI bubble, the Online Safety Act, and demanding a backdoor in Apple encryption

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I see Hadley Freeman in the Sunday Times is doubling down on the Saturday's claim that Trump is a "feminist champion". Her claim to "respect trans people" follows her explicitly asserting trans girls and women are boys and men.

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Oh FFS

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Make no mistake: encryption with a 'back door' is not encryption at all This is a totally wrongheaded action by the UK government... Very disappointed that the NSPCC would come out in support of this with the 'think of the children' non-argument

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Move fast and fix things That's the closest I'll go to a new year's resolution

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Donald Trump's plans for Gaza are nothing short of ethnic cleansing and the UK must stand up to this flagrant violation of international law. I have written to the Foreign Secretary, along with Parliamentary colleagues, for assurance that the Government will stand against this.

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Didn't take long for this song to crash back into my consciousness Impeach the President by the Honey Drippers youtu.be/wqbEsS5kFb8?...

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NEW: Workers at federal agencies are having their preferred pronouns stripped from email signatures and Slack through the use of automated systems. This is by @dell.bsky.social

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Setting up at FOSDEM with the awesome @freecad.bsky.social folks!

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Assuming we make it through the next couple of decades, this will be an incredible image for future historians/students of the Trump era

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Just want to take a moment to appreciate @london.gov.uk continuing his consistent pattern of being courageously right about things the present Labour Party leadership are egregiously wrong about www.london.gov.uk/mayor-london...

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The Government has, however, strongly indicated it will change the law to allow acts of environmental vandalism like Rosebank to proceed without opposition.

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China’s new and cheaper magic beans shock America’s unprepared magic bean salesmen

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Heathrow’s 3rd runway will be detrimental to the climate and is unlikely to bring the economic returns we need. Read more 👇🏽 www.telegraph.co.uk/business/202...

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I remain opposed to a new runway at Heathrow airport because of the severe impact it will have on noise, air pollution and meeting our climate change targets.

submitted 25 days ago • 63 comments

How did we get here? People ask. 1. Corporate PR masquerading as journalism, i.e., journalists doing their marketing and PR for them. 2. Academics who know better joining the hype and grift and misleading the public.

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Friends, for something to be open source, we need to see 1. The data it was trained & evaluated on 2. The code 3. Model architecture 4. Model weights. DeepSeek only gives 3, 4. And I'll see the day that anyone gives us #1 without being forced to do so, because all of them are stealing data.

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Inspirational - and the timing couldn't be better A neighborhood approach to tech and innovation might just be the thing you didn't know you were looking for This green paper is on my reading list for today...sorry if it's your email I'll be ignoring

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Finally a good news story (maybe) Due to DeepSeek we might be seeing the AI bubble deflating before it's reached full Tulip Fever pitch I really hope this is a pivot point...feeling a flash of preemptive joy The current roadmap for AI is ecocide 2.0 Fantastic thread from @karenhao.bsky.social

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Meta tracks your activity across millions of websites and apps, regardless of whether you use its platforms, and profits from that data through targeted ads. Here’s what you need to know if you want to limit the company’s ability to harvest and profit from your personal data.

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A typical European car is parked 92% of the time. It spends 1/5th of its driving time looking for parking. Its 5 seats only move 1.5 people. 86% of its fuel never reaches the wheels, and most of the energy that does, moves the car, not the people. Sound efficient? HT @ellenmacarthurfdn.bsky.social

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My motto in 2025? No DEI? DNB! ("Do Not Buy") Systematically divesting myself from as many of these systems as I can without screwing myself or others. Some are really easy (I never shop at Walmart, forex), some are really damn hard (Amazon, fuck!). But yeah, time to explore.

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“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

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New Year, New PyCon UK! We're excited to announce that PyCon UK 2025 will be held in Manchester from 19th to 22nd September 2025. Expect a full program of talks, workshops, and sprints for all Pythonistas. We look forward to seeing you there! #PyConUK2025 #PythonProgramming #Pythonista

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Christmas might be over but the fun never stops at the Fixing Factory’s Fixperience Workshops. Book now! 👇🏽

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Keir Starmer announces a techutopian AI plan that reads like it was generated by ChatGPT. Shockingly naive & desperate capture of UK govt by corporate interests www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

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Feeling a bit down about the wild dash to invest (likely waste) billions into AI....when there's climate and ecological disaster crying out for funding Bitterly disappointed in Kier Starmer today.... At least this made me chuckle...and expresses my opinion This is also available as a T-shirt

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🌎 It’s time to reclaim social media. Billionaires & venture capital shouldn’t control our digital lives. #FreeOurFeeds is raising $4M to build a public-interest alternative. Chip in today to make it happen freeourfeeds.com

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The government are currently consulting on their plans to tax private jets. We must call on them to increase the tax on private jets NOW, which is the only way to reduce emissions to protect the climate and fund public services. Join us: action.wearepossible.org/page/163960/...

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Got myself some Felder lead free solders to try: Sn100Ni+ and Sn305 I've been a lead solder user for some decades, and have always believed it to be the most versatile for repair work...but I'm willing to change my mind Teaching other people to solder has made me re-evaluate my own practice!

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One of the industrial processes we need to to decarbonise is #cement - and it's a hard one! (pun intended 🤓). Happily, solutions from companies like Fortera, Sublime Systems, Solidia, and Neustark are attracting VC investment #decarbonisation #climatetech tech2.cleantech.com/innovations-...

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The BlueSky Bot Plague... I wouldn't be astonished to hear that the giga-swarm of sex/crypto/fake-dem/fake-enviro bots is being funded by a bad faith rival with first hand knowledge of enshittification I never had so many bot followers on Twitter - there was/is no reason for them to follow me

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