Sam J Sharpe

@SamJSharpe
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Ian Dunt lays out how the Government is side-stepping Parliament to allow them to arrest anyone who they find slightly inconvenient.

https://inews.co.uk/opinion/government-mechanism-sidestep-parliament-altogether-2335840?ito=twitter_share_article-top

The Government is using a chilling mechanism to sidestep Parliament altogether

Very quietly, the Home Office has used a ministerial power to directly overrule parliament. It's a chilling development

inews.co.uk
Long Live the King?

What's the point of the British Monarchy anyway?

PwnAllTheThings
We're aware of the spam attack hitting mastodon.social right now and our full moderation and DevOps teams are on the case mitigating any way we can (incl. switching to approval-mode registrations)

The UK government wants programmers to do performative, unpaid labor, so they can leverage tools built entirely on a nonconsensual strip-mining of the public sphere, to find a way to automate the process of treating desperate people as something less deserving than human with tools that will let them launder their racism, classism and hatred.

Don't do this.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/29/government-hackathon-to-search-for-ways-to-use-ai-to-cut-asylum-backlog

UK government ‘hackathon’ to search for ways to use AI to cut asylum backlog

Three-day quest for innovations to tackle waiting list of 138,052 attacked as ‘wasting time on nonsense ideas that will go nowhere’

The Guardian
Man, watching Twitter walk back basically every change it makes is increasingly depressing. Not that these changes are good, mind you--but rather that nobody's thinking these things through in any sense ahead of time.
Does anyone who follows me have a short-ish explanation of what happened yesterday with Kris Nova and Hachyderm? It flew by me and when I read their posts it didn't really enlighten me and I don't really want to watch a YouTube broadcast of a Twitch stream to find out.
This is a very readable summary of what happened up to today with mobile-phone based Emergency Alerts in the UK - https://medium.com/@frazer_HX/a-history-of-emergency-alerts-in-the-uk-part-1-the-early-d%CC%B6a%CC%B6y%CC%B6s%CC%B6-years-2012-2018-fcd5f28cad88
A history of Emergency Alerts in the UK. Part 1: The early years (2012–2018)

The UK’s journey with Emergency Alerts has certainly not been straightforward. Despite being a slog at times, I’ve been fortunate enough to have been involved almost all the way through its…

Medium
@neil everything is hybrid these days
Decided to quit caffeine and discovered something very interesting without it: Did you know that every single person is extremely irritating?
Ugh