Alan Braggins

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That’s a serious escalation, and we've heard nothing about it from our own government.
Turkey sandwich for lunch. Turkey curry yesterday supper. Turkey soup day before. The end is in sight.

ORG called for unjust 'crime-predicting' tech to be banned from UK policing 🚨

Police tech doesn’t predict crime. It predicts policing. Based on biased data, it brings more of the same – racist policing and poverty punishment.

Find out more ➡️ https://www.openrightsgroup.org/campaign/resist-pre-crime/

#ORG2025 #digitalrights #PreCrime #BanCrimePredictingTech #policing #police #ukpolitics #ukpol

Sadly I think this could be a large part of the problem. US politicians put party first and country a very poor second. So they are quite prepared to stand by and watch the moral economic and social destruction of their country simply in the hope they will win the next election.

The USA is the manifestation of all that is wrong with first past the post politics. It produces acute polarisation and binary choices which do not reflect public opinion.

It produces no more than vacuous confrontation

Wait. Thiel is warning US about a hi-tech surveillance state? The guy behind PALANTIR?

(TW thread)
Zionists still fight for their "right to rape" Palestinians in prisons and elsewhere. They want to bring a civil war for this right.

"Outside the home of the Israeli military prosecutor, who was arrested after videos documenting the rape of #Palestinian prisoners by #Israeli soldiers at the prison in #Sde_Teiman.

Two demonstrations face each other, one in support, the other in denunciation. The debate is not about the #crime, but about the fact that it has been revealed."

via @alt31.bsky.social

#zionazis #zionism #israelWarCrimes #israelTerroristState #civilSecurity #apartheid #prisons

@joshsternberg.com @cstross

Christian fundamentalists: We believe Jews will all go to Hell, but we need some Jews to live in Israel in order to fulfill our prophecy.

This administration: We believe Jews aren't human, but we need some Jews to live in Israel to keep the Muslims down, and also to give us a pretext for punishing our political opponents at home.

The similarity between these viewpoints is not coincidental.

German Journalist accuses Israeli forces of rape after Freedom Flotilla interception

A German journalist detained aboard the Freedom Flotilla ship Conscience has accused Israeli prison authorities of raping her while in custody. Speaking publicly for the first time, Anna Liedtke said the assault occurred during a strip search while she was being transferred between Israeli prisons after Israeli forces intercepted the Gaza-bound humanitarian vessel in fall 2025.
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Locally I would add to this:

• Mikeysline - https://oursupport.mikeysline.co.uk/

• James Support Group - https://jamessupportgroup.com/

Remember: it's OK not to be OK.

I see that Fernando Pereira is donating to OpenReview (with a public announcement) because he apparently cares about "open science" or "open research" or some such. That's news to me.

He is the Google VP who wrote a condescending, bizarre, what was meant to be anonymous, "privileged and confidential" letter which was then sent to the HR department, instructing me and my coauthors to retract our Stochastic Parrots paper.