A musician, and former academic, with a passion for environmental and social justice.
(Avatar is a BBC2 TV colour test card, broadcast during a trial stereo-sound transmission in the early 80's)
| Homepage | https://chris.foxearth.org |
| Faircamp | https://music.foxearth.org |
| YT videos | https://www.youtube.com/user/DrCJFox/videos |
Here's the new boss, same as the old boss.
"Meet James Purnell. Andy Burnham's chief of staff. He supported Iraq invasion; ex chair of Labour Friends of Israel; said that Winter Fuel Allowance and free bus passes should not be sacred; supported PFI, lie-detector tests for benefit claimants. Next?" -- Prem Sikka (on the former bird site)
Reeves syllogism:
1. Encourage UK personal tax-free investments in Stocks & Shares by limiting tax-free investments in cash accounts.
2. But S&S investments can be turned into cash accounts.
3. Therefore tax interest on "tax-free" S&S investments to discourage them being used to by-pass the cash investment limits. Bob's Your Uncle!
Poor pensioners, etc.: 😵💫
Meanwhile, billionaires and private equity continue to profiteer and asset strip while avoiding tax.
https://www.independent.co.uk/money/hmrc-isa-tax-changes-stocks-and-shares-b3001564.html
#ClimateDiary “Above is a fictional weather forecast for August 18, 2050, broadcast by French television in 2014, intended to warn against the disastrous consequences of global warming.
Below is the weather forecast for June 22, 2026.”
(By @jakubwiech on unmentionable)
This brings out super starkly how #ClimateChange has accelerated so much more quickly than we thought even just 12 years ago.
@Orb2069 @benchwhistler @wavesculptor @urlyman Unfortunately we need to protect against both extreme heat and extreme cold.
For instance, my heat pump will eventually need to be upgraded to ground source, if the AMOC flip-over happens. At least we have the piping now, but the cost of replacing gas boilers with **air source** heat pumps was already looking like it would take too long, given current government subsidies and climate denying propaganda. Ground source generally costs several times more.
Meanwhile for extreme heat, efficient passive cooling solutions such as external shutters and ventilation towers as are used in hotter countries generally need planning permission.
If we're lucky solar installations will keep up with AC, but even that is doubtful given the data center boom.
So we're not ready in either direction, and that's only a tiny part of the puzzle.
‘Direct action is not terrorism’: Filton 25 on the sentencing of Palestine Action defendants
Committee representing activists sentenced for ‘terrorism’ tells openDemocracy ruling marks a dangerous escalationhttps://www.opendemocracy.net/terrorism-palestine-action-filton-25-protest-activists/
A quick look at how we use Ardour for our weekly band live streams. You can watch the full thing here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdC_zKvnOMc&list=PLbvJrJ34c9MkVhIzmggTKSKnmVNmYM0xh
#music #livestreaming #bandstream #ardour #obs #ubuntustudio #opensource
"Controversial #Fife #AI data centre’s security plans include man traps, spikes and invisible sensors."
"The #compound will be bigger than the #village of #Auchtertool itself."
"They also intend to gauge if there is public support for a legal challenge against Fife Council’s decision not to request an #environmental impact assessment (EIA)." Fife Council must have been fooled by the snake oil salespeople.
There are no benefits to the folk of Fife - only destruction.
Age verification''s impact on privacy: anyone in UK Gov reading any of this kind of research? Do they care? Have they performed a risk analysis? Have they analysed the additional risks this may pose for unaccompanied child refugees, who will soon be subject to this kind of crappy "AI" age verification by the UK's Home Office? Again, do they care?
(Rhetorical questions... )
https://www.freezenet.ca/wp-content/uploads/2026/05/AgeVerification.pdf
Age Verification: Yoti Gets Wrapped Up in Massive Privacy Scandal
A recent report suggests that age verification company, Yoti, is harvesting far more information than necessary and sharing it with invisible fourth parties.
https://www.freezenet.ca/age-verification-yoti-gets-wrapped-up-in-massive-privacy-scandal/
#News #Privacy #Security #AgeVerification #IEEE #PersonalInformation #telemetry #Yoti
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