Pheedback Phil

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Phil Packer. 99% retired but I occasionally do broadcast tech and stuff like that, with a second life of a bit of sound engineering mostly for local theatre groups. Also, cats. Oh yeah and based England and Wales🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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The goal isn't to protect children,
the goal is to de-anonymize every comment and action on the internet, associating it with a legal ID, by eventually requesting official identification from every adult using a computer.

Some politicians have already stated this plainly.

This leads to censorship of anyone criticizing their government.

This leads to repression of marginalized people, especially immigrants, people of color, and trans and gender diverse people.

This leads to self-censorship of any comments or actions that could be interpreted against the system. Such as speaking out against fascism and authoritarian surveillance, or defending human rights publicly.

This leads to total control of the population and its tools of communications.

This leads to the end of democracy, centralizing power even more in the hands of a few.

Do not let them do this to us.

#MassSurveillance #AgeVerification #Authoritarianism #HumanRights

@atoponce @travisejones @alatiera "letting the user".
Right there is the entire fucking problem. I bought the machine. I am the owner. There is no "let" in this situation. There is only "fuck you, computer does whatever the fuck I tell it to do!". Anyone sticking "let" in to my computer can go fuck all the way off!

"Orbital data centers" are not, will not be a thing.

Musk is claiming he's going to launch them as a stock market scam before the SpaceX IPO. He won't. It's a lie.

And every other company claiming that they are going to do it are either lying or dupes.

Most of the media reflects neither reality nor public opinion. It reflects the views and demands of those who own it: the Oligarch Class. They employ editors and journalists to channel their demands and sell their fictions. Hence the endless attacks on net zero. www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Rightwing narrative fuelling f...
Rightwing narrative fuelling false belief UK public oppose net zero, study finds

Reform, Tory and some media rhetoric runs contrary to poll showing far more voters for net zero than against it

The Guardian

Pete Hegseth: "Biden said: 'Send weapons to Ukraine.' We think these munitions are better spent in our own interests."

Sending weapons to Ukraine is good for America because Ukraine is fighting against an invasion from Russia. Trump disagrees because Trump is #PutinsPuppet. Hegseth thinks Trump's attack on Iran is in our own interests, but he is wrong. Russia, not the United States, benefitted from the #IranWar because it increases the value of Russia's oil, which pleases #PutinsPuppet.

Never stop talking about it.

#TrumpEpsteinFiles #TrumpIsAPedo

I am not sorry.

If you work in tech in the UK, join a union.

Even if your employer is great now, things can change. The current general obsession with AI is a good reason to be aware of all of your rights.

Even as a lone member in a company you have access to valuable advice and support. 🤞 You may never need it, in which case your membership helps those that do.

UTAW are a bit more political / campaigining: https://utaw.tech/

Prospect a bit less: https://prospect.org.uk/tech-workers/

#union

UTAW: A Union for Tech Workers

If you develop or deploy tech, work in any tech role, or your workplace is a tech company, this union is for you.

If the objective was to kill the Ayatollah, the Iran war would be over. But just like in Gaza, Netanyahu's goal is total mayhem.

Amidst a vulnerable world economy, Israel has now attacked the world's largest gas field South Pars in Iran. Iran has responded by attacking the world's largest LNG plant Ras Laffan in Qatar.

Meanwhile EU is still under Israel's spell, saying nothing, doing nothing, while Bibi and Donny creates the next financial crisis.

The bed is burning — wake up Europe!