28 March 1935 | Dutch Jewish boy, Jacob Leefsma, was born in Leeuwarden.

He was deported to Auschwitz from Westerbork in February 1944. He was murdered in a gas chamber after arrival selection.

Just look at the timeline. Note for future generations: if you ever have a democracy to defend, include a mechanism for forcing governments to resign when their corruption is laid bare for all to see. Reduce the threshold for zombie governments clinging on.

Tory donor raised complaint about NHS contract with health secretary

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/28/tory-donor-frank-hester-raised-complaint-about-nhs-contract-with-health-secretary?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Its beyond satire really...

The UN has just appointed (by acclamation - there were no other candidates put forward) the Ambassador from Saudi Arabia to he'd up the UN Commission that is supposed to promote women's rights across the world & empower women politically....

Given the grudging, uneven & slow progress on such empowerment in his own state, the notion that this can possibly be a positive more for global women is beyond belief.

#sexism #feminism

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar/27/saudi-arabia-un-womens-rights-commission

After another school shooting:
Trump: “It’s horrible, but we have to get over it.”
Haley: “We could go and take away a certain kind of gun today and that would make you feel better today, but a week from now there'd be another shooting.”
Ramaswamy: Gun laws are “the wrong approach, right out of the gate. Knee-jerk policy reactions in response to a tragedy.”

Every election. Every race. Every Democrat. #VoteBlue

To get sensible gun laws, keep these uncaring GOP candidates out of office.

@robertatcara As someone who personally discovered and fixed Y2K bugs that would have had significant real world impact, it is disturbing to hear someone propagate this myth [that it was a "big fuss about nothing"]. And it is a myth.

This is what really happened:
https://time.com/5752129/y2k-bug-history/

The testing methodology insured that these impacts were not hypothetical. At my company, the testing was performed by actually rolling the clock forward to test systems to see what would happen. For example, I discovered that every ATM in the state of Alaska operated by my company would have locked up until a PROM chip was swapped. Someone had to fly all over the state to proactively swap the chip beforehand, to avoid significant customer impact.

And that was just one story. I personally oversaw investigation and fixes for other hardware and software at that company that would have failed.

And that was just my company. I spoke with others in IT at that time with similar stories. And that was just the people I knew.

So no, it wasn't "a big fuss about nothing" - and saying so is both dangerously revisionist, and disrespectful of the work it took to prevent real impacts.

#Y2K

⚠️ The Online Safety Bill has been passed in the UK Parliament. ⚠️

The threat it poses to our right to privacy and freedom of expression will soon become law.

It'll make us less secure, including the children and young people that the law is supposed to protect.

Find out more here ⤵️

#OnlineSafetyBill #privacy #freedomofexpression #e2ee #ukpolitics

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/org-warns-of-threat-to-privacy-and-free-speech-as-online-safety-bill-is-passed/