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#retired, career in public, voluntary and HE sectors; feminist, vegetarian, green/left leaning politics. Likes/boosts not necessarily endorsements

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Maria Popovamariapopova@indieweb.social
2024-03-01

In the autumn of 1883, a paper in the nation's capital reported that "an Iowa woman has spent 7 years embroidering the solar system on a quilt" — to teach astronomy in an era when women could not attend college. Her story: t.co/flA3OGGZQZ #WomensHistoryMonth

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neongodneongod@mstdn.social
2024-02-27

My son liked to post his pixelart on Pixel Studio's Pixel Network and apparently the dev just changed the terms and conditions so that the art you publish can become part of a training dataset for a new AI pixel-art generation app. You can’t even opt-out if you’re using the mobile app. They also started allowing AI art to be posted.

My son is so demotivated by this.

That's how you kill creativity. And I really hope your business too.

#pixelart #noai #pixelstudio #pixelnetwork #MastoArt

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George CzernuszkaGeorgeCzernuszka@mastodon.green
2024-02-16

“Two Labour wins, a Reform party surge and a dip into Rishession: never doubt Sunak’s strategy is going to plan.”

The always excellent Marina Hyde.

theguardian.com/commentisfree/

#Sunak #Recession #UKPolitics

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kim_harding ✅kim_harding@mastodon.scot
2023-12-30

Brexit has completely failed for UK, say clear majority of Britons – poll
theguardian.com/politics/2023/
Only one in 10 feel leaving the EU has helped their finances, while just 9% say it has benefited the NHS, despite £350m a week pledge according to new poll

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Emeritus Prof Christopher MayChrisMayLA6@zirk.us
2023-12-30

So, now its the 'wealthy boomers' who are going to help out the #Tories, thinks Phillip Inman.

Well, I'm one 'comfortable' retired #boomer, who has never voted for those #Toryscum & never will....

The reading off of the advantages flowing to baby boomers (still) & their likely voting patterns feels like rather lazy materialism.

Lets stop blaming the boomers & say what's really the problem: the mendacious, corrosive right wing media's grip on political debate(s)!

theguardian.com/business/2023/

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Bread and Circusesbreadandcircuses@climatejustice.social
2023-12-30

Greta Thunberg says:

"As much as I hate to admit it, Beyoncé was wrong. It is *not* girls who run the world. It is run by politicians, corporations, and financial interests — mainly represented by white, privileged, middle-aged, straight cis-men. And it turns out most of these are terribly ill-suited for the job. This may not come as a big surprise. After all, the purpose of a company is not to save the world — it is to make a profit, as much profit as it possibly can in order to keep shareholders and market interests happy."

That's from page 200 of “The Climate Book” -- penguinrandomhouse.com/books/7

#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #Capitalism #BusinessAsUsual

A photo of Greta Thunberg, holding a microphone and speaking at a rally -- shown along with the front cover of The Climate Book.
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Michaeltherightarticle@mas.to
2023-12-22

Mapped: The record number of polluted spots swimmers are urged to avoid ahead of Christmas swims independent.co.uk/news/uk/home

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Zach WeinersmithZachWeinersmith
2023-12-17

Bonus panel here: smbc-comics.com/comic/future-3

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Félix Tréguerfelix@mamot.fr
2023-12-11

"Generating one image takes as much energy as fully charging your smartphone, according to the study from researchers at the AI startup Hugging Face and Carnegie Mellon University." technologyreview.com/2023/12/0 #CritiqueIA

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MostlyHarmlessMostlyHarmless@thecanadian.social
2023-12-11
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Jeff Jarvisjeffjarvis
2023-12-11

How a true believer’s flawed research helped legitimize home schooling washingtonpost.com/education/2

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Open Rights Groupopenrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org
2023-12-11

The UK Met Police have announced plans to use facial recognition tech to identify shoplifters – the new boogeyman to legitimise a explosion of biometric surveillance.

At the same time as the #DataGrabBill weakens the regulatory framework by scrapping the position of the Biometrics and Surveillance Camera Commissioner and the Surveillance Camera Code.

#HandsOffOurData #DataGrab #GDPR #DPDI #DPDIBill #dataprotection #privacy #ukpolitics

bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lond

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RojertbRojertb@mastodon.scot
2023-11-27

Grouse moor licensing Bill: Stage 1 debate scheduled for Thurs 30 November 2023 raptorpersecutionuk.org/2023/1

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Jonn ElledgeJonnElledge@mastodon.london
2023-11-25

To find a point in history at which everyone who still has living descendants is the ancestor of literally everyone on earth, you have to go back no farther than a few millennia.

On how we're all much more closely related than you think.

jonn.substack.com/p/we-are-fam

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Tjeerd Royaardsroyaards@newsie.social
2023-11-25

In the run-up to COP28, the UN issues a final, final waaaaaaaaarniiiiiiii...

#COP28 #climate #future #UN

Cartoon showing a roller coaster going over the edge into a depth filled with flames. The last cart, that is about to go over the edge has a UN logo on the side and is filled with scientists shouting through a megaphone and waving a climate report with the text 'final, final warning'.
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hesgenhesgen@scicomm.xyz
2023-11-21

"280 million e-bikes are slashing oil demand far more than electric vehicles

"E-bikes and scooters displace 4x as much demand for oil as all of the EVs in the world."

Why does this not surprise me?

#eBikes #eScooters #EVs

arstechnica.com/cars/2023/11/2

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Ian Betteridgeianbetteridge@writing.exchange
2023-11-20

Remember everyone, when a job is so low paid the government has to top it up via benefits, it's a direct subsidy from taxpayers to shareholders, and from the poor to the rich.

Quote from Danny Dyer which says "People bang on about benefit culture, all that. There are piss-takers, no one doubts that but I know plenty of people on benefits who work hard, it's just they don't get paid enough to cover the basics. Now you can say "Get off your arse & get a better job." All right, say everyone does that. Whose gonna actually do the shitty jobs then? If you're working 40 hours a week and can't cover the bills, that aint your fault. It's the fault of the slags paying you. So if you have to claim benefits then claim 'em & don't feel bad about it. It's not you that is actually getting the benefit anyway, it's your employer. They pay you shit all & expect the State to pick up the tab."
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Mark Holtom (aka Kingbeard)MarkHoltom@mastodonapp.uk
2023-11-20
Viewpoint: The NHS “I love the NHS because we pay for it with our taxes, and because the care we receive is the same whether we’ve paid a million pounds or nothing. If we want to save the NHS, we need to celebrate tax. We need to think of it not as money the Government steals from us, but as our contribution to a safe and just and healthy society. It’s thanks to the NHS that my wife and our youngest son are still alive. But the true worth of the NHS is not that it saved my family. It is that it would make the same effort for every family, even if that family were destitute. The true worth of the NHS is that those of us who are lucky enough to pay tax can go to sleep at night, knowing that we have helped make that radical kindness possible.” Mark Haddon in The Guardian
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Stephen Farrowstephenfarrow@mstdn.social
2023-11-17

Today’s inspirational message:

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Steven HeywoodStevenheywood@mastodonapp.uk
2023-11-17

"So that's where we are. Sunak is talking tough. But peer a little deeper and he is fucked in nearly every way there is for a man to be fucked: legally, logically, practically, legislatively, politically and constitutionally. All these avenues are blocked off. It's checkmate."

#RwandaRuling
#ToriesUnfitToGovern
#UKPolitics

iandunt.substack.com/p/rwanda-

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