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We cannot understand this violence without reference to the conspiracy theories government has legitimised. The UK government framed asylum seekers not as people, but as a threat I.e. 'stop the boats'. They constructed a false impression of lavish treatment and a burden on the UK
Andra Sonea retweeted
1/ 🧵Just did a network analysis of the "far right thugs unite" hashtag. It largely seems to be a simulated scandal/outrage to promote the Reform Party and Nigel Farage and - while also being an attack on Keir Starmer.
Andra Sonea retweeted
This week’s riots aren’t happening in a vacuum. We’re living and breathing on platforms that billionaires have optimised for outrage. This is the world that social media made.
My piece for @ObserverUK with contributions from the great @mariaressa + more
theguardian.com/media/articl…
Andra Sonea retweeted
To raise money for transport, Imane Khelif sold scrap metal for recycling and her mother sold couscous. Together they were able to afford the bus to the town for Imane to have regular boxing training sessions. unicef.org/algeria/en/storie…
Andra Sonea retweeted
Les queer du groupe lego gay usa ont fait une reproduction d'un des tableaux de la cérémonie des JO et je chiale de rire mdrrr
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This is my response to shameful opinion piece in the Guardian that hijacks the Boothby O'Neill inquest to push more CBT/GET propaganda.
virology.ws/2024/07/29/trial…
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Labour 'won't be squeamish about making money from NHS data' thetimes.com/uk/politics/art… (£)
"Anonymised" should be in scare quotes here.
#NHSdata #patientdata #dataprotection #datasharing 🤑
ALT Sir Tony Blair has proposed a state-owned company to commercialise access to anonymised NHS records to boost research and raise billions of pounds. Asked about this model, Kyle said: "We're not squeamish about commercialisation. We believe that solving our health problems and creating wealth for our country aren't incompatible. Actually very often the commercial sector delivers incredible innovation. "The potential for partnership between the government and these companies and these big third-sector organisations as well is just enormous,” he said, promising to "grab it with both hands".
Andra Sonea retweeted
They came after me with the cat lady shit too. So please just sit down & listen.
Misogyny is one of the deadliest weapons on earth. Misogyny is electoral interference. Misogyny is a national security threat so lethal we can’t even see it.
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
Andra Sonea retweeted
I hate making these posts but please, if you have a second, RT this link (in comments). Original drawings start from 30 euros, I'm in a difficult situation and it's hard to find alternative work as I'm full time carer for a three kids, one who has special needs and has a limited school schedule right now.
Andra Sonea retweeted
Must watch on House of Commons reform @EllieChowns
Dr Ellie Chowns, "As a newly elected member, I'd like to offer observations on three elements on how this house operates: sitting, speaking and voting"
➡️ Sitting
- Chamber is too small
- In Council and in European parliament we had own seat, desk, plug in devices
- Extraordinary there aren't enough seats for every MP
There is a practice of Christian prayers, as a daughter of preachers I am familiar with this. But in this day and age where we are a mix of all faiths and none, it might be time to represent a range of faiths
➡️ Speaking
- If we have more time limits more MPs would be incentivised to speak
- Trying to get a slot, bobbing up and down, last week I did for five solid hours without getting attention of the speaker
- This is not good for a democracy
- Find a better way of allocating speaking time
- The culture in this house is everything from excessive deference to braying, we need to clean to clean up politics, we are here to debate in as positive a spirit as possible
➡️ Voting
- It's extraordinary we do not have electronic voting
- While I've been here I've participated in 5 votes, that's taken 1.25 quarter
- If you add up all the votes thats 1.5 months of MPs time, totally unproductive
- If we got rid of the voting lobbies we could double the physical size of the chamber (everyone could then have a seat)
"My final point, if we want to be a truly modern house of commons: proportional representation"
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This is insane. We have the land. We have the route. The plans. The design. The tools and people.
Just bloody well finish @HS2ltd - borrowing for capital investment is not the same as borrowing for day-to-day. Markets are not going to panic.
Andra Sonea retweeted
I hope I’m wrong but this week feels like a dark inflection point for America. The tech bros have got their man on the presidential ticket.
My piece for @ObserverUK on the tech billionaires backing Trump. Welcome to the broligarchy.
theguardian.com/us-news/arti…
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Apparently, Linux could be taken down by @Crowdstrike just as badly (and allegedly was a few months ago).
"Crowdstrike did this to our production linux fleet back on April 19th, and I've been dying to rant about it.
The short version was: we're a civic tech lab, so we have a bunch of different production websites made at different times on different infrastructure. We run Crowdstrike provided by our enterprise. Crowdstrike pushed an update on a Friday evening that was incompatible with up-to-date Debian stable. So we patched Debian as usual, everything was fine for a week, and then all of our servers across multiple websites and cloud hosts simultaneously hard crashed and refused to boot.
When we connected one of the disks to a new machine and checked the logs, Crowdstrike looked like a culprit, so we manually deleted it, the machine booted, tried reinstalling it and the machine immediately crashes again. OK, let's file a support ticket and get an engineer on the line.
Crowdstrike took a day to respond, and then asked for a bunch more proof (beyond the above) that it was their fault. They acknowledged the bug a day later, and weeks later had a root cause analysis that they didn't cover our scenario (Debian stable running version n-1, I think, which is a supported configuration) in their test matrix. In our own post mortem there was no real ability to prevent the same thing from happening again -- "we push software to your machines any time we want, whether or not it's urgent, without testing it" seems to be core to the model, particularly if you're a small IT part of a large enterprise. What they're selling to the enterprise is exactly that they'll do that."
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