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In which we present a counter-argument to Baroness Benjamin: Unrolled
Baroness Benjamin: I too am concerned regarding societal violence that is directed against women; but per the evidence I submitted to Parliament — https://medium.com/@alecmuffett/on-the-digital-economy-bill-1df356862ac2 — Part 3 of the Digital Economy Bill is not fit for use, nor will it solve the issue. What we need is social change, and such will come about in…
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OMG this @IcelandFoods “The Dark Ages” page is amazing. Click every link in the sidebar. They don’t merely throw their past chief executive under a bus, they build a bus depot on top of him.
https://about.iceland.co.uk/our-story/the-dark-ages/ via: https://twitter.com/sharonodea/status/1372474023695810561
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Thoughtful advice on Twitter “sex worker account purges” being actually proportionate and in line with terms of service https://twitter.com/AmberlyPSO/status/1353971284799934466
Link: https://amberlyrothfield.com/twitter-purge/ via:
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Cambodia to force all internet traffic through national ‘Internet Gateway’ # I’ll leave this here, mostly because I am expecting the UK Government to suggest similar within about 5 years.
Via: https://www.theregister.com/2021/02/18/cambodia_national_internet_gateway/
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I wish that more people would break the fourth wall on Trolley Problems this way: https://twitter.com/myrrlyn/status/1364790126933516291
UNROLLED there is only one acceptable thing to hit in these cases and it's "the fucking brakes" the car needs to keep figuring out how to dip dodge duck dive and dodge until its brain and/or body don't exist anymore to keep thinking and trying it and conveniently for us, "keep trying to not hit…
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THE BEST EVER THREAD ON DEFINITIONS OF ANONYMITY? https://twitter.com/robinberjon/status/1365382981452521476
UNROLLED Hey, it's Friday and clearly everyone is still very confused about anonymous, pseudonymous, pseudo-anonymous, and more. So here's a thread with all the variants I can think of — please add your own! anonymous You can’t be identified, except the data contains geolocation so it’s trivially traced back to you. pseudonymous An elaborate set…
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So the Chinese Government finally moved to block @SignalApp; frankly I am surprised that it survived this long.
https://www.scmp.com/tech/policy/article/3125694/chinas-great-firewall-ensnares-encrypted-messaging-app-signal-joining
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“Why Brits Love the Empire So Much, Despite Not Knowing Much About It” # fascinating, balanced (?) read from Vice on the British Empire: “The only intellectually rigorous thing to say is that it was really intense and complicated”
https://www.vice.com/en/article/88ajj5/sathnam-sanghera-empireland-review
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77-Year-Old Man “Paints” Japanese Landscapes on Excel Spreadsheets # Beautiful Spreadsheet Abuse
Via: https://mymodernmet.com/tatsuo-horiuchi-excel-spreadsheet-paintings/
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BBC News: The coffee start-ups brewing up a storm in lockdown # interesting read on the Coffee Van startups
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-56349666