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“This has to be one of the greater absurdities of #Brexit. British companies are being told by the British government that the way to survive is to lay off British workers and transfer their jobs to folk across the Channel”
Excellent article, here. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/jan/24/bill-for-boris-johnson-brexit-is-coming-punishingly-steep?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
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Great thread by Cab Davidson on Cyclist Intimidations
Riding home after todays laps of North Cambridge on the Elephant bike, guy behind me as I'm going through narrow traffic calming measures towards a mini roundabout, parked cars all over there's nothing I can do to help him pass… …revving his engine, making a right noise but again, what can I do? I stay
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Award-winning actor Kenneth Branagh is to play Boris Johnson in a new TV drama charting the country’s COVID pandemic through the eyes of the prime minister. # is this really appropriate?
Award-winning actor Kenneth Branagh is to play Boris Johnson in a new TV drama charting the country's COVID pandemic through the eyes of the prime minister https://t.co/bYkmYbsAm3 — Sky News (@SkyNews) January 24, 2021
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At Random: That Time… “When Star Trek predicted a united #Ireland in 2024”
As a dedicated Trekkie* I have known about this for a looooong time, and I am just hoping that in the datum universe it is Picard’s analysis which (one way or the other) wins out, rather than Data’s “terrorism works” one. Interesting timeline, though. In the UK the episode was censored to remove the scene.
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Daughter posting about mom (Kelly Ann Conway) a few hours ago # this is rough 🙁
Daughter posting about mom (Kelly Ann conway) a few hours ago byu/unicorntacos420 inPublicFreakout
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Bye bye, Donald #AirForceOne #AirForce1
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What would your advice be, if you were going to set up a blog to host a civil-society non-techie activist campaign and were worried that [a small totalitarian dictatorship] was going to attack, DDOS, and try to kill it?
Occasionally I get posed questions like the above, and I want to coalesce my thinking. Exactly as the above, you have a small campaign of people who are dedicated but who are scared of user-interfaces and configuration panels. You have a message you want to “get out”. You are pretty sure that $STATE_ACTOR_BADGUY is going
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There are so many *choice* bad takes in this @CircleID piece that it’s hard to know where to begin: apparently the failure of cybersecurity is due to #Section230 causing #CryptoAnarchy; but I did learn something amazing…
So there’s this piece in CircleID by Anthony Rutkowski Until the mid-90s, the development and deployment of cryptographic communication techniques was largely the province of governments and regulated network service providers, and small numbers of companies and academics that supported both. This comparative stasis changed dramatically — especially in the U.S. — twenty-five years ago
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Well, this isn’t triggering at all. #Unicode superscript rendering bugs, by @alokmenghrajani
It’s… horrible: https://www.quaxio.com/unicode_superscript.html Safari on macOS: