Vanity has no antecedent. Make stuff. Write things. Share them. Get less dumb. aka Chris Dent. They. Once OpenStack, now APIs, again.
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A "tough choice" is deciding whether to feed your children or heat your home.
Austerity is not a tough choice. It is a political choice to wage class warfare on the most vulnerable.
The right choice is taxing the rich, public ownership, and a redistribution of wealth & power.
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Every word of this, from economist, writer and journalist David McWilliams, via the @IrishTimes
irishtimes.com/opinion/2022/…
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I should have said most successful "disaster capitalist" PM the country ever had.
That's what she was.
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A message has been posted (possibly under duress/by another person) to Elnaz Rekabi's Instagram stories in Persian: 'Dear and honourable compatriots of Iran, I am Elnaz Rekabi, with a history of twenty years as a member of the national mountaineering team.
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There are too many climate advocates with no expertise in social science claiming to know with certainty what will work best. They all tend to say “let’s keep doing more of what we’ve been doing for decades.” News flash: it hasn’t worked
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If you’re appalled at what 2 people have done to a rectangle of glass, wait until you hear what our growth economy is doing to our ability to keep on living on this planet.
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The core problem is that k8s allows us to treat containers as cattle, but images are still treated as pets.
"Mom, I want this new image!"
"Who's gonna take care of it?"
"Me!"
"You're gonna feed it and walk it and scan it for CVEs?"
"Uh huh!"
"Even when it's raining?"
"Sure..."
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A tweet to really enjoy for readers who remember Thatcher and Reagan.
And to highlight how the UK is trapped in Back to the (Eighties) Future, while the US has moved in
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The idea that the value of a education should be solely measured by financial gain is the very definition of philistinism.
Sunak vows to crack down on university degrees that do not improve 'earning potential' news.sky.com/story/sunak-vow…
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Great thread on transmitting knowledge and trends in documentation (spoiler — videos do not equal written docs)
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We need a written, codified constitution.
How many times in the world of 24 hour media do we need to see experts, journalists & constitutional experts on panel debating for hours what happens next - but always adding "no one really knows."
Let's actually work towards democracy.
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Tory who backed cutting Universal Credit by £20/week to be replaced by Tory who backed cutting Universal Credit by £20/week.
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History is not prewritten. It is made
"Increasing inequality, between people and regions, rentierisation of the economy, stagnation in productivity, these are a recent development. Not something eternal, it is something created"
theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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So now, we, as a country, are stuck being run by truly awful people who have no idea what to do about anything, and no honour, decency, self-control etc.
And it's largely Cummings's fault, because he foisted those people on us. In order to try out his experiment.
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In other words, when this logic works through what we get is the government subsidy working straight through the economy to benefit the already wealthy whilst those hard up continue to just get by, at best. That’s the net result of this.
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The conclusions from this research are pretty simple: if you want to improve social outcomes, then focus on universal public services. And from more recent research we know that when these services are democratically managed, they are even more effective.
