Quantum Mechanic

[Quantum Mechanic @QuantumExplorer]

@BorisJohnson @MattHancock @CMO_England Gentlemen, please step back and pause for thought. These great scientists raise entirely correct concerns over the indirect consequences of any future actions, which need to be considered. In short - you may kill more people than you save..

[Quantum Mechanic @QuantumExplorer]

@ProfKarolSikora @WeDoNotLearn73 Thank you @ProfKarolSikora - In the future, when we look back, IMHO the indirect consequences of #Covid19UK actions, will far outweigh the benefits of direct actions. Rocket scientist not needed to work that out, but it takes level-headed scientists with resolve to point it out.!

[Jim Ferguson @JimFergusonUK]

🚨 THE GOVERNMENT WANTS A WINDOW INTO YOUR PRIVATE LIFE

This isn't about monitoring criminals.

It's about monitoring everyone.

The proposal would reportedly require technology companies to build systems that examine photos, videos and messages directly on your device before encryption protects them.

In simple English:

Your phone checks your content.

The system decides if it should be flagged.

Only then is it allowed to leave your device.

Today they say it's about protecting children.

Tomorrow it could be "misinformation."

The day after that?

Who knows.

The infrastructure is the real story.

Because once it's built, it can be used for anything.

[aileen B 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 @AileenBart60380]

EXACTLY 💯

[WeGotitBack 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇬🇧🇺🇸 @NotFarLeftAtAll]

Labour, the Lib Dems, Sinn Féin and the Greens be like…

That poor migrant that attacked the elderly person with a stick… it’s Elon Musk, Tommy Robinson and Nigel Farage’s fault… We must stop the Far- Right

[Jacob Rees-Mogg @Jacob_Rees_Mogg]

I normally travel back in time but made an exception on this occasion.

[Bernie @Artemisfornow]

The government said the Online Safety Act was about protecting children. We were called conspiracy theorists for saying it wasn’t!

Well er … Ofcom is writing to platforms about “crisis situations”, civil unrest and enhanced moderation measures. (Blocking posts they don’t like)

Children aren’t mentioned once. NOT ONCE.

The problem isn’t removing genuine incitement to violence. The real problem is that unelected regulators will pressure platforms to decide what millions of ADULTS can and cannot see whenever a “crisis” is declared.

many platforms will remove perfectly lawful content rather than risk the punishment of Ofcom.

Read the letter for yourself. Link in the thread.

[Arron Banks @Arron_banks]

What about the bloody welfare bill ..

[Charlotte Gill @CharlotteCGill]

£663,116,359 taxpayer funding on asylum and migration charities…

And I’m nowhere near finishing my audits

https://t.co/sm6Z0rWH7X

[Mike Graham 🇬🇧 @Iromg]

Welcome to nationalisation - Great British Trains will only work for the union workers not the customers

[Benonwine @benonwine]

I do wonder what the point of a King is if he won’t speak out and stand up for the British people against a tyrannical government.

[Crewkerne Gazette @CrewkerneGaz]

Doctor Who: Jacob Rees-Mogg travels to 2040, finding England desolate after a decade of socialist rule. Searching for his assistant Liz Truss, he soon faces a far slimier threat: the dreaded Thornberrians.

{satire}

[ANDY PUBLIC U.K @Andypublicuk]

Van full of migrants on M62 this morning …it looks like they are fleeing Ireland..be careful out there people 💪👍

[Steven Barrett @SBarrettBar]

She is supposed to be a lawyer

She is supposed to know that the Guidance is not making any new rules

The rules exist whether there is Guidance or not

The public are being actively misled about what law even is.

[Miss Jo @therealmissjo]

Sorry but this is plain disgusting.

Seen on a train today.

Shouting into her phone on speakerphone and a sweaty bare foot on the seat.

This is the behaviour of someone who does not care for the people around them. Does not care for the signs clearly stating that using devices with a speaker and putting feet on seats are fineable offences.

[Essex Patriot @Essex_Patriot]

Somalian's in The UK -

75% unemployed
72% in social housing
One of the highest percentages of any foreign national for sex crimes.

What positives do they bring to the UK? 🇬🇧

[J.K. Rowling @jk_rowling]

Appalling 🧵

I want those who champion men in women’s sport to explain why they’re happy to put girls at risk like this.

[Dominic Cummings @Dominic2306]

My pinned tweet explains the background to Healey resignation.
We got real numbers in 2020 for first time in ~20 years.
Since then everything reverted to fake.
Thanks to Trolley & Wally, they let HMT and MoD shovel cash into things they KNEW were broken, like AJAX, and scuppered funding the future (e.g drones, robotics, AI, cloud).
The nuclear weapons supply chain is a multi-billion multi-decade fiasco and reinforces fake budgets.
MoD & CO used UKR war to prop up the lies and disasters, not to fix them. Trolley, Sunak and Starmer all went along with: classify, punt, spin fake budgets.
All these chickens are coming home to roost.
The DIP is a disaster because it combines: a/ continuing to fund old things which shd be scrapped but senior people's careers rest on lying about, b/ failure to fund the future, c/ more dodgy accounts, d/ classified nuke shitshow, which forces lies/cannibalisation of conventional, and e/ continued failure to change procurement and long term budgets despite covid and UKR.
Ive said this 100 times for years.
Also relevant to resignation --
In 2020, I got the PM & CHX to agree to take the next gen fighter AWAY from HMT and MoD. (FOI the doc screenshotted below!)
They were using a bogus 'above STRAP 3 study' to claim that AI would be irrelevant to future fighters in 2045. This 'top secret' study was written *before* DeepMind was created!!
We agreed to take away the next gen fighter/drones from MoD/HMT and put them into a new civilian project with huge commercial development of drones/robotics/AI, with procurement and budgets done totally outside normal system (like vaccines, ARPA etc).
After I left this was u-turned along with shredding all the true budget numbers.
The MoD and HMT proceeded with the usual procurement with BaE.
This has now blown up *as it was obvious it would SIX YEARS ago'.
HMT is refusing to fund it because the MoD is a corrupt shambles.
And MoD is knackered by the HMT's insane budget processes and insane procurement.
HMT and MoD have reasonable complaints about each other. 'Everyone's right and everyone's unhappy'.
The only way out is the Vote Leave plan and No10 smashing heads together with the full authority of the PM, as in the secret process of 2020. It cannot be left to 'normal processes'. Senior people must be forced to tell the truth 'or you're fired'. We did this. It works!
The MPs refuse to engage. The MPs on defence committee say they cannot ask officials re the 2020 process because 'they'll just refuse to answer'.
But our enemies know everything everything I say is true!
It is impossible for dud Starmer to solve these problems.
It is good timing that Burnham will soon take over and could draw a line under decades of Tory failure and set out a new path...
But there will be HUGE pressure from the old system, in HMT and MoD, to patch everythign up with more lies, spin, fake accounts, and massive classification...
Maybe some MPs could finally pay attention to these issues and resolve to stop constant lies, please!
Our security, prosperity and critical technologies are at stake and the old parties and old Whitehall are pathological!
NB. In 2020 we also bought LEO satellites. SW1 laughed. Starlink has been critical in UKR. Whitehall sold off the satellites!
NB. In March 2022 when the UKR disaster started I wrote: 'Prediction: 1) lessons from UKR will overwhelmingly support the arguments of those who in 2020 argued for radical MoD changes (including taking money from old tank projects that everybody privately admitted were a multi-billion pound disaster) and 2) the correct criticism of the review and connected documents will be seen as a) they did not go nearly far enough, b) the collapse of No10 follow through on defence reform in 2021 was — like the collapse of 2020 plans for planning reform, tax cuts, deregulation, Project Speed, intense focus on R&D and skills etc — a disaster for the country (and a political disaster for the Tory Party).'
NB. Special Forces who have observed the drone wars in UKR have told the senior MoD repeatedly that the mega expensive things they want to plough cash into in the DIP will get VAPOURISED in a real war by cheap drones! The SF are told to shut up and not give HMT a chance to cut the budgets!
I know it's psychologically extremely hard for SW1 but Vote Leave worked with the deep state on this in 2020 and we were right on all the big things.
The disastrous old processes have now blown up with unprecedented resignation over these exact issues.
6 years have been wasted. Tens of billions have been wasted. Lives lost. Talent resigned.. Opportunities to lead squandered...
All over Whitehall are officials involved in 2020 who know what I say is true, the MPs and hacks should finally get the details into the public...

Maybe SW1 could update its mental models?!

Ps. if you're a hack still getting Ciaran 'AI is fake, PRC infiltration is overrated' Martin to comment on tech, you're as dud as Starmer

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

This is an outrageous, disgraceful smear on John Healey — and an outright lie. There are a ton of ways to finance more for defence — starting with net zero — without taking a penny from schools or hospitals. Reeves should be ashamed of herself for allowing this nonsense. Suggests she’s really desperate.

[Ellie-Ann Reynolds @EllieAnnRe71927]

Blessed to have the support from the team. I really am looking forward to making a change with @reformparty_uk ❤️

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

I wonder what sort of people make a decision like this

[Patrick Christys @PatrickChristys]

This is clearly wide open to abuse by the Labour government.