George Bailey

Everton FC fan. two replies tops, maybe three. Tweets may be flavoured by alcohol. ;)

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

Anyone else remember when they spent a decade warning us that misinformation was an existential threat to democracy, then handed us AI chatbots that generate unlimited misinformation on demand?

Funny how the "misinformation crisis" suddenly became a business model instead of a danger.

[Presearch @presearchnews]

@ReclaimTheNetHQ UK pushing client-side message scanning on phones and threatening jail for CEOs who say no. Classic "think of the children" excuse for turning every device into a government snitch. Private, decentralized projects like Presearch matter more than ever.

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

The UK is drafting a law to jail tech execs for 5 YEARS if they refuse to build scanners that scan EVERY photo, video & message on your phone.

Refuse the backdoor = go to prison.

All while screaming "think of the children."

[George Bailey @BeGeorgeBailey]

Yup

[Peter Cronau @PeterCronau]

Australia is anchored to 70 year old nuclear technology for its new submarines — ignoring the advances in electric submarines made by countries that are not the US or UK.

“European navies including Germany, Norway, Italy, the Netherlands and Greece are now in the process of acquiring LMB-equipped submarines, while Spain and Sweden are evaluating the technology for future adoption.

“Of greater significance for Australia, Indo-Asia-Pacific navies including Japan, South Korea, China, India, Singapore, Indonesia and the Philippines are either actively acquiring LMB-equipped submarines or planning to do so in the near future.”

All of which shows #AUKUS is a con to make Australia a military base for the US war against China.

Undersea warfare is moving faster than AUKUS https://t.co/Ca4332VkeN

[Robert Barwick @RobbieBarwick]

Why did every Australian government from Chifley to Rudd, 1945-2010, not allow permanent US military bases in Australia?

Because when you allow bases you give up sovereignty.

Gillard changed it, and now, as a US diplomat told me, Australia is effectively under US occupation.

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

🚨URGENT🚨

Please come down and join community standing against the demolition of Waterloo Public Housing - 30 police and demolition teams on site

Corner of Cope st and McEvoy st Waterloo

[Ken Klippenstein @kenklippenstein]

The US has quietly deployed 82nd Airborne paratroopers to Israel, per deployment order leaked to me.

The deployment is tied to new US-Israel joint contingency plans for seizing Kharg Island and carving out coastal territory inside Iran.
https://t.co/HU5yWUCpCN

[James Melville 🚜 @JamesMelville]

Ireland 🇮🇪

Big tech has built so many data centres in Ireland that it uses a fifth of the country’s electricity - more than all of Ireland’s urban homes put together.

[Suzie rizzio @Suzierizzo1]

This girl found out that the Albanian island that the Kushner’s are buying is registered in Amsterdam by Zvernic South Adriatic Development & it’s owned through a chain of Dutch Shell Companies & it’s managed by a trust office.They’re really trying to hide the owners names well.

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

🚨 BREAKING: Keir Starmer threatens mandatory ID checks to use mobile phones

"Protecting children online is vital, but these are outrageous plans that will fail to address the underlying causes of online harm. This will only result in population-wide ID checks for all of us to use our phones, tablets and laptops.

"Put simply, the Labour Government is threatening ID checks for the internet. No one in a democracy should need to show their passport just to get online.

"These plans would replace efforts for meaningful tech and parental responsibility with performative, authoritarian government control that children can easily circumvent by accessing adult-registered devices. However, for the UK's 50 million adults using the internet, this backdoor digital ID requirement would invoke the death of anonymity and internet privacy.

"The Government's plan very likely means that unless you submit to intrusive identity checks when setting up your phone or computer, there will be a chokehold on your software and internet access leaving you with a child-locked device. Planned restrictions on messaging, streaming and browsing raise the potential of spyware in our pockets that will be exploited for other purposes before long.

"The Government mandating that all phones in Britain require ID and surveillance software is a crossing of the Rubicon that would make the UK one of the most authoritarian internet regimes in the world. This extreme technological censorship requires rigorous public and parliamentary scrutiny that is currently totally missing" - Silkie Carlo | @silkiecarlo

[David Shoebridge @DavidShoebridge]

FOI to die? Albanese’s nuclear strike on transparency and why we should all be worried. Thanks to @MrRexPatrick for pressing in here https://t.co/iZMB8N4GIa via @MichaelWestBiz

[NoisywomanMP @noisywomanMP]

Albanese Government is threatening everyone's access to information, saying essentially, try it and we will bankrupt you.

[George Bailey @BeGeorgeBailey]

@MenchOsint Until his blackmailer calls

[George Bailey @BeGeorgeBailey]

@AJEnglish Like he’s in charge of anything

[George Bailey @BeGeorgeBailey]

@ArchRose90 Employers telling staff who to vote for wouldn’t work out great for labour. I can’t see business owners being pro labour. Did he think that through?! lol

[George Bailey @BeGeorgeBailey]

@SatPaper My timeline has many newscorp articles, same articles from regional newscorp publications (now shut down and centralised). I don’t follow any of these sites! Facebook puts their posts on my timeline

[George Bailey @BeGeorgeBailey]

@MikeHudema Via gentrification

[George Bailey @BeGeorgeBailey]

@Alvin1492840 I kept looking at an item, they put the price up. I needed it so I bought it then I checked and they’d dropped the price so I cancelled my order and reordered at the lower price. I’m a prime member

[Alvin @Alvin1492840]

Her Amazon orders were 18% more expensive than her sisters for the exact same products.

They lived in the same city. Had Prime accounts on the same plan. Were buying the same brands. Often within hours of each other.

Yet every single time they compared receipts, her totals were higher.

A laundry detergent her sister bought for $14.99 cost her $17.49. A pair of headphones her sister got for $79 cost her $94. A printer ink cartridge her sister paid $32 for showed up in her cart at $39.

She thought maybe she was looking on the wrong day.

Then a friend who used to work in Amazon's pricing team explained the truth over dinner.

"Amazon doesn't have one price. They have millions of prices, one for every customer. The price you see is calibrated specifically for you, based on what Amazon has learned about your behavior. Your sister is paying less because Amazon has decided she'll only buy at lower prices. You've shown them you'll pay more."

She asked how that was even legal.
He smiled.

"It's not just legal. It's the entire business model. Most shoppers have no idea this is happening and Amazon would prefer to keep it that way."

Here's everything he explained over the next 30 minutes. 🧵