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[Saganism @Saganismm]

“Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature.”

— Hubert Reeves

[Emily Galvin-Almanza @GalvinAlmanza]

This goes for any interaction where you want or expect legally protected confidentiality. Just a note from your friendly neighborhood defense attorney

[Eric Reinhart @_Eric_Reinhart]

If your psychiatrist or therapist uses an AI tool to listen to and document your sessions, find a new one.

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

"If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it." - Roald Dahl

[kirk @choccieboy]

@DesprateDanMHR @Feargal_Sharkey Jones is as full of sh!t as our rivers/coasts now are.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

AI data centers will use up enough clean water for 1.3 billion people by the year 2030 according to a United Nations report.
We CAN live without data centers, we CAN'T live without clean water.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

Libraries: free.
AI: subscription.

Libraries: written by humans with expertise.
AI: trained on whatever was on the internet.

Libraries: staffed by professionals.
AI: confidently wrong.

Go to the library.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

Since Thames Water is once again staring down a gun barrel, the £3 billion bailout it had runs out later this year, I thought it might be timely to remind us all of the “Economically illiterate”, cost govt comes up with to renationalise the water industry, you remember the £100 billion.

It is of course made up nonsense produced by a think tank in a report which was bought and paid for my United Utilities, Anglian Water, Severn Trent Water and South West Water.

By their calculations it would now cost £26,659,419,800 to nationalise Thames Water. 🤣🤣🤣

What a joke.

[Cat Hobbs @CatHobbs]

Are you hearing this Labour MPs? Your government has the power to stop this. To take failing water companies into special administration and permanent PUBLIC OWNERSHIP instead of letting them ignore statutory duties while continuing on a licence which gives them 25 YEARS NOTICE

[Cat Hobbs @CatHobbs]

Shocking 👇 the government's decision to say no to public ownership of water MUST be revisited

Mandelson co-founded Global Counsel which lobbied for privatised water

Both Environment Secretaries Steve Reed and Emma Reynolds were clearly close to him

https://t.co/ivPGBO9gSH

[Jay in Kyiv @JayinKyiv]

Trump's aim now is to get Ukraine's drone tech by withholding the Patriot air defense ammo and pass that tech to his sons' newly setup companies.

Anyone doubting that Trump's kids will immediately pass that drone tech to the Russians is smoking crack.

[Joe Hardy 🇺🇦 🇪🇺♿️🐟 #RightToLove 💙 @BlokeOnWheels]

I know this might sound really daft, don't worry, that's intentional, but I need to really illustrate this point in a way that even Helen Whately might manage to understand. Cutting support for disabled people who can't work and have been assessed as not being able to will incentivise them to find a job as successfully as taking me out of my chair would encourage me to stand up and walk. In reality, what would actually happen is I would just be lying immobile on the floor/bed that I was left on until somebody came to get me.

In other words, it doesn't work! You could leave people with absolutely nothing and they still wouldn't get a job because they can't do it. Even the DWP knows this.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

The gravy train continues.

Failed former CEO of Ofwat, David Black has reappeared at a consultancy company called BRG where he will "Advise firms and investors across regulated industries as they navigate shifting regulatory frameworks".

His boss? No less than former head of regulation at Thames Water one Colm Gibson.

As @PrivateEyeNews would say "Trebles all round". Well actually that's exactly what they did say. 👇👇👇

[FactPost @factpostnews]

As attorney general, Ken Paxton sued schools that didn't display the Ten Commandments inside their classrooms.

Some of the Commandments include:

—"Thou shalt not commit adultery" (Paxton allegedly had multiple extramarital affairs)
—"Thou shalt not steal" (Paxton was indicted for felony securities fraud and impeached for misusing public resources)
—"Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbor" (Paxton was impeached for making false statements in official records)

[kirk @choccieboy]

@StewartWood Just another tech bro ho these days.

[kirk @choccieboy]

@1goodtern Well, we're all sick of Pat McFadden regurgitating this shameful spite and cruelty that could have come straight from Tory HQ.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

The next time some tells you that the regulators, the EA and Ofwat don't have the power call them out on it, it's a lie.

One example right here... 👇👇👇 don't accept the lie, don't accept the fraud, enforce the law.

[Henrik Dahl @SociologenHD]

As a Danish and European politician, I am not accustomed to deliberate public falsehood as a political method. But it is probably something we will have to get used to.

Take, for example, Jeff Landry’s blatant falsehood that Donald Trump was the first major politician to truly place Greenland on the world map.

If we confine ourselves to this century alone, Colin Powell was co-signatory of the Igaliku Agreement in 2004 while serving as Secretary of State. John Negroponte, then Deputy Secretary of State, represented the United States when the Ilulissat Declaration was signed in 2008. John Kerry visited Greenland in 2016 while serving as Secretary of State. And Antony Blinken visited the island in 2021.

Greenland was also visited by Angela Merkel in 2007, when the purpose was to study climate change.

And the island has continuously received visits from American politicians who genuinely take an interest in Arctic affairs. The foremost among them is undoubtedly Lisa Murkowski.

So Greenland has long been on the world map - partly because of climate change, and partly because of the question of Arctic security. And Greenland has continuously been integrated into Arctic cooperation, not least as a consequence of the Igaliku Agreement.

There was a time when I read a great deal of Jürgen Habermas and believed that the norm of truth was an unbreakable norm among civilized people. I believed that, as Habermas put it, the better argument exercised a kind of “forceless force.”

What we lack today is a new Habermas for the twenty-first century - someone capable of describing the performative role of the lie.

Because the reality is this: to someone who knows nothing about Greenland, Jeff Landry’s statements sound perfectly plausible. But they are simply a fabrication. A good story. Something designed to generate support without any ambition toward truth. Harry Frankfurt argued that this is the very essence of what he called “bullshit.”

We no longer merely disagree about values. Increasingly, we disagree about reality itself.

Jeff Landry is part of the post-truth culture that permeates American politics. But it is also something we in Europe will increasingly have to adapt to, simply because of the influence the United States possesses.

It is difficult to say where this post-truth strategy will lead the Western world. But I will be honest: I have reached an age where I preferred the world shaped by the ideals of the Enlightenment - by truth as a moral norm and obligation.

That world is gone. Perhaps permanently. I understand that. But I cannot pretend to admire the replacement.

[Feargal Sharkey @Feargal_Sharkey]

"Thames Water investors say temporary nationalisation would slow its recovery."

Thames Water still trying to bully tax payers and bill payers I see.

Govt should hang up and tell them to clear off, there is no "market solution" to this mess.

https://t.co/9dQCaPLXFb

[kirk @choccieboy]

@PeterStefanovi2 Very appropriate that Mahmood is wearing blue, in front of a blue screen, she is 100% a Tory.