alpha seven

This is Pete from sofacom - aka alpha seven, occasional releases of electronic music. You can find me on nicer places where the sky is blue

[Peter Jukes @peterjukes]

Farage vows to ban foreign nationals from social housing as byelection looms

What about banning foreign nationals buying Farage another house?

https://t.co/kKXme6YoxL

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Gut wrenching to see four young people jailed for direct action against an arms supplier to Israel.

Years in prison for protesting to save lives in Gaza, with 'terrorism' used despite no jury convicting them of it.

A truly dangerous attack on the right to protest.

[THE NERVE @thenerve_news]

Yesterday, a judge ruled that four activists should be sentenced as terrorists, despite being tried by their jury for lesser charges relating to criminal damage. This is unprecedented.

Anandita Abraham was outside court where John McDonnell MP and one of the jurors spoke out

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

Farage’s Reform UK & newcomer Restore Britain have gone to war…not just over Makerfield by-election but claims of a ‘quid pro quo’ by Farage & Johnson bankrolled by Harborne.

@thenerve_news investigates the hidden history of Brexit & the £££ behind it
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https://t.co/v4TTboeyLa

[The Register @TheRegister]

Brit workers waste nearly six hours a week 'botsitting' https://t.co/8ybvswuuec

[THE NERVE @thenerve_news]

BREAKING

Judge rules Palestine Action activists will be sentenced as terrorists, despite jury thinking they were on. trial for lesser charges relating to criminal damage

[Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @NYCMayor]

Reason #1,000,000,000,000 why we should tax the rich.

[Dr Nafeez Ahmed @NafeezAhmed]

What fresh hell is this? The Spectator goes all in on Palantir, calling its critics victims of "Palantir Derangement Syndrome". What the magazine won't say:

🔺Spectator is owned by Paul Marshall, co-founder of Marshall Wace - which holds some 2.3 million shares worth $380m in... Palantir.

🔺Michael Gibson, who wrote this pro-Palantir screed for The Spectator, co-ran the Thiel Fellowship with Palantir owner Peter Thiel from 2010 to 2015. Thiel then backed Gibson's 1517 fund.

🔺Palantir's primary owner, Peter Thiel, was a happy business partner with convicted serial child rapist Jeffrey Epstein - Epstein's other business partner, former Israeli PM Ehud Barak, described Thiel and Epstein as "co-owners" of their venture fund. Thiel's investment w/Epstein contributed to the single largest asset in Epstein's estate.

🔺We don't need a democracy hating giant surveillance-defence contractor owned by Epstein's business partner and alleged fund "co-owner" to infiltrate the NHS. Estonia, Denmark, and Israel manage complex national electronic health records without reliance on private defence platforms.

🔺There is a war on for your mind being waged by investors and media owners who have benefited directly from Peter Thiel and Palantir.

Maybe Britain doesn't need friends and business partners of child rapists, nor people who would profit from them, running our health and security systems? Who is really deranged here? 👀

[THE NERVE @thenerve_news]

How it started..:

Meta’s lawyers silenced Facebook whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams for her @hayfestival panel with @superwuster and @carolecadwalla…

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(Here’s a clip of what that looked like)

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

Daily Mail posts lies about the Greens that are spread far and wide. I wish half the number of people saw their apologies.

Solidarity with Kamel.

[tern @1goodtern]

It's just embarrassing for capitalism that the world's first trillionaire is such an idiot.

[jude martin @judecambridge]

Private Eye:

[Warren Gunnels @GunnelsWarren]

Can’t stop thinking about how Wall Street is celebrating Elon Musk becoming the world’s first trillionaire, while he single handedly eliminated humanitarian aid that will lead to the needless deaths of 4.5 million of the poorest children in the world in the next 4 years.

[David Graeber Institute @Graeber_social]

Concern about wealth inequality is not about jealousy over some guy having a bigger house.

It is more about the fact that it may be a problem that one person has more economic power than entire countries.

[Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla]

A good day for investigative journalism! Congrats to @RepublikMagazin who've just won a legal case against Palantir.

Republik found Swiss officials repeatedly rejected Palantir's sales pitches..& Palantir sued.

Have a good weekend @MayorofLondon! (Latest recipient of Palantir legal threats)

[THE NERVE @thenerve_news]

“Turning the other cheek to Big Tech was about as good a strategy as trying to appease Donald Trump”

Branko Brkic on news organisations needing to rise up against the theft of their work by AI

[Larry the Cat @Number10cat]

If there is a group that doesn't deserve thugs terrorising its streets it is the people of Belfast. Their city bears the scars of decades of violence and unrest. Shame on the louts subjecting them to more and the cretins encouraging them.

[Zack Polanski @ZackPolanski]

These aren't protests. They're racist riots. And it's time for the government to take them seriously.

The PM should be convening COBRA and setting out a real plan to end this horrific violence and bring communities together.

Now is a time for real leadership.

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

We had NHS dentists, and free education, we owned Rail, Mail, Telecoms, Water, Energy, Steel and Ship Building, Social housing was built, and we owned care homes.

All of this was stolen to allow the rich to rob us forever for using essential services.