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Posts by Bill Thompson

Good policy should always begin by considering the needs of the most vulnerable and excluded people. I'm also interested in how this plays with tentative proposals in the digital ID consultation to introduce digital ID from either
birth or at the age of 13.

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Because we get asked a lot. by @PalantirTech(Palantir) | Twitter Thread Reader Because we get asked a lot. The Technological Republic, in brief. 1. Silicon Valley owes a moral debt to the country that made its rise possible. The engineering elite of Silicon Valley has an affir...

Palantir put out the most cartoonishly evil statement possible. They’re so arrogant and self-confident they don’t seem to believe their fascistic plans can be opposed.

We must get rid of Palantir altogether.

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Butlerian loud ‘ssshhh’

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I didn’t think it was possible not to. Doesn’t the leaflet sense you and shuffle around?

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Lads, is there anyone in the Labour Party willing to call out Starmer and Mahmood or are you all just going to sit there and watch the party die?

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The FP Launchpad takes off at IIT Madras

I was in Chennai today for the launch of FP Launchpad, a new centre at IIT Madras dedicated to crafting efficient, reliable and trustworthy software with mathematical guardrails. Having a well-funded, long-horizon centre of excellence in India is a big step forward! anil.recoil.org/notes/fpl-la...

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This kind of thing at Substack (including their Nazi problem and trans hate problem) are why my newsletter is at Ghost.org and always has been. Andrew Tate is a spectacularly vile human being accused of numerous violent crimes against women and hugely corrosive for young male minds.

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Sorry I can't respond to your email I'm currently surrounded by plasma

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Well that is rather splendid news. So pleased

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Yeah… me too. It gets everywhere

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In the beginning was Word
And Word was with Microsoft
And Word sucked big time.

Thus ends the gospel of the badly placed illuminated capital

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The latest from the exciting innovative world of crypto.,,,

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People are asking

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Yup. You could say that your argument is “Let’s not needlessly burn too many tokens today.”

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what do we want?

OBJECT PERMANENCE

when do we want it?

WHEN DO WE WANT WHAT

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And some gin, I hope

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It’s a bright cold day in April.

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Some of us remember when Ozymandias told us to pivot to video. Haven’t seen his statue for a while…

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While folks are still going "I never thought it would go that far".

Just a heads up all the trans stuff is gonna be used to prevent cis women from experimenting with cross-sex behavior like working, owning property and voting

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High praise

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Moon rising behind clouds over a darkened ridge. A tractor and hay bales in the foreground.

Moon rising behind clouds over a darkened ridge. A tractor and hay bales in the foreground.

The moon rising over Stonesdale. Watching the Artemis II launch, which will take four people there. And remembering Apollo 8. plus.nasa.gov/scheduled-vi...

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Made the call a while ago that I won’t be writing much about the series itself, but it was important to spell things out now that Warner Bros. is cranking the hype machine up

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"Cleared" after one year.

A year is a long time in boxing. And these are her prime years because age/time is undefeated and undisputed.

They have done her harm.

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This is what Potter money pays for. Why pay money to watch pretend heroes when you’re propping up a villain in real life?

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Looking forward to seeing this as the front page of the Daily Mail. Because that's how it works, right?

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It’s like getting tenure

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As Daniel Dennett said: The juvenile sea squirt wanders through the sea searching for a suitable rock or hunk of coral to cling to and make its home for life. For this task, it has a rudimentary nervous system. When it finds its spot and takes root, it doesn't need its brain anymore so it eats it!

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It worked for Johnson

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Brother just because you have no soul doesn't mean you have to project on it on everyone else

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