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Brían O'Byrne

Brían O'Byrne

@brianobyrne.me

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IT nerd. Late dx #autistic, #ADHD. Ace. Antifa. Lots of interests in STEM stuff and related law and public policy.

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Brían O'Byrne @brianobyrne.me · 16d

Sexism. Racism. Homophobia. Transphobia. Ableism. Anti immigrant. Anti jew. Anti muslim. Anti christian. Supremacism.
These are all the same problem. Any belief or ideology that puts one demographic of person against another is inherently evil.
Human rights means all humans.

Brían O'Byrne @brianobyrne.me · 1h

... and also the evening of the festival. Many of these festivals started at sundown so the evening of the festival was before the morning of the festival.

Brían O'Byrne @brianobyrne.me · 1h

I've already told you why. It was an example of a city that grew too quickly and had problems. I didn't think the culture of the people was relevant, you brought that up. And maybe I'm more familiar with Delhi than I am with Manchester. I've never spent any time in Manchester, I worked in Delhi.

Brían O'Byrne @brianobyrne.me · 1h

Why should I have realised that you would create an inference that was not there? I can't read your mind and you need to understand that you can't read mine. Why not use New Delhi? The culture there is not relevant to my point despite what you read from my mind.

Brían O'Byrne @brianobyrne.me · 2h

Anyway, I'm going to stop there. You will see something else that is obviously implicit in what I'm saying that is not relevant to the point I'm trying to make because you have decided I'm bad.
You are welcome to that, but I'm not going to keep feeding it.

Brían O'Byrne @brianobyrne.me · 2h

No, it is not implicit.
The context was about growing a city without planning. Where the people come from or their culture or any thing else is not relevant. If you grow a city too quickly there will be problems.

Brían O'Byrne @brianobyrne.me · 2h

Where did I say anything about culture?
This is what I mean: you are reading what you expect, not what I'm actually saying.

Brían O'Byrne @brianobyrne.me · 2h

My last word on this.
Clearly a lot of you have decided that I'm evil based on what you are reading here. That's your prerogative, have at it.
There is no point in me engaging further, no matter what I say you will read it in the worst possible light.

Brían O'Byrne @brianobyrne.me · 2h

There is no point in engaging with you. You are determined toto believe the worst of me no matter what I say.
You are reading and hearing what you expect regardless of what I write.

Brían O'Byrne @brianobyrne.me · 8h

Belive it or not there are plans for that. Plans for everything from something from the Chelyabinsk meteor to the Tunguska or Meteor Crater event all the way up to a planet killer.

Brían O'Byrne @brianobyrne.me · 8h

I was thinking more like New Delhi. Uncontrolled growth, massive slums, rampant disease and starvation.

Brían O'Byrne @brianobyrne.me · 8h

Fair point. I'll ignore you instead.

Brían O'Byrne @brianobyrne.me · 8h

Feel free to ignore me at any time.

Brían O'Byrne @brianobyrne.me · 8h

I don't think anything like that, and I don't understand why you would think I do.
All I'm saying is that we need to have a plan. Planning for outcomes likely and unlikely is just good governance.

Brían O'Byrne @brianobyrne.me · 8h

I agree that is not happening, and it is not proposed by anyone. I belive our migration plans should allow as many people as possible to come here.

But falling to plan is a mistake.

Brían O'Byrne @brianobyrne.me · 20h

I'm saying the plan should allow as many people as possible. Ideally as many people as want to be here.

... but there must be a plan.

Brían O'Byrne @brianobyrne.me · 20h

I've tried to clarify my position.
It comes down to this: systems, such as the systems that make city life possible, require planning. They don't magically just work and they can't scale indefinitely without a plan.
Therefore there must be a plan for migration.

Brían O'Byrne @brianobyrne.me · 20h

At some point that boils down to a number. If we accept x people each year we can grow the systems to meet demand. 2x people means we have some serious problems. 10x people and we have starvation.

Brían O'Byrne @brianobyrne.me · 20h

Some planning is required or everyone loses.
I think that plan should allow for as much movement of people as possible, but without a plan you risk a collapse of the systems that make city life possible.

Brían O'Byrne @brianobyrne.me · 20h

Clearly I hit a nerve with this comment.
When I say control of economic migration is necessary what I mean is that, as a practical matter, no place could support a sudden massive increase in population. If a city were to double in size without a plan then people would starve.

Brían O'Byrne @brianobyrne.me · 23h

This is a post about modern billionaires who choose mass layoffs during an economic downturn instead of choosing to provide jobs with living wages.

Brían O'Byrne @brianobyrne.me · 23h

However there were others who did what they could to help.
For example the Fitzgeralds of Kildare started projects to build new monuments. Their goal was not really to build monuments (now called follies), it was an excuse to employ and pay people.

Brían O'Byrne @brianobyrne.me · 23h

A lesson from history:
During the great famine in Ireland in the 1840s there were certainly robber barons that took food out of the country while people starved. Perhaps the most famous of these is Trevellian, as mentioned in the ballad "The fields of Athenry"

Brían O'Byrne @brianobyrne.me · 23h

No. Control of economic migrants is reasonable and necessary.
There should be no limits for refugees.

Brían O'Byrne @brianobyrne.me · 1d

Seriously? You want to see sex tapes with children?

Dr Oddman - Fighting Fascism @droddman.bsky.social · 1d

I don’t give a F about the Epstein files. I wanna see the videos published

Brían O'Byrne @brianobyrne.me · 1d

@bsky.app
A related question:
Can you tell us what metrics you are tracking in relation to engagement and some idea of the relative value of these metrics to your ideal of what BlueSky should be?

Brandy Schillace @bschillace.brandyschillace.com · 1d

Hello @bsky.app I have an honest question for moderators and devs out there. What might it take (in terms of action or input) from users to stop the algorithm? Or at least make it such that it is something we can toggle on or off? So many of us are refugees from algorithms. I’d hate to see it here.