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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 1d

Yup, I suspect you're probably right - it would definitely require a different model of provision, and the end-state would likely be more beneficial, provided you kept motive for innovation in some form. Classic "how do you get there from here?" problem though, buried under a century of economics...

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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 1d

That's not to be mean, just to recognise the practical problems that kind of approach entails - right now, a company is better at moving quickly and consistently, but that's not (IMO) inherent, just a side-effect of current culture/markets/env.

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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 1d

Yeah that's a really interesting thought, and a good theoretical answer, potentially - except that now you've got to get all countries to agree to and implement complex interop standards, each with their own learning curve, non-shared costs, etc. We've not managed to standardise plugs globally yet.

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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 1d

The interesting question then becomes: what other models might exist to make something planet-scale like this? Is it a public good? Is it public digital infra? How much damage would removing competition do in terms of innovation vs. stability? It's complicated! (My catchphrase, as a consultant...)

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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 1d

Opinion, but... as far as I can see, it's really just economics. Cost to build + cost to run is enormous, and you therefore need a certain volume of clients to make it viable. If you had 1000 providers, 990+ of them would probably go bust. Not sure that's escapable with a purely capitalist model.

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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 1d

I wish people had been much better at pushing back on the "hotels" usage earlier on as well - they're ex-hotels. Now they're asylum seeker accommodation. It was wilful, but very few tried to challenge the framing. (Setting aside the point that reasonable countries don't do this at all...)

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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 4d

I mainly laminate mine for organisation; a well-laminated meat pantry can be easily indexed and stored in ring-binders, allowing quick and easy access to the appropriate flesh-sections as required. Think Zettelkasten, but with more ham.

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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 4d

like whatever your position is on AI, you would be disingenuous to deny that it was almost completely supply-driven

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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 4d

Also: "But we live in a time where more data about us is collected by all sorts of organisations, and often we're not even aware it's happening" is far from a good reason to just go "oh fine then, I guess if lots of people spy on me, it might as well be everyone.

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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 4d

"Misidentification is an important issue but as a police officer, when we did identification parades, people were unreliable too."

Yeah, this is not the compelling argument you think it is, at least, not in the direction you're attempting...

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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 4d

The thing to understand about fascism is that most people you know will be bought off. Bought with promises of peace and stability, bought with business opportunities or paid with actual cash. Most people aren't going to resist. Get used to it and get used to operating in that environment.

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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 4d

It's nice that I'd decided a while ago that I wouldn't be going to the US for any reason, but I've now expanded that to not going anywhere near the US for any reason. Worth trying to work out how to stay globally distanced...

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Stephen Collins @stephencollins.bsky.social · 9d

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Nurse:
It’s become a real problem in this area

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Nurse:
We’ve seen the whole community lost to addiction

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Show a building sign posted:
Westminster ‘X’ Addiction Clinic
With various Westminster people or looking at their phones outside it

Nurse:
Ministers, Spads, Researchers…

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Nurse:
Most mornings we’ll get a call about someone acting strangely

[Nurse on phone taking a call]
Ok - we’ll be right over

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Nurse:
We just have a gentle chat

[Nurses approach a minister –Robert Jenrick? - standing in the Palace of Westminster

Minister:
I understand your concerns…

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Nurse:
Are you OK love?

Minister:
Yes I’m just hearing legitimate concerns from real voters

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Nurse:
That’s a robot, a Nazi and a poorly-disguised Russian

[Show that the people he is talking to are precisely these characters]

Nurse 2:
Give us your phone, love

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Nurse:
At the clinic we put them in a Grass-Touching Pod, with a real voter to talk to

[We see them back at the clinic, holding the minister's head and pushing him into a glass isolation booth with a grass floor. And it is a baffled looking woman, on a chair, ready to talk to him.]

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Minister:
YOU MUST BE WORRIED ABOUT THE COMING CIVIL WAR

[woman looks baffled]

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woman:
I just want a bus service

Minister:
LOOK AT MY FLAG
[produces a St George's flag]

[ends]

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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 9d

Define your musical taste in eight artists

Moderat
Radiohead
Jon Hopkins
Massive Attack
Bicep
David Devant and His Spirit Wife
Orbital
The Prodigy

Mike Hadlow @mikehadlow.com · 9d

Define your musical taste in eight artists

Yes
Pink Floyd
The Beatles
King Gizzard And The Lizard Wizard
Sly And The Family Stone
Cardiacs
The Zombies
Geese

Patrik Svensson @patriksvensson.se · 9d

Define your musical taste in eight artists

Beck
Sonic Youth
Elliott Smith
The Beatles
Bob hund
P.J Harvey
Ed Harcourt
Damien Jurado

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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 9d

This came up a lot when working with MoJ years ago - "what do we do about user right to deletion, etc.?". Well, not a lot when what they want deleted is data from a CPS investigation or similar! Data laws already dealt with this, exemptions/allowances exist for obvious reasons!

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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 10d

Yes, those and the million surround-sound ear-level cicadas...

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David Wearing @davidwearing.bsky.social · 10d

Treating the far right moment in the UK as a manifestation of displaced economic concerns or social media radicalisation - these are signs of a country that still refuses to fully come to terms with the history, depth and breadth of its ongoing racism problem.

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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 10d

People who enjoy those meditative "soothing rainforest sounds" apps/CDs/mp3s/etc., would be horrified by an actual rainforest. The first time I was actually in one I was astounded by the epic racket that drills straight into the centre of your skull.

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Iron Spike @ironspike.bsky.social · 10d

Do not interact. Do not contribute. This is not Twitter. We do not get baited here, we block here. You hated Twitter, so stop trying to recreate it.

Block here are nuclear. Take advantage and subscribe to this list blocking all government accounts in one go.

bsky.app/profile/eva....

eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer · 10d

white house has joined bluesky
click here to block all official us government accounts instantly

bsky.app/profile/did:...

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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 10d

Describing football violence in the 80s as "largely good-natured fun" is definitely quite the take. People died. English clubs were banned from Europe. It was called the English Disease. I guess quite a few were racist thugs, though, so I can see why he'd like it.

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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 11d

I've made a start using an Agile approach - it works, but the first iteration is only 9 inches high. Skateboard fits though! Bike later...

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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 11d

Mine is currently a five-figure sum when all the accounts are added up. A little chunk of wood and some high-quality paper stock isn't going to touch the sides of either my inbox or my psyche...

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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 11d

Runners are forbidden from using motorbikes during the race except for movement and speed generation...

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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 11d

I particularly like the implication that it's some kind of blissfully zen offline nirvana, when one of the three tasks is "reply to emails". I guess you could reply by letter, but that feels like a reach.

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Andrew Cherry @kolektiv.xyncro.com · 12d

Yeah, those things, as you say, feel squarely in what I would subjectively think of as "national security" - which makes me wonder why economic security even gets mentioned! It feels like that muddies the waters in counterproductive ways.

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