& this is without even touching on the wide range of academic warning signs that surveillance AI is being built on racially biased, class biased and privacy-invading training data & are being coded by people who are not equipped to combat these massive screaming issues

the UK is gonna turn into Tony Blair's wet dream. Mass surveillence, abuse of anti-terror laws, AI profiling to catch crime before they assume it'll happen.

No innocent before proven guilty.
No privacy.

Horrible that the bill passed, but the sliver lining is at-least my MP was 1 of 4 Scottish Labour MPs to have the soul to vote NO on second reading.

We are in solidarity with campaigners outside parliament and everyone impacted by this Government’s cuts to social security.

When i was single-digits years old under PM Brown, I was introduced to Labour as the people that gave our family the money they needed to get us *somewhere* at least.
Despite Iraq, despite the refusal to renationalise, it felt that Labour atleast cared.
Now they dont even bother pretending.

5 billion they, as the State, could get from anywhere else.
5 billion they, as the State, could decide is not worth sacrificing a single life for.

Only thing that could make this feeling worse is when the voting is done and by, is if I see my MPs name on the Yes tally. That'd kill any hope I have

entitlement on full display, the 'AI industry' is assumed to have the right to access millions of other peoples' work without having to justify themselves, whereas artists have to justify maintaining their rights to their own creations

where did the toddler-tormenter class siege wagon come from