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Scary Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 2h

Yeah, the iOS-ification of Windows was user hostile enough before actual iOS got like this

Scary Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 2h

One day maybe we will grow out of purity tests but not alright now 👇🏼

Padraig2112 @isomorphism.net · 7h

People follow accounts for a wide variety of reasons, some of which are not only not bad, but good, and people using the mere act of a follow as sufficient evidence to suggest that the entire platform is suborned are reasoning outside the breadbox.

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Mistress Matisse @mistressmatisse.bsky.social · 2h

OK, she really said that they arrested “the girlfriend of the founder of ANTIFA”

The girlfriend

of the FOUNDER

of - anti fascism?

Bobby Silverman @robertsilverman.bsky.social · 3h

lest anyone think the girlfriend line was a hilarious joke I concocted...

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Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 2h

@eliotpeper.bsky.social’s new book comes out to day. Here’s what I thought about it.

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Simon Le Gross Bisson @sbisson.com · 3d

Recent Reads: Ensorcelled. Eliot Peper's novella is a love story, to the mountains of the High Sierra and to the power of storytelling and gameplaying. It's also the story of a life well-lived and, oh so much more, all packed into a little volume that shows we can still make beautiful books. Worthy.

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K. Chen @tznkai.bsky.social · 2h

I'm not saying anything that hasn't been said a thousand times before, but it's worth repeating. Dropping out of the [corporate] workforce as a woman not only eliminates her earnings while she is out of the workforce, but puts into motion a machine that depresses her earnings year after year.

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Scary Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 2h

Pervy looking thing too

Scary Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 3h

this thread brought to you by my 'what do you think that word *means* my dude, because that's not what it means in *this* context' to one of those multi-author LinkedIn resources

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Scary Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 3h

process and feedback and governance are what make just about every system work, or fail when they're not there

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Scary Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 3h

encouraging community contributions is great but the reason it works on Wikipedia and is really weak on LinkedIn is that there's a strong review cycle on Wikipedia but when LinkedIn invites someone to 'add their expertise' to a topic there's no way to say 'that's wrong and you missed the point'

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Scary Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 4h

'no one is going ot be using this stuff in 30 years' is a very common mindset

Scary Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 4h

we would nearly always be going to San Jose but flying to SF because international; done a bunch of internal flights in and out of SJ and it's great but one *notice the distance* two *notice WHICH San Jose*

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Scary Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 4h

either the government or BT, whoever was most on the hook for dealing with all the copper

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Scary Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 4h

the fact that it appears to be up to every individual instance whether my experience of clicking on a link to a mastodon post in a web page and wanting to boost is helpful or 'fuck you figure it out yourself' is one of those tiny papercuts that drives people away

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Scary Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 4h

as a person who uses both, the reason I spend more time is that that when Mastodon fails for me, it fails *annoyingly* and I get fed up and go back to something with a better experience

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Scary Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 4h

today's daily Amazon buying recommendations: because just asking readers for money is so old skool

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Scary Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 4h

I *think* that the only Office icons that don't have letters on will be on iOS to match whatever the design system there is called at the moment; the Microsoft design blog says they *will* have 'letter places' elsewhere, so it's just rounded corners again

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Bloody Marla 🏳️‍⚧️ @desperatemarlas.bsky.social · 1d

trump: transgenders and windmills all over the place

This is a real quote. This is the most horrific thing he can conjure up

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Scary Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 8h

I hope they manage to scale it out as well; it's covered a relatively small number of people and doing it on a larger scale could really move the dial

Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 2d

For every €1 provided through a Basic Income For Artists pilot program in Ireland, the government got €1.46 back. So it’s being made permanent.

Over and over we see it. It saves public money to provide public housing. And it makes public money to provide basic income.

We can’t afford to NOT do it.

Mike Sowden @mikeachim.bsky.social · 2d

Damn. This is amazing. £325 per week, paid monthly, for 3 years - and the result was a profit for the Irish economy:
www.citizensinformation.ie/en/employmen...

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So Mayer @suchmayer.bsky.social · 11h

This is what is says on the tin, but also: paying artists, creatives, producers & crew fairly & on time would deflate the false profit margins of *every* creative industry. Paying workers fairly wd "kill" industry *as an endless profit machine*. Not defending AI, saying this problem is baked in.

The Verge @theverge.com · May 26

Nick Clegg says asking artists for use permission would ‘kill’ the AI industry

Paul McCartne, Elton John and others signed an open letter.

buff.ly

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Scary Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 9h

spiritual ugliness isn't the face or the features or the body or even the posture; it comes from the inside

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Scary Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 9h

we're upgrading the firmware on the landline is as ludicrous to most people as upgrading the firmware on their lightbulb or their door lock

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Scary Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 9h

post Y2K, IT came under the CFO because 'you spent all that money and now you want more and nothing *happened*' and that's why security and development practices in enterprise were terrible for so long. I watched it happen, I wrote about it happening and I still look back at the impact

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Danny Palmer @dannypalmer.bsky.social · 16h

Even after all my years of covering cybersecurity, it still kind of blows my mind how young the kids behind these major attacks have become.

Plus the way it appears to be evolving into a homegrown issue - attacks by British people, rather than the 'traditional' faraway Russian perpetrators...

Jessica Lyons @jessicalyons.bsky.social · 1d

London cops on Tuesday arrested two teenagers on suspicion of computer misuse and blackmail following a ransomware attack on a chain of London preschools.

Teens arrested in London preschool ransomware attack

: Both men, 17, taken into custody

www.theregister.com

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Scary Mary Branscombe @marypcbuk.bsky.social · 9h

when you figure out what the bigot's grift is

Dan Kaszeta FRHistS @dankaszeta.bsky.social · 12h

Go figure, a party leader who wants to deport a lot of homeowners wants the taxes on buying the rapidly vacated homes to be abolished.

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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 11h

NHS could pay 25% more for medicines under plan to end row with drugmakers and Trump

UK ministers seek to end pricing row with pharma industry cited as reason for firms axing projects Ministers are preparing to raise the amount the NHS pays pharmaceutical firms for medicines by up to 25% after weeks of intensive talks with the Donald Trump administration and drugmakers. The government has drawn up fresh proposals to end a standoff with the industry over drug pricing, including changing the cost-effectiveness thresholds under which new medications are assessed for use on the NHS, according to industry sources. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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