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Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · Apr 27

"End times fascism is a darkly festive fatalism – a final refuge for those who find it easier to celebrate destruction than imagine living without supremacy"

Dr. Émile P. Torres @xriskology.bsky.social · Apr 25

Silicon Valley is run by people who genuinely think the world as we know it is going to end in the next few decades. Many also WANT this to happen: they WANT the biological world to be replaced by a new digital world. They WANT "posthumans" to take the place of humans. A 🧵:

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Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 6h

Nope.

Mandatory ID, being rolled out for these services.

It categorically states that.

Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 6h

Full fact are not correct..

These things do not require the right to work, which include pensioners, and disability claimants.

So.. everyone (except children)

Instead, the roll-out will in time make it simpler to apply for services like driving licences, childcare and welfare, while streamlining access to tax records.

Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 6h

You keep talking about immigration.. but the press release is not specific to that.. nor is is specific to workers.

"Instead, the roll-out will in time make it simpler to apply for services like driving licences, childcare and welfare, while streamlining access to tax records."

Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 6h

"Instead, the roll-out will in time make it simpler to apply for services like driving licences, childcare and welfare, while streamlining access to tax records."

You don't need to be employed to access those services.

Welfare includes pensions and disability payments.

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Kat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 11h

I can’t believe I have to say this, but historically, masked men who kidnap families in the middle of the night are usually not the good guys.

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Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 8h

It's already written.

Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 8h

Something NI numbers already do under UKVI account for eVisas..

You see, having a government gateway account, and a UTR already exists..

Do what's the point of digital ID if these systems already exist?

www.gov.uk/apply-nation...

Apply for a National Insurance number

Apply for your first National Insurance number - you must have the right to live and work in the UK.

www.gov.uk

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Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 8h

You don't seem to understand what a clarifying statement is.

Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 9h

"Building on the work already underway to roll out a GOV.UK digital wallet, the digital ID will sit on people’s phones"

This ID will absolutely include pensioners, and those claiming disability.

Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 9h

Since pensions are taxable, and must be considered in self assessment.. I'm assuming "people in work" would cover "income that is taxable"?

Oh, and don't forget the campaigns to get the permanently disabled into work!

Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 9h

..and yet NI numbers exist for the very reason they say this is needed for.

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Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 10h

For work? So there is no need to spend money implementing something that already exists!

NI numbers.

Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 10h

..or a NI number to work.

Something that already exists.

Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 17h

Full fact don't seem to be actually fact checking..

Government link showing a press release from Kier Starmer defining Digital ID as mandatory.

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Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 17h

Its like they didn't even fucking look...

"Digital ID will be mandatory"

www.gov.uk/government/n...

New digital ID scheme to be rolled out across UK

A new digital ID scheme will help combat illegal working while making it easier for the vast majority of people to use vital government services. Digital ID will be mandatory for Right to Work checks ...

www.gov.uk

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Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 17h

Could you clarify what your understanding of "mandatory" is?

Because this is a press release from Keir starmer saying exactly what you said hasn't been said.

www.gov.uk/government/n...

New digital ID scheme to be rolled out across UK

www.gov.uk

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d

"This is supposed to be an oversight hearing" -- Schiff helpfully ticks through all of the incriminating questions -- and there are many of them -- that Bondi refused to answer during today's hearing

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Melanie D’Arrigo @darrigomelanie.bsky.social · 1d

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

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Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 1d

This was always it.. the cries for "free speech" were freedom from consequence.

.. in short, the freedom to bully.

Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 1d

Walking on eggshells is exactly what happens in abusive relationships.

Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 1d

You will notice he didn't say it was a good thing.

Yes, that is racist.

Hope that helps.

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Stop Funding Hate @stopfundinghate.bsky.social · 1d

"Ofcom appears to be unwilling to intervene and unwilling to regulate this channel in the same way as it regulates other television news channels." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

GB News’s US expansion feared to be new way for Trumpian views to reach UK audience

White House backing was on full display as GB News launched The Late Show Live

www.theguardian.com

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Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 2d

I'm not trying to be difficult, but I don't fully understand..

you're saying a lack of trust in the government has developed because people needed to adapt slightly?

And many people were paid to stay at home, I know not all.

But what you describe isn't only applicable to "families".

Ready Player Zero @readyplayerzero.bsky.social · 2d

Consideration of what?