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Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 1h

From the Wayback Machine - ICEM 1996

Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 1d

Perfidious Albion

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 2d

Tory Conference debate on free speech. You see? Sometimes being "cancelled" is a mercy.

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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 2d

I am once again asking us all to recognize that the Luddites were not anti-technology but anti-exploitation. If they were around today they would have joined you in a call for technology that serves everyone’s, not just the bosses.

You *are* a Luddite Bernie, and you should be proud to be one

Senator Bernie Sanders @sanders.senate.gov · 3d

Can AI and robotics help us in many ways? I am not a Luddite — I believe they can.

But we must make sure these new technologies benefit all of us, not just a handful of billionaires.

I hope you'll take a few minutes to read my op-ed in Fox News. Let’s start the debate.

SEN SANDERS: AI must benefit everyone, not just a handful of billionaires

Billionaires like Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos invest billions in AI and robotics that could eliminate millions of jobs while increasing corporate profits at workers' expense.

www.foxnews.com

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Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 2d

I used an NHS system today.

I"m with the panda.

Melissa Terras @melissaterras.bsky.social · 2d

Today I got told off by a new computational system at work as I tried to book a meeting room more than 23 days in advance and that is AGAINST POLICY even tho I have meetings in my diary booked years ahead, thus creating more work for me at a time we are all having to do “more with less”. K Thanks 👍

a man is sitting at a desk with a panda bear on his shoulders

ALT: a man is sitting at a desk with a panda bear on his shoulders

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Wraith Games @wraith.games · 3d

October is National Co-op Month AND 2025 is the UN "International Year of Cooperatives"!

Since Wraith Games is a worker co-op, we figured the best way to celebrate would be to share some info about co-ops and why they're rad!

Ya'll ready for a thread?

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Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 4d

You might need to explain " gormless" to someone so evidently gormless

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Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 4d

Promises, promises...

David Harvey @topladave.bsky.social · 5d

You Knew this was Coming.

The Treasury Department is developing a commemorative coin, of President Trump, for the nation’s 250th birthday. An 1866 act established that only deceased people could appear on U.S. currency.

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/03/b...

Treasury Plans to Mint $1 Commemorative Trump Coin

www.nytimes.com

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 5d

Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."

Defend Democracy @defenddemocracy.bsky.social · 5d

President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!

We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”

defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...

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Ben Williamson @benpatrickwill.bsky.social · 5d

The situation with Blackboard - now its owner is bankrupt and it's coming under new private equity ownership and control - is serious enough the UK agency for HE tech is advising all affected universities to seek assurances regarding data security inspiringlearning.jiscinvolve.org/wp/2025/10/s...

Data protection (UK GDPR)
Obtain confirmation that Anthology will continue to meet its UK GDPR Article 28 obligations as your data processor throughout the process.
Get clarification of sub processor stability (no changes planned; if changes are anticipated, please provide advance notice and details).
Confirm that no organisational changes arising from the restructuring will alter how your personal data is accessed, processed, or transferred; if any changes are envisaged, please outline controls, locations, and safeguards.

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HOPE not hate @hopenothate.org.uk · 6d

Hate seeks to divide us. But hope endures when we stand together. Our solidarity is with the Jewish community today. #britainstandstogether

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Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 7d

This is the place

www.youtube.com/watch?v=PszM...

Poem about Manchester: 'This is the Place' - BBC News

YouTube video by BBC News

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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 7d

Reform UK Falkirk councillor caught out in STV interview

'I shouldn't have said that': Reform councillor caught out in STV interview

A REFORM UK councillor has been left red-faced following an interview where she claimed it is scary as someone “who was born and bred here”…

www.thenational.scot

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Sonny Rollins @thesonnyrollins.bsky.social · 8d

Happy Birthday Oscar Pettiford! Here's the bassist with Sonny Rollins and Max Roach on Noël Coward's "Someday I'll Find You," from the 1958 Riverside LP The Freedom Suite: youtu.be/0IGAe0mXKgs?...

Someday I'll Find You

YouTube video by Sonny Rollins - Topic

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Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 8d

Respect to the photographer.

The Register @theregister.com · 8d

California lawmakers pretend to regulate AI, create a pile of paperwork

LLM makers have to file a steady stream of reports in the name of transparency A year after vetoing a tougher bill, California Gov Gavin Newsom has signed the nation's first AI transparency law, forcing big model developers to publish frameworks and file incident reports, but critics argue it's more paperwork than protection.…

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Seb Schmoller @schmoller.net · Oct 1

All digital services must work well on sub-par connections, with sub-par devices, and make sense to "sub-par" users. For key individual-facing services a functional non-digital alternative must be retained. (Nothing original in any of this.)

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 9d

Very good stuff from Sadiq Khan at the Labour Irish society event. He said there are two reasons he loves coming to Labour Conference.

“One is the reception at the Labour Party Irish Society reception.

“The second is to get away from all the Sharia Law in London”

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Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 10d

So, something must be done about something else. This is something etc....

I could equally say, how might it be used by a racist Reform govt.? (looks across the Atlantic).

The onus is on proponents to show how their solution addresses it and risks at least mitigated.

Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 10d

The onus, surely, is on the advocates to demonstrate a) how it will achieve their objectives, and b) that it can do so without major negative effects.

So no, I don't think my logic is more sweeping. I've seen these arguments plenty of times from 'innovators'.

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Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 10d

Something must be done!

This is something. We must do it!

Anyone who opposes us is an enemy of innovation/change resister/Luddite!

Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · 11d

Could we have a standing petition that just says:

"NO to anything new, despite not having any detail.

IT IS WOKE/IT WILL HERALD FASCISM/PALANTIR WILL STEAL MY BRAINWAVES/IT IS MARXISM/IT IS AI-ADJASCENT [delete as appropriate].

But mainly because WE ARE BRITISH and didn't think of it first."

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Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 10d

Timely...

K M Flett @keithbeard.bsky.social · 11d

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Socialist History Seminar Monday 6th October 5.30pm.People’s History of the Anti-Nazi League, Geoff Brown

Monday 6th October 5.30pm Geoff Brown, a People’s History of the Anti-Nazi League On Zoom. To Book: A People’s History of the Anti-Nazi League | Institute of Historical Research A People’s His…

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Byline Times @bylinetimes.bsky.social · 12d

Epstein’s contacts: “ far-right Silicon Valley billionaire and Trump supporter Peter Thiel, former Trump White House chief strategist Steve Bannon, and on-and-off-again Trump supporter and mogul Elon Musk”
www.msn.com/en-gb/news/w...

MSN

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 13d

Ok. They’ve pissed me off.

I’m back to tell you 3 things about ID cards:

1. Migrants ALREADY HAVE biometric ID cards & govts have been trying to digitise them for years w repeated fuckups & failures causing complete chaos - they don’t work, you do not want that system for you.

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I Post Animal Vids... 😊 @realjfairclough.bsky.social · 13d

Mouse: "Your contract ends the day you end me, think about it."

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

#cat #catday #bluesky #animals

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Steve Walker @steve-walker.bsky.social · 13d

So.

Immediately after discussing the seriousness of the JLR cyber attack, Liam Byrne moves smoothly on to why it's so important to put everyone's digital ID in a single place to access public services.