Fascinated by frontiers of human progress: innovation vs ignorance; wealth vs poverty. Oh, and coffee. @GavinChait@wandering.shop
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Even the dry dust sings when the rains return. #OurMemoryLikeDust African #scifi gavinchait.com/our-memory-li…
It's time to say so long & thanks for all the fish. I'll be making my migration permanent over at @GavinChait@wandering.shop
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ALT A white porcelain sink, lying smashed on a kerbside. "Look upon my sink, ye mighty, & despair."
Aircraft surveillance & #ADSB from a 2021 report I wrote on "Data, metadata & interoperability for future air mobility" for the Open Data Institute & the Connected Catapult Places docs.google.com/document/d/1… /1
ADS-B does not track people. It is an electronic box attached to aircraft broadcasting information about the craft. The only reason someone like Musk's movements are revealed by ADS-B is because he owns his own plane & uses it regularly. /8
ADS-B broadcasts in clear since it is a safety requirement & anyone can receive this. FlightRadar24.com is one of the largest community initiatives & integrates over 20,000 connected ADS-B receivers operated by hobbyists around the world. /fin
You may not like it but *this* is part of the EU's climate change adaptation strategy. Instead of preventing it, the EU will use Frontex to attempt to build walls impregnable to climate change refugees.
EU plans to deploy border agents in the western Balkans, in a bid to stem surging migrant numbers, the first time it would send Frontex officials outside of its jurisdiction ft.com/content/5cddd3f4-3e6d… @FinancialTimes
I've moved to a new #Mastodon server. The world's news - especially from more "fringe" regions - still gets relayed on Twitter, so I'll keep reading here, but I'll post on Mastodon. Follow me there @GavinChait@wandering.shop
Contextless waffle. The "grand ideological struggle" is not some subtle dispute over equity or redistribution, but an existential struggle against xenophobic fascist nationalism. It is a struggle to protect the most vulnerable from thugs & looters. There is no "both sides".
"Picking a permanent side in some grand ideological struggle – with its prepackaged set of principles & values, enemies & heroes – might bring psychological comfort in the short term, but it'll erode the capacity for intellectual honesty in the long term." world.hey.com/dhh/nobody-kno…
Laughs uproariously. I mean, it's not like the data on office vacancy trends hasn't been obvious for at least 5 years. And it's all public if anyone cares to look openlocal.uk #OpenData
So the asylum forms are inside the UK behind razorwire barricades around a border policed by acid-fanged wolves & radioactive sharks, & it's illegal to even glance at the wall, but, should you make it over, you're welcome to be housed in one of our concentration camps. Right?
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UPDATE: Twitter finally agreed to negotiate with the laid-off Africa team AFTER this story aired, their lawyer confirms.
- They weren’t offered severance until CNN reported it
- They weren’t allowed to negotiate their separation terms until CNN reported it
EXCLUSIVE: Fired Twitter Africa employees are standing up to Elon Musk, have hired a lawyer & are demanding what they're owed.
The Ghana team was only offered 'vague' severance pay after CNN reported on their plight. They rejected it
More: cnn.com/2022/11/21/tech/twit…