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Brett Hetherington 🍉 (*No AI used here)

@BrettHethering

Author – Slow Travels in Unsung Spain https://teapawt.net/t.co/NlhSCOCx0C Words @ABCNews @CataloniaToday | UNESCO City of Lit. Virtual Resident (Melbourne) 2025

 Australia→Japan→UK→Spain
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Another new ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ reader review (that makes it all worthwhile) "Strikingly akin to George Orwell’s Homage to Catalonia. Exudes authenticity and realism. A book meant more for explorers than for tourists..." bretthetherington.blogspot.c…
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Ewan Morrison
@MrEwanMorrisonNov 7
Mass anti-AI protest in Scotland. More than 70 orgs have backed a huge protest against AI data centres. Saturday Nov 14 on Royal Mile, Edinburgh. It's part of a Europe-wide wave of protests called Stop Dirty Data Centres, with 70 protests taking place in 15 countries Link below👇
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Sullivan Poulter@SullivanPoulter10h
We need this in the UK ! Our government will be slow to act we must push
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Refusal letters have been riddled with basic errors, made-up requirements and a disregard of human tragedies, which were previously treated with discretion. theguardian.com/politics/202…
‘Windrush’ accusations over sharp rise in Turkish nationals facing removal from UK

‘Windrush’ accusations over sharp rise in Turkish nationals facing removal from UK

David Lammy among those raising concerns after errors found in rejected applications for indefinite leave to remain

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Imagine what they'd do together in a joint extreme-right govt. The mind boggles!
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Very much worth remembering that she is one of many... "She branded cultural boycotts (including those against the Israeli govt's genocide, in support of the Palestinian people) as a “contraction of the mind”. thecanary.co/opinion/2024/06…
Marina Hyde just EXPOSED herself as the liberal chancer she really is on book festival boycotts

Marina Hyde just EXPOSED herself as the liberal chancer she really is on book festival boycotts

Media commentator Marina Hyde spoke out against book festival boycotts. And she showed all that's wrong with Western liberal media class.

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Jennifer
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The AI winter is coming. Amazon, YouTube and Spotify are quietly scaling back their AI features. This isn’t kindness. Our pushback is working. Keep rejecting unregulated AI. Every voice matters.
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“Axon has created a mass-surveillance infrastructure that is practically impossible to avoid,” the lawsuit said.
Save Democracy (@rleas) profile pictureSave Democracy@rleasNov 6
Axon sued over AI-powered license plate reader network reuters.com/legal/government…
Axon sued over AI-powered license plate reader network

Axon sued over AI-powered license plate reader network

Axon Enterprise , maker of Taser electric stun devices, police body cameras and AI-powered surveillance technology, has ​been sued in a proposed class action accusing ‌the company of unlawfully...

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"Spain’s high-speed train control centre: state-of-the-art software and tremendous pressure. Following the second major crash in under a year, unions are blasting working conditions at the epicentre of Adif’s network management’." english.elpais.com/spain/202…
Spain’s high-speed train control center: state-of-the-art software and tremendous pressure

Spain’s high-speed train control center: state-of-the-art software and tremendous pressure

Following the second major crash in under a year, unions are blasting working conditions at the epicenter of Adif’s network management

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James Melville 🚜
@JamesMelvilleNov 6
More than 100 data centres are currently being planned or built across the UK. Imagine living next to one of these monstrosities. Just listen to it.
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Heroes.
Al Jazeera English (@AJEnglish) profile pictureAl Jazeera English
@AJEnglishNov 6
More than 100 activists broke into a Microsoft data centre construction site in Amsterdam, climbing cranes and hanging anti-AI banners. This marks the start of two days of coordinated protests across 16 countries against the rapid expansion of AI infrastructure.

Protesters break into Microsoft AI data centre site in Amsterdam

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"There's no money in poetry but then there’s no poetry in money, either." --Robert Graves
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Taxpayers to help billionaires with their overblown schemes. Again!
Rick the rabble-rousing Luddite, 🚫AI (@dreamosaurus) profile pictureRick the rabble-rousing Luddite, 🚫AI@dreamosaurusNov 5
Like clockwork
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The Darkest Matter
@Dr_Dark_Matter_Nov 5
The people have spoken: data centers should not be prioritized over humans.
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Madrid No Frills@madridnofrillsOct 9
Welcome to The No Frills PODCAST, Episode 1 🎙️ Join me on the streets of Spain to explore what people are really thinking and feeling. In my first episode, I record the birth of a new social movement that has culminated in Madrid’s Sol encampment ⛺️☀️ madridnofrills.com/the-no-fr…
Podcast (Ep 1): Maricarmen and The Madrid Encampment – A New Social Movement is Born

Podcast (Ep 1): Maricarmen and The Madrid Encampment – A New Social Movement is Born

Welcome to The No Frills Podcast. Join me on the streets of Spain to explore what people are really thinking and feeling. In this first ever episode of The No Frills Podcast, I record the birth of a...

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New Progress 🧢⬆️🍎🦉🇺🇸 #HumanityForward (@NewProgressUSA) profile picture
New Progress 🧢⬆️🍎🦉🇺🇸 #HumanityForward@NewProgressUSANov 4
Universal basic income is the only policy that delivers change that ALL Americans can feel in their wallets.
Acyn (@Acyn) profile pictureAcyn
@AcynNov 4
Mamdani: It is not enough for us as Democrats to win power. We have to use that power to deliver change that Americans can feel in their wallets.
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Parisian Aesthetics
@Parisianaes1Nov 3
Protect the real data centers 📚
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Grace Blakeley@graceblakeleyNov 5
Republicans lost because people can’t afford to eat and billionaires want to build data centres in their backyards. The Democratic establishment has no solutions to these problems. Socialists need to prove that they do. graceblakeley.substack.com/p…
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Strange how placing your eyebrows higher on your forehead can be a substitute for action.
Zack Polanski (@ZackPolanski) profile pictureZack Polanski@ZackPolanskiNov 4
This is the same Labour Government letting B52 bombers take off from British soil to bomb Iran - while people here at home pay the price of Trump's illegal war in spiking energy prices. Warm words about ending the war won't cut it - Burnham must end the UK's participation.
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Privacy International@privacyintNov 5
Intelligence agencies around the world are adopting AI in the shadows. Our new report examines the UK’s intelligence agencies and finds a troubling combination of expanding technological power, weak safeguards and secrecy. privacyinternational.org/new…

What are the dangers of Intelligence Agencies using AI tools for surveillance?

A year ago, we started asking three questions:

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Katy Kelleher@KatyKelleherNov 4
AI is unpopular. Data centers are unpopular. The only people I know who ride for AI are currently making money off of it. No one likes this shit. It’s garbage. Throw it away!!!
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