From the Wayback Machine - ICEM 1996

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

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

I used an NHS system today. I"m with the panda.

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?

Promises, promises...

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."

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...

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

This is the place www.youtube.com/watch?v=PszM...

Reform UK Falkirk councillor caught out in STV interview

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?...

Respect to the photographer.

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.)

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”

Something must be done! This is something. We must do it! Anyone who opposes us is an enemy of innovation/change resister/Luddite!

Timely...

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...

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.

Mouse: "Your contract ends the day you end me, think about it." 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 #cat #catday #bluesky #animals

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.

Lord Glasman "sought out, and was sought after, by some of the most important Trumpworld movers and shakers" JD Vance, Steve Bannon... Curtis Yarvin and "as @bylinetimes.bsky.social can reveal – the tech baron and Palantir data firm founder, Peter Thiel" bylinetimes.com/2025/09/25/b...

They've lost the 9yos

Golf courses take up more land than solar farms.

The PFI disaster Wes Streeting readies more of the NHS for privatisation. Hands £6m to advisers. NHS will be a shell doling out contracts to private equity and corporations. Profits guaranteed. Money will buy less. Higher taxes, lower value. Say NO to privatisation of the NHS.

🔴 NEW: Larry Ellison’s £257m bet on Tony Blair Our investigation with @lighthousereports.com reveals how the Tony Blair Institute has been accused of pushing the interests of tech tycoon Ellison — Trump’s “CEO of everything” — and his company Oracle democracyforsale.substack.com/p/inside-the...

‘Thirty one journalists and media staff were killed by Israeli strikes on newspaper offices in Yemen last week...’ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...

Declassified UK (@declassifiedUK) revealed that Israeli army officers trained in London during Israel’s Gaza assault, with one later leading an invasion of Lebanon. The disclosure has provoked outrage over the UK's legitimisation of Israel's war crimes.

In case you thought I was exaggerating, here is the "debate" on Kimmel from Newsnight. David Frum explaining the horrific first-amendment-breaching executive overreach. British right wing hacks: bUt HiS jOkE wAs iNaCCuRaTe!

Sounds like a strategy...

Left-Wing Group Too Disorganized For FBI Agents To Infiltrate https://theonion.com/left-wing-group-too-disorganized-for-fbi-agents-to-infi-1848923025/

Good grief...

Brilliant

A bit like moocs were touted as tearing down ivory towers but actually went real hard to associate with ivory towers first and gain apparent legitimacy from attachment to high-status institutional brands

Somen noodle manufacturing line by Ibonoito.

Reform UK are Tories 2.0 Former Tory MPs that are now members of Reform UK: Maria Caulfield Danny Kruger Andrea Jenkyns Aidan Burley Alan Amos Nadine Dorries David Jones Sir Jake Berry Graham Simpson Adam Holloway Anne Marie Morris Marco Longhi Ross Thomson Lee Anderson

In some molecules, electrons are imbalanced. When radiation hits these imbalanced molecules, they vibrate or spin. This motion redirects the radiation in a random direction. We call this quantum phenomenon the greenhouse effect. www.quantamagazine.org/the-quantum-...

Who is the Robert Moses of computer design?

I've written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage, urging them to join me in condemning Elon Musk's dangerous remarks inciting violence yesterday. As leaders, we must stand together and make clear Musk will face serious consequences for these actions.

If I were the UK Government I would simply not route all my communications through the platform whose owner just called for regime change in Britain and said "fight back or die"

Great news from the Etihad. Senior management have set up a committee...

A fantastic speech against the madness in Gaza from the Israeli conductor Ilan Volkov. He's speaking up for our shared humanity here. Against what's being done to innocents on both sides. But the Palestinians and Jews who want peace there are not powerful enough to stop it. They all need our help.

Every time I think about someone saying "it's inevitable" when it comes to some tech thing, I think about Toronto stopping Google from creating a 'smart neighborhood' with their Sidewalk Labs project. A bunch of people worked very hard in their community to say absolutely not, not here.

47/95 #sonnyrollins95for95 Sonny's "Doxy," recorded live in Dec. '62 at the Village Gate with Don Cherry, Billy Higgins, and Bob Cranshaw, from Our Man in Jazz: youtu.be/hAqNxnWPnH0?...

#OtD 10 Sep 1931 anti-fascist midfielder Bruno Neri was the only Fiorentina player who refused to perform a fascist salute at the beginning of a match against Admira Vienna. Neri later became a partisan. Learn more about the resistance in our podcast: workingclasshistory.com/podcast/e77-...

we revealed in FT two years ago that Mandelson stayed at Epstein's luxury house in Manhattan while the financier was in jail for soliciting a minor he was deputy prime minister at the time always seemed weird that broadcasters didn't really pick this up at the time www.ft.com/content/0723...

OU's Ray Corrigan's rather trenchant submission to the ICO call for views on regulating online advertising b2fxxx.blogspot.com/2025/09/subm...

Is there a planned outage of the Internet Archive or.... ? @archive.org