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Technologist for the humans and misanthrope for the machines. Works on digital safety and information security for media and good orgs via Internews. Opinions are my own and subject to drift.
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lkkrgat26c2x
Published: March 17, 2025 08:48
All the poll leading UK political parties are right-wing. Labour is centre-right. Reform is far-right. Tories are legacy-right.
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lkkqxokpy22x
Published: March 17, 2025 08:39
I need to take a sabbitical to just read everything.
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lkjv6eufec2x
Published: March 17, 2025 00:22
Biden was against Putin and with Putin on the Med. Trump recognizes they're both the same.
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lkjnxzh3bs2p
Published: March 16, 2025 22:13
22 years ago today, and nearly everything she wrote about would still be as true if it was written last week.
https://www.palestinechronicle.com/22-years-since-rachel-corries-killing-a-legacy-of-solidarity-and-resistance/
https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lkjmhyblsk23
Published: March 16, 2025 21:46
Let's make sure Corporate AI nicking people's creations isn't ever classified as fair use and put an end to the fakery once and for all, then.
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lkj3vovp3k2h
Published: March 16, 2025 16:50
SpaceX will not be a thing by 2031. Bet me.
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lkivpjjdyc2h
Published: March 16, 2025 14:59
He voted against his wife.
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lkielvkrpk2h
Published: March 16, 2025 09:53
History says be wary of those who are worried about Europe's borders and "incompatible" populations.
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lkibd6lna22h
Published: March 16, 2025 08:54
This is pure madness.
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lkgc64ag3225
Published: March 15, 2025 14:04
Good piece about awful people who've got the regime they asked for.
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lkgbhaifl225
Published: March 15, 2025 13:51
Asking the AI to deliver "human flourishing and economic competitiveness" while it's being used to wipe out jobs and scrape everyone's content for its own use is quite an ask.
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lkgaefac2225
Published: March 15, 2025 13:32
Eliminating USAGM is a gift to tyrants and authoritarians around the world.
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lkedjfk2nc2v
Published: March 14, 2025 19:23
His favourite people to support are all involved in occupations, colonising efforts, ethnic cleansing or apartheid. Or a mix.
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lkebea5a6k2o
Published: March 14, 2025 18:44
This looks super useful!
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lkeb5dpqbc2o
Published: March 14, 2025 18:40
Where can you even find chimpanzee milk at 6:30 on a Friday night... In this economy?
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lkeatbe5n22o
Published: March 14, 2025 18:35
He can't compete, so he cheat.
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lke7qycmok2o
Published: March 14, 2025 18:15
Elon's kidnapped children giveaway.
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lkduwubmac2y
Published: March 14, 2025 15:02
[If Chuck Schumer had been at the meeting on Yavin 4]
CHUCK SCHUMER: What if we just told them about the thermal exhaust port problem?
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lkdk6mbhks2f
Published: March 14, 2025 11:49
This is how you get things done in the current situation.
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lkdi4zp25s2g
Published: March 14, 2025 11:13
This is going to end badly and hand the next Tory government or Tory/Reform whatever it will be a massive win by just letting ministers lop off anything they feel like from week to week.
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lkce3evbks2i
Published: March 14, 2025 00:27
This guy has completely caved. Just retire and let people who want to oppose this regime get on the job.
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lkccnlfnfs2i
Published: March 14, 2025 00:02
He probably believes this. And when his own actions lead to deaths he'll blame his underlings as well.
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lkbywmvhzk2i
Published: March 13, 2025 21:08
Why would they want to buy planes from a country that could brick them on a whim?
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lkbrl5eq2c2i
Published: March 13, 2025 18:56
You should be able to sack a White House administration easier. That's the lesson.
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lkbhituisc23
Published: March 13, 2025 15:56
"...its capacity to be “other” is what the human race needs."
Jeanette is talking about tech that doesn't yet exist. The LLM is not an 'other.' It's a mathematical average of the sum of the human content in its corpus. I also hope an alien intelligence…
https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lkbedy5ytc2u
Published: March 13, 2025 15:00
No rules apply in America when it comes to Palestinians.
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lkbe7ss7ik2u
Published: March 13, 2025 14:57
I just want Canada to get to be an EU country so Schengen can be on the northern border of the U.S. just to scare the shit out of the dumb fucks.
https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lkbe5jz57s2u
Published: March 13, 2025 14:56
Going to crack open a bottle of one my Andalusian reds to make a toast to the EU, which was formed for the SOLE PURPOSE of taking advantage of the United States.
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lk7mdfn2ec23
Published: March 12, 2025 22:17
Standing up for a Palestinian's rights is now key to resisting America's descent into despotic rule.
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Published: March 12, 2025 20:03
Some maybe good news
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Published: March 12, 2025 17:42
Racisms within racisms.
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lk73uww2d223
Published: March 12, 2025 17:23
I wish the U.S. has an opposition instead of just handmaidens for the kleptocracy who will make sour faces but do absolutely fuck all.
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lk73b2bdks23
Published: March 12, 2025 17:12
I don't get the debate. I get why Fetterman has already announced he'll aid the Trump regime, he's a vacuous opportunist out for self promotion. But why would anyone else pass up any opportunity to oppose the demolition project?
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lk722lvj4s23
Published: March 12, 2025 16:50
"Canada must work with our allies to stand up for international law to promote sustainable peace and security in the Middle East and to support full access to humanitarian aid for Palestinian families."
— A normal head of state
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lk6ol3fec223
Published: March 12, 2025 13:25
'Sam Altman has bad taste' could be an alternate headline that's just as balanced as this one.
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lk6ml5nrdc23
Published: March 12, 2025 12:49
We need more people like this who are willing to do the job even when it puts the job at risk.
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lk6aga7lk227
Published: March 12, 2025 09:11
Meanwhile, Britain's response is tariffs to curl into a ball, cover the face and the kidneys, and hope for the best.
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/mar/11/keir-starmer-donald-trump-tariffs-uk-steel-us-canada
https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lk67yd7jvk2y
Published: March 12, 2025 09:04
Waiting to here from this Labour government what UK is doing to counter these tariffs, and also create better markets amid those being targeted by the U.S.
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lk65cz2ah223
Published: March 12, 2025 08:16
Wish we had access to that big single market that's much closer right about now. This is what it's like to depend on America.
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Published: March 11, 2025 22:49
Borders are artificial, Mexico.
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lk4v5gw53k2z
Published: March 11, 2025 20:17
Elon's battery car has more protections than you do.
https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lk4uqpkbms2z
Published: March 11, 2025 20:10
I wish the U.S. had a functioning democracy instead of two parties constantly gaslighting the public. There are some good Democrats, they need to get this old guard to retire.
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Published: March 11, 2025 19:51
Rear ending a Tesla is now going to do more than just fuck up your insurance premiums.
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lk4ltucrms2z
Published: March 11, 2025 17:30
I can't believe doge wouldn't have shut down such a federal program by now.
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lk4jfxo6tc2l
Published: March 11, 2025 16:47
I wish the Democrats cared as much for the 1st Amendment.
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lk4iin6swc22
Published: March 11, 2025 16:31
Was walking up my street today and saw no Tesla cars anywhere! It never occurred to me that my whole block has quietly been apart of the boycott movement. There isn't even a charging station, the people are so radical here.
https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lk4e2w2r722a
Published: March 11, 2025 15:11
So they failed at security 101 level stuff.
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lk4ck4rmec2r
Published: March 11, 2025 14:44
“I will not hesitate to increase this charge. If the United States escalates, I will not hesitate to shut the electricity off completely” — Ontario Premier Doug Ford
Canada has the juice.…
https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lk4cdh3aac2r
Published: March 11, 2025 14:40
If you don't buy a Tesla, you're under arrest. Do you own a Tesla? No? Criminal!
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lk467hd56s2l
Published: March 11, 2025 13:26
They are awaiting the safest way home possible like rational people and are not eager to jump in Elon's haphazard death trap. That's what's happening.
https://www.wired.com/story/elon-musk-stranded-astronauts-nasa-spacex-boeing/
https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lk44nj25k22l
Published: March 11, 2025 12:58
Hard to make fuckwits a protected class when they're so determined to inflict self harm.
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lk3ldzpsz22u
Published: March 11, 2025 07:49
Ketamine is also a problem in Blue Maga.
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3lk3ingbg622u
Published: March 11, 2025 07:01
This is Elon's only strategy: attack anyone authentic, because next to them he looks like what he is, a massive fraud.
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Published: March 10, 2025 23:43
Amazing!
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3ljzplgbwm22k
Published: March 10, 2025 13:59
@ofcom.bsky.social End-to-end encryption = online safety.
It keeps what we send on messaging apps secure from hackers, predators and every variety of malicious actor.
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/48-hours-tell-ofcom-practice-safe-text
https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3ljzmgagbec2z
Published: March 10, 2025 13:03
Build systems (or don't) as though one day they could be controlled by the worst people.
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3ljzlogwgu22z
Published: March 10, 2025 12:49
Maybe the EU suspends governments consorting with U.S. hate groups to overthrow it, at least until they sort themselves out.
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3ljzjgkbcus2z
Published: March 10, 2025 12:09
The U.S. will not recover for a generation from what's already been done in just a few weeks. Even if this regime is replaced by a better one, how can anyone trust it if it can just go nuts every four years?
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https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3ljz7erpkys2t
Published: March 10, 2025 09:09
They kind of are, though. They aren't statutory law, they have weight of law for anything subject to executive authority. They're legally binding. But oppose them anyway. It slows the machine down, triggers hearings, court cases, public pressure, etc. You…
https://bsky.app/profile/andrewfordlyons.net/post/3ljz4y6xlmk2z
Published: March 10, 2025 08:26
DRM but natsec.
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Published: March 9, 2025 21:41
I've destroyed a career or two. Highly recommend flaming out for the right reason if you get the choice.
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Published: March 9, 2025 18:53
It's just weird. For no reason at all, guy decides to go at Canada. It's the South Park movie plot.
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