The Tories have a rare glimmer of awareness of the real world and realise that privatising public services makes them more expensive and worse. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-48288433
Oh yeah, and while I'm at it, registration to vote in the European Parliamentary elections closes in five days. Get on it. https://www.gov.uk/register-to-vote
Granted one could make a pretty solid argument that British democracy has no legitimacy thanks to the First Past the Post system, lack of recall, and having joined executive and legislative branches—but that’s a whole other argument.
Jeez that Facebook redesign concept is just... bad. Yikes. https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/30/18523265/facebook-events-groups-redesign-news-feed-features-f8-2019
Thinking about front end build tooling. Are Gulp or Webpack still the de facto options or has anything shiny looking popped up lately? #lazyweb
"At a Twitter all-hands meeting on March 22, an employee asked a blunt question: Twitter has largely eradicated Islamic State propaganda off its platform. Why can’t it do the same for white supremacist content?
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[Another] employee argued that, on a technical level, content from Republican politicians could get swept up by algorithms aggressively removing white supremacist material."
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