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Shaun Chamberlin @DarkOptimism@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

If you're in England, your #NHS medical data is due to be shared with #PeterThiel's military surveillance firm #Palantir.

Fyi, Palantir have already been using their access to US medical records to target people for #ICE, and #ReformUK have published their plans for ICE UK...

In case you — like me — object to this in the strongest of terms, the @goodlawproject@mastodon.world have put together this handy tool to check your local NHS Trust's position, and to say no to this.

https://notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-target/stop-palantir-in-the-nhs/

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Shaun Chamberlin @DarkOptimism@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

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@royaards Pairs nicely with this from Andy Singer

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Shaun Chamberlin @DarkOptimism@mstdn.social

· 4mo ago

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@Silversnapples@mastodonapp.uk The *two* links for opting out of data sharing are given in this useful, informative piece: https://theconversation.com/palantir-and-the-nhs-10-things-you-need-to-know-281165

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Shaun Chamberlin @DarkOptimism@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

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@baillehache_pascal Little bit of maths trivia I learned recently — the "B ." in Benoît B. Mandelbrot stands for Benoît B. Mandelbrot.

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Shaun Chamberlin @DarkOptimism@mstdn.social

· 2mo ago

Hopefully see many of you at #Kollapscamp next month! I'll be both holding a workshop and giving an evening talk.

From 5–9 August, people are gathering in Kuhlmühle (northern Brandenburg) to address the unfolding crises and disasters in solidarity, instead of paralysis.

Loads of hands-on workshops (from first aid to crisis radio to dealing with fear), plus networking, panels, talks, cinema, a collective kitchen, concerts … all funded on a solidarity basis ✊️

https://kollapscamp.de/index-en.html

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Shaun Chamberlin @DarkOptimism@mstdn.social

· 3mo ago

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@Karen5Lund@mastodon.social @vaurora@mstdn.social @effy@social.effy.space My family's from Liverpool, and in that dialect "dead" means "very". As in "I got this top dead cheap — I love it!" I once signed off an email to a (non Liverpudlian) girl I really fancied with "Hopefully see you dead soon". It took me ages to realise... ☠️

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Shaun Chamberlin @DarkOptimism@mstdn.social

· 4mo ago

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@leighms@mastodonapp.uk @Silversnapples@mastodonapp.uk Hi Leigh, under "8. Can I opt my data out? If so, how?" the article gives this more straightforward link to both options: https://www.nhs.uk/using-the-nhs/about-the-nhs/opt-out-of-sharing-your-health-records/ But I highly recommend checking out the context in the article too rather than going straight there, since while I opted out in both ways myself some time ago, it might not be in everyone's interests to do so ✊🏼

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Shaun Chamberlin @DarkOptimism@mstdn.social

· 3mo ago

"Anyone who tells you that taking time for joy is a distraction has no idea what they are talking about. … during the darkest days of the AIDS crisis we buried our friends in the morning, we protested in the afternoon, and we danced all night, and it was the dance that kept us in the fight because it was the dance we were fighting for." ~ Dan Savage

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Shaun Chamberlin @DarkOptimism@mstdn.social

· 3mo ago

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@Tutanota@mastodon.social For anyone who hasn't tried it, the switch from Word to LibreOffice is so easy and smooth 👍🏼 And it's free, forever.

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Shaun Chamberlin @DarkOptimism@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

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@baillehache_pascal And I literally just discovered this: "Mandelbrot was a bit of a rebel in the mathematical community ... He also added the middle initial ‘B’ to his name himself, even though it did not actually stand for anything." (https://math-soc.com/biographies/benoit-mandelbrot/ ) So I think this was actually HIS joke! Or maybe he just set it up and left it out there for someone to discover, just like he found fractals waiting out there in the universe ⚡️ This man was a DUDE!!!

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Benoît Mandelbrot – Maths Society

Benoît Mandelbrot (1924–2010) is the father of fractal geometry, the man who proved that nature isn’t just a series of blurry shapes but a never-ending loop of complexity. He discovered the incredible Mandelbrot set, one of the maths world’s most famous fractals. Abir G If you have ever looked at a head of Romanesco broccoli […]

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Shaun Chamberlin @DarkOptimism@mstdn.social

· 3mo ago

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@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange Because BigTech have carefully ensured that the devil's in the default. It's taken me a whole lot of time to DEdefault all our comms tech. Totally agree it's deeply worthwhile and ultimately necessary, but activists tend to be busy folk doing our thing. The harder I work at one thing, the unluckier I get at all the things I haven't made time for!

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Shaun Chamberlin @DarkOptimism@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

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@ApostateEnglishman I guess I'd be ashamed too if I in any way identified with the monarchy or the British state. To my eyes, as an Englishman, both are representatives of the hierarchy of scumbags who #enclosed the commons that our ancestors lived off, driving them from the land of their birth. Which leaves my feelings more an intensification of the desire to be rid of the lot of them than any kind of personal shame. #lovemynationhatemystate

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Shaun Chamberlin @DarkOptimism@mstdn.social

· 3mo ago

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@vaurora@mstdn.social @effy@social.effy.space Oh, thank you!! This is up there for me in the rarefied air of Damn You Autocorrect for eliciting tears of laughter! https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/funniest-autocorrect-faiils-2014_n_6391880

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Shaun Chamberlin @DarkOptimism@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

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@Techaltar This kind of nonsense is exactly why we moved all our org's educational videos to Peertube

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Shaun Chamberlin @DarkOptimism@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

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@gael@mastodon.social Thank you for the great /e/OS operating system that I've been enjoying for the past six years on my Fairphone 3! ❤️

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Shaun Chamberlin @DarkOptimism@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

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@blog Highly recommend #BrettScott's exceptional piece on this: https://www.asomo.co/p/tech-doesnt-make-our-lives-easier

asomo.co

Tech doesn’t make our lives easier. It makes them faster

Breaking through the illusion of convenience that's used to sell us automation

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Shaun Chamberlin @DarkOptimism@mstdn.social

· 2mo ago

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@ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz Out of interest, what's the year at the bottom, which deviated from the range of previous observations to a similar degree, but in the other direction? V curious about that, its causes and retrospective significance. EDIT — it's 1988.

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Shaun Chamberlin @DarkOptimism@mstdn.social

· 2mo ago

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@ColinTheMathmo@mathstodon.xyz You wrote: "This is noW a projection". I think you meant: "This is noT a projection".

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Shaun Chamberlin @DarkOptimism@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

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@Ananas@jorts.horse It's included — delightfully, charmingly! — in the html source 😍

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Shaun Chamberlin @DarkOptimism@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

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@lcamtuf@infosec.exchange Oh my God, guys. GUYS!!! "Mandelbrot was a bit of a rebel in the mathematical community ... He also added the middle initial ‘B’ to his name himself, even though it did not actually stand for anything." (source: https://math-soc.com/biographies/benoit-mandelbrot/ ) So I think this was actually HIS joke! Or even better, he deliberately didn't make the joke, but set it up and left it out there for someone to discover, just like he found fractals waiting out there in the universe ⚡ This man was a DUDE!!!

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Benoît Mandelbrot – Maths Society

Benoît Mandelbrot (1924–2010) is the father of fractal geometry, the man who proved that nature isn’t just a series of blurry shapes but a never-ending loop of complexity. He discovered the incredible Mandelbrot set, one of the maths world’s most famous fractals. Abir G If you have ever looked at a head of Romanesco broccoli […]

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Shaun Chamberlin @DarkOptimism@mstdn.social

· 4mo ago

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@masek@infosec.exchange Nice, I also have my own domain with a ProtonMail mailbox and a wildcard entry for *@domain, and will now be stealing this brilliant application of it! 😍 Fyi, I also sometimes use ProtonMail's alias feature when I don't want to give them my domain and will likely continue with that. But now leveraging my wildcard far more powerfully. Thank you! ❤️

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Shaun Chamberlin @DarkOptimism@mstdn.social

· 4mo ago

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@masek@infosec.exchange Ooh, interesting! Which service do you use to generate the email addresses, if you don't mind sharing? I'm assuming they all feed through to one inbox (or a few), rather than you logging into each one separately!! 😄

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Shaun Chamberlin @DarkOptimism@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

"There’s an atmosphere of suspended animation. The world still seems normal.

...We can’t even hear the words of the head of the European Central Bank, Christine Lagarde:
“We are in for a real shock that is probably beyond what we can imagine at the moment.”

...We’re already in an information crisis, a democracy crisis, a worldwide populist insurgency.

Now add a global economic shock - the biggest one ever, according to the International Energy Agency - into the mix."

https://broligarchy.substack.com/p/its-a-journocide

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Journocide

Targeting journalists and killing them with impunity isn't just a war crime, it's a warning of what comes next

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Shaun Chamberlin @DarkOptimism@mstdn.social

· 4mo ago

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@FlockOfCats@famichiki.jp I want to thank you for this. It has been regularly chuckling me all day Sometimes something just hits your sense of humour bang on!! 😍

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Shaun Chamberlin @DarkOptimism@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

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@CTHW @royaards Yeah, not to mention that the freedom and adventure-filled empty roads they're selling in the ads are actually traffic-jammed up with all the people who bought their BS!

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Shaun Chamberlin @DarkOptimism@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

RE: @DarkOptimism@mstdn.social

Looking forward to this, in half an hour 🤡

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Shaun Chamberlin @DarkOptimism@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

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@LillyHerself @goodlawproject Ooh, good to know, thanks! I don't confuse England and the UK, but didn't know that. All power to the ever more reasonable Scotland, and I'll now update the original post 🙏🏼

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Shaun Chamberlin @DarkOptimism@mstdn.social

· 7mo ago

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@cstross@wandering.shop Interesting! As a member of the #SocietyOfAuthors, I commend my trade union! #BrettScott launched his similar badge — which I include with my online writing — over a year ago with this brilliant essay: https://www.asomo.co/p/against-the-factory-farming-of-creativity

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Shaun Chamberlin @DarkOptimism@mstdn.social

· 11mo ago

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Delighted to have just confirmed that the incomparable #LeahAvene will be joining us on #TheDeeperDive this winter (or summer, for Leah in so-called Australia): https://www.coculturecommunication.com/about-leah-history (#TheDeeperDive offered on trust-based inclusive pricing, as ever. Money can never be an obstacle to participation in our spaces)

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Shaun Chamberlin @DarkOptimism@mstdn.social

· 4mo ago

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@marjolica@social.linux.pizza @leighms@mastodonapp.uk @Silversnapples@mastodonapp.uk Yes, the correct link is the one linked in the article, which also does not require use of the app: https://www.nhs.uk/using-the-nhs/about-the-nhs/opt-out-of-sharing-your-health-records/ Unfortunately Leigh's device didn't show him that link so he went in search of another. Maybe you can delete that post Leigh, since people are still finding it.

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Shaun Chamberlin @DarkOptimism@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

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Shaun Chamberlin @DarkOptimism@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

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@DaRC_Fantom And their co-founder Peter Thiel's comments that with regard to the NHS we need to “rip the whole thing from the ground and start over”, and introduce more “market mechanisms”...

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Shaun Chamberlin @DarkOptimism@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

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@stonebear2@hachyderm.io @lcamtuf@infosec.exchange Oh wow thank you! Absolutely loved that!! Do you get the "You're a day-glo pterodactyl" lyric? That one went over my head, but at least looked pretty while doing so!

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Shaun Chamberlin @DarkOptimism@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

Tomorrow, from 7pm Irish Time, I'll be in conversation with a couple of clowns!!

Not my usual fare, but I suspect a portal to something interesting and refreshing!

I'm smiling just writing about it 😼

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZC8XgaPjkis

#ClownSpirit

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Shaun Chamberlin @DarkOptimism@mstdn.social

· 6mo ago

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@nixCraft@mastodon.social Gotta love that there's a plug for Protonmail in there too, given that their 'clientele' is pretty much exclusively gmail users! 😍 #TheDevilIsInTheDefault

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Shaun Chamberlin @DarkOptimism@mstdn.social

· 5mo ago

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@TheQuinbox@dragonscave.space Troublingly addictive!

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