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1/. I am at #CogX2021 for @MattHancock’s first public appearance - Live Tweeting from the front row
Oh dear! He’s just started & has lost his voice lost his voice
Short pause...
#MattHancock #COVID19 #coronavirus #Genomics #GenomeUK
Oh dear! He’s just started & has lost his voice lost his voice
Short pause...
#MattHancock #COVID19 #coronavirus #Genomics #GenomeUK
2/. Matt’s back!
@MattHancock has regained his voice & is continuing his keynote address at #CogX2021
A friend just DMed:
“Maybe he lost his voice when he you in the front row & realised you’re going to ask him about the links btw #Palantir #FacultyAI & #CambridgeAnalytica!”
@MattHancock has regained his voice & is continuing his keynote address at #CogX2021
A friend just DMed:
“Maybe he lost his voice when he you in the front row & realised you’re going to ask him about the links btw #Palantir #FacultyAI & #CambridgeAnalytica!”
3/. #MattHancock says that he thinks that GP’s having exclusive control of patient data is “undemocratic”
Instead he says he wants every citizen to control their own data(!?)
He says people are enthusiastic about sharing their health data as long as privacy is assured #CogX2021
Instead he says he wants every citizen to control their own data(!?)
He says people are enthusiastic about sharing their health data as long as privacy is assured #CogX2021
1/. 18 years ago as the bombs rained down on #Iraq as Operation Shock & Awe began, Eric Levy was in Baghdad in a power station
He'd gone to #Iraq with hundreds of human shields to try & stop an illegal war & to protect Iraqi civilians by staying in civilian infrastructure sites.
He'd gone to #Iraq with hundreds of human shields to try & stop an illegal war & to protect Iraqi civilians by staying in civilian infrastructure sites.
2/. Eric - now 92 - was one of about 80 human shields who stayed throughout the #IraqWar
"The war was illegal & immoral. We may have failed to stop the invasion, but by putting ourselves in harm’s way, we sent a clear message to the world"
That's courage
vice.com/en/article/kw5…
"The war was illegal & immoral. We may have failed to stop the invasion, but by putting ourselves in harm’s way, we sent a clear message to the world"
That's courage
vice.com/en/article/kw5…
3/. In 2003, a convoy of 3 double- decker buses left London for Baghdad
On board were 50+ human shields; the first hundreds of Western
anti-war activists to travel to #Iraq
None knew what lay ahead
All of them knew that they might not be coming back. zcomm.org/zmagazine/the-…
On board were 50+ human shields; the first hundreds of Western
anti-war activists to travel to #Iraq
None knew what lay ahead
All of them knew that they might not be coming back. zcomm.org/zmagazine/the-…
