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@rossatkin
Jan 7, 2019 • 3 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
Hoping that #BrexitUncivilWar has made my mild obsession with Dominic Cummings and political Facebook ads mainstream. Here's a thing I wrote two years ago medium.com/@rossatkin/the… and here's a thread about why most people still haven't got the message
I'm really enjoying reading the #BrexitUncivilWar hashtag, especially the fact that some people like @DouglasCarswell and @darrengrimes_ who feature are participating.
Finally if you want some, kind of, Dominic Cummings 'fan/un-fan art' here are a two illustrations for the blogs I wrote about him. #BrexitUncivilWar Graphical illustration of D...Hand drawn comic. The first...

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Oct 1, 2020
I’m so angry about this.
Thousands of disabled people's lives, which are already hard, are being made harder for literally no environmental benefit, because people who claim to advocate for the environment prefer crass rules of thumb to proper analysis bbc.co.uk/news/uk-englan…
I can’t believe that in 2020 someone from @ClientEarth is happy to say plastic straws are “some of the most pointless plastics out there”.

They have obviously never watched a person take 30 minutes to drink a cup of coffee through a straw because that’s the only way they can.
Even if they don’t know any affected disabled people, there is no way someone advocating about this issue could not have heard about the views of those affected. They’ve made the choice to dismiss other people’s lived experience because they believe the cause is more important.
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Sep 29, 2020
I don't know who needs to hear this but, acting on the opinions of a small number of individual scientists, on questions about which everyone acknowledges there is a huge amount of uncertainty is not the same as "following the science".
Not saying this to disparage any of the scientists advising the gov, who are doing their best in a difficult situation. More the tendency in the media to conflate what scientists think about open questions with 'science', which is a consensus position on well studied questions.
IMO, scientists are not necessarily the best placed to take practical decisions in situations of high uncertainty, as they are trained to defer judgement until they have enough data to draw robust conclusions. We are a years away from that point for this pandemic.
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Sep 14, 2020
I’m mainly doing this thread mainly as a marker to check back and see if I’m right, but here’s what I think is happening with all the theatrics around the Withdrawal Agreement at the moment.

It’s all about packaging. 📦
Packaging has a long lead time, and all the food producers have said that they need to order the packaging for the time after the transition period ends at the end of January, right now. businessinsider.com/brexit-food-co…
The government needs a way to let them know that the labelling requirements for food sold in NI and exported to the EU won't change after the transition period ends, without signalling their intention to negotiate an agreement with the EU that leaves the UK subject to EU rules.
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Aug 25, 2020
Random redditors from around the world have started dropping in and driving the little robot in this cardboard version of Wolfenstein 3D I've just finished and I feel like I'm definitely living in the future thecraftyrobot.net/blogs/projects…
I'm not going to lie, it's also slightly socially awkward.
Folks dropping in to play this all day today has been really fun. Most of them have had their webcams off but this gentleman from New Hampshire had his on and didn’t mind being videoed and posted.
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Aug 13, 2020
The folks who spent £400k on an ‘AI system’ to see what people are tweeting, whilst at the same time tabulating virus cases and locations by hand on paper, cosplaying NASA with ‘real time’ dashboards would definitely be funny if situation was less serious. thetimes.co.uk/article/domini…
Even if you accept that we might benefit from ‘mission control’ at the heart of government I worry that Cummings doesn’t understand the difference between scientists and engineers, attributing the successes of the latter to the former.
Mission control was a room full of engineers
It was also focused on a narrow, well defined objective and was monitoring + reacting to a narrow set of variables.

It’s a reasonable analogy for a unit controlling the virus but not government as a whole, that needs to watch everything.

Hedge fund prob more appropriate analogy
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Aug 3, 2020
If anyone wants to have a go driving around in a Smartipresence bot (and have a chat with me) you can at this link until 6pm: thecraftyrobot.github.io/smartipresence… Photo of a small cardboard ...
This will be back online at 5pm tomorrow and from 5pm to 6pm every Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday in August.
OK folks, this is gonna be back online at 5pm at this link: thecraftyrobot.github.io/smartipresence…
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