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16 Dec, 4 tweets, 3 min read
Extraordinary interview with @davidnabarro of @who. A stark stark warning about what’s ahead.

‘I’ve been watching & working on this pandemic since January 2020 & I’ve never been more concerned than I am tonight, not just about the UK but about the world.’
‘I want to talk directly to those who accuse us of scaremongering. I’ve spent 45 years doing this kind of work & my whole approach is to enable life to go on..this is serious. I don’t like comparing it to last year. To me this is unprecedented.’

@who’s special envoy on Covid-19
‘That suggests you’re calling for social gatherings to be limited?’

‘..it’s doubling every 2 days. Do you know what that means? It means it will be 8 times more serious in 1 week, 40 times more serious in 2 weeks, 3-400 times in 3 weeks. Over 1000 times more serious in 4 weeks’
(h/t @adamhamdy)

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11 Dec
Can I point out something bizarre & troubling? @ft has scoop today. An interview with head of @gchq. A week after @BBCRadio4 has head of MI6.

There’s a common thread: data.

Specifically: national security implications of it in hands of enemy states
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on.ft.com/3IEsp9g
This is an important positioning piece. It’s result of a meeting between head of GCHQ & editor of FT, ahead of new cyber warfare strategy.

And the headline is China.

China’s accelerationist command of technology is a threat to national security. This is undoubtedly true.

2/
China was also one of the headline threats the head of MI6 spoke about last week.

But he also said this:

“If you allow another country to gain access to critical data about your society, over time that will erode you sovereignty.”
3/
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4 Dec
NEW: A journalist last won a Nobel prize in 1935 & he couldn’t pick it up because he was in a Nazi camp.

We’re again at “a sliding doors moment” says @mariaressa.

My interview with both her & Dmitry Muratov for @ObserverUK & their warning for the world.
theguardian.com/world/2021/dec…
It’s a hair-on-the-back-of your neck moment. Listen to @mariaressa & Dmitry Muratov. They are the canaries in the coal mine.

If freedom of the press is in trouble, democracy is in trouble, we are all in trouble.

And that’s exactly what this Nobel is signalling.
And if you want to look at the specific historic parallels, then this is even more chilling. Carl Von Ossietzky won the prize in 1935 for exposing Germany’s secret re-armament.

And as Muratov points out here Russia’s aggressive military & expansionist plans are in plain sight
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14 Nov
It’s the apathy & blindness of what is happening in Britain that’s truly terrifying.

The set of bills the government is currently seeking to get through parliament is a full-scale attack on our democracy.

1/
 theguardian.com/politics/2021/…
But the Elections Bill perhaps most egregious of all.

This is Michael Gove. He was the co-convener of Vote Leave - found by the Electoral Commission found to have committed massive election fraud.

Michael Gove is now seeking to tear up the Electoral Commission

2/
This is not accidental. It was the Electoral Commission’s investigation into Vote Leave that has prompted this.

We have to see this for what it is. It is an act of authoritarianism.

The sleaze is one thing. But this is structural. Permanent.

3/
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13 Nov
Steve Bannon has *finally*been indicted.

BIG news in America. But let’s not forget Big Steve’s interference in our own democracy. (And how Facebook has facilitated him at every turn.)

1/
Exhibit 1.

Here’s @nigel_farage on the day article 50 was triggered:

‘Well done Bannon, well done Breitbart. You helped with this hugely’

2/
Exhibit 2: Remember this? Just a casual offer to illegally fund @nigel_farage’s new Brexit party

‘If you’re interested, what I’d like to do is set up something & I’ll fund it somehow. And I think you’re the perfect guy’

3/
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31 Oct
We are in deep, deep unchartered waters but I think we may look back & see this as Facebook's Week Zero.

This week's presentation & rebranding needs to be seen for what it is: a scorched earth policy.

The past does not exist. There is only future
1/
What Facebook has done this week is to defy reality. To defeat it.

The present does not exist. The multiple front page stories from multiple news orgs based on 20k internal docs never happened.

It doesn’t care. Because its plan is to colonise, own & control the future
2/
Facebook’s ambition is imperial.

And we are at the point in the movie where they need a new planet to colonise. It’s not ‘the metaverse’. It’s our AI future.

And this is who is building it. A handful of white tech bros & their dutiful lackeys
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28 Oct
I wish I could tell you this is ironic. But earlier today, irony passed away after a massive cardiac event from which it did not recover

The whole presentation is worth watching in full for the complete mindfuck experience.

But @nickclegg is always a highlight. Here he is allaying fears that the metaverse might destroy democracy or launch nuclear missiles from your toaster which of course it can’t
‘So basically what you’re saying is that you’re going to be able to send a text message just by thinking about moving your fingers.’

WHAT COULD POSSIBLY GO WRONG
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