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5 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
1/n Agreed, it's a good idea, seeing the Luddites reframed re stocking frames. OTOH, I don't think Cory Doctorow is the right person to do it justice or well.
2/n #Books: Cory Doctorow's latest 'SF' novel, Attack Surface (October 1, 2020) is **cringe**. It's just ***bad***. The forced inclusion of fashionable elements *that bear no relevance to the story* is only too glaringly obvious, a form of pandering without substance or merit.
3/n Then his one single 'SF' idea in "Attack Surface"; using the hacking of self-driving, autonomous 'Uber' cars/taxis as weapon against protestors. It doesn't strike him that'd only be effective as a false-flag operation, otherwise consequences for a city or country are severe
4/4 Cory Doctorow's rip-off of The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo, + Asberger's tropes, are just too obvious. Again, a form of pandering; the agitprop + lack of creativity is off-putting. All in all, "Attack Surface" made me decide never to buy another Cory Doctorow book in my life.

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1/n A thread for anti-CRT people. Just kidding. This thread actually is for anyone who has a cause to push; the example here applies to you too. Regardless if you're UK Labour, US conservative, GRC, trans, whatever.
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1/ institute genuine 14-day isolation periods for incoming flights.
2/ immediately buy FFP2 face-masks (or better, FFP3), enough for 5 free masks for every UK resident.
3/ Immediately give test-and-trace + funds back to the NHS.
4/ reinstitute proper wages support for isolated.
5/ Stop the humbuggery of the Nightingale theatre. Increase NHS funds in a large way instead. The NHS is far more efficient.
6/ Institute COVID passes, mandated for non-essential public spaces.
7/ Mandatory vaccines.
8/ Vaccines for children.
9/ After all of that & more (I can do more solid points tomorrow):
Resign. The sheer effrontery of his Christmas parties, his sneering at the public, the debacle of Cummings breaking quarantine scot-free, etc. etc.. Boris Johnson is a walking disincentive
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1/n Watching the Norwegian series "The Heavy Water War" (a.k.a. "The Saboteurs", en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Heavy…). The first episode, in which Werner Heisenberg first attempts to defend/excuse the Nazis, then has to defend himself against the Nazis, is well-done.
2/ The series is in a mixture (depending on context & characters) of English, Norwegian & German. Thank heavens for subtitles, since no dubbing. I can manage the English and German, but the Norwegian leaves me out to sea. It's now on the R0 of neutrons from splitting U236 atoms
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1/n I repeatedly stress this because there are some who insist on claiming an uncoupling between rate of #COVID19 infections and hospitalizations. #Omicron is less severe, but far more contagious. The coupling rate is reduced, but still very present.
2/n A lot of people also try, "hospitalizations with incidental #COVID19, not because of it". Apparently they fail to grasp that that curve upwards meant the COVID_9 caused other things to happen, thus the hospitalization.
3/n If you don't get this:
imagine you have a RLY bad case of norovirus, & bad vasculature. Hardly anyone dies of norovirus. They're forced to hospitalize you, not because norovirus, but because of the bad dehydration you've gotten, which might kill you
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1/n Yes, exactly. I've seen attacks on JK Rowling over Brexit, even though she seems plainly against Brexit (some hold a grudge against her for her pro-Unionist stance, i.e. wanting to keep Scotland in the UK).
2/n It's nothing short of ribaldy hilarious, in a Voltaire-satire way, to see a ton of flamers, all with Palestine flags in their bios (i.e. Westerners fashionably obsessing, not actual Palestinians), denouncing JK Rowling for alleged antisemitism. Pot, kettle, and how!
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a/ authors who wanted to profile themselves (*cough*, Philip Pullman, *cough*);
b/ academics who wanted to profile themselves;
c/ and loose holier-than-thou killjoys.
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Sharply rising fuel prices (in particular LPG) have sparked massive protests in #Kazakhstan, to the point the government has resigned, and the new acting-prime-minister has curtailed social-media and tried crushing protests.
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Heating up in #Kazakhstan now. If 8 security staff have been killed, how many demonstrators have been? Unlikely that this is a Rumania-type situation, with security forces battling security-forces, given the firm hold the oligarchy have.

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So @Tracinski was totally on-target prophetically. Will this mean less military pressure on the Ukraine?

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