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Becky retweeted
A seething MSF statement re the latest deadly Israeli airstrike on Gazaās Nasser Hospital which killed 6. Nasser is one of the few (partially) functioning hospitals in the occupied territory. āUnder international humanitarian law, hospitals must be respected and protected. In no conceivable circumstances can attacks on functioning hospitals in Gaza be treated as normal or acceptableā says @MSF A prev Israeli ādouble tapā strike on Nasser Hosp in Aug last year killed 5 journalists responding to the initial strike. IDF used the same claim then of targeting Hamas with no evidence. @MSF has urged the int community to move beyond condemnation and take action āThe continued attacks on healthcare cannot be met with silence and impunityā, it continued
We are appalled and outraged by the Israeli airstrike on Nasser hospital in Gaza, Palestine, last night. We have already treated three people injured in the attack.
It is unconscionable that patients and medical staff are once again being killed and injured inside a hospital, a place where lives should be saved, not taken.
We urge world leaders to move beyond statements of condemnation and take concrete action to ensure the protection of patients, healthcare workers, and facilities in Gaza. The continued attacks on healthcare cannot be met with silence and impunity.
msf.org/gaza-msf-condemns-anā¦
Becky retweeted
āThe world is not just witnessing this tragedy; it is complicit through its silenceā says @Tamer_Alnoaizy as families already living in tents suffer more misery amid flooding and lack of sufficient basic aid being allowed in by the Israeli authorities
I broke down while filming these scenes. I couldn't bear the scale of the suffering unfolding before my eyes. I tried my best to amplify these families' voices, but what I witnessed was beyond words.
Children soaked, tents completely flooded, and families left exposed to the cold and rain. The world is not just witnessing this tragedy; it is complicit through its silence.
Watch the report for yourselves.
Becky retweeted
šØBREAKING
The Financial Times has just revealed that Thames Waterās US hedge fund creditors are close to agreeing a ālast and finalā deal to take over the company.
A handover to US hedge funds. A continuation of the privatised chaos. And a huge reward for the people who have run our water into the ground.
The deal would see them allowed to pollute our rivers and seas without consequence - in exchange for an upfront payoff.
This deal is absolutely outrageous, in every regard.
112 MPs have already called for special administration of Thames Water.
A cross-party group of MPs - who scrutinise the Environment Department - have said that the creditorsā proposal should be rejected and Thames Water should be brought into special administration.
And the former Environment Secretary rejected a previous version of the creditorsā deal in June. This new version is not better in any way.
@andyburnham promised to reverse Thatcherās legacy of privatisation. He promised public control of lifeās essentials.
This really is the moment of truth for Andy Burnham. If he allows the water supply of 16 million people to be sold off to US hedge funds - how can we take him seriously about any of his promises?
NO DEAL to the Thames Water creditors. Special administration now.
Becky retweeted
The Israeli authorities continue to restrict vital goods into Gaza which would ease the suffering of those living in the most desperate conditions - limiting the entry of ātents, tarpaulins, plastic sheeting, insulation materials, blankets, fuel, cooking gas, heating equipment, and construction materials needed to repair damaged sheltersā - @save_children
savethechildren.org.uk/news/ā¦
Becky retweeted
This week leaders meet for the UN climate summit.
The context? A summer of heat deaths. Scientists saying 2026 will be the hottest year ever.
Our Government's contribution?
To bend over backwards to the car industry, and scrap plans for rapid electrification.
Government's EV targets expected to be reduced this week bbc.in/3WS8E9S
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Not only that. The privatised telecoms companies are making money from selling off all the copper that was originally paid for by the state when the grid was constructed. Outrageous legalised plunder
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This is dystopian as hell. They literally want to change our words to "protect children". If this is allowed, we'll never know if people are actually saying what they appear to be saying again. What next? Should social media companies change the wording of your posts? What about blogging sites? It's fucking insane.
Microsoft has filed a patent for an AI system that could rewrite what people say during livestreams in real time. It could change words depending on who's watching, taking into account their age, location, and language.
The idea is to clean up broadcasts by removing filler words, censoring swearing, or even replacing certain words.
The AI could also adjust the speaker's lip movements so viewers wouldn't notice anything had been changed.
Becky retweeted
šØ Palantir entered the NHS for Ā£1 during Covid.
Then it became a Ā£23.5mn contract.
Then a Ā£330mn contract.
Now ministers admit it is so deeply embedded that removing it would be too disruptive.
Whatever the original intention, this is textbook vendor lock-in: the customer becomes dependent upon the supplier, and dependency becomes the supplierās greatest protection.
The proposed two-year extension must therefore be treated as an emergency extraction period, not another comfortable renewal.
During that time, the government must require:
ā¢ complete data portability and open standards;
ā¢ independent access to the system architecture;
ā¢ transfer of knowledge and skills to the NHS;
ā¢ a tested migration plan with firm deadlines;
ā¢ government step-in rights; and
ā¢ a procurement process that is not designed around Palantirās existing product.
Palantir must not be allowed to shape the problem, define the requirements and then win again because only Palantir can satisfy them.
And calling the replacement āBritishā is meaningless unless Britain controls its intellectual property, technology and future development.
A Ā£1 foothold has become national dependency.
That is not sovereignty and it is precisely why sovereignty is now necessary.
Becky retweeted
Times reports govt renewing NHS-Palantir contract over fear of patient disruption..proving*exactly* what critics have been saying. That weāre in a technofascist trap.
thetimes.com/article/b6cf6ddā¦
Becky retweeted
These pictures of Reform councillor George David Madgwick posing alongside Nigel Farage, Robert Jenrick, Suella Braverman, Zia Yusuf and Laila Cunningham were taken after his arrest.
He has now been charged with 35 offences, including rape and offences involving indecent images of children.
The question is why he was still being paraded alongside the party's most senior figures after his arrest?
Becky retweeted
š“ EXCLUSIVE: After *five-year* legal battle, Democracy for Sale has forced the government to reveal who referred firms to lucrative Covid PPE āVIP laneā for 'politically connected'
30+ senior Tories are named, plus ex Duchess of York, and many more š§µ
democracyforsale.substack.coā¦
Becky retweeted
Not a single news outlet has reviewed its coverage of Jason Arday, for accuracy or proportionality. Zero attempt has been made to conduct any inquiry into the mediaās role in his death. Instead, the industry has moved into self-congratulatory mode. This isnāt just tone deaf, it betrays a systemic failure
Becky retweeted
Why have the deaths of over 43,000 care home residents at the hands of inept politicians gone off of the news media so quickly? Shouldn't we be hearing about at least two people being taken into custody by now.
BREAKING: Covid inquiry chair, Baroness Heather Hallett, says that action to protect care homes came too late causing it to "spread like wildfire".
Live updates: trib.al/rq3oWgR
šŗ Sky 501
Becky retweeted
North Carolina!! If you voted by mail, go to vote.org/ballot-tracker-toolā¦ to track whether your ballot was rejected over minor technical issues. If it was, you can still vote in person!
šØBREAKING: Thousands of North Carolina midterm ballots are set to be rejected over minor technical issues after a federal court upheld strict new Republican-backed rules for mail voters, according to data shared exclusively with Democracy Docket. democracydocket.com/news-aleā¦
Becky retweeted
Anthropic is effectively telling the government that they should be allowed to facilitate the deaths of up to 50 people per model and cause up to a billion dollars in damages before the government should consider stepping in to stop them. Insane.
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Woah woah woah. The lead is buried in paragraph four.
Anthropic quietly pitches its own AI safety bill to lawmakers politi.co/4zxDFhl
Becky retweeted
šØThe Public have got to wake up. This is Istanbul, Turkey, tonight and itās just the beginning. Last year Professor Hayley Fowler, a leading climatologist and hydrologist, warned the UK could face this kind of extreme rainfall; enough to wash away cars and homes without much warning. It was ignored by the media.
Journalists and anyone with influence needs to lobby the Govt and the Prime Minister to broadcast the National briefing about the facts of climate change and what is coming towards us publicly on TV in the way we had Covid broadcasts. @nebriefing
The public need to face the reality that weāve all fucked up. Our media and democracy doesnāt work.
Iām very aware that people think those of us who talk about climate change are crazy but the reality is developing right in front of our eyes. The scientists warnings are coming true.
People want to look away. I know lots of people in my own life do. But this is just the beginning it is going to get much much worse. The planet is already hotter than itās been in over 100,000 years, carbon dioxide levels are higher than theyāve been in millions of years, scientists are telling us our kids will not survive the coming decades on the course we are on. This is really happening and we got to wake the hell up urgently. We are already in huge trouble and it can only get worse. youtu.be/2Jq23mSDh9U?is=u830ā¦
Becky retweeted
Appeal for info following rape and attempted rape in Milton Keynes ift.tt/OxCoU51
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I donāt care how many things youāve already read about the film Naza, or how many perspectives you think youāve considered, or even if youāve seen the film.
Stop whatever youāre doing and read this thread:
Yesterday, I watched Naza.
I did not go to learn what had happened in Gaza. I am from there. I am one of the victims of this war, one of its witnesses, and one of those who have paid a price that will not end when the war does.
I did not need a film to tell me how entire neighborhoods were wiped away, how residential buildings were bombed with the people still inside them, or how families were forced to leave their homes without knowing where they were supposed to go.
Nor did I need anyone to tell me about the famine. I lived through it twice, with all its humiliations, down to the smallest detail. Or about the starving people who were killed while trying to reach what were so absurdly called āfood distribution centers.ā
I know all of this.
I was there.
Read the whole Thread below :
#Naza @yuval_abraham