Adam Smith

This is why we keep going to war. It takes money from your bank account and puts it in oil giants’ pockets. They don’t care about your cost of living. They don’t care about the deaths. The line has to go up, and everyone else must sacrifice for it.

How many times have privacy campaigners said this is the case, only to be ignored? The UK is desperate to push a surveillance state by any means necessary

Having a memory is illegal in Britain. The pre-charge detention for terrorism suspects in the UK was increased from 7 days to 14 days under the Criminal Justice Act 2003. When that happened, the Conservative Party voted against it for being an overreach of the state. Tony Blair later wanted to make it 90 days, but was defeated. But now, the Labour Party will arrest old people for holding placards, label them terrorists, and the right-wing media will cheer them on.

@maybejustmike @AidenTEM This is true - and in that case, I pivot to using an ad-blocking browser (which works for YouTube, but I don't use other streaming sites, so my knowledge there is limited)

@adamndsmith @AidenTEM My pihole can't block youtube app ads The ads come from the same place. So netflix, prime, disney, youtube all show ads through their apps.

You can download a browser that will block every ad on YouTube (and everywhere else) for free. You can spend £20 on a little device that blocks every ad on your entire wi-fi network, on every laptop, tablet, and phone connected to it. You do not have to put up with ads if you don’t want to.

@allnewtomorrow I use Brave, and haven't noticed a real difference between YT's updates and their blocking. The device is called a Pi-Hole, and requires at least a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 and a couple of other parts (power cable, plug, etc). You can put it together in an afternoon.

@adamndsmith the browser doesnt always work and often its an update race vs app and youtube. whats the 20 quid device again? ive heard of it but never seen it in the wild.

@oldo This is true, same with Instagram and some others. But it's very near, and that's when you might need to dedicatedly use an ad-blocking browser

@adamndsmith Not true RE reverse proxies like piehole. They don't work for YT ads because they serve them directly from YT URL.

@AidenTEM Oh I should have said - the £20 device, called a pi-hole, also blocks ads on most streaming services on TV. But if you mean normal satellite television, yeah, I don't know how to get around that

@adamndsmith you do on TV obviously

@adamndsmith Oh look! it's another post from a trans rights activist who doesn't give a shit about women, this time, it's the freedom of the women in Iran.

@adamndsmith Your judgment is already clearly flawed when you think males can have babies

@Ken_Stonger give that man the ten thousand dollars

@adamndsmith Chuck Norris takes Paddington to heaven

Someone is really hastily drawing Chuck Norris being taken to heaven by Paddington right now

“Comfort-seeking capitalism is the UK’s most disappointing instinct”, welcome comrade The Telegraph

@RupertLowe10 @MothinAli The Greens are the party stereotypically full of vegetarians and vegans. I, personally, would love to see the ban of *any* slaughter. But singling out one specific type, for one specific religion, and mandating the state do so? Not exactly right-wing libertarianism

@MothinAli Didn’t answer my question pal.

Your obsession with it is a racist dog-whistle, that's why no one takes you seriously. However this is the wrong Eid...

Winthrop accepted public accountability as the condition of the project, that “the eyes of all people are upon us.” But these billionaires want to shrink from the public view, to avoid criticism, and to be accountable to no-one but themselves. open.substack.com/pub/wealthofno…

I went to a lecture about the history of tech utopianism. What I found was all of your favourite billionaires are approaching it entirely backwards. Oh, and they all want to be Rick and Morty. Link in my bio, and under this tweet