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Tagishsimon @Tagishsimon
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Prem Sikka
@premnsikka
18 Jul 2024
Privatised rail Rolling Stock Companies (ROSCOs) make huge profits.. All holed-up in tax havens. Paid £409.7m dividend last year. Profit margin of 41.6%. UK taxes dodged. UK Govt's rail nationalisation plans will not apply to ROSCOs. Why might that be? leftfootforward.org/2024/07/…

The Labour Party needs to take on neo-liberalism and the rich

The government has inherited lots of social problems but problems caused by neoliberalism can’t be dissolved by more neoliberalism

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Me: Ima download this list and sort out Wikidata's peer records. Parliament dot uk: no. members.parliament.uk/member…
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Fortunately, Wikipedia's List of members of the House of Lords looks like a fantastic & well maintained page. * en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o…
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Knocking off peers faster than Kind Hearts and Coronets; now at 921 from about 3.5k. Need to reduce this to about 810 & then add some eligibility qualifiers. Mainly victims of the House of Lords Act 1999 cull, and the odd stray bishop. * w.wiki/AeGV
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Hindi Wikipedia does Rambot, 20 years later, but using a much more dodgy source. What could go wrong?
WikiResearch@WikiResearch
11 Jul 2024
Paper: "Automatically Generating Hindi Wikipedia Pages using Wikidata as a Knowledge Graph: A Domain-Specific Template Sentences Approach" doi.org/10.26615/978-954-452…
excerpt from Agarwal et al. 2023

ALT excerpt from Agarwal et al. 2023

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22 years. Rambot is the little hill of beans around 2003. * en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_o… Interesting period, those early years: huge growth on a very small base; then years of moaning about decline, then we just stopped measuring things.
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Okay, so maybe we still do count things (new content pages per month). And actually, that's not looking too shabby. * stats.wikimedia.org/#/en.wik…
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Wikidata represents that ~450k dead people are current holders of positions (like MP, mayor of this, CEO of that, or whatever). That's probably not good. For instance, says there are ~3,000 people sitting in the UK House of Lords right now. * w.wiki/AdQE
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Matt Davies@halcyene
9 Jul 2024
The new Tony Blair Institute report finds huge time savings for the public sector from the use of AI tools... by asking GPT-4 what tasks can or cannot be automated 😵‍💫
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Marl Karx@BareLeft
8 Jul 2024
Rachel Reeves coming out and saying "there's no money" while drawing up plans to eat £billions of private sector debt from Thames Water without taking the utility back into public ownership. 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
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Jason Hickel
@jasonhickel
7 Jul 2024
BREAKING: The Lancet has just published this article "conservatively" estimating that the death toll in the Gaza genocide could be 186,000 people or more. That's 8% of the population, obliterated. These are apocalyptic figures. thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Counting the dead in Gaza: difficult but essential

By June 19, 2024, 37 396 people had been killed in the Gaza Strip since the attack by Hamas and the Israeli invasion in October, 2023, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, as reported by the UN...

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Saul Staniforth@SaulStaniforth
7 Jul 2024
"Almost two decades ago he was the pro PFI health secretary - now he and his family trouser millions from his consultancy work for private healthcare interests" Article by @SolHughesWriter on Alan Milburn from a couple of years ago morningstaronline.co.uk/arti…

Alan Milburn’s private interests

FORMER Labour health secretary Alan Milburn and his immediate family got a £2,141,000 payout from his corporate consultancy business this year, according to the latest accounts.  That’s up on their...

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Sorry to see @wesstreeting won. I hope he understands the message here: people think his NHS reforms stink.
James Foster
@JamesEFoster
5 Jul 2024
Wow. Look at how close @LeanneMohamad came to unseating Wes Streeting. This is remarkable for somebody to come from nowhere and nearly take a seat from someone with a national profile. She must keep building in her community. Well done, Leanne. Hold your head high.
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Respectful Memes
@RespectfulMemes
29 Jun 2024
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internet hall of fame
@InternetH0F
25 Jun 2024
Google was founded in 1998 1997:
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.@vaughangething let's be clear if a professional footballer had taken a £200,000 bung from an obviously dodgy opponent team, they'd rightly be banned from the game.
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In which @UKLabour memory holes the grey book costings for the 2019 general election manifesto. x.com/johnmcdonnellMP/status…
John McDonnell
@johnmcdonnellMP
22 Nov 2019
As promised, we have identified how much our plans will cost and also explained where the money will come from to pay for them. To find out more see our new grey book ‘Funding Real Change’: labour.org.uk/fundingrealcha…
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The Wayback Machine gives an indication of when this happened: in the last six months. * web.archive.org/web/20241101…
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And they have lots of copies. @kezdugdale et al take note. * web.archive.org/web/20200124…
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