Irish writer and speaker: let's rewild the internet!
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NGL it's frustrating living in a moment where <some> EU leaders are finally getting that tech dependence on a foreign power is a fundamental strategic error
but default to subsidising a new set of locked in but 🇪🇺 flagged tech oligarchs.
Competition, interop and tech diversity are existential.
See this is where (truly) open technical standards - both process and product - are needed
the "cloud industry" of basically 3-4 companies decamped to its own private members' protocol consortium - WHICH IS CLEARLY A CARTEL HELLO REGULATORS?! - leaving the rest of us not just locked in but unsafe.
Per most recent figures, net migration to NI *over the past 22 years* has been ~62,000 people.
Only 3% of Northern Ireland’s population currently belong to an ethnic minority.
Pogroms in Belfast (as with Ballymena last year) are just gutter-level "One Is One Too Many" racism, and nothing else.
