In case anyone hasn't processed the significance of this, this makes this anti Muslim and anti-Immigrant ad campaign that ran up and through EU and UK elections, and preceded the #UKRiots, the fourth most expensive on record (according to Meta's published CIB reports)

Angela Rayner is outstanding. Very proud that this is the deputy prime minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. news.sky.com/story/deputy-p…

Jewish filmmaker Sarah Friedland accepts award at the Venice Film festival. “I am accepting this award on the 336th day of Israel’s genocide in Gaza and 76th year of occupation…I stand in solidarity with the people of Palestine in their struggle for liberation.”

What struck me most about making this programme is just how committed and brilliant our teachers are up and down England to children, and..it's impossible to talk about levelling up Britain without taking seriously the inequalities of race in our country, runnymedetrust.org/blog/many-youn…

Google is on trial in the US this week: regulators starting to call time on abusive business practices in online ads. The charge list against them includes: 🤑Unfair dominance of most sides of the industry 🦹‍♂️Illegal acquisitions 🗞️Undermining online news thedrum.com/news/2024/09/0…

After Hungary’s 1956 Uprising was crushed by Moscow’s tanks, 200,000 Hungarians became refugees, and the world welcomed them. Today, with no sense of the nation's own history, Hungary's ruling party makes thousands of #Ukraine refugees homeless. hrw.org/the-day-in-hum…

Remember what Hungary’s ruling party has forgotten.

Extraordinary paper on the novel techniques companies use to maintain a social licence.

An extraordinary and unforgivable injustice …

Flooding disaster unfolding right now in Central Europe. Why is it so bad? This thread takes a quick look at some of the key ingredients of this record-breaking storm.

The truly ironic thing is that, during ‘The Long Pause’, the only sound you can hear is the faint hum of the HEPA air filters cleaning the air in the room… …while Dr Ritchie contemplates whether ventilation is only a useful precaution if Covid is airborne. (H/t Ms Insomniac Free Palestine🐟🇪🇺🇬🇧😷FBPE #FBPPR)

Fascinating insight into Google’s comms strategy, including list of private validators, prominent journalists who moonlit as Google validators, even Google’s surveillance of their own worker reactions. 👀 Alphabet Workers Union (AWU-CWA) Google’s spin division is extraordinary!

Honestly, it makes me sick that these sort of threads still have to be written today, and that we are still where we are. I’m going to the International Society for Respiratory Protection conference next week and look forward to some interesting talks and debates in this area.

I have been off Twitter because as a man I call out the 20% who think that women are their possession. Something I believe the owner is. Now you can't even bloke the bots...

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From crypto to A.I., the tech sector is pouring millions into super PACS that intimidate politicians into supporting its agenda. newyorker.com/magazine/2024/…

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