Ten years ago, a few people took a big risk. Big Thank you 4th Estate Books Ecco simon trewin #leeboudreaux (congratulations Kate Young) also shout out to #KateSlotover British Vogue Women's Prize & all the readers who’ve made The Bees a word-of-mouth hit 🐝💛 Indhu Rubasingham

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Legends, both.

'To speak at USC in this moment would betray not only our own values, but USC’s too.'

USC:
'–Twice deployed armed LAPD troops to arrest 93 student protestors, thereby risking students’ physical well-being, academic futures, and career prospects;

It’s true. Signal is a better way to communicate, with everyone.

This will be a lovely event remembering Tim Brighouse but also looking to the future for education, June 15th in Logan Hall at UCL/Institute of Education. Book now (it’s free!). Please do let others know.

Thinking of the hostages and their families.

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Stop the war. Hands off Rafah. Stop the starvation. #ceasefirenow #BringThemAllHomeNOW

A must read from Orly Noy مژگان نوى for +972 Magazine . Orly has been the unwavering voice of integrity and compassion. I would be lost without her analysis and example.

Um, so this happened..!

'This piece is part of this week's edition of the Best of Journalism: buff.ly/3QgSAs4'

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The internet has become an extractive and fragile monoculture. But we can revitalize it using lessons learned by ecologists | Maria Farrell (Dr) & Robin Berjon | 🦋 robin.berjon.com in Noema Magazine noemamag.com/we-need-to-rew…

Big tech corporations have some amount of lobbyists. This is a photo of Google's Europe policy team, posted by their global policy head. As the post says: this is just one of their 4 regions. This doesn't include their consultants, or PR teams, DevRel team, marketing teams, etc

Video thread
Meet the Six Horsemen of the Digital Apocalypse.
Horseman 1: The quality of information in democracy is collapsing.

Going to read them all, congratulations to all six shortlisted authors and everlasting thanks Women's Prize for what you do for readers and writers - because lifting up great writing by women, is great for literature, full stop 🙌🏽

🌀 We Need to Rewild the Internet on Noema Magazine

Maria Farrell (Dr) and Robin Berjon | 🦋 robin.berjon.com make the case that the internet is currently a degraded monoculture. Our only hope is to learn from ecologists and introduce diversity again, rewilding the web.

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Really great engineers don’t make wasteful, underwhelming products like generative AI; they design chips and systems that work in space for 46 years before failing … and can still be fixed when they are 15 BILLION miles away.

Incredible to think he had so much energy after 4pm.

I would love for every tech policymakers in the EU, Germany, and France to read this thread.

Who is the university for? Students and faculty, or wealthy right wing donors?

The #RwandaAct says unsafe is safe, black is white. This is legislative performative cruelty by a Govt running out of road.

I just spent time with Carine Kanimba #ijf24 . Her father, Paul Rusesabagina, was kidnapped by Rwanda. This is a brutal regime.

What a shameful day for the UK.

This is a brilliant essay by Maria Farrell (Dr) and Robin Berjon | 🦋 robin.berjon.com on how digital diversity has been replaced by a rigid and brittle tech monoculture, and the lessons we can draw from ecology in building a truly open, diverse and resilient digital commons.

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