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Danielle Tinkov @danitinkov.co.uk · 2h

When Conde Nest tells you conservatives are cool now, you better buy a Mamdani poster.

Danielle Tinkov @danitinkov.co.uk · 2h

There was this old stock market anecdote that when the taxi driver tells you there’s a good investment you should sell your stocks. This is the equivalent for political movements.

Amanda Becker @amandabecker.bsky.social · 17h

"Condé was content to hold Teen Vogue up as a prop for diversity, youth representation and progressive ideals when it benefited it, and then to unceremoniously discard the entire publication with a disingenuous press release when the winds shifted."
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-we...

What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...

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Amanda Becker @amandabecker.bsky.social · 17h

"Condé was content to hold Teen Vogue up as a prop for diversity, youth representation and progressive ideals when it benefited it, and then to unceremoniously discard the entire publication with a disingenuous press release when the winds shifted."
talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/what-we...

What We Lost When Condé Nast Unceremoniously Shuttered Teen Vogue

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news...

talkingpointsmemo.com

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Technology Connections @techconnectify.bsky.social · 16h

Folks, I have a new video today where I'm very excited to announce a new dishwasher powder on the market.

Why am I so excited? Because it's vindicated every single one of my detergent opinions.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAX2...

I was right about dishwasher pods, and now I can prove it

YouTube video by Technology Connections

www.youtube.com

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Danielle Tinkov @danitinkov.co.uk · 16h

Teen Vogue was better than Vogue in any possible way. As with any merger in sure that they’ll keep the least interesting bits and retire the reason anyone liked the publication therefore achieving nothing of value.

Ana Diaz @pokachee.bsky.social · 18h

i'm really sad about teen vogue and im still sad about polygon. guess you could say i'm sad about the dismantling of so many important media institutions!

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Dani Rodrik @drodrik.bsky.social · 1d

Europe's lag in tech is also an opportunity to rethink what tech is good for. Martin Sandbu rightly argues for more homegrown digital services to serve both productivity and democracy. www.ft.com/content/01e7...

Don’t let Europe’s deregulatory temptations weaken its democracies

A good tech strategy would aim not just to catch up but to cultivate better alternatives

www.ft.com

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Liam Thorp @liamthorp.bsky.social · 23h

A total and utter hero

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · 1d

Nigel Farage says he wants to 'raise aspiration' by cutting the minimum wage for young people (currently £10), but reducing tax for young people earning over £100k. Presumably he wants them to just ask their stockbroker fathers to fix them up with a job in The City, like he did.

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Danielle Tinkov @danitinkov.co.uk · 1d

“How a charismatic politician with popular policies got elected?” We shall never know, WaPo, we shall never know

Kara Swisher @karaswisher.bsky.social · 1d

It takes gall to call out @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social as born into privilege, which he was, while not noting the parents of the head of the Post opinion section were well educated and presumably elite engineers and he grew up in lovely Pomona, California www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Opinion | Zohran Mamdani’s success is a warning

How did a socialist with almost no governing experience become New York’s mayoral frontrunner?

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Danielle Tinkov @danitinkov.co.uk · 1d

The first step to solving a problem is understanding it, something, that we kind of decided is too much trouble. Instead the solution is to just ban everything, which works, but is the laziest way to deal with complexity.

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WATERSHED Investigations @watershed-i.bsky.social · 2d

Sources for the drinking water of 6 million people in England so contaminated with PFAS forever chemicals, the Drinking Water Inspectorate has ordered water companies to act.

Our story featured on @BBCr4today this morning + here on BBC Online:

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Firms ordered to reduce forever chemicals in drinking water for 6m people - BBC News

The persistent pollutants which build up in the environment have been linked to serious illnesses.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Danielle Tinkov @danitinkov.co.uk · 1d

In fact these companies’ entire business model revolves around not selling your data but keeping it for themselves. If they sold it, advertisers would be able to build profiles on their own and skip them entirely.

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Danielle Tinkov @danitinkov.co.uk · 1d

The thing that bothers me is because of this improper use of language people think that Meta literally bundles your personal data and gives it to someone to use as they please. Then these people write to their MPs demanding they stop that and they pass a law banning something that no one does anyway

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Danielle Tinkov @danitinkov.co.uk · 3d

tbf, I never had big issues with me: andromeda, the game was fine. sure the story and characters were a bit generic sci-fi compared to the original, but the gameplay was good enough to finish

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Danielle Tinkov @danitinkov.co.uk · 3d

The wind widget in their beta app is S-tier

Danielle Tinkov @danitinkov.co.uk · 3d

If you live in the UK there’s no better weather report online than the one from the Met Office

Met Office - weather and climate @metoffice.gov.uk · 3d

Heading to a fireworks display this evening? 🎆

Watch out for showers drifting eastwards, which could be heavy and thundery at times

But there'll still be a good amount of drier and clearer interludes as well

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Danielle Tinkov @danitinkov.co.uk · 3d

If you wonder how that can happen, a similar architecture to BlueSky will help by having a publicly owned relay and allowing private app layers. Mandating all studios to release to the public relay while keeping their content on a privately owned PDS is a must.

Danielle Tinkov @danitinkov.co.uk · 3d

I think every serious politician on the left should start talking about nationalisation of tech infrastructure. By all means if Google wants to have a TV studio & an app layer they should be able to do that but the video distribution platform should be in public hands.

Forbes @forbes.com · 4d

Disney and Google are locked in negotiations to renew a contract that would allow YouTube TV customers to stream Disney-owned channels like ABC, ESPN and FX.

YouTube TV Customers Lose ABC, ESPN And Other Disney Channels—What To Know

Disney and Google are locked in negotiations to renew a contract that would allow YouTube TV customers to stream Disney-owned channels like ABC, ESPN and FX.

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Danielle Tinkov @danitinkov.co.uk · 3d

The UK government spends about £200 billion in tax breaks and subsidies for businesses and there isn’t even a word about cutting that but £3.6 billion to remove the two child benefit cap is waaaaaay to much, can’t have that

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Danielle Tinkov @danitinkov.co.uk · 3d

This is a mistake so dumb I think only human can make 😆

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Danielle Tinkov @danitinkov.co.uk · 3d

It is economic suicide especially for countries like the UK that sit on incredible amounts of untapped wind and geothermal power. Cancelling green policies would doom us all.

Christian Odendahl @codendahl.bsky.social · 4d

In this op-ed for The Economist, @luisaneubauer.bsky.social responds to our cover story a while back on the greenlash.

It’s a very good piece, take a look.
economist.com/by-invitatio...

The greenlash is built on lazy thinking, writes a climate activist

Luisa Neubauer argues that rolling back climate policies is economic suicide masquerading as pragmatism

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Danielle Tinkov @danitinkov.co.uk · 4d

Most of the energy tonight is coming from wind, better charge those batteries

Danielle Tinkov @danitinkov.co.uk · 4d

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Jan Rosenow @janrosenow.bsky.social · 4d

One of the world’s largest industrial heat pumps is coming to Boston.

A 35MW system will use energy from the Charles River and deliver steam to heat more than 70 million square feet of buildings across Boston and Cambridge — hospitals, schools, homes, and businesses alike.

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Marina Purkiss @marina-purkiss.bsky.social · 5d

A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK...

78% are murdered by a partner/ex

Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this

Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety

In fact, they voted against them...

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