Professor of Crime Science and Counter Extremism at University College London. Augmented social ecologies, systemism, moral fragmentation, fluid extremism. Criminologist in an engineering faculty. French girl in Cambridge.
Twitter/X is an enormous national security threat on a global scale, and a lot more nations need to grow a spine and start blocking it (and taking other active, aggressive measures).
Hyper fragmentation of our moral ecology. The root of dysfunction.
If this isn't national security, then nothing is.
"The design of these clinical trials... makes it very difficult to attribute the unfavorable effects of UPF-rich diets to ultraprocessing per se... these effects are highly likely to be due to differences in traditional nutritional properties that frequentlyābut not uniformlyāco-occur in UPFs."
I endorse this message. Zero stars for torture porn.
Could always light up "A Little Life" to set "Fifty Shades" on fire?
THE BOROUGHS hits a "Thursday Murder Club Meets Cocoon by way of The Goonies" spot I didn't know I had.
From what I've heard, a lovely guy who also had a lot of fun playing villains post-Giles. Proper gut punch for any sci-fi fan of my generstion, this one.
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š§µ Thread: Does the internet threaten democracy? I argue that it does in my latest piece in Science: doi.org/10.1126/scie...
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Will democracy survive the internet? Do we need to choose between Facebookās surveillance capitalism or democracy? Layered lines of evidence can inform questions like these. When considered together, the evidence gives rise to a concerning picture, as summarized in a recent report for the European Commission that I co-led.
