We need leaders who can spell out what's happening clearly and with force.
Sam Freedman
69% of Britons would support allowing more restaurants, bars and cafes to have dining tables on the street outside the establishment
yougov.com/en-gb/daily-...
I sometimes log back into X to see who's still active. I am always disappointed.
But it's the journals, employers, & other health organisations that shock me most.
The message this sends about culture & values is so negative.
From a quick scroll, I saw JAMA, Lancet, BMJ, APHA, Wellcome, NCRM, etc
GREAT THREAD
"anyone still wedded to doing volunteer labor for Elon Musk on a website that literally runs on a fossil-fuelled data centre choking a community in Memphis that also includes child abuse material as a DESIGNED FEATURE - they cannot be reached. They're done. They're gone"
If anyone is interested in this but missed the talk, I'm afraid it wasn't recorded on this occasion, but the slides are now available on our webpage: ciig-seminar.github.io
And Vanessa is more than happy to answer questions by email!
YouGov
Peter Tennant
Prof Gavin Yamey
Georgia Tomova
I've been a broken record on this for three years and I'll be a broken record for as long as that fucking website exists:
X is a viciously racist far-right organising platform that ONLY WORKS because a huge number of centrists, lefties and progressivs cannot stop propping it up
How is @thelancet.com still on X?
www.yahoo.com
The use of social media in planning violent protests over the Belfast knife attack has drawn condemnation, with Britain's ruling Labour Party accusing Elon Musk of stoking divisions. The tech billiona...
The exceedingly few times this choice has ever been defended by major organisations, it’s always about reach. Without X, they’re simply not reaching people, they say. But just a quick glance at these organisations’ engagement on X shows that argument is categorically false.
Ben Bellows
I also cannot recommend enough @pwgtennant.bsky.social's and @georgiatomova.bsky.social outstanding article on Lord's paradox. arxiv.org/pdf/2302.01822