Over 20,000 West Indians, 15,600 with the British West Indies Regiment, volunteered to serve during the First World War; two thirds from #Jamaica. Our soldiers' stories are coming to light; not as much the sailors. How did their experience shape them, and our islands? So much to unpack on #RemembranceDay.
Main photo: West Indian men from Jamaica, #TrinidadandTobago , #Barbados serving in the British Navy, in the Fleet Auxillary, July 1917. #Caribbean
Arsenal win at Sunderland. Get called boring.
Chelsea go there and lose.
Arsenal win at Forest. Get called boring.
City go there and lose.
Chelsea draw at home to Hull.
Arsenal beat them. Get called boring.
See how it works yet?
๐จ NEW: The Government's "Black Sky" contingency plans for a national water or power blackout
- Around 100 BBC staff would be deployed to run an emergency RM radio studio stocked with enough food, water and fuel to keep it running for 3 days
- The BBC would broadcast pre-written Government scripts through the studio, including how to ration water, what to do if toilets stop working and which food to eat first (see scripts below)
- Radio masts would switch to diesel generators to keep broadcasts going for up to 72 hours without electricity
- BBC teams would use satellite phones to stay in contact, with agreed meeting points and backup arrangements if those phones stop working
- They would also report from emergency centres across the UK using satellite-equipped BBC vehicles to help keep information flowing to the public
- Emergency services would have alternative ways to communicate if mobile phone networks stopped working
- The Government is putting ยฃ70m towards aircraft that could restore mobile phone and internet coverage across the UK for over a week
Adam Robinson the multi-millionaire killed in the plane crash in the USA ran one of the only companies that identifies and tracks people on the internet that isn't run from Israel with their oversight.
Nothing to see here.
These are four books that I always recommend when the topic of the Transatlantic slave trade comes up. A lot of ignorant people feel comfortable speaking on African history despite never having read any books on the topic.
The Caribbean sugar trade during the era of transatlantic slavery generated vast national wealth for Britain, funded the early stages of industrialization, and reshaped its financial and consumer culture.
London was Britain's second slave-trading port, after Liverpool. 3,136 slaving voyages sailed from London to African shores from where British slave ships transported 834,617 African captives to the Americas. Source: Slave Voyages https://t.co/vci04WOz41
Adam Robinson died Sunday in a jet crash with his wife and two little kids.
He built tools that take an anonymous visit to a website and turn it into a real name and contact info. His company kept a digital file on people.
That's the raw material of a surveillance state. Data like this doesn't stay in marketing. It gets bought, merged, and fed into the same systems that track where you go, what you read, and who you are.
But he did it differently. He bootstrapped everything. He never took big VC money, and there was no board pushing him to grow the data as fast as possible or sell to someone bigger. He kept his companies lean and profitable, so he got to decide how far the data went, who got it, and under what rules.
Most founders in this space lose that option once the money comes in.
A surveillance state runs on cheap, easy access to personal information. It doesn't love founders who can say no and stay independent.
Who controls these companies matters more than people realize. When the founder still has control, the limits stay tight. When he doesn't, the data flows wherever the power wants it.
18 hours later Liverpool fans are still writing essays to Opta begging to be awarded a shot on target that never was. They have accepted the loss but they want the shot on target to lessen the pain.
A private business jet carrying nine people has crashed into a residential neighbourhood in Greenacres, Palm Beach County, Florida.
All nine people on board have reportedly been killed.
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