It's
6yrs since we started seeing mass proliferation of scam ads
5yrs since I sued Facebook.
4yrs since they settled (for £3m to charity).
4yrs since the online harms white paper (still not law)
18mth since they agreed to inc scams in it.
1 day since first deep fake scam ad I've seen
Yet we've still
NO proper laws
NO proper regulation
NO proper fines for big tech who get paid to publish these criminal ads
NO mention of when things will improve
NO sign of the promised online advertising programme to help
It isn't good enough. Vulnerable people are being scammed, lifes are being ruined, and people are totally unprotected.
1/10 Wages are struggling to keep up with costs. Covid and Ukraine are factors but to explain what’s happening, we also need to look further back – to Britain’s levels of wage growth, productivity, investment and inequality. This is what we found. First - wage growth has stalled
satisfies in TypeScript has been out for a little while now.
Overall, it's been a success - but it's starting to cause some confusion.
Let's clear it up.
“If they really are refugees, why don’t they have to stay in the first safe country they reach?”
“Why don’t they just claim asylum in France?”
Here is my answer, once & for all. To Jonathan Gullis, and to everyone else who ever wondered.
#RefugeesWelcome
Today, my all time hero Janis Joplin (1943-70) would have been 80 years old. Here is a thread of Janis quotes to remind you what a goddamn legend she was.
As UK struggles with soaring energy prices and the threat of blackouts, fossil fuel lobbyists are working overtime to blame net zero. The truth is we're suffering from too little 'net zero'.
Aside from Ukraine, here are 8 real reasons, with graphics:🧵...
https://t.co/yFn5giOr78
OMG it finally works!! 🚀🚀🚀
I got @OpenAI to draft emails 📧 for me in the background 🤯
This christmas I built an email assistant (https://t.co/3ALSbIJNlG) that automatically drafts email replies behind the scenes
no chrome extension necessary, here's the story 👇
Do the general public know that because of Brexit we are now finding it difficult to import controlled drugs into the UK for medical use? So we are running out of Remifentanil, an important drug used for anaesthetising patients, and we have to use alternatives techniques.
@NileGardiner The documentary sticks it to the tabloids, so the tabloids continue with their mission of inflaming hate and division among the British populace. @NileGardiner you're what's wrong with this country, try some self-reflection buddy.