A double helping of #FeministFringe at #EdBookFest tonight, with Deborah Frances White and Laura Bates.
Both events examined the risks for women and children in navigating poorly-regulated online social spaces and highlighted the failures of both providers to make their products safe and governments to legislate for better standards.
Social media fosters extremism, making the world less safe so that a few billionaires can get richer.
We all deserve better than this.
A lucid discussion by Mike Berners-Lee at the Edinburgh Book Festival this afternoon. He argues that the only way out of the climate crisis, and the wider polycrisis, is to adopt a zero- tolerance approach to dishonesty in public life. Why are deliberate lies no longer a resigning matter?
Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)
Velvet Selkie
Sally Lowell
