What is meant by sustainable, resilient, and equitable cities, and is smart city policy feasible? 👇

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#Longread Jason Arday: J'Accuse the British Media
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Shifting from punch cards to terminals, my TAs were concerned: students would no longer plan ahead. Instead planning ahead changed. Similarly sound bites and apps have shortened our attention spans but not ruined our ability to think.

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#longread #decline

#Longread Grace Blakeley: Divestment Works.
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This is a great #longread. The attacks on Canadian sovereignty are also put into a bigger context (even if a few of the details around Alberta separatism were a bit off).

#ICYMI bit.ly/4d21x4b The much belated #2026WorldCup review, this time on the co-hosts: #CMNT 🇨🇦, #USMNT 🇺🇸, #ElTri 🇲🇽. On each of their tournament, the coaches, and everything else in between. #longread

Part of the (belated) #WorldCup review, along with bit.ly/4gMrDdu, and bit.ly/4gNt7mO ✍️

Led by the Earlham Institute in Norwich, with @samsocean.bsky.social, the Culture Collection of Algae and Protozoa, and @aau.dk, the project brings together international expertise in #protist culturing, #singlecell genomics, and #longread sequencing. 🧬🦠🔬

#Longread A Polar Bear on an Iceberg? Here’s This Picture of Catastrophe and You’ve Totally Depoliticised It’
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bit.ly/4d21x4b The very much belated #2026WorldCup review, this time on the co-hosts: #CMNT 🇨🇦, #USMNT 🇺🇸, #ElTri 🇲🇽. On each of their tournament, the coaches, and everything else in between. #longread

Part of the #WorldCup review, along with bit.ly/4gMrDdu, and bit.ly/4gNt7mO ✍️

#Longread Do Rural Residents Have the Power to Say No?
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#Longread NDN Collective’s History, Present Moment, and The Path Ahead ndncollective.org/ndn-collecti...

#Longread How lawyers to the super-rich strangled Labour's Slapp bill open.substack.com/pub/democrac...

#Longread “Thrown away by society”: Inside Britain’s disability employment gap national.thelead.uk/p/inside-bri...

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#Longread AI needs human hands. Indian workers fought back www.opendemocracy.net/email/a2328f...

"I felt the intimacy of our voices entwined without our bodies ever touching. Hidden closeness in plain sight."

Music, love, & what hides between in this essential #longread #fiction from Rachel McCarron. Please don't miss this one <3 | www.doesithavepockets.com/fiction/rachel-mccarron

‘A completely unique opportunity’: the secretive process that will decide the BBC’s future.

Every decade, the BBC’s continued existence must be secured through an elaborate multi-year negotiation with the go…

#BBC #Media #TV #UK #Radio #PublicServiceBroadcasting #Politics #CharterRenewal #Longread

#Longread A Digital Lynching
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#Longread Our greatest ally in securing our food supply lies in restoring — not competing with — the living systems that feed us www.rewildingbritain.org.uk/blog/the-wil...