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Steven Seggie

@stevenhseggie.bsky.social

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marketing professor @ESSEC, ex-Turkey, UK, USA. Sport / politics / digital transformation / countering disinformation / “unsung hero of BlueSky” / 🐶

Western suburbs of Paris

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Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 29d

I like New Year Resolutions:

1. get my French from early B2 to C1
2. Lose 15 kg and get in shape
3. Walk at least 15k steps a day
4. Go to the cinema at least once a month
5. Start using a proper to-do list

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 3h

I shall

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 5h

I woke up this morning and chose violence

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Emily Gorcenski @emily.gorcen.ski · 10h

Cool thoughts from Noam Chomsky

From: Matthew Hiltzik <
To: J <jeevacation@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Thoughts from Chomsky
Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2019 23:34:06 +0000
I think that is wise
Sent from my iPhone
On Feb 23, 2019, at 4:19 PM, J < jeevacation@gmail.com> wrote:
Ive watched the horrible way you are being treated in the press and public. It's painful to say, but I think the best way to proceed is to ignore it. I've had plenty of experience, though of course not on this scale. A google search will bring up tons of hysterical accusations of all sorts, even groups devoted to vilifying me. I pay no attention, unless I'm approached for a comment on a specific matter. It's a nuisance, but it's the best way. The same conclusions from experiences of others, in some cases close friends.
What the vultures dearly want is a public response, which then provides a public opening for an onslaught of venomous attacks, many from just publicity seekers or cranks of all sorts -- which are impossible to answer (how do you prove that you are not a neo-Nazi who wants to kill the Jews, or a rapist, or whatever charge comes along?). That's particularly true now with the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women, which has reached the point that even questioning a charge is a crime worse than murder. For virtually everyone who sees any of this, the reaction will be "where there's smoke there's fire, maybe raging fire" (whatever the facts, which few will even think of investigating).
In general, it's best I think not to react unless directly questioned, particularly in the current mood -- which, I presume, will fade away, even if not in time to prevent much torture and distress.

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Financial Times @financialtimes.com · 17h

Emails from an account that appeared to belong to Jeffrey Epstein allege Bill Gates tried to hide a sexually transmitted disease from his wife Melinda after having sex with 'Russian girls', claims Gates says are 'absolutely absurd and completely false' ft.trib.al/XaWoUlL

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 20h

and no I haven't put the Mandelson-Epstein-Reinaldo scoop on twitter

we journalists *can* make Bluesky the place to break news

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 20h

This is just not going to play out the way Trump thinks

Blurry TV Headlines @blurrytvheadlines.numbergoup.com · 20h

TRUMP: WARSH WILL CUT RATES WITHOUT WHITE HOUSE PRESSURE

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Blurry TV Headlines @blurrytvheadlines.numbergoup.com · 20h

TRUMP: WARSH WILL CUT RATES WITHOUT WHITE HOUSE PRESSURE

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Rob Davis @robwdavis.bsky.social · 21h

Last year, I went to Cambodia to explore Nike's claim that it pays factory workers 1.9X the minimum wage on average. It wasn't true there.

My reporting partner, @matthewkish.bsky.social, went to Indonesia and asked ~100 workers whether they earn 1.9X. None did. Said one union official: "Bullshit."

Nike Says Its Factory Workers Make Nearly Double the Minimum Wage. In Indonesia, Workers Say, “It’s Not True.”

An average worker at the foreign factories that make Nike’s goods earns 1.9 times the local minimum wage, the company says. None of the workers The Oregonian/OregonLive spoke with in Nike’s second-lar...

www.propublica.org

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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 21h

I'm not prone to exaggeration but this is probably the biggest scoop I've ever been involved in

Mandelson's partner took £10,000 from Epstein to pay for his osteopath course while Mandelson was de facto UK deputy prime minister, according to new files

more to follow

www.ft.com/content/c950...

Jeffrey Epstein sent £10,000 to Mandelson’s husband, emails show

Epstein sent Reinaldo Avila da Silva payment in 2009

www.ft.com

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 1d

The US constitution is awful, but they are so sure of their greatness that they just can’t see it.

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 1d

in this week's newsletter! I asked myself "huh, why do I dislike Paris so much?" and I tried to have a Big Think about my weird relationship with the city: youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/i-huh-went... [free to read!]

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 1d

🤣🤣🤣

Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 1d

Google Translate got better and better overtime and had a short window of being brilliant, before getting, one assumes, AI slopified, and coming up with stuff like this -

(the word I'd googled was "muchacho")

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BrokenBanker @brokenbanker.bsky.social · 1d

elsewhere, we go live to silver, currently $95 and change, -17% on the day so far:

Alone Fire GIF

ALT: Alone Fire GIF

media.tenor.com

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Marie Le Conte @youngvulgarian.marieleconte.com · 1d

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Farrukh @implausibleblog.bsky.social · 1d

Left: Konstantin Kisin denies calling Rishi Sunak a 'brown Hindu' on #BBCQT

Right: Konstantin Kisin, "He's a brown Hindu"

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John Lappin @johnlappin.bsky.social · 1d

I could not get access to an outlook for one group I work for. So made up an email. So I log on to that first before I get to the real one. I always get a cheery 'You have cleared your in-box. Congratulations'. And I feel, well, better. Not like my actual ones. Imagine. Cleared. Well.

Steven Seggie @stevenhseggie.bsky.social · 1d

Now there’s a target

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UK Health Security Agency @ukhsa.bsky.social · 1d

🆕📰 The latest data from our HPV vaccination programme shows 1 in 4 school‑leavers are unvaccinated against HPV. This leaves young women at risk of cervical cancer and both sexes vulnerable to other HPV‑related cancers.