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Like, it's been 4 years. 4 years and still industry wide safeguarding, which has gaping holes, hasn't changed in any meaningful way.

It is a silence and it most certainly does matter. I would be more inclined to believe these offline conversations were occurring if they bore fruit, however ACE still hasn't had an enquiry about how he became an NPO, RCSSD still have no safeguarding policy for all 18-25 early career performers...

The actual issue here is the severe lack of safeguarding for early-career performers. Regardless of the desires and feelings of anyone (including victims, I must add), this needs to be fixed fast so we can prevent future Chris Goode's... and Glover-Stuarts, and Heath's etc etc...

There is a serious and persistent issue across the whole sector regarding safeguarding for early-career performers. I still find it astounding that ACE have not had a public enquiry regarding how he became a NPO, nor RCSSD had a review about safeguarding graduate students. It's been 4 years.

Tbh, this is probably a good thing bearing in mind the industry's abysmal record of protecting young actors from serious sexual assault and abuse. It's entirely appropriate that young people are steered from harms way. Maybe this is the wakeup needed to finally implement robust safeguarding.

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It's not a question. A concerted effort has been made by theatres and educational institutions to essentially commandeer cancel culture to affect a cover up. Only 2 videos remain of Chris Goode on YouTube, Dante or Die removed his name as the writer of 'user not found'... and the list goes on and on

Andrzej Lukowski on whether theatre forget about Chris Goode too soon In her book, The Genius Myth, journalist Helen Lewis discusses the case of theatremaker Chris Goode. Andrzej Lukowski reflects on whether the industry has learned from Goode’s story

Andrzej Lukowski reflects on Helen Lewis’ new book The Genius Myth, questioning whether British theatre buried the troubling legacy of Chris Goode rather than reckoning with it 👇

I think, tbh, before you go down the road of being trusted to run any youth theatre, you need to come clean about your venues past relationship with Chris Goode and detail your safeguarding procedures.

Just got back on the platform. good to see the U-turns on this. Looks like the numbers weren't wrong on Starmers popularity.

Yung Filly faces two new sexual assault charges in Australia The rapper appeared before Perth Magistrates Court in Australia on Friday.

it's been a while but just a small update:

Yung Filly has 2 new charges against him as reported by the beeb: BBC News - Yung Filly faces two new sexual assault charges
www.bbc.com/news/article...

Just a casual reminder that Yung Filly is going to be entering his plea in the coming week as to whether he violently raped a young woman after his show is Australia.

Meanwhile Johnny Somali has had all his devices confiscated as part of the investigations into his depraved behaviour in South Korea

Whilst it's highly unlikely that the Hawk Tuah Girl (Hailey Welch) will be criminally charged for running a scam related to her recent $hawk token disaster, she has just laid the ground work to sow doubt into investing in new cryptocurrencies. This could benefit (speculative) more established coins.

Hard truth is the ratio of bots is significantly higher on Bluesky than on X

I understand that @bsky.app is positioned as an alternative to Twitter but, in the world of big social media, Meta is the real one to beat.

Between Instagram & Facebook, Meta has a combined impact of anywhere from 3.1 - 4.5 BILLION people worldwide.

There's a lot we could cover here. What do you think would be the top priority?

I've realised a lot of people who don't work in Marketing often have a very different perception of normal human behaviour than those of us that do.

For example, a *good* advert will lead to 3%-5% of people seeing it actually buying from it. An *exceptional* advert will be anything above 10%

In 2024, there were four different 24-hour periods where 100% of UK smartphone devices connected to one of these platforms:

1. Meta - (Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp)

2. Google (YouTube, Google Search, Gmail, Chrome, Android)

3. Microsoft - (Outlook, Office 365, Hotmail)

4. ByteDance - (TikTok)

4Chan - it's like Twitter but with a better moderation policy.

Tbh he has the option to do it and save loads of money for his company. 95% of business owners would do the same. This is not a partisan point, California needs to become a more attractive place to start and run businesses... you might not want to admit it but Elon made a reasonable decision here.

Zuckerberg dines with Trump in Mar-a-Lago Donald Trump dined on Wednesday with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at the president-elect’s Mar-a-Lago club in Florida.

This is more important within the context of TikTok potentially being sold/banned in the next few weeks.

Two companies are positioned to gain the most. Meta and Twitter

Let's see what happens next week. It's going to be interesting either way tbh. If it is banned it would be a seismic shift in online behaviours and a massive win for US based social media like Twitter and Meta. I don't think this is a money play either way, it's an anti-china play.

Its not a conspiracy, there was a whole scandal about it, government hearings, evidence was presented publicly etc. There's even a Netflix show about it.

If you think that (seemingly quite effective) software has gone away... I with I had your optimism.

Just a little reminder that Cambridge Analytica really did develop military grade software (that had UK export controls applied like all UK military grade tools) and deployed it to influence elections in the UK (that we know of for sure) and probably in the US too.

19th January is the deadline for TikTok to either sell to a US owned company or be banned from the US.

The upcoming appeals hearing on Dec 6th is a good litmus test for what we can expect regarding past decisions being upheld. Trump (now) doesn't want TikTok banned... apparently.

Israel-Lebanon latest: Netanyahu says Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire deal agreed Netanyahu says Hezbollah in Lebanon has been

Great news!

www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/cn...
Israel-Lebanon latest: Netanyahu says Israel-Hezbollah ceasefire deal agreed - BBC News

Its official. Johnny Somali has just been banned from TikTok... I'm not down with censorship but in this case, good riddance to bad rubbish.

Ah so for you, democracy is a once every five years event. Not so much "rule by consent" and more "rule by ascent"

... you can hear yourself right? Like just to be clear, Starmer hikes unrealistic costs on small farmers and the elderly, and that's *checks notes* Russia's fault?