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How Just Stop Oil harnessed emotions to ignite public concern for climate change

Fast Company Tech

Many will read the groups legacy through the lens of public hostility: the frustration caused, the angry headlines, the outrage at its tactics. It is a sign that these activists succeeded in emotionally charging the public debate about climate change. Activists can stimulate change, but not through rational arguments alone.

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X briefly brought back headlines to link previews — but they’re gone again

TechCrunch

X (formerly Twitter) started showing headlines at the bottom of link preview cards again on Tuesday using a small font. Multiple users and publications reported that they could see titles on link cards on the web. However, hours later the company seemingly pulled the new format.

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Iceland built 1,756 wheelchair ramps in the past 4 years. Why can’t other countries do that?

Fast Company Tech

Thorleifsson has experienced such access barriers to public spaces throughout his life, but the turning point came on a late-night walk with his family in downtown Reykjavk, when he couldnt join his son in a corner store because of a single step at the entrance.

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Meta will soon roll out Community Notes, a whitewashed version of Elon Musk’s fact-checking system

Fast Company Tech

Furthermore, the study only assessed the accuracy of headlines and ledes, not full articles. Research shows that attaching notes to a subset of fake news headlines increases perceived accuracy of headlines without warnings. Meta is rolling out the feature on March 18. The promise is enticing.

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Public tech’s espresso shot is quite literally the cloud

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. Last week we said that you needed to pay attention to the public markets, and we weren’t kidding.

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Building startups in public has an end date

TechCrunch

Hello and welcome back to Equity , a podcast about the business of startups, where we unpack the numbers and nuance behind the headlines. This week, Natasha asked: How does the “build in public” mindset impact the way that startups are built? — we tried to expand the conversation to include more perspectives.

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Better.com’s public market debut was Miserable.com

TechCrunch

Better.com finally went public last week, and the stock’s performance was worse than expected. Better.com finally went public The biggest fintech news of the week centered around Better.com’s no good, very bad public market debut. To sum it up, digital mortgage lender Better.com made its public debut on August 24.

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