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- Adele Walton’s sister Aimee died at 21 after going on a notorious self-harm forum. But when Adele approached a tech CEO to talk about online safety at a Davos debate, she was threatened with removal @adelewalton.bsky.social for the Nerve on why it matters when tech companies do not show humanity👇🔗
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- This week's cultural hotlist 🔥▶️ From TV's new Welsh coast noir to a profound book about what we eat 🔗 www.thenerve.news/p/culture-ho...
- George Saunders, whose new novel imagines the last hours of an oil tycoon, is struggling to reconcile empathy with opposition in a riven America. He talks to @dorianlynskey.bsky.social about Trump, truth and the joy of reading www.thenerve.news/p/george-sau...
- Palestinian-American actor-director Cherien Dabis talks to @guylodge.bsky.social about family grief, Gaza and her shattering new movie www.thenerve.news/p/cherien-da...
- Review of the Week: Our Town (on tour) @welshnattheatre.bsky.social’s first large-scale show, starring its artistic director Michael Sheen @mchshe.bsky.social, brings a shimmering Celtic quality to Wilder’s tale of smalltown America, writes @juderogers.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/review-of-...
- What’s happening in America is technofascism. And the UK will be next, says @carolecadwalla.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...
- Entertainers can’t save truth. Or Greenland. But at least we can boycott the ‘Trump Kennedy Center’ This week’s column by Stewart Lee 🔗⏬
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- The Recommender: Lyse Doucet The BBC’s chief international correspondent shares the highlights of her hectic cultural month www.thenerve.news/p/the-recomm...
- What’s happening in America is technofascism. It could happen here Peter Thiel's data company is powering ICE operations in the US. In part 2 of the Nerve’s Palantir series, @carolecadwalla.bsky.social argues that the UK will be next - and we map Thiel’s network🧵 www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...
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- The Nerve weekend dish: Kai’s fish fingers and mayonnaise 🐟🍋 Chef Jess Murphy shares the dish she invented for fun and now can’t take off the menu at her Galway restaurant www.thenerve.news/p/weekend-di...
