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If you’ve spent almost any time online, you’ve probably met that familiar little pop-up at the bottom or top of a screen. It mentions “essential and non-essential cookies,” asks you to “Accept” or “Reject,” and then points you toward a Cookie Policy. It’s easy to click without thinking, but this small message carries real meaning. What LinkedIn is offering, stripped of all the legal vocabulary, is quite simple: “We want to make your experience work smoothly, keep your account safe, improve our site so it runs better for you, and occasionally show you things that actually matter—for example, a job…

It is an immense human tragedy that has been unfolding in glaring public light. Jason Arday, a 41-year-old academic who had broken historic barriers as the youngest Black professor at the University of Cambridge, was found unresponsive on Friday afternoon at a residential address in Battersea, south London, and pronounced dead at the scene. The Metropolitan Police confirmed that they had been called by the London Ambulance Service, and while the death is initially being treated as unexpected, there are currently no signs of suspicious circumstances. The case has been passed to officers from the Central South Command Unit, and…

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