2/5 Feed manipulation is using addictive algorithms in social media. Embedding addictiveness to these algorithms should be banned ⬇️
Mark Foden
Proceeding by experiment
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Absolutely fascinating prog explaining that cardio exercise, whilst vital for all sorts of reasons, doesn’t help us lose weight: the trick is to change our diet
"Avoid pronouncing the phrases everyone else does. Think up your own way of speaking, even if only to convey that thing you think everyone is saying."
One of 20 excellent pieces of advice by Timothy Snyder on avoiding (quite possibly imminent) tyranny
“Bluesky is in a dangerous place: not because it is backed by VCs, not because it is a for-profit entity, but because it has captive users and no constraints. It's a great party in a sealed building with no fire exits”
Bluesky vs Mastodon vs mainstream social media by @pluralistic https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113861208533472641
Do anyone else’s toes curl at the use of the word “unleash”?
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President #JimmyCarter created this message to travel on Voyager 1. It's still out there traveling at 40,000 mph, looking for a cosmic community to catch it and play the media.
Some thoughts in response to the left/right framing of political argy-bargy
The need for "closing the loop " is explainable in terms of complexity.
Complexity being a thing. That we swim in. But are mostly unaware of.
We should know more about how it works.
"We have to be able to close the loop between policy and implementation" - @pahlkadot
Yes! In complexity it's utterly, glaringly obvious that progress is otherwise impossible
https://www.statecraft.pub/p/what-can-the-brits-teach-us-about 1/2
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When Alistair Campbell and Rory Stewart interviewed Kate Raworth just over a year ago, they seemed to accept that the growth dogma was leading us down a blind ally;
https://alastaircampbell.org/2023/06/22-kate-raworth-doughnut-economics-and-thriving-in-balance/
A year later, they're right back to singing the 'growth is good' song, in their discussion of UK Labour's attempts not to look like the centrist lame duck it is;
https://alastaircampbell.org/2024/12/346-the-battle-for-syria/
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#podcasts #Leading #TheRestIsPolitics
#growth #DeGrowth #KateRaworth #AlistairCampbell #RoryStewart
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For 18 months I have been treated for breast cancer by wonderful NHS. I have had two surgeries,chemotherapy,radiotherapy heart scan and CT scan and my first mammogram.Now on targeted therapy for 3 years. I have not had to worry if private health insurance would cover my expensive treatment.
Please don't support politicians that want to replace the #nhs by the American heath model. This includes Farage and Reform. Check out his policies and backers.
#reformparty #Farage #nhs #breastcancer
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The Romanian Constitutional Court had already made up their mind that despite corrupted elections, it would be better to allow the second round to proceed. Then new evidence came to light.
The corruption was driven by a foreign nation state. The only outcome could be to nullify and restart. And that's what the Court did.
This is how you deal with corrupt elections.
A compelling contribution to the assisted dying debate from my MP Kit Malthouse. Watch from 1h29m23s
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0025lxm #AssistedDying
If we can it's important we pay for what we value
"To put it bluntly, as a nonprofit we don’t have investors or profit-minded board members knocking during hard times, urging us to 'sacrifice a little privacy' in the name of hitting growth and monetary targets."
@Mer__edith and Joshua Lund of @signalapp
UK and US neck and neck in consumption of ultra-processed foods (if you’ll forgive the expression)
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Just over a week till the #ukgc25 ticket lottery.
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Deeply informed and worth your time post/thread from @cwebber on decentralization, federation, Bluesky and fedi.
https://social.coop/@cwebber/113527462572885698
I have a few thoughts I have meant to write a post on, myself. Putting down the cliffs notes.
“Unsurprisingly, when the frenzy is over, we discover we have solved almost none of our problems”
Excellent piece by George Monbiot on elections and alternative forms of democracy
The Guardian stops posting on X - a good thing
#guardian #x #twitter
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/13/why-the-guardian-is-no-longer-posting-on-x
Shouldn’t we be experimenting with assisted dying before asking MPs to choose in an all or nothing vote?
Maybe a temporary bill to allow a few people wishing to die to do so under strictly controlled conditions - with MP observers?
As it says in the article, it may be 10 years before the next opportunity.
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