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All economic activity should serve the common good, wherefore the existing multi-person enterprises are to be transformed into legal forms suitable for this purpose (e.g. cooperatives, non-profit associations and foundations). Source: The Nua-Celtic Manifesto

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All inventions and innovations, just like software, should serve the highest good of All-That-Is. All software should be open source and available to all. Existing technology should be removed from the control of a few or even a single oligarch without violence. Source: The Nua-Celtic Manifesto

Social Media with Moderation

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When I look at Facebook, BlueSky and Threads I see a lot of content that should never be. I see sentences and phrasing that provoke hostility, and I see article headlines and more that provoke polarisation. In essence I think that social media is no longer a social network. I believe that social media is about emotions, rather than conversations, especially negative emotions.

I bring this up because I can go for hours, or even days without looking at threads or FB and when I do I am struck with how negative posts are. They're not friendly, or constructive, or conversational. They're negative.

In the last day or two Valais in Switzerland has decided to ban mobile phones from schools. I think this move is short-sighted and focused on the wrong people. In my eyes the issue is not with mobile phones, because they are just a medium. The issue is not with children, because children are keen to learn. I think the focus should be on app developers such as Facebook, TikTok, Instagram and more.

If we dive into TikTok, when I first used it, I expected an experience similar to the one I had with Seesmic. Video instant messaging. I say something, and then others react, and with time we become friends. TikTok is a talent show where people immitate each other, and follow même culture, rather than converse and create friendships. Apps are the issue, not the platform.

If phones are too distracting in a classroom, then I suggest finding a way that appeals to modern children. I suggest giving them time to do more sports, and to explore. I also suggest finding apps that help them learn, rather than banning a medium.

Mobile phones are a medium. They are a platform, in the same way as paper, literacy and more. If you ban that platform you stop people from becoming familiar with an environment, and you make them more vulnerable to being influenced to hate technology, and abuse it, rather than enjoy and appreciate it.

With educational apps you don't need to carry heavy books. You can have a printed copy at home, and the mobile app version at school. In this way you can't forget your book, and the need for lockers is different. Mobile phones are calculators, but also dictionaries, thesaurus and more.

Technology provides children with opportunities, and as technology evolves so does our use of it. When people are given to play with computers, or mobile phones, and more, they are given the opportunity to learn and become familiar with a tool that they can use for the rest of their lives.

We shouldn't stigmatise the medium. We should stigmatise the apps, and come up with new, ethical, alternatives. I find Instagram to be useless these days, and I found pixelfed to have the same flaws. In my eyes social apps should encourage sharing and friendship, not hashtags and likes.

And Finally

For me the issue does not stem from the medium of mobile phones, or smartphones but of the culture of binstagram, binfluencers, Facebook, TikTok and other apps. For me the issue is with app developers trying to get people addicted to pay to win games. For me the platform is just a platform. For me the European Union and others should work to make better mobile apps.

In my eyes the Fitness App on iPhones is bad because it encourages addictive behaviour, as does the Kindle app. For me the issue isn't about young people with maturing brains using ill-suited technology. It's about questionable companies using poor business practices to drive addiction. Mobile phones teach digital literacy, and digital literacy is essential. Ban smartphones and you stunt their digital literacy growth.

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So, we must also re-embed #Technology (#Virilio, #Rosa, #Mhalla, #Rouvroy, #Berns, #Burnham, #Wark, #Zuboff, #Ellul, #Stiegler, #Supiot, #Illich, #Ostrom, #Giuliani, #Vercellone, #Brancaccio, #Mumford, #Barad, #Haraway, #Harding, #Cusicanqui). Once #Technology (#Conviviality?), #Economy (exchanges, hour-agreements?), and #Politics (#ImmanentLegitimacy, #PopularSovereignty, #SocialContract)...

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Taxes should become the central control instrument by taxing undesirable behaviour high and life-affirming behavior low or even negative. Achieving the optimal state will require a restructuring of taxes and duties as well as strong regulation of the economy. This applies in particular to the financial sector and to the use of private data and artificial intelligence. Source: The Nua-Celtic Manifesto

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In a participatory way, it should be decided whether inventions should be turned into innovations, in order to transform the hubris of the technology believers into public utility. In addition, gain-of-function and similarly dangerous research must be placed under the supervision of international institutions and committed to the highest transparency towards the public. Source: The Nua-Celtic Manifesto

Of Relaxed Rides and Hikes the Next Day

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Two days ago I was cycling with a group and someone commented that the relaxed rides are no longer relaxed and that got me to thinking about organising a real relaxed ride, where the aim is to cycle at 20 on the flat. If I had had this option then I could have tried group rides much sooner. In fact the group rides that I tried last year would have been more comfortable. When a group is fast, and we are not, then the ride is exhausting, even if it has a coffee break.

It could be an option in the near future, but now that I am getting faster I could consider riding with faster groups. It got me to think that "relaxed groups" have a lot of riders that should do moderate rides. I'm one of those people, so this is not criticism. It's self-reflection.

The reason for which I don't want to push to the point of exhaustion is that I like to have a reserve for the following day. I like to be able to do a relaxed, or difficult hike. It would be a shame not to be active two days per weekend. Yesterday's hike was easy, in terms of distance, and speed, but it was a challenge. Slow hikes are more tiring because you're on the go for longer. The heat didn't help.

When we walked to the train to head home I could feel that my legs had no reserves left. I could feel that they no longer had enough torque to do much.

It's amusing because sometimes groups are fast walkers, and sometimes groups are fast cyclists. In both of these cases everyone is happy. It's when there are slower walkers with fast walkers, and faster cyclists with slower cyclists that there has to be a certain amount of empathy.

During the Jaun to Gruyère walk I was apathetic, and this time I was empathetic. When I was with the Skoda Divonne group I was being pushed too hard so I felt knackered, and on Sunday I felt the group was pushing others too hard.

I am not being critical. This is not meant to be negative. This is me thinking while writing. I know that I would have appreciated a slower group, to get into the habit of cycling. I think that this niche could be filled.

This afternoon I pushed hard, and I was cycling at 20-40 km/h, sometimes straight into a headwind. I felt okay. I believe, that, at this point I could consider riding with a moderate group. On Wednesday and Thursday I could be pushed.

Looking Forward

In future I should ride with Group 2 on Thursday nights and I should try riding with the moderate group. I should take advantage that I am comfortable to push myself. If I push myself when riding solo, then, if and when I ride with stronger groups, my body will be ready for the strain I put it through. I am not 20-30 like they might be.

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