cliffmanning @cliffmanning@mastodon.cloud
Happy skeptic. Interested in how tech impacts real people's lives through education, architecture, government, art & science.
I think I may be mastodoning wrong
On the importance of having time to think. This resonates with me. I often find that I don't really know how to react about something until a few days pass. I need to go away, process (or sometimes stew), and then revisit.
Bonus: the article has a nice bit of history on how the 5 day 40 hour work week became the default in our society.
h/t @dajbelshaw
http://www.collaborativefund.com/blog/the-advantage-of-being-a-little-bit-underemployed/
New report on abuse and #bullying through online games from Ditch the Label https://www.ditchthelabel.org/research-papers/ingame-abuse/
As Liam Hackett identifies gaming platforms have responsibility to take action and protect children but we also need to view bullying as a behaviour and tackle the underlying causes
Great article on Ars Technica:
"These are the online communities we will never forget"
Ctrl-F IRC, yep.
Company gains the right to 'sub-licence' your DNA - agreeing to T&Cs is getting really high stakes bbc.co.uk/news/business-… #digitalhealth
The great #climatechange silence: we are jumping into the abyss and don't even acknowledge it https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/may/05/the-great-climate-silence-we-are-on-the-edge-of-the-abyss-but-we-ignore-it
Lifelong bot - an idea for an augmented life with your own evolving #robot teacher/helper ... or outsourcing carer responsibilities to a corporate watcher? https://chatbotsmagazine.com/you-and-your-bot-a-new-kind-of-lifelong-relationship-6a9649feeb71?gi=92873406cbdb
Lifelong bot - an idea for an augmented life with your own evolving #robot teacher/helper ... or outsourcing carer responsibilities to a corporate watcher? https://chatbotsmagazine.com/you-and-your-bot-a-new-kind-of-lifelong-relationship-6a9649feeb71?gi=92873406cbdb
Hello (phone) world
Finally getting round to installing a Mastodon phone app so hopefully makes more likely to read/post
OII's Digital Ethics Lab: DELab - tackling the ethical challenges of digital innovation http://digitalethicslab.oii.ox.ac.uk
Colour: psychology, storytelling and ownership https://lostsentences.com/2017/05/14/colour-psychology-storytelling-and-ownership/
An open source Facebook style platform that lets users offer likes in exchange for payment...
http://observer.com/2017/05/minds-open-sourced-social-media-facebook-competitor/
Politics, #FakeNews, marketing, privacy & crowd thought - all in one neat and mildly depressing Venn
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/may/09/colin-johnson-wollygogg-twitter-hoax-marine-le-pen-bet?CMP=share_btn_tw
Social Networks and Social #Exclusion: Sociological and Policy Perspectives https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=z0xBDgAAQBAJ&dq … #GUDiC
How #robot counsellors learning emotional intelligience through detailed movement and vocal tracking - robohelp or robocop?
The digital skills paradox: how do digitally excluded youth develop skills to use the internet? http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17439884.2014.1002845 #GUDiC
Study suggests internet filters at home do not remove risk for teens - resilience is key http://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2017-03-14-doubts-about-whether-internet-filters-protect-teenagers-online … #esafety
This has had me chuckling all day..
The queen gets excited by cows...
Trending hashtag today on Mastodon according to @TrendingBot NSFW.
The same every day and on every 'new' community ever....
