"What is it with all this | |
... what I want is for those with the power, to keep the planet cool." |
What am I doing? | Define: 'nutrition', 'evidence-based policy', and 'food security' ... | ||
What are we doing? |
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This morning on Times Radio UK, Hugo Rifkind 1000-1300 from 10.58:30 UTC:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/radio/show/20240224-26978/2024-02-24
- there was mention of research in Germany on language, finding that there are over 540 words for 'drunkenness' being drunk. Apparently, the key is adding -ed to many words.https://www.research-in-germany.org/idw-news/en_US/2024/2/2024-02-19__I_m_gonna_get_totally_and_utterly_X-ed.__OR__Can_you_really_use_any_English_word_to_mean__drunk__
This stood out for me as Hodges' model can potentially encompass the full corpus of a language, with the various contexts in which language is applied/used.
PERSONAL DATA^ |
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PERSONAL DATA* |
CONTROL TECH GIANTS TRANSPARENCY LAW CONSUMER PROTECTION ... |
*And the data of family members.
^Data that is specific to an individual, organic, can include fingerprint, facial images, DNA, behaviours (including keyboard use, online).
Prompt: Mention of 'dark patterns' on BBC World Service promoting their tech coverage.
Previously: 'interface(s)'
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gambling? |
gambling? | |
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gambling? | TRANMERE F.C. |
BaD | FaB |
FaB | BaD |
Important new service #GamblingClinic #Sunderland@KendalICC @BarrowIcc @ulvdaltICC @Supergios @TheThewell2 @aaroncumminsNHS @claretwiggpeckh @JoConnolly_ @janet_folland @UKABIF @HeadwayUK https://t.co/6amCC1Gh4e— ✨Glenys Marriott✨ (@cumpstonarchive) January 9, 2020
intelligence
SMART bias safety explainability *(effect)? | artificielle [ ;-) ]
V s E i R t T u I a C t A i L o n s Healthcare and Energy (Sectors) bias, safety, explainability unintended consequences ZERO emissions |
"There are areas where we need to do the research before we know what are the right kinds of approaches to take". Sundai Pichai *(effect)? | REGULATION Governance Blanket vetting or Sector-by-Sector rules? anti-competitive privacy infringement Advertising* (cause) *(effect)? Google AI principles |
It occurred to me that the last post would be ideal as a 'sponsored' effort. Many posts are incidentally, or voluntarily 'sponsored'. I wish a few were in fact. This commercial thought was prompted by an email three weeks ago that referred to mention of 'due diligence' in a post from 2009. The suggestion was that if I could add a link to an article by this real estate company, and let them know, then they could 'syndicate' this W2tQ. Reply sent, but nothing heard as yet.
In that last post I was careful to avoid referring to 'c*sme*ic', lest the floodgates open ;-) and this blog's potential 'long tail' be revealed.
In between the 'Barber's model' post: another email.
This, points to a post in March 2016 and (again) the possibility of collaboration. Their focus is Python and data libraries. Well this is really encouraging! I've replied, but I'm not sure if there will be a sponsored post, or something in the side bar. I've no time to fully understand 'SEO' and advertising. That is not the blog's objective. I am aware though that this blog is ancient and Google's algorithms have and continue to change.
Some income would help with conference registrations, accommodation and travel; and to revisit hosting which I cancelled recently (as unused). My main laptop (2017) is poorly too. They do get hammered a bit. Being conscious of 'false economy' in the politics of health, social care and the environment, perhaps I should return to the MacBook fold?
*It wasn't.
Big (ethical?) questions | BIG questions |
"We can do this" | “Fund the NHS properly” |
| The 'discerning' customer | P PR PRI PRIN PRODUCE - PRODUCT chuck, drop, dump, bin. throw, fling, tip DISPOSABLE - DURABLE [left] 20% ink? How many ink cartridges do you need? How many blades...? ---------------------------- engineering |
The discerning market?
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"In passing the "Hamon Law," as it's known, in 2014, France became the first country in the world to open the door to sanctions for the widespread manufacturing practice of "planned obsolescence" - creating products pre-designed for failure at some point so that consumers will be enticed to replace them.
Specifically, the legislation outlaws "the use of techniques whereby the person responsible for placing a product on the market deliberately aims to reduce its lifetime in order to increase the replacement rate." David Schrieberg
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HIT on Vulnerable individuals
What do these words mean to you -
'Fixed'
'Odds'
'Betting'
'Terminals' ?
'Cognitive access'
Children
Gambling advertising in football
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FIXED ODDS BETTING TERMINALS
Stakes £50 or £30 or £20 or £2
£300 per minute
Physical access
HIT - the button yet again... "... not a single fixed odds betting terminal among the 35,000 or so in Britain which has ever had a losing week" Guardian |
HIT on Relationships and Families
Breakdown
Loss of Social Capital:
Crime
Job-loss
'Civil Society'
"A Government gets the
citizenry it legislates for"?
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12-Week Public consultation
HIT to the gambling industry
60,000 jobs
Staff training & awareness
£1.8 billion market
HIT on Tax £700 million
Tracey Crouch MP Gambling Minister
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Mental Pollution Adbusters | Unbranded Advertising Unbranded advertising of prescription medicines to the public by pharmaceutical companies (Protocol) |
Health - Literacy? | Digital Ad# Fraud False / Fake Ads |
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The information prescription (IP) is not new. It is what should be a routine intervention that benefits from such initiatives as the specific IP project in 2007, which also produced a final report in 2008.
If people today are expected to self-care, there are recognized problems when they self-information prescribe (or is that paternalism at work?). The provenance of information on the web is a key concern.
In the 1980s and 90s the prescriptions and the management of benzodiazepines in community mental health gradually emerged as a problem. Today (for our children and their children) there's an acute problem with the frequency of antibiotic prescribing. Listen to the informative and sobering BBC Radio 4 programme:
Information prescriptions contain a series of links or signposts to guide people to sources of information about their health and care – for example information about conditions and treatments, care services, benefits advice and support groups.Working in nursing homes I know how demanding and challenging information exchange can be. While the above quote lists suggested content, I've had to signpost in person, once, twice, three times before the time was right for a carer to approach a specific agency for a resource.
Information prescriptions let people know where to get advice, where to get support and where to network with others with a similar condition. They include addresses, telephone numbers and website addresses that people may find helpful, and show where they can go to find out more. They help people to access information when they need it and in the ways that they prefer.
This post extends the axes displayed in the previous post (i) and continues the discussion. These posts are prompted by the appearance of Jeff Jarvis's book - not a reading of it. I suppose they are an ante-review?
Article 10 of the European Convention on Human Rights provides the right to freedom of expression, subject to certain restrictions that are "in accordance with law" and "necessary in a democratic society". This right includes the freedom to hold opinions, and to receive and impart information and ideas.
| “ | Article 10 – Freedom of expression 1. Everyone has the right to freedom of expression. This right shall include freedom to hold opinions and to receive and impart information and ideas without interference by public authority and regardless of frontiers. This article shall not prevent States from requiring the licensing of broadcasting, television or cinema enterprises. 2. The exercise of these freedoms, since it carries with it duties and responsibilities, may be subject to such formalities, conditions, restrictions or penalties as are prescribed by law and are necessary in a democratic society, in the interests of national security, territorial integrity or public safety, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, for the protection of the reputation or rights of others, for preventing the disclosure of information received in confidence, or for maintaining the authority and impartiality of the judiciary. | ” |
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| sick society |
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| Brian E. Hodges - c/o Brian's family. |
Born in Liverpool, UK.
Community Mental Health Nurse NHS, Part-time Lecturer,
Researcher Nursing & Technology Enhanced Learning
Registered Nurse - Mental Health & General
Community Psychiatric Nursing (Cert.) MMU
PG Cert. Ed.
BA(Joint Hons.) Computing and Philosophy - BIHE - Bolton
PG(Dip.) Collaboration on Psychosocial Education [COPE] Univ. Man.
MRES. e-Research and Technology Enhanced Learning, Lancaster Univ.
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