Nathan Nelson

Denmark aims to ban social media for children under 15, PM says “We have unleashed a monster,” Mette Frederiksen tells Danish lawmakers.

Great move. Next: ban it for over-15s. www.politico.eu/article/denm...

boiling the oceans so a robot can check and see that you like Green Day and then recommend you a Green Day album that does not exist

Listening to overshootpod.com. It's very good indeed.

Also I'm a big fan of short run podcasts, well produced, that just stop when they've done what they need to do rather than flogging a dead horse week after week. See also the excellent tippingpoint-podcast.com.

Will I be the first to suggest the carbon offsets worked exactly as planned: they delayed real action for another 25 years

WhatsApp is introducing user names for privacy. These have been a feature in Signal for ages. And it's Meta. So.

A working parking app, a working parking app, my kingdom for a working parking app

Last night's insomnia was soundtracked by Madonna's Live to Tell. I'd enjoy being awake more if my brain would play more than the one song.

Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? Sick of scrolling through junk results, AI-generated ads and links to lookalike products? The author and activist behind the term ‘enshittification’ explains what’s gone wrong with the internet – and ...

The Great Enshittening (a good read and opened my eyes to Amazon's spectacularly scummy behaviour) www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

God yes please...

Again and again I come across academic papers where within seconds I'm muttering "Jesus could you just get to some kind of point" to myself. So, so much verbiage and self-indulgent waffle and I just don't have the patience for it.

Thank you 🙏🏻

Theeeere it is

a dirt road going through a desert landscape with mountains in the background ALT: a dirt road going through a desert landscape with mountains in the background

Climate and food scientists: Hey everyone, here's a massive report showing how we need to make radical changes to our diet to avoid environmental catastrophe, but if we did it we could have amazing health benefits!

UK media:

Non-Spotify link to the podcast feed would be appreciated :-)

People who vote for Reform are 'not racist' according to Starmer, presumably in exactly the same way that people who say "I'm not racist, but..." are not racist.

🌏 EAT Lancet 2.0 is out! On what has changed in what constitutes a 'Planetary health diet' since the original EAT Lancet report in 2019, Walter Willett said 'almost nothing'. Lots of more recent science backs up what was in the original Planetary Health diet.

Thank you. Feeling several notches up on last weekend!

Finally tested negative for Covid. Pretty much a week.

A close-up photograph of a single, vibrant magenta-pink Red Campion (Silene dioica), with five deeply notched petals. The flower is on a slender, hairy stem, surrounded by several fuzzy green buds, set against a blurred background of green foliage and dry brown grasses in a hedgerow.

Good old red campion still doing its thing in the verges. #WildFlowerHour

Tavistock mayor welcomes Goose Fair visitors With Tavistock Goose Fair imminent, the town’s mayor is keen to make visitors and residents feel welcome at the event.

This makes the Goosey sound so much nicer than it actually is www.okehampton-today.co.uk/news/town-ma...

I really like @beeper.com for using WhatsApp, let alone any of the other chat services it connects to. Just prefer the interface, no Meta AI, and management of groups is better. Only thing it can't do is WhatsApp calls, which have annoyingly become ubiquitous when phone reception is dodgy.

A small black and tan dog looks unsure about getting up this morning.

Really not sure about getting up this morning.

Glad you're not having problems. Not my experience the vast majority of the time.

If you're anywhere near Crane Park you might see horses at work this week cutting and baling - say hi to horseman Tom.

Upper management have a lot to answer for

Arts & Culture Exeter | Gardening, Community and Wellbeing An online exhibition of creative responses by students of the 2024-2025 MA Food Studies module, 'Gardening, Community, and Wellbeing', which introduces the wider context of gardens and community gard...

Explore a new online exhibition from the @exeter.ac.uk MA #FoodStudies module Gardening, Community, and Wellbeing. See projects from calligraphy to weaving that creatively respond to the role of gardens in food production, biodiversity, and health. 🌱

www.artsandcultureexeter.co.uk/online-exhib...

Well I think the evidence so far says everything can.

It's a dream compared to Teams! A dream!

(it still sucks)

Clicked Join on a meeting in the Teams app. Doesn't open in the app, for some reason fires up a browser, which says "Yeah, no, sorry, I don't want to do that". Finally open the meeting. No audio. Teams, both useless and unavoidable. Tagline: Well, you already paid for it ¯\_(ツ)_/¯