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Nice rocks down here!

When it comes to platform governance, we must reframe the conversation towards mandating #transparency and accountability, with a specific focus on the internal recommendation engines, writes Tech Policy Press contributing editor Amber Sinha:

Also note that the color of your swimsuit matters for visibility in emergencies www.cnn.com/2024/06/07/h...

Hi, this is Meg Barnette, Brad's wife. While escorting a defendant out of immigration court at 26 Federal Plaza, Brad was taken by masked agents and detained by ICE. This is still developing, and our team is monitoring the situation closely.

I’ve been shaping up an idea to reform how ADHD is assessed and supported in the UK. Drawing from lived experience, systems thinking and my work in government.   A “single front door.” 1/5

Worth considering that one reason Bluesky doesn't always feel super fun is that current events are relentlessly horrifying and bad

What living under First Past the Post feels like:

Democracies either regulate the 'market of ideas' through which our citizens understand the world or we may as well give up on the whole project.

There is I think a lesson for other Governments here...

a leading campaigner against the recent rise in National Insurance is married to a man convicted of one of Britain’s biggest ever NI frauds - via The Times

I know this is not an original take but the US gov deploying troops against protesters doing nothing to dampen the stock markets is really. 🤔 So these market things are good at pricing in the facts?

Normalcy bias prevents you from recognising reality when that reality appears alien to your world view. Our default position will be to disbelieve reality and invent a narative ie: it's not happening, it's hyperbole, you're lying.

Both big parties need to stop burning out anyone who disagrees with the current leadership. Under FPTP, we need parties to be broad coalitions. If there's no place for liberal conservatives, Corbynites, Tory Remainers or Labour leavers, large swathes of opinion will be locked out of representation

The conditions that have led to what’s happening in the US today exist in democracies around the world. They are an inevitable outcome of our collective failure to adapt to fundamental changes in the information ecosystem on which our democracies were originally built.

So I just learned that if you Google "I'm a small baby deer, where is mother?" the AI will reassure you and treat you as in character.