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Utvikler bosatt i Larvik. Er (blant annet) interessert i åpen kildekode, digitalt personvern og ruspolitikk. Jeg har også en engelskspråklig og nederlandsk konto:

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Mine konti driftes på maskinvare i eget hjem, så sporadisk nedetid kan forekomme en gang iblant 🤓

Alt innhold produsert av meg (tekst, bilder etc) publiseres under lisensen CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 / https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/deed.no

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Noen i #Ruter må se få å innrullert denne gutten i et tidlig opplæringsprogram for å bli bussjåfør, han har tydelig en interesse for å kjøre busser!

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«Ensomhet er ikke trist. Det er biologisk farlig. Det krever strukturelle svar, ikke bare appeller om å være snillere mot hverandre. Det krever at vi planlegger byer, skoler og arbeidsplasser med et eksplisitt spørsmål: Bygger dette sosiale bånd, eller bryter det dem ned? Fellesskap er ikke kos. Det er folkehelse. Hvert møte mellom to mennesker er en biologisk hendelse. Vi er hverandres immunforsvar.»

https://www.nrk.no/ytring/jeg-kan-ikke-skrive-resept-pa-fellesskap-1.17802297 #NRK #Ytring

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God oppsummering fra årets World Happiness Report:

Social media, wasting time, and product traps

  • Three empirical studies raise serious doubts about whether social media use makes people happy, with implications for valuation, choice, and wellbeing. The central conclusion is that many people use social media because other people use social media. If social media use were somehow reduced or even stopped, many people would be better off, and they are aware of that fact.

  • The first study finds that people are willing to pay far less to use social media platforms than they would demand to stop using them. The fact that people would pay little or nothing to use such platforms raises the possibility that many think they are wasting time when doing so.

  • The second study finds that people lose welfare from using Facebook. Even after experiencing a ‌happier month without Facebook, however, they would demand a significant amount of money to stop using the platform for an additional month. The fact that people are more anxious and depressed when using Facebook provides strong cautionary notes about the idea that such use increases wellbeing.

  • The third (and, in important ways, the most revealing) study finds that while many young people would demand a significant amount of money to stop using Instagram and TikTok, they would also be willing to pay to eliminate those platforms from their community. Social media platforms impose a “negative non-user externality”, i.e., they impose a cost on people who do not use them.

A reasonable conclusion is that if social media platforms did not exist, many users would be better off.

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Aktuell rapport å lese nå som rettssaken mot Meta pågår. Kort konklusjon:

The evidence emerging from DSA systemic risk assessments and US platform litigation underscores a central gap in current approaches to platform governance: risks are increasingly well-described, but mitigations are rarely communicated using rigorous, outcome-oriented data and evidence.

https://kgi.georgetown.edu/research-and-commentary/measuring-risk-what-eu-risk-assessments-and-us-litigation-reveal-about-meta-and-tiktok/

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Satt opp fast donasjon til https://bonfirenetworks.org. Alternativer til Facebook, X og Snap bygger seg ikke selv og når det finnes dyktige folk der ute som utvikler gode, solide alternativer, så er jeg ombord!

https://opencollective.com/bonfire-networks

PS: De har også en spleis gående, har du mulighet til å legge igjen litt der også, så gjør det! https://www.indiegogo.com/en/projects/bonfire/community

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