Commonfutrs
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Commonfutrs
@commonfutrs.bsky.social
Community Ownership Explorer & Civic Engineer. MBE DU Essex (Hon). Polymath. Technophile. Rugby. Posts my own/not endorsements.
Joyous! Shopping for small people ahead of birthdays and Xmas - books about rainbows 🌈 toys to indulge the imagination, and baking equipment for hands still learning to decorate cakes 🥳
December 7, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Australia began enforcing a ban on social media apps for children under the age of 16 — becoming the first country to do so.

The measure is meant to protect children from the pressures and risks of social media, a mounting global concern.
Australia is set to ban social media for teens. Others could follow.
The world is watching Australia’s ban on social media for children under 16. But some experts say the policy will face difficulties.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:00 PM
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Chatbots can help plan vacations and offer advice. Can they also sway your politics? A brief conversation with a trained chatbot proved roughly four times as persuasive as a traditional political ad on television, one study found.
Chatbots Can Meaningfully Shift Political Opinions, Studies Find
A brief conversation with a trained chatbot proved roughly four times as persuasive as a traditional political ad on television, one of the studies found.
nyti.ms
December 6, 2025 at 12:40 AM
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‘TikTok took down the videos six weeks after Taylor-Robinson complained. “Initially, they said some of the videos violated their guidelines but some were fine. That was absurd – and weird – because I was in all of them and they were all deepfakes”’

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
AI deepfakes of real doctors spreading health misinformation on social media
Hundreds of videos on TikTok and elsewhere impersonate experts to sell supplements with unproven effects
www.theguardian.com
December 5, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Enshitification - Cory Doctorow renews the call to proactively develop alternatives to big tech to revitalise our economy and communities h/t @krishgm.bsky.social

podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/w...
'Enshitification' and how big tech is making the internet worse for everyone - Cory Doctorow
Podcast Episode · Ways to Change the World with Krishnan Guru-Murthy · 05/12/2025 · 41m
podcasts.apple.com
December 6, 2025 at 12:05 AM
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November 24, 2025 at 11:08 PM
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Great to see ARC NWC’s contribution highlighted, with expertise from Equitable Place-Based Health and Care theme lead Prof Heather Brown on the economics of health inequalities, along with research from Prof Ben Barr, theme lead for Improving Population Health.
November 24, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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By studying the process through which a soil bacterium naturally produces a well-known drug, scientists have discovered a powerful antibiotic that could help to fight drug-resistant infections

go.nature.com/4nLbCoC
Powerful new antibiotic that can kill superbugs discovered in soil bacteria
Nature - Surprise discovery could pave the way for new treatments against drug-resistant infections.
go.nature.com
November 8, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Researching the use of chatbots for mental health support, D&S's @briana-v.bsky.social heard from many people who expected less stigma from chatbots than from therapists, “which is really interesting, given what we know about machine-learning bias,” she tells @undark.org. undark.org/2025/11/04/c...
Researchers Weigh the Use of AI for Mental Health
Chatbots weren't designed for mental health, but they are increasingly used for therapy. What are the risks an benefits?
undark.org
November 5, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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A new technique called ‘mind captioning’ generates descriptive sentences of what a person is seeing or picturing in their mind using a read-out of their brain activity, with impressive accuracy.

go.nature.com/3XbnxB1
‘Mind-captioning’ AI decodes brain activity to turn thoughts into text
A non-invasive imaging technique can translate scenes in your head into sentences. It could help to reveal how the brain interprets the world.
go.nature.com
November 5, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Sundown, San Giljan.
October 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
October 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
October 27, 2025 at 3:47 PM
Octopus carpaccio and lavender cocktail, San Giljan.
October 26, 2025 at 4:53 PM
The Flatiron Building worked, architecturally, because it benefited from space around it which served to highlight its uniqueness amid NYC’s grid system.

The effect of an unusual corner in Sliema is more akin to a man-made Mariana Trench …
October 26, 2025 at 4:33 PM
October 25, 2025 at 3:41 PM
The Grand Harbour, Valletta.
October 25, 2025 at 3:36 PM
October 25, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Heavy metal giraffe, Dockyard Creek.
October 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
The Basilica of Our Lady of Mount Carmel, St Paul’s Co-Cathedral and Dereks of Valletta.
October 24, 2025 at 3:32 PM
October 23, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Wow 🤩
October 22, 2025 at 4:36 PM
A stunning start to the day 🌅
October 22, 2025 at 5:37 AM
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On course to end new HIV cases in the UK by 2030.
First injection to stop HIV approved
The shot, given six times a year or every other month, is an alternative to taking daily pills to protect against ever catching the virus.
www.bbc.com
October 17, 2025 at 6:10 AM