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"Trust is the glue of life. It's the most essential ingredient in effective communication. It's the foundational principle that holds all relationships" Stephen Covey
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“It really boils down to this: that all life is interrelated. We are all caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tired into a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one destiny, affects all indirectly.” Martin Luther King Jnr 

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Kate Edgley
Pete Lawrence - Update
1 year 3 months ago

Food for thought?

<a href="/guilds/connect/status-update-pete-lawrence-1518434596">Is Facebook for old people? Over-55s flock in as the young leave</a>

A forecast 700,000 UK teenagers and young adults will leave...

the Guardian
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Pete Lawrence - Update
1 year 6 months ago
<a href="/guilds/connect/status-update-pete-lawrence-1510128751">Facebook asks users for nude photos in project to combat 'revenge porn'</a>

In Australia pilot effort, company will 'hash' images, converting them...

the Guardian
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Pete Lawrence - Update
1 year 9 months ago

“It was a classic rebound relationship,” said my sister with sharp reductionism. It was a classic affair, too. Perhaps mostly because it felt so unique.”

<a href="/guilds/connect/status-update-pete-lawrence-1503734047">Thirty years after I fancied him at school, my teacher landed back in my life</a>

He had been the best and best-looking teacher she ever...

the Guardian
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Pete Lawrence - Update
1 year 9 months ago
<a href="/guilds/connect/status-update-pete-lawrence-1501590004">Everyone gets lonely. We must admit it or bear the consequences</a>

ALL the lonely people, where do they all come from?...

New Scientist
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Pete Lawrence - Update
2 years 2 weeks ago
"Are WE building the world WE want?" asks Zuckerberg in his recent Facebook communication Nicolas Carr has some interesting observations on Facebook’s limitations as a communications system and suggests it is ill-designed as a forum for political discourse. Nastiness, envy, chauvinism, mistrust, distrust, anger, vanity, greed, enmity, hatred: for Zuckerberg,... read more
<a href="/guilds/connect/status-update-pete-lawrence-1494147189">Zuckerberg's world</a>

The word "community" appears, by my rough count, 98 times...

ROUGH TYPE
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Kate Edgley
1 May 2017
Memories of my Marxist dad, Roy Edgley 1925-1999
Is someone who calls themself a Marxist still worth listening to today? My dad did and, 18 years after he died, I'm still tuning in
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Pete Lawrence - Update
2 years 2 months ago

Online hate speeches on social media : "Cooper told the companies their responses were unconvincing and they were not enforcing their own published community standards despite having millions of users in Britain and making billions of pounds from them.”

<a href="/guilds/connect/status-update-pete-lawrence-1489517967">Face-off between MPs and social media giants over online hate speech</a>

Committee tells Twitter, Facebook and others they should get tough...

the Guardian
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Pete Lawrence - Update
2 years 2 months ago

Harsh treatment for some reasoned arguments? Is social media turning into battlegrounds which must be won at all costs?

<a href="/guilds/connect/status-update-pete-lawrence-1489339143">Owen Jones quits social media, blaming 'frothing keyboard warriors'</a>

Left-wing commentator Owen Jones has said he will quit all...

The Independent
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Pete Lawrence - Update
2 years 3 months ago

Shedding light on the orgasm gap between the sexes

<a href="/guilds/connect/status-update-pete-lawrence-1487873264">'Golden trio' of moves boosts chances of female orgasm, say researchers</a>

Study sheds light on approaches, revealing 'orgasm gaps' both between...

the Guardian
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