Campfire Guilds: Connect

Pete Lawrence - Update

2 years 1 month ago

Food for thought?

Is Facebook for old people? Over-55s flock in as the young leave

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

the Guardian

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Pete Lawrence - Update

2 years 4 months ago

Facebook asks users for nude photos in project to combat 'revenge porn'

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

the Guardian

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Pete Lawrence - Update

2 years 7 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.”

Thirty years after I fancied him at school, my teacher landed back in my life

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

the Guardian

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Pete Lawrence - Update

2 years 8 months ago

Everyone gets lonely. We must admit it or bear the consequences

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

New Scientist

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Pete Lawrence - Update

2 years 11 months 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

Zuckerberg's world

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

3 years 2 weeks 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.”