The Cambridge Disinformation Summit opened with a very informative and intuitive pre-Summit workshop on Cognitive Warfare from Prof Chad Briggs.
He noted, among other things, that a core objective is cognitive paralysis, which affords considerable relative power to a malign actor.
Wouldn't she be better off doing it from home?
Making life harder sounds deeply unfun, but it might be good for your brain.
We talked to experts to find out how modern ease affects brain health, and how you can try friction-maxxing, a way of reintroducing challenges to enhance cognitive function: https://wapo.st/4meA4j1
Old man here. Every last damn wrong thing about a certain modern mentality in one graphic from the Washington Post. ⬇️
Friction-maxxing, or 'life' as millennia of humans have called it.
How fucking indolent must you be to think these things are something to 'hack'.
#burnthemwithfire
You liked a skeet I made about Sainsbury's ringing back mackerel in satay sauce. Which they still haven't btw.
Winston Churchill's funeral.
Live on TV, every class had to watch. Didn't have a clue what was going on. Some teachers cried.
Britain’s electricity is currently 91% zero carbon!
Every unit of domestic renewable and ultra low carbon energy we generate means a safer and more secure today and a better 🇬🇧 tomorrow.
They do know you can see it from here?
The comparisons with Jackson Lamb get tedious.
*HE* sounds like *ME*.
There always has to be an element of begrudging in anything British governments do for people.
It's the British way. Provide something, then make it feel it's your fault for taking it. They have to remind everyone that we are definitely *not* in any sort of shared endeavour. We owe them.
Britain has the least generous state pension in the G7 and the highest rate of pensioner poverty in western Europe. And all I'm reading in the rightwing press is 'scrap the triple lock'.
Economists, in particular, should hold themselves to this standard.
But then they'd be left with next to nothing to say about the world.
Iran hits back on social media.
New survey data from Lord Ashcroft Polling has, for the first time across all recognised pollsters, put the Greens at the top of the table
On the strength of Bluesky opinion Trump's remaining presidency can be measured in hours.
They should be able to cool the remaining ones with the bitter tears of all those investors caught up in the hype.
First Motability, now this.
I think we should have a purge of undeserving politicians, i.e. about half of them.
They hunt in packs round my way.
I imagine these are the same people who 'consume' books rather than read them.
Final Planet of the Apes scene with half buried Statue of Liberty on beach.
Artemis II crew returning to Earth.
microsoft: you have to upgrade to windows 11
people: okay. it says my computer doesn't support windows 11
microsoft: you have to buy a new computer and upgrade to windows 11
tech industry: we just bought all the ram, buying a new computer is now 10x as expensive
microslop: ah well, nevertheless
Happy Easter my little bunnies
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So Bluesky is dying is it?
To be honest, if it was only me and two dozen other people, that would be just fine.
Or am I thinking of a WhatsApp group?
Kent residents invited to invest in community solar power
Kent residents can invest from as little as £100 in local solar projects, cutting energy bills across community buildings
@kentandsurreybylines.co.uk
I’m spending the day sitting in front of a laptop with your ex-husband, where we’re taking turns to refresh the live national grid energy stats until it shows 0% fossil fuels for the first time in history. When it happens we’ll nod and smile at each other then celebrate with a can of 0% Guinness.
My tuppence worth:
Balls-to-the-wall marketing by authors of their books on here is fine I think.
It's the humble brags and the 'Oh look what I happened to find in my local bookshop' which grates.
Nothing wrong with being proud about being proud about your work.
#bookSky #writing #marketing
I'm lost for words.
Deep frying in Water? from @SuperRecipess
White women on YouTube have discovered “boiling”
One of you will betray me. 4 will get book deals.
Happy Easter! 🐇
