@cdarwin@c.im2025-12-25 18:21:56
Society should learn to celebrate and capitalise on its
“massive cohort of healthy, active, older, creative adults”,
a leading population expert has said.
While pundits and pressure groups have raised concerns over falling fertility rates, highlighting the challenges for the economy and healthcare,
others are more upbeat, arguing the rise of the “silver economy” brings new opportunities for growth.
Prof Sarah Harper, director of the Oxford Institute of Populatio…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2025-11-26 00:50:55
Filing: OpenAI denies liability in a suit alleging ChatGPT gave info about suicide methods to a 16-year-old who died by suicide, arguing he misused the chatbot (Angela Yang/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/ope
@kurtsh@mastodon.social2025-11-26 18:47:15
Trump lied again? #SHOCKED
"Made in the USA", my ass.
✅ Trump Family Dragged After Promise Of 'Trump Mobile' Phones 'Made In The USA' Goes Up In Flames
https://www.comicsands.com/trump-mo…
@inthehands@hachyderm.io2025-11-26 20:50:18
An excellent summary here via @… about how the structures of our civil society have failed to stop ICE from becoming Trump’s Brownshirts.
The one thing the piece omits: someone •is• stopping ICE. It’s the citizens filling the streets, honking and shouting and filming and generally harassing ICE, doing the work our government has failed to do. If it were not for that response being so widespread, sustained, and forceful, we’d be in far worse place right now. https://mastodon.social/@AnnaAnthro/115616389777857234
@cdarwin@c.im2025-10-27 01:30:04
We distinguish "personal unfairness",
-- the view that one’s own economic situation is unfair,
from "social unfairness",
-- the view that the economic situation of others in society is unfair.
Uncertainties associated with the transition to a globalized knowledge economy heighten people’s feelings of personal unfairness
Feelings of personal unfairness increase support for the "populist right"
and feelings about social unfairn…
@ronaldsnijder@mastodon.social2025-12-25 14:17:55
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-01-21 17:45:53
WaPo files a court motion, demanding the return of two phones, two laptops, a Garmin watch, and other devices seized from reporter Hannah Natanson's home (Perry Stein/Washington Post)
@aardrian@toot.cafe2026-01-21 23:23:57
Frankly, this is moot since the current administration already has the data and will ignore the court order. Its overly-broad seizure was intentional.
“Judge Blocks Government From Reviewing Seized Washington Post Devices”
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/21/busi…
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-23 19:35:13
The Free Birth Society (FBS) is a business run from North Carolina that promotes the idea of women giving birth without midwives or doctors present.
It is led by Emilee Saldaya and Yolande Norris-Clark,
ex-doulas turned social media influencers who have gained a global following through the FBS podcast, which has been downloaded millions of times.
FBS profits from sales of its instructional video guide to freebirthing, and access to a paid-for membership group for pregnant …
@cdarwin@c.im2025-11-23 17:52:37
Sex trafficking on Meta platforms was both difficult to report and widely tolerated.
Instagram’s former head of safety testified that when she joined Meta in 2020 she was shocked to learn the company had
a “17x” strike policy
for accounts that engaged in the “trafficking of humans for sex.”
https://
