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How LinkedIn is transforming into a "post-cringe" social network as it courts high-profile influencers, who are building audiences on corporate-friendly topics (Isabella Kwai/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.co…

How LinkedIn Found Its Social Platform Era
Celebrities and paid influencers have transformed the career-focused platform, which for some users, has become a job unto itself.

inploid: Inploid: an online social Q&A platform
Inploid is a social question & answer website in Turkish. Users can follow others and see their questions and answers on the main page. Each user is associated with a reputability score which is influenced by feedback of others about questions and answers of the user. Each user can also specify interest in topics. The data is crawled in June 2017 and consist of 39,749 nodes and 57,276 directed links between them. In addition, for …

It's amazing what turns up when you study something. And (FWIW) poor impulse control has a host of negative effects, not just obesity. And guess which communities are most likely to have high #PM2.5 as well as other pollutants in the air?
Air pollution may cause childhood obesity by disrupting impulse control, study finds

Air pollution may cause childhood obesity by disrupting impulse control, study finds
Babies exposed to higher levels of neurotoxin more likely to have difficulty controlling impulses later, research shows

It's amazing what turns up when you study something. And (FWIW) poor impulse control has a host of negative effects, not just obesity. And guess which communities are most likely to have high #PM2.5 as well as other pollutants in the air?
Air pollution may cause childhood obesity by disrupting impulse control, study finds

Air pollution may cause childhood obesity by disrupting impulse control, study finds
Babies exposed to higher levels of neurotoxin more likely to have difficulty controlling impulses later, research shows

HANNAH ARENDT TAGE: Experten diskutieren bei heise über KI und Denken
Zum 120. Geburtstag der Politiktheoretikerin laden die HANNAH ARENDT TAGE 2026 dazu ein, ihre Impulse für unabhängiges Denken neu zu entdecken.

HANNAH ARENDT TAGE: Experten diskutieren bei heise über KI und Denken
Zum 120. Geburtstag der Politiktheoretikerin laden die HANNAH ARENDT TAGE 2026 dazu ein, ihre Impulse für unabhängiges Denken neu zu entdecken.

Q&A with United Talent Agency executives Ali Berman and Raina Penchansky about UTA's Creators division, helping creators launch products, AI, and more (Nilay Patel/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/podcast/961603/raina-penchans…

Inside the big business of the creator economy, with the agents making it happen
Nilay Patel discusses the creator and influencer economy and marketplace with the heads of UTA’s Creators Division.

Here’s why wages are falling behind inflation, an economic warning sign
It wasn’t so long ago that Americans’ earnings lost ground to inflation.
From 2021 to 2023, prices for gas, food and housing soared due to a combination of increased demand and supply chain shocks.
That pain weighed heavily on households across the country,
even helping Donald Trump retake the White House.

“This is one of the reasons consumers hate the economy.
They’ve never recov…

Here’s why wages are falling behind inflation, an economic warning sign
Inflation beat out wage growth again in August, which feels like 2023.

What I want every BCI participant to know before implantation https://bioniclab.substack.com/p/a-note-to-bci-participants-and-their by TK Kozai in the "Why implantable BCIs fail" series: post 19;

💫 What I Want Every BCI Participant to Know Before Implantation
Why BCIs Fail Series: Post 19

The silence around actual progress with the Neuralink Blindsight brain implant for restoring vision to the blind is deafening, and its opaqueness is blinding too. #BCI #hype vs #transparency &

The vOICe vision BCI, or a brain implant?
White paper and living document comparing Neuralink Blindsight and other brain implants with The vOICe vision BCI for the totally blind.

A look at the friendly online influencers distributing NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani's messages, which are distributed via Signal, which allows messages to disappear (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/04/nyreg…

Inside Mamdani’s Private Army of Public Influencers
Zohran Mamdani is seen as a social media wizard. Some of his popularity stems from an influencer operation run by the mayor’s office.