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Written by Mark Foden on 2025-01-26 at 09:49

Absolutely fascinating prog explaining that cardio exercise, whilst vital for all sorts of reasons, doesn’t help us lose weight: the trick is to change our diet

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002751k

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Written by Mark Foden on 2025-01-22 at 18:13

"Avoid pronouncing the phrases everyone else does. Think up your own way of speaking, even if only to convey that thing you think everyone is saying."

One of 20 excellent pieces of advice by Timothy Snyder on avoiding (quite possibly imminent) tyranny

https://snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-lessons-on-tyranny

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Written by Mark Foden on 2025-01-22 at 08:45

“Bluesky is in a dangerous place: not because it is backed by VCs, not because it is a for-profit entity, but because it has captive users and no constraints. It's a great party in a sealed building with no fire exits”

Bluesky vs Mastodon vs mainstream social media by @pluralistic https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/113861208533472641

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Written by Mark Foden on 2025-01-13 at 08:36

Do anyone else’s toes curl at the use of the word “unleash”?

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crr05jykzkxo

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Written by Mark Foden on 2024-12-28 at 08:50

Some thoughts in response to the left/right framing of political argy-bargy

https://markfoden.com/blog/2024/12/pragmatism

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Written by Mark Foden on 2024-12-26 at 07:00

The need for "closing the loop " is explainable in terms of complexity.

Complexity being a thing. That we swim in. But are mostly unaware of.

We should know more about how it works.

http://markfoden.com/ccep1 2/2

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Written by Mark Foden on 2024-12-26 at 07:00

"We have to be able to close the loop between policy and implementation" - @pahlkadot

Yes! In complexity it's utterly, glaringly obvious that progress is otherwise impossible

https://www.statecraft.pub/p/what-can-the-brits-teach-us-about 1/2

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Written by Mark Foden on 2024-11-30 at 09:04

A compelling contribution to the assisted dying debate from my MP Kit Malthouse. Watch from 1h29m23s

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m0025lxm #AssistedDying

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Written by Mark Foden on 2024-11-30 at 05:20

If we can it's important we pay for what we value

"To put it bluntly, as a nonprofit we don’t have investors or profit-minded board members knocking during hard times, urging us to 'sacrifice a little privacy' in the name of hitting growth and monetary targets."

@Mer__edith and Joshua Lund of @signalapp

https://signal.org/blog/signal-is-expensive/

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Written by Mark Foden on 2024-11-26 at 07:14

UK and US neck and neck in consumption of ultra-processed foods (if you’ll forgive the expression)

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2024/11/25/nobody-knows-why-ultra-processed-foods-are-bad-for-you

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Written by Mark Foden on 2024-11-19 at 07:26

“Unsurprisingly, when the frenzy is over, we discover we have solved almost none of our problems”

Excellent piece by George Monbiot on elections and alternative forms of democracy

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/jun/06/general-elections-democracy-lottery-representation

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Written by Mark Foden on 2024-11-13 at 18:46

The Guardian stops posting on X - a good thing

[#]guardian #x #twitter

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/nov/13/why-the-guardian-is-no-longer-posting-on-x

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Written by Mark Foden on 2024-11-12 at 06:34

Shouldn’t we be experimenting with assisted dying before asking MPs to choose in an all or nothing vote?

Maybe a temporary bill to allow a few people wishing to die to do so under strictly controlled conditions - with MP observers?

As it says in the article, it may be 10 years before the next opportunity.

[#]AssistedDying

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/nov/11/assisted-dying-bills-strict-safeguards-to-include-long-jail-terms-for-coercion

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Written by Mark Foden on 2024-10-22 at 07:01

Was about to write this morning about the government’s plans for tech in the NHS. But @hadleybeeman has done it…

https://w3c.social/@hadleybeeman/113347719997460812

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Written by Mark Foden on 2024-10-16 at 05:48

Here’s a good thing: pushing the UK water industry debate beyond “simplistic and unhelpful narratives of privatisation v nationalisation” - Clive Lewis MP

[#]CitizensAssembly #Water https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/oct/16/water-industry-public-ownership-citizens-assembly-labour-bill

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Written by Mark Foden on 2024-10-07 at 21:47

What would a dotank look like?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/oct/07/labour-new-powers-elected-mayors-devolution

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Written by Mark Foden on 2024-10-06 at 10:45

Sketched silently by my wife listening to a discussion about citizens' assemblies (see fire, spear and seating arrangements) of which there is a long but mostly forgotten history

[#]CitizensAssembly

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Written by Mark Foden on 2024-10-06 at 06:31

Homage to Dave Winer and blogging

@davew https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/oct/05/the-blogosphere-is-in-full-bloom-the-rest-of-the-internet-has-wilted-dave-winer

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Written by Mark Foden on 2024-10-04 at 17:48

"My nightmare is that fascism comes to America but it's marching under the banner of freedom" - Jefferson Cowie - US history professor

[#]autocracy @anneapplebaum

https://open.spotify.com/episode/7xyLIUAZyT3jrcDALnTSS9

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Written by Mark Foden on 2024-10-04 at 07:37

Ha! I see you are at the Belgian military academy. When I was at Sandhurst in 1977 I spent a great weekend there at a swimming competition between the European military academies

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