"Throughout the day, one experiences emotional “blips” as Elfenbein puts it—blips of annoyance or excitement or sadness. The question is, “Can you regulate yourself so those blips don’t infect other people?” she asks. “Can you smooth over the noise in your life so other people aren’t affected by it?” This “smoothing over”—or emotional regulation—could take … Continue reading Affective Presence
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Manyverse, Android App for the Scuttlebutt Social Network
Manyverse is an alpha Android app for Scuttlebutt, the off-grid social network. It needs a lot of work at this point. But, it's an interesting model I hope gets some traction. If you need a pub server, try: http://ssb.learningsocieties.org There are others software efforts that are similar. Compare Manyverse to Riot.im, Keybase, Mastodon, the Safe … Continue reading Manyverse, Android App for the Scuttlebutt Social Network
Suicide Contagion
"Consider Marilyn Monroe, whose August 1962 suicide saw a 12 percent increase in suicides over the next 12 months; indeed a study published in February in PLoS One found that the August 2014 suicide of Robin Williams touched off a 9.85 percent increase in suicides by the following December, resulting in an "excess" of 1,841 … Continue reading Suicide Contagion
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