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Important piece on 'evidential landscaping', conflicts of interest and limitations in the evidence base, in research on digital technologies and health
Similar to the consensus that there being ‘no safe lower limit’ to alcohol consumption, there is no ‘harmless’ level of driving. To reduce driving harm, driving itself needs to be reduced both by creating a built environment conducive to other modes and by reducing the incentives for driving. Harm is harm, and driving harm needs to be considered alongside the other big commercial killers of our age.
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Calling for a more coherent policy response to driving harm
✍️ Kate Gray, Grant Ennis, Greg Fell
OPEN ACCESS doi.org/10.1093/heapro/daag026
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#alcohol #PublicHealth
BREAKING: Reform’s Gorton and Denton by-election candidate advises Tory peer Lord Toby Young, who has advocated for “progressive eugenics” and is in a business partnership with the editor of a reconstituted Nazi eugenics platform - by me via @bylinetimes.bsky.social bylinetimes.com/2026/02/24/r...
![A screenshot of an Android app. Text:
▲ Nearby Glasses
Smart Glasses are probably nearby
Device: Unknown
RSSI: -42 dBm
Reason: Meta Company ID (0x058E)
Company: Meta Platforms, Inc.
This app notifies you when smart glasses are nearby. It uses company identificators in the Bluetooth data sent out by these. Therefore, there likely are false positives (e.g. from VR headsets). Hence, please proceed with caution when approaching a person nearby wearing glasses. They might just be regular glasses, despite this app's warning.
Debug Log
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A screenshot of an Android app. Text: ▲ Nearby Glasses Smart Glasses are probably nearby Device: Unknown RSSI: -42 dBm Reason: Meta Company ID (0x058E) Company: Meta Platforms, Inc. This app notifies you when smart glasses are nearby. It uses company identificators in the Bluetooth data sent out by these. Therefore, there likely are false positives (e.g. from VR headsets). Hence, please proceed with caution when approaching a person nearby wearing glasses. They might just be regular glasses, despite this app's warning. Debug Log [19:08:40] Unknown (-50 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:40] Unknown (-50 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:41] Unknown (-34 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:42] Unknown (-34 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:42] Unknown (-34 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:42] Unknown (-57 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:43] Unknown (-40 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:43] Unknown (-42 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:43] Unknown (-42 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:44] Unknown (-42 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:44] Unknown (-42 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:44] Unknown (-42 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:45] Unknown (-40 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E) [19:08:45] Unknown (-63 dBm) Meta Company ID (0x058E)
I made an app.
play.google.com/store/apps/d...
Nearby Glasses is here to warn you when smart glasses are nearby.
I hope it's useful for someone.
Nearby Glasses's open source, free and rather simple
github.com/yjeanrenaud/...
It's also downloadable outside the Play Store. iOS port is in the making
Following ban of 'milk' as a term I fell into a small rabbit whole of the concept of milk as we understand it in Europe. 🧵
STINGRAY TAKES UP ATTACK POSITION! WASP'S BATTLE PLAN AT first light today, Stingray slipped quietly from Marineville Harbour and headed out to sea. Four miles off shore, the WASP patrol vessel made contact with the robot towing ship Yig before diving beneath the waves. According to Marineville tower, Stingray has taken up attack position in a carefully laid plan to smash Titan's new weapon, the mechanical flying bombs. What the plan involves is a closely guarded secret, but Commander Shore is aboard the new WASP vessel Sea Leopard and waiting to put to sea at the first sign of action in the area. Full report pages 4 and 5. Fireball in Crash landing THE fantastic theft of the Electrode 909, World Space Patrol's new fighter, lurched from the daring to the deadly today when Fireball XL5 was dragged on to the unexplored planet of Mellates today. According to space station M12, Colonel Zodiac had closed in on the Electrode and fired home magnetic clamps, but the three astronovices aboard the fighter had already lost control of the ship, which was plunging toward Mellates, caught in the planet's fierce gravitational pull. Before Fireball could release the clamps, the friction heat of re-entry had welded them to the Electrode's hull and the great patrol vessel was dragged on to the planet. Space City is waiting for Colonel Zodiac's report before deciding on the next course of action. So far there has been no news from Mellates. It is feared XL5’s radio is out of action (Full report page 16/17)
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THIS WEEK:
The WSP Press Officer’s knowledge of Physics isn’t any better than Matt Matic’s…
Keep at it! Always enjoy your stuff and Hannah H's exchanges 👍
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New FADs' Andy Spearpoint
#SocialMediaAddiction #AddictiveDesign #BigTech
One might think that ramming phone gambling apps down the collective American throat is a poor idea but you do you capitalism
Peter Thiel has been open about this for a long time. Trump is a way to break the republic, which can then be replaced by “free economic zones” with oligarchs as dictators and tech as a taskmaster for helpless humans without any rights. (1/2)
« Une stratégie de désinformation » : le « père » du Nutri-Score dénonce des vidéos usurpant son identité avec une IA
What an interesting piece of research.
“A new study from the Sheffield Addictions Research Group (SARG) has found that public health policies which reduce spending on harmful products can actually provide a significant boost to UK jobs and the wider economy.”
sarg-sheffield.ac.uk/news-media/n...
Big Oil "purchased solar and EV patents to ensure others couldn’t use them, solicited control of renewable markets and then abandoned them, and funded powerful institutions to promote false solutions, all while using trade groups to downplay the harms of fossil fuels, according to the complaint." 😠
On September 25, 2012 Danish economist Bjorn Lomborg walked into Jeffrey Epstein's home looking for money. The late paedophile and financier was not into it.
Here's what happened that day according to records released from the latest batch of Epstein files.
New from me in @drilledmedia.bsky.social
Me in 1983 on BBC TV on the civil disobedience graffiti movement BUGA UP www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVM7.... My new 425p 50yr memoir looks at highlights across tobacco & gun control, defending windfarms, some heretical critiques of unethical policies +much more ses.library.usyd.edu.au/bitstream/ha...
Can recommend...I'm half way through Simon's memoir and it's a great read as well as a reminder of his long career of taking the fight to harmful industries
📢 New report
Alcohol marketing restrictions were meant to be in England’s 10 Year Health Plan.
Then they disappeared.
Our new report uses FOIs to show how alcohol industry lobbying targeted ministers and pressured government departments to kill the policy.
www.ias.org.uk/report/now-y...
Could You Be the 2026 UCSF Library Artist in Residence?
UCSF Library Archives & Special Collections and Makers Lab are accepting proposals for the 7th annual UCSF Library Artist in Residence program. The 2026 residency will begin July 1st. #libraries #archives
www.library.ucsf.edu/news/could-y...
an installation view of Steve Parker's tree record sculptures
a tree ring sculpture by Steve Parker that features grooves cut into the surface like a vinyl record
A lovely tribute from Steve Parker.
When a tree in his yard died, Parker cut slices from the trunk that he then carved like vinyl. The oak records play bird song.
www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/01/stev...
Great paper; similarities w other industries
"..half of research published in top journals has disclosable ties to industry...These trends do not arise from broad scientific engagement with industry, but rather from a select group of scientists who maintain long-lasting relationships with industry"
Ever wonder what proportion of high profile social media research is tied to the tech industry?
New from me, @cailinmeister.bsky.social, @jevinwest.bsky.social and @carlbergstrom.com.
Thread tomorrow.
arxiv.org/abs/2601.11507
"...as with e-cigarettes and reformulated foods, we should not take market-led solutions to public health problems at face value," write a group of prominent alcohol harm researchers in the BMJ.
www.bmj.com/content/392/...
2. Abandoning drink-drive law reforms. Labour's plan to reduce the drink-drive limit to 50mg of blood alcohol content risks being a "death knell" for rural pubs, according to Reform UK leader Nigel Farage and others. Lowering the limit from 80mg of alcohol per 100ml of blood risks making a single pint after work legally perilous, cutting off rural pubs that do not have reliable public transport or taxi services. The move would bring England and Wales in line with Scotland, where the limit was reduced to 50mg in 2014 in an attempt to reduce road deaths. However, after an initial fall, road deaths in Scotland have risen in the past four years, and were up 24% in 2024, according to HP Inspectorate of Constabulary in Scotland. A consultation is now under way, and while all signs point to the Government lowering the limit, resisting the urge to reduce it to as low as Scotland could offer a lifeline to rural pubs.
Wow, The Telegraph and Farage are really coming out to bat for... drink-driving 😶
I'd argue that, if your business model relies on people driving tipsy around country roads... it's not a good model.
archive.ph/uVJdY
🚨Our new research has found that 1 in 5 alcohol products in Australia still lack mandatory pregnancy warning labels.
Despite the Aug 2023 deadline, thousands remain unlabelled.
Experts warn that alcohol at any stage of pregnancy can cause lifelong harm: bit.ly/4qeUGIR
We need more of this kind of work
The socioeconomic patterning of Great Britain's fast-food outlets and ... www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...