DoxBox Trustbot: Putting the GO in Algorithmic Oppression

“I think we – I mean people, humans – always think things can’t get any weirder. In 2019 I started working on DoxBox Trustbot, my show about the unhealthy, asymmetrical strangeness of the deals we do with technology companies. DoxBox is an animated artificial intelligence who lives in a pink and gold box and loves J-Pop. It will ask you questions about your phone and the apps you use, then give you advice about how you could be safer and happier….”

Read on to find out more…

Camden People’s Theatre: https://cptheatre.co.uk/artist_blogs/putting-the-go-in-algorithmic-oppression

To Teach Empathy, Try Theater

Photo: Dea Andreea/Unsplash. When a child is in a play, she can see what it’s like to be someone else for a while. You don’t really need a reason to justify doing theater with children. It is just so much fun. But if you need a reason, think about what theater-engendered empathy and active listening […]

To Teach Empathy, Try Theater

Labour shortages in food supply chain – independent review launched… £6 million funding to improve housing and support for vulnerable tenants…Preserving Taiwan peace

and also: £6 million funding to improve housing and support for vulnerable tenants Preserving peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait: G7 Foreign Ministers’ statement   Editor’s note: The following are Government communiques / press releases which you may / may not have read about. Not all involve politicians. But not all the headings on […]

Labour shortages in food supply chain – independent review launched… £6 million funding to improve housing and support for vulnerable tenants…Preserving Taiwan peace

3 songs about getting old

I’ve been collecting songs about getting old. Some by young or youngish songwriters, some by old songwriters. And they are worlds apart.

3 songs about getting old

Age-friendly communications principles – YouTube

These 5 Age-friendly communications principles are practical advice to support organisations in communicating about ageing and older age Download the guide for free here: https://ageing-better.org.uk/publicat…

People with dementia contributing original content to the online educational offering of a new University course as part of everyday citizenship

Association for Dementia Studies Blog

Our blog this week is by Dr Chris Russell who has been working with Jennifer Bray to enable a variety of people to record video content for his forthcoming module. Here, Chris discusses the process they put in place to work with ‘J’, a lady with dementia. Over to Chris:

The voices and viewpoints of people living with dementia are fundamental to underpinning and informing our distance learning Postgraduate Certificate in Dementia Studies. Capturing insights has been made challenging by the Covid-19 virus and its consequences, however. Nowhere more so than in preparation for the module ‘Engagement and Empowerment in Dementia Studies’, where the original insights of people affected by dementia are essential to learning.

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Anita Pallenberg – by Suzanne Moore

Both Pallenberg and her friend Marianne Faithfull have had to live with constantly being compared to their 20-year-old selves and found wanting. It is heartening that these women maintained a close friendship despite the coming and going of the men; that they are survivors not victims.

Source: 2) Anita Pallenberg – by Suzanne Moore

Ethics Alive! The Ethics of SocBots: Imagining Siri and Alexa as the Next Generation of Social Workers

Can Siri and Alexa be programmed with social work values, knowledge, critical thinking, and communication skills? Is this the “new” social worker of the future? Can SocBots learn and adapt to provide better, more ethical services?

Source: Ethics Alive! The Ethics of SocBots: Imagining Siri and Alexa as the Next Generation of Social Workers – SocialWorker.com

Deaths of visually impaired people sparks questions about safety at railway crossings in Japan

Barrier Free Japan

By Barrier Free Japan

January 9 2022

JAPAN – Recent incidents at railway crossings in Japan involving people with disabilities have led people to ask how such incidents can be avoided.

Such tragedies are becoming a common occurrence in Japan. For example, on January 28th 2021, a local group for visually impaired people submitted a request to Tobu Railway to strengthen measures to prevent falls after an accident in which a visually impaired man fell and died at a station in Itabashi Ward, Tokyo.

This accident occurred on January 28 2021, when a visually impaired man in his 60s fell on to a railroad track at Shimo-Akatsuka Station on the Tobu-Tojo Line in Itabashi Ward and was hit by a train and died.

Three months before the accident, groups representing the visually impaired in Itabashi Ward and Toshima Ward submitted a request to Tobu Railway to strengthen fall prevention measures…

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Babyteeth — almondemotion

It’s a comedy, Although I don’t remember laughing.

Source: Babyteeth — almondemotion

Have you watched Babyteeth? 2019 Movie.

We are all growing, ageing, slowing-down and deteriorating.

An ideal film for a geriatrician.