#decentralise

Decentralise vaccination, stop exports: Rahul to Modi

Questioning the export of Covid 19 vaccines when the country is facing “vaccine starvation”, former Congress president Rahul Gandhi has asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi to place an immediate moratorium on vaccine export. In a letter to Modi here on Friday, Gandhi urged the Centre to provide vaccine suppliers with necessary resources to increase manufacturing capacity. He said there should be…

So today I want to talk about some different ways of using the internet, and although I don’t want to get too nostalgic I am going to look at some historical examples of a time when we, or rather I, used the internet differently. The reason I want to do this is to try and move away from talking about how and why the centralising, monopolistic platforms of social media are bad—and they are of course really bad—to talk about how we, as users, are a big part of the problem and if we might not be getting the internet that we deserve.

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Richard Seymore suggest that we understand social media using an addiction model—that we’re social media users in the same way that we might be users of crack—but argues that we should worry less about what social media is distracting us with—the thrill of online drama, or the gamble on a post's like to comment ratio—and more about what its distracting us from, the things in life that we don’t want to have to do or think about or deal with, including social anxiety and loneliness. It’s a social model of social media addiction, but he’s also keen point to out that the things we used to use to deal with social anxiety, namely cigarettes and alcohol, weren’t really very good for us either.

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Weiss downgrades EOS again citing ‘failure to decentralise’

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EOS, the seventh-largest cryptocurrency on the market has seen its ratings downgraded to “C” by the crypto rankings company, Weiss Crypto Ratings. In a tweet, published on December 6, Weiss stated that the Block.one cryptocurrency has seen a “Failure to decentralize,” and hence it has been handed this setback.

Their tweet read,

1/6 We’ve had great respect for work and thinking that…