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🛢️More Than Robots #99 March 2026 Aye they are come, but they are not gone - Plutrach

More Than Robots March edition is out now.
A ramble around the ever increasing youth / digital /equity Venn

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'Misleading weather apps can cost attractions up to £137k a day' Chester Zoo is leading a call for a change in the way

How digital design influences at least one kind of parenting decision

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'Digital platforms could play an active role in enhancing child online protection, including facilitating connections to child helplines and similar services, and enabling digital spaces to serve as gateways to safety and assistance.'

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Ollee Watch Ollee Watch is a smartwatch modification for classic digital watches, primarily the Casio F91W and A158W. We aim to provide a low maintenance smartwatch experience, minimize the noise of the modern wo...

When you find your niche

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🎄More Than Robots #96 December 2025 2017: 'Perhaps our best defence against the dark arts of the robots is dance… and poetry and comedy and art.' 2025: 'Hand–crafted adversarial poems can alter refusal behavior in large language models...

More Than Robots December edition is out now.

A sleigh ride around the youth/digital/equity winter wonderland

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Featuring
@demos-uk.bsky.social @ofcom.bsky.social @orbenamy.bsky.social @cfyounglives.bsky.social and many more

When Focus Breaks: The Brain’s Hidden Path Back to Clarity Most of us imagine distraction as a brief interruption, a moment where attention slips and then returns as soon as we turn back to the task. Yet the lived experience is slower and more fragile than th...

Interruption resets the brain’s recovery process. Multitasking keeps that process from finishing. Digital interruptions arrive faster than the brain can recover, so clarity never fully stabilizes.'

how protecting recovery moments will be even harder in #XR environments
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Agency’ must be a front runner to be the word of 2026

Children and parents’ financial skills and confidence are closely linked. What system changes might help enhance parents’ digital financial capability?

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#childfinancialharms

More Than Robots Artificial intelligence, machine learning and algorithmic decision-making are rapidly changing the web, our culture and the way we work …

2017: 'Perhaps our best defence against the dark arts of the robots is dance...and poetry and comedy and art.'
medium.com/@cliffmannin...
2025: 'Hand–crafted adversarial poems can alter refusal behavior in large language models.'
arxiv.org/abs/2511.15304

so it goes...
#AI

Thanks for the opprtunity and space to explore these ever changing themes. The whole Grown Up project is helping highlight really critical aspects of young peoples lives and should catalyse a fresh look at adolcence development, support and autonomy.

📱Do you have a tracking app for your teen? It may have a bigger impact than you think.

For young people, it can feel like a breach of trust and an invasion of their privacy.

For parents, what begins as a desire for safety can be exploited by technology and become a form of control. 🧵

Talk:Tech About | Parent Zone SLCN-friendly visual and spoken resources to support conversations about digital.

Talk:Tech from Parent Zone is designed to make it possible for any young person to describe what they are doing online.

The resources have been co-designed to support children with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN)

parentzone.org.uk/TalkTech/about

Donate to Save The Vagina Museum, organized by Vagina Museum The Vagina Museum is saved from closing immediately. But we still need your help. The world f… Vagina Museum needs your support for Save The Vagina Museum

Vagina #museum fundraiser
All donations up to £10,000 will be doubled by the match-funding partners.
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It's #onlinesafety newsletter day: if you don't subscribe, you can read it in full below. Just don't forget to sign up to receive the next instalment direct.😉 #onlinesafetyact mailchi.mp/9755825a6fb9...

Rethinking Urban Futures Through Children’s Books CRB'25 scholarship recipient, Peter Füssy's insight on breaking away from a car-oriented imaginary through Radical Children's Literature

'motonormativity- the cognitive and cultural bias that normalizes car dominance while obscuring its harms.'

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The scale of violence affecting children | Youth Endowment Fund Our annual survey into the experiences of violence for 13-17 year olds across England & Wales. This report focuses on the scale of violence for teenagers.

'nearly one in five children(18%) said they had been a victim of violence, one in eight (13%) admitted to carrying out violence themselves, and half (50%) told us they had witnessed violence being committed against someone else.'
@youthendowmentfund.org.uk

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Understanding children’s use and perceptions of ASMR and self-improvement content This report is part of broader research exploring children’s experiences and views of the online environment, helping build the evidence base on popular content and its potential impact on children an...

'Almost a third of users in each group said that they had purchased something as a result of the #ASMR or self-improvement content they had seen (29% and 32%, respectively). '

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🚨ICYMI: Have you seen our latest data commentary exploring how digital technologies are shaping young people's experiences of growing up?

Hint: it's a more complicated picture than headlines suggest.

We spotlighted three key charts in this thread. Dive into the data and read the analysis

More Than Robots #95 November 2025 For gold in phisike is a cordial; Therefore he loved gold in special.

More Than Robots November edition, is available now
Featuring @nuffieldfoundation.org @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social @ofcom.bsky.social @pewresearch.org @revealingreality.bsky.social @parentzone.org.uk and more
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Ada Lovelace Institute Associate Director, Emerging Technology & Industry Practice

📣Closing this week: We're hiring an Associate Director to lead our Emerging Technology & Industry Practice research domain.

It's an exciting time to join Ada as we begin our new strategy period.

Deadline: 23:59 GMT, 16 November 2025.
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Day 2 at our EGX FamilyGamingZone was so busy and so much fun helping families find great games. Questions answered on Switch 2 Game Chat and Game Share.

See you tomorrow?

We are bringing our biggest ever Family Gaming Zone back to EGX! South Hall S1680.

Over 100 games to choose from with experts on hand to suggest titles, explain PEGI and parental controls for consoles, Roblox and PC. www.familygamingdatabase.com/Family+Gamin...

See you there? Shares welcome.

INQ000587936 – Children & Young People’s Voices Project: Full report UK Covid-19 Inquiry Archives The full report of the Children and Young People's Voices Project, providing an insight of children and young people’s experiences, and how they perceived the impact of the pandemic on them, dated 15 ...

“[My social worker was] at the end of my driveway while I was, like, in the porch. It was weird.” (Aged 16)

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‘AI isn't going to wake up, become superintelligent and turn you into paperclips – but rich people with AI investor psychosis are almost certainly going to make you much, much poorer.’

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🏰 More Than Robots #94 October 2025 “Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.” ― Samuel Pepys There's a LOT going on. So let us start before we get stopped.

featuring @geekdadgamer.bsky.social @socialfinance.bsky.social @cybersafekids.bsky.social @ygamuk.bsky.social @parentzone.org.uk and many more

🏰 More Than Robots #94 October 2025 “Strange to see how a good dinner and feasting reconciles everybody.” ― Samuel Pepys There's a LOT going on. So let us start before we get stopped.

More Than Robots - October edition - is available now.

A medieval pilgrimage around the youth / digital / equity Venn and all fiefdoms in between.

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‘AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations:’ @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy

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From the ChatGPT community on Reddit: i'm about to make ten million dollars Explore this post and more from the ChatGPT community

ShopGPT. What could possibly go wrong

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The Internet Coup Is Here. And the World Is Still Asleep | TechPolicy.Press At UNGA 80, the world’s leaders have a chance to prove that they understand what is at stake, writes Konstantinos Komaitis.

So it goes…

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