Keith Wilson is social distancing 😷
Philosopher of Mind and Perception at @UniOslo. Former computer programmer and sound engineer. Father of #littlehuman. @drkeithwilson @perceivingR he/han/ham
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26 october: Oslo City Government is asking everyone to limit social contact to a minimum
Press release: Oslo City Government will introduce new measures to prevent spreadning of the Corona virus. The measures should prevent Oslo ending up the same situation as other European cities.
Keith Wilson is social distancing 😷
With #coronavirus cases now higher in Norway than they were in March, Oslo city council is stepping up its restrictions with compulsory home working and a limit of 10 social contacts per week. #koronaNorge
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NHS Covid app does not work for phones set to French and Spanish
Users with devices in unsupported languages, also including Portuguese and Italian, just see a blank screen
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Does *anything* about this app work correctly‽ #NHSCOVID19app #CovidTracker #TrackAndTrace #coronashambles
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iPhone 12 Models Might Support Reverse Charging of Future Apple Accessories According to FCC Filing
iPhone 12 models could have an inactive wireless charging feature for accessories, according to an FCC filing discovered by VentureBeat's Jeremy...
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Seems unlikely that #Apple would ship a product with a major unannounced feature disabled. Or perhaps this is for a peripheral (#AirTags?) that has yet to be released? #iPhone #iPhone12
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Brexit: Workers turn 27-acre Kent field into 2,000-vehicle lorry park — The Independent
Facility nicknamed Farage Garage is just one of 29 such sites being created across England
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Kent, the Lorry Park of England. #FarageGarage #Brexitshambles
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US election: The Taiwan-sized challenge facing the next US president
China's ambition to retake Taiwan - possibly by force - could become a major flashpoint with the US.
The SNP must rethink its economic model for an independent Scotland
The blueprint commissioned by Nicola Sturgeon offers a future of less sovereignty – not more. It’s time to think again.
UK universities accused of keeping students at all costs until after fee deadline
Claims some institutions persisting with face-to-face classes to delay drop-outs and retain tuition fees
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A shocking dereliction of duty by any standards, and a manifestation of successive UK governments’ policies to marketise #highered, coupled with the refusal to bail out institutions that run into financial trouble as a result of the pandemic. 😠
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Brexit border software developers warn of delays
Software designed to solve post-Brexit border friction is unlikely to be ready in time, they say.
UK Covid policy for children in detention 'cruel and inhumane', says UN expert
Solitary confinement to stop virus spread increases risk of self-harm and suicide and could have a lifelong impact, M0J warned
Outsourcing Brexit: £180 Million in Cabinet Office Contracts for Corporate Giants – Byline Times
Huge Government contracts for the delivery of Brexit have been awarded to the same outsourcing behemoths making a mint from Coronavirus, reports Sam Bright
Expertise and democracy: what can we learn from the corona virus crisis? - Centre for Philosophy and the Sciences (CPS)
How does the current crisis shed light on questions regarding the relationship between science, policy and democracy? Professor Cathrine Holst gives the 2020 CPS Annual Lecture.
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Amy Coney Barrett: Trump heralds 'momentous day' as conservative Supreme Court justice sworn in
The appointment shifts America's highest court further to the right and could mean new rulings on abortion and Obamacare.
Is the government pursuing herd immunity by the back door?
A seeming indifference towards failure over the R rate suggests a government which is happy for the virus to spread.
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“Like a car parked on the edge of the cliff, speed isn’t really the important factor. It’s the direction of travel that is utterly vital.” #covid19UK #coronashambles
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Left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex supports context-dependent prioritisation of off-task thought
The authors show that the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) is involved in both on-task thought during increased environmental demands, and off-task thought during decreased demand–suggesting a role for the DLPFC in prioritising goals in a...
Facing up to why the wandering mind: Patterns of off-task laboratory thought are associated with stronger neural recruitment of right fusiform cortex while processing facial stimuli
Human cognition is not always tethered to events in the external world. Laboratory and real world experience sampling studies reveal that attention is…
The relationship between individual variation in macroscale functional gradients and distinct aspects of ongoing thought.
Contemporary accounts of ongoing thought recognise it as a heterogeneous and multidimensional construct, varying in both form and content. An emerging…
Default mode network can support the level of detail in experience during active task states
Accounts of the default mode network (DMN) as task negative are partly based on evidence for a role of this system in off-task thought. We revisited the evidence for this assumption in a study combining experience sampling with functional...
Norway Agrees Temporary Post-Brexit Trade Deal with UK - Life in Norway
With Britain seemingly racing towards a no-deal Brexit, Norway's government has signed a temporary agreement to secure a continuation of trade. The governments of Norway and the United Kingdom have agreed a post-Brexit free trade deal on a temporary...
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UK reaches temporary post-Brexit trade and fishing agreements with Norway. #Brexit
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