cliffmanning.bsky.social
@cliffmanning.bsky.social
Maker of More Than Robots and rambler around a venn of young people/ family / digital / equity
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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.'
www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Cyb...
www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Cyb...
www.itu.int
December 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
'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.'
www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Cyb...
www.itu.int/en/ITU-D/Cyb...
More Than Robots December edition is out now.
A sleigh ride around the youth/digital/equity winter wonderland
www.morethanrobots.org.uk/more-than-ro...
Featuring
@demos-uk.bsky.social @ofcom.bsky.social @orbenamy.bsky.social @cfyounglives.bsky.social and many more
A sleigh ride around the youth/digital/equity winter wonderland
www.morethanrobots.org.uk/more-than-ro...
Featuring
@demos-uk.bsky.social @ofcom.bsky.social @orbenamy.bsky.social @cfyounglives.bsky.social and many more
🎄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...
www.morethanrobots.org.uk
December 9, 2025 at 8:18 AM
More Than Robots December edition is out now.
A sleigh ride around the youth/digital/equity winter wonderland
www.morethanrobots.org.uk/more-than-ro...
Featuring
@demos-uk.bsky.social @ofcom.bsky.social @orbenamy.bsky.social @cfyounglives.bsky.social and many more
A sleigh ride around the youth/digital/equity winter wonderland
www.morethanrobots.org.uk/more-than-ro...
Featuring
@demos-uk.bsky.social @ofcom.bsky.social @orbenamy.bsky.social @cfyounglives.bsky.social and many more
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
lnkd.in/eNEvfrmV
how protecting recovery moments will be even harder in #XR environments
lnkd.in/eNEvfrmV
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...
lnkd.in
December 4, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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
lnkd.in/eNEvfrmV
how protecting recovery moments will be even harder in #XR environments
lnkd.in/eNEvfrmV
Agency’ must be a front runner to be the word of 2026
December 4, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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?
parentzone.org.uk/sites/defaul...
#childfinancialharms
parentzone.org.uk/sites/defaul...
#childfinancialharms
parentzone.org.uk
December 4, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Children and parents’ financial skills and confidence are closely linked. What system changes might help enhance parents’ digital financial capability?
parentzone.org.uk/sites/defaul...
#childfinancialharms
parentzone.org.uk/sites/defaul...
#childfinancialharms
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
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
More Than Robots
Artificial intelligence, machine learning and algorithmic decision-making are rapidly changing the web, our culture and the way we work …
medium.com
November 29, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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
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
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📱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. 🧵
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. 🧵
November 27, 2025 at 10:12 AM
📱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. 🧵
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 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
The resources have been co-designed to support children with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN)
parentzone.org.uk/TalkTech/about
Talk:Tech About | Parent Zone
SLCN-friendly visual and spoken resources to support conversations about digital.
parentzone.org.uk
November 27, 2025 at 8:44 AM
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
The resources have been co-designed to support children with speech, language and communication needs (SLCN)
parentzone.org.uk/TalkTech/about
Vagina #museum fundraiser
All donations up to £10,000 will be doubled by the match-funding partners.
www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2
All donations up to £10,000 will be doubled by the match-funding partners.
www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2
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
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November 26, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Vagina #museum fundraiser
All donations up to £10,000 will be doubled by the match-funding partners.
www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2
All donations up to £10,000 will be doubled by the match-funding partners.
www.gofundme.com/f/btscc2
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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...
November 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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...
'motonormativity- the cognitive and cultural bias that normalizes car dominance while obscuring its harms.'
urbancyclinginstitute.substack.com/p/rethinking...
urbancyclinginstitute.substack.com/p/rethinking...
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
urbancyclinginstitute.substack.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:45 AM
'motonormativity- the cognitive and cultural bias that normalizes car dominance while obscuring its harms.'
urbancyclinginstitute.substack.com/p/rethinking...
urbancyclinginstitute.substack.com/p/rethinking...
'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
youthendowmentfund.org.uk/reports/chil...
@youthendowmentfund.org.uk
youthendowmentfund.org.uk/reports/chil...
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.
youthendowmentfund.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 9:37 AM
'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
youthendowmentfund.org.uk/reports/chil...
@youthendowmentfund.org.uk
youthendowmentfund.org.uk/reports/chil...
'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). '
www.ofcom.org.uk/media-use-an...
www.ofcom.org.uk/media-use-an...
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...
www.ofcom.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 10:55 AM
'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). '
www.ofcom.org.uk/media-use-an...
www.ofcom.org.uk/media-use-an...
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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
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
🧵 Digital technologies are part of everyday life for today’s 14–24-year-olds, the first generation to be entirely born in the digital age.
Public discourse can focus on the harms of these tools, but the conclusions from our Grown Up? programme’s data commentary paint a more complex picture.
Public discourse can focus on the harms of these tools, but the conclusions from our Grown Up? programme’s data commentary paint a more complex picture.
November 14, 2025 at 2:24 PM
🚨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
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 November edition, is available now
Featuring @nuffieldfoundation.org @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social @ofcom.bsky.social @pewresearch.org @revealingreality.bsky.social @parentzone.org.uk and more
www.morethanrobots.org.uk/more-than-ro...
Featuring @nuffieldfoundation.org @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social @ofcom.bsky.social @pewresearch.org @revealingreality.bsky.social @parentzone.org.uk and more
www.morethanrobots.org.uk/more-than-ro...
More Than Robots #95 November 2025
For gold in phisike is a cordial; Therefore he loved gold in special.
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November 14, 2025 at 2:29 PM
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
www.morethanrobots.org.uk/more-than-ro...
Featuring @nuffieldfoundation.org @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social @ofcom.bsky.social @pewresearch.org @revealingreality.bsky.social @parentzone.org.uk and more
www.morethanrobots.org.uk/more-than-ro...
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📣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.
www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/job/associat...
It's an exciting time to join Ada as we begin our new strategy period.
Deadline: 23:59 GMT, 16 November 2025.
www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/job/associat...
Ada Lovelace Institute Associate Director, Emerging Technology & Industry Practice
www.adalovelaceinstitute.org
November 10, 2025 at 9:32 AM
📣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.
www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/job/associat...
It's an exciting time to join Ada as we begin our new strategy period.
Deadline: 23:59 GMT, 16 November 2025.
www.adalovelaceinstitute.org/job/associat...
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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?
See you tomorrow?
October 25, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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?
See you tomorrow?
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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.
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.
October 21, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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.
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.
“[My social worker was] at the end of my driveway while I was, like, in the porch. It was weird.” (Aged 16)
covid19.public-inquiry.uk/documents/in...
covid19.public-inquiry.uk/documents/in...
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 ...
covid19.public-inquiry.uk
October 14, 2025 at 6:56 AM
“[My social worker was] at the end of my driveway while I was, like, in the porch. It was weird.” (Aged 16)
covid19.public-inquiry.uk/documents/in...
covid19.public-inquiry.uk/documents/in...
‘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.’
pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
October 14, 2025 at 6:18 AM
‘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.’
pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
More Than Robots - October edition - is available now.
A medieval pilgrimage around the youth / digital / equity Venn and all fiefdoms in between.
www.morethanrobots.org.uk/more-than-ro...
A medieval pilgrimage around the youth / digital / equity Venn and all fiefdoms in between.
www.morethanrobots.org.uk/more-than-ro...
🏰 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.
www.morethanrobots.org.uk
October 9, 2025 at 10:00 AM
More Than Robots - October edition - is available now.
A medieval pilgrimage around the youth / digital / equity Venn and all fiefdoms in between.
www.morethanrobots.org.uk/more-than-ro...
A medieval pilgrimage around the youth / digital / equity Venn and all fiefdoms in between.
www.morethanrobots.org.uk/more-than-ro...
‘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
pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
Pluralistic: The real (economic) AI apocalypse is nigh (27 Sep 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
October 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
‘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
pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
pluralistic.net/2025/09/27/e...
