Jon Hargreaves
jonharges.bsky.social
Jon Hargreaves
@jonharges.bsky.social
Technology and social campaigner focused on Web3 tools for furthering human rights and counter human-trafficking - Global Lead at Elastos
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-66336172

A 50 percent increase in trafficking of people reported in Northern Ireland in one year - kind of change that often reflects greater criminal organisation and new routes
Huge increase in human trafficking victims in Northern Ireland, charity says
Women's Aid says it is currently dealing with almost five times the number of victims it did in 2021.
www.bbc.co.uk
August 19, 2023 at 11:39 AM
Grassroots Economics Foundation has pioneered alternative economic systems since 2009 and today has supported over 80 communities to develop their own Economic Commons - expressing & exchanging value with Community Asset Vouchers (now on Celo)❤️

🙏 @gitcoin: https://bit.ly/3YEcnVl (quadratically)
Gitcoin | Explorer
Create & Manage Rounds
bit.ly
August 16, 2023 at 7:36 PM
https://www.science.org/content/article/neandertals-humans-may-have-had-long-childhoods

More evidence that Homo sapiens and Neandertals co existed
Science | AAAS
www.science.org
August 13, 2023 at 5:06 PM
Reposted by Jon Hargreaves
Thanks to Herodotus we have the first documented record of hot boxing
August 12, 2023 at 2:55 AM
https://paragraph.xyz/@protocolized/protocol-protocol

A great montage of movies which talk protocol, protocol
August 11, 2023 at 12:39 AM
Reposted by Jon Hargreaves
Looking forward to hearing the inevitable story of the time two different billionaires tried to take Thomas on vacations at the same time and wound up fighting over him like a divorced couple in a custody fight
August 10, 2023 at 4:00 PM
Statue of the Week - 20 storey high and made from copper
August 10, 2023 at 9:47 PM
Human trafficking criminal models take many forms but deception and exploration of addiction are much more common that outright coercion and kidnapping
August 7, 2023 at 10:40 PM
Is the Huobi rumour real?
August 7, 2023 at 3:59 PM
Crazy that you not only give away content you don’t own the domain - need to enable digital destiny
August 6, 2023 at 3:44 AM
Scraping skins
🙅‍♀️ STOP SCROLLING 🙅‍♂️

🏕️ You’re now a member of a Paleolithic camp with other prehistoric Bluesky users 🍖

What’s your role? 👤
August 4, 2023 at 11:02 AM
Statue of the week
August 4, 2023 at 10:47 AM
Looks like problems for OpenAI and World Coin in Africa
Kenyan content moderators who reviewed incredibly graphic material to train ChatGPT are asking the Kenyan government to investigate the exploitative conditions they were subject to, which included “psychological trauma, low pay and abrupt dismissal.”
‘It’s destroyed me completely’: Kenyan moderators decry toll of training of AI models
Employees describe the psychological trauma of reading and viewing graphic content, low pay and abrupt dismissals
www.theguardian.com
August 3, 2023 at 12:02 PM
Right!
August 3, 2023 at 12:10 AM
To play properly
bad Ghost - George Michael
Good Ghost - Andrew Ridgley
We should spend a minute thinking of people who should not be ghosts. Not bad people (or even dead necessarily) just unsuited to ghost stuff.

Bad ghosts:
Dick Cavett
Allen Kessler
Harry Caray
Janeane Garofalo
Joe Buck

Good ghosts:
Norm MacDonald
Fred Schneider
Jimmy Piersall
Studs Terkel
Lil Bub
August 2, 2023 at 1:47 PM
The winners Dick and Studs
We should spend a minute thinking of people who should not be ghosts. Not bad people (or even dead necessarily) just unsuited to ghost stuff.

Bad ghosts:
Dick Cavett
Allen Kessler
Harry Caray
Janeane Garofalo
Joe Buck

Good ghosts:
Norm MacDonald
Fred Schneider
Jimmy Piersall
Studs Terkel
Lil Bub
August 2, 2023 at 1:44 PM