Throughout the entire GameStop saga, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking about the idea of a hive mind. I’ve dedicated an entire chapter in my forthcoming book to this idea and I wanted to get Tim’s perspective. I first came across his work on hive minds when I saw his Ted Talk, “Changing the hive mind -- How social media manipulation affects everything”. In it he explores how even a single like can influence huge amounts of people if done at the right time! We talked through social media manipulation, the idea of hive minds on the internet, the separation between the online and offline world, and much more. Tim Weninger is the Frank M. Freimann Collegiate Associate Professor of Engineering in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Notre Dame. His research is in machine learning, network science and social media. He’s interested in uncovering how humans consume and curate information. Tim has done work on the Center for Network and Data Science, the Pulte Institute for Global Development, and the Technology Ethics Center. HELP ME CROWDFUND MY GAMESTOP BOOK. Go to https://wen-moon.com to join the crowdfunding campaign and pre-order To The Moon: The GameStop Saga! If you haven’t already and you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to this podcast and our mailing list, and don’t forget, my book, Brexit: The Establishment Civil War, is now out, you’ll find the links in the description below. Keep It 100 With Dakota And Chorsie - https://www.ki100pod.com Watch Us On Odysee.com - https://odysee.com/$/invite/@TheJist:4 Sign up and watch videos to earn crypto-currency! Buy Brexit: The Establishment Civil War - https://amzn.to/39XXVjq Mailing List - https://www.getrevue.co/profile/thejist Twitter - https://twitter.com/Give_Me_TheJist Website - https://thejist.co.uk/ Music from Just Jim – https://soundcloud.com/justjim Resources https://twitter.com/tim_weninger https://tedx2014.nd.edu/speakers-2/tim-weninger/ Changing the hive mind -- How social media manipulation affects everything - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVsz5xFd3qU https://timweninger.com ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZTHW9hAqDc

Boris Johnson talks alot about the leveling up agenda, but as we have seen with HS-2 and it's scrapped extension to Leeds, he is not delivering. Positive Money are imagining a different scale of levelling up agenda. Essentially what they propose is to take the power of Quantiative Easing and the Bank Of England to spend billions investing in levelling up Britain's crumbling infrastructure. They believe that this could help spark massive growth in the economy from the bottom up, not the top down. In this clip Simon Youel and I discuss how this would theoretically work and what the money could be spent on. Watch the full episode here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilPbMy-MliA HELP ME CROWDFUND MY GAMESTOP BOOK. Go to https://wen-moon.com to join the crowdfunding campaign and pre-order To The Moon: The GameStop Saga! If you haven’t already and you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to this podcast and our mailing list, and don’t forget, my book, Brexit: The Establishment Civil War, is now out, you’ll find the links in the description below. Watch Us On Odysee.com - https://odysee.com/$/invite/@TheJist:4 Sign up and watch videos to earn crypto-currency! Buy Brexit: The Establishment Civil War - https://amzn.to/39XXVjq Mailing List - https://www.getrevue.co/profile/thejist Twitter - https://twitter.com/Give_Me_TheJist Website - https://thejist.co.uk/ Music from Just Jim – https://soundcloud.com/justjim ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozubKXxkTPk

In this clip, Mike Yardley and I discuss my idea of a "Big Review of Britain" - in other words, a constitutional convention. Earlier this year, I spoke with Tom Brake from Unlock Democracy about the idea of implementing a written constitution in the UK. At the time, I was intrigued by the idea but did not see why we needed to be so urgent about the issue. It seemed to me that, yes, there would be advantages to a codified constitution, but that this was just a nice idea for intellectuals to debate. Given the ascending pile of other issues we had to deal with from corruption, the revolving door and climate change, to the huge levels of inequality, a slow-down in productivity, a falling birth rate, the unbridled growth of big tech and now, most visibly, Covid — given all these obstacles, constitutional matters, I thought, could be placed on the backburner. Far better, I reasoned, to sort out the parking on the high street or get the bins collected more often. Watch the full interview here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-t9rYnpacY HELP ME CROWDFUND MY GAMESTOP BOOK. Go to https://wen-moon.com to join the crowdfunding campaign and pre-order To The Moon: The GameStop Saga! If you haven’t already and you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe to this podcast and our mailing list, and don’t forget, my book, Brexit: The Establishment Civil War, is now out, you’ll find the links in the description below. Express VPN 12 Months 35% off!! - https://www.xvinlink.com/?a_fid=chatter​ NameCheap - https://namecheap.pxf.io/WD4Xrn Spreaker - https://spreaker.pxf.io/0JmQoL Watch Us On Odysee.com - https://odysee.com/$/invite/@TheJist:4 Sign up and watch videos to earn crypto-currency! Buy Brexit: The Establishment Civil War - https://amzn.to/39XXVjq Mailing List - https://www.getrevue.co/profile/thejist Twitter - https://twitter.com/Give_Me_TheJist Website - https://thejist.co.uk/ Music from Just Jim – https://soundcloud.com/justjim ... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v6-jBDwQ_4s

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