Alan Lansdowne

Digital Media Consultant. Runner. Front-End Developer. Entrepreneur. Academic. Fascinated by social potential of Technology. Love Languages, Culture & Travel.

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@ivortymchak Sure. But I wonder if there's also a difference between what people are comfortable with privately and what people are happy to be seen to be comfortable with in public? Most films will want to maximise audience. If there is a cost to including sex and no cost for excluding it...

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@ivortymchak Relevant study from the beginning of the 21st century:

https://t.co/OH7o38UAq6

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@ivortymchak I'm guessing the late 1960s and 1970s... (?)

i.e. the two decades between the arrival of the Pill and the mainstream arrival of the AIDS crisis (?)

And before that maybe WWII (?)

And before that maybe the 1920s (?)

But these are all guesses...

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@ivortymchak But it's fair to say that there are times and places where sexual licence abounds and others where prudity reigns.

What is remarkable about dominant US culture is how little it has deviated from its founding precepts in more than 4 centuries.

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@ivortymchak Cultural rules about what is and isn't acceptable with regard to sex have a pedigree. "Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife" is at least three and a half thousand years old. (But I imagine much older if we continue back into ancient Mesopotamia...)

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@ivortymchak About once a year I venture back on to Twitter briefly, before I run screaming back to the safety of the hills again. 😉😂

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@JamesClear We live in a socio-economy often described as "consumer capitalist".

But what if our education and infrastructure was focused on creating, building and developing a "producer capitalist" socio-economy?

What if we had "creation therapy" instead of "retail therapy"?

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@bbcbigquestions @kehinde_andrews Once we collectively get our heads around that "Race" is, itself, a supremacist narrative, invented in the 16th century and (if not before) significantly weaponised in the 19th century, we can start making real changes that really matter.

#IRejectRace

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@bbcbigquestions @kehinde_andrews Today, politics & commerce (especially in the US) are too invested in perpetuating this narrative from early modernity. We do well to ask why "Race" emerged. Is it because the narrative of "Christians & Heathens" no longer played to European supremacism as well as it had before?

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@JenMsft I should add that at 28 - after trying & failing twice to learn JS - I resolved not to try again.

What changed this, at 36, was getting my head around PHP.

PHP has its flaws. But it proved to be great "training wheels" giving me confidence that I *could* code & to try JS again.

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@JenMsft Hard to say. Multiple attempts:

8-10: Dragon Basic - got the hang of the basics
16: Amiga Basic - barely got anywhere
24: JavaScript 1.3 - a few basics
28: JavaScript again - not much further
37: JS ES5 - a bit better
39: JS ES5 - grasped it, finally
42: JS ES2015+ - cracked it

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Mar 6th:
First Long Run in 3 Months... https://t.co/aMRE2kv1Wf

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@andymycock1 @Notwestminster I've travelled to some unusual places (North Cyprus, Crimea, the Basque Country, Transcarpathia, Tibet & even Transdniestria) but I suspect North Korea is likely the unusuallest place of all! Thanks again for sharing your travels with us!

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Huddersfield University Professor @AndyMycock1 gives a genuinely fascinating talk on his recent visit to North Korea (including his love of "Communist concrete") @NotWestminster #NotWestminster

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On "Complexity Theory". It's not helpful to try to solve linear problems by committee, but it's no more helpful to try to solve complex problems via linear processes. Complex problems demand an approach with more dimensions. (via @NoreenBlanluet) @NotWestminster #NotWestminster

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Next up @NotWestminster, @SpencerWilson is singing his way through a satirical, topical picture book slideshow on... (what else?!) #NotWestminster

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Newham Mayor, @RokhsanaFiaz, is determined to turn Newham (in East London) into a model of participatory democracy for the UK (via @AndyPaice) @NotWestminster #NotWestminster

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Now @PechaKucha #NotWestminister at #Huddersfield @TheMediaCentre, looking forward to an evening of talks on how we can do politics and civil society with more intelligence & imagination...