#nobels

[lovely-lauren-arts]

Freddie and his siblings - design references

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[duchessofvastergotland]

11th December 1993 // Crown Princess Victoria joined her parents the King and Queen, her great uncle Prince Bertil and wife Princess Lilian, and her aunt Princess Christina and husband Tord Magnuson at the King's annual dinner for Nobel Laureates at the Royal Palace. The Swedish royals were also joined by Crown Prince Frederik of Denmark

[royal-hair]

2023 Nobel Prize award ceremony

Here's the stream for the ceremony in Stockholm, it will start in 30 minutes!

[duchessofostergotlands]

The people demand your thoughts on the Nobels fashion! I loooved Victoria’s bubblegum pink dress. And as much as I enjoyed Sofia’s new jewels (and her whole tiara since they refitted it to her head), I am dying to see her reach into the vault and wear something new to her.

I prefer compliments to demands, for future reference. As my grandmother always used to say “I wants don’t get!”. We’ll talk about the first event in the podcast so that’ll be out on Thursday and will cover what we think. But we recorded before tonight’s so I can review those.

Silvia - classic Silvia. Not going to remember it in five years but she looks nice, as she always does.

Victoria - didn’t like this dress the first time tbh. Sequins on dresses go wrong easily, for me. This doesn’t look cheap like a lot of JP’s stuff but a standard dress covered in sequins is still just a standard dress. Elie Saab’s work is normally intricate, it does something interesting with the sequins, but this is just a meh dress that’s a bit sparkly. It’s not terrible at all. It fits well. But it’s not one I enjoy

Sofia - I actually like it, divisive as it is. She looks like an ice lolly. As with most Sofia looks there’s possibly a bit of a fit issue, especially with the sleeves (she is clearly giving people the wrong arm measurements, her sleeves are always off!) but I like the vibe.

[tomtoneefx]

World You Like Some Tea ? #carnaval #endsunday #GreenTea #tomtone #pedalf #guitarFx #fxPedals #stompbox #pedal #Nobels #Overdrive #creamy #ts #different https://www.instagram.com/p/Co3NxfbO5Fb/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[adamflanagan]

Old Stew Blue came out for a spin last weekend. I totally get why @stewartdmillard use to enjoy this as his main rhythm guitar. Sounds great with a crunch and clean channels, stays in tune and solid. Does fight abit for solos but a great screamer for high notes. As always, it’s a reminder of how much we all miss the man himself. Always in our thoughts and hearts #fender #telecaster #guitar #deluxe #electric #electricguitar #sos #southofsuburbia oh and another shot of the board of course #nobels #boss #keeley #dunlop #pedaltrain #mxr #livemusic #gravitywandsworth (at Gravity Active Entertainment Wandsworth) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cnbzc5GgsQa/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[mintiestcrystal]

i find it so unfair that i cant do all the science. like what do you MEAN I can't study bio and chem and biochem and atrophysics and physics and geology and climate science. what do you MEAN i have a limited lifespan and need to get out of school at some point to get a job. i want to collect the science fields like pokemon, this isn't fair

[undertheredhood]

AU where jason todd goes back to school and gets a phd because while he was describing his multi-step plan to take over gotham and use bruce to kill the joker to talia she just said “oh, so you want to become a useless dropout just like your brother and father? talk about setting a bad example for damian.” which offended jason so much that he immediately re-enrolled to finish high school.

[dduane]

Almost certainly paywalled, but the lede alone is worth it. :)

[timothvy]

they will be destroying the science lab <3

[ghost--electricity]

[duchessofvastergotland]

4th December 2023 // The King and Queen, Prince Daniel and the Princely Couple met with representatives of the Nobel Foundation to receive a presentation about the 2023 Nobel laureates ahead of the Prize ceremony on 10th December. Crown Princess Victoria was unable to attend.

[royal-hair]

I think this is the ceremony https://www.svtplay.se/nobel-prisutdelningen

and this is the banquet https://www.svtplay.se/nobel-banketten

[blueskittlesart]

they werent lying that man can chainsaw

[reasonsforhope]

"Is social media designed to reward people for acting badly?

The answer is clearly yes, given that the reward structure on social media platforms relies on popularity, as indicated by the number of responses – likes and comments – a post receives from other users. Black-box algorithms then further amplify the spread of posts that have attracted attention.

Sharing widely read content, by itself, isn’t a problem. But it becomes a problem when attention-getting, controversial content is prioritized by design. Given the design of social media sites, users form habits to automatically share the most engaging information regardless of its accuracy and potential harm. Offensive statements, attacks on out groups and false news are amplified, and misinformation often spreads further and faster than the truth.

We are two social psychologists and a marketing scholar. Our research, presented at the 2023 Nobel Prize Summit, shows that social media actually has the ability to create user habits to share high-quality content. After a few tweaks to the reward structure of social media platforms, users begin to share information that is accurate and fact-based...

Re-targeting rewards

To investigate the effect of a new reward structure, we gave financial rewards to some users for sharing accurate content and not sharing misinformation. These financial rewards simulated the positive social feedback, such as likes, that users typically receive when they share content on platforms. In essence, we created a new reward structure based on accuracy instead of attention.

As on popular social media platforms, participants in our research learned what got rewarded by sharing information and observing the outcome, without being explicitly informed of the rewards beforehand. This means that the intervention did not change the users’ goals, just their online experiences. After the change in reward structure, participants shared significantly more content that was accurate. More remarkably, users continued to share accurate content even after we removed rewards for accuracy in a subsequent round of testing. These results show that users can be given incentives to share accurate information as a matter of habit.

A different group of users received rewards for sharing misinformation and for not sharing accurate content. Surprisingly, their sharing most resembled that of users who shared news as they normally would, without any financial reward. The striking similarity between these groups reveals that social media platforms encourage users to share attention-getting content that engages others at the expense of accuracy and safety...

Doing right and doing well

Our approach, using the existing rewards on social media to create incentives for accuracy, tackles misinformation spread without significantly disrupting the sites’ business model. This has the additional advantage of altering rewards instead of introducing content restrictions, which are often controversial and costly in financial and human terms.

Implementing our proposed reward system for news sharing carries minimal costs and can be easily integrated into existing platforms. The key idea is to provide users with rewards in the form of social recognition when they share accurate news content. This can be achieved by introducing response buttons to indicate trust and accuracy. By incorporating social recognition for accurate content, algorithms that amplify popular content can leverage crowdsourcing to identify and amplify truthful information.

Both sides of the political aisle now agree that social media has challenges, and our data pinpoints the root of the problem: the design of social media platforms."

And here's the video of one of the scientsts presenting this research at the Nobel Prize Summit!

-Article via The Conversation, August 1, 2023. Video via the Nobel Prize's official Youtube channel, Nobel Prize, posted May 31, 2023.

[girlactionfigure]