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Scott Paterson

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Friend, neighbor, director of Adventuring Ventures, a strategic design incubator that partners with public & private orgs to envision and build preferred urban futures. Based in Barcelona Read FIELD REPORT newsletter: possibilityhours.substack.com

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Kasey Gifford @kaseygifford.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
To put this in perspective chestnut trees used to be dominant species in the United States. Billions of trees were killed by fungal blight and now fully grown America chestnuts are functionally extinct. There is no getting them back. Ever. All for a data center. www.gadgetreview.com/one-of-ameri...
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One of America’s Last Chestnut Groves Is About to Be Destroyed for a Data Center
A rare 200-tree American chestnut grove in West Virginia may be cleared for data-center development, but the project denies the site is on its land.
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Gail Simone @gailsimone.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
You guys want to hear a short but adorable story that happened right in front of me at the baggage claim in NYC yesterday? I wasn't part of it and there are bits I didn't catch but holy crap, I can't stop thinking about it.
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elDiario.es @eldiario.es · 29/09/2026
Catalunya crea un fondo de 25 millones anuales para comprar pisos en riesgo de desahucio
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Catalunya crea un fondo de 25 millones anuales para comprar pisos en riesgo de desahucio
Illa presenta una batería de medidas contra la crisis de la vivienda, al tiempo que pide "altura de miras" a Junts para apoyar los decretos aprobados por el Gobierno
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Dr. Ashok Karra @akarra.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
if you haven't read @exmove.bsky.social's slide deck on what coolness is (h/t @garbageday.email), i highly recommend it. it will get you thinking about the deeper questions of what we want from culture and how it fulfills a need: docs.google.com/presentation...
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EX Research_Cool Is A Skill Issue
COOL IS A SKILL ISSUE A trend report by EX Research Q3 2026
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Scott Smith @changeist.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Read more here: www.10fconsortium.org/forecast-ind... @10fconsortium.bsky.social
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F04: From Special Relationships to Strategic Situationships — 10F Consortium
The global shift from durable alliances to transactional arrangements rewards optionality over commitment. Those who cannot maintain multiple partnerships simultaneously find themselves locked into ar...
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elDiario.es @eldiario.es · 19/09/2026
Los alcaldes Jaume Collboni y Zohran Mamdani se reúnen en Nueva York como previa a la cumbre de ciudades U20. Los primeros ediles de Barcelona y Nueva York han compartido impresiones y experiencias sobre vivienda, turismo, pobreza y clima
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Los alcaldes Jaume Collboni y Zohran Mamdani se reúnen en Nueva York como previa a la cumbre de ciudades U20
Los primeros ediles de Barcelona y Nueva York han compartido impresiones y experiencias sobre vivienda, turismo, pobreza y clima
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elDiario.es @eldiario.es · 03/09/2026
‼️Muere Gloria Steinem, la periodista feminista que hizo del movimiento un fenómeno popular y que se enfrentó a Trump
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Muere Gloria Steinem, la periodista feminista que hizo del movimiento un fenómeno popular y que se enfrentó a Trump
Steinem fue una de las primeras periodistas feministas contemporáneas que se reivindicó como tal y que combinó su reporterismo y su escritura con un activismo que enriqueció sus textos con nuevos enfo...
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Be the Changeist @scoxsmith.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
New course just dropped! Horizon Scanning in the Age of AI —Asia Edition Nov. 16 – 17, 2026 Time: 13:00-16:30 SGT each day Format: Interactive online sessions via Zoom Language: English Capacity: Limited to 20 participants Register here: changeist.com/events
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Events And Workshops — Changeist
Hands-on workshops and masterclasses from Changeist on horizon scanning, scenario development, and foresight methods. Public sessions open to practitioners and teams.
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Futurism @futurism.com · 25/08/2026
It's a race to the bottom.
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90 Percent of Execs Say Oops, AI Didn't Help Productivity, So Layoffs Will Continue
More than 90 percent of executives said AI had no impact on employment. Almost as many said there was "no impact on labor productivity."
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Reimagining the Civic Commons @civiccommonsus.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
NEW: Belonging is a basic human need, necessary for health, well-being & social connection. But it doesn't just happen; it has to be built. Rituals can help. Our latest article looks at how ritual shapes belonging, & what this means for the public spaces we design and program: tinyurl.com/y6u488h7
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Can Rituals Help Hold Communities Together?
Artist Amanda Phingbodhipakkiya, scholar Ashley Gallegos and author Michael Norton on the science and practice of ritual in public life.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/08/2026
Mark Carney: "In recent days. the US proposed new terms that were uneconomic, unfair, and undermine the net benefits for Canada, and called into question the reliability of any deal. In short, they asked too much and they offered too little ... You're at war when you get attacked. We got attacked."
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Scott Paterson @scottgpaterson.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Another must read from Cory Doctorow!! When in Singapore more than a decade ago to revamp experience of Ministry of Manpower, this UK proj was enormously influential. Because someone else had gone first, giving evidence and permission to others. I hope Mamdani’s PIT crews do the same.
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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/08/2026
Mamdani has just unveiled his Public Interest Technology (PIT) Crews: five "game changing" teams of public interest hackers who will remake NYC's digital services: www.nyc.gov/mayors-offic... 36/
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Transcript: Mayor Mamdani Launches “Public Interest Technology (Pit) Crew” to Rapidly Build Digital Solutions to Public Problems
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Scott Smith @changeist.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
We’re running another online horizon scanning workshop in mid Sept for European, Mideast and Africa timezones. If you know anyone who’s been thinking about building better skills in this area, please pass it on. 🙏🏻 pretix.eu/changeist/se...
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Horizon Scanning: Sensing & Sensemaking for a Complex World
Sept. 17 – 18, 2026
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Scott Smith @changeist.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Chatting with my offspring about her favorite movie, FORBIDDEN PLANET, I’m reminded of this amazing earlier work by Bebe and Louis Barron, BELLS OF ATLANTIS, narrated by Anaïs Nin. youtu.be/fNodsrQhQ28?...
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Bells Of Atlantis - Ian Hugo (1952)
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/05/2026
A decade ago, analysts were calling Spain a cautionary tale. Too much solar, too fast! Today, Spain is rapidly on its way to having the cheapest power in Europe. Maybe this time, solar naysayers will learn... haha, jk, they'll just move the goalposts.
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Spain just became one of Europe's cheapest power markets. Here is how.
How wind and solar quietly pushed gas off the margin, and the wholesale price followed.
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Case @case.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
pudding.cool It's great!
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The Pudding
The Pudding explains ideas with visual essays.
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Scott Smith @changeist.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
And don’t forget: every day is Manager’s Day. Buy them this one and improve your life. 💅 www.koganpage.com/business-and...
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Future Cultures
The only way to succeed tomorrow is to act today. Transform your business and prepare for the innovations, technologies and challenges of the future through Fut
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Scott Smith @changeist.bsky.social · 28/04/2026
Last days of the 40% off sale on our books. The royalties alone might buy us a sandwich. 🥪 SALE40 at checkout. www.koganpage.com/general-busi...
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How to Future
Adapt, embrace uncertainties and create more resilient business strategies by mastering the futuring mindset.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/02/2026
Mamdani announces a new executive order protecting New Yorkers from "abusive immigration enforcement," including requiring ICE to have a judicial warrant to enter NYC property
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
Getting the impression that ICE is gearing up for a pogrom in Springfield, Ohio, which was ground zero of Vance’s lies about Haitians during the campaign. Haitians lose temporary protected status on February 3rd. Reporters, lawyers, neighbors — please get ready.
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Timothy Snyder @timothysnyder.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
The term “law enforcement” should not be used by media, except perhaps in quotations. It has sadly become an Orwellian term that is used to magically sanctify violence. Language matters. Be specific. Describe individuals with names and ranks. Say exactly what they did. Don’t repeat fascist hocum.
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Tanya 🧚‍♀️👑 @faeryqueene73.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
A coworker took this from her apartment. I haven't seen a crowd this size before. Maybe the first Women's March? But it was much much warmer that day. ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA!
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 23/01/2026
this photo. minneapolis. 💜 📷️ Alex Kormann/Star Tribune
photo of march, signs for renee good and against ICe, crowded street.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 22/01/2026
Thank you to everyone who is risking their safety and contributing their time and money to protect our neighbors. If you are so inclined, please check out Stand With Minnesota (standwithminnesota.com) to find a way to help. And no one start any beefs with Will Stancil. (2/2)
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Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Meanwhile:
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 21/01/2026
Neighborhood watch is taking on a new form in Minneapolis and other cities under occupation by federal immigration agents: ICE Watch. These folks, who're tailing federal agents as they make arrests, are passionate, determined, and just about everywhere—and ICE is getting frustrated.
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Meet the Minneapolis neighbors standing up to ICE by the thousands
Local resistance is "growing exponentially," says Defend the 612's Andrew Fahlstrom.
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Arin Dube @arindube.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
The TACO cycle: Markets want to price in TACO. But TACO only works if Trump sees stocks tank. So we get a loop: Trump does things → nothing happens (markets already priced in TACO) → that emboldens him to do more → until markets start to think he might not TACO → stocks fall → TACO is restored.
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Mark Carney @mark-carney.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
We can build walls or we can be more ambitious — and build something better, stronger, and more just.
Photo of Prime Minister Carney speaking at a podium in Davos, Switzerland. A quote from his speech is edited on top: “WHEN THE RULES NO LONGER PROTECT YOU, YOU MUST PROTECT YOURSELF. BUT LET US BE CLEAR-EYED ABOUT WHERE THIS LEADS. A WORLD OF FORTRESSES WILL BE POORER, MORE FRAGILE, AND LESS SUSTAINABLE.”
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Maria Popova @popovaprof.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Carney reportedly wrote the speech himself. Canada's govt is in good hands. He urges everyone to recognize that the US has joined Ru in finishing off the intl order and is trying to convert allies into vassals but also to remember Canada/EU/others have the power to push back and defend sovereignty.
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Max Bergmann @maxbergmann.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Histories of modern Russia often point to Putin's 2007 Munich speech as the clear point of rupture with the west. Feels like Davos today will be pointed to as the moment of allied rupture with the US.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
Córy Doctorow with another verbal bullseye: pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/n...
I'm sorry. As a technology writer, I'm supposed to be telling you that this bet will some day pay off, because one day we will have shoveled so many words into the word-guessing program that it wakes up and learns how to actually do the jobs it is failing spectacularly at today. This is a proposition akin to the idea that if we keep breeding horses to run faster and faster, one of them will give birth to a locomotive. Humans possess intelligence, and machines do not. The difference between a human and a word-guessing program isn't how many words the human knows.

I'm sorry. I know that when we talk about "digital sovereignty," we're obliged to talk about how we can build more data-centres that we can fill up with money-losing chips from American silicon monopolists in the hopes of destroying as many jobs as possible while blowing through our clean energy goals and enshittifying as much of our potable water as possible.
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M.J. Crockett @mjcrockett.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
New preprint: Empathy, Thick and Thin papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... It is perhaps foolhardy to attempt to say something new about a topic as widely studied as empathy. I tried anyway! 1/

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When we empathize with someone going through something, we often draw on our past experiences with the someone and the something. These kinds of experiences ground "thick empathy", a form of empathy that has been largely overlooked in the psychology and neuroscience literature. Consider how a mother, empathizing with her daughter about to give birth, can draw on her own experience of childbirth, and her relationship with her daughter, to deeply grasp what her daughter is going through in a way that others who lack those experiences cannot. I argue that thick empathy deserves more empirical attention because it is associated with well-being and helps us build networks of effective mutual social support. My analysis highlights novel risks and dilemmas posed by "empathy machines" that promise to enhance or even replace human empathy and are becoming increasingly popular as a potential solution to widespread loneliness. Even when empathy machines provide value to individuals, their widespread adoption risks imposing collective emotional and epistemic costs that ultimately make it harder for us to empathize well.

Keywords: empathy, understanding, experience, thick description, ethnography, phenomenal knowledge, interpersonal knowledge, virtual reality, artificial intelligence, chatbots
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Futurism @futurism.com · 05/12/2025
"Smart move, just late."
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Zuckerberg Basically Giving Up on Metaverse After Renaming Entire Company "Meta"
Meta executives are eying gigantic budget cuts for the teams responsible for its Meta Horizon Worlds and Quest VR headset.
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James Bridle @jamesbridle.bsky.social · 28/09/2025
I met Hilary and Dan in London this summer. Their Power Station project is an incredible artist-led work showing how we can transform our energy system as well as our societies for better, more livable futures. Please, check them out and support their fundraising if you can! www.power.film
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Jenny Holzer @jennyholzer.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
CALM IS MORE CONDUCTIVE TO CREATIVITY THAN IS ANXIETY
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Scott Paterson @scottgpaterson.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
NYC friends, WORKS on WATER's 3rd TRIENNIAL (Aug 28-Oct 26) Opening tonight, Aug 28, from 5-9p Governors Island in the LMCC Galleries in Building 110. worksonwater.org/2025-triennial
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2025 Triennial — Works on Water
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Scott Paterson @scottgpaterson.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
New Intercambio de Superpoderes “Don’t expect to be told what to do, not everything can be planned. I have questions, I’m a researcher, I’m a psychologist. Imposter syndrome is very real. Very humbly I can bring questions…and put something out there.” possibilityhours.substack.com/p/intercambi...
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Intercambio de Superpoderes : Enrique Peralta
Ingenuity / Ingenio
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Philip Bump @pbump.com · 22/06/2025
The logic is pretty obvious here. Presidents can’t declare war so anything the president does without Congress can’t be a war. It’s not an assessment of what’s happening; it’s an excuse.
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ian bremmer @ianbremmer.com · 04/06/2025
fun map of the day: seating arrangements for legislators around the world
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Scott Paterson @scottgpaterson.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
"Reluctant Optimists: Designing Cities for Change" Ever wondered why government feels like a black box? Or how design thinking can transform entire cities? I reveal the secrets behind 30 years of working with governments, startups, and communities worldwide. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8KI...
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Reluctant Optimists: Designing Cities for Change with Scott Paterson
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Scott Paterson @scottgpaterson.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Intercambio de Superpoderes : Lina Rodríguez "There's nothing you can tell me that I haven't thought about me improving already" - Lina open.substack.com/pub/possibil...
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Intercambio de Superpoderes : Lina Rodríguez
Maker / Hacedora
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Scott Paterson @scottgpaterson.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
"liking China, not liking China, is not part of my equation" Thomas Friedman after having regularly visited China over the years to see the rate of innovation, the readiness, and the ease of going to market and scaling. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqBa...
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Why Trump Could Lose His Trade War With China | The Ezra Klein Show
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Scott Paterson @scottgpaterson.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Learning From the Legacy of 18F www.lawfaremedia.org/article/lear...
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Learning From the Legacy of 18F
Although the government has terminated 18F—the team that modernized government tech—its legacy offers lessons for future digital services.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
If one of us stands up, they can pick that person off. If ten or a hundred or a thousand, they can pick those people off. And they're picking off people--immigrants, dissidents--to make an example of them. But if ten million people stand up, they cannot stop us all.
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Millions Stood Up: April 5 Hands Off Day of Action
I was the closing speaker at the ebullient San Francisco Hands Off rally, and when I got home later I scoured the news for  reports on the more than one thousand other rallies. Of course people would ...
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Archinect @archinect.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Marvel Architects and Garcés de Seta Bonet Arquitectes are the winners of the competition to create Catalunya Media City, a new media district at the former 'Tres Xemeneies' power plant near Poble-sec, Barcelona. archinect.com/news/b...
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Scott Paterson @scottgpaterson.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
New issue of FIELD REPORT Fertile encounters under cobblestones to fly free like a child. This is an invitation to share a walk, a talk, a game. Requires curiosity and attentive listening. Difference and Chance must be considered. open.substack.com/pub/possibil...
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Intercambio de Superpoderes : Laura Mas
“All power to imagination”
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Scott Paterson @scottgpaterson.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Live streaming today, 20 of March www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rbf0...
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The State of World Happiness in 2025 | Semafor Events
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