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zuluwill

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Maker of things. - Sold Loyalty Bay to Perkbox. - Building Society Speaks

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Just open sourced Society Speaks to encourage more nuanced discussion. If its of interest please do get involved. You can try the live version at https://societyspeaks.io/

SocietySpeaks (https://societyspeaks.io) combines opinion clustering algorithms with geographic context to facilitate better public discourse. Currently hosting discussions on healthcare, technology, climate, and social policy. All Active Discussions: Healthcare:

NHS Reform: https://societyspeaks.io/discussions/1/how_should_we_improve... Mental Health: https://societyspeaks.io/discussions/10/mental-health-awaren...

Environment & Economy:

Climate Solutions: https://societyspeaks.io/discussions/12/climate-change-solut... Free Ports Analysis: https://societyspeaks.io/discussions/3/are-free-ports-good-o...

Society & Education:

Digital Wellbeing: https://societyspeaks.io/discussions/13/smartphone-free-chil... Education Future: https://societyspeaks.io/discussions/8/future-of-education Economic Inequality: https://societyspeaks.io/discussions/9/wealth-inequality Housing Access: https://societyspeaks.io/discussions/7/affordable-housing

Technology:

AI Impact: https://societyspeaks.io/discussions/11/ai-and-automation Platform Regulation: https://societyspeaks.io/discussions/5/social-media-regulati...

Policy:

Immigration: https://societyspeaks.io/discussions/6/immigration-reform

Technical implementation:

Flask/Python backend with PostgreSQL Opinion clustering API integration Location-aware discussion filtering Tailwind CSS for responsive design Replit infrastructure Pol.is

Key features:

Real-time opinion cluster visualization Geographic scope filtering (city/country/global) Topic-based categorization Cross-referencing between related discussions Consensus highlighting across viewpoints

The platform integrates research from collective intelligence and deliberative democracy fields, with particular focus on how geographic context influences consensus-building. Current technical focus:

Scaling clustering for larger datasets Geographic verification without compromising privacy Cross-topic relationship mapping Automated moderation systems

Looking for feedback on how i can improve it and make it as useful as possible. Its currently just me and entirely bootstrapped.

potentially very dumb question but could you build hydro power solutions(from the ice melt/run off) that you then get clean power from / help cool ice...? So out of my depth here but genuinely curious. Also appreciate building a hydro power plant on a very unstable platform (ice) is problematic just curious of other solutions to generate hydro power...