If a Democratic lawmaker and her husband are gunned down, it’s an isolated incident carried out by a lone wolf.
If a right-wing activist is gunned down, it’s part of a coordinated effort by the radical left to incite violence.
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youtube.comThe Last Days Of Social Media
noemamag.comThe problem is not just the rise of fake material, but the collapse of context and the acceptance that truth no longer matters as long as our cravings for colors and noise are satisfied. Contemporary social media content is more often rootless, detached from cultural memory, interpersonal exchange or shared conversation. It arrives fully formed, optimized for attention rather than meaning, producing a kind of semantic sludge, posts that look like language yet say almost nothing.
We’re drowning in this nothingness.
The Dumbest Phone Is Parenting Genius
theatlantic.comWhen Caron Morse’s 9-year-old daughter asked for a smartphone last year, her reaction, she told me, was unambiguous: “A hard ‘Hell no.’” Morse is a mental-health provider in the Portland, Maine, public-school system, and she was firmly against smartphones, having seen how social media and abundant screen time could shorten students’ attention spans and give them new anxieties. But she wanted her children to have some independence—to be able to call friends, arrange playdates, and reach out to their grandparents on their own. She also needed a break. “I was so sick,” she said, “of being the middle person in any correspondence.”
So when her daughter turned 10, Morse did get her a phone: a landline.
Snapshots of Kids Bike Jumping in the 1970s
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Tassie Government Blows Up Because Pussy Mainlanders Can't Play Footy Outside In The Cold
betootaadvocate.comProximity to Golf Courses and Risk of Parkinson Disease
jamanetwork.comThis case-control study found the greatest risk of PD within 1 to 3 miles of a golf course, and that this risk generally decreased with distance. Effect sizes were largest in water service areas with a golf course in vulnerable groundwater regions.
Pro-AI Subreddit Bans ‘Uptick’ of Users Who Suffer from AI Delusions
404media.co“LLMs [Large language models] today are ego-reinforcing glazing-machines that reinforce unstable and narcissistic personalities,” one of the moderators of r/accelerate, wrote in an announcement. “There is a lot more crazy people than people realise. And AI is rizzing them up in a very unhealthy way at the moment.”
Bodyboard shapers keep craft alive as sport rises in Australia
abc.net.auInside The Hot Girl Economy
stephstiner.substack.comSex Differences in Sport Are Hugely Controversial Right Now. Here's What Science Does (and Doesn’t) Know
outsideonline.comUnderstanding when and why men outperform women, and under what circumstances that can change, is suddenly a fraught topic.
Why we can't stand feeling bored
theguardian.comSo which is it: a fertile, imaginative state or mind-numbing agony?
The answer, according to experts, is both. Like life’s proverbial lemons, boredom is what you make of it.