My thesis is pretty simple: kids shouldn't have social media or smartphones and we should use every possible lever of power to make that possible. Social media is bad for everyone everywhere and should be cumbersome to access.
Defenders of age verification mandates for alcohol are literally creating schemes where they have to ask a sweaty guy outside the Piggly Wiggly to buy them Buzzballs
Evan Greer@evangreer.bsky.social · 3d agoDefenders of age verification mandates are literally creating schemes that involve people going to their local convenience store to get an in person ostensibly privacy-preserving proof of age token …instead of just banning and regulating the shitty business practices of Big Tech giants
the Wikipedia Guy is a very under-discussed social cancer. The most annoying guy at every bar. Felix from Chapo Trap House. Unbearable coworkers. The most nightmarish conversation partner imaginable. They need to be reeducated during Woke 2
Kevin Carson 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🏴@kevincarson1.bsky.social · 3d agoThis is basically every "serious" take Elon has ever had. He just watches a video or reads the first couple paragraphs from a Wikipedia article, enough to pick up enough of the vocabulary to bullshit his way through and impress people who don't know better. 1/2
If you use it to do any creative work you don't deserve any credit for that work at all. That will never change.
hailey@hailey.at · 3d agogenuinely, if you're not re-evaluating your position on AI at least once every 1-2 months and re-evaluating how it performs for the types of tasks important to you, then you are not actually challenging your priors. i know this is crazy! but thats how fast things are moving right now.
Just trust me on this one. youtu.be/o5HcC7ZsXMw?...
Peter Gabriel and Hot Chip - Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa (Vampire Weekend cover)
YouTube video by R. P. (Rael’s Porcupine)
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Bald and Bougie@cheflubu.bsky.social · 4d agoWhat is your favorite cover song of all time? Opening up interaction so you can quote post if you'd like.
This clip really gets really into the id of the modern conservative. They hate where they're from. They hate where they're not from. They hate every place they know and every place they don't know. They exclusively like the drive from their nursing program sidepieces' condo to The Cheesecake Factory
Micah@rincewind.run · 3d agopeggy flanagan is going to beat her by at least fifteen points
You should treat every person who carries water for social media companies like this with extreme suspicion. The dawn of social media has been literally nothing but the opening of the hellmouth for kids, with many sTuDiEs showing obvious, direct links to suicidality, depression and mental illness
Evan Greer@evangreer.bsky.social · 3d agoThis is objectively false by every measure. Studies out of Australia and the UK show that age verification laws have been completely ineffective in reducing teen social media use, have pushed some teens to darker less moderated corners of the internet They’ve just handed platforms MORE kids’ data
Spanish object pronoun... who hurt you? Who made you suck this bad
I mean, obviously it makes children considerably safer by basically every metric conceivable except incredibly specious and speculative ones regarding self discovery, but it's important to remember that people with this opinion don't really consider children to be people
Evan Greer@evangreer.bsky.social · 6d agoAge verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe. Age verification makes everyone less safe.
Is this for real or is it just one of those things that sounds real but is ahistorical bullshit
TheBossRoss 🧶@thebossross.bsky.social · 5d agoI was today years old when I learned the Christian halo likely goes back to an Ancient Greek cover against bird droppings.
my position is that Hasan is an obvious piece of shit, defending him is idiotic, and also he is wildly irrelevant to either the Democratic Party or the election.
Aubrey Gilleran@aubreygilleran.bsky.social · 4d agoThe thing is I don’t think he’s even sincere about the screenshot on the left. He knows he’s being hypocritical, and he enjoys saying the stuff about his factional enemies that they said about him two years ago. It’s trolling.
I hated playing football. I did JV for two years and quit to focus on lacrosse for varsity and I caught infinite shit from my friends for it. But I never had any fun, I was always hurt and I was very embarrassed by the bizarre Real Housewives Death Cult shit that the coaches would get up to go 4-8
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 5d agoI think it’s safe to say that some version of this essay by Ben Sasse on youth football has been written for over 100 years. “Football is a character-forming institution that channels strength… In a culture of passivity, football privileges action. In times of peace, football prepares us for war.”
This article is pretty accurate and fair - it even hedges about POTS a bit - and the people bugging out about it are mostly scared this age of ludicrous overdiagnosis of neurological and mental disorders may come to an end.
Kelly@broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 5d agoThis is shameful discriminatory and misogynistic reporting. People aren’t choosing disability to be “cool”. Young women don’t have to “prove” to you that they’re sick. Disability rates are skyrocketing because we’ve left a disabling virus rip through the population for over 6 years.
"consume better media" lmao simmer down dude you're an adult who watches one piece
Ugly, choppy, bloated-yet-hurried with a painfully underdeveloped Odysseus. Talk all the shit you want about Elliott Page, sure, but Bennie Safdie as Agamemnon is one of the great miscasts of our young century. Very little to redeem it besides the third act, which tightens up a little bit I guess
gallandguile@gallandguile.bsky.social · 5d agoDamn, The Odyssey kind of sucked
I think a lot about how Battlefield 1, one of my favorite games ever, had remarkably sad and somewhat moving cinematics about the all-consuming horror and futility of The Great War, and then also the coolest funnest orgiastic online mass slaughterfest mode of its generation. Da duality of games
Heroism of labour (& A+ shaggy dog) in the Iron Forge, painted in 1772 by Joseph Wright of Derby. Today is his day.
I need this repulsive submentaloid fatass to wear a suit. You can make a good argument that no person in America got more grace during the Woke Era than Fetterman -- we supported him through his stroke and his body image issues. But now that he's backstabbed us he can dress like a fucking grownup
Zeteo@zeteo.com · 6mo agoSenator John Fetterman’s response to @premthakker.bsky.social when asked about the illegal US strike on an Iranian Naval ship in international waters: “I want to offer condolences to your boss [Mehdi]. I know he’s all broke up about the Ayatollah.”
"I'm rockin' with Mark 'cause Mark is rockin' with us" is the funniest 15 seconds in the history of computer. The coach thinking he's saying something very profound and important and his immediate realization that he pooched it. The one kid just cackling. Mark himself having red hair. Tremendous.
The lawyer who assembles the first AI class action lawsuit for the mishandling and transfer special education documents to unapproved third parties is going to make out like Pablo Escobar
That story about the cop in Pottsgrove who just fucking executed that college baseball player should be massive, national stuff. Reminiscent of the Daniel Shaver murder, where a psycho cop saw his opportunity to torture and kill someone in a compromising position and took it
some woke era lessons I think the left can learn without pissing everyone off: - dismissing complaints about quality of life and property crime is really bad and dumb - vocal activists rarely actually reflect the desires of minority groups - every culture war battle isn't worth going all in on
Someone should tell whoever makes the school cancellation decisions in Philly that Heat Days are for situations where students will be in danger, not when it's sort of muggy out. Two extremely obtrusive early dismissals on the first week of instruction is insane dude wtf is going on