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Classic Lake Woebegone effect.

RIP #OzzyOsbourne

At a certain point, I think there's a thinly misandry that underlies some of this dialogue.

I would like to officially coin the phrase: The Eternal Escalator of Worry. This is a logical fallacy often employed by scholars and policy makers implying that something is always getting worse (even when it often is not). Typical framing may be things like, "Kids today are

They don't typically use the death penalty with sex crimes because otherwise perpetrators would simply kill their victims to remove witnesses since that wouldn't carry any additional penalty. Moral outrage is often the source of backfiring policies.

Apparently no bands that I like are coming to Orlando in the forseeable future. Come on folks, come to Orlando!

It's funny how many people think if we just had fewer freedoms, how much better the world would be...

Jonathan Haidt American Institute for Boys and Men This is a poor, sensationalist article that makes too much of one study (which the authors misrepresent) and acts as if the USA is the only country in the world. In the UK, where gambling has been "normalised" for decades (because it is, in fact, normal) problem gambling

I see a lot of people wring their hands about #smartphones and push notifications. Do people not know you can turn those off pretty easily? Or just not elect to activate them when you install a new ap in the first place (most do ask)?

The Repeal the Online Safety Act petition has over 100,000 signatures and grows every second.

Sign here. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7229…

I gather #trump WH released some statement on homelessness that's gotten some people in a lather. Granted I'd take anything from that WH with a grain of salt, but I'm seeing people claim that the chronically mentally ill are no more prone to violent crime than a passing flutter

Young adults in continental Western Europe don’t report as poor mental health as young adults in the Anglosphere. Some evidence for it being due to country-specific factors, and against it being due to the technological zeitgeist.

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The Kids Online Safety Act is the US equivalent of the EU's Digital Services Act and UK's Online Safety Act. If passed, it will lead to digital identity, total deanonymization of the internet, and massive censorship. It was reintroduced to Congress May 2025.

This moment seems like 100 years ago and good riddance.

Today I've written for RealClearInvestigations about the Dopamine Myth...the widespread belief that dopamine somehow makes certain activities like video games or social media "addictive". All the talk of "dopamine hits" is actually pseudoscientific nonsense...neither reflecting how