The Fall of Facebook - The Atlantic - 0 views
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Alexis C. Madrigal Nov 17 2014, 7:59 PM ET Social networking is not, it turns out, winner take all. In the past, one might have imagined that switching between Facebook and “some other network” would be difficult, but the smartphone interface makes it easy to be on a dozen networks. All messages come to the same place—the phone’s notifications screen—so what matters is what your friends are doing, not which apps they’re using.
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if I were to put money on an area in which Facebook might be unable to dominate in the future, it would be apps that take advantage of physical proximity. Something radically new could arise on that front, whether it’s an evolution of Yik Yak
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The Social Machine, predicts that text will be a less and less important part of our asynchronous communications mix. Instead, she foresees a “very fluid interface” that would mix text with voice, video, sensor outputs (location, say, or vital signs), and who knows what else
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Best, Brightest - and Saddest? - NYTimes.com - 0 views
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Between May 2009 and January 2010, five Palo Alto teenagers ended their lives by stepping in front of trains. And since October of last year, another three Palo Alto teenagers have killed themselves that way, prompting longer hours by more sentries along the tracks. The Palo Alto Weekly refers to the deaths as a “suicide contagion.”
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the contagion has prompted an emotional debate about the kinds of pressures felt by high school students in epicenters of overachievement.
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the situation isn’t so different in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., where a separate cluster of teen suicides in recent years forced educators and parents to re-examine the messages they give teenagers, intentionally and unintentionally, about what’s expected of them and what’s needed to get ahead in this world.
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The Tech Industry's Psychological War on Kids - Member Feature Stories - Medium - 0 views
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she cried, “They took my f***ing phone!” Attempting to engage Kelly in conversation, I asked her what she liked about her phone and social media. “They make me happy,” she replied.
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Even though they were loving and involved parents, Kelly’s mom couldn’t help feeling that they’d failed their daughter and must have done something terribly wrong that led to her problems.
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My practice as a child and adolescent psychologist is filled with families like Kelly’s. These parents say their kids’ extreme overuse of phones, video games, and social media is the most difficult parenting issue they face — and, in many cases, is tearing the family apart.
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Some Elephants in Africa Are Just a Step From Extinction - The New York Times - 0 views
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The threat of extinction has diminished the odds of spotting one of these wood-dwelling elephants in recent decades,
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The shy forest elephants have lost nearly nine-tenths of their number in a generation and are now critically endangered — just one step from extinction in the wild.
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The population of savanna elephants has fallen at least 60 percent, the team found. Forest elephants have declined by more than 86 percent.
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Two stereotypes that diminish the humanity of the Atlanta shooting victims - and all As... - 0 views
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Since the Atlanta spa shootings, the U.S. media has been working harder than usual to describe and understand Asian Americans.
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One is that of Asian Americans as the “perpetual foreigner” – immigrants who constantly struggle, never assimilate.
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Both stereotypes have been levied in tandem against Asian immigrants to the U.S. for centuries.
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Cost Of Her Usual Pain Shot Rose From $30 To $300 Thanks To 'Facility Fee' : Shots - He... - 0 views
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$1,394, including a $1,262 facility fee listed as "operating room services." The balance included a clinic charge and a pharmacy charge. Lee's portion of the bill was $354.68.
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Lee owed more than 10 times what she had paid for the same procedure done before by the same physician, Dr. Elisabeth Roter.
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Lee says it was the "same talking, same injection — same time."
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Talking to Children About Anti-Asian Bias - The New York Times - 1 views
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I’m Helping My Korean-American Daughter Embrace Her Identity to Counter Racism
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“I’m not sure Asian-American families can avoid ‘the talk’ any longer,” one expert said.
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My daughter was the only kid who didn’t have a separate Korean name when we signed her up for Korean classes three years ago. The blank space on the registration form looked at me, as if to say we’d forgotten something as parents.
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'Kid 90' and the Days When Even Wild TV Teens Had Privacy - The New York Times - 0 views
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‘Kid 90’ and the Days When Even Wild TV Teens Had Privacy
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A documentary from Soleil Moon Frye, star of “Punky Brewster,” and a reunion of “The Real World” remind us that Gen X didn’t curate themselves for mass consumption.
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Sometimes I remember the clunky devices of my youth — the boxy Polaroid cameras, the bricklike car phones, the shrill answering machines, the pagers that could be made to spell an angular, all-caps “BOOBS.”
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Pandemic Social Life, One Year In - The New York Times - 0 views
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One Year Together, Apart
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The pandemic redefined relationships and self-reliance.
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In the year since the pandemic began, people learned to be together while apart and navigated the pain of feeling apart while together
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Opinion | Biden Plots a Revolution for America's Children - The New York Times - 0 views
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Biden Plots a Revolution for America’s Children
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National pre-K and affordable day care don’t have to be a dream.
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The most revolutionary part of President Biden’s agenda so far is his focus on a constituency that doesn’t write whiny op-ed columns, doesn’t vote, doesn’t hire lobbyists and so has been neglected for half a century: children.
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Opinion | He's a Famous Evangelical Preacher, but His Kids Wish He'd Pipe Down - The Ne... - 1 views
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He’s a Famous Evangelical Preacher, but His Kids Wish He’d Pipe Down
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The Rev. Rick Joyner has called on Christians to arm themselves for civil war. But his children would be on the other side.
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The Rev. Rick Joyner is a famous evangelical leader who has called on Christians to arm themselves for an inevitable civil war against liberals, whom he suggests are allies of the devil.
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Republicans Wonder How, And If, They Can Pull The Party Back Together : NPR - 0 views
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In a matter of hours on Jan. 6, the Republican Party went from shrugging off its loss of the White House to a party in crisis.
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making President Trump the first president since Herbert Hoover whose party lost the White House, the House and the Senate in one term.
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Now, Trump leaves office as the only president to be impeached twice, and the House vote against Trump over the Capitol insurrection marked the most bipartisan impeachment in U.S. history.
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How QAnon-Like Conspiracy Theories Tear Families Apart : NPR - 0 views
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Annie says it wasn't that long ago that she could talk politics with her mom without things getting heated. But when the pandemic started, she says their conversations were peppered with conspiracies.
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UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: She's spending 16 to 18 hours a day consuming this. CORNISH: And the result of all this is a detachment from the facts.
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Q's stories range from false notions about COVID to a cabal running the U.S. government to the claim there's a secret world of satanic pedophiles. But what's relevant here is that this culminates in a belief that President Trump is a kind of savior figure, which leads to the next phase for these families - a breakdown.
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Starbucks v Dunkin': how capitalism gives us the illusion of choice | Richard Reeves | ... - 0 views
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US adults are three times as likely to have a “very favorable” view of small businesses as they are of large enterprises (59% v 17%), according to a 2018 survey from the Public Affairs Council.
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The nostalgia for small-town life and “mom and pop” stores stands in stark contrast not only to an urbanized population but the power of large companies.
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From the moment we wake up to eat our cereal and brush our teeth, our consumer choices are dominated by a handful of large companies.
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The recipe for happiness and success? Try compassion - CNN - 0 views
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(CNN)Looking for a way to be happier? Are you seeking deeper connections with friends or looking for more friends? Want to relate better to your co-workers? Try a little compassion.Compassion, as one scholar describes it, is "experiencing feelings of loving kindness toward another person's affliction." It's related to, but a little different from empathy, which the same scholar defines as "feeling with someone, that is, sharing the other person's emotion."
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What she, and many other scholars have found, is that compassion is key to coping. The compassionate tend to have deeper connections with others and more friends. They are more forgiving and have a stronger sense of life purpose. Many studies have shown these results.
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In that quiet space, sit in a comfortable position. Focus on your breath and try to clear your mind. The key is to be present in that space in that time. Then mentally focus on your heart area and think about someone you feel tenderness toward. This could be your spouse or your mom or your child.
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Dhar Mann, YouTube's Moral Philosopher - The New York Times - 0 views
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His “focus on universal truths,” he believes, is what has allowed him “to build such a massive audience.”
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t’s 25 to 34. “Facebook and YouTube don’t give data for audience under 13 so I can’t say for sure 7 to 10 is the fastest growing audience, it just feels like it based on my interactions with people,” he wrote in an email.
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Most of his videos incorporate timely narratives about police-calling Karens and Covid-19 hoarders, but in style and tone they are more reminiscent of 1980s after-school specials and the educational short films of the ’50s than other content that’s popular today.
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'The only logical choice': anti-vaxxers who changed their minds on Covid vaccines | US ... - 0 views
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The decision isn’t between getting vaccinated and doing nothing, she said. It’s between getting vaccinated and getting Covid. “The question is, do you want to be vaccinated before you go through it?”
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Back when she was anti-vaccine, Greene said she remembers doctors reacting with vitriol when they found out. “It just made me close myself off further – I felt really judged and upset and hurt and embarrassed.”
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If you don’t have a regular physician or pediatrician, it’s difficult to find good answers to your questions, he pointed out – which is often the case due to “decades of negligence within our communities”,
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GPT-4 has arrived. It will blow ChatGPT out of the water. - The Washington Post - 0 views
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GPT-4, in contrast, is a state-of-the-art system capable of creating not just words but describing images in response to a person’s simple written commands.
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When shown a photo of a boxing glove hanging over a wooden seesaw with a ball on one side, for instance, a person can ask what will happen if the glove drops, and GPT-4 will respond that it would hit the seesaw and cause the ball to fly up.
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an AI program, known as a large language model, that early testers had claimed was remarkably advanced in its ability to reason and learn new things
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A Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed by Moms and Stalked by Men - The New York Times - 0 views
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Thousands of accounts examined by The Times offer disturbing insights into how social media is reshaping childhood, especially for girls, with direct parental encouragement and involvement.
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Some parents are the driving force behind the sale of photos, exclusive chat sessions and even the girls’ worn leotards and cheer outfits to mostly unknown followers. The most devoted customers spend thousands of dollars nurturing the underage relationships.
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The large audiences boosted by men can benefit the families, The Times found. The bigger followings look impressive to brands and bolster chances of getting discounts, products and other financial incentives, and the accounts themselves are rewarded by Instagram’s algorithm with greater visibility on the platform, which in turn attracts more followers.
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