Everyone looking at CT right now:
What a weird fuckin hill to die on.View quoted post on X
@art_pleb
What a weird fuckin hill to die on.View quoted post on X
Being a parent of a teenager in the modern digital environment means begging your kid to play Minecraft or do *something* even slightly less brain-rotting than watching short video content from Spotify, which is what they're started doing because you've blocked all YouTube content from the XBox devices at the router level and turned off the WiFi and limited the carrier data throughput after 9PM for their smart phones, which they legitimately need because that is how their coaches communicate with them about cheer routines or band practiceView quoted post on X
And if you dare to complain about how annoying it is to have this second job as an IT admin just to keep your kids from guzzling down the worlds shittiest content, half the internet calls you a bad parent for not locking them down more and the other half calls you a bad parent for being a content Nazi
The smallest apartment in the Paris🇨🇵View quoted post on X
Would you live here?🤣
@laurashin @0xYuzuu Krugman’s “fax machine” argument dramatically underestimated the impact of the internet. The problems came from success.View quoted post on X
Cass Sunstein and Neil Postman predicted social media bubbles and the death of intellectual discourse. Even McLuhan saw digital tribalism coming in 1964.
For two years, I worked to advance voter promises of President Trump and RFK.View quoted post on X
But when this level of subversion to voter intent is taking place by Ballard lobbyists, I believe the most effective thing you can do is tell the truth.