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  • This is a pretty clickbaity counter-article that doesn’t review the original in good faith. The New Yorker article is not titled ‘Social Media Is Killing Kids’ but rather ‘Has Social Media Fuelled A Teen-Suicide Crisis?’ with a lead of:

    Mental-health struggles have risen sharply among young Americans, and parents and lawmakers alike are scrutinizing life online for answers.

    So the implication that the premise of the article is to demonise social media is completely wrong, since it’s actually an investigation into the issue. That’s also the reason it’s long (another strange complaint from a guy whose 3000+ word response is only ever his opinions).

    The “moral panic tropes” are testimony from real parents whose real children killed themselves. And these real parents think social media was responsible. It strikes me as pretty low to hand wave away the grief of these real people because it inconveniently feeds into a narrative you have some instinctual problem with.

    The author tries to frame the balance of the New Yorker article as some kind of gotcha. Like it’s somehow a bad thing that this other writer took the time to consult with and quote experts who provide a different opinion. Personally I would much rather read that then something like this which was basically the equivalent of a reddit eXpOsEd thread.





  • Ilandar@aussie.zonetoTechnology@lemmy.worldYoutube has fully blocked Invidious
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    It’s not that strange, I have a friend who literally said the same thing today in reference to one of his favourite channels shutting down. He preferred to call the stuff on this channel art, rather than content. I agree with the person above too, the term has always bugged me. It makes it sound so mass produced, like your job is to just produce meaningless “content” for people to mindlessly consume. And to be honest, that’s exactly what the mainstream YouTube culture is about.



  • “Crypto is the future” doesn’t really mean anything. Anyone can say that and never be wrong, because humans will always be looking towards the future. What I’m interested in is when this future is supposedly arriving. People have been making big claims about this stuff for nearly two decades and it’s still pretty irrelevant. Meanwhile CBDCs are actually being developed and rolled out globally. Where is crypto?


  • It’s a valid question, but the people asking it never seem to understand why social media is damaging for young people. They never seem to understand that designers are literally taking cues from the gambling industry to create addictive apps and algorithms, or that the brains of teenagers are still developing and are therefore much more vulnerable than an adult’s. It’s not just a moral panic about porn or cyber-bullying or kids doing something new their parents don’t understand and it’s not hypocritical for parents to want their children off social media while continuing to use it themselves. I think once you understand the technological aspect then it becomes clear that there is a problem here that needs addressing.






  • Ilandar@aussie.zonetoTechnology@lemmy.worldWho still uses pagers?
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    They said “Seems unlikely [that pagers would be in the hands of doctors] considering only pagers belonging to Hezbollah had the explosives added.”

    I understood that as referring to doctors unaffiliated with Hezbollah, as it has been made pretty clear that Hezbollah doctors were targets of the attack.

    It is heavily implied when you’re all saying “Hezbollah” you’re talking about militants.

    No it isn’t. Maybe that’s how you interpreted it, but as I said in another comment it is not just Hezbollah soldiers that were targeted.

    Again, it is unreasonable to suggest that workers, including doctors and nurses, that are part of the civilian arm of Hezbollah’s de facto government are fair targets in either morality or international law.

    No one has suggested that in this comment chain.




  • Meta said it was fully expecting many teenagers would try to evade the new measures.

    “The more restrictive the experience is, the stronger the theoretical incentive for a teen to try and work around the restriction,” Mr Mosseri said.

    In response, the company is launching and developing new tools to catch them out.

    Instagram already asks for proof of age from teenage users trying to change their listed date of birth to an adult one, and has done since 2022.

    Now, as a new measure, if an underage user tries to set up a new Instagram account with an adult date of birth on the same device, the platform will notice and force them to verify their age.

    In a statement, the company said it was not sharing all the tools it was using, “because we don’t want to give teens an instruction manual”.

    “So we are working on all these tools, some of them already exist … we need to improve [them] and figure out how to provide protections for those we think are lying about their age,” Mr Mosseri said.

    The most stubborn category of “age-liars” are underage users who lied about their age at the outset.

    But Meta said it was developing AI tools to proactively detect those people by analysing user behaviour, networks and the way they interact with content.

    Source.