The great rewiring: is social media really behind an epidemic of teenage mental illness?
No, the answer is no
the book’s repeated suggestion that digital technologies are rewiring our children’s brains and causing an epidemic of mental illness is not supported by science.
♻️ @ikdudeth@vivaldi.net @Steve Herman theyre all shitty candidates i dont have much of a political opinion but in the end you're still getting a geriatric guy who isnt in touch with the rest of the country
Winner heads to the Frozen Four this is the best @hockey group Game I've seen in years & I have no particular affinity for either team #NCAA#Hockey#FrozenFour
I never really "got" RSS until I joined Friendica and couldn't find the news content I was used to from Facebook... now my friendica is almost half high quality RSS posts. Native RSS support is just one of many reasons I love Friendica above about every other social media I've ever tried.
Note - RSS is making something of a comeback (it never went away, though Google and… RSS is making something of a comeback (it never went away, though Google and Facebook did their best to kill it), in part because forward-looking publishers see the value. The excellent @404mediaco news site explains "How We Built a Full Text RSS Feed" on the Ghost newsletter/blog software, and shared the process with all Ghost users. Kudos all around.
♲ @workingclasshistory@mastodon.social: #OtD 20 Mar 1946 10 homeless people, some of them WWII veterans, squatted the 20-room Maramanah mansion in King's Cross, Sydney, Australia, which was due for demolition. More joined them until the council agreed to keep the building open for housing t.co/mzA29GPAAgstories.workingclasshistory.co…
For anyone who claims the USSR wasn't state capitalimism "Taylorism, which was a scheme to improve workers' efficiency and break up workers' solidarity." "We must organise in Russia the study and teaching of the Taylor system and systematically try it out and adapt it to our own ends. At the same time, in working to raise the productivity of labour
♲ @workingclasshistory@mastodon.social: #OtD 20 Mar 1856 Frederick Taylor was born. He founded Taylorism, a management technique for increasing workers' output and breaking up solidarity. It was adopted widely across the West and the Soviet Union but resisted by workers everywhere t.co/HnFMhrAq3ustories.workingclasshistory.co…