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"Up to 95% of teenagers say they use social media, with more than one-third saying they are on it 'almost constantly,' according to the Pew Research Center...
"Kids who use social media for more than three hours a day face double the risk of depression and anxiety, according to studies cited by U.S. Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, who issued an extraordinary public warning last spring about the risks of social media to young people."

Life as a teen without social media isn't easy. These families are navigating adolescence offline
The damaging consequences of social media are increasingly well documented, so some parents are trying to raise their children with restrictions or blanket bans on social media use. Teenagers themselves are aware that too much social media is bad for them, and some are initiating their own social media “cleanses” because of the toll it takes on mental health and grades. But it is hard to be a teenager today without social media. Teens who don't use social media say they miss out on a lot of…

Surely someone is going to realise that the whole Windows #Copilot spyware and the hand-wringing about children, #Onlineand #smartphones can be made to cancel each other out.
... A pitch (good evening dragons…

The day I cease to be more of a support for those around me than I am a burden, I will make arrangements to become neither for anyone. Hopefully by then MAiD will be available where I am but if not, I expect I’ll find a way.
Everyone I care about knowing knows this. Not sure they all approve, but its not about their approval. https://

In the US as of Saturday, there had been more than 215 mass shootings so far this year, according to the Gun Violence Archive.
The nonpartisan online resource defines a mass shooting as one in which four or more victims are wounded or killed.
#TheGuardian #USA

#WordWeavers 6/18. If your book came with a small toy, what would it be?
Depends. Probably a wooden toy of some kind, if it's the book about an ancient oak tree, which I am editing.
Or, if it's the fantasy series, perhaps a marble gargoyle or stone dragon of some kind. Or one of the monsters I invented. One for each book in the series. I'll scare the children witless. 😄 …

Designing Child-Centered Content Exposure and Moderation
Bel\'en Sald\'ias
https://arxiv.org/abs/2406.08420 https://arxiv.org…

Designing Child-Centered Content Exposure and Moderation
Research on children's online experience and computer interaction often overlooks the relationship children have with hidden algorithms that control the content they encounter. Furthermore, it is not only about how children interact with targeted content but also how their development and agency are largely affected by these. By engaging with the body of literature at the intersection of i) human-centered design approaches, ii) exclusion and discrimination in A.I., iii) privacy, transparency, a…

Jesus…do NOT read this story without some tissues handy…😢
“Sandy Hook shooting survivors to graduate with mixed emotions without 20 of their classmates”
https://apnews.com/article/newtown-sandy-hook-school-sho…

Sandy Hook shooting survivors to graduate with mixed emotions without 20 of their classmates
The children who survived the 2012 shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut, will be graduating high school with mixed emotions. Although they're excited to go off to college or start a career, they say they're also sad that their classmates who were killed can't be with them to celebrate and live the rest of their lives. A gunman killed 20 first graders and six educators in the attack. About 60 members of that first grade class is set to graduate Wednesday from Newtown …

Discussion about AI being trained on photos from children's entire childhood without their knowledge or consent. https://reddit.com/r/cybersecurity/comments/1dfrnzd/

Minor is a legal term. It has nothing to do with biology. And sexual attraction, falling in love, is all biology.
About 20 years ago we stopped believing that teens are young adults, so from then on everybody has to act like they're children. but they aren't.

It is widely believed that adulthood begins at age 25 because that's when we are neurologically fully developed.
But isn't it odd that everyone knows under 25s are children,
yet nobody anywhere has stopped them from being tried and imprisoned as adults?
With their kiddy brains. How is that not inhumane as fuck?
but nobody cares.
(somebody is lying to themselves about brain development)