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"As It Boosts Renewables, China Still Can’t Break Its Coal Addiction"
#China #Renewables #Energy

As It Boosts Renewables, China Still Can't Break Its Coal Addiction
Despite being a renewables superpower, China continues to permit and build new coal-fired power plants at a rapid pace. Analysts say the nation’s new five-year plan will ensure further coal plant expansion and jeopardize China’s ability to deliver on its climate promises.

Social media addiction trial: 20-year-old plaintiff KGM testifies her social media use, which began in childhood, exacerbated depression and suicidal thoughts (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/meta-instagram-faceboo…

Young woman testifies against social media giants over technology addiction
A 20-year-old woman is seeking to hold social media companies responsible for harms to children who use their platforms. She began using the platforms as a young child and claims her early use of social media addicted her to the technology and exacerbated depression and suicidal thoughts. Meta and YouTube are the two remaining defendants in the case, which TikTok and Snap settled. The woman, who has been identified by her first name, Kaley, and initials, KGM, has testified before a jury in the …

Why every AI company talks about AI safety, but none wants to put their money where their mouth is. Not even Anthropic.
Including comparisons with thalidomide (aka Contergan), asbestos, and tobacco/oil lobbying.
Also that the "but China!" excuse might not hold and that China is banning AI girlfriends, because the resulting addiction will make Chinese youth (and thus China itself) weak.
So: Can we talk again about reducing the addictiveness of social media platform…

How Ireland’s war-driven fuel blockades revealed the true cost of Europe’s oil addiction https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/apr/22/how-irelands-war-driven-fuel-blockades-revealed-the-true-cost-of-europes-oil-a…

What is the NFL supplemental draft? How would it work if Brendan Sorsby enters? https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/7244212/2026/05/01/nfl-supplemental-draft-brendan-sorsby/

Everyone Cheering The Social Media Addiction Verdicts Against Meta Should Understand What They're Actually Cheering For (Mike Masnick/Techdirt)
https://www.techdirt.com/2026/03/26/everyone-cheering-the-social-media-addiction-verdicts-against-meta-should-understand-what-theyre-actually-cheering-for/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260326/p136#a260326p136

I asked Reddit AI for hidden gems in Switzerland 🇨🇭 .
Here's what it suggested:
Marmot Wrestling Rings in Valais: A quirky and unique experience.
Aromat Mines Under Olten: A peculiar and interesting visit.
Cheese Wars in the South: Witness a 100kg wheel of Emmental launched by a trebuchet

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Meta and YouTube designed addictive products that harmed young people, jury finds
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar/25/jury-verdict-us-first-social-media-addiction-trial-meta-youtube?CMP=S…

I used the recipe from Sally's Baking Addiction (using cooked.wiki) and they turned out great!
Nice crispy tops, though I had about half of the brown sugar/cinnamon mix left, as it seemed like way too much.
I didn't have sour cream or plain yogurt but I did have blueberry yogurt, so that seemed appropriate. I used oat milk because that's all we have in the house.
I normally do not use liners but I did this time.

Gambling addiction suit targets NFL, sportsbooks https://www.espn.com/espn/betting/story/_/id/48297871/nfl-sportsbooks-defendants-gambling-addiction-lawsuit

Meta begins removing dozens of Facebook and Instagram ads that trial lawyers placed to reach eligible plaintiffs, after social media addiction trial losses (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/09/meta-social-media-addiction-ads

Scoop: Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation
This comes just two weeks after Meta and YouTube were found negligent in a landmark case about social media addiction.

“A jury in LA has delivered a damning verdict for two of the world's most popular digital platforms, Instagram and YouTube.
It ruled those apps are addictive, and deliberately engineered that way – and that its owners have been negligent in their safeguarding of the children who have used them.
…
Some experts have described the verdict as big tech's "big tobacco" moment, and we know how that worked out - although it didn't stop people smoking altogether…

What next for big tech after landmark social media addiction verdict?
The ruling could be the beginning of the end of social media as we know it, writes the BBC's technology editor Zoe Kleinman.

Indonesia begins implementing a regulation that bans under-16s from digital platforms that could expose them to porn, cyberbullying, online scams, and addiction (Edna Tarigan/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/indonesia-social-me…

Indonesia starts restricting social media access to children under 16
Indonesia has begun implementing a new government regulation approved earlier this month that bans children younger than 16 from access to digital platforms that could expose them to pornography, cyberbullying, online scams and addiction. Indonesia has said the measure will be implemented gradually, starting on Saturday. The move makes it the first country in Southeast Asia to ban children under 16 from having accounts on YouTube, TikTok, Facebook, Instagram, Threads, X, Bigo Live and Roblox. I…

SO it looks like San Francisco "moderate" supervisors and #MayorLurie are happy to talk public safety, but still don't have a functional plan to actually address the complex intersection of #addiction, #HealthServices

More and more people are locked up in S.F. jail. Hundreds are booked repeatedly.
San Francisco drug users say going to jail is like a revolving door. Hundreds are booked again and again, Mission Local analysis found.

SO it looks like San Francisco "moderate" supervisors and #MayorLurie are happy to talk public safety, but still don't have a functional plan to actually address the complex intersection of #addiction, #HealthServices

More and more people are locked up in S.F. jail. Hundreds are booked repeatedly.
San Francisco drug users say going to jail is like a revolving door. Hundreds are booked again and again, Mission Local analysis found.

The only federal program dedicated to family planning for poor women has gotten a "pro-life" MAHA makeover
Is Trump Taking Taxpayer Dollars for Contraception and Spending it on Erectile Dysfunction, Porn Addiction, and Faster Sperm?
https://www.throughline.news/p/is-trump-ta

Is Trump Taking Taxpayer Dollars for Contraception and Spending it on Erectile Dysfunction, Porn Addiction, and Faster Sperm?
The only federal program dedicated to family planning for poor women has gotten a "pro-life" MAHA makeover.

Good thing we kicked our oil addiction, eh?
From: @…
https://wandering.shop/@cstross/116297408127872028

"The app said in opening statements that it was more of an entertainment platform. The lawsuit claims social media companies design products that cause personal injury."
YouTube Argues It Isn’t Social Media in Landmark Tech Addiction Trial - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/technology/youtube-social-media-addiction-trial.html

Addiction aux réseaux sociaux : Meta a enterré une recherche qui ne lui convenait pas #meta

Your weekend reading:
"We all know that our addiction to growth must stop because it is destroying the very foundations of our lives, but knowing that we must stop an addiction is one thing, and being able to do so is a different one. Capitalist growth is a complex and insidious dynamic that should be analysed through the lens of systems analysis and feedback in order to be addressed."
Debates on Degrowth: what drives us to keep growing?

Debates on Degrowth: what drives us to keep growing?
Editors’ note We are delighted to publish this article by Marga Mediavilla on a systems approach to degrowth. It serves to summarise a number of the issues in the Prospects for Degrowth serie…

I think it is pretty clear that "consciously designed for addiction" is not something S.230 intended to immunize.
Until Zuckerberg is flipping burgers to make rent, the fine isn’t high enough. @…

Mike Masnick (@masnick.com)
I know a lot of people are cheering this on because Meta sucks, but it's a really problematic result and if it holds will be terrible for the open internet. This case easily should have been tossed on 230 grounds. That it wasn't means Section 230 is that much weaker today. [contains quote post or other embedded content]

Social media addiction trial: a Los Angeles jury finds Meta and YouTube were negligent and failed to warn users about the dangers of using their platforms (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/25/meta-youtube-los-angeles-california-verdict.html

Jury in Los Angeles finds Meta, YouTube negligent in social media addiction trial
A jury reached a verdict in the L.A. trial focused on Meta and YouTube, a case that experts have characterized as social media's "Big Tobacco" moment.

Viral 'Quittr' Porn Addiction App Exposed the Masturbation Habits of Hundreds of Thousands of Users https://www.404media.co/viral-quittr-porn-addiction-app-exposed-the-masturbation-habits-of-hundreds-of-thousands-of…

Sometimes I feel that I could have my introduction much better. So I'll leave another piece here, and maybe one day I'll be able to find it again and use somewhere…
I'm a radical. I believe that every human has a right to dignity in life. Yes, even these people who allegedly "are too lazy to work".
I believe that everyone deserves safety, that nobody should be cold or starve, that everybody should be able to use a toilet or wash themselves, have access to healthcare and public transportation.
I think that restricting access to drinking water and toilets is a crime against humanity. The latter is also plain stupid, because it only leads to people using other places as toilets.
I'm so tired of the postsoviet labor cult (a kind of Polish thing). Seeing labor as a value in itself. Everyone must work, and it doesn't matter whether the work is actually beneficial, or outright harmful.
And last of all, I can't tolerate smokers. There is no excuse to harm yourself and everyone around you, just to satisfy your stupid addiction. And I'm also talking of all the random people who breathe all the toxins because smokers think they deserve to smoke everywhere, all the time.

In opening statements in a social media addiction trial in Los Angeles, YouTube argues it is an entertainment service like Netflix rather than a social network (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/technology/youtube-social-media-addictio…

YouTube Argues It Isn’t Social Media in Landmark Tech Addiction Trial
The app said in opening statements that it was more of an entertainment platform. The lawsuit claims social media companies design products that cause personal injury.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #AfternoonShow
Jane’s Addiction:
🎵 Jane Says
#JanesAddiction
https://dirtyneedlz.bandcamp.com/track/jane-s-addiction-jane-says-dirty-needlz-dusk-to-dawn-rework
https://open.spotify.com/track/7c1Dar0pIAW7w5TzaGjt9t

Interestingly, the German word for curiosity, “Neugierde,” contains the word “Gier” (greed), which expresses a strong, conscious desire for “more.” Much like an addiction.
The hypercurious mind, by Anne-Laure Le Cunff.
https://aeon.co/essays/how-the-hypercu

Meta begins removing dozens of Facebook and Instagram ads that trial lawyers placed to reach eligible plaintiffs, after social media addiction trial losses (Dan Primack/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/04/09/meta-social-media-addiction-ads

Scoop: Meta removes ads for social media addiction litigation
This comes just two weeks after Meta and YouTube were found negligent in a landmark case about social media addiction.

Society has lost its direction. We are now driving blind, and the reason is reductionism. We’ve become so obsessed with breaking the world into tiny parts that we’ve forgotten how the whole thing actually hangs together.
https://www.ocrampal.com/too-narrow-to-be-

Too Narrow to Be Wise: The Tunnel Vision Trap of Modern Expertise
We live in a Kafkaesque paradox: the very people we turn to for wisdom about life’s biggest questions—meaning, society, the future of humanity—are systematically selected for their inability to think about such things. Consider this absurd pattern: A tech entrepreneur optimizes engagement algorithms for maximum user addiction,

Ibogaine, a naturally occurring compound from a shrub native to Africa, is used to treat depression, anxiety, addiction, post-traumatic stress disorder and brain trauma. 
Because it's illegal in the United States, Americans have been traveling to unregulated clinics, often in Mexico or the Caribbean, to take the drug. 
Trump intends to sign the executive order as soon as this week, to allow its use in research
The administration doesn't plan to reclassify the drug …

Trump to sign executive order on psychedelic drug used abroad to treat PTSD
Ibogaine is used in Mexico and the Caribbean to treat depression, anxiety, addiction and brain trauma.

Take some time today to detox from your online addiction! Just go out without a phone. The world is still beautiful!

I’m starting a partial trial. Muting a bunch of accounts and hashtags here for a month. Probably gonna just not log into bsky. @… https://

Bill Cole (@scconsult.com)
Idea came up in therapy today for maybe interrupting some of my MH issues… "Cold Turkey" on my addiction to Knowing Things. Stop watching and listening to any news. Stop reading Social Media. Grumble. I wish I hadn't said it, or said that information was like my heroin.

Social media addiction trial: the plaintiff, Meta, and YouTube make closing arguments; jurors begin deliberations Friday on liability for harm to children (Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/meta-instagram-facebook-tr…

Closing arguments begin in landmark social media trial set in Los Angeles
After about a month of hearing from addiction experts, therapists, platform engineers and executives, including Mark Zuckerberg, a jury will listen to closing arguments before heading to the deliberation room to decide whether social media companies should be liable for harms caused to children using their platforms. Closing statements in the trial will begin Thursday at the Spring Street Courthouse in Los Angeles. Lawyers representing the plaintiff, a 20-year-old woman, and those representing …

Social media addiction trial: a Los Angeles jury finds Meta and YouTube were negligent and failed to warn users about the dangers of using their platforms (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/25/meta-youtube-los-angeles-california-verdict.html

H.H.S. to Expand Faith-Based Addiction Programs for Homeless (Ellen Barry/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/02/health/hhs-rfk-faith-based-addiction-programs.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p154#a260202p154

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #VarietyMix
Jane’s Addiction:
🎵 Mountain Song
#JanesAddiction
https://thekingsofquarantine.bandcamp.com/track/mountain-song-janes-addiction-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/5fKZJHzJ9d3MADArbm9muW
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idman - Turkish for "training"
idman - Azerbaijani for "sport"
ʔidmān/إدمان - Arabic for "addiction, mania, excess"

"The film offers an unfiltered view inside a system where overcrowding, untreated addiction, and violence are routine, and where official oversight is almost nonexistent."
https://www.themarshallproject.org/2025/10/11/alabama-solution-prisons…

How ‘The Alabama Solution’ Documents the ‘Horrors’ Inside Prisons
The directors of ‘The Alabama Solution’ discuss their piercing new documentary and what they hope people will take away from the film.

Police, jail, and banning stuff seem to be this board's/mayor's only "solutions" to the public health crisis of addiction, and not, for example, voluntary treatment: we still lack enough treatment facilities to accommodate every San Franciscan who comes in ready and wanting help to kick their habit.
This policy is particularly dumb because of its obvious harm to nightlife. People want to be able to buy snacks when they leave the club.

S.F. supervisors say late-night store ban is working. Not so fast, say criminologists. 
Researchers urge caution on policy implications, as San Francisco supervisors use study's results to push for a broader late-night ban.

The jury in LA's social media trial finds Meta and YouTube harmed a young user via addictive design features and orders them to pay her $3M; Meta will pay 70% (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/technology/social-media-trial-verdict.html

Meta and YouTube Found Negligent in Landmark Social Media Addiction Trial
A jury found the companies negligent in their app designs, harming a young user with design features that were addictive and led to her mental health distress.

Watch live: Top health officials launch initiative addressing mental health, addiction (The Hill)
https://thehill.com/video-clips/5718261-watch-live-rfk-jr-mehmet-oz-mental-health-addiction/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260202/p45#a260202p45

RE: https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUS/116178726528140165
What does GLP-1 do for billionaire addiction to money? That's our biggest problem right now.

The jury in LA's social media trial finds Meta and YouTube harmed a young user via addictive design features and orders them to pay her $3M; Meta will pay 70% (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/25/technol

Meta and YouTube Found Negligent in Landmark Social Media Addiction Trial
A jury found the companies harmed a young user with design features that were addictive and led to her mental health distress.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #DriveTime
Jane’s Addiction:
🎵 Mountain Song
#JanesAddiction
https://thekingsofquarantine.bandcamp.com/track/mountain-song-janes-addiction-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/5fKZJHzJ9d3MADArbm9muW

@… is it wrong that I first read this as “favorite addiction “?

#GiftLink
Social media addiction? This detox could reverse a decade of damage. - The Washington Post
https://wapo.st/4vho2JA

SUCKER -- My year as a degenerate gambler -- n a thursday evening in September ... (McKay Coppins/The Atlantic)
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/2026/04/online-sports-betting-app-addiction/686061/?gift=4QfSWyPVV95tk3w2EN6hQsc9kQsU4eXHz9WJjypKRyA
http://www.memeorandum.com/260312/p71#a260312p71

I hope my middle age crisis won’t involve generative ai addiction, but instead something more cliche like buying a reflex or growing a prestigious mustache

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #6Musics90sForever
Jane’s Addiction:
🎵 Been Caught Stealing
#JanesAddiction
https://janesaddictionlive.bandcamp.com/track/been-caught-stealing
https://open.spotify.com/track/4Qievb8Mqy0qxdLNVl02zt

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Jane’s Addiction:
🎵 Mountain Song
#JanesAddiction
https://thekingsofquarantine.bandcamp.com/track/mountain-song-janes-addiction-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/5fKZJHzJ9d3MADArbm9muW

Social media addiction trial: Adam Mosseri says social media is not "clinically addictive" and that Meta was careful to test features used by young people (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/technology/adam-mosseri-instagram…

In opening statements in a social media addiction trial in Los Angeles, YouTube argues it is an entertainment service like Netflix rather than a social network (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/technology/youtube-social-media-addictio…

Tech Oversight Project: ahead of a landmark social media addiction trial, Meta paid for 3,500 ads on CNN, Fox, and others to promote Instagram's Teen Accounts (Annie Bang/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…

Social media addiction trial: Mark Zuckerberg says increasing engagement on Instagram is not a company goal and that Meta removes underage users it identifies (CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/18/meta-mark-zuckerberg-social-media-safety-trial.html…

Zuckerberg testimony: Upping engagement on Instagram was not a company goal
Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stand in a closely watched social media and safety trial that could reshape the industry.

WebinarTV Secretly Scraped Zoom Meetings of Anonymous Recovery Programs https://www.404media.co/webinartv-secretly-scraped-zoom-meetings-of-anonymous-recovery-programs/

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Jane’s Addiction:
🎵 Sympathy
#JanesAddiction
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Who Calls 1-800-GAMBLER? Around Big Sports Events, It’s Often Young Men. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/08/us/sports-gambling-addition-super-bowl.html

As Section 230 turns 30, a look at how upcoming court cases involving Meta, Alphabet, and others in the US could reshape the bounds of Section 230's protections (Lauren Feiner/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/policy/875300/section-230-tu…

Section 230 turns 30 as it faces its biggest tests yet
Tech’s legal liability shield, Section 230, has survived 30 years of attacks, but it is about to face a series of major court challenges.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MorningShow
Jane’s Addiction:
🎵 Rock 'n' Roll
#JanesAddiction

There is support for these laws because people think the only consequence of a ban on a thing is that the thing stops existing.
For instance: Heroin is dangerous and addictive? Ban it then.
And suddenly you have organized crime and a grey market and criminal gangs shooting each other in the streets while addicts can’t seek help and have to resort to crime to fund their addiction. Their lives more chaotic and criminal than ever. Our streets are littered in needles.
Well done everyone.
Now we think algorithmic social media may be mind bending?
Shall we ban it? For kids? Even if we can’t define it?
If you break kids access to the internet you sacrifice all the good that the majority of kids are getting from it for an ineffective solution which won’t fix anything and will mean massive increases in government surveillance and censorship. To data-hordes being hacked and people suffering ID theft.
And it won’t help.
Misogyny and sexism and depression are older than the internet.
Plus of course kids remain better at accessing computers than their parents. You’re going to end up breaking the internet for adults who can’t figure out how to verify while the kids start to use VPNs and stolen IDs to browse 4chan.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #KEXP's #VarietyMix
Jéroboam:
🎵 Sweet Addiction
#Jéroboam
https://favoriterecordings.bandcamp.com/track/sweet-addiction

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #NickGrimshaw
Jane’s Addiction:
🎵 Just Because
#JanesAddiction
https://janesaddictionlive.bandcamp.com/track/just-because
https://open.spotify.com/track/3k6L0H08zSY5yRDgqI8fqx

A look at countries that moved to ban social media for kids in recent months, including Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Greece, Malaysia, Spain, Indonesia (Aisha Malik/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/06/social-media-ban-children-countries-list/

These are the countries moving to ban social media for children | TechCrunch
Australia was the first country to issue a ban in late 2025, aiming to reduce the pressures and risks that young users may face on social media, including cyberbullying, social media addiction, and exposure to predators.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CraigCharles
Jane’s Addiction:
🎵 Superhero
#JanesAddiction
https://open.spotify.com/track/6z4CTIToU7a03Rq07F9FF4

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #DebGrant
Jane’s Addiction:
🎵 Just Because
#JanesAddiction
https://janesaddictionlive.bandcamp.com/track/just-because
https://open.spotify.com/track/3k6L0H08zSY5yRDgqI8fqx

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #LaurenLaverne
Jane’s Addiction:
🎵 Been Caught Stealing
#JanesAddiction
https://janesaddictionlive.bandcamp.com/track/been-caught-stealing