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NY Gov. Kathy Hochul signs a law requiring social platforms with features like autoplay and addictive feeds to show mental health warning labels for young users (Felix Day/WRGB)

Governor Hochul signs law for mental health warnings on addictive social media features
Governor Hochul has signed new legislation that will require social media platforms with certain addictive features to display warning labels alerting young use

I have long felt that liberal/progressive messaging often tended towards not merely hyperbole, but hyperbole that carried far more than the intended message.
Consider the phrase "Defund the police". That carries a clear message that implies near elimination of police based law enforcement. Few of us want that. Police are an important element of an ordered society.
But pretty much all of us see that police are doing too much and that it is better to restructure police…

A monthly injection could allow people with severe asthma to stop taking daily steroid tablets, a clinical trial has found.
More than 260 million people are thought to have asthma worldwide.
While most can control their asthma with inhalers to treat immediate symptoms and preventive ones to reduce inflammation,
those with the most severe asthma often take daily doses of oral corticosteroids as well.
But long-term use is associated with serious health conditions,

☕ Daily coffee drinking may slow biological aging of people with major mental illness
https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-11-daily-coffee-biological-aging-people.html

Daily coffee drinking may slow biological aging of people with major mental illness
Drinking a maximum of 3–4 cups of coffee a day may slow the "biological" aging of people with severe mental illness, by lengthening their telomeres—indicators of cellular aging—and giving them the equivalent of 5 extra biological years, compared with non-coffee drinkers, finds research published in BMJ Mental Health.

I can understand maybe not being able to comprehend this due to age (he's 79).
But there's a lot of young people who don't have problems with images like these which show wrong things, make up stuff that's weird, look creepy and misspell text.
I wonder if perhaps repeated COVID infections contribute to people's mental decline that is similar to age-related mental issues.

The point-guard mentality didn't just make Sam Darnold better. It's a useful mental trick https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6990248/2026/01/23/the-point-guard-mentality-didnt-just-make-sam-darnold-be…

And today was Marie’s biscuits, before therapy and later today, she and I will travel, splitting the household a few days. #TogetherBreakfast
https://photos.app.goo.gl/74hdf4YPqin8jfCV9

Character.ai is cutting off access to ongoing chats for users under 18 over mental-health concerns, after adding a two-hour daily limit on October 29 (Georgia Wells/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/character-ai-t

Teens Are Saying Tearful Goodbyes to Their AI Companions
Chatbot maker Character.AI is cutting off access, citing mental-health concerns. Teens are distraught: ‘I cried over it for days.’

Then Thursday I made sourdough masa crumpets. Egg and bacon, tea and coffee. The utterly hilarious “Eureka Day” at the Gamm that night. #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/b97FcmQ1WXeEbkan9

OpenAI confirms Andrea Vallone, the head of an OpenAI safety research team that works on ChatGPT's mental health responses, is set to leave at the end of 2025 (Maxwell Zeff/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/openai-research-lead-mental-health-quietly-depar…

A Research Leader Behind ChatGPT’s Mental Health Work Is Leaving OpenAI
The model policy team leads core parts of AI safety research, including how ChatGPT responds to users in crisis.