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TikTok is rolling out new digital well-being features like an affirmation journal and says it will also give users badges for limiting their daily screen time (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/tiktok-will-now-give-you…

TikTok will now give you badges for limiting your doomscrolling | TechCrunch
TikTok is adding new digital wellbeing tools like an affirmation journal, a background sound generator, and badges for using the app within limits

going to bed.
straight to bed
no stopping for doomscrolling
no collecting 200 more likes.
💤 🥱 😴
so tired today!
#today

Can I get some applause, instead of writing a long-winded reply to someone who was subtly wrong I just muted them and I'm moving on with my doomscrolling

TikTok is rolling out new digital well-being features like an affirmation journal and says it will also give users badges for limiting their daily screen time (Ivan Mehta/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2025/11/18/tiktok-will-now-give-you…

TikTok will now give you badges for limiting your doomscrolling | TechCrunch
TikTok is adding new digital wellbeing tools like an affirmation journal, a background sound generator, and badges for using the app within limits

Neologism Learning for Controllability and Self-Verbalization
John Hewitt, Oyvind Tafjord, Robert Geirhos, Been Kim
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.08506 https://

Neologism Learning for Controllability and Self-Verbalization
Humans invent new words when there is a rising demand for a new useful concept (e.g., doomscrolling). We explore and validate a similar idea in our communication with LLMs: introducing new words to better understand and control the models, expanding on the recently introduced neologism learning. This method introduces a new word by adding a new word embedding and training with examples that exhibit the concept with no other changes in model parameters. We show that adding a new word allows for …

Klage gegen #SocialMedia-Plattformen
New York City hat #Google #Bytedance und #Meta, die Betreiber von

Doomscrolling wird zur Gefahr: New York City greift Social Media-Plattformen an
Die Stadt New York hat die Social-Media-Giganten Google, Bytedance und Meta verklagt. Die Anklageschrift nennt einen ganz klaren Grund. 

❝Healthy digital spaces need the same foundations as physical ones (roads, rules, records, etc) so we can build the flourishing fun bits on top. If the web’s first generation gave us villages, and the second gave us gross, unliveable megacities, the next one should give us great neighbourhoods — small, knowable, human-scaled spaces where we can actually live together online.❞

(please don't) add me to the group
We talk a lot about how broken the internet is for all of us as individuals. Doomscrolling, algorithmic feeds, overall exhaustion at The Horrors. But this...

i dont want social media or the internet in general to be a "safe space" cuz thats inherently fried. i browse it for an adventure! to find some new cool shit!! if i want safety i message friends and take walks in the moonlight, real shit without doomscrolling and the usuals everyone hates. i still want some way to filter chuds and their pet edges cuz they're somehow even more cookie cutter and repetitive than the compsci transbians, but in general im alright with laissez-faire …

A profile of Anton Pavlovsky, CEO of Kyiv-based Headway Inc, which develops gamified educational apps and has 160M users across its five-product portfolio (Martina Di Licosa/Forbes)
http://www.forbes.com/sites/martinadilic…

This Ukrainian Entrepreneur Built His EdTech App Into A Global Phenomenon—In The Middle Of A War
Anton Pavlovsky founded Headway Inc to help busy people improve their lives by reading more books—and avoiding doomscrolling. Air raids be damned.