This is the war on Science. Next comes the war on Education. The obliteration of democracy comes next. If you imagine Trump gives up this level of power without bloodshed in the streets you are deluding yourself.
Readit Newstimst4 commented on Majority of US teens have lost trust in Big Tech techcrunch.com/2025/01/29... · Posted by u/Tomte
This report was published by Common Sense Media, an advocacy organization with a clear interest in pushing this message as part of their lobbying efforts. Maybe their intentions are good (they seem to back some good bills!), but it’s not a neutral source of information.
If you look at polling data published as part of generic political surveys, you find that companies like Amazon and Meta are among the most trusted of U.S. institutions[0] (Amazon loses out only to the military).
[0] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1OgPzcB75uxXiFmTjUUb-ITIr7BF...
And Facebook and X are not advocacy organizations vehemently pushing an agenda? The fact that there is an organization looking to speak for teenagers and their rights to privacy in the face of the aggressiveness of FAANG lobbying should be the best news you hear today. Organizations like CSM and EFF are the last points of light in an ocean of darkness.
Elections have consequences
timst4 commented on Overtourism pushes residents in Spain and Portugal to the limit theguardian.com/news/2025... · Posted by u/n1b0m
I see the Disrupt movement has matured. Too bad the plan all along was to stick someone else with the externalities.
Many years ago, one of the popular news shows (Dateline or 20/20, I can never remember which) did a special on bullying.
They showed one elementary school where the entire organization (teachers, students, staff etc) implemented some kind of holistic approach to bullying that actually worked. They even interviewed a group of kids where they said "Oh yeah, Tom used to be the bully and we were all afraid of him but now we're all best friends".
I don't remember the exact plan implemented but it struck me as both simple and common sense with excellent outcomes.
Despite much searching on IMDB, Twitter, Google and even using LLMs, I have yet to find the exact episode. Now that I have kids of my own, I'm even more interested in finding it. Any suggestions from the HN crowd?
OLWEUS most likely
The future iterations of this are purely terrifying. This is so elegantly demonstrated by the Oscar Nominated short film “Please Hold” from 2022. Picked up by mistake by a roving police drone, a young man is incarcerated autonomously and has no way of release outside of money or time.
https://m.imdb.com/title/tt11383280/?lang=en&ref_=ext_shr_ln...
timst4 commented on TikTok Live became 'a strip club filled with 15-year-olds' (2022) forbes.com/sites/alexandr... · Posted by u/gnabgib
Is there any materially demonstrable evidence that tiktok is worse than other social media networks?
The fact that Tiktok wholesale bought the user base for musical.ly, largely preteen children, and converted them to an entirely different app meant to addict them and harvest their data seems pretty unconscionable.
So as someone who teaches robotics to middle school
Students, FIRST lego is still the best program for kids. If you would like to learn CAD, EE, 3D printing, and microcontrollers, then certainly go the battle bots route. However, this will be a steep learning curve for your son and he may get frustrated. With FIRST, he will move from FLL to FRC in late middle school which has much more open road. He will also learn to work as a part of a team and solve problems in concert with peers which is different than a father son team. FLL is intense and almost a year round pursuit. Find a good home school team for him to join and he’ll get the best experience.
Now, Russia is an especially valued ally, getting preferential treatment.