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542·2 days agoFuck AI
For this piece, I reviewed hundreds of pages of documents, combed multiple court filings, and interviewed 18 people who have known Mills, from his youth to the present. Those who have interacted with him expressed a mix of bemused outrage and unadulterated disgust about his rise to power. They were incredulous at the idea of him serving in Congress. But they were not surprised by his various scandals. The general picture of Mills that emerged was of an aggressive, bullying, and untrustworthy man. Politicians are often considered smarmy. But to a degree I’ve never experienced before as a reporter, Mills has left behind a trail of former close associates willing to speak out against him on the record.
For real, in my opinion the failure of Google to curate a good playstore where you can find creators who recommend apps that you can trust, when it owns YOUTUBE which is where a lot of review content is posted for all kinds of topics, is stunning.
I found her in a box and am nervous to conclusively check to see if she is dead or not.
I could save on therapy if I never open it right?
Often it happens with me and your mom
Cite your sources or stop making these claims
Why are you here then?
How the hell are you going to ban all underage people from social media, who are you going to bestow complete authority over our digital identities to and who gets the authority to decide the details of how it is done?
You are being intellectually lazy and it shows.
if you need more information as to why, go speak to any schoolteacher in America who can’t get their students to pay attention for more than 60 seconds, or who can’t retain information that is literally written on the board in front of them.
Spring 2025
A few weeks ago, a YouTube short caught my attention. The short was yet another commentary on how Gen Z supposedly can’t focus on a particular thing for more than a few seconds. I scrolled through the YouTube comments and noticed a refrain: studies prove it. Everyone’s attention span is shorter, studies prove, as we become more deeply immersed in a digital, screen-filled world (insert unknown source here). Today’s teens, studies prove, bear the brunt of this crisis with an attention span shorter than that of a goldfish.
Something about that claim gnawed at me. After years of experience in the field of educational development, I knew the reality was more complicated than these sweeping generalizations. Where were these studies everyone kept referencing? What evidence existed behind this seemingly universal belief about our shrinking ability to focus?
I suspected I might find only a few studies to support the claim. I was not prepared, however, to find absolutely no evidence.
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The only substantive research I found came from Gloria Mark, who studied digital screen use and multitasking. Her work suggested that people today switch between screens more rapidly (see her studies on attention to screens in 2004, 2012, and 2016), but this hardly proves a universal decline in human attention. The notion that attention can be measured in simple “spans” is itself questionable: as Yoo et al. (2022) state, “there is no singular neural measure of a person’s overall attentional functioning across tasks,” adding, “attention is not a unitary construct but rather multi-faceted” (p. 782).
Advocacy group Children and Young People with Disability Australia (CYDA) says social media and the internet is “often a lifeline for young people with disability, providing one of the few truly accessible ways to build connections and find community”.
In a submission to the Senate inquiry around the laws, CYDA said social media was: “a place where young people can choose how they want to represent themselves and their disability and learn from others going through similar things”.
“It provides an avenue to experiment and find new opportunities and can help lessen the sting of loneliness,” the submission said. “Cutting off that access ignores the lived reality of thousands and risks isolating disabled youth from their peer networks and broader society.”
You sure about that buddy? Confident enough to maim the fragile social networks that young people living in hostile environments may rely on imperfectly in favor of another solution you haven’t even come up with yet?
Leave this place if this is how you see social media, by your own viewpoint digital communities aren’t good for people so why are you here?
Surely this is the left’s fault!