Welcome to Britain, where it takes Nigella Lawson to explain to people that you can kill people with meat cleavers just about as easily as pointy knives
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113392#KnifeCrime #MoralPanic #nigella
Welcome to Britain, where it takes Nigella Lawson to explain to people that you can kill people with meat cleavers just about as easily as pointy knives
I’m not making this up:
NYU psychology professor taken to task for hawking dubious paper about children, screen time and harms
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113388#JonathanHaidt #MoralPanic #OnlineHarms #ScreenTime
NYU psychology professor taken to task for hawking dubious paper about children, screen time and harms
The screen-time moral panic is not yet over, and this guy (thread) is being roasted on bluesky for selecting arbitrary experts, asking them if screen use MAY be correlated with harm, and graphing t…
Welcome to Britain, where it takes Nigella Lawson to explain to people that you can kill people with meat cleavers just about as easily as pointy knives
I’m not making this up:
https://bsky.app/profile/nigella.bsky.social/post/3lpo6flnqnc23
#knifeCrime #moralPanic #nigella
Nigella Lawson (@nigella.bsky.social)
I agree, but many blunt-tipped knives – a cleaver, for example – could be lethally employed
NYU psychology professor taken to task for hawking dubious paper about children, screen time and harms
The screen-time moral panic is not yet over, and this guy (thread) is being roasted on bluesky for selecting arbitrary experts, asking them if screen use MAY be correlated with harm, and graphing the results as if causative:
https://bsky.app/profile/jayvanbavel.bsky.social/post/3lpaaktc6bc2x
Via:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2480657-attempt-to-reach-expert-consensus-on-teens-and-phones-ends-in-argument/
#jonathanHaidt #moralPanic #onlineHarms #screenTime
Jay Van Bavel, PhD (@jayvanbavel.bsky.social)
Are #smartphones and #socialmedia harming a generation?
This is a hotly debated and often polarizing debate. So we surveyed over 120 experts on the topic to see where there was genuine consensus (or not), like experts have previous done for climate change.
See our paper: https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/b94dy_v1
Gen Z verlernt das Unterschreiben - Experten alarmiert
Wegen der Technologie verlernen junge Menschen offenbar das Unterschreiben. Experten schlagen deswegen Alarm!
I'm sad that the Observer is moving to Tortoise, but I will be glad when its chronic
#MoralPanic decamps the Guardian.
‘Don’t ask what AI can do for us, ask what it is doing to us’: are ChatGPT and co harming human intelligence?
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...‘Don’t ask what AI can do for ...I'm sad that the Observer is moving to Tortoise, but I will be glad when its chronic
#MoralPanic decamps the Guardian.
‘Don’t ask what AI can do for us, ask what it is doing to us’: are ChatGPT and co harming human intelligence?
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/19/dont-ask-what-ai-can-do-for-us-ask-what-it-is-doing-to-us-are-chatgpt-and-co-harming-human-intelligence‘Don’t ask what AI can do for us, ask what it is doing to us’: are ChatGPT and co harming human intelligence?
Recent research suggests our brain power is in decline. Is offloading our cognitive work to AI driving this trend?
OMG, we have reached peak Douthat: reactionary, dystopian
#MoralPanic so ridiculous it's hilarious. Watching him suffer existential angst brings a certain Schadenfreudig satisfaction.
Come With Me if You Want to Survive an Age of Extinction
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/opinion/extinction-technology-culture.html?smid=tw-share
Opinion | An Age of Extinction Is Coming. Here’s How to Survive.
Everything is under threat. What you care about can make it to the other side.
OMG, we have reached peak Douthat: reactionary, dystopian
#MoralPanic so ridiculous it's hilarious. Watching him suffer existential angst brings a certain Schadenfreudig satisfaction.
Come With Me if You Want to Survive an Age of Extinction
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/o...Opinion | Come With Me if You ...
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