remixtures (@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org)
Don't you find it very convenient to ignore the increasing grasp of market society in the form of extreme competition, growing Indebtedness and lack of career prospects? Arguing that social media and streaming platforms are the culprits is pure lazy thinking. Period.
"All this makes it disconcerting that levels of conscientiousness in the population appear to be in decline. Extending a pioneering 2022 US study which identified early signs of a drop during the pandemic, I found a sustained erosion of conscientiousness, with the fall especially pronounced among young adults.
Digging deeper into the data, which comes from the Understanding America Study, we can see that people in their twenties and thirties in particular report feeling increasingly easily distracted and careless, less tenacious and less likely to make and deliver on commitments.
While a full explanation of these shifts requires thorough investigation, and there will be many factors at work, smartphones and streaming services seem likely culprits. The advent of ubiquitous and hyper-engaging digital media has led to an explosion in distraction, as well as making it easier than ever to either not make plans in the first place or to abandon them.
The sheer convenience of the online world makes real-life commitments feel messy and effortful. And the rise of time spent online and the attendant decline in face-to-face interactions enable behaviours such as “ghosting”."
https://www.ft.com/content/5cd77ef0-b546-4105-8946-36db3f84dc43
#MentalHealth #Psychology #Conscientiousness #SocialMedia #Streaming #Smartphones
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2025 (@2025@rbfirehose.com)
NPR: Recession-era recipes flourish on TikTok. “At a time when a majority of adults say that they are concerned about the cost of food, a new generation of home cooks is teaching audiences on social media how to cook cheap, easy and filling recipes.”
https://rbfirehose.com/2025/08/09/npr-recession-era-recipes-flourish-on-tiktok/
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MichaelM (@MichaelM@sciences.social)
SM companies are loving this negative attention on child SM bans. They will leverage that to grow stronger.
Shift the narrative away from killing the bans and towards targeting the companies themselves and their exploitive and harmful algorithms as an alternative.
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notes (@notes@iceshrimp.de)
"My motivation for creating Unplatform is simple. Once upon a time, I, too, was a digital defeatist that believed that the internet was beyond saving, and that Silicon Valley had achieved total control over the digital world. It's been a deeply humbling and extremely inspiring experience to be proven wrong - and not only do I no longer believe that the internet is a lost cause, I believe there's never been a better time to take it back.
But it won't be easy. Silicon Valley is holding our communities, careers, and conciousnesses hostage. They lured us onto their platforms over the course of 20 years with the promise of access and convenience, and now that they've gone completely mask off, they're betting on the idea that we've got too much invested in them to walk away. Unplatform is here to help you prove them wrong."
unplatform.fromthesuperhighway.com/
#Unplatform #FromTheSuperhighway #IndieWeb #SocialMedia #SiliconValley
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remixtures (@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org)
"Age verification has officially arrived in the UK thanks to the Online Safety Act (OSA), a UK law requiring online platforms to check that all UK-based users are at least eighteen years old before allowing them to access broad categories of “harmful” content that go far beyond graphic sexual content. EFF has extensively criticized the OSA for eroding privacy, chilling speech, and undermining the safety of the children it aims to protect. Now that it’s gone into effect, these countless problems have begun to reveal themselves, and the absurd, disastrous outcome illustrates why we must work to avoid this age-verified future at all costs.
Perhaps you’ve seen the memes as large platforms like Spotify and YouTube attempt to comply with the OSA, while smaller sites—like forums focused on parenting, green living, and gaming on Linux—either shut down or cease some operations rather than face massive fines for not following the law’s vague, expensive, and complicated rules and risk assessments.
But even Reddit, a site that prizes anonymity and has regularly demonstrated its commitment to digital rights, was doomed to fail in its attempt to comply with the OSA. Though Reddit is not alone in bowing to the UK mandates, it provides a perfect case study and a particularly instructive glimpse of what the age-verified future would look like if we don’t take steps to stop it."
#UK #AgeVerification #OSA #OnlineSafetyAct #Reddit #SocialMedia #Privacy #Surveillance
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ambientdread (@ambientdread@toot.io)
Tie Dread
#SocialSplatter #Sundries #Poems #posts #SocialMedia #YesterdaysRiff #haiku #writingcommunity #blogging
https://ambientdread.net/2025/08/09/aug-8-2025/
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nhl (@nhl@channels.im)
New Maple Leafs Social Media Banner Leaves Fans Wondering What It Means https://www.rawchili.com/nhl/153533/ #Banner #fans #Hockey #JohnTavares #MapleLeafs #MapleLeafs #NHL #SocialMedia #Toronto #TorontoMapleLeafs #TorontoMapleLeafs #Twitter
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Strangphotography (@Strangphotography@mastodon.social)
https://thailand-becausewecan.picfair.com/images/022860407-night-view-of-japanese-bridge-in-historic-hoi-an-old-town-vietnam-traditional-architecture-and-lantern-lit-streets
Night View of Japanese Bridge in Historic Hoi An Old Town, Vietnam – Traditional Architecture and Lantern-lit Streets
#hoian #Vietnam #vietnamese #photo #photography #streetphotography #travelphotography #travel #photojournalism #socialmedia #photographer
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aibay (@aibay@mastodon.social)
🌍 Google Earth porta la spettacolarità delle riprese aeree al livello successivo con l'AI! Scopri nuovi orizzonti come mai prima d'ora. #GoogleEarth #AIInnovazione #socialmedia #artificialintelligence #technology
🔗 https://aibay.it/notizie/modelli-ai-rivoluzionano-immagini-satellitari-2025-08-07
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feedle (@feedle@mastodon.social)
🔁 From our "Digital Crossroads" collection:
4 apps you should use instead of Google News - https://www.androidauthority.com/google-news-alternatives-3584732/?ref=feedle.world
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See other stories like this one here: https://feedle.world/digital-crossroads
#web #internet #socialmedia #blogging
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MrBerard (@MrBerard@mastodon.acm.org)
Banning social media for the under 16 is cute and all, but have you thought about banning it for the over 50?
Seems they're the ones whose radicalisation does more damage, idk
#SocialMedia #Tech #Radicalisation #CultureWars
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theguardian_us_opinion (@theguardian_us_opinion@halo.nu)
Why ‘grifter’ has become the go-to political insult of 2025 | Anoosh Chakelian https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/aug/09/grifter-political-insult-2025-con-artist #Consumeraffairs #Digitalmedia #Socialmedia #Politics #UKnews #Media #Scams
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