RT Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald)Countries are passing laws requiring state ID in order to use social media ("protecting kids" is the pretext), but the real effect is to track everyone online .It upsets some when I say it, but @TaylorLorenz has been one of the few reporting on and warning about this danger. ...

I wrote my first book in second grade. It was a story about two boys named Perl and Archival and their journey to winning an ice cream bar from memorizing their multiplication tables. The moment I finished, I walked up to every single kid in my class and asked, "Hey, do you want to read my book?" Every single one of them said no.Even the teacher, which although it was odd, makes sense. I mean, writing and publishing and getting people to read your book is honestly pretty hard. And so 11-year-old me went to ...

Moves to bar younger teens from social media across Europe and Asia are going, well…viral https://t.co/6IAwJEAlt8 ...

Having just no clue about how old the algorithm is made, how it is tested, how it is trained, and where it will guide you. I mean, the modern democracy consequences of this bias could be huge. Some of them claim to be in favor of free speech.Okay. We're in favor of free algorithm. Totally transparent.Because, I mean, free speech is a pure, but nobody knows how you are guided for this so-called free speech, especially when it's to be guided from one hatred speech to another way to speech. ...

Hispanic leaders within the Democrat Party say the last presidential election was a wake-up call. Donald Trump won 43 % of the Latino vote in 2024, up from 35 % in 2020. And those gains were driven primarily by Hispanic men and younger voters who are increasingly consuming political information through social media and not traditional campaign channels in response the Congressional Hispanic Caucus bold PAC has just launched a new get-out-the-vote effort it's called ruido which means noise in Spanish and it ...

Social media suspended in Gabon 'until further notice' https://t.co/rC6pIy1XNY ...

MadnessWide Awake Media (@wideawake_media):15-year-olds aren't old enough to use social media, but 5-year-olds are old enough to choose which gender they are.Make it make sense. 🤡 https://t.co/1V1NULfDBX ...

All right, we're going to start today talking about a behavior that's very common in our world. Now, the term is social media creeping. Now, this usually starts to happen, this behavior when a friend, an acquaintance, a parent, or even a stranger refers us a business or a person, someone they think that maybe we would be good friends with.We should go out and have a c a coffee at this cafe or maybe we should go on a date with these this person. And the first thing that we do is pull out our phones. We're op ...

To start off, I want to ask everyone a question. How many of you know what a cradle is. Let's see a show of hands.All right, for those who are confused, this is a cradle. It's designed to keep a baby safe inside. However, as a verb, to cradle is to hold something with intent and care.Which is why I urge you to do this. Cradle your creativity. This gest was my form of creative expression.To me, being a tad bit humorous and charming are synonymous. But if I were to let the possibility of others making incorre ...

If I could go back to my past, I would probably tell myself not to buy things like laboo, Sony angels, cryb babies, and a lot more. I believe that I'm not the only one who fell for the Laboo syndrome. At least, I hope so.With no intention of degrading the character itself, these days, I'm trapped by regret on why I had spent so much money on this plushy. Actually, it's not the only case for loos. It's just all the products I've bought following what the trend is that I simply don't know why I had invested m ...