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Smartphones bring porn & gambling to teens 24/7. Today we have our first post on what sports betting is doing to boys & young men (who are 98% of those with addiction). By Jonathan Cohen and Isaac Rose-Berman. Part of our growing collab with @aibm_org .

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What was the route by which early phone-ownership disrupted development? Biggest by far was younger age of entry to social media. Sure, its correlational, but how about--until we're sure what's happening--no smartphones before 14, no social media before 16?. Abstract:

I focused on anxiety/depression in Anglo countries. But @sapien_labs cast a broader net and finds much more extensive psychiatric harm linked to phone-based childhoods, globally. Earlier phone = lower mental health as young adult.

RT @HdxAcademy: What the Manhattan Statement gets wrong on university reform - and why HxA’s Open Inquiry U Reform Agenda is different. ht….

Story time is good for kids, humans are story-telling animals. Good movies on a TV or large screen is good screen time. Short videos, watched alone on a touch screen, is bad screen time. It fragments attention. I discuss this with People Magazine:.

Kids need risky play and thrills. Dads have a special role to play. I hope this is not controversial, but dads more than moms seem to enjoy pretending to be a predator trying to catch and eat their own children. I discussed this with Parents Magazine:.

Bennett Sippell and @ZachMRausch lay it out, including the shocking games that Bennett was able to play when logged in as a 10 year old girl, such as a school shooter game, where he was assigned the role of "killer."

Do your kids play Roblox? .You should read this explainer, about how the monetization strategies of multi-player games have changed, incentivizing companies to put kids into harmful situations in 8 ways. New at

RT @DKThomp: Yes. Writing is not a second thing that happens after thinking. The act of writing is an act of thinking. Writing *is* think….

An encouraging sign: I'm hearing more and more about Gen Z "rebels" who refuse to get sucked into the social media lifestyle. They choose to do hard things and analog things.

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The ways that social media interacts with other drivers of polarization was the subject of my 2022 essay on America and the Tower of Babel. Twitter made many groups and institutions "structurally stupid," from fear of dissenting:.

Cognitive distortions became much more common on Twitter between 2016 and 2020, as Americans became more politically polarized. I'd say Twitter reflected and created a public square that was increasingly poisonous for liberal democracies.

RT @ezraklein: Obama weighs in on Abundance:

"Chromebooks are the new Baby Einstein – an untested educational panacea with laughably dubious evidence of any positive outcomes." . Putting computers on students desks was a terrible mistake. By John Allen Wooden.

RT @LetGrowOrg: “The way to get over anxiety is to let our kids grow.” 🌱 — @JonHaidt . In a convo with Virginia’s First Lady, Haidt recomme….

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RT @HdxAcademy: 🇺🇸 This Independence Day, we're reflecting on one of the most famous early American defenses of academic freedom. Despite….