This is a powerful and deeply moving TED talk from
Daniel Lubetzky. I'm honored to be part of the Builders movement he is starting, to overcome the us-vs-them mindset. Join us! Starts With Us

buildersmovement.org

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Internet Addiction Is Destroying Our Children's Lives | Jonathan Haidt youtu.be/wRL52268jLw?fe… via YouTube

'Growing up in the City: What It Was, What It Can Be Again'

Lenore Skenazy, co-founder of Let Grow, reflects on childhood independence and why adults have decided all children are in constant danger:

@UrbanActivist

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Medio planeta habla de (con) el GPT 4o, pero la otra mitad debate el libro de Jonathan Haidt 'The Anxious Generation', un texto que mapea los efectos de los móviles y la redes sobre la Gen Z. ¿Estamos frente a una causalidad o se trata de puro pánico mediático? buff.ly/4ajhJcR

What a creative approach to changing social media: Assemble a consortium to buy TikTok and make it better, on an architecture that respects users' rights.

Go Frank McCourt! Go Project Liberty!

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Cuatro reformas sencillas para revertir la infancia basada en el teléfono y restaurar una infancia en el mundo real. Gracias Roger Domingo por traer mi libro a España.

Llega a las librerías españolas uno de los grandes ensayos de la temporada: “La generación ansiosa”, lo nuevo de Jonathan Haidt.

Un libro que explica por qué las redes sociales están causando una epidemia de enfermedades mundiales entre nuestros adolescentes.

That Norwegian school ban paper does not really tell us much, in part because.... hardly any schools banned phones; most just asked kids to turn of their ringers. Thanks Chris Ferguson, this helps.

(It's only phone-free if a school uses phone lockers or Yondr pouches)

Questioning the links between screen addiction and the youth mental health crisis is missing the forest for the trees writes our founder Julie Scelfo in reply to recent The New York Times story by David Wallace-Wells.

In 1985, Neil Postman predicted that Huxley's Brave New World was more likely to become our future than was Orwell's 1984.

Read the foreward, below; he was right.
(h/t Jonathan Stern)
stern.substack.com/p/3-the-death-…

Having AI servants will make everything easier for adults.

Having AI servants will make everything easier for children too, who will then not learn to do anything hard.

Tech that helps adults may be harmful to children.
Let them get through puberty in the real world first.

If you work at a university and want them to regain their vitality, integrity, and public trust, come to the Heterodox Academy conference in Chicago, June 6-8.

Don't just stand on the sidelines as universities face their darkest hour. Join us in making them better.

Thanks to Erik Torenberg for raising the skeptical claims and giving me a chance to respond. I do cherry pick: I pick ALL the cherries, on all sides, and lay them out in categories for all to see. I have collected many different kinds of evidence, and they point to causality.

Generative AI will magnify many of the existing threats to children on social media, e..g, a flood of generated CSAM (Childhood Sexual Abuse Material). Learn more about 'safety by design' and sign up for the mailing list of Project Liberty

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If you are looking for a book to give your pre-teen or teen, about the effects of a phone-based childhood, I recommend this book, from Screen Strong. Ideal for middle schools too. If you're going to be having conversations about phones, this will help:

screenstrong.org/student-course/

'comme Jonathan Junger dans Tribu ou avant lui le sociologue Émile Durkheim, Jonathan Haidt Jonathan Haidt souligne que les gens ne dépriment en général pas lorsqu'ils font face ensemble à des menaces. Ils dépriment lorsqu'ils se sentent isolés, seuls, inutiles.'

Our latest at After Babel: A bereaved mother tells the story of how quickly a child can be thrown into turmoil by the cruelty encouraged by some apps:

afterbabel.com/p/keeping-our-…

Thank you Governor Sanders! What a great way to encourage more collective action on teen mental health!

If you liked this essay, you'll probably love the book. Preorder links for your favorite online retailers available here: musaalgharbi.com/2024/04/14/we-…

Please do pre-order! Preorders are very important.