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Finland looks to end "uncontrolled human experiment" with Australia-style ban on social media Prime Minister Petteri Orpo (NCP), the Finnish public health authority THL and two-thirds of Finns are in favour of banning or restricting the use of social media by under-15s.

End the days of being the product yle.fi/a/74-2020749...

'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans Only recently described by science, the mysterious mushrooms are found in different parts of the world, but they give people the same exact visions.

"It's not psilocybin that's giving the L. asiatica mushrooms their lilliputian effect"

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It's all fun and games until it has to be fun and a game

There's No One to Blame for the Reiner Murders When a mentally-ill son stabs his parents to death, we're left with only sadness, and hopefully our compassion

Grounding, hopefully healing, words from someone (a parent) Who Knows and Has Been There. (His newest books is my favorite book.) Worth watching.
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YouTube video by The Daily Show Cory Doctorow - Rescuing the Internet From “Enshittification” | The Daily Show

Cory really dropped into a finely polished lucid flow state on this one. Too many quotables per second. This one though, "You know, Elon Musk pops his clogs from too much ketamine. There will be a succession battle overnight."

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Do enough litigation and you realize that most people are positively moronic about what they put in their emails.

How Millennials’ Y2K Nostalgia Is Fueling This New Round of TV Revivals — Including ‘Scrubs,’ ‘Buffy’ and ‘Malcolm in the Middle’ Millennials' Y2K nostalgia is helping fuel this new round of TV reboots, including 'Scrubs,' 'Buffy the Vampire Slayer' and 'Malcolm in the Middle.'

AKA Reverend Chu writes better headlines: variety.com/2025/tv/news...

This is one of my favorite recent random texts from a stranger. The whole “still in my room or in your dad’s room” is rich narrative material. Also the comma usage makes me wonder if the recipient is Captain Pete or the reverse. Thanks, Uranus x Mercury season!

starting to wonder if y2k turned off computers and social media for a couple years if we wouldn’t all have been better off

approaching the “cancelling thanksgiving to protect the epstein files” delta

I have bookmarked for tracking Doctorow's @pluralistic.net.web.brid.gy "When AI prophecy fails," which feels consistently timely bsky.app/profile/plur...

World Ayahuasca Forum. September 9-13, 2026

What a crazy six months! I've barely had time to be here. But I'm chuffed, honored, and delighted to be in service as Co-Director, World Ayahuasca Forum 2026 and Strategic Advisor at @iceers.bsky.social collaborating with Yorenka Tasorentsi Institute! Learn more: www.ayahuasca2026.com

“I cherish the band, but I don’t expect anyone else to”: it’s nine years since the last Radiohead record and I accidentally got the only interview for it As A Moon Shaped Pool turns 9, this writer recollects a night on the tiles in Paris with Thom Yorke & co.

Calling @charliechu.bsky.social www.loudersound.com/features/a-n...

YouTube video by Woodhull Freedom Foundation The Byte Barrier: How Algorithms Are Silencing Our Sexual Voices

Video now up - I did a panel with @ericasmithsexed.bsky.social @bloggeronpole.bsky.social and the @woodhullfreedom.bsky.social on the silencing of sexual voices online. Complete with ASL interpretation! www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7Ax...

The only thing I use chatgpt for is to write LinkedIn posts for me.

I love that even X has a Twitter clone.

Like and Subscribe: How YouTube Changed the World - What happens when YouTube gets political? - BBC Sounds As YouTube spreads, so does information - the good and bad. We explore the consequences.

I got to take part in this cool look-back at how YouTube changed the world, with the BBC www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Good mail day.

No country in their right mind should sign a trade deal with the US that involves agriculture

Bill Maher Fires Back at Larry David for ‘My Dinner With Adolf’ Essay Spoofing His Trump Meeting: ‘It’s Kind of Insulting to Six Million Dead Jews’ After Larry David wrote 'My Dinner With Adolf' spoofing Maher's White House dinner with Trump, Maher says David was "insulting to six million dead Jews."

Bill Maher sincerely believes you shouldn’t be insulting to six million dead Jews unless any of them believed anything or were sincere about anything or had any beliefs he didn’t like.

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A free speech activist on child influencer laws + Shein village, Jesus Swiftie fancams, a monastery for hackers, TikTok footnotes, Seatopians, the Ice Bucket Challenge returns, Coachella billboards, and the rise of the 'infinite fringe'

Tell me how I stayed up late to get this newsletter out today and somehow lost 13 subscribers. Like what in tarnation?!?

This was….five months ago

Today is the one year anniversary of my moving to Finland. Uskomatonta! 🇫🇮

They are so lucky to have you!

Barlow in post mortal coil cameo as well. 🙏

Aaron Swartz at the STOP SOPA rally in January 2013, in front of Chuck Schumer’s office.

The wonderful thing about this famous picture is that it was taken as we were all standing in front of Chuck Schumer’s office and it shows Aaron absolutely going OFF on him. Thirteen years ago, and Aaron was right as always. (Thx to @self.agency for capturing the moment!)

Helsingissä 10 helmikuu.

This.

I’m not saying you should do this. All I’m saying is that grabbing a hot pan without an oven mitt really took my mind off of politics for a moment.