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Beware giving Big Tech a constitutional right to avoid regulation.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/02/social-media-netchoice-texas-supreme-court/677494/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

More comfortable online than out partying, post-Millennials are safer, physically, than adolescents have ever been. But they’re on the brink of a mental-health crisis.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/09/has-the-smartphone-destroyed-a-generation/534198/?utm_source=email&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=social

What the News and the Pews Have in Common

How the internet is making everything nondenominational.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/16/opinion/religion-internet.html?smid=em-share

The Political Failure of Bidenomics

The divide between classes can’t be healed with economic remedies alone.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/opinion/bidenomics-working-class.html?smid=em-share

Trump’s G.O.P. Is a Confederacy of Fakers

Lindsey Graham, J.D. Vance, Mike Johnson and other Republicans are waving the white flag of surrender on Ukraine, all at Trump’s behest.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/20/opinion/ukraine-trump-republicans.html?smid=em-share

The Most Important Writing Exercise I’ve Ever Assigned

I ask my writing students to stand in another person’s shoes. They’re finding it harder and harder to do.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/18/opinion/radical-empathy-fiction.html?smid=em-share

How Trump pushed Silicon Valley off the rails

Did tech titans have an option? I thought so.
https://wapo.st/48wjKli

Maybe so, but it was not an unimaginable consequence. French philosopher Paul Virilio has a quote I think about a lot: “When you invent the ship, you also invent the shipwreck; when you invent the plane, you also invent the plane crash; and when you invent electricity, you invent electrocution. Every technology carries its own negativity, which is invented at the same time as technical progress.”