Martin Ruskov @mapto@qoto.org

A former manager described Musk as a “pigeon CEO”: “He comes in, shits all over us, and then leaves.”

https://electrek.co/2024/04/22/elon-musk-pigeon-ceo-former-tesla-manager/

@fuck_cars

I love it. Sometimes I wish storytelling is as accessible to everyone. But I know better: if I want to tell stories to my kid, it needs to be with my own characters. I'm not grown up enough to be Bandit Heeler https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/apr/22/surprise-how-i-got-turned-into-bluey-bandit-the-worlds-greatest-dad

Общината иска от държавата да даде достъп до съществуващи, но пустеещи паркинги

https://dnevnik.bg/gradska_sreda/2024/04/22/4617513_stolichnata_obshtina_iska_ot_durjavata_podzemnite/

@sofia@lemmy.world

@mmasnick @dangillmor
First of all, thanks for responding. Certainly, a necessary first step to have a healthy discussion.

Although as a parent I have my observations on the topic and have researched game-based learning in the past, this discussion is not within my current research interests, and I have only limited time to dedicate to it. I'm really sorry for this, but my response is correspondingly very limited.

On the topic, in his response Haidt does say "My story is about two major factors (end of the play-based childhood, rise of the phone-based childhood)". However, your interpretation is "that social media and smartphones have made kids under-protected". Speaks of itself.

I also appreciate that writing for popular audiences might require some stylistic adaptation, but from my reader perspective I find your writing quite demagogical and seeking conflicts where there aren't (parents protecting children or not, multiplayer-over-the-network games and lack of physical interaction). I find it also oversimplifying in insinuating that the lack of sufficient evidence for a phenomenon is a proof of the absence of the phenomenon.

I do think you make some valid points. However, due to the all-out denial you engage in, I find it very difficult to identify these myself. Probably, it is due to my own biases and perceptions.

@dangillmor @mmasnick
Haidt wrote a detailed response to Odgers, doesn't seem to stop Masnick from bringing up the same strawman arguments again
https://qoto.org/@mapto/112273565308125595

@nazgul did you see this? It's Haidt's response to Odgers. It looks quite convincing to me, but why would he have Xi-tter as a communication platform?
https://qoto.org/@mapto/112273565308125595

@aral I'd be very curious to hear how democracy without capitalism could be structured (putting aside for now the more interesting question of how the corresponding transition from the current state would happen).

The closest to a response I can think of is the ideas of Cornelius Castoriadis, but as many other things in life, it shows that the problem is that it's us not doing enough for a change:
https://www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf/purchase_mobile?openform&fp=epoche&id=epoche_2010_0015_0001_0001_0012

@evan should we decide for other people (regardless of race) what they "should" do? Why and how it matters? Even if the question is framed as "should I" I still fail to get the point of asking something like this. Could you please help me with my confusion?

"Aggiustare il mondo", un libro su Aaron Swartz di Giovanni Ziccardi pubblicato da @milanoup sotto una licenza CC e disponibile anche in #wikisource

@libri

"We are witnessing the demise of the Republican Party, certainly as we've known it in my lifetime"

"I mean holy smokes, I think it's a lot when members who have spoken ... against things that are happening within their conference are not just retiring at notably young ages, [but resigning]."

@rivoluzioneurbanamobilita dall'articolo: parcheggio da furbetto
https://blog.urbanfile.org/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/2024-04-17-Urbanfile-milano-isola-area-parcheggio-pepe-borsieri_6.jpg