Regular readers know we’ve covered this story before. Social psychologist and author Jonathan Haidt has been working on a book about the topic of teen mental health and the impact of cell phones for some time. Today the Atlantic published a lengthy piece in which he lays out his case in detail. He starts with […]
Yesterday I highlighted something Jesse Singal had pointed out about a site called Platformer which, until yesterday, was hosted on Substack. Platformer is a tech journalism site which decided to deplatform itself because of Substack’s alleged Nazi problem. I won’t rehash the whole thing, you can read it here. The gist is that Platformer’s own […]
I don’t think I’ve ever read anything on Platformer. If you haven’t either, it’s a tech news site based on Substack, at least it was until today. Now Platformer’s founder Casey Newton, has announce it is deplatforming itself and moving somewhere else. Why? Because of the Nazis. In November, when Jonathan M. Katz published his article […]
I know that this is a bit too granular to be a post, but man, I love it and can’t resist sharing my joy in Christopher Rufo’s burn of The Atlantic. First, some background. The Atlantic published a piece that made a bizarre argument: ChatGPT is an even worse plagiarist than Claudine Gay, former President […]
Bates College Professor Tyler Austin Harper hit the nail on the head in his essay on the Claudine Gay affair in The Atlantic. Harper states what should have been obvious to the meanest intelligence: the biggest and most revealing part of the scandal is the lengths to which Gay’s defenders chose to go in order […]
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