With ers Without You

“Today we pay with both money and attention according to the direction of artists”

Non-Fungible Taylor Swift, on Stratechery

If you want to hate the world and Twitter at the same time paste “lang:en” in a Twitter search bar will give you live and direct access to the firehose of tweets that is the entirety of English speaking Twitter’s consciousness. I need to have a shower.

A link between childhood “screen time” and attention problems has failed to replicate in this study.

We evaluated 848 models, including logistic regression as per the original paper, plus linear regression and two forms of propensity score analysis. Only 166 models (19.6%) yielded a statistically significant relationship between early TV exposure and later attention problems, with most of these employing problematic analytic choices.

The funny thing is that I know that Luna’s mood changes when she has spent time in front of the TV, she’s less co-operative and less joyful, despite really enjoying TV, and strongly desiring it at various times.

So maybe TV as a child doesn’t affect their attention, but it does affect their sensibilities, in my humble opinion as a father of two.

‘Everyone can have their own reality’

Quitting QAnon: why it is so difficult to abandon a conspiracy theory

Very very few stories are worth telling in their infancy. Most require research, understanding, context, empathy, and nuance.

For example, what if a story about girls twerking on a navy ship in front of the Governor General was held onto for a a day and some research was done?

But we as a society have decided not to invest in that research. We complain if a news website needs us to pay a subscription, and we scream about defunding the ABC if they don’t say what we want.

So we end up with an angry story that’s not entirely true, based on the premise that girls shouldn’t dance on boats.

If you think about it, aren’t we all twerking seamen on the navy ship of our lives? Thanks for getting to the end of this, I really just wanted you to consider yourself as a twerking sailor.

Just imagine if somehow, if there was some way, we all had the power to not laugh at Australian indigenous girls dancing on a navy ship.

The problem isn’t with twerking, especially considering how misleading the ABC was with the story, the problem is with our insistence on finding problems with things that really aren’t problems.

We’re so angry.

Luna’s first phone/block of wood

Google “where does vanilla flavouring come from”

In 2014 the Prime Minister’s Office published this report noting that the statistical value of a human life was $4.2M in 2014 terms - which is more like $4.6M today.

I wonder how this factors into the equations around covid-19 reduction measures?

Whether the measures enacted over the last year are “within the budget” or if they “over spent”?

This is a 13,000 word essay most Australians won’t read, or even if they click through to it, they’ll find it “a bit long”, but it’s actually important, and will deeply affect you.

Defending The Indefensible: There’s No Case For Keeping A Justice System That Fails Half The Population

“A new generation of Gen Z investors are willing to take risks to counter a deck that may be stacked against them”

The death of HODL and the rise of the moon

Top three songs to listen to on your headphones whilst walking off an airplane through an airport:

3. Mr Brightside
4. Lose Yourself
5. Party in the USA

This list is final.