That sounds awesome. I continue to attend the same emo shows I did in 2007 and the dress style hasn’t changed significantly, but I doubt my experience is representative of the norms across other genres! I passed a line of people waiting to enter a local stage production recently and everyone was dressed in 20s gear. Looked like a fun excuse to dress up.

Wtf

Given the role of the British empire in the history of modern Palestine, they do have more of an obligation to make things right than most nations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mandate_for_Palestine

Iran has been saying the same thing the whole time, it doesn’t seem like it changed as we approach midterms to me

Fall of Civilizations

History with Cy

Historia Civilis

History Time (check out this one on the Amazon)

The Entire History of the Earth (super interesting and atmospheric broad geological history playlist)

Boomers vote to build walls when they can barely lift a brick

Right wing PM trying to say it’s both initiated by the left wing party and being infiltrated and coopted by ‘violent individuals?’

Edit: Actually ‘violent individuals’ guy is a separate minister, my bad

Are you good with names in general irl? I’ve never been great with names in real life or in books. For that reason I’ve always appreciated books with an index of characters to help me keep track. Sometimes I make one myself for books with a lot of characters.

My theory is that some people’s minds index via proper nouns more than others. I’m more likely to remember a story you told me than your name. It usually takes me multiple times meeting someone before their name sticks unless I make a concerted effort, but I’ll remember they said they worked in construction and had 2 dogs. Just to throw a wrench in my theory I’m somewhat likely to remember the dog names…

I only use youtube for a handful of specific channels (including livestreams for skateboarding events), not for general browsing. None of these channels are cloned on peertube last I checked. I don’t have the equipment or knowledge to host a server myself and even if I did I would feel weird cloning the channels I watch because youtube is the main source of revenue for them.

I support most of the channels I watch on patreon and do remind them occasionally that it would be nice to move away from youtube.

Pretty sure it’s just to put international pressure on the US by showing the US will reject a fairly sane resolution to a war they started even though their supposed allies rely heavily on the trade route being accessible.

The heavy weed smokers I know are all capable of taking breaks for things more trivial than the threat of serious jail time (ie taking a break to lower tolerance, taking a break while looking for a new job, etc).

I can understand trying to get a handle on reimbursements going to private providers when it’s causing drastic cost increases, but surely that should be accompanied by a plan to rapidly scale the timeline for publicly handled assessments? Our local university (US) just rolled out a specific ADHD assessment clinic because the demand (and, I am guessing the liability for prescribing ADHD meds as well) has skyrocketed.

West Yorkshire NHS integrated care board has introduced a minimum waiting time of two years from referral for anyone seeking an ADHD or autism assessment with an independent provider. That was in response to its bill for such assessments soaring from £7m in 2023-24 to £21m last year, it said.

I passed someone on the sidewalk who was saying they were a fan of Bieber’s music, “but not pop Justin Bieber”

Nashville has been experiencing ridiculously high temperatures and I asked my friend if people are blaming climate change yet. They said 50%, the other 50% are blaming data centers.

I’m for the AI hate but I agree, doesn’t make a lot of sense as the real driver (yet).

Yeah that’s awesome and definitely qualifies in my book!

I’m curious if there were/are any genuinely progressive parties running with this messaging?

That’s a lot of information, I will take a closer look when I have time. I’m not convinced by the op layman article linked but I’ll take a look at the studies you outline too. I do believe motivation and attention are closely linked so motivation is likely a factor in the decline we’re seeing in attention capacity, but that doesn’t erase the decline. There is evidence of impact on the brain in a couple of the studies I linked. I haven’t seen any research claiming it’s permanent by the way. Most scientific categories (motivation and attention span included) aren’t rigorously distinct phenomena, they’re just useful for imperfectly generalizing/modeling things we’ve identified as important. Being able to give things your sustained attention is important for a lot of things that we value. Things that limit our ability to do so are worrying (including lack of motivation).

Have you seen evidence to the contrary re attention spans? There are quite a few studies pointing this direction specifically relating to short form video use.

Given that the trend downward is somewhat globally universal (at least in math and reading, non-OECD countries had more stable scores in science) I have a hard time believing it’s due to curriculum, funding, or teacher policies which differ significantly across the geographies covered. This isn’t a random one off assessment it’s carefully repeated and led by an international collaboration.

I agree the guardian’s coverage is a bit lazy, but that’s par for the course for a news org. covering a scientific study.

https://doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2024.1383913 https://doi.org/10.32604/ijmhp.2025.059929 https://doi.org/10.1002/brb3.70656 https://doi.org/10.6084/m9.figshare.30648764 (review) https://doi.org/10.1080/02673843.2026.2623337 (review) https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare14050559 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1856148 https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2026.1774030

“Well yeah, we said that because part of our business model was to make people think they were actually purchasing the game for their private collection.”

The sources said Tehran’s response was that stability and peace in the region depend on ending the US-Israeli war on Iran.

No one can say they’re unclear communicators