Cincinnati, Ohio
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There's been a fair amount of commentary in the past year on how social media has become less fun, less interesting, more easy to quit, etc.
And there's been a ton of commentary on how it's become more passive and "everything is TV".
But I haven't seen much on these things tie together, and I think they clearly do.
It's a lot easier to log off when your feed is filled with strangers
Algorithms and short-form video drove engagement. They also made it easier to quit. reason.com/2026/10/05/the-en…
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Discord told users it doesn’t look at their messages, calls, or other content when sorting accounts by age. Florida is now suing Discord because it doesn’t look at their messages, calls, or other content. The complaint objects that Discord’s filters only scan images and videos and leave text, voice, and calls untouched.
It lists voice and video channels as an unfair practice. It wants ID checks before users can be seen or share anything.
The state is seeking up to $150,000 per violation and a court order to make it happen.
Florida calls this child safety but it's a demand that nobody on Discord gets to have a private conversation again.
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Check out Unregulated — a brand new weekly newsletter by @reason on Substack!
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5+ years before every pundit and their mother was talking about the “textbook trauma response” the following passage appeared in my novel No One Will Miss Her
🤖 Made with AI
If Jane Doe’s case against seven members of a Cornell University fraternity goes to trial, prosecutors will show “a mosaic,” that may include the text messages Doe sent to at least two of the fraternity members accused of sexual assault, CBS News legal analyst @CarolinePolisi says.
Polisi breaks down the “textbook trauma response” Doe exhibited in some of those text messages, and what could come next as the legal process continues to play out.
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Children in foster care are ***10X*** as likely as children not in the system to be prescribed antipsychotics in FL and KY.
And children age ***3-5*** in foster care are 3x more likely to be on psychotropic meds.
Horribly damning. Vital work from @AlexAdamsRPh and team
Love to be so out of style that you come back in style! vogue.com/article/best-skinn…
Why didn't anyone tell me sooner that skinny jeans were back?!
I have been despising in-fashion jean styles for nearly a decade now, I feel so very very frumpy and gross in wide-leg jeans
So excited to be launching @reason's first Substack newsletter this week! Here's yesterday's intro post reasonmagazine.substack.com/…
First regular post comes out later today.
Cambridge's city council says "the arrest of adult persons for consensual sex work should continue to be amongst the lowest law enforcement priorities" & the DA "should cease prosecution of persons for consensual adult sex work" reason.com/2026/10/12/cambri…
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"The Social Reckoning" is a stunning act of self-satisified cowardice.
buff.ly/GQhXqBD
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The case of George Anibowei shows just how invasive border agents have become.
Read more: reason.pub/3WsSl2Z
ALT George Anibowei. Text: Border agents searched this U.S. citizen's phone five times without a warrant.
Also I'm at a coffee shop right now where they're playing Bon Iver, is 2008 just fully back?? (Bestill my heart! Let's break out the mason jar kombucha!)
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See there are these buildings that have a TON of books, all of which you can take and read...totally for free!
I don't blame screens either.
I blame people.
Everyone blames screens for the decline of reading.
Nobody blames the consolidated corporate publishing industry that made books pricier, more generic, and harder to find. jacobin.com/2026/10/books-pu…
I tried to throw a little cold water on the German “robot sexual assault” story
Is it a crime to make your mustachioed robot thrust its pelvis at passersby? reason.com/2026/10/14/postin…
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it's also a belief system, an ideology that cannot be controverted. it is very, very, very important (and profitable) to some people to believe that every single woman has had 25+ partners.
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Research suggests that, contrary to Jashinsky's claims that Alex Cooper has unleashed a tragic libertine culture of empty hookups, casual sex among young people has actually declined in recent years.
Sex in general, whether it leads to love or is the product of it, has been on the decline, much to the alarm of people who see warning signs left and right that people are isolating themselves in the iPhone age.
Meanwhile, a major problem in the discourse about the Cornell 7/Jane Doe case is that many people are allowing how they feel about the story and how it has been told one way or another to override what we know about it. Similarly, just because it feels like empty sex must be on the rise doesn't mean that we know it to be true.
In short, we need fewer vibes, more reason. Less art, more matter.
Consensual hookup culture often feels predatory to women because... it is. It preys on women's desire for monogamy and coupling and love, which many believe there's a chance of receiving even after casual sex. Frat bros around America are indebted to Alex Cooper for trying to convince so many women they can and should have sex like men. It's led to men having a lot more casual sex because women choose to have it. That norm is great for dudes, but women often end up feeling preyed upon and exploited because they experience sex differently and just can't — on average — have casual hookups so easily.
Cooper preyed on women to make millions by convincing them it was normal to see sex more like men see it. Men who mislead women into having casual sex by dangling the prospect of monogamy prey on women. It doesn't mean women are helpless! And it doesn't mean non-consensual sex is anything short of horrifying and criminal. It just means there's a predatory culture swirling around even consensual hookups too, and it's really dangerous for women.
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Harvard's hometown just adopted a new policy against arresting or prosecuting sex workers reason.com/2026/10/12/cambri…
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Yes this is my point exactly. On what theory is this a good use of resources and time? On what theory is this a reasonable extension of a university’s mandate? Who is asking for this or who genuinely benefits from it? I imagine the answer is no one, even BDSM enthusiasts!
