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Nick Oberheiden of Oberheiden P.C. writes: Social media harm is a significant concern for users of all ages. However, studies have identified particular mental health concerns among children and teens who use social media platforms, and social media companies are now facing social media addiction lawsuits across the country from families who are grappling with... The post Damages in Social Media Lawsuits: Understanding the Psychological and Financial Effects of Social …

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We live in interesting times.A friend of mine was taking an online class yesterday, and big national news (President Biden deciding not to pursue re-election) interrupted that class. The news distracted everyone and shattered concentration.Sometimes …

Last week’s discussion of Michelle Nickerson’s Spiritual Criminals focused on a concrete historical character: Cardinal Francis Spellman. This week I want go larger. An animating theme in the book is Read more The post Catholic Social Teaching: Its Historical Arc in the United States first appeared on Society for US Intellectual History.

Life has been even more hectic than usual for me these last few weeks, so my productivity has declined further. Sorry. I blame it mostly on the fact that I have eight foster animals in the house right now (yes, eight), and four of them are kittens with underdeveloped brains who make a huge mess and have to be hand-fed. They're really cute though. I've been stealing moments

High modernism is us. Today. The incomprehensible is our reality. For the past two decades plays by Samuel Beckett and Harold Pinter — which once upon a time bewildered their audiences and gave critics apoplexy — have become big West End hits. The avant-garde is now commercial. How so? By casting celebrity stars in the main roles, and emphasizing the humour. So the current revival of Samuel Beckett’s Waiting for …

From A few remarks on the method of Jacques Rancière by Jacques Rancière. A method means a path: not the path that a thinker follows but the path that he/she constructs, that you have to construct to know where you are, to figure out the characteristics of the territory you are going through, the places it allows you to go, the way it obliges you to move, the markers that …

Tokyo Game Show Day One is done, and it was pretty good. I played a handful of games, met some people, got a few t-shirts, and am feeling fairly confident about Konami's handling of my all-time favourite game. I played the Metal Gear Solid Delta: Snake Eater demo, of course, as well as Dragon Age Veilguard, Sonic Generations X Shadow, Like a Dragon: Pirate Yakuza in Hawaii, Professor Layton and …

Mojtaba Taghvaei (aka “Moshtaba”)’s art “Twins” provides a vibrant exploration of closeness and wakefulness. Here he shares just one thing about the piece:“David Lynch and Angelo Badalamenti have a music piece titled ‘The Black Dog Runs at Night.’ I’ve always appreciated one-line Lynchian ideas, and many of my paintings are based on one-line concepts with no beginning, ending, or clear arc. This piece was inspired by the idea: "What if …

Happy DjangoCon US 2024 to you. Whilst I am not there, I have adopted the spirit of the season and got to work hacking together a new tool. Djade is a formatter for Django templates. It applies rules based on the template style guide in Django’s contribution documentation, plus some more. Ryan Cheley put together this section back in February (forum discussion). I enjoyed contributing to this discussion and wrote …

Hey, I hope you’re keeping safe and well wherever you are. Apart from the weird Toronto weather, it is definitely FALL here with the kids back in school and days of seemingly endless pre-sales calls and shortlists. It is also the time of year for “big” books of course, and there are more covers from the conglomerate publishers in this month’s post than I would generally like. My sense is …

The great Bert Lahr was performing right until the end. Here is a print ad that Bert did for Lays potato chips in early 1967. He would pass away later that year on December 4, 1967...

IntroductionToday, TLS certificates in the Web public key infrastructure (PKI) have long validity: almost all remain valid for at least three months! An attacker compromising a certificate early enough in its lifetimenote 1 keeps it compromised for months. Certificate revocation addresses this problem: a client must know to distrust a certain key for a domain, even if the valid key hasn’t expired yet.The issue? Billions of clients use the Web …

In early August of this year, Metro Transit officials reported that crime was trending downwards by 17.5% in the second quarter of 2024, while overall ridership trended upwards by 9% in the first half of 2024 — with August seeing the highest number of riders so far this year. This good sign shows that the system is improving as implementation of the Safety & Security Action Plan continues. I, too, …