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by Kara Panzer SadGirl7 – Post #453 The aliens are here. I’ve been reflecting in my journal this morning using my reflection prompts (have you tried them yet? download my free journal prompts here!). The strange disk shapes hovering in the sky have mad... More »
The Ten Commandments of the Electronic Age By Martin H. Levinson I am the LORD thy Smartphone. Thou shalt have no other God besides tablets, computers, and me. Thou shalt not use 3D printers to make images of idle idols. Thou shalt not take the name of ... More »
Social Media’s Cool By Martin H. Levinson Social media helps people to stay connected, offers a useful way to share past memories, and assists those who are struggling by providing access to advice from strangers. But as wonderful as social media is, there a... More »
In his first town hall event with Twitter employees since agreeing to acquire the company, [Elon] Musk faced a series of questions about his stance on content moderation and reiterated his desire to allow all legal speech on Twitter, even when that includes so... More »
By Martin H. Levinson Internet Fasting Day I know what you’re thinking: we’re all too hooked on the internet and social media to last 24 hours without them. The American people would never agree to stay off Google, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and email f... More »
The Simpleton a novel by Alex Bakhtin (Pigeon Classics, 2022), 612 pages Reviewed by James Fable It is almost a truism by now that Postmodernism is obsessed with adaptations. Whether feminist retellings of Greek myth or barely digestible mashups of anglophone ... More »
Time to parent up. Nobody told you to have kids. Hey, I bet people even discouraged you, but you did it despite the warnings. You must not have listened when friends told you what crappy parents you’d make; you did the fertility treatments anyway and low... More »
By Martin H. Levinson Had Facebook been around during the time of the Crusades, at the start of the American Revolution, or right before World War II those events would not have happened because Facebook is about building community and bringing the world close... More »
by Jonathan Zimmerman “A lot of us will be creating and inhabiting worlds that are just as detailed and convincing as this one, on a daily basis.” —Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg, announcing that his company will change its name to Meta and focus ... More »
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By Martin H. Levinson The three “R”s—reading, ‘riting, and ‘rithmetic—were the mainstays of our education system for many years. But students in the 21st century live in a technologically and media-rich environment that demands a new model ... More »