Pluralistic: Weinersmith and Boulet's "Bea Wolf"(24 Jun 2024)


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Pluralistic: Uplinkchump Linkdump (08 Jun 2024)


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Pluralistic: Podcasting "How To Make a Child-Safe TikTok"; Serializing the first chapter of Red Team Blues (17 Apr 2023)


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Pluralistic: 21 Nov 2022 Universities secretly sold their students to online casinos


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Pluralistic: 17 Nov 2022 Private equity health-care monopolies are on a profitable killing spree


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Parenting and Phones, an Empowering Approach

Wisdom from “Behind Their Screens: What Teens Are Facing (and Adults Are Missing)” by Emily Weinstein and Carrie James

DImage; Jiyoung kim/CC BY-SA 4.0 (modified); Cryteria/CC BY 3.0 (modified)

I am the father of a 14 year old, and it is wild. We have our good days and our bad ones, and the lockdown was hard for all of us, but I learn new stuff from my kid every single day.

I’ve been writing about the intersection of parenting and my kid’s digital life since she was two years old, and from the start, I’ve been clear on one thing: it’s impossible to completely control how my kid uses digital tech, and so the best I can hope for is to teach her to be as safe as possible, and to cultivate a trusting relationship with her so that when (not if) she gets in over her head, she’ll come to me so I can help her figure it out.

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Pluralistic: 05 Jun 2022


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Pluralistic: 15 Feb 2022


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Pluralistic: 19 Feb 2021


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Pluralistic: 23 Nov 2020


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