Dev Divine

A man who stands for nothing falls for anything

[Sesame Chiccen 🔜Dreamcon @Loccdawggg]

Man I’d pay whatever for a remake

[ALUTHEDON @Mbakaza4L]

Look at the date.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Fred Rogers met with a child psychologist every week for 22 years to build his show. She shaped everything: every script, prop, and song. The whole point was to give a child's nervous system time to slow down. In 1984, a single regulatory decision ended all of it.

The psychologist was Dr. Margaret McFarland, who co-founded the Arsenal Family and Children's Center alongside Benjamin Spock and Erik Erikson. She and Rogers understood that the prefrontal cortex in children, the part of the brain that controls impulse, emotion, and attention, takes decades to fully develop. At the start of every episode, Rogers tied his sneakers and changed his sweater while children settled in. Those pauses were intentional, designed to help a child's nervous system shift into a calmer, more focused state.

What ended it had nothing to do with child development science. In 1984, Reagan's FCC chairman Mark Fowler abolished the advertising limits that had protected children's programming from commercial pressure. Toy companies moved within months. Between 1984 and 1985, cartoons tied to toy lines increased by 300%, from a handful of shows to more than 40 animated series. In almost every case, the toy was designed first. The cartoon was built to sell it.

Researchers later put numbers to what parents were already noticing. A 2011 study in Pediatrics from the University of Virginia tested 60 four-year-olds across three groups: one watching SpongeBob, which cuts scene every 11 seconds; one watching a slow PBS show, which cuts scene every 34 seconds; and one drawing. Nine minutes later, all three took tests on attention, impulse control, short-term memory, and problem-solving. The SpongeBob group scored significantly worse across every measure.

In the 1970s, children began watching television around age 4. Research from pediatrician Dimitri Christakis found that by 2009, the average age of first screen exposure had dropped to 4 months, as the content got faster and the audience got younger. Researchers separately found that each additional hour of daily screen time at ages 1 or 3 raised the risk of attention problems at age 7 by 9%.

[Aspen goes birding⛸️ @birdmoder]

This Mamdani quote is absolutely going down in history

[Dev Divine @FreeDaSouls]

@Lizzs_Lockeroom @cornholio_jones Not this how i found out they won the cup

[Luke Miani @LukeMiani]

> save $15M a year by cutting a screwworm monitoring program

> screwworm outbreak almost immediately

> $1B to combat it

Government efficiency

[MY NAME IS MY NAME 🇺🇸🪮 @ctreid89]

Ain’t no way bruh!

[Dev Divine @FreeDaSouls]

@RunUpNYK Yall say this every year

[gal౨ৎ @prtygal777]

Hummingbirds can pollinate up to 2,000 flowers a day and usually live around 4 years. She likely visited around 3 million plants before floating away on one she helped bloom.

[Merriam-Webster @MerriamWebster]

Our new LLM.

Available now.

[Dev Divine @FreeDaSouls]

@spectre0799 This crazy

[More Perfect Union @MorePerfectUS]

BREAKING: Inflation hit 4.2% year-over-year in May, erasing all wage growth.

[JustBreathe @stargazing90]

Everyone okay with that? They took money from every pay check ever had and spent it somewhere else..pissed yet?

[PmAmTraveller @pmamtraveller]

"Super Punch Out" by artist Gian Galang.

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

James Blood Ulmer, the innovative guitarist who fused avant-garde jazz with funk and the blues, has died at age 86.

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[The Cybersecurity guy @cyber__razz]

Watch this

[NEON @neonrated]

You are cordially invited to “the most thrilling party of the year.”

ONCE UPON A TIME IN HARLEM. Conceived and filmed by genre-defying filmmaker William Greaves. Directed by David Greaves. In select theaters October 16.

[Dev Divine @FreeDaSouls]

@Nexuist The search option is already there. You just pull down on the center of the Home Screen wtf are we doing

[Dev Divine @FreeDaSouls]

@netflix Seated but put his ass in a jar

[WOOK! @madeyawook]

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