August

NYC

[Tommy Beer @TommyBeer]

Dude

[Knicks Nation @KnicksNation]

You can't fake that look.

The passion. The intensity. The belief.

What an Interview from Mikal Bridges here.

0-0.

[Kalshi Sports @KalshiSports]

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[August @_Aug_55]

@WorldWideWob *Gets in cab* “Take me to the Garden”

[August @_Aug_55]

@NefflynB

[August @_Aug_55]

@snkr_twitr Use code

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[August @_Aug_55]

@snkr_twitr $82.50 + shipping

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[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Every additional minute your toddler spends on a screen, they hear about 7 fewer words from you. By age 3, they also make 5 fewer attempts to talk back and lose one back-and-forth exchange with a parent. That’s from a 2024 JAMA Pediatrics study that put speech-recognition recorders inside actual homes across Australia.

The 49% stat in this tweet is real. It comes from a 2017 study at SickKids Hospital in Toronto that tracked 894 children aged 6 to 24 months. For every 30 minutes of handheld screen time per day, the risk of a child being slow to form words and sentences increased by 49%. But only the speech output was affected. Gestures, body language, and social interaction were all fine.

The mechanism is displacement. A toddler’s brain learns language through something researchers call “serve and return”: baby babbles, parent responds, baby tries again. That loop is how the brain’s language wiring gets built. When a screen is on, that exchange drops off.

And we can now see it on brain scans. A 2020 JAMA Pediatrics study at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital scanned the brains of 47 kids aged 3 to 5. Kids with more screen time had weaker white matter, the insulation around nerve fibers that helps different parts of the brain talk to each other. The weak spots were in the exact areas that control language and early reading.

A 2023 study at Tohoku University in Japan followed 7,097 children from birth. More screen time at age 1 was associated with higher rates of communication delays at ages 2 and 4. Each additional hour widened the gap.

The AAP recommends zero screen time for children under 18 months, except for video calls. The average child under 2 already gets over an hour a day. But a 2023 systematic review found that when kids with speech delays stopped using devices for six months, 36.7% showed measurable improvement. The word in the tweet is “destroys.” The data says it’s closer to “delays,” and in many cases, delays that respond when the screens come off.

[August @_Aug_55]

@snkr_twitr They canceled my size 12 last time 😑

[August @_Aug_55]

@NickDePaula @barstooljwill @hoopinghollerin 🙌🏻

[August @_Aug_55]

@Travonne My fear with all of these is the 3m being cooked fresh of the box.

[Zohran Kwame Mamdani @ZohranKMamdani]

#ReleaseTheCuomoList

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Rare moment when a deaf taxi driver picks up a deaf passenger.

[August @_Aug_55]

@knicks_tape99 Single sole Timbs will definitely do it!

[August @_Aug_55]

@mitchell_ness @SacramentoKings Stop playing games and drop that white Jwill already.

[August @_Aug_55]

@NickDePaula Medial > Lateral … Need these bad tho.

[August @_Aug_55]

@KevinOConnorNBA Sick click bait bro. Saying actual NBA player is wild while you’re eating Doritos watching it.

[August @_Aug_55]

@snkr_twitr Those prices 🤮 Screen printed graphics too.

[August @_Aug_55]

@joshhart 🙋🏻‍♂️

[August @_Aug_55]

@LethalShooter__ Removed the creeper too 🫡