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[Chris Williamson @CWilliamson44]

This is scary man. Really pray for her long term health.

[Seattle Storm PR @SeattleStormPR]

Dominique Malonga became the youngest player in WNBA history to 100 offensive rebounds and the only 20-year old in league history to do so (previous youngest was Lauren Jackson).

[BTS Daily⁷ @btsdaily77]

[FULL HD] BTS ‘JUMP’ PARIS 2026 🇫🇷

[BTS_official @bts_bighit]

[#오늘의방탄]
260717 BTS WORLD TOUR 'ARIRANG' IN PARIS

#방탄소년단 #BTS #BTS_WORLDTOUR_ARIRANG
#BTS_WORLDTOUR_ARIRANG_EUROPE
#BTS_WORLDTOUR_ARIRANG_PARIS

[BTS_official @bts_bighit]

What are the FIRST 3 Words Define You?

🔗 Jin: https://t.co/NTmJuxOhDi
🔗 SUGA: https://t.co/WXg657sXRf
🔗 j-hope: https://t.co/nHNSMRv80P

#BTS #방탄소년단 #BTS_NORMAL

[BTS_official @bts_bighit]

Welcome to the LAMRON era!
Join us for a week of 'NORMAL' Listening Parties on @STATIONHEAD!

🎧 https://t.co/vE1gPLX8p8
*Stationhead log-in & Connect to Spotify or Apple Music account required.

#BTS #방탄소년단 #BTS_NORMAL

[Pop Core @TheePopCore]

BTS drops the music video for "NORMAL," now available on Spotify.

How would you rate it out of 10?

[Rolling Stone @RollingStone]

BTS have unveiled the music video for "Normal"

https://t.co/8uOhM6RWcQ

[World Music Awards @WORLDMUSICAWARD]

#BTS' has released their new amazing video for "Normal" exclusively on Spotify!💪🆕📽️💥 ᯤ🌎🔥👑👑👑👑👑👑👑🩵🖤💜

Explicit ver: https://t.co/K1wY3p3J0l
Clean ver: https://t.co/dTalpgjpSF

NORMAL MV OUT NOW
#BTS_NORMAL
@BTS_twt

[Pop Core @TheePopCore]

BTS officially releases "NORMAL" as the second single from ARIRANG.

[interscope @Interscope]

Shop both the NORMAL Original & Korean Ver. Single CD and Original & Instrumental Single CD now on the official BTS store! Get yours before it's gone 💿 @bts_bighit
🔗https://t.co/WjcAF5FI4S

[BTS_official @bts_bighit]

BTS (방탄소년단) <NORMAL> Official MV
Premieres exclusively on @Spotify

🎵 Explicit Ver.: https://t.co/jNcZEiZeCb
🎵 Clean Ver.: https://t.co/s75ocz0JRH

#BTS #방탄소년단 #BTS_NORMAL

[BIGHIT MUSIC @BIGHIT_MUSIC]

BTS (방탄소년단) ‘NORMAL’ Release

▶Global: https://t.co/umdPxw4L7t
▶멜론: https://t.co/aNxImhMndx
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#BTS #방탄소년단 #BTS_NORMAL

[Paul Walsh @Paul__Walsh]

🚨 The Dangerous Illusion of the "Child Safety" Tech Ban: A Technologist’s Take.

The public debate on digital child safety has devolved into an academic shouting match, and the proposed "solutions" are pointing us toward a dangerous world of corporate surveillance and state control.

On one side, we’ve got social psychologist Jonathan Haidt, who blames children’s screen addiction on “peer pressure” and a “neighbourhood collective action failure.”

Instead of encouraging normal parental boundaries, he’s demanding invasive state technology to bypass them.

He frames this entire issue around solving a basic parenting hurdle:

“But Mom, everyone else in my class is on, and I'm being excluded!"

Yet, in his own home, he boasts that he’s done “an amazing job” at keeping his own children away from social media.

We’ve got a social psychologist abdicating basic parenting, and his proposed solution, as a nontechnical expert, is technology driven, state mandated identity verification to solve a family boundary issue. This is a dangerous Trojan horse.

👁️It requires building a pervasive, surveillance tracking infrastructure for mass control.

⚖️The Missing Voices: Technologists vs. Academics

While The Guardian highlighted the clash between Haidt and psychologist Candice Odgers, the conversation remains completely void of opinions from the people who are technical experts in online child safety, those with decades of experience in both technology, human behavior, and human centric software design.

📲Technical experts are the only ones who can know what actually works, what’s technically impossible, and the personal safety risks imposed on both teens and adults when psychologists and academics are the ones with the loudest voices in policymaking.

To treat a peer pressure challenge as a crisis requiring state intervention is an irresponsible approach to parenting. Haidt’s academic career is built on social psychology, group dynamics, and how children develop moral frameworks.

Someone with that expertise knows that standing your ground against social pressure is a baseline part of healthy childhood development. We don’t need a state mandate to bail out parents who’re afraid to address normal teenage challenges.

Which makes it highly curious why someone who deeply understands human behavior is pushing so hard for a government enforced alternative.

💼 The Dialog Connection

Haidt’s name is on Peter Thiel’s “Dialog” list. If you wanted to assemble a global A-Team to implement surveillance and control at a societal level while making people think it was their own idea, you’d build a list just like Dialog.

If you wanted to invite and influence the EU presidency, you’d host the Dialog meeting in Ireland, where the government has a conflict of interest. Major tech companies hold massive leverage there, with just two giants responsible for nearly 40% of the country's entire corporation tax. Ireland's newly appointed head of data privacy at the DPC is a former top lobbyist for Meta.

I’m not saying anything bad about Haidt. But if mass surveillance is the goal for this private club, he’s one of the most qualified, vocal, and incentivised voices they could use to convince the public to hand over their freedom.

🔍The Alternative: Nuance, Evidence, and Real Parenting

Thankfully, some academics are fighting back against this moral panic. Dr. Candice Odgers, a professor of developmental psychology who’s studied adolescent mental health for 25 years, points out the glaring flaws in Haidt’s thesis.

Odgers says that blanket social media bans are likely to make things worse, not better. Her research shows that the data doesn’t support the claim that digital tech has "rewired" children's brains. She points to systemic issues, the pandemic, the economy, and household instability, arguing that blaming social media "sucks all the air out of the room in terms of thinking about solutions”.

As Odgers says: "We wouldn't accept this level of evidence for other things that harm our children... I’d want a paediatric oncologist to correct the record if someone was saying that purple dye was the major cause of childhood leukaemia”.

Education Over Banning: A Father’s Perspective

I’m a father of 3, and I found a practical balance.

The Early Days: 15 years ago, my oldest two were the first in their school to own iPads. Parental controls back then were terrible. But they were protected by a child safety browser my team built (which was subsequently used by a significant number of families and schools). Because social media wasn’t as pervasive then, my concern was extreme adult content. Most importantly, I educated them. I’d pick education over blocking everyday.

My youngest is now at the perfect age for these concerns. She isn't on social media because she’s been raised to understand why those platforms are unsuitable for her right now. That’s responsible parenting in my opinion. She not only accepts this, she’s happy *because* she *doesn’t* suffer from peer pressure. That’s the complete opposite to what Haidt says is happening.

She has owned an iPhone and iPad since she was five. She uses them to build villages and design digital cities inside Roblox. Roblox can be dangerous, but with active, healthy parental guidance, I keep her safe while letting her create. She also builds incredible villages and tells stories using Lego. Balance.

The Reality of Digital Age Gating

No parent is perfect, and parents in the same family don’t always agree. Yet, a small handful of academics, politicians, and regulators believe they should enforce their personal parenting opinions on every family in the world.

Age gating mobile phones and the open web isn't the same as checking an ID for alcohol at a cash register. It’s a false equivalence. Nontechnical people rely on simple physical analogies when they’re out of their depth discussing digital infrastructure and services.

Enforcing digital age gating requires a pervasive identity tracking infrastructure. That isn't “liberation” for parents; it's a mass surveillance apparatus wrapped in the cozy rhetoric of child safety. It strips away every parent's ability to raise their children the way they believe is best.

Child proofing everyone’s phone is beyond ridiculous. Being a parent doesn’t qualify me to dictate how other parents raise their kids, and it certainly doesn’t qualify academics to design a surveillance state under the guise of digital protection.

If I wasn’t a parent I’d be more pissed at patents telling me it’s my responsibility to help keep their kids safe because they won’t have for help to set the parental controls that are available to them today.

We must reject these lazy, dangerous bans and instead empower families through education, robust tech safety standards, and real parental responsibility.

[ᴍᴊ⁷𖧵APOBANGPO @_yoontiny_]

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[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

New from me: The KIDS Act tried to avoid KOSA's glaring First Amendment problems, but no matter which way you skin a cat, it still violates the constitution (at least I think that's how the saying goes):

[Taylor the Blazing Dracogriff @guy75700the]

@AriCohn https://t.co/FC8QHwyksj #stopageverification #savespeech

[Ari Cohn @AriCohn]

New from me: The KIDS Act tried to avoid KOSA's glaring First Amendment problems, but no matter which way you skin a cat, it still violates the constitution (at least I think that's how the saying goes):

[christan (no i), ß @ChristanWNBA]

“If you’re broke, don’t bet” might be an all-time bar

[Women's Hoops @hoopstatsinfo]

WNBA Top 5 FGM (Ranked by FG%)- Midrange
1. Azzi Fudd
2. Paige Bueckers
3. Courtney Williams
4. Jackie Young
5. A'ja Wilson

[Colin Salao @colincsalao]

Full conversation with Natasha Cloud on the abuse WNBA players receive from sports bettors. One quote that stood out:

“I’m called a bitch, I’m called a n*****, I’m called everything under the sun. I’ve been told they hope our plane crashes on the way home.”