Dubby

We aren’t as unique as we think we are “On Here”.

[Dubby @dubbythe1]

For the record I hate that my phone wants to always autocorrect at least one word in my tweets to screw them up, I hate it ever more I am too lazy to delete and correct.

[susan abulhawa | سوزان ابو الهوى @susanabulhawa]

Literally, the whole fucking world came to their aid, gave them someone else’s country, paid them reparations unprecedented in human history. But it’s not enough. They think they should be able to get away with genocide, colonial expansion, and endless looting and pillaging around the world.

[Han Shawnity 🇺🇸 @HanShawnity]

When even France is like "hey, slow down, you're surrendering too fast," you know it's bad.

[WIRED @WIRED]

The leak also points to a built-in matchmaking system that pairs members for both networking and dating, as well as a list of people who should never be paired. https://t.co/4eXfPUEHbv

[Malware Unicorn @malwareunicorn]

Preparing for another birthday party for my kiddo. Spent 2 months working on this 5 ft cardboard derpy tiger. #KpopDemomHunters

[gabsmashh @gabsmashh]

https://t.co/EHDUvCTDw5

[WIRED @WIRED]

A trove of internal records from a secret society for figures in US politics, finance, and tech was left exposed online, WIRED has confirmed, naming participants in its events and revealing sensitive personal details they were assured would stay private. https://t.co/Jviks1jwAw

[Joe☭🔻 @ScottishCommie]

After watching you lot whitewash a genocide for almost 3 years its no wonder.

[WIRED @WIRED]

Another week, another Meta PR disaster. Are we shocked? Nahhhh.

Here's your Meta chaos roundup. Enjoy 💅

[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%.

[Ben Smith @semaforben]

My most optimistic journalism take:

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Fox paid $485 million for the rights to broadcast this World Cup. The New York Times put the fair market value at $1 to $1.5 billion. The hydration break is how Fox gets its money's worth.

FIFA announced mandatory 3-minute pauses midway through each half of all 104 World Cup 2026 matches, not just hot ones. That includes games inside climate-controlled domed stadiums with roofs. The announcement came at a World Broadcaster Meeting in Washington DC. FIFA said the decision was made after consultation with coaches and broadcasters.

A few months later, FIFA gave broadcasters the green light to sell ads during the pauses. Fox gets 2 minutes and 10 seconds per break, starting 20 seconds after the whistle and ending 30 seconds before play resumes. Across all 104 games, that's 832 potential ad slots that didn't exist in soccer before this tournament. Fox and Telemundo project a combined $850 million in ad revenue from the 2026 World Cup.

The player welfare argument is also real. Argentina's Enzo Fernandez said he felt "dizzy" in "very dangerous" temperatures during last summer's Club World Cup in the US, where some games approached 100 degrees Fahrenheit. FIFA had reason to act. But it applied those breaks to every match regardless of conditions, and opened a commercial window that makes this World Cup more ad-friendly than any before it.

Fox proved the point on day one. In the opener between Mexico and South Africa, Fox missed the 30-second return window FIFA mandated. The ball was already in play when the network came back from commercials.

Coca-Cola, a top-tier global FIFA partner for decades, runs the hydration stations on the field. That same 3-minute pause serves three commercial interests at once: the field sponsor, Fox's ad revenue, and Fox's streaming subscribers.

The 2030 World Cup goes to Spain, Portugal, and Morocco. The 2034 tournament lands in Saudi Arabia. Both regions see extreme summer heat. FIFA has not confirmed whether the pauses will outlast this summer's tournament. But $850 million in new advertising inventory tends to answer that question on its own.

[WIRED @WIRED]

Rank One, whose board includes a former CIA deputy director and a former FBI science chief, supplied face recognition to Meta for internal development of its smart glasses app. https://t.co/DLX5qYpMsj

[Autumn Christian @teachrobotslove]

I was a disaster of a human being when I was constantly searching for people who would "meet my needs." I'd obsess about all the ways my lovers and friends weren't "meeting my needs," which were really just these specific acts and services I'd elevated in my mind as *needs* because I wanted an external reason I could obsess about as to why I wasn't happy. At some point I realized the point of a relationship was not to have my needs fulfilled, it was to express love and help the light of goodness move through me and into other people. Only when I let go of the idea of needed to be satisfied and fulfilled by my relationships, was I actually satisfied.

And ultimately, I discovered the truth is that there was one person who could fulfill it all my needs. It was me.

[Rogue Bogey @roguebogey]

It really isn't the lack of tutorials although that tends to be an org's biggest excuse (and rightly an important one), but the biggest obstacles are inertia, entropy, and apathy.

Inertia because things grew overly complex and leadership was often convinced that they need tooling more than they needed discipline and process improvement. So, keeping things in motion became the norm and the business provided no breathing room to grow properly, and at the same time, no space to prune the waste. people simply continued to do the same thing over and over. "It's how we do it here" is something I hear over and over again.

Entropy because things that are overly complex degrade and the fix was often to layer more stuff on top that only served to obfuscate problems at the core. It's why you find the DA password in a share with Everyone Read privileges. It's also why remediation is hard; sometimes the cure is just as bad as the disease. Well, maybe in the end not as bad, but certainly as costly.

Apathy because .. well.. see points 1 and 2. You think it doesn't exist because people seemingly express "this is my passion"? In reality the passion only sees shiny and ooh and ahh .. no one really wants to tackle the messy shit at the bottom of the pile and slug through the bureaucracy and corporate politics with the will needed to make things right.

Red teams pat each other on the back when they priv escalate, blue teams are happy because they get more budget, but nothing changes .. really. At least until AI arrives and then we all get to panic again forgetting the rot beneath our feet and inertia, entropy, and apathy get bigger and stronger.

[Heidi Blake @HeidilBlake]

For the past 9 months, I've been investigating Andrew Tate's empire of sexual exploitation — drawing on thousands of private messages and sealed court files, as well as interviews with the Tates, their associates & more than a dozen alleged victims. Here's what I found: https://t.co/q1L65EVG1O

[Jonathan Cook @Jonathan_K_Cook]

For any British viewer, watching these Irish commentators explain why it is important for Ireland to boycott a football match against Israel is like being thrust into an alternate universe. One where morality – not money – guides the agenda.

A different world is possible.

[Dubby @dubbythe1]

All things being said, 95 was not winning us a ring, or he would have already.. A complete team with a top 12 QB gets us closer than 95 ever could. And yes I wish he could have been part of it but such is the business

[Dubby @dubbythe1]

The most Browns thing ever would be to trade away 1 or 2 of the best defensive players in the league (what they get doesn’t matter), then proceed to not lock in the top pick next year, have to deal a number of the acquired picks to move up, and then select a bust.

[Dubby @dubbythe1]

@MikeIsaac Should do a Mike Isaac v Gummy worm courtroom challenge

[Dubby @dubbythe1]

Maybe AI can be the lifeguard

[WIRED @WIRED]

The job, which is associated with the Zuckerberg family office, is located in Kauai, Hawaii, where the Meta CEO owns a massive compound. https://t.co/HpsJ5fuZm4