Ken Dee

[Ken Dee @KenDeeSk]

@ImDtF24 @lisamarieLML He is socially unaware and cannot read the room. His arrogance makes him unaware of the way others perceive him.

[Annemarie Dray @AnnemarieDray]

Casemiro has NOTHING to prove in football. And he’s out there in the 95th minute blocking and tackling like a madman. A sensational footballer and a truly remarkable character. I’m getting emotional merely thinking of seeing him playing for Manchester United for the last time. 👑

[Ken Dee @KenDeeSk]

@4shaann 😆😆😆

[Ken Dee @KenDeeSk]

@Fintech00 You don’t have to entertain kids! They were born to entertain themselves. All you need to do is take away the phone. Might take a week or so to break the habit, but soon they’ll be making forts, drawing pictures & building creations. Also helps if you put down your own phone.

[Ken Dee @KenDeeSk]

@UTDKara In this order? Most hated at the top?

[The Food Professor @FoodProfessor]

Like him or not, Premier Kinew of Manitoba is the only politician in Canada right now actually doing something to help reduce grocery prices.

The only one.

[Wab Kinew @WabKinew]

No tax on groceries.

That’s right, we’re taking all provincial taxes off food from the grocery store.

Breaking Budget Day news you can use...

That quick stop on the way home picking up the rotisserie chicken,  salad and drinks for the family - right now, you’re paying PST on that.

Once our budget passes … you won’t pay PST anymore.

Real savings for real life.
Right where it matters most.

Making life more affordable for Manitobans.

A lot done. A lot more to do. 🦬

[Nithya Shri @Nithya_Shrii]

DEAR APPLE, please make the Apple iPod again. Not everyone wants their kids to have full access to the internet and people yet.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

❤️🇧🇷 Manchester United fans: “One more year, one more year, Casemiro!” 🎶

The Brazilian had announced in January his decision to leave #MUFC in June. 👋🏽

[Dr.VivianS @DrVivianS]

I’ve noticed the exact same problem and I’ve been flagging this to both my colleagues and students alike. Lowest in-person exam averages recorded in over 10 years. People pushing this tech without properly understanding its implications are doing us all a massive disservice.

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

Every time you swipe to a new 30-second video, your brain releases a small pulse of dopamine in anticipation of what might come next. This is what neuroscientists call a variable ratio reinforcement schedule, the same mechanism that makes slot machines the most addictive form of gambling. The uncertainty does the work. And the feed delivers it 270 times per day.

The average TikTok user consumes 167 to 271 videos per day. Each one is 21 to 34 seconds long. That’s a dopamine pulse every half-minute for hours. Your nucleus accumbens, the brain’s reward center, adapts to that cadence. It recalibrates what “normal stimulation” feels like. When you then sit down with a novel or a crossword puzzle, your brain registers the low stimulation as aversive. You feel restless. You reach for your phone. That restlessness is withdrawal operating below conscious awareness.

The data on this is now stacking up. Average attention span on social media dropped from 12 seconds in 2015 to 8.25 seconds in 2025. Teens toggle between apps every 44 seconds, down from 2.5 minutes a decade ago. 52% of people now skip videos longer than 60 seconds even when they’re interested in the topic.

Here’s the part that changes the conversation. Researchers interrupted participants during a task with either TikTok, Twitter, or YouTube, then asked them to resume. After TikTok, accuracy dropped to barely above random guessing. Twitter and YouTube showed zero measurable impact. The short-form feed format specifically degrades prospective memory, your ability to hold an intention across a time gap.

The prefrontal cortex, which governs sustained attention and impulse control, doesn’t fully mature until around age 25. An entire generation is training that circuitry on rapid context switching 270 times per day. The brain wires to whatever you repeatedly expose it to. Full stop.

Puzzles, board games, long novels, long-form video. These function as something like resistance training for the prefrontal cortex. They require sustained effort without algorithmic reward. That’s the point. The discomfort you feel 10 minutes into a book after a week of heavy scrolling is the same discomfort you feel on rep 8 of a hard set. The adaptation is on the other side of it.

Your brain adapted to the feed. The same plasticity that allowed that works in reverse. But you have to actually put it under load.

[Camus @newstart_2024]

Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath just delivered the brutal truth parents and educators need to face:

“Even in schools, it doesn’t matter what the size of the screen is… and it doesn’t matter who bought it… All of these things are going to hurt learning, which in turn are going to hurt our kids’ cognitive development.”

His core warning:

Gen Z is the first modern generation to be less cognitively capable than their parents — despite more years in school.

Attention, memory, literacy, numeracy, executive function, even general IQ — all declining.

The culprit isn’t school itself.
It’s the widespread introduction of screens and digital tools for learning.

Across 80 countries, once tech floods classrooms, performance drops sharply.

Kids using computers ~5 hours/day for schoolwork score over 2/3 of a standard deviation lower than those who rarely touch tech.

US NAEP data mirrors it: states adopt 1:1 devices → scores plateau, then fall.

The biological reality:

Humans evolved to learn deeply from other humans, not screens.

Screens circumvent the natural mechanisms of attention, memory consolidation, and deep processing.

When the tool fails to deliver, we don’t remove it — we redefine success to fit the tool (e.g., SAT reading comprehension reduced to skimming short sentences instead of deep passages).

That’s not progress.

That’s surrender.

The cost is a generation losing cognitive sharpness at the exact moment the world needs them sharpest.

Parents, teachers, policymakers:

How much longer do we let screens dictate what “learning” looks like?

[beanie0597_2.0 @0Beanie05923291]

-Recess is better for students than “mindfulness practices” & SEL in the classroom. Recess is free.

-Paper, pencils & mini-whiteboards are better for students than iPads & Chromebooks. Paper, pencils, & mini-whiteboards are relatively cheap.

-Physical books are better for students than digital books. Physical books are cheaper, last longer, & don’t require a whole department of experts to “troubleshoot” or “fix” them.

School boards need to ask more questions before diving headfirst (with a lot of money) into anymore “innovative” programs and ideas for their districts.

[Ken Dee @KenDeeSk]

@Ham_zee111 Seriously… starting to worry about his head…

[Ken Dee @KenDeeSk]

Credit to @cbcgem 👏Olympic coverage has been incredible. I didn’t realize exactly how exceptional it has been until I left the country and now don’t have access. 😢 But #Canada 💯 has great coverage thanks to @CBCOlympics

[Ken Dee @KenDeeSk]

@GDMLafayette @CBCOlympics Right? I have been wondering if anyone else has noticed the significant drop off in our performance. Predictions is read said 27 medals 😬. At this point, I feel like we will be lucky to get 17…

[Lloyd Legalist @LloydLegalist]

Every Olympic event should include one average person competing for reference. #Olympic2026

[Devin Heroux @Devin_Heroux]

WAKE UP CANADA

Curling starts at the Olympics TODAY.

Canada vs Czechia at 7pm local -- 1pm ET back home. You can watch Canadians Jocelyn Peterman and Brett Gallant live on CBC Gem as they begin their quest for gold.

[Ken Dee @KenDeeSk]

@Mubarak_mubious Big gatherings for weddings and funerals. I think our mental and socio-emotional health is dependent on these rituals to celebrate/grieve/gather/commune/fellowship.

[UtdXclusive @UtdXclusive]

Manchester United is BROKEN: debt strangling us, fans exploited with soaring tickets, standards collapsed, a decade of mediocrity under Glazers + INEOS.

Enough is enough! United was built by us - now we fight to save it. Join the march on Feb 1 vs Fulham.

#UnitedIsBroken