Priora

Curious to a fault. Overthinking family life, tech, and culture. All opinions subject to change.

[Priora @priora__]

@micsolana A missed opportunity to marvel. Watching one person’s perseverance compound into so much real world impact, and feeling not even a flicker of awe, is its own kind of poverty.

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@wesyang Can someone please inject Sam Harris with 5mg of lightheartedness? His point about GLP-1 disclosure is fair, but why does everything have to arrive as a moral indictment?

[Walker⚡️ @WalkerAmerica]

Men 250 years ago: “I’ve been drinking Madeira wine, ale, rum, and hard cider since I weened off my mother’s tit. Water? Never touched the poison. On the morrow, I shall overthrow the most powerful empire in the history of the world.

Men today: “I drank a glass of wine and it ruined my life. I couldn’t even podcast. My bracelet told me I was dying.”

[Priora @priora__]

@spencerpratt Hard times maketh a comedian

[Priora @priora__]

@NoFilterSkin Just have a kid or two and you’ll find out real quick what it feels like to rush out the door with zero makeup.

[spidey @lochan_twt]

“We used to memorize the whole syntax”

[spidey @lochan_twt]

The day a blind man sees. The first thing he throws away is the stick that has helped him all his life

[Priora @priora__]

Yes exactly. “screen time” is still too crude a unit! It really matters what is on the screen.

If you count all screen time the same, your young child watching something like My Neighbor Totoro - a beautiful, imaginative film - gets lumped into the same bucket as them locked into evil CoComelon’s rapid-fire dopamine machine. Or when they are learning real math on an app like Synthesis Math, it gets lumped into the same bucket as playing Candy Crush-style games designed to keep them tapping away.
Pacing, visual style, interactivity, educational substance all matter. There’s a lot of junk screentime to avoid but some really good screentime to enrich too.

[Priora @priora__]

@dailystoic It's the same pattern as therapists needing therapists, doctors needing doctors, coaches needing coaches etc

Stoicism attracts reactive people trying to become less reactive! Stoicism attracts people who need Stoicism.

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@dailystoic In his defense, Stoicism is mostly for people who need Stoicism.

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@thesamparr I’m old enough to remember when “lame” was considered an offensive word! I guess offensiveness has a half-life. 🤷‍♀️

[Priora @priora__]

@DawnOfSunset @newstart_2024 yes exactly! There is clearly good screen time and bad unhealthly screen time, it shouldn't be all lumped in the one "screen time" basket.

[Niels Hoven 🐮 @NielsHoven]

Bad parents use screens as drugs

Good parents use screens as tools

I understand this level of nuance is difficult for some people to grasp

[Priora @priora__]

@NielsHoven Yes so much of the discourse doesn't differentiate, it's wild!

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@gtmom @NielsHoven Hilarious! Why is it that few are able to comprehend there is good screen time and there is bad screen time?

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@NielsHoven Yikes! We have to be thick skinned to let kids use a screen these days 😅

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@DiedSuddenly_ This overstates the study. It found associations, not causation, and lower white-matter integrity measures, not screens “literally stripping away” white matter.

Important study but the real question is what the minutes are made of. https://t.co/9otdc8pXwg

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https://t.co/j8TLq6tYVA

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@JudyHanks07 @ReturnOfKappy I really think we are missing the point that some types of screen time is good and some bad. That study circulating today motivated me to write about it, just posted this reflection of my own parental fieldwork :) https://t.co/9otdc8pXwg

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https://t.co/j8TLq6tYVA

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@drseanmullen Yes! The study (and commentators) don't differentiate good screen time from bad. That's the real issue. That study circulating today motivated me to write about it, just posted this, would love to know your thoughts: https://t.co/B9cgc50ywt

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https://t.co/j8TLq6tYVA