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Graeme Smyth
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Hi JJW. Yes, complex issue requiring multi-stakeholder action
p15 = proposed actions for policymakers who "play an imp't role...in protecting youth from harm [from social media]" incl "policies that limit access...to minimise harm...incl enforcing age minimums."
+ More action req'd by more parties.
December 13, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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Double-bendy buses in Brisbane!
December 12, 2025 at 4:15 AM
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Also, this foundational premise is false.
Young people are not banned from seeking and finding information and help on the internet.
December 10, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Yes. The linked report and eSafety commissioner acknowledge those benefits digital rights.
But they also recognise the profound harms.
Suggested actions for policy makers, tech companies, parents and teens below.
The social media ban/delay is consistent with these recommendations.
October 20, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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Hi 🧠. Apologies to Leigh who is deff not silly.
Problem IS NOT ineffective parenting. There's o/whelming power asymmetry btw parents/kids & SM platforms.
Report by US Surgeon General recommends actions/engagement by policymakers, tech cos, researchers, parents AND teens.
www.hhs.gov/sites/defaul...
Page 5 of 2023 report "Social Media and youth mental health" by US Surgeon General. Section title: Social Media Has Both Positive and Negative Impacts on Children and Adolescents Highlighted text part 1: There is broad agreement among the scientific community that social media has the potential to both benefit and harm children and adolescents. Highlighted text part 2: Because adolescence is a vulnerable period of brain development, social media exposure during this period warrants additional scrutiny. Page 12 of 2023 report "Social Media and youth mental health" by US Surgeon General. Section title: We must take action: a way forward Highlighted paragraph text: Our children and adolescents don't have the luxury of waiting years until we know the full extent of social media's impact. Their childhoods and development are happening now. While social media use can have positive impacts for some children, the evidence noted throughout this Surgeon General's Advisory necessitates significant concern with the way it is currently designed, deployed, and utilized. Child and adolescent use of platforms designed for adults places them at high risk of "unsupervised, developmentally inappropriate, and potentially harmful" use according to the National Scientific Council on Adolescence.87 At a moment when we are experiencing a national youth mental health crisis, now is the time to act swiftly and decisively to protect children and adolescents from risk of harm. Page 14 of same report Highlighted text: To better safeguard the mental health and well-being of children and adolescents, policymakers, technology companies, researchers, families, and young people must all engage in a proactive and multifaceted approach. Through the recommendations below, we can provide more resources and tools to children and families, we can gain a better understanding of the full impact of social media, and we can maximize the benefits and minimize the harms of social media platforms to create safer, healthier online environments for children.
October 20, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Speaking of incorrect spelling, I'd like to report a crime by The Australian via their Instagram account.
www.instagram.com/p/DPpC8AEjfz...
October 12, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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The linked article describes the electric calcination as being using the inner tube directly as a resistive heating element.
August 6, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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This is a theme in "Juice" by Tim Winton

www.abc.net.au/news/2024-10...
Extract from attached review of the climate fiction book "Juice" by Tim Winton: When the narrator learns it was the actions of his predecessors - namely us - that destroyed the world's beauty and made much of it uninhabitable, the knowledge leaves him and the reader bereft. "Winton's narrator describes himself as having 'this sense of solitary, shapeless grief' on learning the planet's history. These sections of the book were almost overwhelming in how effectively and simply they said, 'Here's how the world was in the past', but you are sitting in that world yourself as the reader. I thought it was extraordinary," Hay says.
July 10, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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apropos of nothing, this is my holiday reading this week.
Front cover of book titled “Nuclear war: A Scenario” by Anne Jacobsen. Cover graphic features a mushroom cloud in white against a dark blue sky. The base of the mushroom cloud is deep orange and red. Rear cover of book “Nuclear war: A Scenario” by Anne Jacobsen The blurb on the rear cover reads as follows: “Nuclear war begins with a blip on a radar screen. This is a minute-by-minute account of what comes next. It has to be read to be believed. The first rule of nuclear war is that there are no rules. Until now, no one outside official circles has known exactly what would happen if a rogue state launched a nuclear missile at the Pentagon. These are the real-life protocols that choreograph the end of civilization as we know it. If a single nuclear missile is launched, it could provoke dozens in return. Frantic calls over secure lines work to confirm the worst as armoured helicopters are scrambled outside. Decisions that affect hundreds of millions of lives need to be made within six minutes, based on partial information, in the knowledge that once launched, nothing is capable of halting the destruction. Based on dozens of new interviews with military and civilian experts who have built the weapons, been privy to the response plans, and taken responsibility for crucial decisions, this is the only account of what a nuclear exchange would look like. Nuclear War is at once a compulsive non-fiction thriller and a powerful argument that we must rid ourselves of these world-ending weapons for ever.”
June 22, 2025 at 11:29 PM
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I saw someone post about this recently....
December 19, 2024 at 10:13 AM
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Incredible scenes at Perry Park for the game between @brisbaneroar.bsky.social women and Central Coast after today's rain.
Support staff have been sweeping and scooping water from the surface since 4pm.
Original 5pm KO now delayed until 7pm!
#aleaguewomen
December 14, 2024 at 8:25 AM
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This is the key, David.
Matt says "develop better solutions to deploy in the future" instead of "accelerate existing solutions"
But any sub-3C target requires immediate deploy everything-now action.
As @globalecoguy.bsky.social says: "Time is as important as tech."
bsky.app/profile/glob...
Screen capture of text from article in linked post. The visible text says the following: "Time is the most crucial parameter here, not whether we have the best possible tools. We have already squandered decades debating and denying climate change — a form of “predatory delay” that benefitted big polluters. But we’ve wasted all the time we can, and we cannot delay any longer. We will need to do everything we can to cut emissions in half during this decade. That means no more waiting. No more delays. Not even well-intended ones, including waiting for better technologies that can help reduce emissions a little better. We have to get started today and fold in any new tools that become available as we go along. As venture capitalist and entrepreneur Ibrahim AlHusseini likes to say, “Now is better than new.” And he’s right. I’d maybe add, “Time is as important as tech.”
December 2, 2024 at 11:06 PM
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Don't forget the graphic version of the discourses of delay framework.
www.leolinne.com/-discourses-...
November 26, 2024 at 3:33 AM