Happy Pride to this Caravaggio self-portrait that made one man so gay he had to go to the hospital
Matt Baume 🏳️🌈
“When The Plains Sentinel contacted Nebraska’s state police about Waugh’s claim of 30,000 annual trafficking tips, a spokesman quickly admitted the colonel was mistaken. In fact, there were only 88 such calls in 2025….” @enbrown.bsky.social @maggiemcneill.bsky.social
Bottom line: Even if phones play some role, the mechanism may not be alarming and the evidence is far from settled.
reason.com/2026/06/10/t...
Again, @enbrown.bsky.social debunks some of our constant phone panic. 'Alas, we live in a period of total paranoia and doom about smartphones...I want to look (once again) at why this fatalistic view is unwarranted and how the hype about phones & fertility doesn't hold up' reason.com/2026/06/10/t...
"Did you know 79% of baristas masturbate?"
a truly exceptional level of paranoia
Lots of differences b/w places where mobile coverage was high & those where it wasn't. Are we really looking at iPhone effects, or just urban vs. rural fertility trends during the Great Recession?
P.S. We should also keep in mind that fertility rate drops below 2 are not a post-iPhone development in many places!
Many dips started in the 1960s and '70s and were much steeper late last century than over the past two decades.
The authors didn't measure how many people in their study areas actually had iPhones or whether birth rates actually dropped more among iPhone users.
They just measured overall birth rates in areas with more or less AT&T mobile network coverage b/w 2007-2011.
