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April 01, 2026 - 15:02 UTC
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can't stop thinking about 17 hours a day. replacing one of those hours with literally any non-screen activity would be beneficial. do some shoplifting. take up vandalism. throw rocks at cars from your window.
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Do we think she has a therapist? Because a therapist would be hitting the big red alert button
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Man it sucks seeing right-wing character assassination campaigns work in real time.
Please go read the proposed "Social Media Addiction" laws that the GOP is getting passed in these states as a way to limit speech I beg you.
Please go read the proposed "Social Media Addiction" laws that the GOP is getting passed in these states as a way to limit speech I beg you.
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I appreciate your suggestions on how to use my non screen time. My attorney will be using this to represent my future actions. /s
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i know it’s replacing small screen with big screen but one of the things I enjoy about going to see movies is it forces me to turn off my phone for 2-3 hours and be okay with it
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It's astounding if that 17 hour average is true. Like, it's literally sleep, online.
Mix in the occasional 5 min for a shit. Eat once a week. One of those human-sized gerbil water feeders
Mix in the occasional 5 min for a shit. Eat once a week. One of those human-sized gerbil water feeders
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I keep YouTube open on my phone almost all day but I’m listening like it’s an audio book rather than looking at my phone.
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Pouring your shit out of the window like a peasant in 1509 would be a remarkable health improvement
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Baby steps, she can start by replacing one hour of that time with, like, a video game. I'm not gonna read that article, so maybe I'm wrong with what she does, but I think converting one hour into something that might spark unconditional joy rather than just getting mad at social media would help
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I’ll be randomly vulnerable and say in her defense that I also have/had just as much screen time as her when I was in an extremely deep depression just laying in bed all day all night. You distract yourself with your phone. It’s more bearable than staring at the ceiling.
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Honestly can’t wait for Waymo to finish deploying here. That’s gonna be such a great source of stress relief.
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Egregious that you wouldn’t suggest the wholesome activity of throwing a car battery into the ocean.
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Taylor Lorenz sleeps nude on screens for 17 hours a day, which she believes gives her sexual powers
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The challenge for me is I'm willing to believe this is unhealthy behavior and possibly even addictive but the policy remedies proposed from Serious People all seem to have terrible second order consequences and/or are written by social media giants.
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Taylor Lorenz in her 85 degree apartment scrolling text based social media like it's a slot machine: how dare you put in the newspaper that I have a problem
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On the merits in isolation I think she’s correct that there are not serious extant studies backing up the posited conditions, but also she seems deeply pathological and we may not have a scientific category for what ails her (and many like her).
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Yeah “no diagnosis = its not real” isnt a great argument. The DSM is not the arbiter of truth.
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Not to be the turd in the punch bowl, but.... Isn't it her job to view social media and tech and report on it? She's a tech reporter.
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Reporting on tech isn't the same thing as browsing social media for hours at a time. If someone is a politics reporter that doesn't mean they need to spend literally every waking hour obsessing over politics and feeling sad when they run out.
Shes posted 23 times on twitter today. That is Too Much.
Shes posted 23 times on twitter today. That is Too Much.
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Right, like there's no one else I know who has such an encyclopedic knowledge of what's going on online as TL. I'm sure this isn't healthy for her but she's doing it for a reason, it's her job
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What do people see as some of her shit takes?
I’ve admittedly only caught some of her appearances on other shows but she comes across as knowledgable and not a total crank on the subjects that were discussed.
I’ve admittedly only caught some of her appearances on other shows but she comes across as knowledgable and not a total crank on the subjects that were discussed.
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Just looking up the phrase "Attentional Freedom" which led me to the Biden White House "AI Bill of Rights 2023" Which explains why all the tech companies and monopolies conspired to replace democracy with Trump. We are not meant to be free in the Brave New World. www.whitehouse.gov/releases/2026/03/president-donald-j-trump-unveils-national-ai-legislative-framework/
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Because it’s not in DSM-5-TR doesn’t mean it’s not a problem. 𝘐𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘵 𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳 is listed in 𝘊𝘰𝘯𝘥𝘪𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘍𝘶𝘳𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 𝘚𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘺.
It’ll be a diagnosis (dx) soon. Ie., latest mental health dx is 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘨𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘧 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳.
Lorenz shud stay in her lane of being, as she describes, “peerless” I’ll add 💩
It’ll be a diagnosis (dx) soon. Ie., latest mental health dx is 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘰𝘯𝘨𝘦𝘥 𝘨𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘧 𝘥𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘳𝘥𝘦𝘳.
Lorenz shud stay in her lane of being, as she describes, “peerless” I’ll add 💩
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Lost in all of this is that she is QUOTING an article in the first tweet
I am not a Lorenz defender or whatever but the amount of credible people failing to 1. See the quotation marks and 2. Seek out additional context when they could instead dunk on Lorenz is worrying
I am not a Lorenz defender or whatever but the amount of credible people failing to 1. See the quotation marks and 2. Seek out additional context when they could instead dunk on Lorenz is worrying
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I thought I was missing some context or something - quote's from here grimoiremanor.substack.com/p/the-meta-trials-free-speech-and-youth
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"Social media addiction isnt real" is gonna go up there with "the world is flat" on the "how does this take age" scale
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It sounds bad, but like, when I look at my phone screen time it doesn’t count my desktop screen time for work/study, so I’m probably hitting maybe not quite 17hrs a day, but not that far off.
Yes I go on social media and check messages & email, but I also read and study and stream stuff for my kid
Yes I go on social media and check messages & email, but I also read and study and stream stuff for my kid
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I also use an app to monitor my kid’s sleep so I can hear her in case she calls for me through the night - that’s 8 hours of “screen time” right there
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You know you can do things on your laptop other than go on social media right....? I spend 9-10 hours just in Premiere regularly
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I just got out of rehab and this sounds a lot like people who are trying to rationalize smoking crack or stealing adderall.
"But I get lots of work done" yeah and you're also a junkie who can't stop arguing online.
"But I get lots of work done" yeah and you're also a junkie who can't stop arguing online.
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I'm a corporate video editor, and my brain feels like sludge on the rare occasions I edit 45+ hours a week straight. I can't even imagine doing that to myself on the reg
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I work in IT for a living, video game as a hobby, and I don't log 17 hours a day even on work days and that's with 8 hours legally obligated to start with.
There's just no way that's healthy.
There's just no way that's healthy.
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