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QAnon was 10 years ago. The boomer’s brains have been screen-melted for over a decade already. Good read but unfortunately we are far too late.
The baby boomer generation is the first to enter its most vulnerable years with unfettered access to the internet and, like the rest of us, it has trouble looking away. Americans over 60 now spend more than half their leisure hours in front of screens. But unlike millennials and most Gen-Xers, who have spent years navigating engagement bait, stealth marketing, and AI slop — and have developed a working instinct for what to trust — older adults tend to have little idea of what they’re looking at. This susceptibility is creating an entirely new type of responsibility for the adult children of these suddenly very online parents.
These adult children describe watching their relatives — call them iPad parents — ingest content they have no context for, slipping into a zombified state of consumption that their loved ones often believe is exacerbating their decline. “It seems like an addiction,” says Beth, a 51-year-old lawyer, who says she has watched her 84-year-old mother’s attention span atrophy over the past few years. “It kind of has the same symptoms — getting fussy if she’s not online or just constantly going back to try and get online.”
Marti DeLiema, a gerontologist at the University of Minnesota, likens the process of regulating a parent’s internet access to getting an adult to give up driving in their later years. “Driving is part of your identity. It’s like a mark of freedom and independence,” she says. The online world is “also a source of your social connection.” All this amounts to a particularly tricky balancing act for adult children: figuring out how to preserve their parents’ independence while protecting them from an ever-advancing slop-filled ecosystem.
Read Jessica Lucas’s report on how adult children now have to save their retired parents from slop-filled, scam-riddled feeds: nymag.visitlink.me/FQ9dBi
A lady was charming on Subway Takes for 60 seconds and now people are writing articles about it lmao
Writer humiliation
It’s not the first time Debbie Shields has held her own with a comedy legend: “Everything just happens to me.” vulture.com/article/subwayta…
Lmao people dunking on him but compared to how it felt at the time putting Guardians #1 was a crazy heat check that almost worked
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And anyone using the “need all good hitters 1-9” box score analysis would have traded & replaced him at the deadline
almost every baseball fandom says this about their team (including whoever loses the World Series) and it’s just funny because like……do you think front offices don’t understand all nine hitters being good is….good? Oh just have every player be good what an insight lmao
Stadium stuff is always so annoying lmao other metro areas have five times the population and a 100 year head start at building fans. It’s not that complicated.
The Rays can’t fill the Trop in the ALCS. Fans point to ticket prices (story by @SamBlum3): nytimes.com/athletic/7688793…
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I love trade deadlines in sports because they drive fan bases so crazy they start asking questions like “okay pick one: win a ring or be stuck in loser hell for a decade before dying alone?”
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