That’s the untold narrative of the migrant/dual identity person, when people from home tell you to go not-home.

I think this is a great opportunity also to fight effects of declining birth rates - openness to youth could save our societies. Said as someone who was an economic migrant before becoming an academic

To write on paper, compute and memorize while everyone else just trains a bot from childhood to old age.

What I find dystopic and fascinating is the no tech narrative that I have seen pushed in some of the introductory rounds of the elementary schools we toured for our kid. “Our school has no tablets”. I am wondering if this is going to become yet another badge of the privileged, educated…

Only on the good ones.

It’s a horrible disease but grateful the state of care is excellent. For the whole family, it’s been a true mental exercise in deciding whether we should let statistics dictate how we live. Funny to dedicate a career to better understanding data and then choosing to not want to know.

My dad’s diagnosis has been revelatory in understanding - and I mean TRULY understanding, not just scholarly “getting” - the stats of correlation, causation, and missing data. Are we grateful that we’ve advanced in gene diagnosis? Certainly. But are we keeping up with everything else? Not quite.

This is amazing! Congratulations Tobias!

We’re trying a poker chip based approach to tv. As in: you get 3 x 10 minutes chips to use in a day, to cut on the negotiations. Still gathering data.

It’s still very cool for the youths of everywhere else, who are not very concerned with the dangers of mischkonsum. I think there is (still!) a myth of getting wasted in Amsterdam, which inhabitants of the center have very mixed feelings about.

Well weed has a fascinating legal status where it’s both sold legally and not legal - this has been the case for a long time and I think has mostly made it very ordinary/unproblematic/uncool to the local youths (this is what all former youths tell me since a decade). However!

This scene did not take place in this here city.

Per questo la verità è che non sappiamo ancora quasi niente, ma ci stiamo lavorando :)

Che poi ci sta tutto, la difficoltà a definire misinformation (accapiglio n.1 di quelli nel campo), la mancanza di diversità in accademia, il fatto che gli effetti dei media son sempre piccoli. Ma anche: studiare disinformazione potrebbe dirci tantissimo su come da umani gestiamo le informazioni.