#technology-addiction tag

The U.S. still doesn't have a surgeon general - so RFK Jr. just stepped in with a controversial warning about kids and screens

A public health advisory warns that excessive, hard-to-control screen use harms children’s mental and physical health, urging coordinated reductions in screen time.

fromwww.berkeleyside.org

3 weeks ago

These UC Berkeley students are leading the fight against phones

Dawson Kelly, a third-year student and event host, stated, 'I feel like [screen] addiction has kind of been our birthright... We need more infrastructure for our generation to take back our time, take back our agency.'

Education

Law

fromAbove the Law

4 weeks ago

Sex, Drugs, And Social Media Addiction - Above the Law

Social media addiction is recognized legally, with a jury finding it comparable to substance addiction, leading to support groups like Media Addicts Anonymous.

Film

fromArs Technica

2 months ago

The AI apocalypse is nigh in Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die

Gore Verbinski returns with Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die, a darkly satirical time-loop sci-fi film starring Sam Rockwell that warns against technology addiction while following a time traveler recruiting diner patrons to prevent an AI apocalypse.

fromKqed

3 months ago

An Amusing AI Apocalypse in 'Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die'

He is there, while customers sip coffee and bite into an omelet, to enlist recruits for the resistance. In the future, he says, people have entirely stopped participating in life. "It all started with morning phone time," he says. In the enjoyably oddball, forebodingly bleak and ridiculously plausible Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die, a ragtag group fights a coming AI apocalypse across a handful of nondescript West Hollywood blocks.

Film

US news

fromBoston.com

10 months ago

Real risk to youth mental health is 'addictive use,' not screen time alone, study finds

Addictive use of technology correlates with higher suicidal thoughts in children, not just screen time duration.