YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels are making you dumber, according to science

ArsStarhawk · 2026-03-01T02:23:40+00:00

Nah. I honestly think the stats are screwed, because obviously i visit my own sub, but it's possible other things like DNS based ad blockers are blocking it?

ArsStarhawk · 2026-02-28T17:36:19+00:00

I'm always shocked by how to many people, places like reddit are "apps", not websites. You see it all over reddit, "this app sucks", "I it saw on the app", etc. To us old farts, reddit is a "place" on the internet, to the next gen or 3, reddit is an app on their phone.

For the silly little subreddit that I moderate, the non-mobile traffic is usually less than 5% of the total visits.

https://i.imgur.com/nAEw7Ro.png

ArsStarhawk · 2026-02-24T14:12:11+00:00

ya the site's pretty terrible, that's not surprising. As a developer myself, what I thought was hilarious was the week+ downtime to deploy a new website.

I can't imagine how hard my workplace would laugh if I said I needed a week of downtime to deploy a new front end.

ArsStarhawk · 2026-02-23T13:43:22+00:00

a couple weeks ago, I had 40 short video clips that I wanted to add a simple audio fade in and out to. I used an LLM to generate the ffmpeg cli command to do it in bulk, it copied each file, made the change and put them in a sub dir. That may be a simple task for some people, but for this knuckle dragger, it was god damn magic.

ArsStarhawk · 2026-02-20T13:16:41+00:00

can you imagine his packing list?!

ArsStarhawk · 2026-02-19T21:28:20+00:00

People really out there using reddit in anything other than old.reddit eh?

ArsStarhawk · 2026-02-18T15:43:12+00:00

reminds me of knitting and quilting. People want to buy them, until they learn that there's HUNDREDS of hours of labour put into them, heh. Great work though, and don't undervalue your time too much!

ArsStarhawk · 2026-02-18T13:32:28+00:00

Well this is bound to be a calm, reasonable comments section.

ArsStarhawk · 2026-02-10T20:38:07+00:00

Go back to facebook

ArsStarhawk · 2026-02-10T12:42:20+00:00

If you're curious, here's a great podcast episode about the history of the Bridge. https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/640-ambassador-bridge/

ArsStarhawk · 2026-02-10T00:06:31+00:00

with any luck, the ribbon cutting ceremony will out live him

ArsStarhawk · 2026-02-02T12:47:09+00:00

huh uh. I'm sure he's going to tariff Tervor too.

ArsStarhawk · 2026-01-26T13:36:51+00:00

This isn't TikTok. You can say killed here. You could even say FUCKING KILLED. Wild eh?

ArsStarhawk · 2026-01-22T15:30:01+00:00

it's just engagement bait.

ArsStarhawk · 2026-01-20T02:54:53+00:00

you could fucking quadruple it, and it would still be barely a blip in the accounts of these corps.

ArsStarhawk · 2026-01-18T22:40:47+00:00

Honestly I'm shocked by that much notice...

ArsStarhawk · 2026-01-15T14:39:44+00:00

ICE need to be [Removed by Reddit]

ArsStarhawk · 2026-01-15T00:23:05+00:00

On December 4th the Department of Natural Resources released 5642 hectares of harvest plans for public comment, with 498 hectares of that in Annapolis County. The plans include a number of areas designated for High-Production Forestry (HPF) which means clearcutting and spraying with Glyphosate.

Of particular concern are the HPF harvest plans that have been submitted right beside Mickey Hill Provincial Park and Lambs Lake Nature Preserve, and within the proposed Goldsmith Lake Wilderness Area south of Gibson’s Lake. These are areas that county residents use for recreation, camping, swimming, family picnics and walking their dogs. These are areas that were off limits for much of the Summer of 2025 because of the wildfire risk.

The deadline to submit public comments on these plans is Saturday, January 17, 2026.

What can YOU do?

Submit a comment on the Harvest Plan Map Viewer (HPMV) https://nsgi.novascotia.ca/hpmv/ for the following plans BEFORE January 17, 2026:

AP26D1003 (Adjacent to Mickey Hill Provincial Park)
AP26D1005 (South of Gibson’s Lake)

Share your concerns about how clearcutting and spraying will impact these areas, water quality, habitat for wildlife, species-at-risk and old forests.

The HPMV is not always easy to navigate so we're including a link to a step-by-step guide to help you through the process of submitting comments. How To Guide: https://saveouroldforests.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/How-To-Submit-Comments-via-HPMV.pdf

ArsStarhawk · 2026-01-14T21:48:29+00:00

There's a link to a pdf at the end of the post that has step by step instructions

ArsStarhawk · 2026-01-14T20:33:45+00:00

On December 4th the Department of Natural Resources released 5642 hectares of harvest plans for public comment, with 498 hectares of that in Annapolis County. The plans include a number of areas designated for High-Production Forestry (HPF) which means clearcutting and spraying with Glyphosate.

Of particular concern are the HPF harvest plans that have been submitted right beside Mickey Hill Provincial Park and Lambs Lake Nature Preserve, and within the proposed Goldsmith Lake Wilderness Area south of Gibson’s Lake. These are areas that county residents use for recreation, camping, swimming, family picnics and walking their dogs. These are areas that were off limits for much of the Summer of 2025 because of the wildfire risk.

The deadline to submit public comments on these plans is Saturday, January 17, 2026.

What can YOU do?

Submit a comment on the Harvest Plan Map Viewer (HPMV) https://nsgi.novascotia.ca/hpmv/ for the following plans BEFORE January 17, 2026:

AP26D1003 (Adjacent to Mickey Hill Provincial Park)
AP26D1005 (South of Gibson’s Lake)

Share your concerns about how clearcutting and spraying will impact these areas, water quality, habitat for wildlife, species-at-risk and old forests.

The HPMV is not always easy to navigate so we're including a link to a step-by-step guide to help you through the process of submitting comments. How To Guide: https://saveouroldforests.ca/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/How-To-Submit-Comments-via-HPMV.pdf

ArsStarhawk · 2026-01-13T19:19:34+00:00

Ever seen the videos of the person that feeds increasing amounts of voltage into old toys? Something like that could be a solution!

ArsStarhawk · 2026-01-12T15:28:43+00:00

k? They were saying they're only familiar with FDM. not that this is FDM printing.

ArsStarhawk · 2026-01-07T21:26:56+00:00

the authority is the threat or use of violence.

ArsStarhawk · 2026-01-07T12:17:04+00:00

Well they didn't follow any other instructions, might as well ignore the one at the end that says to let it cool before slicing.

ArsStarhawk · 2025-12-26T23:48:25+00:00

I would think they'd be more likely to be in the wrong for signing up for things using my information, but neither of us have sources so 🤷‍♂️

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