Sunday Times bestselling author of #CLARITY & #RESULTS. Coach, speaker. Championing a first principles understanding of the mind #SubtractivePsychology
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Feb 15
We have extraordinary brains and god-like technology, throttled by a medieval understanding of our minds and emotions.
We need to upgrade our understanding of the mind so we can claim our rightful inheritance as a species.
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My 17-year-old daughter:
“I’m confused. We’ve always been taught not to share personal information or anything that identifies us online because it isn’t safe. Now they want us to do exactly that to access social media.”
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A full-frontal assault on the ability of kids to escape left-wing indoctrination at school
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RT @TaylorLorenz: Studies in AUS found that since the social media ban went into effect teenagers are significantly less educated on news a…
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🚨Labour confirms ID requirement at device level - VPNs useless.🚨
By forcing Apple and Google to verify age at the device level during phone setup…
Keir Starmer’s government isn’t protecting kids — it’s building a surveillance infrastructure.
The OS itself will restrict platforms like TikTok, Instagram and X, making VPNs largely useless because the block happens before any traffic leaves your phone.
🚨Once every device carries a verified age profile, authorities gain an easy route to identify users through legal requests to tech firms.
This is digital ID by the back door, sold as child safety.
Classic Labour: expand state control first, ask questions later.
thetimes.com/uk/politics/art…
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A "jackboot in the face of the idea that children are human beings" is the most apposite metaphor of the year so far.
The social media ban is utterly, utterly disgusting. not because it 'doesn't go far enough' or 'won't keep kids safe' or whatever other 'reason' is given that translates to MORE BANNING PLEASE, but because it is a heinous jackboot in the face of the idea that children are human beings. It is extremely dangerous in itself, cutting off lifelines of all kinds, narrowing their worlds, and massively decreasing knowledge and learning (and its potential) and increasing loneliness. the idea that our kids, banned from even Youtube, which is basically knowledge itself, and the most democratically available, will end up being able to vaguely compete on the world stage with peers who have not been cast back into the iron age by an insane, madly illogical government is preposterous and one of the saddest aspects of this.
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You know you're living in a healthy democracy when everyone has to pay for a VPN to stop the state from spying on them.
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Super important clip by @Peterdiamandis.
I've known @elonmusk for 26 years, and there's lots of noise about him becoming a trillionaire. If one thing defines him, it's that he's NOT driven by money, but instead by solving our world's toughest problems.
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Any attempt to impose mandatory Digital ID will be fully repealed, scrapped and eradicated by a Restore Britain Government.
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The panic-stricken efforts by the state to force digital ID on the proles while simultaneously securing anonymity and cover for themselves and their own is a wonder to behold.
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Seems a litttttttle less important than the rampant rape issue if child safety is the goal…
We are banning social media access for under 16s.
These days kids must find their feet in a world where technology intrudes into every area of their life.
I just can’t let that go on anymore. So we’re giving children their childhoods back.
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The UK Government's 'careful review' of the research found a small correlation between children's use of social media and wellbeing, but no evidence of a causal effect:
gov.uk/government/pub…
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Looks like @Keir_Starmer is succeeding in bringing people together…
…he’s got me agreeing with @TaylorLorenz 🤯
“Instead of addressing the known causes of strife among young people, politicians around the world seem intent on leveraging their suffering to push laws that will strip both young and old alike of our rights.”
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“Protect the children” too often becomes “show me your papers.”
Britain’s age-verification push and Washington’s online-safety bargain risk building speech-control infrastructure in the name of safety.
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And the chess videos, the maths videos, the science videos, the economics videos, the archaeology videos…?
Whether you are in class or not, you're not allowed a millimetre outside the syllabus.
If the syllabus were excellent, this would still be an abomination. But it isn't.
"Dad, why can't I watch the drumming and guitar videos on YouTube anymore?"
"Sorry, son. Keir Starmer is protecting your childhood"
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Lmao. And there’s the plan. Right there. Laid bare in your face. Create the problem (stranger danger), sell the solution (more authoritative surveillance state), repeat forever. Everyone owes conspiracy theorists an apology who have been screaming about this for years.
JUST IN: UK Government clarifies adults will still be able to use social media by verifying their identities with digital IDs, facial recognition, passports and credit cards.
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⚡ Against all odds.
Move toward the impossible.
That is where the signal lives.
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The UK government will do absolutely everything except what the British people want.
Jun 14
🚨 NEW: Under-16s in the UK will be banned from the following 10 social media apps
TikTok
YouTube
Snapchat
Instagram
X
Reddit
Facebook
Twitch
Kick
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This style of speech is called affective framing btw.
It’s what politicians use to sell you on the implementation of a piece of legislation you might take issue with, and it’s executed in 3 steps:
Emotional Priming
Cognitive Hijacking
Value Alignment
His speech uses all three.
We are banning social media access for under 16s.
These days kids must find their feet in a world where technology intrudes into every area of their life.
I just can’t let that go on anymore. So we’re giving children their childhoods back.
Community note
The UK Government's 'careful review' of the research found a small correlation between children's use of social media and wellbeing, but no evidence of a causal effect:
gov.uk/government/pub…
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/696e0b46…
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