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Another Debate And Another iPhone

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  • Apple announced the release of the iPhone 16, eliciting the article title of the week: “Yet Another iPhone, Dear God” (The Atlantic)

    • “What do you mean, you don’t need four studio-quality microphones?”

  • David Brooks on the “Junkification of American Life”

    • A highlight: “Even journalism has found ways to trigger dopamine for profit…Minute after minute they’re rubbing their audience’s pleasure centers, which feels like a somewhat older profession.” (Emphasis mine)

  • High schoolers are over-worked, over-scheduled, and over-optimized. Let them do less, so they can do better. (NYT)

  • “Raising kids in the shadow of doom” (NYT)

    • “He has grown up in an age in which Covid closed schools, forest fires darkened the skies, hurricanes intensified and rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol. My instinct to minimize all of this was wrong. On some level, I just didn’t want to admit to my kids — or to myself — that I was powerless to protect them. This was, at heart, a lie that would only undermine their trust in me.”

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