Topic: Digital Habits

TikTok rolls out new "Balanced Digital Habits" features, including "Time Away" and "Family Pairing," to help parents monitor their children's usage. A "wind down" feature for users under 16 uses calming music to encourage sleep after 10 p.m. Critics mock the terminology of "bedtime hygiene" used by the app's representatives.

Cliff Stoll criticizes the idea of internet voting, arguing that it lacks the temporal seriousness and identity security of physical voting booths. He describes his own digital habits, which involve answering emails for his glass Klein bottle business but otherwise avoiding screens. Stoll mentions that he tries to limit his "screen time" to a few hours around midday to avoid falling down digital rabbit holes.