A peer culture needs peers and it's hard to form one when there aren't enough kids around to organically gather and create those little “societies” of play

Cities feel riskier, but in many ways they offer more room to grow. Kids don't just need nature; they need space to navigate the world on their own terms

The tragedy isn't just that they're doing this online, it's that it's the only place left. We paved over their physical freedom, then panic when they carve out virtual freedom we can't supervise. And ironically, we moralize their digital behavior while ignoring the real-world conditions that pushed them there in the first place

Classic social engineering, just aimed at a language model instead of a person

Our locks are great, except when someone picks them effortlessly and robs the whole neighborhood... but that's why it's important to keep making better locks