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Kids today are growing up in a world where screens, apps and social platforms are part of everyday life. From homework to gaming to group chats, their digital lives can move faster than parents can keep up. But behind every app and device are settings and systems that can impact their privacy, safety, and focus.

Whether you’re trying to set healthy limits, track screen time or just understand what your child’s phone can do, knowing a few key tech terms can make parenting in the digital age a lot less stressful. Here’s a quick guide to help you stay informed, confident and in control.

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Setting healthy screen time limits helps kids learn balance and keeps tech use from taking over family time. (Kurt “CyberGuy” Knutsson)

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1) Screen time limits

The boundary that helps restore balance

Screen time limits let you manage how long your child spends on apps, games or devices each day. It’s not about punishment, it’s about setting healthy boundaries that help kids disconnect and recharge.

Why it matters: Too much screen time has been linked to reduced focus, sleep disruption and overstimulation. Setting limits helps your child create a better balance between online fun and real-world rest.

How to set screen time limits

On iPhone:

  • Go to Settings
  • Tap Screen Time
  • Click App Limits
  • Select Add Limit, choose categories or specific apps and set daily time limit

On Android:

Settings may vary depending on your Android phone’s manufacturer

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  • Go to Settings
  • Tap Digital Wellbeing & Parental Controls. If you don’t see it right away, try searching “Digital Wellbeing” in the Settings search bar
  • Open the Dashboard or App Timers section. On some phones (like Samsung), it may appear as “App Timers”. On others (like Google Pixel), tap Dashboard to view your app usage list
  • Tap the hourglass icon next to the app you want to limit
  • Set a daily time limit, then tap OK or Done
  • The timer resets every night at midnight

Pro tip: Make it a family routine. Review screen time reports together so kids feel involved in the process rather than restricted. 

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2) Parental controls

Your built-in safety net

Parental controls are tools that let you manage what your child can see and do on their devices – from blocking explicit content to approving downloads and monitoring usage. Every major device, app and streaming service has its own version.

Why it matters: Parental controls can help prevent exposure to inappropriate content, manage purchases and set up age-appropriate experiences.

Built-in parental controls make it easier to guide what kids can see and do on their devices. (Kurt “CyberGuy” Knutsson)

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How to turn parental controls on

On iPhone:

  • Go to Settings
  • Click Screen Time 
  • Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions
  • Turn it on so the toggle turns green.
  • Within Content & Privacy Restrictions you can go to sections like Allowed AppsiTunes & App Store Purchases, etc, to set filters and restrict what apps the device can do.

On Android:

Settings may vary depending on your Android phone‘s manufacturer

  • Go to Settings
  • Tap Digital Wellbeing & Parental Controls
  • Select Parental Controls, then follow the steps to set up a supervised account through Google Family Link, which lets you manage screen time on a child’s device remotely

Pro tip: Most streaming apps, like YouTube, Netflix and Disney+, also have parental settings, so make sure you adjust those separately.

3) Geolocation

The invisible map in your child’s pocket

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Geolocation allows apps and devices to track physical location in real time. It powers navigation and “Find My” features but can also share more than you intend if left unchecked.

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Why it matters: While location sharing helps families stay connected, it can pose privacy and safety concerns if apps broadcast your child’s whereabouts.

How to manage location access

On iPhone:

  • Go to Settings
  • Click Privacy & Security
  • Then, click Location Services
  • Tap each app and change “Always” to “While Using the App” or “Never”

On Android:

Settings may vary depending on your Android phone’s manufacturer

  • Go to Settings
  • Tap Location (or “Location & security” or “Privacy → Location” depending on device)
  • Tap App location permissions (or “Permission manager → Location”)
  • Select an app from the list
  • Change the app permission from, “Allow all the time” to “Allow only while using the app” or “Don’t Allow”

Pro tip: For younger kids, use “Share My Location” within Family Sharing (iPhone) or Google Family Link (Android) instead of third-party tracking apps to ensure safer monitoring.

4) Private browsing

The mode that hides – but doesn’t erase

Private browsing, also called Incognito Mode, lets users browse the internet without saving history, cookies or logins. While it may sound harmless, it can make it harder for parents to see what kids are accessing online.

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Why it matters: Private browsing prevents history tracking on the device, but your internet provider, school or router may still record activity. It’s a reminder that no browsing mode is completely private.

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How to disable private browsing

On iPhone (Safari):

  • Open Settings
  • Tap Screen Time
  • Tap Content & Privacy Restrictions
  • If prompted, enter or set a Screen Time passcode
  • Turn on Content & Privacy Restrictions (toggle to green)
  • Tap App Store, Media & Purchases (or similarly named) and optionally set limits
  • Click Web Content 
  • Choose one of the options such as, Limit Adult Websites (this will disable Private Browsing in Safari) or Only Approved Websites 

On Android (Chrome):

Settings may vary depending on your Android phone’s manufacturer

  • Open the Family Link app on your Android phone (or download it if it isn’t installed)
  • Select your child’s profile
  • Tap Controls
  • Click Google Chrome & Web
  • Choose Try to block explicit sites (or select “Only allow approved sites” for stricter filtering)
  • This setting automatically disables Incognito Mode in Chrome for your child’s supervised account
  • (Optional) You can also review SafeSearch and YouTube restrictions under the same section for extra protection

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Pro tip: Talk to your child about why transparency matters. Turning off private browsing is most effective when paired with open, ongoing conversations about online safety.

5) Digital footprint

The trail your child leaves behind

Every post, comment or photo shared online becomes part of your child’s digital footprint, a permanent record of their online presence. Even deleted posts can live on through screenshots, data archives or algorithms.

Why it matters: Colleges, employers and even peers can access public digital traces. Teaching kids to think before posting helps them build a positive and professional online reputation.

How to check what’s out there

  • Search your child’s name on Google and image results
  • Review old accounts or unused apps that may still contain personal info
  • Help them make their social media profiles private and share selectively

Pro tip: You can also set up Google Alerts for your child’s name to get notified whenever new content appears online, a simple, free way to stay aware of their digital footprint as it evolves. 

Also, you may want to consider using a data removal service to help clean up your child’s personal information that may appear on people-search sites or data-broker platforms. These tools scan the web for outdated profiles, cached pages and databases containing sensitive details like addresses, phone numbers and photos. They can automatically submit takedown requests and continue monitoring for new exposures over time.

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While no service can guarantee the complete removal of your data from the internet, a data removal service is really a smart choice. They aren’t cheap, and neither is your privacy. These services do all the work for you by actively monitoring and systematically erasing your personal information from hundreds of websites. It’s what gives me peace of mind and has proven to be the most effective way to erase your personal data from the internet. By limiting the information available, you reduce the risk of scammers cross-referencing data from breaches with information they might find on the dark web, making it harder for them to target you.

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Kurt’s key takeaways

Parenting in the digital age doesn’t mean knowing every app or trend. It means understanding the fundamentals that shape your child’s online experience. From screen time limits to digital footprints, these five terms give you the language to set boundaries, foster trust and keep your family safer online.

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AI can’t make good video game worlds yet, and it might never be able to

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AI can’t make good video game worlds yet, and it might never be able to

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Long before the generative AI explosion, video game developers made games that could generate their own worlds. Think of titles like Minecraft or even the original 1980 Rogue that is the basis for the term “roguelike”; these games and many others create worlds on the fly with certain rules and parameters. Human developers painstakingly work to make sure the worlds their games can create are engaging to explore and filled with things to do, and at their best, these types of games can be replayable for years because of how the environments and experiences can feel novel every single time you play.

But just as other creative industries are pushing back against an AI slop future, generative AI is coming for video games, too. Though it may never catch up with the best of what humans can make now.

Generative AI in video games has become a lightning rod, with gamers getting mad about in-game slop and half of developers thinking that generative AI is bad for the industry.

Big video game companies are jumping into the murky waters of AI anyway. PUBG maker Krafton is turning into an “AI First” game company, EA is partnering with Stability AI for “transformative” game-making tools, and Ubisoft, as part of a major reorganization, is promising that it would be making “accelerated investments behind player-facing Generative AI.” The CEO of Nexon, which owns the company that made last year’s mega-hit Arc Raiders, put it perhaps the most ominously: “I think it’s important to assume that every game company is now using AI.” (Some indie developers disagree.)

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The bigger game companies often pitch their commitments as a way to streamline and assist with game development, which is getting increasingly expensive. But adoption of generative AI tools is a potential threat to jobs in an industry already infamous for waves of layoffs.

Last month, Google launched Project Genie, an “early research prototype” that lets users generate sandbox worlds using text or image prompts that they can explore for 60 seconds. Right now, the tool is only available in the US to people who subscribe to Google’s $249.99-per-month AI Ultra plan.

Project Genie is powered by Google’s Genie 3 AI world model, which the company pitches as a “key stepping stone on the path to AGI” that can enable “AI agents capable of reasoning, problem solving, and real-world actions,” and Google says the model’s potential uses go “well beyond gaming.” But it got a lot of attention in the industry: It was the first real indication of how generative AI tools could be used for video game development, just as tools like DALL-E and OpenAI’s Sora showed what might be possible with AI-generated images and video.

In my testing, Project Genie was barely able to generate even remotely interesting experiences. The “worlds” don’t let users do much except wander around using arrow keys. When the 60 seconds are over, you can’t do anything with what you generated except download a recording of what you did, meaning you also can’t plug in what you generated into a traditional video game engine.

Sure, Project Genie did let me generate terrible unauthorized Nintendo knockoffs (seemingly based off of the online videos Genie 3 is trained on), which raised a lot of familiar concerns about copyright and AI tools. But they weren’t even in the same universe of quality as the worlds in a handcrafted Nintendo game. The worlds were silent, the physics were sloppy, and the environments felt rudimentary.

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The day after Project Genie’s announcement, stock prices of some of the biggest video game companies, including Take-Two, Roblox, and Unity, took a dip. That resulted in a little damage control. Take-Two president Karl Slatoff, for example, pushed back strongly on Genie in an earnings call a few days later, arguing that Genie isn’t a threat to traditional games yet. “Genie is not a game engine,” he said, noting that technology like it “certainly doesn’t replace the creative process,” and that, to him, the tool looks more like “procedurally generated interactive video at this point.” (The stock prices ticked back up in the days after.)

Google will almost certainly continue improving its Genie world models and tools to generate interactive experiences. It’s unclear if it will want to improve the experiences as games or if it will instead focus on finding ways for Genie to assist with its aspirational march toward AGI.

However, other leaders of AI companies are already pushing for interactive AI experiences. xAI’s Elon Musk recently claimed that “real-time” and “high-quality” video games that are “customized to the individual” will be available “next year,” and in December, he said that building an “AI gaming studio” is a “major project” for xAI. (Like with many of Musk’s claims, take his predictions and timelines with a grain of salt.) Meta’s Mark Zuckerberg, who is now pushing AI as the new social media after the company cut jobs in its metaverse group, envisions a future where people create a game from a prompt and share it to people in their feeds. Even Roblox, a gaming company, is pitching how creators will be able to use AI world models and prompts to generate and change in-game worlds in real time, something that it calls “real-time dreaming.”

But even in the most ambitious view where AI technology is feasibly able to generate worlds that are as responsive and interesting to explore as a video game that runs locally on a home console, PC, or your smartphone, there’s a lot more that goes into making a video game than just creating a world. The best games have engaging gameplay, include interesting things to do, and feature original art, sound, writing, and characters. And it takes human developers sometimes years to make sure all of the elements work together just right.

AI technology isn’t yet ready to generate games, and whoever thinks it might be is fooling themselves. But AI-generated video is still bad, and it was still used to make a bunch of bad ads for the Super Bowl, so tech companies are probably still going to put a lot of effort toward games made with generative AI. In an already unstable industry, even the idea that AI tools could rival what humans can make might have massive ramifications down the line.

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But the complexity of games is different from AI video, which has improved considerably in a short period of time but has fewer variables to account for. AI game-making tools will almost certainly improve, but the results might never close the gap from what humans can make.

  • In a long X post, Unity CEO Matthew Bromberg argues that world models aren’t a risk, but a “powerful accelerator.”
  • While the video game industry probably shouldn’t feel threatened by AI world models just yet, generative AI tools will continue to be controversial in game development. Even Larian Studios, beloved for games like Baldur’s Gate 3, isn’t immune to backlash.
  • Steam requires that developers disclose when their games use generative AI to generate content, but in a recent change, developers don’t have to disclose if they used “AI powered tools” in their game development environments.
  • Some games, like the text-based Hidden Door and Amazon’s Snoop Dogg game on its Luna cloud gaming service, are embracing generative AI as a core aspect of the game.
  • NYU games professor Joost van Dreunen has a take on the situation around Project Genie.
  • Scientific American has a great explanation of how world models work.
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Clean up your social media feed and cut the noise

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Scrolling used to be relaxing. Now it often feels chaotic. That is not a coincidence. Nearly everything you see on social media is controlled by algorithms that track what you like, watch, click and ignore. Over time, those signals get muddy. One curiosity click can reshape your feed for weeks. The solution is not deleting your accounts. It is retraining the system.

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Your social media experience starts the moment you tap an app, and every click helps shape what shows up next.  (Jaap Arriens/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

How social media algorithms decide what you see

Algorithms pay attention to behavior, not intention. They track engagement patterns and repeat what keeps you scrolling. If your feed feels off, it usually means the algorithm learned the wrong lesson. Resetting your feed helps correct that.

Note: This article is written desktop-first (PC or Mac). When a step is phone-only or significantly different on mobile, it is clearly labeled.

How to clean up your Facebook Feed

Primary device: PC or Mac. Phone differences noted.

Use Content Preferences to retrain Facebook (PC or Mac)

Facebook’s feed is built around people, pages and groups you follow, plus recommended content and ads.

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  • Click your profile photo in the upper right
  • Select Settings and Privacy > Content Preferences

From here, you can:

  • Add people and groups to Favorites
  • Snooze posts temporarily
  • Unfollow accounts without unfriending them
  • Reconnect with accounts you muted before

These tools are easiest to manage on a desktop.

Filter your Feed view (PC or Mac)

  • To bypass the main algorithmic feed:
  • Click Feeds in the left navigation
  • Choose to view only Favorites,  Friends, Groups, or Pages

This shows content chronologically within those categories.

Hide and flag posts as you scroll (PC, Mac and phone)

On any post in your Facebook feed:

  • Click the three-dot menu in the upper right of the post
  • Choose Hide post, Snooze, or Unfollow, depending on what appears

Hiding posts and snoozing or unfollowing accounts sends the same signal to the algorithm. Use these options often. Facebook responds more reliably to repeated negative feedback than occasional clicks.

For suggested posts and reels, you may also see Not interested. Selecting it further trains the feed away from similar content.

Cut down ads and sensitive topics (PC, Mac and phone)

When ads appear:

  • Click the X to hide them
  • Or use the three-dot menu to hide or report

For deeper control:

  • Go to Settings and Privacy > Settings
  • Open Account Center
  • Click Ad Preferences > Customize ads
  • Select See All next to Ad Topics
  • Click View and manage topics
  • Click the topic name
  • Choose See less
  • Repeat this for every topic you want to limit.

To block specific words in comments:

  • Click your profile picture (top right on desktop)
  • Settings & privacy → Settings
  • In the left column, click Profile and Tagging
  • Under “Profile,” look for Hide comments containing certain words from your profile and click on the arrow next to it.
  • Choose a list of words, phrases or emojis you want to hide from your profile and type them in the box.
  • Click Save below it.

Using a computer gives you deeper control over social media settings that are harder to find on a phone.  (Kurt “CyberGuy” Knutsson)

How to clean up your Instagram feed

Primary device: Phone only

Instagram does not currently offer a reliable, universal option to reset its algorithm. Feed control on Instagram is manual and behavior-based. That means the app learns from what you hide, mute, unfollow and ignore.

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Tell Instagram what you do not want to see (phone)

On posts that miss the mark:

  • Tap the three-dot menu
  • Select Not interested, Mute, or Unfollow, depending on what appears

Use this consistently. Instagram responds more to repeated signals than one-off actions.

Fine-tune who appears in your feed (phone)

Visit accounts directly and tap Following to manage how their content shows up.

From here, you can:

  • Mute posts or stories
  • Add or remove Favorites
  • Restrict interactions
  • Unfollow the account

These actions immediately influence future recommendations.

Review account-level controls (phone)

Open Settings and review:

  • Muted accounts
  • Blocked accounts
  • Close Friends

Cleaning up these lists helps reduce clutter and repetitive content.

When a new Instagram account makes sense

If your feed still feels off after manual cleanup, starting fresh is the most effective reset.

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To do this:

  • Log out and create a new account
  • Follow only accounts you truly want to see
  • Avoid mass-following during setup

Instagram’s algorithm is heavily influenced by early behavior, so a slow, intentional start matters.

Some users may hear about an Instagram “reset” feature, but as of now, it is not consistently available across accounts.

Fine-tune who you see (phone)

Tap the three-dot menu on posts to unfollow or favorite accounts.

From any profile, tap Following to:

  • Add Close Friend
  • Add Favorite
  • Mute posts or stories
  • Restrict interactions

Unfollow

Under Settings, review:

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  • Muted accounts
  • Blocked accounts
  • Close Friends

Instagram’s feed is trained by what you hide, mute, and unfollow, not by a single reset button. (iStock)

How to reset your TikTok For You page

Primary device: Phone only

Train the feed gradually (phone)

  • Press and hold on a video
  • Tap Not Interested

Consistency matters here.

Remove past likes (phone)

  • Go to Profile
  • Tap the heart icon
  • Unlike videos that may be influencing recommendations

Refresh the entire feed (phone only)

  • Tap Profile
  • Tap the three-line menu
  • Go to Settings and Privacy > Content Preferences
  • Tap Refresh Your For You Feed
  • Confirm

This resets recommendations but keeps your following list.

For a total reset, unfollow accounts manually or start fresh with a new account.

TikTok’s For You page reacts quickly when you mark videos as not interested or clean up past likes. (iStock)

How to reset YouTube recommendations

Primary device: PC recommended

Clear or limit watch history (PC, Mac and phone)

On mobile:

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  • Tap You
  • Tap the gear icon 
  • Select Manage All History
  • Tap DELETE

On desktop:

  • Click your profile photo
  • Select Your Data in YouTube
  • Open YouTube Watch History
  • Click Manage History
  • Click DELETE

From here, you can:

  • Delete today
  • Delete custom range 
  • Delete all time 

Remove past feed feedback

Primary device: PC or Mac

This setting is easiest to access on a computer.

  • Go to YouTube.com and make sure you are signed in
  • Click your profile photo in the upper right
  • Select Your Data in YouTube
  • Scroll to the section labeled YouTube Watch History and click the right arrow 
  • Click Manage your YouTube Watch History
  • Click Saving Your Watch History 

On the history page:

  • Scroll down until you see YouTube Customize Your Feed Feedback
  • Click Delete to remove past feedback selections

This removes videos you previously told YouTube you wanted to see more of.

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Continue training the feed (PC, Mac and phone)

On individual YouTube videos:

  • Click or tap the three-dot menu next to the video
  • Select Not interested

Repeat this on videos that miss the mark. YouTube relies heavily on repeated feedback signals. This option is not consistently available on the YouTube mobile app. Use a computer for the best results.

Reset subscriptions (PC, Mac and phone)

Subscriptions heavily shape recommendations. Unsubscribe from channels you no longer watch. Rebuild your list intentionally.

YouTube recommendations are driven by watch history, search history, and subscriptions you may have forgotten about.  (Kurt “CyberGuy” Knutsson)

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How to reduce noise on X

Primary device: PC preferred

Adjust interests and ads (PC, Mac and phone)

  • Click your profile icon.
  • Go to Settings and Privacy
  • Click Privacy and Safety
  • Select Content You See
  • Open Interests

Here, X lists topics it believes you are interested in.

  • Uncheck interests you no longer care about
  • There is no “unselect all” option
  • Changes must be made one by one

This affects both recommended posts and ads.

Adjust ad personalization settings (PC, Mac and phone)

This is where “Ads Preferences” actually lives.

  • Click or tap your profile icon
  • Go to Settings and Privacy
  • Select Privacy and Safety
  • Scroll down and click Ads Preferences

From here:

  • Turn off Personalized ads
  • Review Ad categories and disable what you can
  • Turn off Ads based on inferred identity, if shown

X does not allow full ad removal, but these steps reduce targeting.

Train the feed as you scroll (PC, Mac and phone)

On posts or ads you do not want to see again:

  • Click or tap the three-dot menu
  • Choose Not interested, Block, or Mute, depending on what appears
  • Also:
  • Unfollow accounts that no longer add value
  • Block advertisers directly when possible

Repeated feedback matters more than occasional actions.

When starting a new X account makes sense

X’s algorithm is less forgiving than most platforms. If your feed feels irreparable, the most effective reset is:

  • Creating a new account
  • Following only accounts you truly want
  • Avoiding mass follows early on

Early behavior heavily shapes long-term recommendations. X offers fewer feed controls than most platforms, so changes may feel slower and less dramatic.

Small, consistent actions on your phone can gradually retrain algorithms and reduce daily feed fatigue. (Kurt “CyberGuy” Knutsson)

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How to clean up Threads

Works on PC, Mac and phone

Control what appears in For You

  • On the For You feed:
  • Click the three-dot menu
  • Mark posts as not interested, mute or block

Use Hidden Words (PC and phone)

  • Open Settings
  • Go to Hidden Words
  • Add words, phrases or emojis separated by commas

These filters apply across Threads and Instagram.

How to make LinkedIn useful again

Primary device: PC recommended

Switch to recent posts (PC and Mac)

  • At the top of your feed, click Sort by: Top
  • Change it to Recent
  • To make it permanent:
  • Go to Me
  • Click Settings and Privacy 
  • Select Preferred Feed View
  • Choose Most recent posts
  • Click the left arrow to save

Reduce ad targeting (PC and Mac)

  • Go to Settings and Privacy
  • Open Advertising Data
  • Select Interests and Traits
  • Turn off categories you do not want

Aggressively train the feed (PC, Mac and phone)

On unwanted posts:

  • Click the three-dot menu
  • Select Not relevant or Not interested 
  • Under My Network, review Followers and Following and unfollow accounts that add noise.

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Kurt’s key takeaways

Social media feels overwhelming when it runs on autopilot. A few minutes of cleanup can dramatically change what you see. Algorithms respond to clarity. The clearer your signals, the better your feed becomes. You do not need to quit social media to enjoy it again. You just need to take control.

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Jikipedia turns Epstein’s emails into an encyclopedia of his powerful friends

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The folks behind Jmail are at it again with a clone of Wikipedia that turns the treasure trove of data in Epstein’s emails into detailed dossiers on his associates. Entries include known visits to Epstein’s properties, possible knowledge of Epstein’s crimes, and laws that they might have broken. The reports are dense, listing how many emails they exchanged with Epstein, basic biographical information, and details about how they’re connected.

Beyond that, there are entries for the properties Epstein owns, detailing how they were acquired and the alleged activities that took place there. There are also entries for his business dealings, including his relationship with JPMorgan Chase.

It is worth noting that the entries are AI-generated. While a casual glance seems to suggest Jikipedia is citing its sources, it’s still possible (if not likely) that there are some inaccuracies contained within them. The Jmail X account said that they’ll be implementing the ability for users to report inaccuracies and request changes soon.

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