The Good News Only - thread...

[matticus]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crk7xgzj8y8o

Australia to ban kids from social media.

To be clear - this is Good News;
- not because it will definitely work, but
- because a 1st World government is finally grasping the nettle and really trying something.

(after years of research, and attempts to collaborate with the Tech Bros)

 

[briantrumpet]

Personal, but my youth big band has had its invitation to the Vienne Jazz Festival confirmed, and we've got enough players to take both senior and junior bands. We get to play on the excellent free stage that gets an audience of a few hundred. The next piece in the jigsaw will be if a player who played in my junior band in 2017 and played on the free stage with us that year is confirmed to play in the 10,000-seater Roman amphitheatre this year too... let's just say that her progress has been remarkable, and if she does get to play there, she owes me, as I was the one who put her forward to the festival manager.

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Ha, the ex-DYJO player's gig looks likely not to be on the big stage, but in Le Club - probably more suited to her music, and, to be fair, as Marcus Miller, Terence Blanchard and Ravi Coltrane will be on the main stage earlier in the evening, I think it's fair to say she's delighted to be anywhere in Vienne on the same day. I'll be hoping to go to both gigs, after we've done ours. Could be quite a day.

 

[matticus]

I'm more aware of what young Australians think though.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/crk7xgzj8y8o

Allow me to add to your research on young people:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn4x8jynpgzo
This was a 21-day trial, taking phones away from kids in 1 class at a Colchester school.

...
Scarlett said she enjoyed taking part in the programme. Throughout the experiment she did not experience "panic attacks or anxiety", which she thought was a direct result of the smartphone ban.

"I don't think it helped scrolling TikTok and not talking about how I felt," she said.

"When I had no phone I was completely fine - I concentrated in lessons, I understood, I was more sociable, I was kind to people, I came downstairs and helped my family... we were playing board games every night."

She now believes "smartphones should be banned for children under 16"