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This handsome young commentator with plenty of hair just blamed technology for inducing low birthrates on the basis of a panoptical effect on young people: He’s 30 years old and childless. None of his friends have kids either. He says this phenomenon is happening worldwide and shares his theory why. pic.twitter.com/AwKJiJIRI2 — Financial Dystopia (@financedystop) February 22, 2026 The panopticon does matter, and there's likely some truth to the his analysis of the effects of mass and constant surveillance (and the attached inference about the fears young men have of getting caught in a clumsy error or perceived offfence). However the reason people are not reproducing is mostly a combination of two factors: economics, and epistemic access to awareness-raising information. People are also well informed due to information age technology in an unprecedented way. Moreover, Western nations' citizens are in one of the toughest, most competitive financial environments for housing that...

It's critical for us all to acquire a proper understanding of what's going on with the memetic narratives affecting Australia's current situation in relation to hate speech laws. Unflappable, Niki Savva quashes talk that Pauline Hanson "has mellowed" as Speers muses "the rise & rise of One Nation": "What she said about Muslims was highly offensive, inaccurate, bigoted – every other adjective you care to use." (Vile, moronic, pathetic?) #insiders #auspol pic.twitter.com/xuM7CZ8ESx — Sahar A (@Sahar_A_Writes) February 22, 2026 Clearly, saying that there are no good Muslims as Hanson did is ludicrous. It's just as ludicrous as saying there are no good Christ cult people. Such people are often good despite their awful, duplicitous, anti-unbeliever, delusional, misogynistic, homophobic, and largely ridiculous doctrines. However, we do need to be saying that there are no good anti-unbeliever hate doctrines, and we need to start being honest...