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<h1 data-aos="fade-down" id="daily-dose">Daily-Dose</h1>
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<li><a href="#from-new-yorker">From New Yorker</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-vox">From Vox</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-the-hindu-national-news">From The Hindu: National News</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-bbc-europe">From BBC: Europe</a></li>
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<li><a href="#from-ars-technica">From Ars Technica</a></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Sarah Palin’s Last Frontier</strong> - Can the former governor—who left Alaska for the national stage—persuade the state to send her to Congress? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/sarah-palins-last-frontier">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>How Did Fighting Climate Change Become a Partisan Issue?</strong> - Twenty years ago, Senator John McCain tried to spearhead an effort. What has happened to Republicans since then? - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/08/22/how-did-fighting-climate-change-become-a-partisan-issue">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Liz Cheney’s Kamikaze Campaign</strong> - Unlike most of her Republican colleagues, the Wyoming representative is willing to lose her seat to take down Donald Trump. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-political-scene/liz-cheneys-kamikaze-campaign">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Donald Trump and the Sweepstakes Scammers</strong> - In the eighties, an eclectic group of con artists dominated the market for promotional games, and rigged them—till it all came crashing down. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/american-chronicles/donald-trump-and-the-sweepstakes-scammers">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Alaska Primary Map: Live Election Results</strong> - The latest results from the Alaska primary ahead of the 2022 midterms. - <a href="https://www.newyorker.com/news/election-2022/live-midterm-results-alaska">link</a></p></li>
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Democrats are trying to win TikTok with facts and nuance. Its algorithm rewards the opposite.
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A man sets his tactical gear bag next to the assault rifle on his bed, above which hangs an American flag. “Don’t mind me,” he says, “I’m just getting ready for my IRS audit.” This, pulled from <a href="https://twitter.com/LivingBlueTX/status/1557138184563314690"><strong>a viral Twitter thread</strong></a>, was just one of the many TikTok videos that, explicitly or implicitly, threatened civil war after the passage of the <a href="https://www.vox.com/2022/8/7/23295645/inflation-reduction-act-impact"><strong>Inflation Reduction Act</strong></a>. “It’s go time,” he continues. “Everybody knows exactly what I’m talking about.” (He’s talking about fighting IRS employees who are supposedly coming to seize his guns. The <a href="https://www.politifact.com/factchecks/2022/aug/12/matt-gaetz/no-biden-not-arming-irs-guns-and-ammunition/"><strong>IRS is not doing that</strong></a>.)
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Most or all of the videos on the thread have since been removed from TikTok, but it’s no accident that this sort of inflammatory political discourse proliferates throughout the platform. In the past four years of its existence in the US, TikTok has <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/1/22/21069469/tiktok-memes-funny-ww3-politics-impeachment-fires"><strong>become the most effective platform</strong></a> for any single user to communicate to the largest possible audience in the shortest amount of time. And despite the company’s attempts to be viewed as apolitical, it’s now one of the most widely consumed sources of discourse, political and otherwise.
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The right is prepping for civil war. I’d report them all to the <a href="https://twitter.com/FBI?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw"><span class="citation" data-cites="FBI">@FBI</span></a>, but I literally don’t have time to sit report the hundreds of videos like this I’m seeing on my alt tiktok. (And they didn’t check Twitter.) so here’s a /1 <a href="https://t.co/4zttJLxCaf">pic.twitter.com/4zttJLxCaf</a>
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— Michelle (<span class="citation" data-cites="LivingBlueTX">@LivingBlueTX</span>) <a href="https://twitter.com/LivingBlueTX/status/1557138184563314690?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">August 9, 2022</a>
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The Republican Party has made great use of this, relying on the work of <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2022/1/5/22868483/turning-point-charlie-kirk-republican-influencers-instagram-today-is-america"><strong>charismatic right-wing influencers to spread its messages</strong></a> on platforms big and small. Democrats, meanwhile, haven’t made the same inroads with the creator economy, but their most recent efforts have tried to keep up. Earlier this year, the Democratic National Committee built an online organizing hub where TikTok and other social media influencers can find party-approved talking points and repostable content on topics from abortion rights to gun control. So far, the committee has recruited nearly 1,000 people to the hub, <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2022/8/9/23298040/dnc-democrats-midterms-elections-tiktok-instagram-influencers"><strong>according to The Verge</strong></a>, and has generated more than 83 million social impressions.
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This isn’t the first time the DNC has partnered with influencers; during the lead-up to the 2020 election, the <a href="https://www.vox.com/recode/21429755/influencers-joe-biden-democrats-pacs-social-media-facebook-instagram-campaign"><strong>Biden campaign hired a firm to help</strong></a> with its outreach to influencers, some of whom were invited to interview Biden on Instagram Live, and when Russian forces invaded Ukraine earlier this year, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/03/11/tik-tok-ukraine-white-house/"><strong>the White House briefed</strong></a> a group of TikTokers on how to best inform their followers. As Nell Thomas, chief technology officer for the DNC,<strong> </strong><a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/recode-media/id1080467174?i=1000575729823"><strong>told Recode’s Peter Kafka</strong></a>, the Democrats are trying to meet the people where they spend the most time. (According to Sensor Tower, American TikTok <a href="https://sensortower.com/blog/tiktok-power-user-curve"><strong>users spent an average of 82 minutes a day</strong></a> on the platform during the second quarter of 2022, which is twice as long as they spent on Instagram or Facebook.)
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There are a few reasons TikTok is so uniquely powerful at one-to-many communication. The first is that most TikToks are short. You can consume dozens of TikToks, for instance, in the time it might take to watch the average YouTube video, which means view counts for viral videos are massive. The second is that, thanks to its algorithm, you can go extremely viral without having a single follower on your account. There is little to zero gatekeeping on TikTok; in theory, anyone’s idea can become the next day’s discourse.
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Third is the fact that TikTok is a Platonically perfect social media app for generating parasocial relationships. As I’ve <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2020/1/22/21069469/tiktok-memes-funny-ww3-politics-impeachment-fires"><strong>written previously</strong></a>, it’s far easier to feel connected to what someone is saying when you can see their face and when it feels like you’re FaceTiming with them. YouTube, itself an incredibly powerful tool of political messaging, is also very good at this, but the difference is that creating a TikTok requires far less effort, skill, and established influence.
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As the White House tries to get its message to a new generation of voters, it will have to compete with the hundreds of millions of other videos that are uploaded to TikTok all the time. Rumors, conspiracy theories, and clickbait-y or visually captivating videos often rise quickly to the top of users’ algorithms, and because they’re made up of video and audio files, they’re even more difficult for moderation algorithms to detect. Instead, TikTok’s thousands-strong army of content moderators, who are subject to the internet’s <a href="https://www.npr.org/2022/03/24/1088343332/tiktok-lawsuit-content-moderators"><strong>most vile content as well as draconian productivity measures</strong></a>, are essentially playing an infinite game of whack-a-mole to keep the platform safe and free from, say, threats of civil war.
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Despite these efforts, election misinformation still <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/14/business/media/on-tiktok-election-misinformation.html"><strong>spreads rapidly on TikTok in the US and elsewhere</strong></a>. Culture-war discourse is also a constant feature on TikTok, and it’s been particularly disturbing to see messaging that demonizes <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/04/19/libs-of-tiktok-right-wing-media/"><strong>trans people</strong></a> and <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/2021/3/2/22308197/cancel-porn-tiktok-onlyfans-sex-work"><strong>sex workers</strong></a> or promotes <a href="https://mentalhellth.xyz/p/fuck-puritanism"><strong>Puritanism in the name of moral superiority</strong></a> go mainstream on the platform.
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But this is what happens when the same mechanisms of virality apply to <a href="https://www.vox.com/the-goods/22841564/internet-trends-tiktok-sea-shanties-bama-rush"><strong>meaningless week-long fads</strong></a> and deep-seated political divisions: Anything that is novel or compelling attracts more attention than, say, accurate depictions of what average people actually think. As the <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/14/technology/tiktok-china-washington.html"><strong>government tightens its focus</strong></a> on TikTok’s Chinese ownership, the more immediate threat to American political discourse isn’t secretive disinformation campaigns or security leaks; it’s a system in which clarity and nuance are abandoned for sensationalism. Whether they want to or not, the Democrats will have to find their own way to keep people’s attention.
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<em>This column was first published in The Goods newsletter. </em><a href="https://www.vox.com/pages/newsletters"><em>Sign up here</em></a><em> so you don’t miss the next one, plus get newsletter exclusives.</em>
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The new memoir from former child star Jennette McCurdy has an attention-grabbing title: <em>I’m Glad My Mom Died</em>.
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Over the course of the book, McCurdy, who built her name on Nickelodeon’s <em>iCarly</em> and <em>Sam and Cat</em>, more than makes her case, detailing years of her mother’s mental and physical abuse. The result is a detailed look at a very specific and individual childhood of horrors, but it also points to a major systemic problem. <em>I’m Glad My Mom Died</em> doubles as a damning indictment of the child star system.
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McCurdy became a working actress at age 6, when, she writes, her mother asked her, “You want to be Mommy’s little actress?” She started as an extra, then graduated to work on commercials and guest star roles on shows like <em>Malcolm in the Middle</em> and <em>CSI</em>. In 2007, at age 15, she was cast in a supporting role on the Nickelodeon kid’s sitcom <em>iCarly</em>. Five years later, she got her own spinoff, <em>Sam and Cat</em>, co-starring Ariana Grande. Throughout the process, McCurdy says, she existed in a state of misery, struggling with eating disorders and substance abuse issues.
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McCurdy’s mother Debra died of breast cancer in 2013, but it would be years longer before McCurdy was able to understand her mother as abusive, and to grasp that she herself had never really wanted to act. The child star system, though, is what enabled McCurdy’s mother and worsened McCurdy’s mental health. Working as an actress from a young age taught McCurdy to understand her body and her emotions as commodities — commodities on which her family depended because she was their breadwinner.
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Early on in <em>I’m Glad My Mom Died</em>, McCurdy’s agent tells her that she didn’t score a callback to <em>Because of Winn Dixie</em> because “they’re looking for an ethereal beauty, and Jennette reads more homely.” On the other hand, she doesn’t land the guest starring role of a hermaphrodite on <em>Grey’s Anatomy</em> because she’s too pretty. Child acting as an industry teaches McCurdy to understand her appearance on a scale of attractiveness.
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McCurdy first develops anorexia as an 11-year-old, when she’s beginning to grow breasts. Hitting puberty, McCurdy understands, is a liability in her line of work: She is more employable because she is undersized for her age and can play younger, meaning she can stand in for children younger than herself who are worse at taking direction and legally entitled to more break time. Frantic, she goes to her mother for advice on how to stay small, and her mother introduces her to the world of calorie reduction.
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Meanwhile, the intense dysfunction of McCurdy’s home life means she’s become an expert at crying on command; between her mother’s abuse and her father’s neglect, she’s got plenty of fuel for tears. This ability is, McCurdy writes, “<em>the</em> skill you want in child acting” and makes her highly in demand. McCurdy’s emotional reaction to her own abuse is, like her body, a commodity, one she is determined to sell in order to look after her family.
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After McCurdy lands her role in <em>iCarly</em>, she’s put under the wings of Nickelodeon’s hitmaker, Dan Schneider. (McCurdy refers to him on the page only as The Creator.) <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/30/arts/dan-schneider-nickelodeon.html">Schneider would be pushed out of Nickelodeon in 2018</a> amid reports from former co-workers that he was verbally abusive and internet rumors questioning whether he may have been sexually abusive to the young actors he worked with.
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Schneider has denied all allegations of inappropriate behavior, and McCurdy doesn’t tell any stories about him that are as lurid as some of the internet rumors would suggest. What she does recount is consistent with her professional sense of her body as being a commodity no longer entirely under her control — now in slightly sexualized ways.
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McCurdy describes being pushed into wearing a bikini on the set of <em>iCarly</em> at age 15 even though she begs to wear a one-piece. “I hate this feeling, the feeling of so much of my body being exposed,” she writes. “It feels sexual to me. I’m ashamed.” She has her first kiss in a kissing scene filmed for the show, with Schneider screaming at her to move her head more. When he pitches her on her own spinoff, he goads her into drinking spiked coffee and massages her back. “I want to say something, to tell him to stop, but I’m so scared of offending him,” McCurdy writes.
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Perhaps most striking is McCurdy’s clear-eyed realism when it comes to the kind of career her child stardom can grant her. She knows that Nickelodeon kids almost never make it to the big time and that her co-star Ariana Grande’s flourishing pop career is the exception that proves the rule. Her mother is convinced she’s a future Oscar winner, but McCurdy doesn’t kid herself. “Who’s gonna wanna hire me when I’ve spent almost ten years on Nickelodeon?” she writes.
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But the business has also left her without escape routes. “I never went to college and have no real-life skills, so even if I wanted to get a profession outside of the entertainment industry, I’m years away from that being a realistic option.” This is the end of the line for McCurdy’s acting career, and she has to fight to find a way to pivot herself out of it. She asks the <em>Sam and Cat</em> staff to let her direct an episode so that she can get some TV directing credits under her belt. They agree at first, then tell her they can’t do it: Someone they “can’t afford” to lose has threatened to quit if the producers let her direct.
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Today, McCurdy has managed to pull herself out of the child star trap. She’s in treatment for her eating disorders, and she has a career writing and directing <a href="https://www.jennettemccurdy.com/projects/">short films</a> and hosting a <a href="https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/empty-inside/id1524250628">podcast</a>. But in <em>I’m Glad My Mom Died</em>, she paints a vivid picture of child stardom as a system in which children find themselves turned into walking piles of other people’s cash, and summarily dismantled when they lose their value. It’s damning both for the horrors she experienced as an individual and the systemic failures to which her story points.
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Aspirational fitness content can create unrealistic expectations. Here’s how to tune it out. | Shanée Benjamin for Vox
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You’ve probably seen her before, all over your TikTok feed. She likely woke up before sunrise in a tastefully but minimally decorated apartment. <a href="https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRAA8fQk/?k=1">By 7 am</a>, she’s putting on a matching workout set and slicking her hair back into a sleek bun. After her workout, which was probably pilates or a weight-lifting session, she contorts her body into the perfect pose for the mandatory post-workout mirror selfie. She often proclaims to be “that girl,” and her online aesthetic is a moment of fleeting perfection. She’s stunning. She’s fit. She has <em>the look</em>.
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“That girl” hasn’t strayed far from its original status as a way to hype up your girlfriends. But now, that badge of honor has morphed into a ubiquitous health and wellness archetype that panders to Western beauty ideals, especially on TikTok. (It’s also dominated by thin white women.) To date, the hashtag #thatgirl has accrued more than 5.7 billion views on the platform.
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Online fitness is becoming more and more intertwined with performing pleasantness — and, by extension, being perceived as beautiful at all times. Whether this is positive or negative depends on the person consuming the content. It could inspire some consumers to pursue healthier habits or to organize their days in a way that makes more sense for them. And believing oneself to be an it girl can serve as a confidence booster.
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But for others, aspirational content can exacerbate pre-existing insecurities. “There are certain people who are more susceptible to being influenced by others,” explained Joe Phua, a social media expert and professor at the University of Georgia. “They may feel like they need to live up to those standards that are seen in the video in order to be liked or to feel good about themselves.”
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As more people post this type of content, it can become a convention. Those social codes can create unrealistic expectations and potentially cause people to think if their workout doesn’t fit into the bounds of that pattern, it’s not <em>real</em>. It enunciates the fine line between aspirational content and the reality of working out, which often results in looking a mess once the hard work is done. But since social media is a highlight reel of someone’s life, what does it mean to post this content online and uphold it as an aesthetic to hundreds or thousands of impressionable followers? And what are the effects of it becoming a trend?
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I took this context into my conversation with Dr. Michele Kerulis, a former fitness instructor who is now a professor of counseling at the Family Institute at Northwestern University, specializing in sport and exercise psychology. During our conversation, we discussed what it means to uphold a look over health, the negative aspects of community building online, and how anyone who wants to post their content can do so honestly.
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<strong>What are the pitfalls of uplifting an aesthetic in terms of exercise? Do you think this is an extension of externally derived gratification that’s commonly seen in fitness spaces? </strong>
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While a lot can be controlled about the way we look, there is also a lot that we cannot control about our looks. A pitfall of focusing on aesthetics is that people might become preoccupied on some of these factors we can’t change. This can lead to a dangerous downward spiral of low self-confidence and high social comparison. Another pitfall is that focusing on aesthetics can distract you from the point of exercise — to maintain a healthy mind and body. Additionally, some people spend a small fortune on workout gear and clothes, so if people don’t budget well, they might overspend trying to keep up with others.
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Before I was a professor, I was a group fitness instructor and I worked diligently to choose my language carefully as a way to uplift my exercisers’ confidence in their own unique abilities. I worked with people from a variety of ages and physical abilities, and it was important to me not to comment on their physical looks. After I demonstrated an exercise and watched the exercisers perform their reps, I would say things like, “Your form looks great!” or “Awesome technique!” I avoided phrases like, “You look great” because I wanted them to focus on the physical feeling of the movements, not on their aesthetic during exercise.
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<strong>What are the potential issues with focusing on how someone looks during or after a workout?</strong>
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Many people are concerned about how they look and often compare themselves to others. This is called social comparison theory, and it is seen frequently in the gym and other fitness spaces. During exercise, people look at others to see how easy or challenging workouts might be. This can be especially true in group fitness classes. If someone looks very put together and poised at the gym, others might think the workout that person is doing looks easy, when actually it could be quite hard.
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<q>Focusing on aesthetics can distract you from the point of exercise — to maintain a healthy mind and body.</q>
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Looking good is subjective. We all have a different idea of what attractiveness is and what we can do to enhance our own attractiveness. It can be hard to maintain what one defines as looking amazing during a workout, depending on the level of exertion and type of workout. For example, a person who takes a restorative yoga class might conclude class looking really good, and that same person might take a hot yoga class and end class looking like a hot, sweaty mess. Restorative yoga is meant to be relaxing in body and mind, and hot yoga is intended to increase heart rate and strengthen muscles in a high heat and humidity temperature-controlled room. We can assume this exerciser achieved the intended fitness goals during different workouts — relaxation in restorative class and an intense workout in hot yoga. With this example in mind, it is hard for us to tell others’ fitness goals based only on how they look.
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I encourage people to focus on themselves during workouts so they can be in tune with their bodies and minds. When people constantly look at others for comparison — with the exclusion of your personal trainer or group fitness instructor — they not only put themselves at risk of becoming physically hurt by using improper technique, but they also could be negatively impacting themselves. Potential issues include decreased self-esteem by comparing yourself to others, the possibility of injury by not focusing on yourself, decreased focus on your own goals, and the inability to “mind-read” someone else’s goals just by looking at them.
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Almost everything is amplified online due to the nature of the internet, and I see different types of interactions between people, specifically when we’re looking at fitness. But one thing that we know is having other people be aware of someone’s goals helps people stick to their goals. When you’re creating that kind of community around your fitness, that could be extremely positive.
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It can be negative when people are posting for more harmful psychological purposes, such as boosting their self-esteem, as opposed to their true fitness goals. And other people might make negative comments and start trolling and really misinterpret the original poster’s intention.
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<q>It’s perfectly okay to have confidence and want to put our best foot forward. But we have to make sure that that’s for ourselves and not for others.</q>
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<strong>So much of the fitness content we consume online is about achieving a certain body type. Do you think this trend is supporting that endeavor? </strong>
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The trends we see on Instagram and TikTok definitely encourage certain body goals. For some, this can be motivating, but for others, this can lead to problems like eating disorders. We used to watch workouts on VHS and DVD to try to achieve our body goals, and that has evolved to streaming and social media. Motivational examples include Peloton instructors whose literal job it is to look good and motivate others, people who have overcome challenges related to illness and chronic disease, healthy weight loss success stories, and people who have healed from amputations. All of these people have different body types, and we can find many social media accounts that fall into these categories that encourage people to try their best to reach their own fitness goals. This might or might not include a specific body type.
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It is okay to admire someone else’s physique and to be motivated by their social media accounts. This becomes problematic when someone thinks there is only one acceptable body type. We also must keep realistic expectations for our body type and body shape. There’s this beautiful curvy look that’s in right now. It’s okay to want to look curvy, but what does curvy mean for your own body? It’s okay to want to look strong. So what does strong look like for your specific body?
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But I am pleased to see so many different body types, physical abilities, ages, and health conditions represented in positive ways on social media, and their aesthetic is a part of what makes their accounts successful and motivational.
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<strong>What’s the difference between focusing too much on an aesthetic and having a feel-good ritual? For instance, I wear all black when I go to the gym because it gets me in the right head space. How is that separate from “I wanna look a certain way during and after this workout so that I’m conveying a specific message to my followers”?</strong>
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Getting into that mindset and following your rituals is definitely important, and that’s for you. So as the exerciser, you’re saying, “I feel good when I have a new pair of shoes, when I’m in all black, or when I have my lucky headphones.” That’s an internal motivation for you. Wanting to look good before or after the physical workout is more of an external validation where people are looking for others to confirm that they’re worthy or good enough. With external validation, somebody might be looking for more comments, more followers, or more likes for a self-esteem boost and not necessarily for the passion of sharing exercise and fitness. Someone getting into their routine and posting that might encourage other people to find rituals that would be helpful for internal motivation.
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It’s also fine for people to want to look good. It’s perfectly okay to have confidence and want to put our best foot forward. But we have to make sure that that’s for ourselves and not for others. When it starts being more for others than yourself, that’s when we notice some red flags. And sometimes, after a great workout, you might not look as good, but that’s okay too. You’re sweating!
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<em>Julia Craven is a writer covering anything she thinks is cool, and she’s the brain behind </em><a href="https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=https-3A__juliacraven.substack.com_&d=DwMFaQ&c=7MSjEE-cVgLCRHxk1P5PWg&r=Rg_frVECyHq8RLGpsvHBW3D76DIRpCQrSH_yE2X1iQg&m=Pp_lTxRj3b13d8zOqKI9STNH5DhSONNyiwIt97tczppQl9Uwc_Knp19QCleFB1Q7&s=T5QtS0OqI4dZUEh4gMGEtXlDwa44duUU9S8tVS3CHKc&e="><em>Make It Make Sense</em></a><em>, a wellness newsletter.</em>
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<h1 data-aos="fade-right" id="from-the-hindu-sports">From The Hindu: Sports</h1>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Indians bag four bronze medals</strong> - Sports Bureau</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Ukraine war: Thousands of Jews quit Russia amid fears of persecution</strong> - Around 20,500 Jews out of an estimated 165,000 Russian Jews, have moved from to Israel since March.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Wolfgang Petersen: Das Boot director dies aged 81</strong> - The Oscar-nominated German filmmaker was also known for films such as Air Force One and Outbreak.</p></li>
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<li data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Elon Musk sends social media into frenzy with Twitter joke about buying Man Utd</strong> - Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, sends social media into a frenzy with a joke on Twitter that he is buying Manchester United.</p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>When context is key: “Hunger stones” go viral, but news first broke in 2018</strong> - Landmark stones recorded low-water levels during droughts to warn future generations. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1873971">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Sweeping report alleges inequity, sexual harassment at Nintendo’s American HQ</strong> - NoA full-timers accused of “using the tester pool of associates as a dating pool.” - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1874051">link</a></p></li>
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<li><p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"><strong>Will the Nintendo Switch ever see a price drop?</strong> - The best-selling console has sat at $299.99 for an unprecedented five-plus years. - <a href="https://arstechnica.com/?p=1874055">link</a></p></li>
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“Please untie her, please, let her go!”
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“No, I’m not untying either of you so that the authorities get notified as late as possible. Don’t worry, your neighbours will soon wonder why your lights are still on throughout the night and check in on you long before you succumb to dehydration”
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“Please, just untie her, I’ll do anything!”
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The burglar once again explains his reasoning,
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“I need to get away with this crime, I’m sorry, I can’t leave anything up to chance.”
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“I’m begging you man, just let her go, she won’t call the cops, I promise!”
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“Wow,” he said “You must really love your wife to beg me to untie her so desperately”
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<li><strong>A Republican and a Democrat end up as neighbors</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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One day the Republican(John) has a terrible car accident right in front of the Democrats(Mike) house.
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Mike!! he yells. Come quickly please I am dying!!
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Its too late Mike… Please…I have one final wish..
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What is it John tell me..
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Contact your Democrat Party and please write me as an official member in your Catalogues.
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Tell me John! Why did you make this choice now after all these years says Mike with tears in his Eyes..
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John with his very last breath says…
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Mike..one fuckin Democrat less now…fuck you…!
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<li><strong>I told my friend that he really shouldn’t be using a straw and he replied, “Yeah, I know, I know, it’s bad for the environment.” I said, “Sure, there’s that…”</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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“But it’s just a really weird way of eating spaghetti.”
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<p data-aos="fade-left" data-aos-anchor-placement="bottom-bottom"> submitted by <a href="https://www.reddit.com/user/808gecko808"> /u/808gecko808 </a> <br/> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/wql2na/i_told_my_friend_that_he_really_shouldnt_be_using/">[link]</a></span> <span><a href="https://www.reddit.com/r/Jokes/comments/wql2na/i_told_my_friend_that_he_really_shouldnt_be_using/">[comments]</a></span></p></li>
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<li><strong>Two postmodernist academics stumble across an antique oil lamp.</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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(OC)
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One of them sees a little grime and rubs it off. Suddenly, a glorious genie springs forth from the lamp.
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“I am the great genie of the lamp! Since I see you are insufferable postmodernist academics, I will grant you each one META-wish.”
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The first academic ponders for a moment and says, “I wish this entire situation was fiction, being told as a joke. None of us are real.”
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“GRANTED! Next?”
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The second academic only takes a minute and says, “To improve the structure of the joke, I wish there were a third academic who also gets a wish.”
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“GRANTED! And you, the third academic?”
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The third, peeved at having been created to round out a three-beat structure, says, “I wish the joke wasn’t funny.”
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<li><strong>How did the Polygamist Hippie count his wives?</strong> - <!-- SC_OFF -->
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1 Mrs. Hippie, 2 Mrs. Hippie, 3 Mrs. Hippie……
|
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