How to Set Up Parental Controls on TikTok
For several years, TikTok has boasted a feature called “Family Pairing.” It lets parents control their children’s privacy settings by linking the parents’ accounts to their kids’. As described in…
The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture: Is ‘Zepotha’ a Real Movie?
It’s too damn hot to do anything interesting, so all the young people are staying inside and scum saving in Baldur’s Gate 3, talking about scary movies that don’t actually…
Some Apps Are Hiding Your Sharing Options
Even if you never think much about it, you’re likely keenly familiar with your iPhone or Android’s built-in share sheet. This is the menu that appears when you want to…
Why You Shouldn’t Use Dish Soap in Your Washing Machine
There’s a reason why some social media cleaning “hacks” are only surfacing now, decades after domestic scientists and home economists developed many of the products and techniques still used today:…
TikTok Myth of the Week: Berberine Is ‘Nature’s Ozempic’
There’s a lot that’s shitty about our healthcare system. Even if you have a pretty good idea of what treatment will help you, it takes a lot of time and…
Splash a Little Campari Into Your Iced Coffee
Even at the apex of my partying, I was never big on combining caffeine and booze. The Four Loko fad missed me entirely, and Red Bull & Vodka crossed my…
The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture: What Is Skibidi Toilet?
This week’s Out-of-Touch guide covers a kidnapping that might not have happened, singing heads coming out of toilets, and people eating borax for their health. So make yourself a girl…
ikTok, Meta, Twitter, and YouTube All Have Different Plans for 2024 Election Misinformation
It’s never easy to separate political speech from disinformation in a democracy built upon the right of free speech, but the firehose of foreign and domestic weaponized bullshit that began…
The Fastest Way to Get Rid of Japanese Beetles in Your Garden
It’s been a weird year for garden season weather, and in turn, garden pests. Across the nation, beetles of all sorts are being a pain—and Japanese beetles, in particular, have…
TikTok ‘Diet’ of the Week: The Ice Hack for Weight Loss Is an Ad for a Dumb Supplement
TikTok is full of weight loss “hacks,” most of them misleading, overblown, just plain wrong, or recycled from misinformation of yore (or all of the above). The latest: something involving…