Hacker News with Generative AI: Social Change

Population Decline Will Transform Our Social World (jacobin.com)
Population growth has been slowing and even reversing in many countries, a trend with far-reaching social implications that looks certain to continue.

Demographics, Social Change, Economics

8 points by PaulHoule 4 days ago | 0 comments

A dose of MDMA transformed a white supremacist (bbc.com)
Brendan was once a leader in the US white nationalist movement. But when he took the drug MDMA in a scientific study, it would radically change his extremist beliefs – to the surprise of everyone involved. Rachel Nuwer investigates what happened.

Drugs, Psychology, Extremism, Social Change

44 points by fzliu 28 days ago | 13 comments

Men have grown twice as much as women over past century, study shows (theguardian.com)
Amid the profound changes humanity has witnessed, one might be forgiven for failing to notice a rise in sexy and formidable men: those tall, broad-shouldered types that are strangers to self-doubt.

Human Biology, Gender Differences, Demographics, Social Change

13 points by pseudolus 31 days ago | 0 comments

Billionaire-Proofing the Internet; Picks and Shovels Chapter One (Part 5) (pluralistic.net)
Billionaire-proofing the internet: Scolding people for choosing popular services is no way to build a popular movement.

Internet, Technology, Social Change, Movement

5 points by pabs3 33 days ago | 0 comments

Is Societal Collapse Inevitable? (theguardian.com)
For someone who has examined 361 studies and 73 books on societal collapses, Danilo Brozović’s conclusion on what must happen to avoid today’s world imploding is both disarmingly simple and a daunting challenge: “We need dramatic social and technological changes.”

Societal Collapse, Social Change, Technology, Sustainability

16 points by marban 54 days ago | 3 comments

Is Societal Collapse Inevitable? (theguardian.com)
For someone who has examined 361 studies and 73 books on societal collapses, Danilo Brozović’s conclusion on what must happen to avoid today’s world imploding is both disarmingly simple and a daunting challenge: “We need dramatic social and technological changes.”

Societal Collapse, Future, Social Change, Technology

14 points by pseudolus 55 days ago | 6 comments

Underrated Ways to Change the World (experimental-history.com)
A lot of people would like to make the world better, but they don’t know how. This is a great tragedy.

Social Change, Personal Development, Impact

35 points by usrme 93 days ago | 15 comments

The 1600s were a watershed for swear words (2022) (historytoday.com)
Swear words are a constant, but their ability to cause offence is in flux. In the 1600s, today's obscenities were mundane.

Language, History, Linguistics, Culture, Social Change

119 points by pepys 117 days ago | 145 comments

Post-postal: What did we lose when we stopped writing letters? (resobscura.substack.com)
Lately I’ve been spending a lot of time thinking about the world that my two daughters — both under the age of three— will inhabit when they’re adults.

Social Change, Communication, Technology, Culture

68 points by benbreen 121 days ago | 73 comments

Remote Work Was to Reshape the Political and Social Landscape. What Happened? (joanwestenberg.com)
The remote work experiment proved we don’t need to be in an office to succeed—so why are we still being dragged back to our desks?

Remote Work, Workplace Culture, Social Change, Politics

6 points by cratermoon 145 days ago | 0 comments

Deep Adaptation opens up necessary conversation about breakdown of civilisation (2020) (opendemocracy.net)

Climate Change, Civilization, Sustainability, Social Change

5 points by Bluestein 186 days ago | 0 comments

Generation Z Is Revolutionizing Sex (thewalrus.ca)

Generation Z, Sex, Social Change, Demographics

14 points by laurex 193 days ago | 10 comments

What adults lost when kids stopped playing in the street (theatlantic.com)

Childhood, Urban Planning, Social Change

95 points by jseliger 207 days ago | 107 comments

UBI and the Anti-Work Vibe Shift (greshm.org)