Saturday assorted links

1. Another meta-study on smart phone use and mental illness.

2. Ross Douthat has a serialized fantasy novel.

3. Movie Gen, on Meta.

4. “Home to only around four percent of the world’s automobiles, Africa accounted for 19 percent of road deaths last year.”

5. Why is “the Silent Generation” so well-cited in philosophy?

6. Henry Oliver on the new Sally Rooney and neurodiversity.

7. Rebecca Lowe Substack: “philosophical takes on what’s happening, particularly in politics, from a (classical) liberal point of view. bonus pieces on cool stuff like space, fiscal decentralisation, and whether we’re obligated to bring back the dinosaurs.”

8. Very good print collection going up for sale.