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How Zuckerberg Made Your Kids the New Operating System
This isn’t about influencer culture. It’s about corporate colonisation of childhood and how Meta’s grand plan is bigger, colder, and more...

Kirra Pendergast
May 43 min read


Big Tech’s New Babysitter
Google has started emailing parents who use Family Link to let them know that their kids will soon have access to Gemini (Googles AI...

Kirra Pendergast
May 32 min read


Your Teen’s Phone Isn’t Private. It’s a Portal. Are You Brave Enough to Close It at Night?
After a recent parent presentation, a mother pulled me aside. You could see the exhaustion behind her eyes, like she was holding...

Kirra Pendergast
Apr 302 min read


The Deepfake Cleanup Illusion.Why “Take It Down” Isn’t Taking Us Anywhere
On April 28, 2025, the U.S. House of Representatives passed the bipartisan #TakeItDown Act with a resounding 409–2 vote, following the...

Kirra Pendergast
Apr 292 min read


Big Tech Just Got Fined Billions
A couple of hours ago here in Europe it was announced that Apple has been fined 500 million euros (about 830 million Australian dollars...

Kirra Pendergast
Apr 232 min read


AI Tools are Finally Helping Teachers Breathe. Now Comes the Hard Part.
Teachers are not looking for miracles. They’re looking for time.Not the philosophical kind. Not the romanticised version. They are...

Kirra Pendergast
Apr 225 min read


Love Means Learning How to Protect Your Grandkids (and Yourself) Online
There were no smartphones when you were raising kids. No group chats to monitor. No YouTube wormholes. No having to explain why an app...

Kirra Pendergast
Apr 214 min read


AI, Aesthetics, and the Carbon Behind the Curtain
It’s raining in today Florence. That slow, steady kind of rain that makes the city feel like it’s breathing under the weight of its own...

Kirra Pendergast
Apr 196 min read


The Face Is Fake. The Risk Is Real.
Here we are, in 2025, where the most dangerous stranger your kid, your staff, or your leadership team will ever meet doesn’t even exist,...

Kirra Pendergast
Apr 184 min read


They Just Stole Ghibli, Called It Cute. You Just Made It Go Viral.
“Ghibli-style,” they call it. But this isn’t Ghibli. It’s not even close. It’s a knockoff, flattened and stripped of soul, funnelled...

Kirra Pendergast
Apr 174 min read


Corporate-Enabled Child Abuse and Snapchat Is the Crime Scene
What’s happening on Snapchat isn’t a “tech challenge” or a “youth behaviour issue.” It’s corporate-enabled child abuse . Jon Haidt and...

Kirra Pendergast
Apr 174 min read


Love, Trust, and Passwords - When Teen Digital Intimacy Crosses the Line
It starts out looking like young love. Your teen is on their phone a little more than usual—laughing, smiling, texting. They mention...

Kirra Pendergast
Apr 174 min read


Barbie Box or Action Hero? No thanks.
There’s a trend sweeping LinkedIn right now that is part career flex, part creative experiment, part nostalgia hit. You’ve probably seen...

Kirra Pendergast
Apr 144 min read


How Predatory Apps Weaponise Legal Loopholes Against Kids
Just because something isn’t explicitly illegal doesn’t make it safe, moral, or remotely okay. The image is a screenshot straight from a...

Kirra Pendergast
Apr 106 min read


AI Is Now Sniffing Out Cheaters...But at What Cost?
Right. So here we are. A new AI tool called CheatEye just dropped, and it’s already throwing petrol on the bonfire of modern...

Kirra Pendergast
Apr 94 min read


Boys aren’t just watching it. They’re producing it. Yes....that.
Not with cameras or with consent. But with screenshots, casual photos, AI, and the faces of real girls they know. This isn’t about...

Kirra Pendergast
Apr 59 min read


The MANipulation Pipeline (And How It Works).
They're being groomed. Not in the traditional sense, but digitally by algorithms designed to manipulate their identity. TikTok, YouTube,...

Kirra Pendergast
Mar 296 min read


Instagram just launched a School Partnerships Program
Instagram just launched a School Partnerships Program in the US inviting schools to sign up for “prioritised reporting,” “educational...

Kirra Pendergast
Mar 262 min read


The Ban Is Coming. And the Irony?
Let’s start with the part no one wants to say out loud. Schools are still posting student photos and events on platforms that students...

Kirra Pendergast
Mar 254 min read


Look Up!
Yesterday, I was out for a walk with my love and our wildly cute, fiercely independent Scottish Terrier, Monte, who struts through our...

Kirra Pendergast
Mar 233 min read


Empty Promises, Exploitation, and What Actually Helps
Right now, across Australia and around the world vulnerable people are being targeted twice. First by sextortionists, and then by...

Kirra Pendergast
Mar 213 min read


"We Don’t Care About Privacy" Is The Biggest Lie This Generation Has Been Tricked Into Believing
I hear it all the time. From kids, from parents, from entire classrooms."Privacy? Who cares?"I can almost hear the collective eye roll...

Kirra Pendergast
Mar 213 min read


Understanding Incels
If you've been watching Netflix’s Adolescence and are trying to grasp the weight of the term "incel," you’re not alone. The word is...

Kirra Pendergast
Mar 205 min read


Why Schools and Parent Groups Should Stop Using WhatsApp for Communication
WhatsApp has become a default communication tool for many school communities, offering a quick and familiar way for parents to stay...

Kirra Pendergast
Mar 184 min read
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