According to the World Prison Brief the United States in 2021 had the sixth highest incarceration rate in the world, at 531 people per 100,000.[1][2] Between 2019 and 2020, the United States saw a significant drop in the total number of incarcerations. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_incarceration_rate (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: The Kids are Not Okay. Teen Suicide attempts are up. Depressive episodes are way up... Spoiler alert, I’m going to blame the smartphones and social media. (more)

Jerry Coyne: Lots more debunking of the Turban et al. study on gender dysphoria. On Thursday I wrote a post about a new paper in the journal Pediatrics by Jack Turban et al., a paper arguing against “rapid onset gender dysphoria” in adolescents and the attendant view that transgender identity is often spread by “social contagion”. (more)

Lisa Littman, at the time an adjunct assistant professor at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, coined the term rapid-onset gender dysphoria for a 2016 online survey of parents on three anti-trans websites who believed that their teenage children had suddenly manifested symptoms of gender dysphoria and had begun identifying as transgender simultaneously with other children in their peer group. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapid-onset_gender_dysphoria_controversy (teen mental health)

cf transgender, sex and gender; how distinguish from body dysmorphia esp for a teenager (teen mental health)?

Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD), or body dysmorphia, is a mental health condition where a person spends a lot of time worrying about flaws in their appearance. These flaws are often unnoticeable to others. https://www.nhs.uk/mental-health/conditions/body-dysmorphia see esp teen mental health (more)

Teenagers Say Depression and Anxiety Are Major Issues Among Their Peers. Most American teenagers — across demographic groups — see depression and anxiety as major problems among their peers, a new survey by the Pew Research Center found. The survey found that 70 percent of teenagers saw mental health as a big issue. Fewer teenagers cited bullying, drug addiction or gangs as major problems; those from low-income households were more likely to do so. (Teen Mental Health) (more)

Jesse Singal: The New, Highly Touted Study On Hormones For Transgender Teens Doesn’t Really Tell Us Much Of Anything. As I noted in that post, earlier this month The New England Journal of Medicine published a highly anticipated study called “Psychosocial Functioning in Transgender Youth after 2 Years of Hormones.” The research team has spent years following a cohort of kids who have been administered puberty blockers or hormones (hormone therapy) at four participating clinics (more)

Jamie Reed: I Thought I Was Saving Trans Kids. Now I’m Blowing the Whistle. I am a 42-year-old St. Louis native, a queer woman, and politically to the left of Bernie Sanders (more)

Suicide is the act of intentionally causing one's own death.[6] Mental disorders (mental illness), including depression, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, personality disorders, and substance abuse—including alcoholism and the use of benzodiazepines—are risk factors.[2][4][7] Some suicides are impulsive acts due to stress, such as from financial difficulties, troubles with relationships, or bullying.[2][8] Those who have previously attempted suicide are at a higher risk for future attempts.[2] Effective suicide prevention efforts include limiting access to methods of suicide—such as firearms, drugs, and poisons; treating mental disorders and substance misuse; proper media reporting of suicide; and improving economic conditions.[2][9] Even though crisis hotlines are common, there is little evidence for their effectiveness. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide (more)

Suicide is the third leading cause of death for school-aged children over 10 years old, and the second leading cause (behind accidents and ahead of homicides) for those over 15... the sharp decline in such emergencies occurred not just during summer vacation, but also during school vacation weeks over the rest of the year. cf Teen Mental Health

Structured Query Language (more)

Open Source Relational Data Base. http://www.postgresql.org/ (more)

Mattermost is an open-source, self-hostable online live chat service with file sharing, search, and integrations. It is designed as an internal chat for organisations and companies, and mostly markets itself as an open-source alternative to Slack.com[9][10] and Microsoft Teams. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattermost (more)

Nextcloud is a suite of client-server software for creating and using file hosting services. Nextcloud provides functionality similar to Dropbox, Office 365 or Google Drive when used with integrated office suites Collabora Online or OnlyOffice. It can be hosted in the cloud or on-premises. (more)

Microsoft LiveChat system

2022: Kevin Jones wrote: I think the action phase of ogm (OpenGlobalMind) is lionsberg and i sure what lionsberg is beyond wiki plus integration. https://www.lionsberg.org (more)

The Massive Human Intelligence Project comprises an interconnected set of projects that together have a vision of a world made better for humans, by decentralizing and federating information, knowledge, and wisdom for the benefit of all. https://massivehumanintelligence.org/ (more)

Collective Sense Commons is a public benefit project organized and supported by Peter Kaminski and others to provide coordination, communication, and sensemaking tools to individuals and organizations that are involved with collective sensemaking. CSC is part of the Massive Human Intelligence Project. https://collectivesensecommons.org/

We're a collective of facilitators, trainers, and practitioners on a mission to deliver creative and inclusive public engagement and community co-creation. We have emerged from many years of experience working in participatory arts with a diverse range of stakeholders and community groups. https://www.collectivesense.org/