Sarah Connor is not amused
͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­͏     ­
Forwarded this email? Subscribe here for more

Teens turn to Skynet for advice / Time for screen time limits? / Get ready for the Great Mummy Invasion of 2025

Sarah Connor is not amused

Keith Conrad
Jul 24
 
READ IN APP
 

Teens say they are turning to AI for advice, friendship and ‘to get out of thinking’

That’s not going to end well

Two hour screen time limit and curfews for children being considered by government

This is coming from our friends in the UK. It’s probably not terrible advice, but making it a law seems a little excessive


More Stories Below, but first some new content in the News Sidequest Podcast Universe…


Auditory Anthology

SCI-FI SHORT STORIES - NARRATED BY DARREN MARLAR & PRODUCED BY KEITH CONRAD
Tales From the Blue Line: A nursing student encounters a quiet teenager in a psych ward who claims his reflection is learning, watching, and slowly preparing to take his place in the real world.

Tales From the Blue Line - The Little Man In The Mirror

Keith Conrad / Darren Marlar

Episode

Listen on Apple | Listen on Spotify | Listen on Amazon | RSS Feed

Become a paid subscriber to listen to all of our episodes completely ad-free! You’ll also get access to a deeper dive on the stories we share and the authors!

Andy Shaw on Trump, Media, and the Future of Politics

WHAT DOES IT MEAN? WITH JOHN DEMPSEY
This week on What Does It Mean?, John Dempsey reconnects with a longtime friend and Chicago media legend: political reporter, columnist, and former head of the Better Government Association, Andy Shaw.

Andy Shaw on Trump, Media, and the Future of Politics

John Dempsey

Episode

Listen on Apple | Listen on Spotify | Listen on iHeartMedia | RSS Feed


Pete Rose, Perfectionism, and the Price of Redemption

THE CHICAGO SMOKEHOUSE WITH BIG JOHN HOWELL AND RICK TELANDER
Long before Shohei Ohtani’s interpreter was indicted or your cousin could bet on Little League from his phone, Pete Rose was baseball’s original gambling pariah. Now, posthumously reinstated and potentially Cooperstown-bound, Rose’s legacy—and the sport’s relationship with vice—is back in the spotlight.

Pete Rose, Perfectionism, and the Price of Redemption

John Howell / Rick Telander

Episode

Listen on Apple | Listen on iHeartMedia | Listen on Amazon | RSS Feed


Also Worth A Look…

  • Archaeologists Found the Lost ‘Book of the Dead’ Buried in an Egyptian Cemetery - Can we just not?

  • Psychedelic Mushrooms Reduced Human Cellular Aging by 57%, Increased Lifespan in Mice 30% - Are we living in a prequel to The Last of Us?

  • Different Dinosaur Species May Have Really Traveled Together Like in the Movies - They moved in herds… they did move in herds

  • Couple arrested for sexual activity on flight to Florida: Affidavits - Normally, you’d expect to see that sort of behavior *in* Florida, not on the way *to* Florida. And also from a Congresswoman at a musical

  • Blue Angels under fire after Seattle woman links air shows to pet cat’s death - If the Blue Angels were responsible for killing cats, there would be a lot of dead cats around the country. Sorry for her loss though

  • NASA Monitors Five Aircraft-Sized Asteroids After Exceptionally Close 2025 OS Flyby - Might want to set your 401k to “Aggressive”

  • TSA: 'Stop Hiding Animals in Weird Places' - Solid advice for all of us

  • Lawsuit says Clorox hackers got passwords simply by asking - I’ll bet the hackers felt like dopes. Here they were creating all of these elaborate ways of getting personal information from people and it turned out all they had to do was ask

  • Dogs are helping people regulate stress even more than expected, research shows - We don’t deserve doggos

  • Scientists create temporary tattoo that detects if your drink has been spiked - Sadly, that’s something that can be very helpful

Thanks for reading News Sidequest! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work.

Subscribed
 
Like
Comment
Restack
 

© 2025 Keith Conrad
25 Northwest Point Blvd Suite 400 Elk Grove Village, IL 60007
Unsubscribe

Get the appStart writing