Politics
@hadley I feel like the biggest threat to kids safety and well being is their parents, so I really hate that virtually all of these online child safety bills are just making kids more vulnerable to that. If we want to protect kids, we should educate them about grooming, make sure online spaces have decent moderation, and make sure there are good support systems in place that are easy to access.
@kbelisari0 there is this github repo https://github.com/asapelkin/awesome-eink?tab=readme-ov-file#tablets
This is probably a pretty lukewarm take at this point, but those social media bans for teens, like the one that was just introduced in Australia?
It's a trans panic.
They can try to dress it up however they like, pull in other, legitimate problems for which a ban isn't the solution either so they get more support for it, but at its core that's what it is.
OH MY GAWD OUR GIRLS SOCIAL MEDIA IS MAKING THEM UNHAPPY THEY MIGHT STOP BEING GIRLS ALTOGETHER.
Trans panic.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/11/28/24308245/australia-bans-social-media-children-under-16
you can draw a direct line from eugenicists still worshipped today like pearson and fisher through nazi scientists to the uncle who works at degussa
@jackie yeah it does, I have a lot of dark hair, I've tried shaving before didn't like it. I love my body hair and the queer community used too feel like a place for me but its feeling more exclusionary as of late.
musing, sw
@CoyoteTraveller oh cool.
I follow you, I think someone boosted a post of yours awhile ago and i like coyotes ¯\_ (ツ) _/¯
@bengesko there is this pressure, seeping in to conform to the yt cis beauty standards.
Biologist
Love old tech and anti-authoritarian praxis
RISC and singlecore CPUs
#runbsd
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