Was just reading about Looksmaxxing and the trouble Gen Z dudes are having with life.
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@_elena Absolutely! NYTimes traffics in this kind of stuff *all the time* unfortunately.
I think it’s fair, @Lognormal_guy , to worry about this—I have two boys (for now at least, one of them is Tokyo Drifting away from that gender expression 🤣). It is one of my greatest fears that they will somehow be 'Andrew Tate' pilled into a deep misogyny that I can’t recover them from...
...we worry about kids because we worry about vulnerability. That’s a good thing! We’re empathetic! But—in my experience—I don’t know if it’s helpful to think about kids as *inertially* vulnerable. Some kids are going to be a lot more susceptible to this than others. I think an individualized approach to a specific kid is going to be a lot more effective combating these trends than generalized interventions.
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...we worry about kids because we worry about vulnerability. That’s a good thing! We’re empathetic! But—in my experience—I don’t know if it’s helpful to think about kids as *inertially* vulnerable. Some kids are going to be a lot more susceptible to this than others. I think an individualized approach to a specific kid is going to be a lot more effective combating these trends than generalized interventions.
HOLY THREADJACKING, BATMAN.
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HOLY THREADJACKING, BATMAN.
I am sorry for taking up so much of your reply space, @Lognormal_guy , I hope you felt respected and that I was not talking down to you.
and likewise, @_elena , I’m sorry if you felt like I steamrolled over your insightful comment.
I WILL BE LEAVING YOU ALL ALONE NOW, REDUCED FROM A REPLY GUY TO A G'BYE GUY.
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I am sorry for taking up so much of your reply space, @Lognormal_guy , I hope you felt respected and that I was not talking down to you.
and likewise, @_elena , I’m sorry if you felt like I steamrolled over your insightful comment.
I WILL BE LEAVING YOU ALL ALONE NOW, REDUCED FROM A REPLY GUY TO A G'BYE GUY.
@OKdad no need to apologize, thank you for all your insights!
My child is much younger (5) and thus blissfully offline. That's why I do so much work now advocating for the Fediverse and FOSS... I wanna help support better alternatives for her and her peers 🥲
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@OKdad no need to apologize, thank you for all your insights!
My child is much younger (5) and thus blissfully offline. That's why I do so much work now advocating for the Fediverse and FOSS... I wanna help support better alternatives for her and her peers 🥲
@_elena You’re doing the *work* for sure!!! And if nothing else, you get to be the stuff of your kid’s personal legends. “Yeah, I wasn’t allowed anything Meta as a kid, you know FOSS? Okay, well... I’ll send you a video that my mom made.“
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@_elena You’re doing the *work* for sure!!! And if nothing else, you get to be the stuff of your kid’s personal legends. “Yeah, I wasn’t allowed anything Meta as a kid, you know FOSS? Okay, well... I’ll send you a video that my mom made.“
@OKdad actually her pre-school already asked me to do a presentation about FOSS and the Fediverse to parents... I plan to ask to do so in every school she's enrolled in (elementary / middle / high school) LOOOL 🤗
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@OKdad actually her pre-school already asked me to do a presentation about FOSS and the Fediverse to parents... I plan to ask to do so in every school she's enrolled in (elementary / middle / high school) LOOOL 🤗
@_elena that’s AMAZING!! 🤣 I love that so much!!
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I am sorry for taking up so much of your reply space, @Lognormal_guy , I hope you felt respected and that I was not talking down to you.
and likewise, @_elena , I’m sorry if you felt like I steamrolled over your insightful comment.
I WILL BE LEAVING YOU ALL ALONE NOW, REDUCED FROM A REPLY GUY TO A G'BYE GUY.
@OKdad @_elena I get that this isn't likely 'normal' - not tons of kids hitting themselves in the face with hammers (I hope.) But it's a worrying sign that this is as popular as it is - the fact that folks watch it for entertainment even if they aren't using it as a life guide - means it's in their heads somewhere. And even if it's fringe, in normalizes a fringe view that attractiveness is more important than anything else (in direct opposition to all the after school specials of my day.)
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@OKdad @_elena I get that this isn't likely 'normal' - not tons of kids hitting themselves in the face with hammers (I hope.) But it's a worrying sign that this is as popular as it is - the fact that folks watch it for entertainment even if they aren't using it as a life guide - means it's in their heads somewhere. And even if it's fringe, in normalizes a fringe view that attractiveness is more important than anything else (in direct opposition to all the after school specials of my day.)
@Lognormal_guy @_elena You’re right—kids are scooped up in this that wouldn’t have otherwise, even if it is a small percentage. I personally think of this as an extension of what we are seeing at the intersection of algorithmic social media and right-wing content culture.
People are heavy-lifting the Overton Window to the right by making *really* compelling content. (This goes back too! I’m thinking of things like the Alex Jones Gay Frogs rant—which is odious and objectively very funny.)
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@Lognormal_guy @_elena You’re right—kids are scooped up in this that wouldn’t have otherwise, even if it is a small percentage. I personally think of this as an extension of what we are seeing at the intersection of algorithmic social media and right-wing content culture.
People are heavy-lifting the Overton Window to the right by making *really* compelling content. (This goes back too! I’m thinking of things like the Alex Jones Gay Frogs rant—which is odious and objectively very funny.)
@Lognormal_guy I think as long as the personal and monetary incentives persist, that content will unfortunately continue to thrive. SO! **IMO** on the micro-level: talk to kids about this stuff and be honest about your feelings and concerns. And on the macro-level: challenge the incentives—the algorithms and the platformers. which is what I think @_elena is attempting to do!
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@Lognormal_guy I think as long as the personal and monetary incentives persist, that content will unfortunately continue to thrive. SO! **IMO** on the micro-level: talk to kids about this stuff and be honest about your feelings and concerns. And on the macro-level: challenge the incentives—the algorithms and the platformers. which is what I think @_elena is attempting to do!
@OKdad I already got my daughter to be completely turned off by Barbie dolls at age 3, totally rejecting them (after I explained to her that they have impossible dimensions that do not exist IRL and if a real woman looked like a Barbie she wouldn't be able to engage in a lot of fun sports, because she'd be too frail). Gotta do the same with Big Tech tools
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Yes.But lets not clutch pearls over how a understaffed FOSS project decides to merge their work.
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Liz Fong-Jones says:
> we need to ramp up the pressure to tax these companies and fund a UBI *now*. if we don't, by the time they've already eliminated these jobs it will be too late, and they'll hold all the cards.
https://bsky.app/profile/lizthegrey.com/post/3mgb2zxybak2m
I agree.
I wrote a piece recently called "A letter from 2016 to 2026" about a fictional person (not me, but based on conversations I was having) writing a letter to open 10y later https://dustycloud.org/blog/a-letter-from-2016-to-2026/
Part of it is the *promises* we were made of what life with AI was going to be like.
Liz highlights UBI as necessary here, and it's actually correct FROM THEIR ARGUMENTS. All the big CEOs of tech were talking up UBI as the answer to what would happen when AI automated everything. So we should hold them to account.
(They also said we'd be automating away the tedious stuff so we can focus on creative things like writing, code, artwork, and music. Oops! Funny how that worked out, huh?)
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@Fbrzvnrnd conosco un bravissimo carrozziere, se prendi un PC linux te lo faccio verniciare giallo agrume a spese mie.
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pronunciarsi sulla richiesta turca, con il rischio di subire in patria una persecuzione politica. Il ministero della Giustizia avrebbe il potere di decidere, come ha fatto con Abedini o Almasri
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Interpol Abuse, un richiedente asilo curdo rischia l’estradizione nel paese da cui fugge. L’inerzia del ministro Nordio
> L’uomo, che ha presentato richiesta di protezione internazionale in Italia, è stato arrestato lo scorso 30 settembre dietro mandato dell’Interpol, ma sulla vicenda pesano diverse ombre. Il 5 marzo la Corte d’appello di Roma dovrà
