sleepy spice

c'est la vie

she/her

[thinkingcap @chrisheatherly]

I’m actually a child online safety expert and was one of the pioneers in this space with Club Penguin and so I feel uniquely positioned to critique this.

The groomer problem is real but it’s also vastly overstated. The far larger issue we saw at Penguin was suicidality or reports of sexual abuse in the home.

There is no solution for lazy/bad parenting. You can implement all the ID laws you want but if parents are going to just hand kids their phones unlocked, those kids will have access to all the same things the parents have unfettered.

What I found is that these draconian safety laws actually make it harder to be an honest operator of kids apps because on one hand it’s so much legal risk and so much user friction that it simply becomes uninvestible as a business.

Parents will just lie to let their kids use the unfettered internet. For example, I have a friend who works in mobile gaming who has two kids, one above and one below the age limit but separated by just 2 yrs, and the two wanted to play and chat together on Roblox - which is reasonable. To do this, he just verified that his younger kid is old enough for the chat feature when he’s not.

This happens all the time and will happen with these laws to. How far do we want to go with this? Scan the face of the user in real-time to make sure it’s not a kid using the device? We could do that but it feels like a massive unwanted intrusion of privacy.

That’s how you know this law isn’t about kids. COPPA and GDPR-K and so forth already make it illegal to allow chat and other grooming vectors to kids.

What’s really being done here is trying to eliminate online anonymity. And this is a far bigger issue that goes to core speech rights because if you cannot criticize the govt anonymously and if wrong speech is a crime then it becomes easy to identify all the detractors of the govt in power, and ban, fine or jail them for speech crimes.

Starmer has already been doing this and he wants to do it at a much bigger scale. Starmer won’t even acknowledge the problem of actual grooming gangs in Britain’s neighborhoods but he’s worried about online grooming?

No he’s not, and this hypocrisy gives away the game. What he wants is to kill online anonymity so he can enforce censorship of his unpopular policies. No politician should have this power.

[g. @GeauxGabrielle]

Speaking of gerrymandering, have you heard of prison gerrymandering?

White Republicans use incarcerated people to be counted by the census as residents of the town the PRISON is located in rather than their home communities. This increases their political representation and FUNDING for those districts while incarcerated people themselves cannot vote.

What you allow to happen to incarcerated people will happen to you.

[c^den @moreybnett]

i don’t recall a single trans athlete participating in recent games, but i do recall steven van de velde being allowed to compete in the 2024 paris games a few years back AFTER being convicted of raping a 12 year old girl in 2016

[Tuki @TukiFromKL]

🚨Let me explain what just happened because I don't think people understand how insane this is.

> A woman asked ChatGPT for legal help. It told her to fire her real lawyer. She did.

> Then it wrote 40+ court filings citing laws that don't exist. Cases that never happened. Judges that never ruled.

> The other side spent $300,000 responding to completely made up legal documents.

> An AI hallucinated an entire legal career and nobody noticed for months.

> OpenAI is now being sued for $10 million.

And this is the same company that just signed a deal with the Pentagon.

They can't even stop their AI from faking court cases. But sure, give it access to military intelligence. What could possibly go wrong.

[ClearingTheFog @clearing_fog]

More than half of Ohio’s public school districts are suing the state, because Republicans are siphoning their funds to give people vouchers for private schools.

The districts are winning in court.

So a Republican introduced a bill to defund them if they don’t drop their case.

[Nina ☽☾ 🐈‍⬛ @sapphicnightowl]

The sexual violence revealed in the Epstein files isn't satanic or demonic, it is PATRIARCHAL. The reality of patriarchy is more violent and depraved than any mythological conception of evil, and it isn't religious conspiracy theorists that have been vindicated, but feminists

[based pariah @_Trapitalism]

aint heard shit abt those epstein files or maduro since they started escalating in minnesota. epstein files one of the biggest most important stories in u.s. history. our entire govt is a pedophilic white supremacist imperialist sex trafficking ring and to hide it they killing us

[sleepy spice @kieraughhh]

can't participate in the 2016 throwback trend because it was the worst year of my life and I don't have pictures of myself from then and it's a weird feeling seeing people I know post theirs and seeing the person who made my life hell in them

[Austin MacNamara @gremloe]

The 4th Amendment is a suggestion now, any Cop, ICE agent or Fed can no knock your home and lie about an "objectively reasonable basis".

Full PVP zone activated.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

> be microplastics researcher 2015
> develop better detection method
> can see particles 10x smaller than before
> run samples
> counts 100x higher than previous estimates
> publish
> conclusion: "more research needed"
> funding expires

> be different researcher 2020
> even better detection
> same samples
> counts higher still
> publish
> grant rejected: "not novel"

> be researcher 2024
> can now detect nanoplastics
> counts astronomical
> particles in brain tissue, testes, placentas
> concentrations increasing decade over decade
> publish
> industry response: "correlation not causation"
> plastic production: up 4%

every improvement in measurement finds worse news. thats not uncertainty. thats the answer

[David Hundeyin @DavidHundeyin]

This actually isn't the worst I've seen. I read last year about an app used to assign shifts to nurses and other healthcare professionals, which draws their credit score data from Experian, and then uses that to calculate how much to offer per shift.

Essentially, the lower the credit score, the more desperate to make money the nurse is deemed, and the lower the pay they are offered. I mean it is one thing to do this gamified capitalism bullshit to delivery drivers and Ubers, but it is another thing entirely to turn payment for lifesaving healthcare professionals into the Hunger Games.

And once I understood that capitalism has no safety rails and no adults in the room, and the animating philosophy of the rich white men behind it has not changed one single bit since they used to farm free labour and call human beings "property", I abandoned the idea of negotiating with it or reforming it.

It really is just a stupid system invented by white men who would happily turn off the sun if doing so would boost their Q3 EBITDA 15%.

[inqilāb @tastefullysaucy]

PSA: if someone ever edits your photo with Al or Photoshop to create a nude photo, go to https://t.co/jjw3PScNjH and submit the original photo & the edited photo. they’ll take it down. If you’re a minor go to https://t.co/hxC8FdY5M2 or https://t.co/ttZuaSKtET

[sleepy spice @kieraughhh]

I love science <3

[Jordan Crowder @digijordan]

This is wild! Scientists used liposuction to suck out ordinary white fat cells...then used CRISPR to turn into “beige” fat cells, which voraciously consume calories to make heat.

Then, they implanted them near tumors the way plastic surgeons inject fat from one part of the body to plump up another.

The fat cells scarfed up all the nutrients, starving most of the tumor cells to death.

These cells wiped out breast, colon, pancreatic, and prostate cancers by depleting shared resources.

They even used patient fat from mastectomies to target their own breast cancer.

Why Fat?: Easy to harvest (liposuction), edit, and reimplant safely – biocompatible, no migration risks.

Full article below 👇

[Rogue POTUS Staff @RoguePOTUSStaff]

ICE deported a US natural born citizen less than 10 days after detaining her.

This was never about illegal immigrants, it's always about brown people.

https://t.co/hxKBTOOapx

[Pootie Guiliani @Kyla_Lacey]

People will only speak one language and think they’re the more intelligent ones.

[sleepy spice @kieraughhh]

@headlikahole brastop is where I get mine and im a p they have sales frequently and sometimes I can get four bras for around $100

[Decoding Fox News @DecodingFoxNews]

The truth - The Trump was sued over this and he LOST IN COURT. As usual he’s lying. He didn’t agree to help students. He killed a program that was already in place, got sued over it and LOST IN COURT.

[Teneika Askew | Analytics & Automation @teneikaask_you]

SNAP (food stamps) will be cut off after October due to the shutdown

[matt bernstein @mattxiv]

genuinely jaw-dropping billboard in san francisco and the website it takes you to

[Reid Southen @Rahll]

If bills like this pass, it won't be long before it's no longer 'voluntary', and we'll all have to bake in our homes in the summer because AI data centers 'need' the energy instead.