Kai's Power Tools!

Yes! Any favorite examples of Cozy Software? I think maybe @eveharms.com's Stimuwrite could be one. It has a built in tamagotchi that motivates you to write!

You have to be joking. Do I need consent from my kid to put a fence up so they don't wander into the street? I think we are talking about wildly different ages of children here

Alt text always depends on context. Imagine an icon of a computer printer. It could be used on a page of free icons. It could be on a school's computer lab site. Or it could be part of a button that allows you to print the current page. In each instance, the same icon would need different alt text.

Yes there is a way to do that. With the built in parental controls of the OS. That's what the OP's quote was talking about and what I think is a good idea. No one said anything about forcing it on others

Some people on bluesky are wound a little too tight. You reply with a pretty mellow opinion that might slightly counter their take and they act like you just kicked their dog or something

Please, highlight exactly where in your post it mentions government mandated controls or age verification

YouTube showing incel radicalization content to young kids, or Cocomelon designed to be as addictive as possible to toddlers, is the abuse I'm trying to prevent

How many kids do you have? Are you able to monitor everything all the kids are doing at all times?

You're saying you want the kids to be able to opt in to TikTok themselves? Or watching right-wing manosphere radicalization videos on YouTube?

I never said I supported any of those things. Your original post didn't mention anything about mandatory parental controls either... I have no idea what you're talking about

Parental Controls are opt in. Not at all the same as fascist government censorship. How are those at all equivalent?

I heavily restrict even what YouTube Kids shows my 4 year old. There's way too much creepy AI slop and maga radicalization content on there trying to warp those impressionable minds

Let me guess: you don't have any children. Otherwise you would understand that showing an 8 year old the demented horrors found on the Internet is not the best idea. In fact I'd want some of those filters for myself; there's stuff on here I don't want to see either

As a parent, this makes sense to me. I wouldn't want to give my kid unrestricted access to the Internet. But I would want to give them a computer to tinker on

That's not their job... That's our job. General strike is on May 1st

Didn't Sam Altman fund a bunch of UBI studies?

Bottle Of caramel sauce and Marmite

We really are living in the end times

butlerian community planning hearing

FBI Extracts Suspect’s Deleted Signal Messages Saved in iPhone Notification Database The case was the first time authorities charged people for alleged “Antifa” activities after President Trump designated the umbrella term a terrorist organization.

Even if you use e2e encrypted messaging like Signal, your iPhone is still saving those messages to an unencrypted notifications database! I wonder if Android has the same vulnerability www.404media.co/fbi-extracts...

Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization How do you write text that conveys the whole meaning of a visualization? You probably can’t. But that doesn’t mean that you shouldn’t try

Many struggle with writing alt text for charts and other other data visualizations. Amy Cesal's "Writing Alt Text for Data Visualization" hammers home the importance of explaining the chart type, the type of data, and the reason for the chart.

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Seth McFarlane's Edgar Alan Poe adaptation "The Telltale Fart"

I Found It: The Best Free Restaurant Bread in America Thirteen thousand miles. Infinite contenders. One beautiful loaf.

I cannot believe I just spent an hour reading this article about bread. Superb and hilarious writing www.theatlantic.com/magazine/202...

Aren't all popular bands industry plants? Like that's the entire point of the industry: to prop up certain artists they choose

It's like a tamagotchi, but useful!

Bugs of the sea

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To Address Online Harms, We Must Consider Privacy First In this report, we outline how many of the internet's ills have one thing in common: they're based on the business model of widespread corporate surveillance online. Dismantling this system would not

Many of the internet’s ills are based on widespread corporate surveillance online. This pervasive system, ran by corporations and governments, stifles our speech, and erodes our privacy. But together, we can dismantle it. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

What was your search query? Are you saying the old Google search, without the AI, would have answered "how many Os are in this sentence" correctly?

Agreed. Too many companies are just shoving chatbots into their products without caring if they are the wrong tool for the job. Unfortunately, for now, it's up to us as researchers and consumers to be more skilled in when we choose AI tools and how we use them