Hey, uh, don’t post any pics or videos of your children online. And don’t let them post any either. People are using generative AI to make CSAM and CSEM, even of people who are actually adults, and they can feed your kids’ picture into a generative AI and dress them however they want and make the child’s image do whatever they want. I’ve already seen dozens of articles of school boys doing this to their girl peers.

Supervise your children on the Internet. I benefited greatly from having the only computer be in the living room (even though I hated it) til I was in my teens. And I retained all the Internet safety rules that Mom taught me because she acted them out herself.

(I still think kids should have a brick phone before they get a smart phone)

Also, the only “online play” for video games when I was growing up was LAN. No lobbies with cursing and cruel adults. Just your friends in a room, playing the same game.

With the rise of generative AI, never post your children’s pictures online. I know you have a massive friend list, filled with people you haven’t talked to in a decade or more. You don’t know what those people will do with your children’s pictures. Generative AI cannot create anything new, so it will use the likeness of your child to do anything the AI user wants.

And we are charging regular people for all the power that these data centers are using. And these data centers that power the generative AI need more resources every day than a town of 6000 people use in a year. They’re using more water, and the communities that also use that water are now paying higher prices and dealing with all the pollution that data centers bring. Stop using AI. Start scrolling past and/or reporting the AI videos as spam. Generative AI is destroying our environment and society and children. Ten years ago, it was completely expected that you made your own essay over an entire book, let alone building a resume. Now, kids can’t read books without pictures. High school kids. But they can navigate the Internet with ease.

We’re coming into another era, where the class divide is being able to function without technology.

The reason why I rarely see porn on any of my social media anymore is that my only interaction with it is to report it. And I report everything. I avoid all ads like the plague unless I can report them. I haven’t seen an actual commercial(I see ad reads on YouTube) in years. So no, I don’t know what it’s like to have to scroll through that shit. I pay for one (1) streaming service because it’s attached to my Google and has all of my favorites and subscriptions and shit that I’ve been using for 2 decades. I piggy back off of my uncle’s streaming services for everything else. That’s the deal, I set everything up for him, help him whenever he has issues with it when I’m not at work, and I get a profile. And I know he wants everything to be like Netflix, no ads, so I tell him the price and he tells me yes. He’s deaf, 72, lived with his parents til they died, and was completely coddled until they died. He carries the hoarder gene cause his house is full of boxes and cat shit.

He “can’t” use the stove or oven, so it’s meals on wheels and microwave or air fryer shit. Idk how he’s lasted this long. He’s always been good to me, and I do love him for that, but every day that he drives me home and stays within 3 feet of the car in front of us at 75mph+….the hatred grows.

Since I have beta blockers to keep me from having a heart attack or stroke, my main focus is to not vomit while I can’t see the license plate of the car in front of me, cause that would definitely cause a wreck. I’ve been in 7 car wrecks, never drove. When I’m going to work, there’s almost no traffic, and that driver doesn’t zoom unless we’re late. Never ever stays behind a person they’re going to pass. Takes a different, slower road.

But my uncle. He has to take the most efficient route. He has to be the most petty person on the road. He races people trying to pass us til he gets over 80mph. He stays behind cars he knows he’s gonna pass until I feel like I could touch them. If we’re in the passing lane, god forgive whoever’s in front of us going 75 cause he’s gonna be on your ass until you get into the right lane. I have openly threatened to vomit in his truck. He’s still an asshole with no sense of traffic flow. Why does he ignore the cluster of semis, and vehicles behind the semis, that all start pressing their brakes at the same time? Like, motherfucker, that is a pileup waiting to happen. We are not safe on this road and I need you to never relax, like I never relax.

Ugh. And then I need a highly soundproofed apartment(to decompress) in a walkable city. I’ll probably be using earbuds a whole fucking lot when I move into an apartment cause I don’t want to fucking hear the noises of people around me. I don’t want to hear my fridge when the air and heat and fans are off. And that’s on the other side of my *house*. How am I gonna deal with sharing walls and floors and ceilings?

Also, my doctor sent a different order for my regular medication, because I’ve been having trouble swallowing it even after splitting it with scissors. I received the notice about my new refill orders from my doctor, so I assumed that’s what I was picking up today.

Apparently not. I got the same size pill as I’ve been having to cut. And I don’t want to cut, because the safety coating has a purpose.(I know this, because my mouth gets a very tingly unpleasant feeling when I try to swallow the parts of the cut pill.) I know my doctor sent over an Rx for more pills of a smaller size to match the dose I’ve been taking. Still no concern over the fact that I’m unable to swallow pills I used to have no problem with though.

And my doctor activated the hypochondriac in me, cause an ER nurse told me a good way to swallow pills was to tuck my chin. And even though that had solved most of my problems with pills, my PCP told me that that only worked with capsules that float. So I’m back to struggling to swallow my pills again. I am aware of the placebo effect but that doesn’t stop it from affecting me.

headspace-hotel:

shower-thoughts-last-responder:

yetanothergreyjedi:

boybeetles:

boybeetles:

You know technology literacy is dying because I saw this meme with 76k likes

F11 the full screen button? You’re scared of the full screen button? F10?? It opens the menu bar???

Computers are so scary what if I accidentally hit F12 in a steam game and it takes a screenshot. What if I press shift + F12 while in word and accidentally save my document 😖

If you had to learn what the F keys on your computer do through me reblogging this post, then I’m glad you did. Computer literacy is not a skill that gets taught anymore, and it is absolutely one that needs to be taught in order to be learned. Don’t ever feel bad for not knowing something, but ☝️ don’t ever stop learning learning about your environment, the tools you use, and especially the people around you

Never stop learning+ Never stop sharing what you learned

Oh! I figured out why my legs have been so itchy lately. I used to spend hours plucking hairs from my legs, or really anywhere I could reach. I actually had large bald spots on my shins and calves for a decade. The hairs are coming back. When I pay attention to what I’m scratching, it’s always about hairs popping up but not being able to break the skin on their own.

grandmawitch:

grandmawitch:

Skyrim dragon skull pie from a medieval inspired meat pie recipe–clove-y chicken, potatoes, mushrooms, onion in a creamy roux sauce. 🍴

• 2 boneless chicken thighs

• a few whole cloves

• 2 tbsp butter

• 1.5-2 cups potatoes (I used red potatoes)

• ½ cup diced mushrooms, stems removed

• Roux (put 2 tbsp butter in a saucepan on medium heat and as it stops foaming add 2 tbsp flour, stir constantly until it is somewhere between an amber and milk chocolate color. Watch closely, be careful not to burn, you must start over if you do.)

• 1 cup chicken broth

• 4 tbsp heavy cream or half and half

• 1 tsp nutmeg

• salt & pepper to taste

• One batch of your favorite pie dough

Place the chicken thighs in a sauce pan and just cover them with water, add the cloves and simmer for around 30 minutes, until cooked through. Drain, reserving the broth. Shred or dice th chicken and set aside.

Preheat oven to 375F

In a 12 inch skillet, melt the butter and sauté the onions until they become translucent. Add the potatoes and mushrooms and stir, coating everything in butter. Add a splash of the broth from the chicken thighs. Cover and simmer until potatoes are soft.

Make the roux then pour in the chicken broth. Cook 2-3 minutes until mixture has thickened and is smooth. Whisk in cream or half and half, nutmeg, salt & pepper. Pour roux sauce over vegetables, add chicken thighs and stir well.

Grease pie tin and lime with bottom crust dough, prick several times with a fork. Pour the filling in. Place top crust and seal the edges. Brush with a beaten egg.

Bake 30 minutes until golden brown.

aztrokraut:

lostangel2006:

Always be vocal about how fucking disgusting sex tourism is. Never make a sex tourist male feel comfortable in your presence. Work to dismantle sex tourism through donation and volunteering, listen to the voices of women affected by these subhuman scum.

THANK YOU! As a Kenyan woman who’s seen what’s happening on the coast, I truly need people to stop acting like sex tourism is just “Western men finding wives”. These men are NOT looking for love.

The way it’s framed as some harmless dating thing or even joked about (in leftist spaces too, at that) makes me see red. These men are preying on young girls, on struggling mothers who are just trying to survive.

rop3bunn7:

debthedemi:

orgy-of-nerdiness:

taehyungsgrowl:

feminismandmedia:

[image description: a tweet by user @indigenousAI saying

“fun fact: as a DV survivor i cannot register to vote because doing so makes my address public. anyone who is fleeing or hiding from an abuser is automatically disenfranchised from the political process and this is a feature, not a bug”]

I don’t know of the original poster might not be aware

but!

if you’ve been a victim of domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking, you can enroll into the address confidentiality program (free of cost!) and be registered to vote as an absentee voter and your name and address will not be made available for the public

it is super easy to get enrolled - the application takes like 5 minutes, but it has to be with someone who is certified to do it (most likely an advocate! try going to a family justice center in your area or calling the Attorney Generals office in your area!!!!)

ALSO : 

you don’t need to have any police reports or have a protection order to qualify!!! you just have to sign stating that you’ve been a victim of one of the aforementioned crimes.

Links to the info for every state in the Wikipedia article:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Address_confidentiality_program

Address confidentiality program - Wikipedia

Address confidentiality program - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

Reposting as Primaries and General Voting are coming up.

this also works for legal name changes, theres a waver.

unisex-muffin:

Things you can watch/do instead of YouTube, For those who may have trouble finding things to do.

1. Internet Archive. Has plenty of videos to watch, plenty of games you can play that are emulated right on the website. You can also find entire collections of roms. For emulators, check out Emulation General Wiki to find the best emulator for the system you want to emulate.

2. r/piracy has a wiki full of safe places to read comics and manga, to watch anime and cartoons, and to watch movies.

3. Virtualbox, you can set up a Windows XP virtual box and get old PC games from Internet Archive. You can also check out CD Game World if you need a no-cd patch.

4. Saltybet. A Livestream of MUGEN with thousands of characters fighting against each other, sometimes things get hilarious. Runs 24/7.

5. The Cutting Room Floor, spend hours reading up on cut content from your favorite games.

6. Lost Media Wiki, read up on lost movie, books, animation, video games, etc.

7. Neocities, learn coding and make your own website!

8. WebDSR, explore shortband radio

9. Radio Garden, listen to radio stations from around the world

10. Every Noise At Once, explore the widest archive of music genres, with samples and Spotify playlists

11. My Retro TV, pick and era and watch popular television from that time period

My mhmr treatment wants me to stop drinking completely for 30 days, basically while I’m in treatment. Mother fucker, if I could stop drinking for 30 days solid, I wouldn’t be here! And Idk if I’ll be able to go to group because it’s 2 hours twice a week and the only group outside of my work hours is 6 to 8. If I take my evening meds at my regular time, I’ll be falling asleep the last hour, and I’d have to Uber home after group because I don’t drive and I don’t have anyone who wants to drive after dark. The other option is missing 3 hours of work twice a week.