I just find myself thinking about this more and more lately, especially now that I have a daughter. I'm so scared for her future. I am neurodivergant, I never learned great social skills to pass down to her. I don't want my child to ever experience cyber bullying. She's only 2 and her mom wants her to have a phone already and that terrifies me. "If you don't raise your kids, someone else will" I believe is the quote that I just find haunting now.

I think kids shouldn't even have access to the general Internet until the age of 13 and even then, it should be moderate. Once they graduate from school, it would be complete access. But before that, they should learn everything they need to know about protecting themselves, their devices, their data, their foot print, etc...the digital age grows ever faster year by year and our educational system is sorely lacking to keep up.

I think kids having phones is important for safety and social mental health, but for texting/phoning, access to the educational network, video chatting with their family etc...a phone for a student might save their life from a school shooter and should never be taken from them, but these apps kids are encouraged to use these days just....foster and grow addictive behaviors and encourage cyber bullying. It's so out of hand and I knew it would get this bad.

The goal of this set up was to prevent access to our children's online presence from predators and corporations. Prevent footholds like TIKTOK or Snapchat from ever poisoning the easily influenced minds of our most vulnerable generation.

The idea was that it would be educational based. There would be resources. Only kids could access it, and they would learn about the responsibility of protecting themselves online and protecting their identity with that license they have to access it.

When I was young, maybe 15 years ago, I had thought about mailing in an idea I had to Elon Musk (I feel so stupid for this now) because back then the most I'd known about him was he set aside hundreds of millions to develop ideas sent in.

I believe we should have a heavily encrypted network designed to be utilized by kids and teachers, a network that requires active licensing to access that needs to be renewed. The network would be sorta like "training wheels" for the Internet.

Apparently Jordan Peterson is creating his own "university" filled with teachers he specifically agrees with & he's doing it in - I shit you not - the format of a social media application. So, not only will you be getting a completely garbage education, but he's encouraging social growth and peer to peer networking on the platform, so he will be able to data-mine the hell outta you and your conversations, & I believe he will use it to create a self sustaining echo chamber think-tank.

I'm tentative about sharing a story of happiness with my family considering all that is going on with the world but..I've been plagued with serious depression for years and never get many opportunities to genuinely express happiness so if it's okay, I'll take it right now.
Got to do a first Halloween with my daughter. She just turned 2. We dressed up as the shark family. I'm so anxious that I might not be able to make it work with her mom but I'm trying so hard to be good enough.. trying my best

Italy is getting really cheesy with protecting their economy.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/italian-cheesemakers-microchip-parmesan-in-bid-to-fight-copycats/

This is a very good mental health hotline for email conversations.
I've used this when I was really down and out.

Not sharing this because someone just killed themselves or anything...I just think we shouldn't have to wait until that happens to share things like this.
If anyone ever needs someone to chat to...I don't get notifications on this app for some reason, but I WILL respond with care when I do see.
https://www.samaritans.org/

I'm not sure if this is being talked about on here, but Facebook has stopped allowing people to share news in Canada because Facebook doesn't wanna pay out on the profits they get from the clicks.

We have wildfires raging everywhere and need to share information. Does anyone here have any ideas on how to circumvent their measures? Maybe alternative link generators or screenshotting the news and sharing the screenshots?

I feel like Facebook is about to go to court.

A close friend of mine is trying out vlogging since the actor's strike is hitting hard. Check out her content if you'd like! :) she's a sweetheart!

https://youtu.be/oDGXY_m-UFc

Is anyone on here fluent in windows 7 and decent tech support?

Could a KB update I installed the other week cause graphics driver failures? Also, is it possible to uninstall the aforementioned KB update?

Not a single like 😭 guess they don't like me making fun of their platform lol

https://twitter.com/colton_seguin/status/1690448942310555648

Is it possible for a Canadian citizen to go to China with 4 years of university here, then get a master's there in 6 months, while also being employed by a private military contractor?

Or is the person telling me this full of BS lol

Some AI images I generated using openai.
A coworker was saying she thinks a mix between a snake and a dog could be cute...decided to try it out 😁
#ai

Haven't posted in awhile, just curious, I've been having fun with AI image generators, how do people here feel about seeing those posted? I know some people are against AI image generation, but as someone without any artistic ability, I quite enjoy them and would love to share stuff I've generated!

Thinking about getting into becoming a content creator, I have a decent IQ but severe ADHD, and a lot of family bills to pay...I love cooking, but struggle with task retention. Anyone have any advice for sticking-to-it-iveness?

@th3j35t3r you may be interested in this
I sent it back for a review, I can let you know whenever they reply what they say. Facebook is so dumb