FlashMobOfOne
@FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
Artist, musical performer, and former derby skater from the Midwest.
I’m single, childless, and married to freedom and adventure.
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- Comment on President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems 1 day ago:
This is the kind of stuff I think about whenever a Democrat tries to tell me that Biden or Obama were powerless.
They could have done this to the makers of assault rifles in order to spur greater regulation in the wake of mass shootings.
That is, if they gave a shit.
- Comment on Anthropic says it ‘cannot in good conscience’ allow Pentagon to remove AI checks 1 day ago:
I read somewhere that Anthropic has $18,000,000,000 in commitments from last year alone, so conceivably, they can stand to lose a mere $200,000,000 and it won’t create a huge issue for them in the short term.
I hope that’s how they’re looking at it.
- Comment on New York sues Valve for enabling "illegal gambling" with loot boxes 1 day ago:
100%
- Comment on Instagram says it will notify parents if teens ‘repeatedly’ search for terms related to suicide 2 days ago:
I think that’s a very easy thing to say, but for the younger generations, using social media isn’t too dissimilar from breathing. It’s just something you do.
- Comment on Instagram says it will notify parents if teens ‘repeatedly’ search for terms related to suicide 2 days ago:
I could get behind this.
- Comment on Instagram says it will notify parents if teens ‘repeatedly’ search for terms related to suicide 2 days ago:
Respectfully, I’ve heard all the arguments and do not care to litigate it again.
What you and I think is immaterial. These are the only realistic outcomes in the current ecosystem. You can go have pointless arguments about it with someone else.
- Comment on Instagram says it will notify parents if teens ‘repeatedly’ search for terms related to suicide 2 days ago:
This is good info, and you’re right. Engagement is driven by provocative and radicalizing content.
- Comment on The people who believe "progressiveness is just a fad that one grows out of" are the same people that grew up getting brainwashed into regressive politics. The belief is only true for them. 2 days ago:
The only way my views have changed over time is that, more and more, I’m convinced that nothing I do affects much of anything beyond my own neighborhood. I have no illusions about significant national change, but I can keep my own block clean and take good care of people here.
- Comment on Instagram says it will notify parents if teens ‘repeatedly’ search for terms related to suicide 2 days ago:
I’d love to see any solution centered around the individual and a lengthy lockdown of the account associated with their IP.
- Comment on Instagram says it will notify parents if teens ‘repeatedly’ search for terms related to suicide 2 days ago:
Oh yeah, especially now that suicide rates are spiking, at least here in the US.
- Comment on Instagram says it will notify parents if teens ‘repeatedly’ search for terms related to suicide 2 days ago:
Yeah, I hate that our only two realistic options are allowing companies to self-regulate or age verification, but age verification feels like the lesser of two evils. We’d need to see much more immediate and catastrophic effects for the government to force social media companies to give up their algorithms and actually moderate without using imprecise LLM’s and automods.
- Comment on Instagram says it will notify parents if teens ‘repeatedly’ search for terms related to suicide 2 days ago:
Do any of us think Meta will moderate content in any meaningful way? Even for this supposed parental supervision program?
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- Comment on The people who believe "progressiveness is just a fad that one grows out of" are the same people that grew up getting brainwashed into regressive politics. The belief is only true for them. 2 days ago:
Sounds like a take straight from one’s dumbass social media algorithm. Imagine not having a car and also being anti-public transportation.
You much have endless patience, Madz.
- Comment on Can a reasonable person genuinely believe in ghosts? 3 days ago:
The only evidence is anecdotal, there just happens to be a lot of it.
So no, I’d say it’s unreasonable to believe in ghosts. (Though I do love ghost stories and folklore.)
- Comment on 3 days ago:
I’m sure that switch disables it and isn’t just a presentation. Cheers.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
True, but understand, every wireless-connected smart device you wear or interact with in any way is doing the same.
Meta’s nonsense isn’t unique, and should be regulated into nonexistence, but unless you’re keeping your phone in a Faraday bag you too are being constantly filmed, tracked, and snooped upon.
- Comment on 4 days ago:
Not actually what they said, though.
- Comment on Dublin City Council suspends use of X as State agencies leave amid Grok controversy 4 days ago:
Could be, but regulation will come more readily if the bottom line of Big Tech is affected by international divestment. They don’t give a shit about customers, but they do give a shit if they lose a few billion as countries opt to go in-house.
- Comment on Dublin City Council suspends use of X as State agencies leave amid Grok controversy 4 days ago:
You’re not wrong, but disentangling a whole government system from a web provider isn’t exactly a simple thing.
- Comment on Dublin City Council suspends use of X as State agencies leave amid Grok controversy 4 days ago:
It’s hard to overstate the importance of world governments realizing, and speaking publicly, on the danger of housing their confidential data solely with unregulated American providers.
As an American myself, I love to see it. If this outrage translates to changes in fundamental business practices, it could mean Americans getting better regulation of Big Tech by sheer necessity.
- Comment on Zuckerberg’s “Fix” for Child Safety Could End Anonymous Internet Access for Everyone 5 days ago:
Exactly what I’m saying to the kids who argue that they can’t function without it. My generation did, and it’s easier for them having text and email.
- Comment on Zuckerberg’s “Fix” for Child Safety Could End Anonymous Internet Access for Everyone 5 days ago:
Unfortunately, in some communities, that’s still impossible to do fully.
Hopefully that’ll change with time.
- Comment on Zuckerberg’s “Fix” for Child Safety Could End Anonymous Internet Access for Everyone 5 days ago:
TBH, I don’t trust them any further than I can throw them. If it comes to that, I’ll use an old ID with invalid info.
This is a lesser of two evils thing.
- Comment on Zuckerberg’s “Fix” for Child Safety Could End Anonymous Internet Access for Everyone 5 days ago:
Sure, thank you for not being a prick in your approach like everyone else.
A few reasons:
First, your private info is already out there. Either it’s hanging out on Spokeo (and you should go there, look yourself up, and request that they delete it.) or one of Google/Meta/Whatever’s servers. Thanks to the video disclosure in the Guthrie case, we know definitively that all of those cameras you have in your home and around your neighborhood are recording you and feeding the information to the government without a warrant for permanent storage. Further, providing ID is something we do for a lot of things that are appropriately age-gated already.
Secondly, and I think this is the bigger point, is the mounting evidence of detrimental effects social media is having on kids’ cognitive abilities. It affects adults too, but to a lesser extent, likely because our brains have already matured. I know schoolteachers who can’t get their kids to answer a question correctly when the answer is literally written on the dry erase board in front of them, to give one example. The other problem here is the effects on self esteem and mental health, as algorithmically-elevated content is designed to isolate, anger, and cause mental health problems. Happy people aren’t buying every piece of shit they’re fed in their feed’s ads.
I would prefer to see the companies themselves held accountable and these algorithms made illegal, but I don’t think that will realistically happen, so age-gating via ID is, to me, the best that can be done right now, and I think it’s essential.
- Comment on Zuckerberg’s “Fix” for Child Safety Could End Anonymous Internet Access for Everyone 6 days ago:
Could End Anonymous Internet Access for Everyone
Don’t come over here threatening me with a good time.
- Comment on Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich 6 days ago:
People get pissed at me but, as a short-term solution, I’m okay with giving up my ID in order to lock kids out.
Ideally, there’d be federal regulation of these platforms in every country banning algorithmically-elevated content, ads, privacy violations, and holding the operators of these platforms accountable for CSAM, but I think that will take decades.
- Comment on Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich 6 days ago:
And they’ve convinced you that it’s a-okay for your kids to be using these products, in full knowledge of the harm they cause.
- Comment on You ever wake up and question, "am i the bad guy"? 6 days ago:
Absolutely.
I think this moment happens for everyone, because we don’t always realize how our behaviors affect other people negatively, but it’s a sign of growth and maturity when you hit the point where that level of empathy kicks in.
- Comment on I've probably seen more naked ladies than my entire bloodline combined 6 days ago:
It’s a good time to be alive.