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I figure there's definitely going to be a lot of Talk now with the ceasefire. So, here's some rules.
If you hate Jews, you're not allowed to say anything about the hostages. If you ever tore down a poster of the hostages, you're not allowed to say anything about the hostages. If you believed the posters were "Zionist propaganda," if you laughed at swastikas drawn on them, you're not allowed to talk about them.
If you ever told us they weren't important, that they deserve it, that they should die, you cannot talk about them. If you mocked their appearance, if you thought Hamas was nice for baking a cake, if you thought people should get over it, if you didn't believe them, if you rooted for their destruction, you cannot talk about them.
If you took our word, twisted it, and used Zionist as an insult, Zionazi, Zio (a term popularized by David Duke), if you started seeing sense with David Duke, Osama bin Laden, Sinwar, Hitler, because they were "anti-Zionist" You aren't allowed in our spaces. If you don't listen to us when we say anti-Zionism is jew hatred, if the only Jews you care about are JVP and Neturei Karta, you're not allowed in our spaces.
If you thought October 7th was justified, if you want to globalize the intifada, if you shouted From the river to the sea at us, if you put Sinwar and Hamas on a pedestal, if you don't acknowledge Hamas, and Hezbollah, and the Houthis, or any other terrorist group is a terrorist group, stay away from us. If you did a Nazi salute, drew swastikas, use the red triangle (a symbol used for marking which houses were going to be attacked on October 7), called for the final solution, praised Hamas for trying to finish what Hitler started, if you told us to go back to Europe (we know what you meant), if you saw any of this and you didn't say anything, stay away from us, and admit you're a Jew hater.
And if you're Islamophobic or believe Palestinians don't deserve rights, you can also shut up.
All of these are things I've actually seen, by the way.
(Does not apply to non-Zionists. Goyim are fine to interact, No Jew Haters.)
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Spying on kids to save kids from spying is very, very stupid
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The literature on harms to kids from online platforms is complex and nuanced, rife with people citing small, ambiguous studies as iron-clad evidence that kids are being destroyed by the internet:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ype6c6DdHQY
It's a weird coalition of anti-Big Tech campaigners (who are rightly angry at the platforms' callous disregard for user welfare) and Heritage Foundation-backed culture warriors (who think that if their kids aren't exposed to LGBTQ content they won't come out as queer). While there's plenty these groups disagree about, they share one consensus: there should be a "minimum age" for certain kinds of internet use.
The problem is, there's no such thing as "age verification" for the internet. What we call "age verification" is actually mass surveillance, so invasive and pervasive that it makes the ad-tech industry's commercial surveillance look like some kind of cypherpunk darknet pirate utopia:
"Age verification" means that everyone who does anything online will have to submit to fine-grained tracking and recording of all their online activities. This nightmare is the surveillance advertising industry's fondest dream, a world where it's literally illegal to avoid their tracking, all in the name of saving kidsā¦from them!
So it's not just a weird alliance of anti-Big Tech crusaders and the conspiratorial right that's pushing for age verification ā they are unwitting allies of the very tech industry they think they're fighting. Those tech industry insiders are fully aware that an "age verification" mandate is really a way for the government to teach every child how to use a VPN. They're also fully aware that the next move is to ban VPNs:
Tech bosses are the ones sitting on our shoulders saying, "Go ahead, swallow that fly ā it'll be fine. And if you do have to swallow a spider afterward, well, that'll surely be the end of it":
Behind them is a long line of caliper-wielding grifters who claim they can use your phone's camera to distinguish a child who is 17 years, 364 days old from an adult who's just turned 18:
It's beyond farce. After all, whatever harms you believe the internet is inflicting on kids ā and there's absolutely some kids who are being harmed by their internet use ā those harms all start with surveillance. Your kids can't be targeted by algorithms without the surveillance data that's being used to target them. They can't be funneled into pro-anorexia content or extreme misogyny forums without that funnel being primed by commercial spying.
Why do tech companies spy on your kids? The same reason your dog licks its balls: because they can, and no one stops them:
America hasn't updated its consumer privacy laws since 1988 (when Congress banned the disclosure of your VHS rentals). The EU has the GDPR, but it also has Ireland, the country where all GDPR cases against Big Tech go to die, because any tax haven inevitably becomes a crime haven:
Other countries have privacy laws to varying degrees, but are grossly outmatched by US tech giants, who have fused with the Trump regime, to the extent that Trump will impose penalties on your country if you attempt to regulate his tech companies ā he'll even have your top officials cut off from the internet in retaliation:
Any attempt to save kids from online harms should start with saving kids from online surveillance, but that's the opposite of what we're doing today. After decades of failing to pass and enforce privacy controls for the internet, those same governments are breaking all land-speed records to pass "age verification" laws that make privacy illegal:
The fact that these bills have the firm backing of the tech industry's most controlling, most spying companies tells you everything you need to know about them:
Kids are being harmed by online spying, and so are the rest of us. Whether you think that the algorithm made Grampy go Qanon or you're suspicious that online surveillance data was used to deny you a loan, a job, or a lease, you should want privacy:
You can't protect kids from online surveillance by spying on them. You just can't. Anyone who tells you otherwise is trying to get you to swallow a fly so they can sell you a spider, a bird, a cat, and an ICE chud in a gaiter, Oakleys and plate carrier (beneath which lurks a stick-and-poke Totenkopf tattoo).
If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:
Maybe Facebook at all signing on to this legislation should be a huge red flag for anyone who actually cares.
also, this is a conflation turning āsomething needs to be done about social media harming childrenā and āletās erect a ID verification wall around most of the internetā
Same thing with brexit conflating āsomething needs to be done or things will keep getting worseā with āletās break with our coldest trade partnersā
and then pundits are suprised that people are sick of whoever is in charge.
A world where you need ID to use the internet is a world where the government gets to deny certain people from using the internet, and that as a concept should be much more frightening than people are treating it as.
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Hello, Tumblr user. Here's a non-binary character who uses they/them. Their ASAB isn't relevant at all for the story and everyone regardless of relationship uses they/them for them and they're trans. Your challenge will be to not try to sniff out their ASAB. Go---- oh you're already telling other people who don't agree with you they're wrong and bigoted for hcing it different from you. Okay.
person just walked in to my summer job and saw matcha kitkats and said āwow! matcha kitkats? do you think iād like these?ā so i said, āwell, have you ever had matcha?ā and they said, āeugck, yes, i hated it!ā i said, āwell then i thiiinkkkk i can make an educated guess hahaha āļøšā and they looked at me like i was the stupidest person alive.
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who couldāve seen that coming? such a shock! š
meanwhile thereās a clip of some Fox News correspondent saying, āVance sent a warning to the Jews.ā not to Israel, not to Netanyahu. to āthe Jews.ā
but yeah sure weāre not supposed to be concerned and talking about all of this is ācenteringā our feelings or whatever
We really gotta start spelling out the full name of the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance when discussing the IHRA definition of antisemitism to make it clear who and what is being targeted
Nothing enrages me more than 18-27 year old "revolutionaries" who believe that are the counter culture, immune to propaganda who somehow all bought their mamdani jerseys and have been treating him like some kind of idol for the last year.
Like, mandani filming himself walking to work and shaking people's hands is a form of propaganda... and youd know this if you replaced him with any other politician.
It turns out that when downwardly mobile children of suburban republican gentry or 'dumb mommy liberals' say 'read theory' they don't actually read theory, and then they ignore things like the whole 'opiate of the masses' bit and in their hunger for community, they recreate what they know: A fandom-cult with a hierarchy and merch for a sufficiently handsome and charismatic wealthy cult leader.
Who manifests miracles.
This will in no way lead to batshit 1970s cult bullshit along the lines of Manson or the current Zizians when the wheels start coming off and their leaders can't deliver and need someone to blame.
Recent discourse reminds me of that cult indoctrination trick that's often used to weed out more difficult marks early on, where they tell you all that you aren't allowed to eat rice on Tuesdays and then if you protest they go "wow SOMEBODY likes rice a little much huh" as if you're the fucking weirdo who cares too much about how much rice is consumed between Monday and Wednesday instead of them.
And this forces you to decide whether your autonomy matters to you more than the approval of the group - while they'll still act like you're on thin ice either way, if you give in at this point they know you're theirs forever, because now they've established a foothold, you've shown a moral weakness, which they will brand you with so it can be used against you in the future ("hey RICE-addict here doesn't want help break into the city records office") to force you to double-down and isolate you further.
And if instead you do decide to push back further, after your abrupt departure from the group ("You're seriously leaving us over RICE?!? Seriously?") and subsequent ostracism, you can then be used as a demonstration to the others who were more pliable, of how the outgroup is full of people like you who are obsessed with violating the No-Tuesday-Rice rule to the point where they'll abandon all their friends, who cared so much for them, so it clearly isn't an arbitrary restriction, you're the kind of monster these rules are intended to protect them from, thus all the other wise and esoteric precepts of the charismatic leader are implied to be equally justified.
This isn't just for cults either! Shitty partners, bosses, friends - they all do variants of this where if you kick back the first time they make an unreasonable request, it proves you weren't ever committed since you'd let such a small thing ruin everything. And of course, if it's the third or the tenth unreasonable thing they ask of you, it's SUCH A SMALL THING to be a deal-breaker at this late point in your relationship!
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you know how some cats have insane neuroses and quirks. well my recently adopted cat Rosita, who is a former feral, was said to find toes and bare skin in general "suspicious" in her shelter description. i was like, oh okay, well my other cat attacks toes, cats do that sometimes i suppose
little did we know what this means is that she not only attacks toes but if she sees you with your ankles or bare arms out for example, there is a high chance she will slap you. she will literally just come up to you and slap you where your skin is showing unless its your face. she doesnt hiss or growl or anything she will just give you a disapproving slap or two i assume to voice her disagreement with how you present yourself
this cat wants you to cover your arms and ankles NOW. slut
