Schrödinger's Catboy

the outside? that is experiencing borderline inhabitable weather most times of the year? that has polluted air and water and zero actual safe spaces for kids to hang out without being chased off for loitering?? plus, not everyone wants to be outside 24/7 and not everyone can be outside 24/7. you can whine about how children in the 80s used to spend all of their time outside but you have to realize there's a massive difference in how the world operates today and we can't just go back to it. and if you want your kid to go outside so bad, make them! take their phone! stop giving shitty parents grace by insisting the state should be regulating these things! stop excusing your own bad behavior. stop making excuses to be complicit

"we should fix these issues, THEN ban social media"

still bad. even with a good community where children can disperse, it doesn't excuse surveillance. so many people online are ignorantly in support of these bans without even knowing how they're going to be implemented. id and facial scans. is that not insane? is that not alarming??

Smoking is a vice. Vices can be managed, cut back and replaced.

If anyone tells you go cold turkey on most drugs in a high stress period of your life if they are not causing insane self harm or harm to others, they are like a puritan and a cop who is going to inadvertently hospitalize you or give you a stress attack. Quitting cigarettes cold turkey while braving exterior stress can make your health worse should you relapse.

Consider counting cigarette intake down before quitting entirely. So you don't have intense panic attacks.

You often need to be stable to quit. It is okay when you aren't.

use this call script accordingly 👇

Maybe for you. But what about US?

What about people who have been silenced?

What about the queer, trans, poc, disabled, and religious???

What about people who can't talk to anyone? What about kids being abused or bullied every day?

Censorship won't protect anyone.

Kids wouldn't be able to learn, share their creativity, or ask for help.

Vote against KOSA at:

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/donate/campaigns/stop-kosa

https://www.stopkosa.com/

https://actionnetwork.org/letters/stop-kosa-contact-your-senator/

With chat control 1.0 now reading everything on your phone (except end to end encrypted messages), this is only a soft launch of CC 2.0 (which is getting voted on in september) which will scan everything. Welcome to the future of mass surveilance.

From now until the Senate vote, This period of time is our last chance to stop KOSA.

Upset at Discord and Youtube's age verification policies? If KOSA passes, your alternatives to these sites will be affected too. You would not be able to avoid it, not unless you decide to leave social media entirely, which many people cannot do. You would have to choose between privacy and access to your accounts. All is NOT lost, but our hope relies on calls, petitions, emails. I cannot stress enough how important these next few months are. Every call made in the next few months is for the future of the online world. If you have struggled to find time to make a script, or don't know what to say, use 5 Calls. They give you a script to use while calling. People have also provided other scripts. @daytimemin for example has a document with scripts.

Find your senator here: U.S. Senate: Senators

Chat Control 1.0 may have passed, again. Now Meta and Google can scan our private messages until April 2028.

But, not all hope is lost. I have seen the way the deputies slowly but surely changed their positions on the matter. If Chat Control wasn't passed as a second reading, it would have been rejected.

This is why we must keep making noise. We must keep signing petitions and sending messages to our representatives. Because it works, because their position shifts with every action we take.

We can keep fighting against worse measures.

In the meantime:

You can go from messaging apps like WhatsApp to once that encrypts your private conversations like Signal or Threema.

2. You can start looking for a good VPN to protect yourself on the Internet. Proton VPN comes with the free email address.

3. You can change your mail from Google to Proton, Tutamail, Infomaniak and surely more...

I don't know how many people do this with me. I don't know where they are nor who they are but I know for a fact I'm not the only one. You're not the only one either.

here’s how to turn it off

“If you want to avoid these AI generations of your Instagram posts without switching your account to private, you’ll have to dig into the app’s settings.

Open the Instagram app, tap your profile, and then tap the three lines in the top-right corner of the screen.

Then, scroll down to the Sharing and reuse tab.

Here is where you should see a section labeled Allow people to use your content on Instagram and with AI features on Meta, with a toggle for Posts and one for Reels.”

the article

“As part of Meta’s Muse Image model rollout, Instagram users with public accounts need to opt out to block AI generations of their content.”

“META LAUNCHED ITS inaugural AI image model from the Meta Superintelligence Labs on Tuesday, its effort to compete with the likes of OpenAI’s GPT Images 2.0 and Google’s Nano Banana 2 in the AI image generation race.”

Called MUSE Image, it’s deeply integrated into instagram

“As part of this update, public Instagram profiles are now automatically opted into being fodder for generative AI remixes.

All someone has to do is tag your account’s profile in a prompt—if it’s public—and they can use Meta AI to generate an image using your likeness.”

“Meta positions this feature as a cheeky way to personalize generations with images of real people.

"Whether you want to design a custom event invitation, mock up a collaborative creative concept, or generate a personalized graphic, tagging a username lets Meta AI use public photos to build a visual that’s ready to post,” reads one of Meta’s announcement blogs about the new AI tool.

The Instagram updates are rolling out first in the US.”

“If you want to avoid these AI generations of your Instagram posts without switching your account to private, you’ll have to dig into the app’s settings.

Open the Instagram app, tap your profile, and then tap the three lines in the top-right corner of the screen.

Then, scroll down to the Sharing and reuse tab.

Here is where you should see a section labeled Allow people to use your content on Instagram and with AI features on Meta, with a toggle for Posts and one for Reels.”

“Instagram’s help center site includes more details about how this feature will impact users, saying that “people may be able to create content with your Instagram content using AI features at Meta” if you leave your account public and on the default settings. (A previously archived version of this page from 2025 does not include similar, AI-focused language.)”