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Australia Completely Loses The Plot, Plans To Ban Kids From Watching YouTube Last fall, heavily influenced by Jonathan Haidt’s extremely problematic book, Australia announced that it was banning social media for everyone under the age of 16. This was already a horrifically …

"Once you’ve built the system to block kids from YouTube, you’ve built the system to block anyone from anything. And that system will be irresistible to future governments with different ideas about what content people need to be 'protected' from."
— @mmasnick.bsky.social in @techdirt.com

Update: it has also ceased functioning

I tried to put a clip on this radio battery, but the screws were too long and after I tightened them down it let out a whiff of smoke 😬

Oh, and while we are here, in case you missed it, there was a recent GLOBAL study led by Stanford University that revealed COVID-19 vaccines utilizing mRNA technology PREVENTED OVER 2.5 MILLION deaths and SAVED 14.8 MILLION years of life worldwide between 2020 and 2024.

Surely HHS saw that, right?

Don't let it escape

Reeeeh poor fox tum, that's rough. Hope you're feeling better soon <3

They're even better raw!

Ah, the Will Prowse special xD
I should make one :>

Wanna see a crazy chart? Of course you do.

Spending on constructing datacenters and manufacturing facilities for computers & electronic products in the US now exceeds the entire retail and wholesale industry and almost as much as the rest of the office and manufacturing sectors combined.

Evening, folks! I'm currently attending a meeting of Santa Monica NIMBY group Northeast Neighbors.

I normally wouldn't tweet a small-ish meeting like this, but they have a special guest on to talk about housing: State Senator Aisha Wahab!

Grab some 🍿, 🧵 starts here!

Do not disrupt calibration of

The Nozzle

clay(?): a cute dog with its tongue out, wearing a yellow top and blue pants, is sitting at a computer, hands on the keyboard.

imagery, login, magazine (1996) archive.org/details/logi...

Looking sharp!

Vacuum: hacked

Big congrats to the System Source museum for winning the Halt and Catch Fire award today!

You Went to a Drag Show—Now the State of Florida Wants Your Name EFF has long warned about this kind of mission creep: where a law or policy supposedly aimed at public safety is turned into a tool for political retaliation or mass surveillance. Going to a drag

The Florida AG is now fishing for personal data about everyone who attended or performed at a Pride drag show. This should set off every civil liberties alarm bell we have. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Trump officials float plans for easier medical data-sharing : Apple, Google, AI biggies, and for-profit insurance all eagerly rubbing their hands

"Any initiative that proposes to collect sensitive data, particularly vast amounts of health information and medical records, must ensure that no one uses that information in ways people don't expect," EFF’s @htsuka.bsky.social told @theregister.com. www.theregister.com/2025/07/31/...

This is me rn if u even care

YouTube video by Road Less Marveled May 1, 1969: Fred Rogers testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications

With news that the Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down due to Trump’s meddling, it’s worth watching Mr. Rogers testifying to the Senate about the real value of what we’ve all lost.

"Get yout laws off my paws" 🐾

Zippin Zuro

[ #B3D #ArtFight2025 ]

I feel a disturbance in the force.... Oh gods... Yaml.... That's so much yaml.

TIL about @readywriting.bsky.social's class "Resistance Is Not Futile: Critically Thinking About Technology" and the critical tech zine final project. Check it out:

Time has changed

"of course u do have to buy my glasses to benefit from this future"
-mark zuckerberg

do not upload your photo to any ID verification service to BROWSE THE INTERNET i am being so serious id much rather buy a vpn. learn how to pirate. this data is so obviously going to be used in nefarious ways

Study Shows Musk’s Starlink Too Congested To Tackle U.S. Broadband Woes Despite Billions In New Subsidies

A new study from researchers at X-Lab shows that Elon Musk's Starlink satellite broadband service lacks the capacity to put a serious dent in U.S. broadband. Despite recent efforts by the…

Not a solder mask in sight, just the raw power of bare FR4 and hand-drawn traces

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