California has already passed a bill requiring operating systems (!) to require age verification: California: AB 1043 and Colorado appears to be next in line: Colorado: SB26-051 So: from an everyday-human standpoint, I understand why these exist. Lawmakers are thinking of an OS as something like Windows - a...

My 2.3 regular readers might remember when I disavowed solarpunk a couple weeks ago: cyberpunk gardening? isn't that just solarpunk? (no) ...well, ya girl has been doing some reading since. Especially because there are a LOT of literary magazines out there taking solarpunk fiction right now. And ya girl likes to get...

This morning, I encountered two pieces on the same topic from separate vectors. The power of browsing compels me to write about it. First, here is an NPR piece on how "training willpower" doesn't work: NPR: Kids' willpower is no match for fast food and screens. Try this instead Short version: Trying to brute-force...

(A series in which I ramble some personal perspective on ICYDAK's "30 Proven Tactics to Resist Authoritarianism in Daily Life," because most of this stuff is just default daily life to me.) ICYDAK: 30 Proven Tactics to Resist Authoritarianism in Everyday Life #1: know your rights #2: secure your communications #3:...

Yesterday one of my students asked me to give myself one point for everything on this meme I have done: Said meme is a list of 20 old people things. The game is to give yourself one point for every one of these retro activities you have engaged in at some point in your life. There are twenty things listed. I...

(A series in which I ramble some personal perspective on ICYDAK's "30 Proven Tactics to Resist Authoritarianism in Daily Life," because most of this stuff is just default daily life to me.) ICYDAK: 30 Proven Tactics to Resist Authoritarianism in Everyday Life #1: know your rights #2: secure your communications #3:...

said my brain for no reason as I was delivering a stack of books on WWII to a classroom today. Solarpunk Stories: What is Solarpunk? The Anarchist Library: A Solarpunk Manifesto William Joseph Gillam: A Solarpunk Manifesto: Turning Imaginary Into Reality No. And here's why. i have no optimism Solarpunk is inherently...

(A series in which I ramble some personal perspective on ICYDAK's "30 Proven Tactics to Resist Authoritarianism in Daily Life," because most of this stuff is just default daily life to me.) ICYDAK: 30 Proven Tactics to Resist Authoritarianism in Everyday Life #1: know your rights #2: secure your communications #3:...

My fellow ADHDers understand how obsessions will POUNCE on you from NOWHERE and then you CANNOT SHAKE THEM even though you have a CLASS to teach today and also you're supposed to be REFEREEING A CHILDREN'S BASKETBALL GAME this evening but all your brain wants to do is OBSESS OVER THE OBSESSION (which is not PORTABLE...

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(A series in which I ramble some personal perspective on ICYDAK's "30 Proven Tactics to Resist Authoritarianism in Daily Life," because most of this stuff is just default daily life to me.) ICYDAK: 30 Proven Tactics to Resist Authoritarianism in Everyday Life #1: know your rights #2: secure your communications 3....

The summer I turned 12, my older cousin (14) and her mom - who lived on the farm with us at the time - took on the job of babysitting one of the neighbor's kids (7). This kid, who I'll call "Joey," was a sweet guy, pretty laid back, and usually fairly easy to watch. Joey was also developmentally disabled, and he had...