Oh hey I did a lot of things today

Jul. 12th, 2025 09:54 pm
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- Worked on the purse I'm knitting for myself, which is about 75% done with the knitting
- Searched my stash of fabric scraps for a potential lining fabric (to unsatisfying results, I was sure I had some fabric left over from the red prototype skirt, but I couldn't find it)
- Consequently, refreshed my memory about dyeing fabric with tea
- Took photos of items we are getting rid of, to post online to give away or sell
- Put nice new silver ear-wires on a pair of cheap earrings that were irritating my ears
- Added a thingy to the necklace Sparkly gave me a while ago, to keep it from getting twisted around while I'm wearing it
- Made a pair of red and yellow earrings to match the Maya Kern poppies skirt that Sparkly got me a while ago, because I didn't have any jewelry to wear with it

I mostly stopped wearing jewelry a few years ago, from a combo of not-practical-for-work and not-practical-for-covid, but I used to have several things I wore every day and I'm trying to get back to that now that it's practical. I'm also realizing that I really like how dangly earrings look on me.

Oh and also! I started reading one of my books from the [community profile] thestoryinside July book suggestions last night.

YMI -- ODB: 12 July 2025

Jul. 12th, 2025 11:03 am
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ODB: Serving God Each Season

July 12, 2025

READ: 1 Corinthians 3:5-9 

 

I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow. 1 Corinthians 3:6

After years of discipling Caleb by himself, Mark was dismayed to find out that a church leader had assigned another mentor to the young man. The leader remarked, “Finally, Caleb has a mentor.”

What did they think I was doing all these years? Mark wondered. Though he hadn’t expected any reward or recognition, he couldn’t help feeling hurt.

Years later, however, Caleb told Mark that he’d entered Caleb’s life just when he most needed spiritual guidance. On hearing these encouraging words, Mark came to this realization: God gives believers in Jesus specific gifts to serve Him differently—without comparing with others—and He oversees the timing.

In 1 Corinthians 12:4-31, Paul stresses the value of members of the body of Christ, the church, having different gifts, roles, and assignments. And in chapter 3, he reminds us of the one who’s the ultimate source of the results: “I planted the seed, Apollos watered it, but God has been making it grow” (v. 6).

Each of us may be given a unique season and opportunity to do God’s work. Unlike people, God doesn’t compare our work, for He loves us as individuals. May we keep our eyes and hearts focused on doing our best in the season that God has given us—relying completely on His strength and empowerment—and not worry about what others achieve in their own way and time.

— Leslie Koh

What opportunities has God given you to use the gifts He’s provided for you? How can you best use these in this time and season?

Gift-giving God, please help me to focus on the work You’ve given me to do. For further study, read Escaping the Comparison Trap.

Source: Our Daily Bread

Oh, cat

Jul. 11th, 2025 10:37 pm
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Caught Yellface with her WHOLE HEAD inside the Fritos bag.

some good things

Jul. 11th, 2025 11:56 pm
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  1. The fan. Got house down to Actually Matching Outside Air Temperature in finite time; set up to experiment with running it in the bedroom overnight. (It has been Too Warm For Cuddles, which is Bad.)
  2. Made the nonsense lavender-and-honey Welsh cakes for breakfast. I was sure I had picked way too much lavender but it actually fit in the measuring spoon pretty much perfectly, and wound up being noticeable but not Overwhelming.
  3. New Murderbot novelette! I have not launched right into reading it because I am just about a quarter of the way through a System Collapse reread (and fascinated by how little of it I remember, though I concede I've read it many fewer times than All Systems Red...) so I'm going to finish that first. Which I am not expecting to take me very long.
  4. Having spent a bunch of time poking around Wikipedia, I've gone back to Nerve and Muscle and, now almost two whole pages in, it is making significantly more sense than my previous attempt. (I have not yet started making myself notes on neuroanatomy but I am definitely considering it.)
  5. It is The Time Of Year when strawberries are relatively cheap, so after dinner we wandered down the hill in service of me getting my steps, and us getting some exposure to The Breeze, and acquiring me a giant box of strawberries, and also picking up Ice Lollies to consume on the way back up.
  6. Realised I could stick a jug of water in the fridge. This has made hydrating significantly easier. (I do not do well at drinking water that isn't Cold, and the magic ice dispenser on our freezer is currently out of action.)
  7. The online Oxfam shop. Shortly to be on their way to me: a pair of cargo shorts; two pairs of linen cargo trousers; a book I previously had out from the library but which I wanted to have a reference copy of at least briefly for writing purposes.
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На потуги VP (©) покончить с "гражданством по праву рождения" окружной судья Нью Хэмпшира Джозеф Лаплант ответил своим решением: он блокировал решение администрации отменить "право на гражданство по рождению", введенное в Конституцию США 14-ой поправкой, и сертифицировал судебное дело, как "class action case", который распространяется на всю страну и относится к рожденным в США детям тех, чье пребывание в стране на момент принятия решения администрацией VP (©) (20 февраля этого года) было нелегально или не вполне легально, а также к тем, кто на тот момент находился в США на учебе, имея лишь временную визу.

P.S. Если что - упомянутый судья был назначен на свое место Бушем-старшим.
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Vigilantes: Boku no Hero Academia Illegals (8/10)

Vigilantes is a spin-off story set before the events of Boku no Hero Academia which focuses on vigilantes in a world where being a pro hero is a viable career path. It expands the worldbuilding of BnHA beyond pro heroes and gives more historical information about how society developed after the appearance of Quirks. (Someone in YouTube comments said that Vigilantes is actually more academic about hero society history than BnHA which is more "My Hero Military Camp" sometimes. Absolutely wild and yet weirdly accurate.)

We're introduced to a new set of characters—college student Haimawari Kouichi, "freelance idol" Pop☆Step, and eccentric bruiser Knuckleduster—but lots of pro heroes from the main series appear in supporting roles as well.

Cut for length and spoilers (for the anime and some of the manga). )

Random stuff:

  • There's a distinct lack of protecting secret identities in this show. Kouichi spends more than half the time with his face out in the open even if they explicitly say that vigilantes are technically on the wrong side of the law. (Because even if they're doing good, they're not licensed.)
  • There's a trio of characters who are assholes to Kouichi and Kazuho in E01. Like, assault and beat up levels of being assholes. And yet there's some weird redemption thing going for them by the end of the season? We don't need this.
  • We get a fair share of Tensei AKA Big Iida in this show and I'm eternally grateful for it. We even get a minute of kid!Tenya struggling with his Quirk!! Cutie!!!
  • The animation quality's much more consistent compared to the recent seasons of the main show, and also just higher quality in general. Which is interesting because you'd think that the main series would get more love since it's the central canon. Checking on MyAnimeList, studio Bones produces the main series and Bones Film produces Vigilantes. Poking around the Wikipedia page, it looks like Bones Film is a subsidiary of Bones and different studios in Bones Film work on each series (Studio B for Vigilantes and Studio C for the main BnHA).
  • My per-episode reactions are in the comments of the corresponding posts over at [community profile] bnha_fans. Spoilers abound in the comment discussions, so beware if you check them out.
  • S02 is targeted for release in 2026!
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Fearless and Endless Growing


Colossians 1:13-14 – He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

After one year of college, I transferred to a different school. I’ll leave nameless the school I started with as I quickly realized that this was not the place for me. So, I transferred to Minnesota State University in Moorhead, which back then was called Moorhead State University or just MSU. It was a great move. I loved that school and the city it was in. Thank goodness I could transfer out of the first place to somewhere so much better.

Our text tells us that God has transferred us out of the domain of darkness into the kingdom of His Son. Now that’s a transfer! Let’s think about the differences between our normal transfers in school or work versus what God has done for us by transferring us to the kingdom of His Son.

First of all, when you transfer from one school to another, or when you transfer from one department at work to another, you want your past work to come with you. No one is going to go to a new school and leave behind a year’s worth of class credit or go to a new department at work and start over at the lowest level. I’ll transfer, but I’m taking my past with me.

Isn’t it wonderful that when God transfers us into the kingdom of His Son, our past is left behind. We don’t want it to follow us. If it did come with us, it wouldn’t be a credit earned. We’re not bringing a 4.0 grade point average or an almost completed checklist of all that was required. But the good news is that God wipes out our past when He transfers us to His Son. He asks in essence: “Do you want a new start? Do you want to leave the past behind?” And we say, “Absolutely yes!”

Paul spoke of this transfer in Philippians 3 when he described all that he had accomplished before being a Christian. And though it was an impressive list, including being faultless in legalistic righteousness, Paul said this of his past: “But whatever gain I had, I counted as loss for the sake of Christ. Indeed, I count everything as loss because of the surpassing worth of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord” (Philippians 3:7-8a).  Like Paul, we are more than glad to see our past disappear so that instead we can stand on the accomplishments of Jesus alone in our place.

So in this transfer to the kingdom of God’s Son, we have a new beginning. That’s one difference between our normal transfers and that which God does. The other difference we’ll see today is one of location. When you transfer schools or work departments, you have to move. You might like the first school’s location but to make the change, you can’t stay where you are.

How different with the transfer with the kingdom of God’s Son. We might have expected that we’d need to leave home and go to some strange place to find eternal life. But God’s transfer leaves us physically in the same place as always. You stay home but you’re transferred to the kingdom of God’s Son and thereby become an heir of eternal life. No college and no work in this world can make that claim. That means that the transfer is immediate. When we’ve heard the Gospel message of forgiveness and believe God’s promises, the gift of forgiveness has already come. It is as our Colossians text says, “He has delivered us from the domain of darkness and transferred us to the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.” While we stay physically where we are, we’ve already been moved into His kingdom. And, as a mark of being in this kingdom of the Son, we have His signature gift: redemption, the forgiveness of sins.

Over our adult lives, we move and transfer many times. Some moves are nearby and simple; others are distant and complicated. But the transfer into the kingdom of God’s Son is the most important. In this transfer, we leave behind the condemning past. Instead, we’re taken entirely, immediately, into the kingdom of God, having the redemption, which is the forgiveness of sins. That’s a transfer for the ages.  Amen.

WE PRAY: Heavenly Father, thank You for opening Your kingdom to us and bringing us into Your forgiveness, won entirely by Your Son. In His Name we pray, Amen.

This Daily Devotion was written by Rev. Dr. Daniel Paavola.


alt text issues

Jul. 11th, 2025 12:38 am
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The last couple of posts I’ve made with images didn’t have their alt text make it to the Federation. It made it to Dreamwidth, but didn’t federate.

Let’s try this one:

A highly complicated cluster of street names on bike infrastructure and/or high-bike-use streets in east Seattle around Madrona. Is this alt-text visible to the Fediverse?

Posted via Solarbird{y|z|yz}, Collected.

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Top Secret!, by the creators of Airplane!, is a parody of WWII movies and "Elvis" movies, in which the Elvis-like American protagonist, Nick Rivers, stumbles into being a hero that helps the resistance against East German fascist regime.

(Feel free to go watch Top Secret! and then return to this post.)

One of my and [personal profile] ebaths's favorite scenes in Top Secret! is one in which Nick is captured and tortured by the regime. In the middle of his torture, Nick passes out and has a nightmare that he's "back in (high) school" and missed all of his finals. Then he wakes up to the real life torture, realizes it was a dream, and says, "Thank god!"

This great little sequence clocks in at under a minute in length!

It's funny because of the delivery (I love the out-of-it performance of the dream classmate), the familiarity of the dream (I couldn't find any statistics on how many people have this dream, but it's incredibly common even after graduation, and there are multiple articles on the subject; here's one I found just now), and the absurdity of Nick preferring getting beaten over the mundane and relatively harmless scenario in which he missed his exams.

I think part of the humor also comes from how true it rings. It's absurd that Nick would prefer getting beaten, but in some way also very real. To me the scene, though comedic, is a fantastic illustration of how human experiences are all determined by how we see them. This is often brought up in the context of how we can change our views, and I think less often in the context of how aging changes our world and therefore the way we perceive events-- the latter of which is particularly relevant to Nick Rivers's high school nightmare.

It's easy to forget how little you know as a child; for example, kids often need to have concepts like death explicitly laid out for them since it's not something they'd pick up on their own, whereas as an adult the existence of death (at least in its most abstract form) is second nature. With knowledge so limited, your world is easily defined by the adults around you. They might introduce you to religious concepts or the idea of something like Santa Claus, and though later you may reconsider your beliefs, as a kid typically these concepts are easily absorbed into your idea of reality.

Ideas around school fall into this category. If you're given the sense that you "must" get certain grades, or complete certain milestones (like taking final exams) or else your life is over, then that'll become your reality. Later on, after graduation, you'll likely realize that failing or missing exams don't end your life, even if they cause a lot of stress and extra headaches. In retrospect, the stress of needing to pass your chemistry final may seem almost trivial. Even if the event of "missing your chemistry final" doesn't change, your experience of the event (in terms of your emotions leading up to and following the event) can change if your perception of the world changes.

In the movie, Nick Rivers is a suave, unnaturally "chill" guy, ready to roll with it as he suddenly has to start risking his life. You can imagine that he's seen enough at this point to realize that whatever happens, he can probably make it work, and if not... he's enjoyed his life enough to not freak out too much over the end of it all. But as a teenager, he wouldn't have had acquired this life experience; it seems he was likely relatively sheltered (also funny) and like so many of us, had his brain trapped in the world (perhaps unintentionally) constructed by his parents and teachers-- a world where he had no way of seeing beyond the apparent horizon of doom that was missing his final exams.

So while being imprisoned and physically tortured is definitely worse than missing your final exams, it makes sense for Nick to find torture more tolerable than the dream-- because in the dream, he's not only living out the scenario of missing the exams, he's also re-living the mental state of being in high school. He's been reverted to the him that has no way of knowing that school isn't life or death, and has no sense of how much control he really has over his own life or how many opportunities still lay ahead.

Put another way, the high school nightmare represents not a single situation (such as being in school or missing exams) but a different world (mentally living in a reality in which you have no agency and you perceive that any misstep will be catastrophic). Though the "torture" situation of reality is less desirable than the "missed exam" situation of the nightmare, perception is what defines experience, and Nick naturally welcomes back the world of reality (in which he is an adult that sees near-infinite options for his future) compared to the world of the nightmare (previously described).

today's window into another world

Jul. 10th, 2025 10:39 pm
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a circular lamp embedded in a cracked paving stone, with green leaves visible beneath the glass

(I am continuing to think a lot about sensory systems; today I have mostly been discovering how many of the things I thought I half-remembered about nerves are wrong.)

Dexter (2006-2013)

Jul. 10th, 2025 11:30 am
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Once upon a time, I watched the first five seasons of Dexter and then stopped for whatever reason. Recently I saw it was on Netflix and thought I should finally finish the series and I might as well start at the beginning so as to maximize the amount of time I could spend not having to think about anything else in the world except for what a selfish asshole Dexter is and how much I love Deb.

Previously on Dexter...

Spoilers for the series )
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Все мы знаем и помним что случилось 7 октября 2023-го года: примерно 1200 израильтян было убито и примерно 250 живых и мертвых израильтян был похищено в Газу. Помним и ответ Израиля на этот шаг хамаса, приведший к десяткам тысяч погибших жителей Газы (по данным их правительства), миллионы жителей Газы были перемещены внутри ее территории, более миллиона потеряли свои дома. Во время более, чем 630 дней войны в Газе, Израиль потерял сотни своих солдат убитыми, при том, что по данным Израиля примерно 20 израильских заложников все еще могут быть живы и находятся в подземных тоннелях Газы. Но посмотрим как изменилось отношение к Израилю с того рокового момента и начала войны.

До этого трагического момента истории поддержка Конгресса США была практически безоговорочной с подавляющим большинством голосовавшим "за" Израиль. Теперь мнения в правительстве США поляризованы, со всех сторон слышны дебаты по "геноциду, проводимому Израилем". Протесты и демонстрации против действий Израиля прошли в огромном количестве американских университетов. И даже в самом Израиле все не так однозначно, там также определились две большие группы: одна - за войну до полной победы, несмотря ни на что, вторая - за любые меры (вплоть до прекращения оккупации Газы) по освобождению все еще живых заложников. Борьба между этими группами временами доходит почти до рукопашной.

Интересна обстановка по этому вопросу в Англии. Если кто не в курсе, там еще в 1982 году была организована группа Palestine Solidarity Campaign, которая до зверской атаки 7-го октября насчитывала примерно 65 тысяч членов. В данный момент в группе уже более 300 тысяч. И если два года назад активных центров этой группы в Британии было менее 65, то сегодня их количество превышает 100.

По опросу Pew Research Center, уже более 24 стран высказывает откровенно негативное мнение об Израиле, причем в 20 странах более половины населения придерживается отрицательного мнения об Израиле. В числе этих стран: Австралия, Греция, Япония, Испания, Швеция, Голландия, Индонезия, Турция, в которых против Израиля высказывается более 75% (!) опрошенных. И лишь две страны пока что остались "верны" Израилю, показав в этом опросе положительное мнение об Израиле - это Кения и Нигерия.

В Штатах сегодня поддержку Израиль находит лишь у 46% опрошенных (последний опрос Гэллапа) - самый худший показатель за четверть века. Треть опрошенных симпатизирует палестинцам. В 2003 году таких было лишь 13%.

С этим всем надо что-то делать. И под "что-то" я вовсе не поддерживаю политику нынешнего президента в отношении университетов и колледжей. Как мне кажется, это приведет к ровно обратному результату от желаемого.

YMI -- ODB: 10 July 2025

Jul. 10th, 2025 06:15 am
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ODB: God Is There

July 10, 2025

READ: Psalm 139:7-12 

 

If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there. Psalm 139:8

When my grandmother was gently informed that my grandpa would likely pass away in the next few days, we were concerned that she’d be upset and anxious. “Are you worried?” someone asked her, thinking that she might have questions about her husband’s physical condition or need help for her own needs. She thought for a moment. “No,” she calmly answered, “I know where he’s going. God is there with him.”

Her expression of God’s presence with her husband echoes a similar one in Psalm 139, made by the psalmist David: “If I go up to the heavens, you are there; if I make my bed in the depths, you are there” (v. 8).

Although the certainty of God’s presence described in Psalm 139 carries a subtle warning that we can’t escape His Spirit no matter where we go, it also brings great comfort to those who love Him and desire the assurance of His presence: “Where can I go from your Spirit? Where can I flee from your presence” (v. 7). As God’s redeemed people, we can be consoled that no matter where we are, He’s there guiding us and holding us in His hands (v. 10).

When we go through tough, worrisome situations and don’t feel that God is with us, we can be assured that He’s present with all those whom He loves and who love Him. May this knowledge of His certain presence bring you the comfort and hope you need today.

— Jasmine Goh

What worries you most today? How does knowing the certainty of God’s presence help you?

Dear God, when I’m worried, please help me to know that my life is in Your hands.

Source: Our Daily Bread

Books with genAI?

Jul. 10th, 2025 03:53 pm
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For Reasons, I'm looking for fiction books--preference for kids, but any age will do--with anything that looks a bit like generative AI. Chatbots in particular would be a win. I've been doing a fascinating dive into the librarything tag cloud*. Note that at this point it doesn't have to be a well written or readable book

adding: I'll take recommendations for artificial general intelligence as well; I'll care about the line between them later, when I've used them to generate the relevant keywords

What I've found so far

  • Do You Remember Being Born - Sean Michaels
  • Artificial: A love Story - Amy Kurzweil
  • The Future Happens Twice Trilogy - Matt Browne
  • We Solve Murders - Richard Osman (I didn't see why in the blurb, but the tag was there, and the library has it)
  • Tell the Machine Goodnight - Katie Williams

Not found, but remembered: "Better Living Through Algorithms" by Naomi Kritzer, which is questionable because it is probably meant to be artificial general intelligence rather than generative AI, but at this point I'm not being that picky because the hit rate is so low.

also! the closest I've got at this point in kids books is Wild Robot and the sequels; failing to work out where to find more. (in english. I've found a book that looks perfect in Chinese)

*so thankful that people put all sorts of tags on their books; I'm having a great time working out what maps to what tag. If I get it together I'll write a post off the clock about what I found that was truly batshit

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In late 2019, TV, movie, anime, gaming, celebrity, music, and book fans assembled to save Yahoo Groups after Verizon decided to shut down the mailing list service. Approximately 300,000 fandom groups have been saved. The Yahoo Gedden project is working on identifying the fandoms of Italian language mailing lists and can use your help. We need people who can read Italian natively right now to help us identify the Unknown groups. You can work at your own pace and it is a low time commitment. Work is done on Discord, just reading the Italian group description and a few messages and summarizing the messages in English, maybe answering a question of clarification ("is it talking about X or Y?"). No software or other tools needed besides your phone/computer and access to Discord. 

today I have mostly been at the plot

Jul. 9th, 2025 11:58 pm
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I had a first-thing physio appointment, so I dragged myself over to the hospital for that and then nestled down in my Surrounded By Green and... mostly read Murderbot, with occasional fruit harvest and weeding.

(I have also had lots of opportunities to practise self-compassion, both in re the number of things I did not manage to harvest before they went over and in terms of having realised within the last half hour or so that one of my pens has vanished from all of the bags it was nominally in; I hope that if I go and poke around the table etc tomorrow it will rematerialise...)

yep, it's the job

Jul. 9th, 2025 04:56 pm
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During our daily stand-up meeting online yesterday, before the meeting got started, our newest addition (still in training) to the team mentioned closing their eyes after work "for just a few seconds" then suddenly it was a few hours later. And they still had no problem getting back to sleep on schedule later.

Some voice (I'm not sure who) in the meeting responded with those 5 magic words that I keep using too. "This job is a lot."

It's not just me being old or inflexible. It's definitely the job that's stressful and tiring.

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In paperback, this makes a thick graphic novel worthy of the name. The greyscale art is simple but expressive, and you quickly get a feel for Mags and her Abuela and their small desert town near Joshua Tree. Mag's childhood friend is back in town with her cowboy boots and pinhole camera and stirring up feelings that Mags can't let herself have because she's tied to her home and the secret in the basement that's bleeding her dry.

A tender story about learning to love yourself so you can accept the love others have for you. The art's limited use of color highlights childhood memories and photographs, but comes out in full force for the happy ending.

Contains: butch/transfem romance; death of a grandparent; and, separate from the romance: infidelity, stalking, emotional manipulation, threats of suicide, gun violence.
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(Photos on Tumblr)
If anyone here would like a copy to test knit, just let me know.
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"Люди привыкли по каждому, даже самому вздорному
поводу прибегать к могущественной помощи закона.
Закон теребили, как комнатную собачку."

"Золотой теленок"
И.Ильф и Е.Петров

В правительстве Астралии готовится новый закон, который должен вступить в силу в декабре этого года. Согласно нему вся молодежь до 16 лет не может иметь никаких эккаунтов ни на каких social media платформах. Таковых сегодня в Австралии насчитывается примерно чуть более миллиона душ.

Беда только в том, что, несмотря на то, что до введения закона в силу осталось менее полугода, никто толком не может понять как будет исполняться этот закон. Например, большинство подростков честно ответило, что имеет эккаунт на YouTube. Правительство понимает ценность этого сервиса и решило не вносить его в "запрещенный" список. Но это означает, что на YouTube в пределах Австралии будут наложены определенные лимиты: что можно показывать детям, а что - нет. То есть как-то надо будет воздействовать на YouTube. Пока что решено за нарушения (какие?!) накладывать штраф в размере до 3 млн австралийских долларов на такие вот разрешенные платформы, но тут вдобавок возникает еще и проблема идентификации пользователей, за обман которых разрешенные платформы отвечать не собираются.

Часть законодателей Австралии (и не только) считает, что YouTube исключать из списка не стоит, потому что три четверти подростков от 10 до 15 лет весьма интенсивно его используют, а на нем чего только не найдешь... YouTube, в свою очередь, заявил Австралии, что они никакая не социальная платформа, а чисто-конкретно streaming сервис, и практически каждые 4 из 5 австралийских учителей используют YouTube в классах, поэтому уж точно YouTube не должен попадать в австралийский "запрещенный" список.

В общем, вопросов возникает много, но лично меня радует, что "процесс пошел". В мае точно такой же закон начал обсуждаться и в Новой Зеландии, а также аналогичные обсуждения уже ведутся и в нескольких штатах США. Доживем ли до момента, когда в метро подростки снова начнут читать книги вместо того, чтобы скролать тиндеры, тиктоки и остальное времяпоглощающее говно.

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