In an interview about Rahaf’s family, Ms Rachel said that Rahaf and her mother used to have meals together with her father and brothers over video call and they’ve stopped doing that because of how scarce food is. And Ms Rachel keeps posting videos of kids in Gaza surrounded by rubble watching her videos. It’s heartbreaking for the reasons you’ve stated.

The radicalization of single mothers coparenting with their TVs is real

There’s a lot of moms constantly talking on tiktok about how they’d go to war for Ms Rachel. I think the Zionists are barking up the wrong tree here

I’ve listened to about half of this and while I don’t fully buy into the whole “design patterns don’t matter” narrative, it is genuinely interesting to see some push back on the idea that these feeds are content neutral and that everything could be solved through redesign by private corporations, which is itself a pretty neoliberal notion.

TikTok discourse on gentle parenting had me confused about the “permissive” part for a second

My desire to make money off my music killed my passion for it so completely that I stopped listening to music entirely. It was my life and my first love. I made a living and was generally considered good at it by my peers and clients. I ended up giving up a prominent spot in the local music scene because I was just so burnt out on grinding every day.

I’m just starting to get back into writing after a decade off. I’ll probably never teach again. My chops are so atrophied that I feel disabled. Like I can hear things in my head and I know how to play them. I can feel how it would feel in my fingers to play them. But my fingers feel like they’re moving through sludge. I used to literally sleep with my guitar and play while I ate. It was like an extension of my body that I’m now so divorced from.

You also don’t suddenly get rid of it once you’re an adult, which I believe is the point being made

Greta about to get martyred by the genocide brigade

I was actually just looking into CSAM moderation and the current state of available solutions is abysmal. Cloudflare’s fuzzy hash comparison is widely recommended as if it’s a get-out-of-jail free card to wash your hands of CSAM detection. But it only detects hashes of known CSAM material. So good luck with minors uploading their own nudes in DMs, let alone dealing with this AI bullshit.

Edit: I should say there are indeed services catered toward corporations that offer these kind of detection. It’s a tier of service where you need to contact sales in order to get pricing if that works as a shorthand for people. I was looking at it as a solo developer and comparing it to a lot of cloud services and platforms, it’s just not catered to smaller scales.

This is the antisemitic demon the DSA has chosen to lionize

Classic lionization issue