I love the toniebox it's so great and I'm so so happy that we became parents before AI becomes a part of raising kids... This stuff is so bleak...

For those who don't know what a toniebox is, it's a speaker connected to the internet. You can buy figurines (or borrow them from the local library) which have an NFC code to identify the figurine to the box, download the audio associated with it and play it. Effectively the toddler can choose what they want to listen to by selecting the figurine. Seeing them choose which story or songs they want to listen to is very cool.

And if they change their mind, then can just autonomously select a different figurine.

My son and I were watching plane videos this morning and found this amazing piece of engineering

but this naked display of distilled arrogance in a generous bedding of ignorance combined with the heady almost overpowering aroma of smugness is a perfect example of what makes genocideman engineering so special.

Taken from https://lemmy.world/post/31372138/17686553

So next week my 2 yo's sons kindergarten are planning a zoo trip. Apparently they will be talking about it before and after. It costs the kids nothing and the teachers tickets are coming out of a collective fund we already paid money into. My wife really wants him to go, she grew up not being able to go to a lot of school trips due to growing up in foster care/neglect and really fears him getting ostracized. She says she knows what it was like to not go and it really comes close to her trauma so its not really a subject I can argue against. The teachers obviously recommend going, so I'm all alone in saying no. I would stay home, perhaps prepare our own outing and look into talking about animal liberation but I feel so alone in it. My wife gave me the option to veto the trip even though she really wants him to go.

There really is not much more to argue between us too, my focus is animal liberation, hers is how not partaking in some activities alienates one from society. And in a society based on animal oppression a lot of activities require some form of animal oppression. I don't know how this contradiction is going to resolve and it's making me very anxious.

How do you cope with the feeling of loneliness? Do you have good kid friendly material relating to animal liberation? What could be a good alternative for us that day? What if I just gave in? I can't do this for every zoo/farm outing anyway.

I finally got around to making my own book. Its for my wife to introduce her to ML.

It looks really ~~janky~~ rustic and I hope it holds together well but we'll see I guess. Unfortunately I was careless with the glue in when sticking the text block to the cover and so it looks really dirty.

I typeset it myself in LaTeX then printed it on regular A4 copy paper, which unfortunately has the wrong grain direction since I want to fold it but finding proper paper is impossible. I'm going to buy a huge roll of paper and cut it myself next time probably since its rather cheap actually, like 20€ for a roll of 0.61x50m A1 paper.

Bound it with the cheapest linen thread, waxed with paraffin because I still dont know of a good beeswax alternative, glued the spine with regular white craft glue. The tapes are really thin linen gauze. I got the boards from the back of notebooks and glued it all together with corn starch. I think this whole book of 300 pages = 75 sheets cost less than a euro since its basically paper, toner, some thread, some gauze and a few grams of corn starch. Oh and the wrapping is some brown packing paper.

I'm hoping to make a couple books like this so I get a library going but I dont know if I'll bind it on board again or just glue it on some carton. It's a lot more effort to glue it on board and they're still warped despite all my efforts.

I'm thinking of printing the covers on 120gsm cardboard and gluing them together over the spine basically thread the linen gauze through the back cover and glue it on, then glue the front cover so the tapes are sealed. then I could just tip the textblock on the covers and it would cause that much warp. Dunno yet though. First I gotta typeset "Imperialsm, the highest stage of capitalism", which is next on the list.

Daily Duotrigordle #1138
Guesses: 36/37
1️⃣6️⃣ 0️⃣8️⃣ 0️⃣5️⃣ 0️⃣4️⃣
0️⃣7️⃣ 0️⃣3️⃣ 1️⃣3️⃣ 0️⃣9️⃣
🟪🟪 🟪🟪 🟪🟪 1️⃣4️⃣
🟪🟪 🟪🟪 1️⃣0️⃣ 🟪🟪
🟪🟪 1️⃣7️⃣ 🟪🟪 🟪🟪
1️⃣9️⃣ 1️⃣1️⃣ 🟪🟪 🟪🟪
🟪🟪 🟪🟪 1️⃣8️⃣ 🟪🟪
🟪🟪 🟪🟪 1️⃣2️⃣ 🟪🟪

Daily Sequence #1138
Guesses: 38/39
0️⃣4️⃣ 0️⃣6️⃣ 0️⃣7️⃣ 0️⃣8️⃣
0️⃣9️⃣ 1️⃣0️⃣ 1️⃣1️⃣ 1️⃣2️⃣
1️⃣3️⃣ 🟪🟪 🟪🟪 🟪🟪
🟪🟪 🟪🟪 🟪🟪 🟪🟪
🟪🟪 🟪🟪 🟪🟪 🟪🟪
🟪🟪 🟪🟪 1️⃣5️⃣ 🟪🟪
🟪🟪 🟪🟪 🟪🟪 1️⃣7️⃣
1️⃣8️⃣ 🟪🟪 🟪🟪 🟪🟪

and finding out there is a huge support campaign on youtube asking everyone to "like&subscribe" and click some bell icon to help him out

what apps do you use to train vocabulary?

This is like an eighth of the total amount she made, a serious reduction from last year. All vegan. Not pictured are the self-made caramel bonbons which are the perfect mix of chewy but melts in your mouth.

I swear to god I was on a stroll with my kid and in the dark I saw a hearse make a u-turn and the driver had the lights on and all I saw was an arm in a red coat with white fur on the end.

What's the gig here? "Hi kids I come to bring your present and take your grandma"? Creepiest shit I've seen irl.

🥵 Daily Extreme 130
7️⃣6️⃣
8️⃣5️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ 🟨⬜🟨⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜🟩🟩🟩 ⬜🟨⬜🟨⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟨 🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨
🟩⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜
🟨⬜⬜⬜🟨 ⬜🟩⬜⬜⬜
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜ ⬜🟨🟨🟨⬜
🟨⬜⬜⬜⬜ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
⬜⬜🟩⬜🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛

🥵 Daily Extreme 112
3️⃣6️⃣
4️⃣8️⃣
m-w.com/games/quordle/
🟨⬜⬜🟨⬜ ⬜🟩⬜⬜🟨
⬜🟨🟨⬜⬜ ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟨
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩⬜🟩
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩

⬜⬜🟨⬜⬜ ⬜🟨⬜🟩⬜
⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
⬜⬜⬜🟨🟨 ⬜🟨⬜⬜⬜
🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 ⬜⬜⬜⬜🟩
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ ⬜🟨⬜⬜🟩
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩⬜🟩🟩🟩
⬛⬛⬛⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩