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FlashMobOfOne

@ FlashMobOfOne @lemmy.world

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Artist, musical performer, and former derby skater from the Midwest.

I'm single, childless, and married to freedom and adventure.

ACAB, Anti-War, and I hate Democrats, Republicans, and billionaires. (Yes, even your favorite billionaire: the pop star, the philanthropost, the legendary athlete, or the soft-spoken investment guru who cosplays as middle class.) With each passing day I get a little closer to hating everyone.

Also, I refuse to use Donald's last name out of hatred for the man and his brand, FYI.

  • Introducing Val

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  • Val, you scrumptous, fuzzy, perfect little baby!

  • Children are drawing moustaches on their faces to fool online age checks - and it's working; fake birthdays, borrowed IDs, and creative facial hair bypass age checks

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  • Today in: "Just let the parents parent."

    It's good to see a reminder that depending on the majority of parents to act in absence of real, tangible regulation is doomed to be a failure.

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    Connecticut lawmakers approve bill for cell phone ban in schools — but critics argue that having different rules for adults and students is ‘not good role modeling at all’

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  • No, it isn't.

    Make friends with a few schoolteachers and listen to their stories.

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  • I understand your point.

    And it's absurd, as I illustrated.

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  • Banning drugs use in school is a good thing.

    You're right. Nothing that isn't perfect is worth doing.

    I guess we should just wait to act until every student can't focus on something for more than 30 seconds instead of 60. Definitely a better idea because, after all, just ignoring the problem always works.

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  • There's ample evidence that social media and smartphone addiction affects developing brains significantly worse than it affects fully-developed brains.

    Banning cell phone use in school is a good thing.

  • Jensen Huang says Nvidia now has 'zero percent' market share in China — says US export policy 'has already largely backfired'

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  • Good.

    I hope he trips over a curb and shatters his mandible.

  • What weird searches you made randomly that lead to unexpected things/places?

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  • For me, this usually happens when I'm looking for a particular book or doing research for one of my YouTube videos.

    Case in point: Marginalia Search

    I was making a video recently about Google alternatives and this one came up. It's weird and has an oddly specific use case: it's great at finding vintage websites, and this can be very useful if you have to repair something that is very old. (Or just need a whole different set of results for some reason, which is easy to achieve when your index is non-commercial.)

  • City Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Pitch Demo, Renews Contract Anyway

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  • This is correct. I was a musical theater performer for decades and grew up in several dance studios, and they're always equipped with either a one-way mirror in a room where the parents can watch without being disruptive, or cameras.

    But after the events of the past two years, we know definitively that the Epstein class is untouchable and entrenched in every detail of society and that every device with a camera or microphone and a wireless connection is spying on us. It would not surprise me to learn that Flock is collating the data received from such places and selling it to pedophiles for their entertainment.

  • Microsoft has an ambitious plan to win users back, and go toe-to-toe with Valve's SteamOS for gaming — but I'm not getting my hopes up

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  • For those that can't, it's worth it to go 99% Linux and set up a dual-boot. Also I made a video recently that details some security measures you can take on Windows to help you stay private if anyone's interested.

  • ‘Your phone is about to stop being yours': anger brewing among Android fans as major Google app change draws near

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  • I still have a smart phone that’s 4-5 years old,

    Mine is an older model too, thankfully. I never needed the bells and whistles other people are into, which probably helps me stay more secure.

    But I also just love that I'm not reaching for my pocket every 30 seconds for another dopamine hit too.

  • ‘Your phone is about to stop being yours': anger brewing among Android fans as major Google app change draws near

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  • I understand.

    It's a bummer what we have to consider to avoid people snooping, but it's (at least in my humble opinion), necessary.

    A good way to start breaking the habit and only using it when you need it is to just keep it in another area of your home. I keep mine in a bathroom drawer.

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  • At the end of the day, all you can really do is to start treating your phone more like a phone and stop carrying it everywhere and using it for everything.

    The convenience of it has made it way too easy for people to spy on you.

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    Trump Nominates Fox News Contributor as Next Surgeon General

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  • Hot blonde from Fox

    I'm sure he looked really hard at her resume.

  • TIL about the "Indie Web", a revival of the days of personal websites on the early internet. (screenshots included)

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  • Oh yes. Been seeing fun things on NeoCities.

  • TIL about Hoopla Digital, an app that lets you access all the digital content in your local library for free: Movies, Music, TV Shows, E-Books, Audiobooks, and even Comic Books

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  • Ah, that makes sense. I knew that HD limits downloads based on library policies, just didn't connect that that was due to higher cost, but that's important context for what I'm talking about as one of the reasons I recommend some of these services is that using them means you're using your library. (Very important in a time when libraries are being defunded.)

  • TIL about Hoopla Digital, an app that lets you access all the digital content in your local library for free: Movies, Music, TV Shows, E-Books, Audiobooks, and even Comic Books

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  • Thank you for the info. I'll include that recommendation in my video.

  • TIL about Hoopla Digital, an app that lets you access all the digital content in your local library for free: Movies, Music, TV Shows, E-Books, Audiobooks, and even Comic Books

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  • Oh, that's good to know. How does it compare to Kanopy?

  • TIL about Hoopla Digital, an app that lets you access all the digital content in your local library for free: Movies, Music, TV Shows, E-Books, Audiobooks, and even Comic Books

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  • Yup. The hold system is still there.

    There is z-library.sk for those moments.