I know I’ve been doing a crap job of sharing updates or juicy blog posts. Sorry! Here are some varied updates. And hopefully I’ll pen a proper commentary shortly. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
I\u2019m (hopefully) going to come back later this week with more thoughts on the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and what it takes to support young people facing a mental health crisis, but in the meantime, I wanted folks to see the paper that Mar\u00eda and I just wrapped up. We focused on a very specific aspect of KOSA and bills like it. I\u2019ve complained about deterministic thinking before.<\/a> But here we are again, only one step further. Now the law is embracing the worst of tech companies\u2019 deterministic logics and demanding that they be solutionistic \u201cfor good.\u201d ::shaking head:: More on this shortly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m ecstatic to be joining the board of trustees of the Computer History Museum<\/a>. Not only am I a big fan of the work CHM has been doing, but I also find it good to anchor myself in history whenever I\u2019m struggling with the present. The tech industry didn\u2019t come from nowhere. Its story is messy and complicated – and it\u2019s important that we collectively learn from that. And, besides, you can visit the museum and see esoteric things like the Utah teapot<\/a> (which is meaningful for graphics geeks) or the interpreter source tape for Altair BASIC<\/a> (which is meaningful for programmers) or a replica of the 1890 Hollerith machine<\/a> (which is meaningful for census geeks). Sometimes, it\u2019s super valuable to bask in the joys of computing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019ve been thinking a lot about multi-level marketing schemes lately. Much to my chagrin. And now I feel like I\u2019m part of one. Don\u2019t get me wrong – all across the internet, I\u2019m being told that Girl Scouts is emphatically not a real <\/em>MLM and I get that. Still, I feel like I\u2019ve been enrolled by my kiddo to help her sell cookies so she can get prizes (and donate to amazing organizations and raise money for her troop) under the guise of female empowerment. And there\u2019s an entrepreneurship badge for doing it. She\u2019s not humored by my rants about capitalism or unhealthy incentives. Then again, she\u2019s 6. But if you feel like helping me out, you can order cookies online and they\u2019ll be sent to you. (Or if you live in the front range in Colorado, we can deliver.) (Or you can even just outright donate to her troop.) All through her online website<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Anyhow, I hope everyone out there is holding up ok. {{hug}}<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I know I’ve been doing a crap job of sharing updates or juicy blog posts. Sorry! Here are some varied updates. And hopefully I’ll pen a proper commentary shortly. I\u2019m (hopefully) going to come back later this week with more thoughts on the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) and what it takes to support young […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6981,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6980\/revisions\/6981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zephoria.org\/thoughts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}