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Hey everyone, MakerWorld is for everyone — creators, families, and yes, kids too. That means what shows up in browse, search, and recommendations should feel welcoming and safe for all of them. Lately, some of you have flagged that inappropriate content (NSFW and similar) is still slipping through. Let's be clear: MakerWorld doesn't want or need this content to drive traffic. The issue isn't that we're turning a blind eye, it's that too many of these items are slipping past our current detection systems. We hear you, and we're already acting on it.
Thoughts on game achievements and if they can be done wrong? Found your site through Bluesky, absolutely love the design. Probably one of the best-looking websites I've seen.
## The unsorted folder An obvious approach is category-based triage. Identify incoming todos as "to play", "to read", etc, and file them into queues that can be processed later. The result of this is anything that can't be easily sorted into a category takes up inordinate time. If something doesn't fit in a stack, it fits in front of the stacks, actively taking up cognitive and physical space until something is done about it. The first thing to do before starting a new project is to clean up the old scraps, and so the impossibility of handling the old scraps prevents anything from getting done ever again.
It is yes, very possible to take clandestine videos with these glasses, no doubt But if YouTube and TikTok can somehow figure out how to keep porn off their platforms, the glasses ought to be able to figure out what videos are shareable and what violate the safety of others
Let them eat block parties In February, at the “Music Industry Summit” — the conclusion to San Francisco Music Week, another Lurie project — I watched as the mayor strode to the stage at the Swedish American Music Hall. There, before an audience of struggling artists, engineers, and small venue staff, he triumphantly reported that the last summer of concerts in Golden Gate Park resulted in “$150 million worth of economic impact,” and that, according to new data, “our independent music venues generate $1.4 billion in economic impact annually.” Lurie paused for applause. “That’s because of all of you in this room.” We clapped dutifully, but the people in that room did not need to be reassured that they had contributed to $1.4 billion in “economic impact.” They would have preferred to hear that any of their favorite clubs might exist next year. The people in that room could use health insurance — and they might be able to afford it if Lurie’s billionaire buddies were taxed appropriately; say, with a one-time 5% excise tax on net worth exceeding $1 billion to save Medi-Cal. But hey, that sentiment doesn’t make for great social media content.
Political pressure for “child safety” is exploitable But the lack of a perfect parental control system isn’t the main problem here. The real danger is the push for online identity verification using child safety as a justification. Smart and privacy conscious people demand “No age verification” (quite reasonably!), but that doesn’t offer the quick fix people are looking for. More importantly, it doesn’t relieve the political pressure and so doesn’t take away the excuses of tyrants. Normally “do nothing” would be the safest option here, but the danger of uninformed and reactionary voters means there is a great deal to gain by satisfying the concerns safely instead of letting the solution be evil. A technical standard for parents to somehow identify their children as children is the relief valve for dangerous political pressure. This doesn’t appease the fascists and censors. This doesn’t cede them any ground and it’d be wrong to try to; there’s no satisfying that hunger and it’s a dangerous mistake to feed it. What it does is actually improve the material conditions for the people they’re trying to trick.
This is honestly very good. I am never going to say “this law is safe, it creates a system that can only do good” because bad prosecutors and bad courts can always destroy these things. This is enforced by the Attorney General, and an AG could abuse this language to target political enemies and enforce beyond the intended design. California is not good about this — see the age appropriate design code saga — but this particular piece is good. Good law is hard to find so we should make the most of what we get.
The biggest problem is the focus on the modern Apple-style “app store” model. Unlike the other two issues this isn’t the law causing a problem, it’s a failure in scope. App stores are the least relevant domain because they already have parental systems policing exactly this kind of behavior, as described in the overview earlier. Where this functionality is really missing is within apps and online, something the language here doesn’t touch. On general purpose computers, “app” is a useful fiction for describing and packaging behavior, and plenty of behavior falls outside that taxonomy. What I see as the crucial missing piece here is a bridge between the signal the OS provides to app stores and the public internet. It’s not meaningful to just lock off certain apps from being installed at all. Programs and browsers need to be able to query this signal to tailor specific behavior within their programs. Are web browsers “application stores” under this language? Again, it’s not clear, and the lack of clarity makes it difficult for websites and browsers to treat this as authoritative.
What the Trump admin is violently objecting to is not tech policy, it is the idea that there could ever be such a thing as a higher standard at all. Not people, not nations, not contracts, not law, not ethics, not God. It is a “god complex” to ever consider checks and balances on the US government, in the eyes of these people who view themselves as the gods. This is a much worse problem than wanting to put Claude in killbots robots today, or wanting to identify political dissidents and execute them like in the Winter Soldier. It’s not any problem because it’s every problem. Seeing yourself as god means there’s no limit to the atrocities you’ll commit. eva (^_^)/ @eva.computer people who are spiritually rapists react to being told "no" the same way in all contexts They fundamentally don’t want to work with people. They will force themselves onto whatever they want when given the opportunity. They don’t want to negotiate consent. They revel in the power imbalance itself and their ability to exploit it. They want to dominate and for others to submit.
scene from the rehearsal where nathan fielder tries to trick a dog