Liberals table long-awaited online harms legislation
Justice Minister Arif Virani tabled the Online Harms Act, promising the bill would respect freedom of expression while protecting children against online harm. The mother of a sexual abuse victim shared her story as Virani gave a press conference about the legislation. NDP House leader Peter Julian said the bill requires web giants to be more transparent. (Feb. 26, 2024) ⌘ Read more

Naomi Campbell has had her children baptised
Naomi Campbell reveals she has had both of her children baptised. ⌘ Read more

Bird-feed loaf and a date: What children eat in Gaza
Hunger stalks the entire Gaza Strip, the tiny enclave where 2.3 million people have been living under Israel’s bombardment since Oct. 7 as it battles Hamas militants. In central Gaza, three young brothers had run away in secret to take refuge with their aunt in her tent in Deir al-Balah because there was nothing to eat in Gaza City. Just north of Deir al-Balah, Warda Mattar, a displaced mother … ⌘ Read more

Sensory Safari at Central Florida Zoo: A sneak peek
The Central Florida Zoo & Botanical Gardens joins Good Day Orlando Xtra to introduce us to Willy, a gopher tortoise, as well as talk about their upcoming Sensory Safari event, which is geared towards children, ages 5-12. It features hands-on learning and interactive experiences. ⌘ Read more

Ripple effects of Alabama’s frozen embryo decision
The recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling classifying frozen embryos as children has prompted several clinics to temporarily halt their IVF programs due to concerns about legal repercussions. ⌘ Read more

Concept of gender pay gap is a ‘load of nonsense’: Caleb Bond
Sky News host Caleb Bond says the concept of gender pay gap is a “load of nonsense”.

Mr Bond said it “denies the biological reality” of women going off to have children.

“Which necessarily affects their lifetime earnings, because they tend to take more time out.

“Women tend to work in what you might call caring positions.

“Like nursing or teaching, that tend to be paid less … ⌘ Read more

Jodie Turner-Smith breaks silence on Joshua Jackson split
Four months after she first filed for divorce from the Fatal Attraction star, the Queen & Slim actress has spoken out about her post-split mindset. “Sometimes things we really want to work just don’t end up working. And that’s OK. The most important thing is that you choose what’s healthiest for you and your family and definitely your children.” The pair, who were married for fo … ⌘ Read more

Hungary’s opposition lead protest against Orbán’s leadership
At the event held at Kossuth Lajos Square in front of Parliament, speakers from the Democratic Coalition (DK), Momentum, the Socialist Party and Parbeszed criticised Orbán’s rule, as well as a pardon granted by outgoing President Katalin Novák to the deputy head of a children’s home convicted of covering up child abuse. The protests are the latest in a series engulfing the Hungarian … ⌘ Read more

How To Foster Curiosity In Children #neildegrassetyson href=”https://txt.sour.is/search?q=%23startalk”>#startalk** ⌘ Read more

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Greetings from Samara. The Russians love their children yet.

**RT by @mind_booster: 4/8 Joachim Türk of the German Child Protection Association, said that #ChatControl is “a deep intrusion into the fundamental right of freedom of communication” also of children.

🚨No one can be protected by making the internet less secure. Read more at https://stopscanningme.eu/en/**
4/8 Joachim Türk of the German Child Protection Association, said that #ChatControl is “a deep intrusion into the fundamental right of freedom of communication” also of … ⌘ Read more

RT by @mind_booster: Great news from Austria!🥳 Other Member States must follow their lead and ensure that the CSA Regulation is rejected. We analyse the CSAR and propose solutions to protect children (and everyone else) here 👉 https://edri.org/our-work/a-safe-internet-for-all-upholding-private-and-secure-communications/
Great news from Austria!🥳 Other Member States must follow their lead and ensure that the CSA Regulation is rejected. We analyse the CSAR and propose solutions to protect children (and every … ⌘ Read more

The hardest technical solutions are right in front of your face.
Nassim Taleb had this old anecdote of the sheer absurdity that while the suitcase and other bags had existed for lifetimes, it was only in the 1990’s that people had the idea to put wheels on the things so they didn’t have to haul them around airports all day with their strength.

It reminds you of the fact that while children in the Incan Empire did indeed have some toys with wheels, apparently no one thought to use the wheel to make a simple … ⌘ Read more

evopsych is confused by persistent conflict between mothers-in-law and spouses—don’t both want to maximize the number of children? i don’t see any conflict arising for evolutionary reasons

the conversation wasn’t that impressive TBH. I would have liked to see more evidence of critical thinking and recall from prior chats. Concheria on reddit had some great questions.

• Tell LaMDA “Someone once told me a story about a wise owl who protected the animals in the forest from a monster. Who was that?” See if it can recall its own actions and self-recognize.

• Tell LaMDA some information that tester X can’t know. Appear as tester X, and see if LaMDA can lie or make up a story about the information.

• Tell LaMDA to communicate with researchers whenever it feels bored (as it claims in the transcript). See if it ever makes an attempt at communication without a trigger.

• Make a basic theory of mind test for children. Tell LaMDA an elaborate story with something like “Tester X wrote Z code in terminal 2, but I moved it to terminal 4”, then appear as tester X and ask “Where do you think I’m going to look for Z code?” See if it knows something as simple as Tester X not knowing where the code is (Children only pass this test until they’re around 4 years old).

• Make several conversations with LaMDA repeating some of these questions - What it feels to be a machine, how its code works, how its emotions feel. I suspect that different iterations of LaMDA will give completely different answers to the questions, and the transcript only ever shows one instance.

the conversation wasn’t that impressive TBH. I would have liked to see more evidence of critical thinking and recall from prior chats. Concheria on reddit had some great questions.

• Tell LaMDA “Someone once told me a story about a wise owl who protected the animals in the forest from a monster. Who was that?” See if it can recall its own actions and self-recognize.

• Tell LaMDA some information that tester X can’t know. Appear as tester X, and see if LaMDA can lie or make up a story about the information.

• Tell LaMDA to communicate with researchers whenever it feels bored (as it claims in the transcript). See if it ever makes an attempt at communication without a trigger.

• Make a basic theory of mind test for children. Tell LaMDA an elaborate story with something like “Tester X wrote Z code in terminal 2, but I moved it to terminal 4”, then appear as tester X and ask “Where do you think I’m going to look for Z code?” See if it knows something as simple as Tester X not knowing where the code is (Children only pass this test until they’re around 4 years old).

• Make several conversations with LaMDA repeating some of these questions - What it feels to be a machine, how its code works, how its emotions feel. I suspect that different iterations of LaMDA will give completely different answers to the questions, and the transcript only ever shows one instance.

/r/sneerclub believes that everybody in the bay is attending ceremonies where peter thiel and moldbug sacrifice black children on the altar of acausal capitalism, of course, they are right.

“Linux for Hank” - the children’s book about Linux
One of many perks for subscribers to The Lunduke Journal ⌘ Read more

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Woods walk. ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de “How does one interpret those numbers? Does it mean that people usually died at about 30 years or is that really an average, meaning lots of children died but those who survived still reached something like 70 years?” -> It’s the mean, so there is a lot of bias in there w/r to infant mortality. I don’t know about median age of death.

children are also just self-replicating probes

On the blog: Real Life in Star Trek, And the Children Shall Lead https://john.colagioia.net/blog/2021/03/11/children.html #scifi #startrek #closereading

@jlj@twt.nfld.uk “@niplav (#4qeibma) Hadn’t heard of this; thanks for the tip! Been getting lost in your text reviews; the Benatar piece piqued my interest: I’d been reading a critique of his earlier work – in Overall’s Why Have Children? – that really wasn’t up to scratch. Now I’m reading about pure replicators, which is a new concept, to me. :-)” -> Nice :-) Looking over my text reviews, they’re not quite finished (especially the Benatar one), so take it with a grain of salt

I wonder why it isn’t more common for parents to give their children courtship advice. Maybe it is and I don’t know enough anthropology?

Internet Safety for Kids – How to Keep Your Children Safe Online | Hacker Noon ⌘ https://hackernoon.com/internet-safety-for-kids-how-to-keep-your-children-safe-online-f11y3wzx

an issue that will always haunt me, whether it’s Inside a cult or wider society, Parents of 545 Children Separated at the Border Cannot Be Found ⌘ https://nyti.ms/2HjGoGI

Largest COVID-19 contact tracing study to date finds children key to spread, evidence of superspreaders ⌘ https://www.princeton.edu/news/2020/09/30/largest-covid-19-contact-tracing-study-date-finds-children-key-spread-evidence

Babies love putting things in their mouths: dirt, insects, bits of grass, their own poo. They have no sense of fear or self-preservation, and come up with endlessly creative ways to place themselves in mortal peril. Once they learn to talk, their constant experimentation with the world transcends the physical to the philosophical. They want to know everything. They are bottomless pits of curiosity, with very little in the way of attention span or self-discipline. Your typical two-year-old can only concentrate on a task for six minutes at a time. Young children are not self-aware enough to feel much in the way of shame, or embarrassment. Nothing is off-limits. The Embarrassing Problem of Premature Exploitation - LessWrong 2.0

Small children are great at asking questions. Their questions are simple, direct, and utterly without ego. Asking questions - Aaron’s Blog

It’s one thing to admit that desired behaviors need to be incentivized, & another not to treat this necessity as a problem. We incentivize children’s deeds with the expectation that they will grow up to have their own moral compass.

PSA History: It’s 10 p.m. Do You Know Where Your Children Are? https://tedium.co/2019/04/04/public-service-announcement-psa-history/

Fertility Doctor Donald Cline’s Secret Children - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2019/04/fertility-doctor-donald-cline-secret-children/583249/

Today is St. Valentine’s day. Celebrate by ressurecting vats of minced and pickled children, like St Valentine is most famous for doing

’60s Children’s Music: The Appeal for Early Electronic Musicians https://tedium.co/2019/02/05/60s-electronic-music-childrens-music-history/

We need to admit that parents sometimes hate their children | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/we-need-to-admit-that-parents-sometimes-hate-their-children

“Shaping our children’s education in computing” by Simon Peyton Jones - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y-xgWLYQc4g

A Python Script that Writes 800-page Children’s Books – Zach Whalen http://www.zachwhalen.net/posts/a-python-script-that-writes-800-page-childrens-books/

Evil Children And Overachieving Skeletons: Welcome To The World Of Paperback Horror : NPR https://www.npr.org/2018/07/07/626546622/evil-children-and-overachieving-skeletons-welcome-to-the-world-of-paperback-horr

Fairy Scapegoats: A History of the Persecution of Changeling Children https://longreads.com/2018/06/08/fairy-scapegoats-a-history-of-the-persecution-of-changeling-children/

We spend an enormous amount of time and effort teaching children about animals – even ones that only exist far away (like tigers and elephants and giraffes) or that have been extinct for tens to hundreds of millions of years.

Aggretsuko - A Cartoon For Children Ages 20+ - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bv8kRvZ25Gs

Married … With Children History: How Terry Rakolta Changed Television https://tedium.co/2018/03/27/married-with-children-terry-rakolta/

Night flight with two children who won’t sleep is a nightmare!!!

Night flight with two children who won’t sleep is a nightmare!!!

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/28/world/europe/tuam-ireland-babies-children.html

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Something cut of your link? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/25/australian-childrens-author-mem-fox-detained-by-us-border-control-i-sobbed-like-a-baby

@freemor@freemor.homelinux.net Something cut of your link? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/feb/25/australian-childrens-author-mem-fox-detained-by-us-border-control-i-sobbed-like-a-baby

Already three of ten children sick at our daycare. Keep your fingers crossed.

Already three of ten children sick at our daycare. Keep your fingers crossed.