From: blenderdumbass . org

The main issue with freeing the kids, is that kids cannot vote. This is not un-doable. With slaves, slaves could not vote. But there were enough non-slaves that agreed that slaves should be freed. So it passed through. With women rights until some point in time women couldn't vote too. But there were e...

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/equal_rights_to_kids

Recommendations for beginners daw?
I'm teaching a 9 year old to play keys. He's been playing around with garage band and I'm trying to get him interested in building productions up more from scratch and playing and recording his own parts. He needs to build some simple grooves and play around recording something on the keys and loop just that one or two bars that sounds good.
Requirements are windows and free (or at least cheap)
#daw #beginner #MusicProduction #kids

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From: blenderdumbass . org

It is estimated that by 2030 the child-surveillance industry will grow to $500 billion. An industry that capitalizes on bogus fears and causes anxiety in parents and children ( for different reasons ). And an industry that is both directly and indirectly causing the privacy nightmare that we are experiencing. On many levels...

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/_500_billion_industry_that_causes_not_only_the_loss_of_freedom_but_also_increases_anxiety

Blanket-bans SUCK.

Over and over, I hear voices who demand bans on #socialmedia access for people below a certain age or general bans of social media.

Please stop thinking you can just ban the problem away. Think for example about the people who use social media as a safe space... the LGBTQ+ #kids and teens in some conservative hinterland who use social media to be able to connect to other #queer kids, which is impossible to do safely in public.
There is an undeniable, overproportional impact on marginalized communities.
That's just one example.

To solve the (anti-)social media issue, we need #education and #moderation, not generalized #bans for a certain group.

I saw an interview recently where the interviewee -- who is about my age or maybe a little older -- was talking about how #socialmedia has changed things.

He said that before social media kids were either outside playing with their friends, or inside in their rooms *drawing, or playing with a keyboard, or whatever*.

If he had just added reading and programming 8-bit machines, that would actually be my childhood.

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Is it possible that adults have lower #neuroplasticity because of the taboos? Restriction on thought and what ideas can be explored teach kids to ask fewer questions resulting in their brains drying out by adulthood. Could that be the case?

Is that a #theory ?

#goodnews #kids #heroes #elderly #Colorado

3-year-old is Hero for Braving the Dark to Help Great-Grandma After Bloody Fall: ‘Yay, I did it!’

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/3-year-old-is-hero-for-braving-the-dark-to-help-great-grandma-after-bloody-fall-yay-i-did-it/

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8-Year-old Boy Who Taught Himself to Paint was Invited to Hold an Exhibition–And Counted His First Sales

https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/8-year-old-boy-who-taught-himself-to-paint-was-invited-to-hold-an-exhibition-got-first-sale/