"Too much netflix and youtube syndrome" affecting 'Merican children

Mirimir mirimir at riseup.net
Tue Sep 6 19:44:58 PDT 2016


On 09/06/2016 12:47 PM, Stephen D. Williams wrote:
> With a good critical thinking base, it is fairly easy to avoid the 'evil' of technology and technology-enabled communications while
> benefiting greatly from broad knowledge, understanding, and, ideally, beneficial connections.  If you are limited to or you choose
> the path of ignorance, you may fall for anything.
> 
> Good critical thinking capability, along with a good awareness of scams, cognitive bias mistake patterns, and risk analysis, is a
> multi-layered defense-in-depth system, with the penultimate safety of a cognitive-enabled application level firewall.  Lesser mental
> architectures try to stop everything with a port-based firewalls or anti-virus, but they're wide open to easily constructed phishing
> and zero-day attack.  Openness to memetic infection is like allowing anyone to run code as root at the host level rather than in a
> throwaway Docker container.  The opposite problem is being so afraid of being taken again that you won't incorporate anything new
> because you don't trust that you can discriminate.  That's a lot like refusing to update your software for fear of exploit but
> leaving yourself open to now-known bugs and gaps that have been fixed.  Or you simply are used to your current pattern and dislike
> change; to be safe, you may reject most input.
> 
> I left home at 15 and taught myself programming etc., so I have a bias toward self-sufficiency:  I didn't believe in sheltering my
> children except at the extremes; they are thoroughly resistant to memetic infection.
> 
> sdw

I like that :)

It's always useful to compartmentalize through virtualization.

> On 9/6/16 10:55 AM, Peressim wrote:
>> My neice now at age of 10 years old, spend hours on youtube, and I am not concerned if she is catching bugs, or figuring out that
>> the internet is slow, but instead I am concerned that the evil the techonology is making to happen to our children, besides the
>> evil that it is also doing to us. Technology must be avoided as much as we can. The trully malware is not affecting our computers,
>> but our minds. 
>>
>> Sent from ProtonMail <https://protonmail.com>, encrypted email based in Switzerland.
>>
>>
>>> -------- Original Message --------
>>> Subject: "Too much netflix and youtube syndrome" affecting 'Merican children
>>> Local Time: 6 de Setembro de 2016 12:00 AM
>>> UTC Time: 6 de Setembro de 2016 03:00
>>> From: rayzer at riseup.net
>>> To: cypherpunks <cypherpunks at lists.cpunks.org>
>>>
>>> A friend of mine about her four year old:
>>>
>>> "My daughter was doing a little song and dance this morning and was
>>> really boogieing down. She paused for a second and said,"I'm buffering"
>>>
>>> Rr
>>>
>>
> sdw
> 
> 


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