Week of February 20th

[AmyG]

Feb 22, 2024 12:24:52 GMT -6 dc2london said:

Was anyone here affected by the massive AT&T outage this morning?
We don't have AT&T but it sounds like the impact was enormous.

I didn't go anywhere so my att phone stayed on wifi all morning.
my son noticed it on the way to work, but at least he already knew how to get there lol

[taconight]

Feb 22, 2024 12:24:52 GMT -6 dc2london said:

Was anyone here affected by the massive AT&T outage this morning?
We don't have AT&T but it sounds like the impact was enormous.

Weirdly, my H had no service, but I did, just not as strong as usual. We both have AT&T.

[Bluebird]

Feb 22, 2024 12:24:52 GMT -6 dc2london said:

Was anyone here affected by the massive AT&T outage this morning?
We don't have AT&T but it sounds like the impact was enormous.

MH and I were, plus our AT&T internet was out for a while, too. Very weird to wake up to that and have to turn on the local news to find out that it was not just us!

[enchanted]

Feb 22, 2024 11:33:46 GMT -6 elle said:

Yeah I don't have much faith in the investigators, given the way they were treated by school staff after the incident and how it was downplayed.

Oklahoma police say nonbinary teen’s death was not result of injuries from high school fight (AP news article)

There are no words bad enough for those asshats.

[leahcar]

MH and my teenagers were all impacted by the ATT outage. MH didn’t have service until noon. Madness.

[dc2london]

Feb 22, 2024 20:24:27 GMT -6 leahcar said:

MH and my teenagers were all impacted by the ATT outage. MH didn’t have service until noon. Madness.

I imagine that must have been really disconcerting! Honestly, a cyber attack was my immediate concern.

[byjove]

Sounds like NPR’s DC affiliate is getting shut down- WAMU. This is not great. I would have thought it was one of the more robust news radio markets. Trying to find more info.

[cakewench]

Feb 22, 2024 20:39:10 GMT -6 byjove said:

Sounds like NPR’s DC affiliate is getting shut down- WAMU. This is not great. I would have thought it was one of the more robust news radio markets. Trying to find more info.

[sweptaway]

Feb 22, 2024 19:44:56 GMT -6 enchanted said:

Feb 22, 2024 11:33:46 GMT -6 elle said:

Yeah I don't have much faith in the investigators, given the way they were treated by school staff after the incident and how it was downplayed.

Oklahoma police say nonbinary teen’s death was not result of injuries from high school fight (AP news article)

There are no words bad enough for those asshats.

I've fallen down a deep hole of OK schools/policies and that absolute trash person Cha.ya and I truly cannot believe all the things I'm reading. It's dystopian. 

[dc2london]

Feb 22, 2024 20:39:10 GMT -6 byjove said:

Sounds like NPR’s DC affiliate is getting shut down- WAMU. This is not great. I would have thought it was one of the more robust news radio markets. Trying to find more info.

WHAT

[dc2london]

I knew Home Depot sucked, but they suuuuuuuuuck.
Good for NLRB for taking up this case.

apnews.com/article/home-depot-nlrb-blm-george-floyd-c51bec66314dd7371446da111ba8dbd5

[elle]

Oh come on! Also wtf Tennessee.

[notblanche]

Feb 23, 2024 8:20:15 GMT -6 cakewench said:

Feb 22, 2024 20:39:10 GMT -6 byjove said:

Sounds like NPR’s DC affiliate is getting shut down- WAMU. This is not great. I would have thought it was one of the more robust news radio markets. Trying to find more info.

No, damn it. What the hell. WAMU just took over and relaunched DCist a few years ago 

[dc2london]

Allllllll the TW's. This is SO MESSED UP and I don't see any coverage of it. WTFFFFFFFFFFF.
(Gift link)

A Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed by Moms and Stalked by Men www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/us/instagram-child-influencers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Xk0.OHIr.vcqTX3qbHG3y&smid=nytcore-android-share

[elle]

Feb 23, 2024 10:22:16 GMT -6 dc2london said:

Allllllll the TW's. This is SO MESSED UP and I don't see any coverage of it. WTFFFFFFFFFFF.
(Gift link)

A Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed by Moms and Stalked by Men www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/us/instagram-child-influencers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Xk0.OHIr.vcqTX3qbHG3y&smid=nytcore-android-share

Jfc. I don't see how she thought it would turn out any other way. Or at least not once men started following and making inappropriate and disgusting comments.

In interviews and online comments, parents said that their children enjoyed being on social media or that it was important for a future career. But some expressed misgivings. Kaelyn, whose daughter is now 17, said she worried that a childhood spent sporting bikinis online for adult men had scarred her.

“She’s written herself off and decided that the only way she’s going to have a future is to make a mint on OnlyFans,” she said, referring to a website that allows users to sell adult content to subscribers. “She has way more than that to offer.”

She warned mothers not to make their children social media influencers. “With the wisdom and knowledge I have now, if I could go back, I definitely wouldn’t do it,” she said. “I’ve been stupidly, naïvely, feeding a pack of monsters, and the regret is huge.”

[dc2london]

Feb 23, 2024 10:52:48 GMT -6 elle said:

Feb 23, 2024 10:22:16 GMT -6 dc2london said:

Allllllll the TW's. This is SO MESSED UP and I don't see any coverage of it. WTFFFFFFFFFFF.
(Gift link)

A Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed by Moms and Stalked by Men www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/us/instagram-child-influencers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Xk0.OHIr.vcqTX3qbHG3y&smid=nytcore-android-share

Jfc. I don't see how she thought it would turn out any other way. Or at least once men started following and making inappropriate and disgusting comments.

In interviews and online comments, parents said that their children enjoyed being on social media or that it was important for a future career. But some expressed misgivings. Kaelyn, whose daughter is now 17, said she worried that a childhood spent sporting bikinis online for adult men had scarred her.

“She’s written herself off and decided that the only way she’s going to have a future is to make a mint on OnlyFans,” she said, referring to a website that allows users to sell adult content to subscribers. “She has way more than that to offer.”

She warned mothers not to make their children social media influencers. “With the wisdom and knowledge I have now, if I could go back, I definitely wouldn’t do it,” she said. “I’ve been stupidly, naïvely, feeding a pack of monsters, and the regret is huge.”

Just look at all the trauma in former child stars, and there were only a handful of those. And we are creating an entire generation of child stars? And Meta is just....letting it happen.

[dc2london]

I have really only ever used IG for work so I have never seen any of this stuff. The Youtube parents are bad enough. This is just...... disgusting

[elle]

Feb 23, 2024 10:57:11 GMT -6 dc2london said:

I have really only ever used IG for work so I have never seen any of this stuff. The Youtube parents are bad enough. This is just...... disgusting

There aren't enough vomit emojis in the world to cover the way these comments make me feel.

“You are so sexy,” read one comment on an image of a 5-year-old girl in a ruffled bikini. “Those two little things look great thru ur top,” said another on a video of a girl dancing in a white cropped shirt, who months later posted pictures of her 11th birthday party.

[elle]

And guaranteed the venn diagram of these types of insta parents and those who freak out at the thought of drag queen library story time is practically a circle.

[byjove]

Feb 23, 2024 9:39:37 GMT -6 notblanche said:

Feb 23, 2024 8:20:15 GMT -6 cakewench said:

No, damn it. What the hell. WAMU just took over and relaunched DCist a few years ago 

I know! I was so happy to see it back too. I am very WTAF about all of it. I haven't had a chance to seek out more info about it yet today.

[Bookshelves]

The news article I just saw (Axios) said they’re shutting down DCist to focus on audio. (Re. WAMU)

[notblanche]

Feb 23, 2024 11:10:56 GMT -6 Bookshelves said:

The news article I just saw (Axios) said they’re shutting down DCist to focus on audio. (Re. WAMU)

That’s unsurprising. Sucks though

[athn64]

Feb 23, 2024 10:52:48 GMT -6 elle said:

Feb 23, 2024 10:22:16 GMT -6 dc2london said:

Allllllll the TW's. This is SO MESSED UP and I don't see any coverage of it. WTFFFFFFFFFFF.
(Gift link)

A Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed by Moms and Stalked by Men www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/us/instagram-child-influencers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Xk0.OHIr.vcqTX3qbHG3y&smid=nytcore-android-share

Jfc. I don't see how she thought it would turn out any other way. Or at least not once men started following and making inappropriate and disgusting comments.

In interviews and online comments, parents said that their children enjoyed being on social media or that it was important for a future career. But some expressed misgivings. Kaelyn, whose daughter is now 17, said she worried that a childhood spent sporting bikinis online for adult men had scarred her.

“She’s written herself off and decided that the only way she’s going to have a future is to make a mint on OnlyFans,” she said, referring to a website that allows users to sell adult content to subscribers. “She has way more than that to offer.”

She warned mothers not to make their children social media influencers. “With the wisdom and knowledge I have now, if I could go back, I definitely wouldn’t do it,” she said. “I’ve been stupidly, naïvely, feeding a pack of monsters, and the regret is huge.”

This is why I won't let DD1 have a YT channel, though she desperately wants one. 1. She's only 9. and 2. People suck on the internet. I've long been concerned about Mommy bloggers who are exploiting their children. 

[enchanted]

Feb 23, 2024 10:22:16 GMT -6 dc2london said:

Allllllll the TW's. This is SO MESSED UP and I don't see any coverage of it. WTFFFFFFFFFFF.
(Gift link)

A Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed by Moms and Stalked by Men www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/us/instagram-child-influencers.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Xk0.OHIr.vcqTX3qbHG3y&smid=nytcore-android-share

What in the actual fuck is wrong with those men?

[enchanted]

NRA executives found liable in corruption case www.npr.org/1232229060


"A Manhattan jury found three top executives of the National Rifle Association liable in a lengthy civil trial that focused on alleged corruption and the misspending of millions of dollars.

"Longtime NRA leader Wayne LaPierre, a key architect in the nonprofit's hardline gun rights agenda who stepped down as CEO last month, was central to New York state's case.

"Jurors found that LaPierre 'violated his statutory obligation to discharge the duties of his position in good faith.'"

[byjove]

[leahcar]

Feb 23, 2024 16:53:01 GMT -6 enchanted said:

NRA executives found liable in corruption case www.npr.org/1232229060


"A Manhattan jury found three top executives of the National Rifle Association liable in a lengthy civil trial that focused on alleged corruption and the misspending of millions of dollars.

"Longtime NRA leader Wayne LaPierre, a key architect in the nonprofit's hardline gun rights agenda who stepped down as CEO last month, was central to New York state's case.

"Jurors found that LaPierre 'violated his statutory obligation to discharge the duties of his position in good faith.'"

I misread this as NPR execs and was shocked.

NRA- not remotely surprised

[coffeecake]

I have so many thoughts about that NYT article. It seems like an extension of the child beauty pageant world, but way worse. It kept blaming the moms of these girls, which yes. But what about the creepy men looking at them?!?! And where are the dads of these girls? Not that I would ever do this with my DD, but my H would not be on board. So much wtf all around.

[blurnette989]

Feb 24, 2024 14:56:23 GMT -6 coffeecake said:

I have so many thoughts about that NYT article. It seems like an extension of the child beauty pageant world, but way worse. It kept blaming the moms of these girls, which yes. But what about the creepy men looking at them?!?! And where are the dads of these girls? Not that I would ever do this with my DD, but my H would not be on board. So much wtf all around.

and also the social media companies who do things like shadow ban accounts that block too many users, which disincentivizes the account owners from blocking the awful users who make inappropriate comments.

[dc2london]

Feb 24, 2024 15:22:35 GMT -6 blurnette989 said:

Feb 24, 2024 14:56:23 GMT -6 coffeecake said:

I have so many thoughts about that NYT article. It seems like an extension of the child beauty pageant world, but way worse. It kept blaming the moms of these girls, which yes. But what about the creepy men looking at them?!?! And where are the dads of these girls? Not that I would ever do this with my DD, but my H would not be on board. So much wtf all around.

and also the social media companies who do things like shadow ban accounts that block too many users, which disincentivizes the account owners from blocking the awful users who make inappropriate comments.

And the companies giving these accounys influencer deals!
I am side eyeing everyome involved