You know what would be really cool? A #quantifiedself person influence monitor. Say I have a #Fitbit and Joe has a Fitbit, we could have them detect when we are in proximity (if both people agreed) and then it would let us know over time how being around the other person influenced us - e.g. did heart rate variability increase or decrease (do they relax us or cause stress), did we burn more calories (maybe we usually go on hikes together), did we sleep better that night, and so on.

There are definitely people in my life who I'm pretty sure have significant effects on me in both directions, it'd be awesome to quantify them.

It would also be cool if one could do this without data sharing - e.g. maybe one presses a button on ones device to indicate one has entered x's presence and again when one has exited...

Honestly, I'd totally forget to do this...so something passive would be better - e.g. when you want to start tracking the next time you are around someone you press a button and it scans for electronic signatures and identifies Bluetooth etc. uniquely so that when you are around then it auto knows and can record...

The latter raises issues of #consent and #privacy...I'm not sure how/if one could do this in an ethical manner...but I'd like to have it

What Happened In Vigo: A Personal Reckoning With Masculinity, Desire, And Consent

#men #masculinity #sexuality #consent #menshealth

https://flip.it/CFLAfT

"The meaning of yes is created by the ability to say no." —Lois McMaster Bujold in The Hallowed Hunt

This whole "Turn on" / "Maybe later" software feature nag. Where there isn't a clear "No" / "Stop bothering me " is a huge consent issue.

I more annoyed and concerned by it at each encounter.

If I could move off Microsoft and Google at work, I would in a heartbeat.

#boardgames #gamers #poly #polyamory #nontraditionalmarriage #consent

One thing that has been evident, particularly after 2010, is that most of the board gaming groups that I have run into have been groups that lean into polyamory and such, or are outright sponsored by "Non-Traditional Relationship" groups.

Looking for gaming events in the #Denver area reminded me of this meme:

My latest, prompted by Kennedy's outrageous #Autism Registry proposal--It Raises Concern Over Ethics, Privacy, and Intended Use
#registry #disability #consent #HIPAA #eugenics #privacy #ethics #NIH
w comments fr @gorskon.bsky.social @pauloffit.bsky.social @rollingstone.com @crampell.bsky.social

This is how science loses credibility. What a disgrace.

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/26/unauthorized-experiment-on-cmv/

“HANDBOOK: How To Resist Musk/trump Fascism? Become Ungovernable”

by Mark Taylor in DeMOCKracy.Ink on Substack

“For a day, a week, or as a rolling walkout, we could shut down the economy and most governmental functions and bring the country to a standstill”

https://open.substack.com/pub/mark192/p/handbook-how-to-resist-musktrump

Republican senator removes the topic of consent from sex ed curriculum

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MjkmpccnDpE&t=80s

“it protects both boy and girl, man and woman… we are protecting our youth. I need a better, I need an explanation why you would take it out.”

What is and isn't consent key in trial for 5 ex-world junior hockey players, Crown tells Ontario jury
The main issue in the trial for five former junior hockey players charged with sexually assaulting a woman in a London, Ont., hotel room in 2018 is whether or not she consented, the Crown said during opening statements Wednesday.
#law #hockey #assault #consent #London #Ontario
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/london/hockey-canada-world-junior-sexual-assault-trial-london-1.7516876?cmp=rss

#Republican senator removes the topic of " #consent " from sex ed curriculum.

After the Code of Conduct and the Mediation process, the Core Governance document is now ready for wider feedback.

This document describes what JoinJabber does and what we aim to achieve. It also describes what our values are and a way to make proposals to the entire community.

Feel free to share and read/respond to the document.
https://codeberg.org/joinjabber/collective/src/branch/governance/Governance/Governance.md

Hallo zusammen,
Ich bin #neuhier - hab mit meinem "Alltagsaccount" schon ein paar Erfahrungen bei Mastodon gemacht und langsam war die Sehnsucht groß, eben auch mit Themen, die meine Kollegen nicht unbedingt mitlesen müssen, aktiv zu werden.

Freu mich auf den Austausch hier, zu Themen wie #polyamorie #kink und #consent vor allem im Bereich #erotica. Empfehlt mir gern eure Lieblingsprofile!

Ich schreibe und spreche meine Sachen ein, aktuell gibts die auf #Fetlife zu lesen und zu hören. Bald dann ja vielleicht auch hier.

We're trying to promote small instances (increased decentralization) with moderated signups (saver for the wole Fediverse) that opt-in to be added to our list (consent).

https://joinfediverse.wiki/Instances

Today in Labor History Today in Labor History April 19, 1943: Albert Hoffman, inventor of LSD, tested his first dose and went for a bike ride. This day is now celebrated as Bicycle Day. “... Little by little I could begin to enjoy the unprecedented colors and plays of shapes that persisted behind my closed eyes. Kaleidoscopic, fantastic images surged in on me, alternating, variegated, opening and then closing themselves in circles and spirals, exploding in colored fountains, rearranging and hybridizing themselves in constant flux ...” And from that date forward, working class people could finally afford to go on a trip. Hoffman later went on to isolate psilicyben, the active hallucinogenic ingredient in mushrooms, which he also enjoyed experimenting with.

Sandoz originally marketed the drug as Delysid and sold it in 100 microgram doses. From the late 1940s, through the early 1960s, the drug was legal and numerous psychologists and researchers began experimenting with it as a form of therapy. Many were willing participants in the CIA’s UKUltra mind control experiments, in which LSD was given to people, most of whom without their consent or knowledge. Cary Grant was a frequent and enthusiastic user. As early as the late 1940s, anthropologists Margaret Mead and Gregory Bateson became enthusiastic about its potential to unleash a new era of peace and expanded consciousness. The founder of Alcoholic Anonymous was also an early user and said that it was far more effective at treating alcoholism than any other treatment he knew of. Researcher John Lily, along with Gregory Bateson, began dosing dolphins in the early 1960s, in experiments connected with the U.S. military, in an attempt to learn to communicate with the animals and deploy them as weapons in the cold war. You can read more about Mead and Bateson’s role in promoting hallucinogens and in collaborating with the military and intelligence communities in Benjamin Breen’s book, Tripping on Utopia.