04/08/2026
I've been quiet here as I work on something big: I am transitioning away from showing identifying images of children on my public social media accounts.
It never felt *great* to me to post any images here just out of old-school copyright concerns, but as AI has accelerated and headlines started appearing about how images posted to Meta sites were being cataloged, used and manipulated ... I became downright uncomfortable with it.
Hey, I've resigned my own face to whatever's going on out there, I certainly posted enough images in my 20s and 30s ("I went someplace with friends!!! Here's 85 images!!" "Selfie here! ... Selfie here too! ... Selfie with cartoon filter! ... Here I am with the cat!"), and I think most of adults who came of age as Facebook emerged can relate. We're all over the internet, oh well, it's been fun! But our younger kids don't even have email addresses yet (okay mine does but he doesn't know it). They're collecting rocks.
I want clear consent for something big and unwieldy like this, especially when I am not actually the parent. Asking the parent for permission didn't feel like quite enough.
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