Over the last nine months, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and images of minors alongside sexually suggestive statements, according to details of the ads shared with WIRED.

Meta Ran Ads That Contained AI-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Imagery

More than 50 offending image and video ads were published across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger, or Threads, according to Meta’s ad library data. Some ran as recently as this week.

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"Chavez Ravine: An Unfinished Story is a community-curated collection that features oral histories and photographs documenting the neighborhood lives of those who lived where Dodger Stadium now sits." library.lmu.edu/archivesands...

"Filmed in 1984, I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes was released in 1989, the year of the subject's death. Filmmaker Michael Ventura follows Cassavetes around as the actor/director labors on his final film, Love Streams." www.youtube.com/watch?v=NbvP...

I'm Almost Not Crazy: John Cassavetes - the Man and His Work (1984)

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“It was an execution,” a prosecutor told CNN. “It was a summary execution. And it is that simple.”

Minnesota Reformer@minnesotareformer.com · 2w ago

CNN report: Federal immigration agents lied to prosecutors during Operation Metro Surge minnesotareformer.com/2026/07/23/c...

This might be one of the most insane scandals in game history When Pokemon Go players scan PokeStops, theyve been unknowingly building a detailed visual model of the world which is being sold to a military contractor to build a no-GPS positioning for the new generation of unmanned killing machines

The first paragraph of Michael Mann's script for HEAT.

"Despite the alleged split between manual and remote labor, remote workers have always also been manual laborers. Every virtual task is performed by a person with a nervous system, a threshold for pain and exhaustion, a circadian rhythm." www.e-flux.com/journal/164/...

Against the Clock: Remote Work, Stolen Sleep, and the Limits of Extraction - Journal #164

Elvia Wilk writes that the film Sleep Dealer shows what happens when the 24/7 economy treats the body clock as an inconvenience to be overcome.

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Didn't realize John Berger put the entirety of WAYS OF SEEING online for free, but it sure seems he did: www.ways-of-seeing.com

Industrialized art is built to remove us from the world, communal art is made to bring us closer to it. The tension between the two modes and the willingness to engage with both inform every sphere of art-making.

"Adam Hamawy, a surgeon who became a hero of the pro-Palestine movement after treating patients in Gaza, is heading to Congress after winning a Democratic primary in southern New Jersey"

The Man Who Saved Tammy Duckworth’s Life Is Heading To Congress

Republicans had attempted to brand Adam Hamawy as a “terrorist.”

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Together, our voices will be heard! Sign our #DHWU petition: actionnetwork.org/petitions/da... 🐴✊

"Eventually, though, what's left of the free press will have to reckon with the fact that the far-right fringe is now the modern world's governing elite — and openly declaring an intent to repeat the 1930s. That's a story."

Charles Я. Davis@charliearchy.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Greg Bovino and the head of New York's Young Republicans were in Portugal this weekend for a neo-fascist summit on ethnic cleansing. So why didn't the press cover it? My latest for @theredoubt.net, on extremism, antisemitism and media double standards: www.theredoubt.net/why-did-the-...

"In the U.S. today, translations make up a meager three percent of total book publications." ... "The market has its landlords" www.thedriftmag.com/the-translat...

The Translation Trap

The unnamed narrator of Valeria Luiselli’s 2011 novel Faces in the Crowd is a young Mexican woman living in Brooklyn and working, as many F-1 literary types do, at a small translation press.

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HELL YEAH!! Sending all my love and support for the workers at Dark Horse Comics. Most of the comics I've worked on have been published by DH and none of it would be possible without the highly skilled workers seeing these projects through to the end.

Dark Horse Workers United@darkhorseunion.bsky.social · 2mo ago

ANNOUNCEMENT: The workers of Dark Horse Comics @darkhorse.com are forming a union. Please read our mission statement below. 👇 #DHWU

Histoire(s) du Cinéma 3a: The Coin of the Absolute (dir. Jean-Luc Godard, 1998)

It would be bad enough if this was all she voted for, but the bill literally also has a provision to strip school funding from any school that has books with trans characters, has policies protecting trans students, performs shakespeare’s 12th night, or even has a trans teacher.

Jen Bendery@jbendery.bsky.social · 2mo ago

UPDATE: Gluesenkamp Perez responds: "My heart breaks for children who don’t feel safe letting their parents into their world. But divorcing a young child’s school life from their home life doesn’t resolve the underlying problem of an unsupportive family." More: www.huffpost.com/entry/8-demo...

Very excited to go see IS GOD IS and I LOVE BOOSTERS in theater in the next few days, maybe even as a double bill.

Not many things more lovely in a filmmaker's life than reading multiple fantastic film and pilot scripts by friends, lately at a rate of pretty much one per week.

The Waves Moby-Dick; or, The Whale Wuthering Heights But that's too easy because that's just the three I probably return to the most often? So three more: Sula Frankenstein; or, The Modern Prometheus Água Viva

John Wiswell@wiswell.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Say a group of friends is making their own Top 100 Best Novels List. Your friends ask you for your recommendations. What are the first three books that come to mind? No overthinking. Share the first three greats that hit you.

"What has wickedness got to do with it?" www.commentary.org/articles/gar...

NEW: ChatGPT advised the FSU shooter that a mass shooting would get more attention from media if it involved several children, according to a new lawsuit against OpenAI www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

OpenAI sued over ChatGPT’s alleged role in guiding FSU shooter

The lawsuit claims that the shooter carried out his attack using instructions and advice provided by ChatGPT.

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It's an extremely rare opportunity to spot a "relic from the birth of the Solar System."

Visitor Approaches From the Edge of the Solar System

Comet C/2025 R3 PANSTARRS, which was only discovered last year, has been visible to stargazers in the northern hemisphere for weeks now.

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"Those who don’t have the truth tend to over-perform it. ... I’m completely convinced that the dominant narrative form is a kind of war model—it pushes the idea of protagonist and antagonist, of conflict. ... But human experience doesn’t work like that." mubi.com/en/notebook/...

Other Ways of Seeing: Lucrecia Martel on “Our Land”

The Argentina director discusses her long-gestating documentary: a courtroom drama that expands into a broader history of dispossession.

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This is devastating. Just devastating. "Many observers rightly warn that Callais threatens minority representation in Congress. But minority voters' power on school boards and city councils is no less consequential and may be at even greater risk."

Here’s Proof of Just How Bad Voting Rights in America Are About to Get

The Voting Rights Act was one of the most effective laws in American history.

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Ha ha. Yes. Yes!! www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c7J...

The Vampire Lestat | Official Trailer | Premieres June 7 on AMC & AMC+

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Late drop of a big story tonight—the research team that jailbroke AI safety standards with weaponized poems have published their Adversarial Humanities Benchmark, broadening their research through cyberpunk attack-fiction and ADVERSARIAL HERMENEUTICS:

PC Gamer@pcgamer.com · 3mo ago

The study's authors said they tried to inform LLM providers about the vulnerabilities exposed in their research, but they didn't receive a response.

as a CSA survivor, the whole conversation around the Michael movie is one of those moments where you really get to remember, in no uncertain terms, how hostile humanity is to its own children