Meta approved and profited from ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery. After WIRED asked about them, researchers found dozens more that were still live. Insane story scoop by the one and only @mattburgess1.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/meta-r...

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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Without getting into sourcing, this article is off-base. Some of New York's biggest power players are talking to Mamdani *all the time*. I met with one just the other day who said he's had 10 meetings with Mamdani since he won the primary.

The Wall Street Journal@wsj.com · 16h ago

New York City’s business elites are long accustomed to direct access to City Hall, where even Democratic mayors felt the need to court the city’s wealthiest and most influential corporate leaders. That access is getting shredded by Mayor Zohran Mamdani.

Really played myself this morning (multiple train lines are screwed up and I got off a local to try to get on an express and it was a ghost train, just totally vanished from the list of arrivals)

I’m telling you this as a political scientist. The person who is electable is the one who is elected. This can and does change over time. Any and all speculation about “electability” is either puffery or anxiety and is often both.

Julia Azari@juliaazari.bsky.social · 15h ago

One way to be safe is to never write an electability take

Looks like a 10-15 point polling miss in Michigan regardless of who wins. And people have been writing a lot of electability takes using this data. It’s dangerous out there folks be safe

if polling is truly washed how does horserace coverage even work

Accidentally opened Threads and what’s apparently going on in there right now is that like 80,000 people have formed an ironic cult following for some random woman who posts weird stuff, and her family members have also gotten on the app to warn people she is schizophrenic and in active psychosis

They’re calling it the most theater kid story of all time

Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterday

in insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...

"More needs to be made of this," a senior CBS News staffer tells me about the 60 Minutes story that Sharyn Alfonsi was working on about Epstein and banks that appears to have been scuttled after her firing. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

In one of those situations where my password no longer seems to work to get into my work computer (all other passwords for company systems work fine and I badged in! I am not fired!) and I can’t decide if i have overlooked that I am doing something stupid that will embarrass me if I call IT or not

Many such skin, hair and cosmetic products…

Elizabeth Picciuto@epicciuto.bsky.social · 2d ago

What is your favorite example of when the cheap version of a product is legit better than the expensive one?

this is an interesting interview and if i were clipping it for social media i would have excerpted "We're still a place where we don't downrank links. We love sending traffic to people. We send two million clicks a day to publishers" rather than the part that'll just piss people off lol

The Verge@theverge.com · 2d ago

Bluesky's new CEO Toni Schneider on the platform's reputation for being a liberal bubble: "Yes, we definitely want that to change. It is already changing. It certainly wasn’t designed to attract one specific group of people."

Something sort of fun about my beat is that when someone who is not suuuuuper familiar with consumer issues wants to agree OR argue with you, they tend to bring with them the example of the one (1) consumer good they actually care about, and it is always pretty interesting to see what it is

I think this thread is basically what I believed when I began covering the consumer system and while a lot of what Nathan is describing is factually correct as to the mechanisms by which the system itself works, I’ve eventually had to admit that a lot of people also do just love cheap bullshit

Nathan Tankus@nathantankus.bsky.social · 2d ago

I think this is fundamentally wrong but in an interesting way I will need to write about sometime. The key is a) consumers do not choose what is produced, or how, they choose between what is produced. This is a crucial difference

the concrete effects of Virginia restoring voting rights Friday boltsmag.org/virginia-gov...

Sunday night, time to stop scaring the hoes in advance of the market opening tomorrow morning

I think this is true to a point—we’ve been in a decades-long period of retailers testing exactly how extreme of a price/quality tradeoff consumers will happily accept, but I do think there’s some evidence that they’ve hit bottom for some important demos (mostly high-earning high spenders)

Max Dubler 🏳️‍🌈@maxdubler.com · 3d ago

I think my most genuinely unpopular take is that a widely held and genuine consumer preference for cheaper, lower-quality goods, not private equity, is driving the decline in quality of consumer goods like clothing and housewares.

Really funny when someone comes on here to do some kumbaya style high horsing and gets yelled at by 25 people and starts talking like a batman villain as they're being carted off to arkham

Silky@silkythick.bsky.social · 4d ago

None of you matter at all, say whatever you want I'm sick of people being antisocial fucking pricks on SOCIAL media. You're bullies and assholes, go fuck yourselves.

Yeesh. Amazing quote in this story by Kathy Gilsinan: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Do you have student debt? How is it affecting your finances -- and your vote? As default rates reach a historic high ahead of the midterms, we want to hear from you for a story on student loans and affordability. Learn more and fill out our brief survey here: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

How Is Student Debt Affecting Your Life — And Your Vote?

After President Donald Trump ended a yearslong pause on student loan collections, default rates are at historic highs. How is education debt squeezing your finances and influencing your vote?

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🚨 WE HAVE A DEAL! After three years, in a major step forward for our members, we have ratified our first contract with @propublica.org’s management. We deeply appreciate everyone who supported us along the way. Here are some of our big wins👇

Let's remember some Baseball Injuries! I'll go first: Glenallen Hill having a nightmare about spiders that was so bad he fell out of bed and through a glass table

Amanda Mull@amandamull.bsky.social · 5d ago

MLB players are the thoroughbred horses of the human world in that if you take your eye off them for a second they will get loose and find some completely novel Looney Tunes way to suffer a catastrophic injury

My bf is a Giants fan and this coming out one fact at a time over several hours last night was fun. “He was already injured and got hurt out drinking…on a scooter…which he crashed…into a truck? …a FIRE ENGINE? …IT RAN OVER HIS FOOT? HE DID THE SAME THING IN COLLEGE??” nypost.com/2026/07/31/s...

Harrison Bader suffers ‘major injury’ after crashing scooter into fire truck — which then runs over him

A late-night scooter accident, the details of which remain hazy, will be the memory of Harrison Bader’s forgettable first season in San Francisco.

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It's our first birthday!

David at FOIAball@foiaball.com · last yr.

FOIAball is here: foiaball.com Today, we're kicking off with four stories that we're pretty sure you are going to like. If you are interested in Bill Belichick, Texas, FSU or college mascots, we've got something for you! Give it a look and let us know what you think!

Pope Leo received singer and songwriter Patti Smith in private audience this morning. The Pope and Smith are both Chicago natives. She was accompanied by @antoniospadaro.bsky.social, undersecretary for the Vatican's Dicastery for Culture and Education.

I feel like Gianni Infantino Heat Check has potential as a fantasy sports team name I think

there are a lot of philosophical concepts that get egregiously misused out of the seminar room (and in the seminar room, to be fair). but in terms of sheer pernicious misuse "social construct" has gotta be top 5 somewhere and it's not number 5

Scott Bryan@scottygb.bsky.social · 7d ago

Channel 4 has announced documentary “The Great ADHD Myth?” It “seeks to determine whether ADHD is a genuine neurodevelopmental disorder, or a social construct.”

Here's a 🎁 link (no paywall) in case anyone needs it. The article is indeed quite interesting. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/31/u...

How the Pro-Trump Media Ecosystem Is Splintering Ahead of the Midterms (Gift Article)

Once united in support of President Trump, right-wing influencers are embroiled in feuds and losing viewers, creating a problem for Republicans in the midterm elections.

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If somebody came to one of my writing classes with a novel about a “24-year-old wunderkind” on Wall Street called Leopold Aschenbrenner who graduated from Columbia aged 19, looked and dressed exactly like this, and crashed the stock market, I’d advise them to tone it down a bit

Tony Tassell@tonytassell.bsky.social · 5d ago

Quote in this story: “The real question is how did anyone invest so much money, and then lend so much money, to a . . . kid with no personal experience and no infrastructure?” as.ft.com/r/5f7537a7-0...