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Owner of Rose in Glove Gaming, Speculative Fiction Writer, Gm, Player, and former Director of Operations for Girls Run These Worlds https://roseinglovegaming.etsy.com Cashapp: https://cash.app/$arnicaxross PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/arnicaxross

So, in the neverending shitstorm that is lupus, I am learning about new depths of its cruelty. I have lupus meningitis, feeling super grateful for that lumbar puncture right now cuz otherwise it would have been missed. I'm okayish tho. Also thank you all for sharing. ko-fi.com/johnniejae/g...

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The Trump regime admitted in court filings that the cancellation of clean energy grants for Hawaiʻi was because the state voted for Kamala Harris in the 2024 presidential election, rather than the previously stated reasons of advancing energy needs or economic viability.

Trump Administration Lawyers Admit Hawaiʻi Funding Cuts Were Partisan

The admission about terminated clean energy grants emerged in recent court filings, confirming what many already suspected.

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I have learned today there’s an immense amount of indignity and coercion embedded in the process of organ donation - and I am now forever dissuaded from participating in a program I otherwise endorse. If you can avoid it: never, ever allow OneLegacy near your family.

After WIRED contacted Meta about the ads, they were removed for violating policies on child sexual exploitation. However, the researchers kept finding more of the ads—including duplicates of those reported. Hours before we published, they found another 30, including multiple that were 'live' ads

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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Our story details how, researchers at the @ttp-updates.bsky.social stumbled across a batch of ads—including face swapping a minor into a sexual act—after publishing a report on "nudify" ads on Meta last week. The researchers reported the findings to US clearing house, NCMEC

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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This is the second time in as many months when Meta's ads have been linked to child sexual abuse material—a BBC investigation last month looked at Instagram ads www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Reports *today* suggest Zuckerberg apologized to officials about this www.scmp.com/news/asia/so...

Zuckerberg apologises to India over child sexual abuse content on Meta platforms

The Meta Platforms ⁠CEO also apologised for deepfake content and operational ‌lapses on the company’s platforms, according to a report.

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NEW: Over the last few months, Meta has run dozens of paid ads that included AI-generated CSAM. The ads, some of which were linking out to “nudify” apps, targeted men in the US, UK, and a dozen European countries. Some were running in the last few days

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.

wired.com

Crip Taxes include things like medical marijuana which is not covered by any sort of prescription offset. So if you have cancer, or are an epileptic, or one of the other many reasons your Drs may combine a weed scrip with a pill scrip, that is always 100% cash out of pocket

Eb@ebthen.bsky.social · yesterday

I like the concept of sufficiency being added here because it does open the door for a discussion of CripTax. CripTax is, basically, when it costs a Disabled person more to live at the same or equitable level of comfort as a non-Disabled person.

Quick question for #medsky or anyone who knows the answer: For a degree in Pathology, is that like a subsection of having a medical degree? Would Dr. Zapozap, pathologist be Dr. Zapozap PhD or Dr. Zapozap MD? Assuming you hated yourself and sleep and loved tests and cultures, can you be both?

Look, at 2am you would wake up and USA would be playing something WEIRD. Dusty corner of the video store that isn't *porn* but IS weirdly horny and you'd sit down and watch a young Sgt. Dokes beat someone to death with a can of campbells tomato soup in front of a black and white wall

Brendel@brendelbored.bsky.social · 3d ago

It’s hard to explain but tv was better when you couldn’t watch the show you wanted whenever you wanted to watch it and most of the shows were worse and the TVs were worse and the entire experience was worse, that’s when it was better