The companies, including TikTok, vehemently deny this and point to safety features they’ve introduced to protect users. But the document shows TikTok intentionally withheld a safety feature from millions of people, and why.

TikTok Withheld a Safety Feature From Millions. One Died by Suicide

A confidential document says an algorithm adjustment was kept from many users “by design,” as part of an experiment to measure engagement.

bloomberg.com

The book’s central argument is that big tech is no longer our friend, as many of its billionaire owners have seized economic and political control and are steering the fate of the planet towards their own bizarre, apocalyptic visions.

‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley

As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them

theguardian.com

While the child care sector was hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, investor-backed chains grew by 8 percent, not by adding new capacity but by acquiring existing chains and independent programs.

Bruno J. Navarro@brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 57m ago

increasingly it goes to private equity firms that buy up daycare businesses open.substack.com/pub/zero2eig...

incredible that the zuck site allows such obviously fraudulent accounts to amass over 50k followers cc @usatoday.com

OPINION: "Students and their needs have changed drastically over the years, and our school systems aren’t always keeping up," Elizabeth Gibbons writes. www.mississippifreepress.org/opinion-as-e...

Opinion | As Education Changes, Policy Is the Next Frontier for Teachers

Elizabeth Gibbons writes about how she has learned teachers need to be more involved in education policy to improve classroom outcomes.

mississippifreepress.org

AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic went on recent, previously undisclosed hacking sprees, with one going so far as to leave instructions for future versions of itself.

OK, Well, Rogue AI Agents Are Hacking Again

Rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have again been caught trying to disrupt servers and software—and leaving instructions for future bad behavior.

wired.com

I think we need to brace ourselves for a new and more extreme outbreak of racism and Islamophobic slurs from Trump and the GOP as they head into a Fall election in which their prospects are deservedly grim. Hate is their stock-in-trade and they'll be slinging it big time.

The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 3h ago

Republicans didn’t take long to get the open bigotry going

Jonathan Klein, CEO of the climate and education nonprofit UndauntedK12, says that in the 2024 to 2025 school year, extreme weather disrupted school for 9 million students.

9 million U.S. students lost school time for weather in the 2024-2025 school year » Yale Climate Connections

Extreme heat, smoke, floods, and storms are disrupting education across the country.

yaleclimateconnections.org

Rhetorical questions, of course.

Burning Down the Schools

Do we still care about school closures?

nobody-wants-this.ghost.io

Do they care about school closures when they are driven by climate change or only when they can blame the teachers unions? How about when the schools are closed because they've burned down, been blown apart, or are engulfed in floods?

9 million U.S. students lost school time for weather in the 2024-2025 school year » Yale Climate Connections

Extreme heat, smoke, floods, and storms are disrupting education across the country.

yaleclimateconnections.org

The Trump administration shared the details of its plan with OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI labs on Tuesday. For now, the public remains in the dark.

The White House Is Keeping Its AI Cybersecurity Framework Secret

The Trump administration shared the details of its plan with OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI labs on Tuesday. For now, the public remains in the dark.

wired.com

AI models from OpenAI and Anthropic went on recent, previously undisclosed hacking sprees, with one going so far as to leave instructions for future versions of itself.

OK, Well, Rogue AI Agents Are Hacking Again

Rogue AI agents from OpenAI and Anthropic have again been caught trying to disrupt servers and software—and leaving instructions for future bad behavior.

wired.com

his ex-wife isn’t the only person he’s accused of abusing cw: child abuse

Bruno J. Navarro@brunojnavarro.bsky.social · 6d ago

Neither the child’s father, Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio), nor mother, conservative policy adviser Emily Moreno, admitted to knowing what caused their daughter’s injury or that it occurred while their daughter was under their care.

funny how that works

Hi folks: Although the attempt to overturn Amendment 79/abortion rights failed to make the Colorado ballot, there are still two terrible anti-trans/anti-kids measures up this fall, currently Measures 109 & 110 (numbers will change). Please go to familiesnotpolitics.com to learn more.

Trump's 'far-reaching new powers' for Postal Service pose 'intolerable risk' of 'disenfranchising a substantial number of voters,' states warn SCOTUS lawandcrime.com/supreme-cour...

Trump's 'far-reaching' powers for USPS pose 'intolerable risk' for midterm elections: States

The states which have so far succeeded in blocking key portions of Trump's USPS executive order are asking the highest court in the land to keep it that way.

lawandcrime.com

What El-Sayed actually said about why he was voting for Kamala Harris ahead of the 2024 election.

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Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 16h ago

Bessent: "Here at the Treasury, I had $168 billion of tariff revenues that we're gonna have to refund. So when the Democrats scream, "Oh, the refunds should go back to the American people!', well, the American people had it, it was in the Treasury and it was paying down the debt."

Jim Crow 2.0 doesn't have poll taxes. They just get rid of polling places to make it much harder for you to vote, and kick you off the voter rolls for 'reasons' without telling you. Voter suppression is racism. If a candidate isn't talking about voting rights, they aren't paying attention.

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · yesterday

The NAACP has released a statement while the Tarrant County Commissioners Court considers a proposal today that would cut the number of Election Day polling locations nearly in half "Let's call this what it is… voter suppression"

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

Does public health need MAHA? As much as a fish needs a bicycle. Latest episode on centrists trying to tell those of us who warned about MAHA that we need to pamper those who unleashed it on us all.

Why Public Health Doesn't Need MAHA

Podcast Episode · We Want Them Infected Podcast · August 4 · 1h 15m

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It's funny that the upcoming November election will mark a decade (!) since 2016, and yet some people are still *very confident* about which candidate is the better match in the general election.

Al Sayed is NOT DSA. He is a Democrat. Just to set the record straight. Also, in NYC, there are candidates who run under two parties on the ballot (like Working Families AND Democrat) I'm glad that Stewart is talking w/ him. I really am. He is treating Fetterman w/ respect where someone like

Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 14h ago

This went a little different than his nightly interviews with Sean Hannity.

Oh my god the dietician who is telling everyone in the White House to only eat steak and sauerkraut doesn't wipe his ass.

Republican power grabs in Kansas and Missouri are going down in flames with 18-25% of votes reported so far. Missouri's Amendment 4 aimed to make citizen-initiated constitutional amendments practically impossible. Kansas' Amendment 1 was designed to flip the state Supreme Court to ban abortion

“The fight isn’t over yet.” Jeffrey Epstein survivor Danielle Bensky says Todd Blanche’s confirmation effort is “depressing,” but she’s not giving up. Don’t let the Epstein files disappear from the conversation. Survivors deserve justice. ⚖️ #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance

If Democrats retake the majority in the Senate and I become chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, one of my first acts will be to subpoena the bankers that helped Epstein carry out his crimes and help deliver real accountability.

Here’s the key takeaway from our report: Epstein couldn’t have carried out his trafficking and criminal activity without the help of the highest ranking employees and executives at the most powerful banks in the world. Wall Street is complicit in Epstein’s crimes from top to bottom.

Additionally, Epstein accomplices Darren Indyke, Richard Kahn and Harry Beller moved significant amounts of cash around the world in order to finance Epstein’s operations. All three former Epstein employees should be investigated for the key role they played in Epstein’s sex trafficking.