Meta has made it repeatedly clear that one of their growth strategies is sexualizing kids. Mark Zuckerberg and his leadership team deserve to face personal liability for this, and the company deserves sanctions up to and including corporate dissolution
WIRED@wired.com · 3h agoOver 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.
Unbelievable backside flip. Dude in the car clearly a skater because he knows you only get one take that good
Jerad Walker@jeradwalker.bsky.social · 19h agoI hope this guy just drives around town cheering everyone on.
One year $150M contract to a small Texas firm that lacks immigration law experience
Politico@politico.com · 20h ago26-employee Texas law firm gets $150M to represent 24,000 children in immigration court
How One Woman’s Grandson Inspired Her to Get a College Degree in Prison
How One Woman’s Grandson Inspired Her to Get a College Degree in Prison
Ms. Yvonne thought her GED was the end of her educational journey. Then, her youngest grandson got into college.
prisonjournalismproject.org
It’s so cool to elect republicans and use ballot initiatives to overturn all their policy
Stephen Wolf@stephenwolf.bsky.social · 18h agoMissouri Republicans have relentlessly tried to destroy ballot initiatives after voters used them to protect abortion rights, legalize weed, raise the minimum wage, and reform redistricting. They are currently sabotaging a veto referendum that should have suspended the GOP's new House gerrymander
Treblo Appears To Confirm Fenix Flexin’s “Rubberz” Is The First AI-Generated Hot 100 Hit stereogum.com/2507265/treb...
Treblo Appears To Confirm Fenix Flexin's "Rubberz" Is The First AI-Generated Hot 100 Hit
For months, controversy has been swirling around “Rubberz,” a genuinely terrible synthpop pastiche with faux-Morrissey vocals that somehow became a breakout hit for LA rapper Fenix Flexin, a longtime ...
stereogum.com
The thing about Odyssey discourse is that we allowed the professors to break containment. The whole purpose of the university system was to find a humane way to segregate them from mainstream society.
60 Minutes had major Epstein scoop before Donald Trump’s hand puppet fired the reporter www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2026/08/60-m...
60 Minutes had major Epstein scoop before Donald Trump's hand puppet fired the reporter - Lawyers, Guns & Money
Bari’s Weiss’s rolling catastrophe continues: Deutsche Bank AG failed to promptly notify authorities of more than $250 million in questionable transfers tied to Epstein, according to Wyden’s report. T...
lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
What are the rules here? If I quote a white person advertising a Substack and lament the fact that white people do not care that the organization aids and platforms white supremacists, will I be suspended too?
If Jennings is the ally he claims to be, he would use his celebrity and privilege to get this lady her account back.
Karrid 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️@karrid.myatproto.social · yesterdayWell, it appears that, sometime in the last 17 hours, Gwen Pepperoni was suspended for the crime of pointing out Ken Jennings' transphobia.
on Sophie Cunningham and a trans controversy that doesn't involve any actual trans people: defector.com/the-right-ha...
things my five year old daughter has said on this road trip: in the car, after hours of travel: "I'm almost tired, and I'm probably hungry." after the second night at our airbnb: "there's no dreams in that bed"
They’re calling it the most theater kid story of all time
Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterdayin 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...
I read the whole thing twice and still don't know if it's supposed to do that or not I feel like it's not
New crater likely to form after SpaceX rocket slams into the moon | CNN
A SpaceX rocket will collide with the moon Wednesday. While Earth is safe, studying the impact could protect future lunar astronauts.
cnn.com
"I want all of us focused on maximizing outcomes that move the needle" amigo that needle is going to end up twitching on the ground like a freshly landed trout.
404 Media@404media.co · yesterdayMicrosoft is introducing budget limits for AI use but says it still wants to be an ‘AI-first’ company.
Thinking about this in conjunction with the article released on how the protection of solar farms made berries sweeter. We can make conditions safer and more pleasant for people while helping communities and the earth at the same time.
United Farm Workers@ufw.bsky.social · 2d agoYesterday's temperature topped 105° in Fresno. "Carlos" and team were working in the watermelons. "Our team is paid piece rate. The more boxes we fill the more we make. The person closest to the truck has the hardest job so we switch off. This is exhausting work." #WeFeedYou
Better things are possible. More humane paths exist.
Massachusetts farm installs 832 solar panels above berry fields, and the berries grown underneath turned out sweeter and juicier and could change the future of American farming
A Massachusetts farm is integrating solar panels above berry fields. This agrivoltaics project generates electricity while shading the crops. The elevated panels create a cooler microclimate, retain...
economictimes.indiatimes.com
Thread. Link (subscription required): www.whatsonweibo.com/how-chinese-... I'm unfamiliar with the author or the outlet, but the content seems legit.
How Chinese AI Videos Turned Foreigners into Villains
How viral AI videos turn racialized outsiders into threats and violent Chinese heroes into defenders of social order, China’s first nationally broadcast AI drama, and why a newspaper is being sold for...
whatsonweibo.com
Manya Koetse@manyapan.bsky.social · 2d agoChinese viral AI videos are turning foreigners into villains, flooding Chinese social media. They depict foreigners as threats to China’s social, moral, and national order. Strong, confident Chinese people confront, violently beat, and humiliate them in defense of their country. See more below🧵
I had to code and pronounce a time of death on a respiratory therapist colleague. There's a memorial plaque for her outside the emergency department to this day. I wrote and re-wrote my will. I will never forgive these ghouls trying to rewrite history and deny our experience.
Gabriel Bosslet@gbosslet.bsky.social · 3d agoRFK Jr said these words today on national television "There were ICUs that were empty all over the country including in New York at the height (of the pandemic)" hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha You are a fucking idiot hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha <sobs silently>
New: Police are being told to hide the fact that they're using Flock to pull people over and arrest them in both encounters with citizens but ALSO in their official police reports: www.404media.co/do-not-menti...
‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock
“DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE. DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT."
404media.co
That's a joke about courtly love literature. It's very legible and relatable actually.
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Imagine thinking so little of yourself that you just let this half sentient rotten potato talk to you like this. I don't care if he's president, have some self respect.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d agoTrump says Jeanine Pirro "choked" and then snaps at a reporter who asks if her job is safe: "Don't ever talk again"
Lon Burnam, a former state lawmaker representing Tarrant County from 1997 to 2015, was carried out of the room by four sheriff deputies, who held him by his hands and feet: fortworthreport.org/2026/08/04/t...
Tarrant County judge removes attendees during public meeting about voting site reductions
Former state lawmaker Lon Burnam was carried out of the courtroom by sheriff deputies after O’Hare called speakers disruptive.
fortworthreport.org
Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.
The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed
The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.
bloomberg.com
My neighbor who loves work was laid off a few months ago and is visiting food shelves now after being cut off from food assistance while seeking a new job. He’s also taking in a boarder and doing odd jobs for pay. Feels very Depression era.
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterdayRollins: "For those who love work and celebrate work and want people to work and not be on food stamps, it's a pretty big win when we've moved 5 million people off food stamps, y'all."