Workshop details: 📅 Submission deadline: May 28, 2026 📅 Workshop: August 24, 2026, 9:00 AM–12:00 PM 📍 SOUPS 2026, Hanover, Germany 👉 Submission information: ag2425.github.io/AIG-CSAM-NCI... Co-organized with the amazing Alexandra Gonzales, @mirandawei.bsky.social, and Natalie Grace Brigham.

The United States needs to become a pariah state sanctioned into oblivion even for threatening this, let alone if it’s carried out.

Marisa Kabas@marisakabas.bsky.social · 6mo ago

God help us.

Unbelievable things coming from the handmade LLM community youraislopbores.me

So "lawmakers will outlaw use of 31 meat-related names as part of efforts to help livestock farmers in food supply markets"... just when health, climate & environment scientists are stressing the urgency of helping more livestock farmers OUT of food supply markets? And what a silly, pointless move!

EU agrees to chop meaty names from vegetarian and vegan food products

Lawmakers will ban use of 31 meat-related names as part of efforts to help livestock farmers in food supply markets

theguardian.com

Our new paper demonstrates that removing images of children from training datasets of text-to-image models fails to prevent the misuse of these models to generate child sexual abuse material (AI CSAM). A thread 🧵

WOW! The European Parliament just voted to BAN the words 'burger' and 'sausage' when used in sustainable plant-based alternatives. HUGE win for the meat and dairy lobby in the EU, and lots more confusion for consumers if this goes through. Insane! www.euroveg.eu/european-par...

European Parliament votes to ban use of ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based sausage’ - European Vegetarian Union

Brussels, 8 October 2025 European Parliament votes to ban use of ‘veggie burger’ and ‘plant-based sausage’: coalition calls decision misguided and counterproductive This Wednesday the Members of the E...

euroveg.eu

Aaaaaaaaaa

This is a fucking joke -- you need a paid account to turn off Gemini?? If anything this is the best proof of how deeply unpopular AI is (pay me or you must use the slop machine that costs me billions every year)

A wasteland of rubble, dust and graves: how Gaza looks from the sky

A wasteland of rubble, dust and graves: how Gaza looks from the sky

The Guardian joins a Jordanian military airdrop for a rare chance to observe a landscape devastated by Israel’s offensive Seen from the air, Gaza looks like the ruins of an ancient civilisation, brought to light after centuries of darkness. A patchwork of concrete shapes and shattered walls, neighbourhoods scattered with craters, rubble and roads that lead nowhere. The remnants of cities wiped out. But here, there has been no natural disaster and no slow passage of time. Members of Jordan’s military stand among pallets of aid about to be dropped on Gaza. Continue reading...

theguardian.com

i can’t take the hypocrisy in so much western media coverage of israel’s bombing of iran and iran’s retaliation. israel can do whatever it wants and they’ll find a way to legitimize it, but iran is positioned as fundamentally evil and thus deserving of attack and bloodthirsty in its response.

I posted this on the bad place, but I am once again asking privacy scientists to have a look at what's going on with medical professionals. Things are really bad there 🫠

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The Verge@theverge.com · last yr.

Duolingo will replace contract workers with AI

Welp, guess I'm not the only one that had this useless and environmentally destructive "feature" pushed to their phone. Has anyone figured out how to remove it on Android? (besides switching to Signal)

Reading synthetic data papers in healthcare journals is often infuriating as a privacy (ex-)researcher, but I stumbled across one that is really egregious. The authors cite Stadler et al. (the initial work on membership inference attacks on SDG), to (wrongly!) dismiss a SOTA notion of privacy,

Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

This paper ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/doc..., published at ICAIC25, blatantly plagiarises a paper by myself and colleagues at the Turing,, claiming that they developed the sqlsynthgen package. Although the text has been rephrased, the contents are nearly identical.

Huh oh. As a committed anti-conspiracy-theorist for the "phones listen to your microphone and targeted ads based on what you say" thing I can tell this is going to be exhausting

parker higgins@xor.blue · 2y ago

I think probably 95% of speculation that your phone is secretly listening to you is overblown, but man the tech industry really does not do itself any favors with that 5% arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

This is so much better than having a liveable planet

Peter Labuza@labuzamovies.com · 2y ago

here's a Sora generated video of gymnastics