NEW: Meta reviewed, approved, and ran more than 50 ads containing AI-generated child sexual abuse material across Facebook, Instagram, Messenger and Threads. They ran for nine months. Some were live this week. After WIRED asked about them, researchers found ~30 more

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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Simple rule of thumb…if the post is an image and there isn’t a link to a supporting article from a reputable source, it is bullshit.

One would think that President Shitshow's cabinet would get embarrassed by constantly being community-corrected on social media but... Of course they don't. Lying is part of the job description.

"I think people's idea of LLMs is that ... the factual truth must simply float to the top by likelihood alone. The thing is, some factual truths were never able to float to the top of anything, and that's before we even get into the power dynamics and so forth of certain areas of the truth."

berserk du soleil@aetataureate.bsky.social · 5d ago

Hank Green should not use LLMs in his work. Working scientists have specific use cases for LLMs, but science communicators like Hank and I do not. They add more vulnerability than value in our field. I laid out some history and background to walk you through the reasons why.

Tulane's Muira McCammon documented how Google turned off reviews for 90+ ICE detention facilities, erasing accounts of conditions inside. Google says disabling ICE facility reviews was "unrelated to a government request." But McCammon argues the effect is the same: dissent rendered invisible.

As Google Scrubs ICE Detention Reviews, Platform Power Serves State Interests

Google’s content moderation choices threaten to render accounts of treatment inside federal detention centers invisible, writes Muira McCammon.

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Turns out being racist and sexist isn't a military strategy.

Oliver Willis@owillis.bsky.social · 3d ago

Republicans are in the middle of purging the military of black, brown lgbtq and female officers. Military experts say diversity helps add outside the box thinking for military strategy. The Pentagon is currently soliciting ideas for how to end the Iran War. Connect the dots.

I think they're actually trying to explain who they are more than distance themselves but it's still funny.

A party winning supporters by literally improving people's lives has become a radical idea

wishda@wishda.bsky.social · 6d ago

The DSA in Wilmingotn, N.C. has created a "crisis" by putting benches at city bus stops, after literal decades of the city promising and failing to do so.

Maybe we can find a few old-style teetotaling conservative Christians to forge a coalition with on this. (I am being serious.)

Jenn Kauffman@jennaudrey.bsky.social · 4d ago

Can we outlaw these betting markets already? (I refuse to whitewash their harm by calling them prediction markets.) They are introducting the opportunity for corruption and bias at every turn in the most important facets of society.

👀 Why is Gillibrand a Dem Senator?

Jonathan Larsen@jonathanlarsen.bsky.social · 5d ago

NEW: Corporate media zero in signs of antisemitism on the left. Meanwhile, one of Rep. Haley Stevens's most powerful backers in her Senate race attends a Bible study that teaches that the Jews killed Jesus...

Everyone who read the other Prairieland thing needs to read this.

Megan Wachspress@meganwachspress.bsky.social · 5d ago

It made me so mad I wrote a Whole Thing just so I could stop thinking about it for a while and get on to other things: cooperativeoverlapping.substack.com/p/keep-your-...

Solar panels and batteries that make high-energy society sustainable after fossil fuels.

Matthew Downhour @matthewdownhour.bsky.social · 5d ago

I like this brainstorm: greatest achievements since 1969. Number one for me: eradicating smallpox What else?

Gotta stop writing down what he says when you know it ain't true.

Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News@froomkin.bsky.social · last mo.

Every journalist on the Reflecting Pool story knows damn well that Trump’s “vandalism” claim is complete bullshit. The way they mindlessly amplify what they know is a lie is a perfect example of how normalizing Trump misinforms readers. This is a huge journalistic failure and history will be unkind.

NEW: CO GOP Gov candidate Victor Marx is soliciting unlimited contributions, appearing to openly defy campaign finance law Campaign finance attorneys call Marx's plan unprecedented and "patently illegal" Marx's campaign won't say where the money is going www.9news.com/article/news...

The obvious solution is for the Minnesota legislature to do it again and get it right. Let this be a learning experience.

You know a few years ago I thought 'House of Cards' was an unrealistically cynical take on the behind-the-scenes of politics, but it seems like the Republican party watched that show and came to believe that's how it's supposed to work.

the abbot of unreason (an archaeologist)@merovingians.bsky.social · 6d ago

like how fucking bleak is 'sitting GOP congressman violent abuses daughter and grandaughter of sitting GOP senator, shames senator into silence with rumors of homosexuality'

What "consciousness" and "undersdanding" ultimately amount to are philosophical questions, and I find this derision of philosophical expertise on them hypocritical at best. And I'm probably closer to Bender's position on AI consciousness.

Devin@dervine7.bsky.social · 2w ago

I thought it could be this, but I didn't think they'd admit it. "After hearing about OpenAI's problem, Anthropic decided to take a look at its own cyber tests to see if that had happened with any of its models."

US AI investment inched up to another record high in data released this morning, exceeding a $450B/yr pace for the first time It's now the largest single category of US physical investment, more than single-family homes, factories, power plants, and more

Of all the features of contemporary American life I'm ready to see the end of, the valorization of "people who aren't afraid to piss everyone off" is high on the list.

Trump's illegal war with Iran continues. A war launched on a whim. A war in violation of the US Constitution, the UN Charter, the War Powers Resolution, and the US Congress's recently reaffirmed will.

I flirted with structural realism at a philosophy conference in 2004.

This includes people who came here legally on a visa, applied for another form of status, and are just waiting for the US government to decide their case. People who haven’t done a single thing wrong.

Hamed Aleaziz@haleaziz.bsky.social · last wk.

NEW: The Trump administration has begun arresting foreign citizens with expired visas as they travel through airports, according to documents obtained by The Times and interviews with lawyers — a tactic that opens up a vast new pool of people for deportation. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/u...

Israel is giving Trump's former campaign manager millions of dollars to fill the internet with pro-Israel articles written by AI, not so that anyone will actually read them, but so that *LLMs will train on them* & regurgitate their perspective. This is the future of the information environment.

Israel Is Paying Millions to Train AI Chatbots How to Talk About Gaza. It's Working.

Former Trump campaign manager Brad Parscale is overseeing an operation posting hundreds of blog posts on behalf of Israel, with the goal of infiltrating artificial intelligence.

dropsitenews.com

Modern Democrats have to operate as if the media is a hostile environment. Not being able to communicate effectively with voters when you don’t have the ready channel of a non-compromised media is actually the problem, and it’s one that Mamdani and other progressives are finding a way to solve.

Gopher Smith, PhD@gophersmith.bsky.social · 2w ago

100% disagree. The media didn’t want to give him a win regardless because he wouldn’t kowtow to their whims. He lost because of the bitchyness of mass media. They could have framed age as experience and progress, but they chose to hang him.

it's totally normal for dem primary voters to be concerned with choosing a nominee who can win. i just think when they then put their pundit hat on and try to divine the preferences of the median voters, they're likely to go astray. the best evidence someone can excite others is that they excite you

But how many ears must our media have, before they can hear people lie?

Wait. They all shake hands at the end? What are we even doing here? He's the US President suing you for $20 billion for reporting on the birthday card he sent his friend the pedophile in which he drew a naked girl & mused about secrets. And they all shake hands?

Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · 2w ago

Remarkable camera angle of President Trump as he listens to Wall Street Journal reporters receiving an award for their investigation into Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein — which they pursued despite Trump’s threats and lawsuit.

It’s a bizarre event where the President chuckles as a journalist who had to be relocated from their home because of his threats wins an award

Dan Diamond@ddiamond.bsky.social · 2w ago

Remarkable camera angle of President Trump as he listens to Wall Street Journal reporters receiving an award for their investigation into Trump’s relationship with Jeffrey Epstein — which they pursued despite Trump’s threats and lawsuit.

In short, there are valuable lessons we can learn about drones & interceptors & magazine depth & mine-sweepers, etc. But the key lesson is: no amount of tactical excellence can salvage strategic incompetence. Who lost the Iran War? The American voter did, that damn fool. And he ought to feel it.