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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PSA to all the PR folks emailing my new account: you're all being marked as spam. That one is not for you.

I wrote about the triumph of Doing Your Own Research and the stupid, nasty thing that is replacing some very recent history in real time. defector.com/were-just-go...

We're Just Going To Keep Doing 2020 Again Until All The Wrong Stuff Is True | Defector

In a bunch of ways, there is no real percentage in remembering what things were actually like during the worst years of the COVID-19 pandemic. Beyond all the uncertainty and suffering and death, there...

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"Critics say" is rank cowardice that a generation of journalists have deluded themselves into thinking is objective journalism

John Brown stan account@johnbrownstan.bsky.social · 8h ago

Journalism has become the art of stubbornly refusing to draw the obvious conclusion

It's down over 8% today lol

FinTwitter@fintwitter.bsky.social · 9h ago

SPACEX PLANS MOON FACTORIES POWERED BY HUMANOID ROBOTS

@abdulelsayed.bsky.social triumphing over something like $60 million, $32-ish million of it AIPAC money, is not a "narrow" victory, it's a people's earthquake. This kind of spending is oligarchy in action, to smother democracy through its formal channels, and is getting normalized. Still he won.

It's kind of funny how Michigan apparently just lies to pollsters every 2 years

i support [$democratic_candidate] for [$public_office] and believe that their politics is a perfect fit for [$state]. I would drag my [$genital] over [$harmful_object_or_substance] to vote for [$democratic_candidate] this fall.

Keith@mosheroperandi.bsky.social · 20h ago

I support the winner of the Michigan Democratic primary as the future senator from Michigan.

Holy shit. www.wired.com/story/a-civi...

This is rape culture.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

TAPPER: Hold on -- hold on, 'cause I'm not done with the list of women who have accused you of violence. Are all three of them lying? REP. MAX MILLER: Yes. And I'm not getting out of the race because in 2016, President Donald J Trump faced the most extreme allegations in the world ...

I think @tobyn.bsky.social is having too much fun www.ft.com/content/7ff5...

Timeline cleanse

Republicans love pushing vocational-only education instead of comprehensive-education because they want a healthy supply of low-cost servants and less competition for the professional and boss jobs they want their own kids to have.

Seth Cotlar@sethcotlar.bsky.social · yesterday

In a college sociology class in the late 1980s I was assigned a Marxist analysis of education that argued that the US education system is designed primarily to produce efficient workers for the labor market. And now Trump’s Department of Education is just tweeting it out.

I have a theory that a big chunk of the socialist fear mongering by liberals is really about the fact that it’s perceived as a youth movement and godforbid the young exert political power

Dan O’Sullivan@osullyville.bsky.social · yesterday

Nope, nice try. Not doing this to myself. You'll have to kill my ass

The Republican Party is batting 1.000 at attracting the worst humans that earth has ever seen

ryan cooper@ryanlcooper.com · yesterday

christ almighty www.politico.com/live-updates...

Here's the main thing you need to understand about issue polling: it's mostly meaningless and people don't really understand the nuances of these things

Joey Politano🏳️‍🌈@josephpolitano.bsky.social · yesterday

DSA-aligned Democrats are now the most pro-free-trade voting bloc in the United States, in an incredible turn of events www.theargumentmag.com/p/who-suppor...

This is some of the whiniest braindead pablum I've ever read. The kind that could only come from a clueless failson.

Steve Herman@newsguy.bsky.social · yesterday

"While I was silent, others were happy to write my story for me. No more." - David Ellison, chief executive of Paramount Skydance www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/op...

there is a strain of lefty discourse where you can’t come to any unflattering conclusions about the populace—those must be explained away by how they are being acted upon by capital—but I think you’ll understand things better if you understand capital can also exploit weaknesses it didn’t create

Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West

Brody is determined to get to the bottom of whoever did this

It's so funny watching a pilot program of 5 grocery stores that cost the equivalent of 6% of NYC's annual budget live rent-free in every conservative commentator's head now

USA TODAY Opinion@usatodayopinion.usatoday.com · 2d ago

Opinion: Mamdani's idea may sound appealing, but it's NYC taxpayers who will take the hit, subsidizing discounts they may never even use.

Continuing my Korean War/Halberstam posting: It’s hard to convey how malignant Douglas MacArthur was, how anti-democratic, what a persistent threat to civil-military relations. Conversely, George Marshall was a man of towering integrity and wisdom.

"It's about protecting women's sports which, by the way, I hate more than anything in the world."

Sonicscrewdriv4@sonicscrewdriv4.bsky.social · 2d ago

What sort of delusional BS is this??? www.mediaite.com/media/news/c...

that droop’s getting worse

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2d ago

Trump says talks with Iran "are going on right now" (Iran says no talks are happening)

Can confirm this ratio based on my own inbox

Josh Sternberg@joshsternberg.com · 2d ago

There are 7 PR people for every journalist in the US. www.bloomberg.com/opinion/arti...

At some point consensus will fully accept that the labor market bottomed late last year after slowly cooling for years in response to pandemic over-hiring.

I keep arguing that Dem leadership (Schumer, Jeffries, etc.) are stuck in the 90s, as are many of the high profile Dem consultants and advisors. They think most voters are de facto moderate. This is why their thinking is outdated:

Jake Grumbach@jakemgrumbach.bsky.social · 2d ago

We find that the benefits of moderation found in earlier eras (~1980s-2000s) are gone. Why? Many likely explanations.

A better moment to say this would have been any time during the last two years of "pure hell."

Phil Lewis@phillewis.bsky.social · 3d ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — Ohio Sen. Moreno says Rep. Max Miller should not serve in House after abuse allegations from Moreno’s daughter.

Wrote about the bond market telling Trump's new stooge he ain't shit www.jezebel.com/trumps-new-f...

Trump’s New Fed Stooge Gets a No Confidence Vote From the Bond Market

Since 2007, Jezebel has been the Internet's most treasured source for everything celebrities, sex, and politics...with teeth.

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Frankly if you're this stupid you deserve to get taken to the cleaners by Trump

Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · 3d ago

Trump “came up with a completely false quote saying I acknowledged things I never said. “My god." — Brad Karp, then the chairman of the law firm 2/2