NEW: Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit, AI-generated child sexual abuse material in recent months. Some as recently as this week. "These are ads that were reviewed, approved, and allowed to run by Meta, never encountering interference while the company collected the ad dollars."

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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"Kushner is the ‘chief negotiator’ for Israel and Gaza and Iran; and for Ukraine and Russia. He is not an elected or appointed official. He’s a mafia operative who is Trump’s son-in-law, which is how authoritarian kleptocracies work... (1/2)" youtu.be/5r8mEzTdggk?...

The True Agenda of the World Oligarch Class (feat. Sarah Kendzior)

YouTube video by The Mark Thompson Show

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Er så trygt å vite at Oljefondet ikke er investert i noe sånt, skulle tatt seg ut om Norge tjente penger på andres lidelse og død

Vår nye artikkel om hvordan prateroboter bruker narrative strategier i dialogen med mennesker, de spiller på standardplott men skjuler at de gir oss fiksjon - det er litteratur men løsrevet fra kontekst. Her benjamins.com/catalog/ni.2... (eller uten betalingsmur: jilltxt.net/txt/Roine-Re...

“YES! YES! I absolutely love this insight!”: Affirmative narration as interactional strategy in dialogues with LLM chatbots

This article analyses narrative mechanisms that are common in dialogues with LLM chatbots. In combination, these mechanisms produce an interactional strategy for maximising user engagement, which we call affirmative narration. Affirmative narration serves to convince users of the chatbot’s utility. We analyse three narrative mechanisms that support affirmative narration in human-LLM dialogues: firstly, guiding the user to view chatbot as an intelligent and reliable character; secondly, activating masterplots, culturally significant and recurring story templates; and thirdly, using characters and masterplots not only to affirm, but also to isolate the user. The case studies range from a journalist’s unsettling chatbot experiment to cases where users have experienced delusions or even killed themselves after lengthy interactions with a chatbot. The analyses illustrate the worrying sides of affirmative narration, and the article thus concludes with the discussion of LLMs as a genre of narrative media which requires a new type of literacy.

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Yesterday marked James Baldwin’s birthday and the beginning of Black August. In his honor, we remember his enduring words: “I am anti-Zionist. I don’t believe [Zionists] have the right, after 3,000 years, to reclaim the land with western bombs and guns.”

Wildfire smoke in US and Canada from July 15-23 estimated to have caused about 4000 deaths within a week of exposure Analysis by @economist.com #airpollution #climatecrisis www.economist.com/graphic-deta...

Our estimated death toll for this year’s wildfires

The blazes in North America have claimed 10-80 times as many lives as those in Europe so far

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Green Eggs and Ham: I Told You So

Alt: Green Eggs and Ham: I Told You So

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Ben Schwarz@benschwarz.bsky.social · 3d ago

Australia’s eSafety commissioner buried a report (released Friday afternoon) that shows the under 16 social media ban didn’t tangibly reduce teen social media use, and also resulted in parents tuning out of kids usage. We traded our privacy for no reason. theconversation.com/more-than-80...

Vil du lese en tekst om Elon Musk som _ikke_ har berøringsanganst for det faktum at han er en høyreekstremist? Da har du flaks, for jeg har skrevet den! Les, lik, del og bekjemp fascismen!

Etter 22. juli

Anders Behring Breivik har sonet isolert i femten år. Likevel er ideene hans mer utbredt enn noen gang.

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Tjener banken din på okkupasjonen av Palestina? Det kan du sjekke her: wtools.fagforbundet.no/bank/ Takk til @fagforbundet.bsky.social som har gjort det veldig enkelt å si i fra til banken din at du vil ha en etisk investeringspraksis. Vi trenger ikke å berike oss på folkemord og okkupasjon.

Har du sjekket banken din?

Tjener banken din på okkupasjonen av Palestina?

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Mens Norge bare: Utvikle, ikke avvikle.

Nahel Belgherze@wxnb.bsky.social · 6d ago

Bordeaux, France, has now recorded more days above 40°C in 2026 alone than during the entire 105-year period from 1920 (when observations began) to 2025. This is deeply shocking.

Is clapping illegal in the UK in 2026?

This means Trump and US policies are causing approximately 400 more infants to die every year. The regime in the US is causing so much suffering.

John Erik Sloper @jesloper.bsky.social · 6d ago

"Infant mortality has also steadily climbed. In 2017, at the start of Trump's first term, Cuba had an infant mortality rate of four for every 1,000 live births. That figure climbed to 7.7 in 2024, just before Trump's second term, and reached 9.9 in 2025." www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...

"Infant mortality has also steadily climbed. In 2017, at the start of Trump's first term, Cuba had an infant mortality rate of four for every 1,000 live births. That figure climbed to 7.7 in 2024, just before Trump's second term, and reached 9.9 in 2025." www.aljazeera.com/news/longfor...

‘To play God’: Cuba’s healthcare system collapses under US pressure

As the Trump administration tightens US sanctions, Cuba's healthcare sector struggles with fuel and supply shortages.

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New: LinkedIn wants you to work for free to train their slop-writing models.

Joseph Cox@josephcox.bsky.social · 7d ago

New: LinkedIn just introduced a "seems like AI slop" button. That's literally what the button says. The thought leaders are going to have a meltdown www.404media.co/linkedin-int...

A massive massacre in Gaza’s Al-Rimal neighborhood has left 12 martyrs their bodies torn apart 😱 following an earlier strike in Khan Yunis that claimed 7 martyrs whose screams reached the heavens. Speak up for us; the war continues 😭

It is putting it mildly to describe these people as a death cult.

Just checking, are you hating AI enough? "AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale" futurism.com/artificial-i... #SarahConnorLeadTheWay

AI Companies Are Buying Antique Books, Ingesting Their Contents to Train Models, and Then Destroying Them at Incredible Scale, Even If Almost No Copies Remain

AI companies are quietly obtaining rare books, ingesting their contents, and then destroying them -- even if they're exceedingly rare.

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"Our civilization is characterized by the word ‘progress’. Progress is its form rather than making progress one of its features. Typically it constructs. It is occupied with building an ever more complicated structure." - Ludwig Wittgenstein ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/61...

Middle East Eye (Unofficial)@middleeasteye-rss.bsky.social · last wk.

Palestinian woman delivers stillborn baby after Israeli checkpoint delay, medics say - https://www.middleeasteye.net/live-blog/live-blog-update/palestinian-woman-delivers-stillborn-baby-after-israeli-checkpoint-delay

After The Economist’s interview with Elon Musk, will major media finally reassess how they cover the fascist billionaire? As its editor-in-chief did the rounds saying she was “not a Musk hater,” he was on X calling her a traitor to the West and suggesting she be murdered. Please, have some dignity.

Elon Musk’s tired schtick

Why does the media keep debasing itself for a man who despises them?

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Israel dreper palestinere hver dag. Under en såkalt "våpenhvile". Mens Oljefondet fortsatt dypt investert i Israel og selskap som bidrar til okkupasjon, apartheid og folkemord. Og oppi det hele så omtaler utenriksministeren vår Israel som en "nær venn". Hva skal til for at Norge gjør noe?

Og det fortsetter. Og fortsetter. Og fortsetter.

Hege@hegeherman.bsky.social · 2w ago

Israelske okkupasjonsstyrker og ulovlige bosettere brenner nå palestinske hjem, moskeer, biler, landbruksjord, butikker, og oliventrær over hele Vestbredden. Dette er en statsledet pogrom med formål om å etnisk rense Palestina for palestinere.

TW: terror mot Pride NRK har laget en liste over 8 tidligere angrep mot Pride eller det skeive miljøet. 2 angrep begått av islamistiske terrorister. Begge er navngitt i listen. 2 angrep begått av en ortodoks jøde. Ikke navngitt. 4 angrep begått av høyreekstreme/konservative. Ikke navngitt.

Skulle ønske norsk presse kunne skrive om hvor direkte EKSTREME tweetsa til Elon Musk har blitt de siste månedene, for folk ser på deg som om du er totalt sprø som et knekkebrød hvis du prøver å forklare det til ikke-terminalt-online folk. Han er ikke bare eieren av Tesla lenger.

Snigdha@snig.bsky.social · 2w ago

Tweet from Elon Musk: “Anyone who opposites remigration is a traitor” posted yesterday.

Israelske okkupasjonsstyrker og ulovlige bosettere brenner nå palestinske hjem, moskeer, biler, landbruksjord, butikker, og oliventrær over hele Vestbredden. Dette er en statsledet pogrom med formål om å etnisk rense Palestina for palestinere.

Skal man tro Nettavisen er den høyreekstreme fantasien om etniske massedeportasjoner noe venstresiden er kritisk til og «kobler til rasisme». En kritikk høyresiden visstnok avviser. Dette er journalistikk om høyreekstremisme i 2026.

Gaute B. Skjervø@gautebs.bsky.social · 2w ago

Altså KOM AN

Israel har bombet inngangspartiet til Al Aqsa Martyrs-sykehuset i Deir al Baleh.

Ifølge digitaliseringsministeren vår løses dette best ved at disse kvinnene bare anmelder, og så går gjennom dyre og sannsynligvis ydmykende rettssaker. Så blir det kanskje en dom etter noen år, og «problemet er løst». Forby . Pervobriller. Nå.

Lars-Petter Helgestad@helgestad.bsky.social · 2w ago

Hundrevis av kvinner har uten samtykke blitt filmet av pervobriller og publisert som some-innhold til inntekt for den som filmet. BBCs journalist er en av dem, og hun har snakket med syv andre ofre:

Killing an illegally-present, occupying soldier is verbatim the most legal thing a person is allowed to do under every single international law.

Palestinians are being ethnically cleansed from the west bank as we speak.