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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I feel like this would be a great introductory shot of the small town boyfriend in a Hallmark movie.

Arrived at the family cabin in northern Michigan. As always, the drive was too long, the lake is the perfect temperature, and my family is nutty but adorable.

After Act I of Jesus Christ Superstar the man seated next to me said to his companion, perplexed, “I thought there would be roller skating”

Library pro tip: never go in without locking the emergency stop. If the lights are motion activated and you’re alone, they will definitely turn off if you’re in there, someone will come in and assume sensibly that there’s no one there. Ask my busted ribs how we know!

alix e. harrow@alixeharrow.bsky.social · 19h ago

i don't like to police genre, but it's not dark academia unless somebody gets squished in one of these bad boys

Exactly. This is where theory is so helpful as a lens. (This is adding to not contradicting OP) So if you have a critical feminist lens, you understand that these are both the same project of marginalizing women and maintaining a binary that (white, cis, straight, wealthy) men are in charge of.

Dag.@3fecta.bsky.social · yesterday

12 year old girls get genital inspections "for their safety" while wife beaters get endorsed for re-election. This whole protecting women and girls thing is a bit confusing.

My editor asked me to write about what happened to summer:

We launched a war on nature. Now we are in a climate warzone | Rebecca Solnit

Summer is not what it once was. We have been robbed of one of life’s great joys

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bring back shame www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

How Can We Live Together?

Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.

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A.R. Moxon@juliusgoat.bsky.social · yesterday

Everywhere should be a hostile place for Republicans. They should not be able to find a friend anywhere. They should lose all their professional and familial relationships. They should be blocked from signing up to social media platforms, clubs, and yard sales. They should be ejected from fairs.

People have asked: Isn't it a good thing for people to elect their judges? 1. Not necessarily. Republicans want to buy judges. Look at what happened in Wisconsin. Republicans spent 100 million dollars to try and win supreme court seat. They lost. But $100 million, 20 of them from Elon Musk. Bad.

Imani Gandy@angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 2d ago

So Kansas votes tomorrow on whether to elect its Supreme Court justices. In 2022, Kris Kobach said doing exactly this would let Kansas “slowly and quietly” put anti-abortion judges on the court. Now it’s on the ballot. If you know somebody in Kansas, they should know this is going on.

these Flock cameras are absolutely loathsome and incredibly dangerous. we must remove them from our society.

Drew Harwell@drewharwell.com · 3d ago

New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo

I'm really glad that ESPN got rid of a talented and knowledgeable dude like Ryan Clark so they could pay a sleeveless punter more money so Aaron Rodgers could be on TV complaining about Dr. Fauci. What the absolute fuck is wrong with everyone

El-Sayed Looks Set to Trounce Stevens talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/el-sa...

El-Sayed Looks Set to Trounce Stevens

Tomorrow is primary day in a number of states. Michigan is the...

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Another frightening move by the Trump Administration.   This is wrong, it’s punitive and excessive, and it tells you everything about Trump’s ICE agents think about Haitians who came here legally. We will fight this. www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2...

Haitian immigrants report to Ohio ICE office, exit with ankle monitors

Haitian residents reported to an Immigration and Customs Enforcement office in suburban Cincinnati where at least 2 people were given ankle monitors.

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Every vote to confirm Todd Blanche as attorney general is a vote to continue the coverup of the Epstein Files.

Here's an excerpt -- read the whole column and tell me what you think

And this is at the same time that even people who can afford food are noticing how incredibly expensive it has become. I bought a bag of frozen peas last night that cost $4.79. I think the last frozen peas I bought were two dollars less than that. It's shocking.

Dennis M. Taylor@dmt4mt.bsky.social · 2d ago

More than 4 million people are no longer receiving food aid after sweeping changes to SNAP - NPR apple.news/AP6h88UCKQTW...

None of us is more important than a Palestinian child being bombed by Israel, or a Sudanese woman being assaulted by the RSF, or a Congolese child being enslaved so you can use a smartphone and AI, or an immigrant being tortured in ICE detention, or a detainee in Riker's who can't afford bail.

I worked for New York’s largest medical center at the start of the pandemic. There were morgue trucks on the streets. They set up emergency medical tents in Central Park. Healthcare worker colleagues died. It is horrific that RFK Jr is on national TV lying that ICUs were empty.

You’ll all have fun!

Zoë Sahay@drsdesk.bsky.social · 3d ago

Winnipeg! @colsonwhitehead.com is visiting our one-of-a-kind city for the first time on Tuesday. Let’s show up and support these types of events in our Canadian cultural hot-spot! Tickets available here: www.eventbrite.ca/e/an-evening...

Watching some mid streaming murder series and the fact that a woman’s voicemail box is full was used as an actual best — like, full mailbox = possibly dead — and I was like, oh boy, should I be worried about myself & my friends?

The Times does this a lot.

Clara Jeffery@clarajeffery.bsky.social · 3d ago

Abby was the one that broke open the Max Miller story (and shame on NYT for not acknowledging that). Here is her original story: www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

No better example how broken US politics is than nuclear power Nuclear is outrageously expensive, wildly unpopular & totally unreliable in our new climate Yet both Dems & GOP are rushing to dump billions into it because tech billionaires think it’s manlier than wimpy (cheap, reliable) solar & wind

Palma Polyak@palmapolyak.bsky.social · 4d ago

Hungary's new government is tested very early. Paks nuclear plant is about to go offline for the first time in 44 years because the Danube is drying up. That's nearly half the country's electricity. Collapsed supply & gas prices spiking throughout the region. Just brutal. apnews.com/article/hung...

The Republican Party has gone full mask-off Nazi; meanwhile the media narrative being pushed 24/7 is “ahhh! Democrats are being taken over by socialist radicals!!” and their terrifying examples are Miss Rachel, a doctor who wants you to have healthcare, and the friendliest mayor in American history.

hammancheez@hammancheez.bsky.social · 4d ago

Party that spent the last decade grooming and funding and encouraging blind nazi ideologues to run for office and government positions : uh oh

Words to live by: "I want to be an honest man and a good writer." James A. Baldwin, born on this day in 1924

New: We found 50 cops who misused Flock cameras and other license-plate readers for personal purposes, often to spy on their girlfriends or ex-wives. He "watched every single move I made. ... Who do you turn the chief of police in to?" wapo.st/3S6rTuo

She left her ex. He secretly tracked her through a network of policing cameras.

Flock’s array of license-plate cameras was built to fight crime. But at least 50 law enforcement officers were charged with or accused of misusing it and other systems.

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Omg

Eric Alterman@ericalterman.bsky.social · 3d ago

www.blackcatholicmessenger.org/slaves-and-s...

'Slaves and slave owners': Pope Leo XIV speaks on his genealogy in new interview

The pontiff more fully acknowledged his family history in response to a question about his connection to the U.S. as the first American Pope.

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Goddammit.

Chad Loder@chadloder.dev · 4d ago

The diarrhea lettuce company, Taylor Farms, uses slave labor contracted from the Arizona Dept. of Corrections. The backbreaking labor is often performed by imprisoned Mexican nationals who would be otherwise ineligble to work in the US. They are paid $1.50 an hour.

casualties of language

finally, the Democratic party has a plan.