Notably that Mark Zuckerberg reportedly apologized to the government of India over CSAM ads running in that country. The ads @wired.com covered ran below in the US, UK, and several EU countries: www.scmp.com/news/asia/so...

Zuckerberg apologises to India over child sexual abuse content on Meta platforms

The Meta Platforms ⁠CEO also apologised for deepfake content and operational ‌lapses on the company’s platforms, according to a report.

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Andrew Couts@couts.bsky.social · 52m ago

NEW: Dozens of ads containing video and other child sexual abuse material ran across Meta’s social media platforms, including some as recently as yesterday. @mattburgess1.bsky.social has the scoop: www.wired.com/story/meta-r...

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Oisín McGann@oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 5d ago

I'll be running a 6-week course at the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social in Dublin in September on writing science fiction and fantasy. Check out the details on their website if you'd like to join me in my discussions about making stuff up. irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/writ...

'You'll choke too' - an aerial embroidery landscape inspired by all the wildfires happening right now... I'm upset every time I smell smoke outside and somehow we have people starting them maliciously too! But we all breathe the same air so they'll choke too (1/2 - see thread for close-ups)

Random thought: Since faces and fingerprints are regularly used to access devices, are they included as personal data protected by GDPR? if so, can surveillance photos and automatic facial recognition be considered a breach of that privacy?

I tell this to everyone who has a biometric ID on their phone

SeasonalPun@pixelfish.bsky.social · last wk.

Just as a heads up, passwords are protected in legal situations, like when police or customs wants to “just see” your phone, but biometrics are not.

These mediocre, bland, business-as-usual managers are going to lip service us into a full-on climate catastrophe that we won't be in any way prepared for.

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 3h ago

Climate Act curbs could be considered to avert infrastructure ‘paralysis’, Chambers says

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Oisín McGann@oisinmcgann.bsky.social · 5d ago

I'll be running a 6-week course at the @irishwriterscentre.bsky.social in Dublin in September on writing science fiction and fantasy. Check out the details on their website if you'd like to join me in my discussions about making stuff up. irishwriterscentre.ie/courses/writ...

Pregnant women receive six hospital & GP visits over the course of their pregnancy. But after the baby is born, the level of support falls away dramatically. Our investigative team would like to hear about your experiences of post-natal care in Ireland. jrnl.ie/7118604

Have you experienced any mental health challenges after birth? We want to hear your stories

Supports for women fall away dramatically after giving birth – we want to know what impact this is having

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Brown University has a widget that tracks the cost of the Iran war to American consumers (as contrasted to whatever the Pentagon is spending). Per-household cost now exceeds $600. iranwarcost.watson.brown.edu

this is a stunning thing to say

I am amazed at how quickly people seem to have forgotten how to function without a technology that didn’t exist a couple of years ago

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

If you’re turning your house into a heavily fortified castle, it’s because you believe your enemies are inside your borders, not outside them.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 19h ago

Trump: “The very complex and expensive structure, being built for the Military, at the White House … Also rising is the desperately needed Ballroom, something which former Presidents have wanted for 150 years, which sits under the elevated DronePort, and is paid for by Patriots — No Taxpayer Money!”

Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media

Often people ask "why should I care?" when a company is in financial trouble. Sony is desperate, spider man is the only IP they have left, they needed the new film to succeed, BMW & sony negotiated a LOT of cross promo money, like hell they both aren't gagging to get ther money's worth.

Giant candy bags are called "Share Size" so you'll open up to your therapist that you ate it all

A year ago today. As resonant now as then.

News Eye@newseye.bsky.social · last yr.

This is amongst the most impactful two minutes of broadcasting I’ve ever seen. By Emma Murphy, International Editor, ITV News. #Gaza

Had an incredible interaction with a guy over the weekend who went to see The Odyssey and told me he was pissed that Elliott Page played Achilles, a character Elliott Page did not play that was not in the movie

Filming the Rodger Young bridge at the Battle of Klendathu. A rare opportunity to see how a camera movement, combined with a play of moving lights, enhances the sense of motion.

ME: And another thing, It should be called a buycycle when it's in the shop and a bicycle when you get it home. MY KIDNAPPER: *crying* Omg we let you go two hours ago

There were two different performances, apparently. I suppose every culture deals with trauma in its own way.

CSketch@csketch.bsky.social · 22h ago

Oh my god I think I found the video.

{𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘂𝗹𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗽𝗿𝗶𝘀𝗼𝗻𝘀} Wow, we should abolish prisons for everyone {𝗿𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗰𝗮𝘂𝗹𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗮𝗴𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗰𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁} Wow, we should abolish prisons for everyone except Michel Foucault

This should be much bigger news

Gail Waldby ❌👑@gailwaldby.bsky.social · 2d ago

It Appears That the US Military Accidentally Killed Everybody on Board a Civilian Medevac Flight in New Mexico #Hegseth #USMilitary futurism.com/science-ener...

That "men should be allowed, without judgement or consequence, to do an amount of harm to women and girls that I personally deem acceptable" seems to be a genuine opinion still held by too many people in the year two thousand and twenty six is incredibly grim

“War”. What “war”? It’s a massacre, a genocide, a slaughter of defenceless civilians, including tens of thousands of children & babies, doctors, nurses, teachers, journalists sanitised by “balanced” media reporting of Western media outlets. Was Auschwitz a “war” too? www.rte.ie/news/2026/08...

Mass funeral held in Gaza for family killed during war

In a cleared plot of land between buildings flattened by airstrikes in Gaza City, row upon row of Palestinian flags were laid out neatly over the remains of dozens of people to be buried.

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Artificial intelligence is fueling more than half of cybercrime in Africa, enabling criminals to launch faster, more sophisticated attacks as financial losses continue to mount, a new study found

AI Now Fuels Over Half of Africa’s Cybercrime, Study Finds

Artificial intelligence is fueling more than half of cybercrime in Africa, enabling criminals to launch faster, more sophisticated attacks as financial losses continue to mount, a new study found.

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Imagining generals across the services taking missiles and weapons systems and reclassifying them as humanitarian aid so Hegseth doesn't waste them all on Iran

I just saw a dude argue that Christopher Nolan has created the most interest in The Odyssey that has ever existed in history and please, someone hit me with a tranquilizer dart that will allow me to sleep through next year’s Oscars. Please. I can’t take it.