Meta has made it repeatedly clear that one of their growth strategies is sexualizing kids. Mark Zuckerberg and his leadership team deserve to face personal liability for this, and the company deserves sanctions up to and including corporate dissolution

WIRED@wired.com · 2h ago

Over the last nine months, Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta has run dozens of paid ads that include explicit AI-generated child sexual abuse material (CSAM) and images of minors alongside sexually suggestive statements, according to details of the ads shared with WIRED.

You could grow a spine and do your damn jobs.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

Cornyn: "There's nothing we could do to rein in the president"

Whitehouse: "Today I think is a sad and embarrassing day for this committee as it looks like on a party-line vote we are going to advance out of this committee probably the most discreditable person ever to seek the office of attorney general. Let's start with the Epstein files ... "

Whitehouse: "The last Q I'm left with is what's left of this committee? What's left when we don't demand straight answers? How many times has this DOJ been asked what became of the $50k the FBI reported it handed to Homan? ... our Republican colleagues see no evil, hear no evil, and speak no evil"

The Dems almost ran Platner, but thankfully came to their senses in time. The GOP seem to have lost not only their senses, but their souls. Defending Miller, approving Blanche…. this stuff is indefensible. And it all flows from the original sin of supporting DTJ, when they all know he’s corrupt.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · yesterday

NN: The abuse allegations against Rep. Max Miller -- Moreno says he should resign, but President Trump disagrees. Do you think Miller should step down? REP. JIMMY PATRONIS: No. I agree with the president. This is a family fight. Unfortunately, divorces are messy. There are two sides to every story.

My lord at this point it’s either incompetence or collusion. any university president who thinks they can “work” with the Trump regime lacks fitness for the job.

McMahon Asks US Colleges to Pledge Campus Reforms by End of 2026

Education Secretary Linda McMahon is sending a letter Monday to the leaders of US universities asking them to commit to a slate of campus reforms by the end of 2026 in the Trump administration’s lates...

bloomberg.com

I know “don’t obey in advance” has become a cliche but it is really appropriate when university leaders are ready to sell out higher ed to appease the Trump administration.

Dominique Baker@bakerdphd.bsky.social · 2d ago

So no I'm not surprised by: "the administration’s latest move was developed in partnership with university leaders, primarily the Association of American Universities, which represents dozens of top research institutions including all eight Ivy League colleges." 🎁 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Dear lord. It’s going to take a long time to undo the damage this administration has done/is doing to our military. If their goal were to increase incidents of moral injury and PTSD among troops, it wouldn’t look any different. I’m so concerned for all who have to serve under such poor leadership.

Carl Quintanilla@carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 2d ago

PENTAGON: Anyone got any ideas? @cnn.com www.cnn.com/2026/08/03/p...

The sitting president of the United States got his accounts closed for money laundering and its barely news 🤯

New from me: Some data points for a MAGA melt-down: *Hardcore Trump loyalists declining *Right wing influencers losing viewers *The Heritage Foundation is rife with dissent and incompetence, with conservatives worried about the pipeline of talent 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/is-maga-me...

Is MAGA Melting Down?

Signs and wonders, portents and data points

donmoynihan.substack.com

✈️🇺🇦 Zelensky: Every year on the first Sunday of August, we congratulate our soldiers of Air Force on their professional day. To our pilots, air defense soldiers, mobile fire groups, radio engineering units, engineers and everyone who does their job so that Ukraine is stronger.

a republican congressman allegedly broke his two-year-old daughter's collarbone and he somehow hasn't been run out of congress. there really is no bridge too far for these ghouls.

‘Platner on steroids’: Max Miller abuse claims have Republicans silently sweating

The Ohio lawmaker denies the allegations as an Aug. 5 deadline to drop off the ballot approaches.

politico.com

RFK Jr is one of those totally unrealistic cartoon villains who’s too obviously monstrous to be believable. Except, somehow, he actually exists.

#OTD in 1943, Sicily. Men from 6 The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, just before entering Centuripe. #WW2 #HISTORY

This is deadass every republican campaign ad here in the south. I'm not even REMOTELY JOKING.

The Republicans have been lambasting the quiet medical professional who guided us through COVID because they prefer the style of this roided up road rage case

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 3d ago

RFK Jr yelling at Dana Bash sounds like a rabid dog barking

I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful

Neoclassical econ assumes rationality. The corollary of, "If you're so smart, why aren't you rich?" is "you're rich, so you must be very smart!" Thus, people assume that if powerful, well-compensated CEOs insist that "AI is changing everything," well then, *AI must be changing everything*. 1/

"Secondhand booksellers across Europe, including in the Netherlands, are raising concerns over AI companies buying large numbers of obscure and often rare books. The alleged intent behind such shopping is to scan and destroy them for AI training."

Rare book dealers fear tech firms are destroying obscure editions to train AI models

Secondhand booksellers across Europe, including in the Netherlands, are raising concerns over AI companies buying large numbers of obscure and often rare books. The alleged intent behind such shopping...

nltimes.nl

The questions are no longer about whether Talarico is ahead and can he win. The answers are clearly yes and yes. Even Fox News now has him over 50%. The question is whether Texas Republicans can successfully suppress enough votes to swing the election. They are taking active measures to do so now.

It's time to start throwing chairs! 💙😎✌️ @dindin6.bsky.social @whatifisaidit.bsky.social @chaserbaybe.bsky.social @bluestormcomin1.bsky.social @abbarsha.bsky.social @carly71.bsky.social @alphacentauri53.bsky.social @hopeful66.bsky.social @bab102.bsky.social @schultziepie.bsky.social

Willa Cather figuring out how to completely savage me from 100 years in the past😭

eileen chengyin chow@chowleen.bsky.social · 4d ago

"When the first of August came round, the Professor realized he had pleasantly trifled away nearly two months at a task which should have taken little more than a week." -Willa Cather (from The Professor's House, 1925)

7 mo into Covid-19 after grueling 24hr caring for child with the disease, who survived. Showered at hosp, returned to office & informed staff, wasn't retiring the next mo, as had planned. Photo of that moment. This is my "diary". Nobody can change the reality of pandemic for those who lived it...

There is a certain level of obtuseness in (some) "AI" apologists when they flounce up to point out what "AI" is good for in science, etc, while eliding the fact that almost none of that use is driving the current market capitalization, environmental degradation and resource hogging of the field

it really bears repeating over and over and over that the child who allegedly had her collarbone broken by her congressman dad is the granddaughter of SENATOR bernie moreno who has refused to stand up for her, or for his daughter who was allegedly abused, too. what a sick fuck.

People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit

"Microsoft warns that consumers aren't buying enough of the thing they don't want."

The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 7mo ago

AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns

THIS. People educated enough in the specific subject to pull the data together don’t need LLMs; people without the knowledge to weed data from the bullshit are at the mercy of the LLM. They’re obsequious Dunning-Kruger machines. Designed to flatter midwits and the technologically obsolete.

Ophie Dokie 🌻@ophiedokie.bsky.social · 5d ago

So, ok, a thing about telling yr audience "i use AI for my info gathering/research but then I look over it and fix any errors" is that you unfortunately told me youve outsourced your knowledge base on this subject to the machine, and therefore I have no reason to believe you CAN catch those errors

Right? This isn't making the argument you think it is, white supremacist

The Trump regime is forced to admit that its account of what happened to the Reflecting Pool was a complete hoax that victimized an innocent citizen. Trump, Pirro and their entire gang are disgusting creeps. They belong in jail.

Charges Dropped Against Ex-Olympian David Hearn Accused of Damaging Reflecting Pool (Gift Article)

A former Olympian will not face trial after federal prosecutors acknowledged that the Trump administration’s claims of vandalism were false.

nytimes.com