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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That account that reposts messages that people were blocked over is a terrible addition to the bluesky ecosystem because it turns what should be a personal user safety interaction into a public spectacle (made possible only b/c blocks are public, which is also an anti-safety design).

Remember when Republicans were yammering on about mandated use of social security numbers being “mark of the beast” gov overreach. Now we’re blazing into mandated “upload your face scan everywhere” while some very profitable businesses still don’t take all basic credit cards as a form of payment.

If SCREEN were to pass, you'd be required to scan your face and upload an ID to access this site because it allows "harmful" material. This affects you even if you don't care about sex work or porn.

404 Media@404media.co · yesterday

Mike Lee's SCREEN Act, which heads to Senate Commerce Committee for markup on Wednesday, would expand age verification requirements to a nearly limitless scope of websites, and is supported by the architects of Project 2025.

3-4 I think (based off of how I like my Expresso) 4 3

Jeremy Bearimy@satyric.bsky.social · 16h ago

4 4 4 yes, i have trouble eating steak in restaurants because for some reason everyone equates raw with superior or manly, but my body will not eat that texture

PS I’ve noticed that if you complain about enshittification of any kind on this platform you immediately get condescending reply guys saying “well, you shouldn’t be doing XYZ” or “simply move all your work to ZYX”, as if we should be obediently dancing around this shit rather than calling it out

When disabled people/many people who work on disability/health pointed to the dangers of this kind of framing since COVID, they were usually mocked ("oh you think everything is eugenics") or ignored. But normalising the idea that the deaths of disabled people are desirable/reassuring is dangerous.

The New York Times@nytimes.com · 2d ago

Breaking News: Two deaths in Michigan have been linked to cyclospora. Both people who had the parasite also had underlying health issues.

When people die and the media says they had “pre-existing conditions”… they’re pacifying the public. Anyone could die from Cyclosporiasis, but they want you to believe it can’t happen to you. It can only happen to the weak, the disabled, the elderly. The expendable people. Eugenics.

Two Deaths Linked to Cyclospora Outbreak in Michigan

The patients had “significant underlying health conditions” that may have contributed to their deaths, health officials said.

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The NIH has quietly dropped its loan repayment program for researchers doing health disparities research and for researchers from disadvantaged backgrounds. As an LRP awardee who had six figures in medical schools loans, I know how transformative this funding can be. Losing this funding will…

For the love of fuck, all of us folks in marginalized communities who are endlessly stalked on, slandered on, and eventually run off of every other motherfucking social media platform on Planet goddamn Earth would love to be left alone for FIVE FUCKING MINUTES.

I keep saying this - there are plenty of ways to do age verification without requiring people to give up their privacy online. The fact that governments insist on methods that require you to give up your privacy shows that "making people give up their privacy" was always the real point.

bisaknosp@bisaknosp.bsky.social · 2d ago

Most people voluntarily give up their full name and pictures of their face on Facebook, Instagram, Linkedin, etc! The government can very easily verify someone's identity anonymously, meaning without the website knowing who was verified. Australia just didn't implement this.

An initiative on the ballot in Washington state in November would require all athletes seeking to play girl's sports from kindergarten to high school to undergo "genetic screening, a testosterone-levels test, or an examination of their reproductive anatomy" before they can play

Is everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.

General Motors streetcar conspiracy - Wikipedia

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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...

More than 80% of kids still using social media despite ban, new eSafety report finds

The report provides more evidence Australia’s world-leading social media ban isn’t going to plan.

theconversation.com

Dieser Blödsinn lässt sich übrigens durch Evidenz ganz leicht wieder legen. Das erfolgreichste Land pro Kopf bei Olympischen Spielen ist Norwegen m gerade einmal 5,6 Millionen Einwohner_innen. Zauberformel ist Breitensport. Norwegen ermöglicht es allen Kindern verschiedene Sportarten auszuprobieren.

Christian Eichfeld@ceichfeldleipzig.bsky.social · 2d ago

Der ganze Bullshit neoliberalen Populismus in einem Tweet, der übrigens genauso gut aus dem FDP -Parteipräsidium stammen könnte. #Leistungsfetischismus

Yes! Epistemic injustice is exactly what this is. Decades of falsifying the testimony of tens of thousands of people too unwell to defend themselves from the slander.

Long Covid Kids@longcovidkids.bsky.social · 3d ago

Recommendations for journalists to counter epistemic injustice in reporting Long Covid and similar conditions. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC... #Journalists #LongCovid #Children #Childhood

A simple (-ish) station for testing the health effects of partial gravity, and a later expansion #lego #space #spacecraft #spacestation #spingrav

I watched as much of Miller's "rebuttal" as I could stand. Let's just say the man comes across as a full-blown creep. I'm not sure if it will backfire per se. I'm sure most people believed the accusations. The only real question is if they care. And mostly, Republicans don't care.

Same time wildfire is breaking records in Spain, France, England, and right after poison air levels broke records across North America

Sanho Tree@sanho.bsky.social · 4d ago

“Chevron just announced its highest quarterly earnings ever. Shell clocked its second-highest quarterly profits. And while ExxonMobil's profits came in beneath what Wall Street analysts had expected, it still managed to double its earnings compared with this time last year.“ Tax them into oblivion.🤬

Bernie Moreno reminds you that Dr. Fauci deserves prison, but the guy who abused & terrorized his daughter needs psychological help.

Daniel Schulman@danielschulman.bsky.social · 3d ago

Sen. Bernie Moreno (R-Ohio) just tweeted that his ex-son-in-law Rep. Max Miller (R-Ohio) "needs serious psychological help." Read @abbyvesoulis.bsky.social blockbuster investigation that broke the Miller story wide open www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

like, these were already swirling around independent of each other, but people drew connections, like, "HEY BRO you claim to care about children and imaginary threats like 'vaccine injury' but not real threats like actually physical and psychic injury cased to your own child and grandchild"

Things I and friends have done to calm an angry abusive man from further escalating and killing us or our children: -Smiled -Kept normal schedules in order not to trigger a fight -Appeased with kind acts (cooking, cleaning, favors) -Forced friendly tones and words

The Bulwark@thebulwark.com · 3d ago

Rep. Max Miller: "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?"

If you ever feel you have imposter syndrome, read this. These people, the "smartest people in the busuness", had seen years of Trump's behavior and they still fell for it. Incredible. And every one probably believed he wouldn't do to THEM what he does to everyone else.

Covid lockdowns demonstrated, in a deeply imperfect way, the possibility of large-scale social solidarity for a higher cause. That is a prime reason why so many powerful people want us to run screaming away from them into the comforting arms of selfish individualist competition.

Obscure Apollo Applications Program designs: Astronomy Interferometer Inflatable Relay Satellite X-ray Telescope Geosynchronous Communication Antenna (more details below)

abolitionists were armed. The Panthers were armed. You do not need to flatten movement history to make a prudential point and then demonize anyone who criticizes you as a walmart arsonist

This is particularly maddening. If a YouTube creator has posted sexy content ANYWHERE - for an unspecified definition of sexy - then they can lose their account, their income, possibly their career, without appeal. I like (some) sexy content. Probably you do too. Why do the prudes get to rule?

Sam Cole@samleecole.bsky.social · 5d ago

YT spox told me they want to be clear on why creators were banned. it's the links out to other site that contain "sexually gratifying" content, not their content ON YOUTUBE. I had some follow up questions:

Finally, part of the politics of technology involves the decision making processes that determine whether a given technology will be adopted and who is involved in that decision making process and to what end. Winner notes that inequitable politics result in the imposition of a technology on people.

Also, one of the crucial insights of Winner's paper (beyond its use as a framework to demonstrate the politics of technology) is that technologies aren't neutral objects: they are ways of building order in the world. And they do this not just through their effects, but through their politics.

In it, Winner describes two forms of "inherently political" technologies: technologies that require a certain social arrangement (or politics) for their functioning and technologies that are strongly compatible with a certain social arrangement (or politics) for their functioning.