Siobhan O'Flynn
@sioflynn.bsky.social
Canadian Studies UofT. 🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦 Kids' data privacy, AI & policy; Social AI, Ghostbots, Griefbots; Digital Humanities, Digital & Geolocative Storytelling; Game Studies. T'karanto, Treaty 13
@pivotpod.bsky.social @karaswisher.bsky.social Have you seen this? ZERO surprise. Just a whole new low in Zuck shirking safety/duty of care for minors for 💵💵💵 Cc @profgalloway.com (on August break)
Siobhan O'Flynn@sioflynn.bsky.social · 2h agoCharge Zuck. Charge Meta with distributing CSAM. Charge every employee anywhere near this CSAM “ad content” Criminal not civil lawsuit. www.wired.com/story/meta-r...
Charge Zuck. Charge Meta with distributing CSAM. Charge every employee anywhere near this CSAM “ad content” Criminal not civil lawsuit. www.wired.com/story/meta-r...
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.
wired.com
Booker: "Ghislaine Maxwell is sitting in the lowest possible confinement after giving no information that helped us get one more investigation started and has been silent, and the man responsible for that we're about to make the attorney general of the US ... this is farcical."
The Social Media Victims Law Center filed the complaint v. Meta, TikTok, Snapchat & YouTube "on behalf of four families from Texas, North Carolina, Minnesota and Tennessee whose children died over a 14-month period starting in July 2024 through September 2025." www.pbs.org/newshour/nat...
Social media companies sued over deaths of 4 teens amid rising pressure over child safety
The families of four teenagers who died by suicide are suing Meta, TikTok, Snapchat and YouTube over what they describe as “years of escalating harms” from using their platforms that eventually result...
pbs.org
Study Finds Most Americans Can't Find Where They Are Being Deported On Map
Exactly what I was thinking posting these
Guardian US@us.theguardian.com · 5d ago"A president without a moral compass and advisers whose true north is the extreme right, helming a government with unparalleled legal, technological and financial resources, can implement...political repression that Joe McCarthy...could not have dreamt of," writes @judith-levine.bsky.social.
The audience for pro-Trump content has fallen from its heights and, for some creators, has reached new lows, a New York Times analysis suggests. Views are dropping for many of President Trump’s greatest allies. nyti.ms/3TLV4TV
I can't stress enough what a crisis this is. Trump's own intelligence agencies concluded that Iran attacked Minnesota's critical infrastructure and Trump is saying that it's Minnesota's own fault and denying it was Iran. The federal government won't defend blue states in a literal war.
U.S. Sees Iran as Likely Behind Cyberattack on Minnesota Water Systems (Gift Article)
Investigators cautioned that the assessment was preliminary. There were no indications that any water supply had been rendered unsafe to drink.
nytimes.com
Carney: "Everybody wants to do more with Canada, except the United States." #cdnpoli
If I was a historian, I might be writing on 🇺🇸 under McCarthyism, the Red Scare and now.
This InfoWars caper is going a little too well. We need to staff up a bit. We're hiring a Social Media Lead, who will help make InfoWars the network of the future. We need someone who is extraordinarily online, has big ideas for how things break through in 2026, and can pull those ideas off quick.
Social Media Lead, InfoWars at Global Tetrahedron
jobs.gusto.com
Must read. In yesterday's class on Stuart Hall's Encoding/Decoding, we decoded attacks on lab-grown meat & the intersection of red meat, liberty, & masculinity in 🇺🇸 right-wing discourse, FLA legislation, & I Will Not Eat the Bugs memes that originated on 4Chan www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
The Masculinity Scam
The manosphere’s campaign strategy
theatlantic.com
The perfect merger. From Zuck’s TheFacebook ranking women to invasive Meta RayBan videos today. 2+ decades of Non-Consensual tech innovation.
Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · last wk.Jeffrey Epstein models Zuckerberg's Meta glasses. Spoof advertisements featuring the paedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein wearing Meta’s AI glasses have been installed at bus stops across London in a guerrilla campaign protesting against privacy risks. The activist group Everyone Hates Elon
Well done Mississauga. This is exactly what Toronto should do. “Councillors in Mississauga, Ont., voted Wednesday in favour of a data centre moratorium while the city studies their impact” www.ctvnews.ca/toronto/arti...
Residents seek moratorium on Toronto data centres, as Mississauga approves pause
Some Toronto residents are demanding a one-year moratorium on two proposed data centre projects, as a neighbouring city has voted to block any such new developments for a year.
ctvnews.ca
I’m so confused …? What ? Why ? Must search
@missusvee.bsky.social · 7d agoBecause you don’t save, Mr Deasy said, pointing his finger. You don’t know yet what money is. Money is power. When you have lived as long as I have. I know, I know. If youth but knew. But what does Shakespeare say? Put but money in thy purse.
From Moby-Dick to House of Leaves and the endless corridors of the Backrooms, Peyton Mills explores how existential horror has evolved alongside humanity's deepest anxieties, transforming the unknown from the natural world into the digital spaces we now inhabit. 👻📽️📚💻 nighttidemag.com/2026/07/29/m...
FORM DOESN’T FOLLOW FUNCTION: HOW THE BACKROOMS UPDATE AN ANCIENT EXISTENTIALISM FOR A DIGITAL AUDIENCE
From Moby-Dick to House of Leaves and the endless corridors of the Backrooms, Peyton Mills explores how existential horror has evolved alongside humanity’s deepest anxieties, transforming the…
nighttidemag.com
SpaceX-owned xAI, the developer of Grok, sued Minnesota AG to challenge a law coming into effect in the state that will ban "nudify" apps, use of these AI image generators to make non-consenting intimate images, aka AI deepfake porn of real people including minors. www.cnbc.com/2026/07/28/s...
Elon Musk's xAI sues Minnesota over law to ban 'nudify' apps
Elon Musk's xAI, now owned by SpaceX, is challenging a law that would ban so-called nudify apps in Minnesota
cnbc.com
"Musk spends a large part of his free time fomenting violence and spreading the same hateful ideology that motivated some of the deadliest shootings and attacks ever to happen on American soil. It is that fact ... that ought to define his place in public life."
Opinion | Elon Musk Is a Menace to Society (Gift Article)
Why does the owner of X get a pass for what he says and does there?
nytimes.com
“.. The Cybertruck sold one-sixth of Musk's 250,000-unit annual projection and posted the steepest sales decline of any U.S. EV nameplate in 2025.” @yahoofinance.com $TSLA 247wallst.com/investing/20...
