“Meta stalled internal efforts to prevent child predators from contacting minors for years due to growth concerns, and pressured safety staff to circulate arguments justifying its decision not to act.” www.reuters.com/sustainabili...

“Meta shut down internal research into the mental health effects of Facebook after finding causal evidence that its products harmed users’ mental health, according to unredacted filings in a lawsuit by U.S. school districts against Meta and other social media platforms.”

The Great Recession wiped out one career path, and I accidentally fell into another one in tech while that was still possible.

Slowly turning into a rabid positivist, but specifically for things like vaccines, antibiotics, and medically assisted births. Lots of subjectivity (and bad medicine) out there, but if you advocate for anti-vaxx or wild births or whatever, you at minimum should get banned from all social media.

This is one of the worst, most horrifying exposures we have ever seen. It is hard to overstate how bad the things that people are using tools like for are, and it's insane to pretend like these tools are anything other than nonconsensual porn machines www.404media.co/ai-porn-secr...

AI advocates have warned that if every author in the class action filed a claim, it would "financially ruin" the entire industry.

So there’s a lawyer going around BlueSky right now responding to everyone talking about the Anthropic book settlement by (1) urging people to opt out and (2) saying that they are representing authors who are opting out.

I think this helpfully confirms the notion that the end of the filibuster was a big motivator for the eight Dems.

CLAIM: The government is run by a secret society of pedophiles RATING: FALSE. This society is in no way a secret

Australia's opposition party just dropped its target to eliminate greenhouse gas emissions, specifically citing the 'abundance agenda' www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...

So just to be clear, the arc of this evening went: - it’s not happening, you’re stupid to believe this is happening - okay so they’re talking about it, but it’s not actually going to happen - okay so it’s happening and here’s why that’s good, actually

Kyle Kingsbury is not a journalist. He is not an op-ed writer. He is a computer safety researcher. And he has written one of the most compelling, comprehensive accounts of the ongoing hell in Chicago that you could possibly imagine. In under 1600 words. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

I don't think I want to hear the phrase "low social trust voter" ever again. They certainly exist and exist for many different reasons, but it's pretty clear that one of the reasons they exist is because a lot of politicians, elites, and systems are just not very trustworthy.

Just a quick reminder that not only is "rotating villain theory" vindicated, but it's something the Dems will happily deploy over and over again in a fairly visible way.

Important to understand this. There's a reasonable chance that your Dem Senator who voted against it and is acting mad now was in on the play. It's the same reason why they scheduled the surrender for AFTER the election this week. They didn't want people pissed at Dems right before an election.

“authors & publishers who filed a lawsuit against the Sam Altman-led firm have secured access to internal Slack messages… discussing the mass deletion of a pirated books dataset… A NY district court ordered OpenAI to hand over the communications regarding data deletion” futurism.com/artificial-i...

So it turns out... the US air travel system was incredibly, deeply dependent on federal funding to just run day-to-day all this time, to the benefit of private airline shareholders, when everyone thinks that state-run trains are leeching off the government. Weird!

In central MD alone, ICE is rapidly contracting: - AI skip tracing - AI face recognition - Cell tower spoofing vehicles - Signal exploitation equipment - 6 months of MREs for detainees - Detainee transport vans - Device cracking & data exploit firms

Panera’s moderately caffeinated lemonade was loosely associated with 2 deaths before it was taken off market. This article alone has 4 examples of ChatGPT encouraging young people to commit suicide, and OpenAI’s own public stats estimate over a million users discuss suicide with ChatGPT each week.

Triple-A games from 2010's ass look.

This great thread raises some questions worth thinking over: 1. Is all electricity demand equivalent, or should grid policy distinguish between demand that provides essential services (e.g. hospitals) and demand that doesn't (e.g. computers mining crypto in air conditioned warehouses)?

They made a fifth European Union?

A family friend was telling us about what her husband shared about his experience in Broadview before he was deported back to Mexico. She's been sharing to friends and family because she's just in disbelief & horror what her husband told her. She wasn't able to talk to him until he was in Mexico.

I helped make a film, out this week, called “Rovina’s Choice,” about the deaths this man without conscience or accountability has caused — already 600,000, ⅔ of them children.

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

The whole of the internet is now run on the things that would have not made it past your email junk filter 20 years ago.

I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day. certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.

NEW: Exxon funded efforts to spread climate denial across Latin America, @geoffdembicki.bsky.social reports, "according to hundreds of previously unpublished documents that reveal a coordinated campaign to make the global south 'less inclined' to support the UN-led climate treaty process."

This is an insane analysis given that green energy initiatives explicitly bring down the price of electricity. EV incentives are popular, etc. This is just not related to reality in any way.

Again, this precise use case is why these systems exist-to proliferate people’s racist (transphobic, misogynistic…) imaginary at scale. This should not be seen as a “misuse” but rather the product being used exactly as intended.

We're seeing a massive institutional deportation and state violence apparatus being built and it honestly feels like people dont grasp the sheer scale of it and what already is in place. For every horrific video of masked feds kidnapping people there are so many people pushing paper to help.

One of the primary goals of the Democratic party should be (biased) political education, both at local and national levels. Difficult or impossible to do functional politics otherwise.

As I've said many times, you can't build the mass deportation apparatus without first building the police state apparatus.

We take no joy criticising a young left-wing UK political figure who has often spoken up for workers' rights and progressive causes. But these barely coherent comments from Zarah Sultana on Ukraine sum up much of what is wrong with her wing of the left www.instagram.com/reel/DQT62ys...

The tragic thing about stuff like this is that we already have some prospective cures for cancer (mRNA vaccines) that we're actively destroying. AI isn't merely a bad technology in itself, it's actively working to undermine other viable tech.

At the food pantry I volunteer at we were absolutely swamped today and by many first timers. We ran out of whole categories of food. Please donate cash to your local organization if you at all can.

I think one other thing AI (and robotics) is going to do is destroy or degrade a lot of safety-valve/survival jobs (warehouse work, uber/taxi/truck driver, shelf stocker, data entry, temping and customer-facing jobs of all kinds), which will compound other downward pressures on labor

A few quick reflections on where the tech industry is at: - Have now worked almost every weekend for so long that I can't remember when I didn't work a weekend. Most of my coworkers also seem to be doing the same. As the labor market collapses for various reasons, only see this getting worse.

New: a $60 mod to Meta's Ray-Ban glasses disables the privacy LED light. This is supposed to light when people are filming with the glasses. We bought the mod, verified it works. Now you can never be sure whether someone wearing Meta Ray-Bans is filming you or not www.404media.co/how-to-disab...

At some point it has to become clear that this tech exists is to create a more toxic society and enrich its owners. These uses are not aberrations but rather the entire purpose.

Google will build a natural gas power plant and capturing the CO2 emissions. Sounds good, right? One hitch: carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) hasn't exactly lived up to expectations, and that's before we start talking about methane. techcrunch.com/2025/10/23/g...

The “energy transition” has started to sound a little like “late capitalism” newrepublic.com/article/2008...

Chatbots have an impact specifically on the brains of bosses and managers that ought to be subject to an entire new field of social science www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

I really think people are underestimating the degree to which 21st century politics are going to be apocalyptically bad; we are collectively sliding towards mass ethnic cleansing being the norm in the Western World, out of no reason but pure fucking spite and empty nostalgia.

Fuck me if this doesn't lead to massacres.

BREAKING from PP We found immigration agents have held more than 170 *citizens* The govt doesn't track citizens held. So we did. We tallied: Nearly 20 kids, two w/ cancer More than 20 citizens held for day or more, incommunicado www.propublica.org/article/immi... by @nicolefoy.bsky.social

Scott Leiendecker who acquired Dominion Voting Systems last week vows to make the systems 100% domestically programmed. But Dominion has long had programmers in Serbia & Canada. Does this mean he'll rewrite all code written by foreigners? I took a deep dive into implications of the acquisition

This is cool after the war on everything called “porn” by platforms and payment processors. A machine that stole all your words can generate and sell “erotica” but you can’t haaa

RIP to Drew Struzen, the greatest to ever do it. 🙌

my latest investigation for @consumerreports.org is based on months of reporting and 60+ lab tests of leading protein supplements we found that most protein powders and shakes have more lead in one serving than our experts say is safe to have in a day (🧵) www.consumerreports.org/lead/protein...