@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2026-07-21 20:01:06
Scottish pro-Palestine activist arrested for reading poem about Gaza. In a threatening way...
https://www.thenational.scot/news/26290837.scottish-pro-palestine-activist-arrested-for-reading-poem/
@Sustainable2050@mastodon.energy2026-07-21 20:01:06
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.it2026-06-21 01:35:35
This is a Very Good Comment. https://bsky.app/profile/roguesecunit.bsky.social/post/3mor6tjz7rk2m
The rest of the alt-text:
"...I bring this up here is because of a quote from her mother: “The option of a single-user restroom did not resolve her dist…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-21 14:46:47
The Trump administration’s cuts to the largest global H.I.V. program last year resulted in sharp drops in both prevention efforts and treatment for the people most at risk from the disease, according to the first large survey of organizations that had received the funds.
The findings show a grimmer picture of the impact of the cuts than the State Department’s data, released in April,
which seemed to suggest that the program had helped to treat about as many people last year as it…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scot2026-08-19 20:13:29
Layan Ayoub's (@…) latest blog post is heart rending and powerful, about the fate of the orphans of the #GazaGenocide .
The suffering of so many children is the most heartbreaking part of this whole evil crime.
@matthiasott@mastodon.social2026-08-19 13:46:38
“Gather ’round, children. Let me tell you about the Dark Mode Toggle Wars…”
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-21 17:06:13
The attack on a girl’s elementary school in the Iranian town of Minab was one of the US military’s deadliest civilian bombings in decades.
But nearly four months on, the Pentagon has produced no answers about why the military fired a Tomahawk cruise missile into a school on the first day of the war,
killing at least 175 people,
mostly children.
Some critics doubt that the Pentagon ever will, or will bury the results under classifications to keep the worst mistakes se…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-09-15 12:13:49
“Ed Sheeran had an opportunity show that we won't be bullied into punishing people for supporting Palestine. Instead he caved to people who refuse to accept what the world knows. A genocide is happening in Gaza. We all need to speak out against it.”
– Ms. Rachel (source: https://www.instagram.com/p/DdR1LH3gYBP/
@StephenRees@mas.to2026-07-19 17:06:53
From The Conversation
Where else can you peer into the labs and lecture halls of Canadian researchers and academics, who draw on their life's work to explain what being sedentary does to your body, why male chimps repeatedly throw rocks at trees and how the international legal order has collapsed?
We share their vast expert knowledge to educate Canadians so they can make informed decisions about politics, their health, the environment, the education of their children and the…
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-09-11 15:11:09
Meta says it is making changes to prompts suggested by Meta AI after a viral video showed it posing invasive personal questions about a woman's young daughters (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/993974/meta-ai-prompt-invasive-suggestions…
@markhburton@mstdn.social2026-07-13 07:56:54
"The PM-in-waiting is being urged to take children out of unsuitable temporary accommodation"
https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/andy-burnham-you-said-simply-34232711
@scott@carfree.city2026-08-14 23:21:36
I cannot believe how good this novel is. Elias Khoury was a genius. It’s about the parallels between Palestinians and Jews, how both were victims, seen through a Palestinian orphan who passes as Jewish in Haifa and New York, but you should read this even if you’re uninterested in/tired of that topic because it’s simply brilliant literature.
@doktrock@toad.social2026-07-16 14:20:58
@Dragofix@veganism.social2026-07-29 09:56:13
A Tunisian phosphate plant that sickens children so US, Europe can get fertilizer https://news.mongabay.com/2026/07/a-tunisian-phosphate-plant-that-sickens-children-so-us-europe-can-get-fertilizer/
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social2026-08-13 15:02:02
From The Guardian, August 13, 2026. Stories related to an article about a boy catching a piranha:
- Trump administration targets children amid push to ‘deport at all costs’
- Family to sue after woman released from ICE custody froze to death
- Arizona lake closes indefinitely to visitors after all of its fish die
I guess the AI is becoming smarter, and more sarcastic and cynical.
@adamhotep@infosec.exchange2026-09-19 18:16:46
#uspol HT @…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-07 15:59:30
Trump administration required to pay $65 million owed to lawyers of unaccompanied migrant children
A federal judge ordered the Trump administration to pay about $65 million in overdue invoices to nonprofit organizations that provided legal representation to unaccompanied migrant children facing deportation.
U.S. District Judge Araceli Martinez-Olguin ordered the Department of Health and Human Services to release the funds by noon Friday, Pacifc time.
Immigrant rights advo…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-09-13 07:30:40
“The IDF listens to all Gazan phones, so they know where people are and whether children are home. They know who’s in an apartment just before the missiles hit, and they hear the screams after the explosions. They even coined a phrase – ‘Where’s Daddy?’ – to describe listening in on a child’s phone, determining when their father will be home, and then sending a missile to kill them all. As one solider matter-of-factly says about a 12-year-old, ‘You hack her phone, and then you kill her.’”
@Mediagazer@mstdn.social2026-09-09 16:40:34
Florida AG sues Netflix, alleging it misleads parents about how it collects data on minors and harms children with features that lead to binge watching (Kimberly Leonard/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/09/florida…
@iam_jfnklstrm@social.linux.pizza2026-07-02 09:09:39
It's not uncommon that I piss and moan over work - but today i realized that it's acctually a great work. This week I've been finishing a PBI dashboard, written a report about AI in health care and now I'm writing a scientific article about the need to involve relatives in the treatment of substance use in children and young adults. How can I be so ungrateful to moan about that? So today I'll change perspective and celebrate a great job.
@pgcd@mastodon.online2026-06-28 06:28:12
Parents "protecting" their children are a big part of the reason we're in this shit.
Parents tell "white lies" about their own health, and the result is people who'll say "she was fine until yesterday, now she's dead because of doctors!"
They use vague stories instead of the blunt truth about predators, and we get roblox.
They wave away the horrors of Nazism, and we get, well, Nazis.
Children must be protected from bastards, not f…
@grumpybozo@toad.social2026-08-03 21:43:17
Listening to NPRATC, a Frank Langfitt story about the “Charney Sibs” who are *dozens* of biological children of a single fertility doctor.
Many of them are doctors. Multiple OB-GYNs & at least one urologist, Also, many accomplished academics.
It really makes me wonder about the nature of heredity. These people didn’t grow up in a random sample of households, they grew up with parents who could afford the best fertility doctor in Philly. So this isn’t evidence really. It jus…
@outer@mas.to2026-09-01 17:09:19
Here's an new YouTube history channel by Chris Green, “The History Chap”.
https://www.youtube.com/@StoriesFromBritishHistory
Perhaps this channel will include more stories about women, and other subjects not well represented in western mainstream history. The 1st one&…
@fanf@mendeddrum.org2026-07-05 14:42:04
from my link log —
A flawed idea is teaching millions of American kids to be poor readers.
https://www.apmreports.org/story/2019/08/22/whats-wrong-how-schools-teach-reading
saved 2019-08-25
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-09-09 16:41:03
Florida AG sues Netflix, alleging it misleads parents about how it collects data on minors and harms children with features that lead to binge watching (Kimberly Leonard/Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/09/09/florida…
@ubuntourist@mastodon.social2026-08-13 15:02:02
From The Guardian, August 13, 2026. Stories related to an article about a boy catching a piranha:
- Trump administration targets children amid push to ‘deport at all costs’
- Family to sue after woman released from ICE custody froze to death
- Arizona lake closes indefinitely to visitors after all of its fish die
I guess the AI is becoming smarter, and more sarcastic and cynical.
@arXiv_csHC_bot@mastoxiv.page2026-08-12 08:20:59
ResonaVis: Visualizing Interactive Music Data to Support Reflective Music Composition for Therapeutic Contexts
Abhishek Karwankar, Elise Ruggiero, Daniel Stevens, Matthew Louis Mauriello
https://arxiv.org/abs/2608.10338 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2608.10338 https://arxiv.org/html/2608.10338
arXiv:2608.10338v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: Designing music for therapeutic contexts requires navigating complex relationships between musical structure and listeners' sensory responses, yet composers often lack structured representations of these interactions, relying instead on intuition. We present ResonaVis, an interactive visualization system that helps composers analyze interaction and audio data from prior sessions with children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), informing future compositions. ResonaVis integrates audio features and interaction logs to capture how children engage with layered musical compositions, representing this engagement through coordinated visualizations of temporal transitions, layer co-occurrence, rhythmic activity, and spectral characteristics. Rather than prescribing strategies or supporting therapy sessions directly, the system surfaces patterns in past session data to support data-informed reflection during composition. We evaluated ResonaVis through a mixed-methods study with eight music students and a follow-up case study with two experienced composers. Results demonstrate good usability (SUS = 72.23), exceeding benchmarks for early prototypes, and show that participants could identify interaction patterns, reason about layer relationships, and make informed compositional decisions with high perceived performance and low frustration. Confidence in interpreting interaction and acoustic data for ASD-focused composition increased significantly across multiple dimensions (p < 0.05), with qualitative findings suggesting a shift toward more adaptive, data-informed composition. This work contributes a visualization design space for therapeutic music interaction data, an integrated system for compositional reflection, and empirical evidence that visualization tools support analytical reasoning and confidence in data-informed creative practice. (Abstract shortened for arXiv.)
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@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-08-16 23:32:08
Just finished reading "The Beast Player" by Nahoko Uehashi. I had already watched the anime, but it had been so king I didn't remember all the details. While the anime was great, the book is even better, and it's going to be high on my list of things to recommend to my children when they're old enough to read for fun.
The neurodivergent representation is cool, as is the deep central question of interspecies bonds and the political possibilities and dangers they entail. Uehashi handles the exploration of that question well in my judgment, including appropriate ambiguity without muddying moral clarity. Elin is a truly fantastic protagonist, not without flaws but nevertheless a excellent role model and a very sympathetic figure without being pitiful.
One thing I really love about Uehashi's writing is that she's not shy about using interior narration to tell the reader directly what a variety of characters are feeling, but when she does this she focuses on human contradictions, quirks, and weaknesses that make those characters feel much richer, and that remind the reader of all the ways our weird and sometimes contradictory or inexplicable quirks guide our actions just as much as both logical thought and predictable/expected feelings. None of the characters is an unerring source of wisdom, with every grand principle presented shown to have its weaknesses and biases, and even the wisest characters making mistakes and learning from them.
Overall, a wonderful book, and having also seen the "Seirei no Moribito" anime but not read the books, I'm excited to dig into more of Uehashi's extensive catalog.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
@edintone@mastodon.green2026-09-04 17:48:38
RE: https://social.sciences.re/@PatrickRerat/117207993277425560
The attachment is in French, but well worth using your browser's translate feature to read it if you have any concerns about children's declining independence and
@detondev@social.linux.pizza2026-07-27 00:49:52
As a kid, I read a children's book about codes and ciphers and cryptography which featured something I'm very confident was from vintage pulp fiction series The Shadow. I've looked for this shadow a few times over the years and never found it, despite how seemingly easy it sounds to look up. Any of yall got this
@cdarwin@c.im2026-08-02 17:26:27
The Trump administration is no longer offering due process protections to the most vulnerable immigrant children
-- as it tries to increase the number of deportations,
according to a lawsuit filed this week on behalf of six children,
five of whom reside in Allegheny County.
“This case is about the most vulnerable in our immigration system:
abused, abandoned, neglected, and trafficked children,”
the opening lines of the lawsuit read.
“One would assum…
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-06-27 04:21:26
- Formal code of doctrine and discipline
This is just "what your objectives are." It can be as simple as ULC's "Do That Which is Right" or it can be much more complicated. You would figure that out with your group.
Personally, I would choose something like, "make life as easy as possible for caretakers." I've talked about this in the past. If you focus on care taking then you are feminist by default, you help everyone *at least once*, almost everyone twice, and most people 3 or 4 times:
- Children with supported caretakers do better
- Elderly people with supported caretakers will have a better quality of life
- Parents always need help and will do better when they have it, and the more kids the more support they need
But hey, I'm not here to tell you what to do. You can figure your own things out. (Technically, that last sentence could also be a legitimate formal code or doctrine, so we can move on.)
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-07 14:49:33
On the Fourth of July, the Trump administration's new savings accounts for children went live.
These ‘Trump accounts’, created as part of the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, are ostensibly supposed to help families pay for college and other expenses.
But Guardian columnist Moira Donegan says these accounts are really the work of the pronatalist movement,
which wants women to have as many babies as possible
– and is backed by powerful rightwingers such as JD Vance …
@Techmeme@techhub.social2026-06-30 03:56:09
Source: the Trump administration has talked with SpaceX about donating shares to Trump Accounts, which provide children with tax-advantaged savings accounts (Semafor)
https://www.semafor.com/article/06/29/2026/spacex-us-government-dis…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al2026-07-28 07:31:21
They’re suffering through genocide, you sick fuck. @… https://social.vivaldi.net/@NetscapeNavigator/116987165992050985…
@cdarwin@c.im2026-06-27 23:47:44
Anthony Scaramucci,
— who lasted about eleven days as Donald Trump's communications director in 2017,
says he finally understands a children's story that puzzled him as a boy
— thanks to the man he once worked for.
In a post shared with his followers, the former White House aide turned vocal Trump critic offered a blunt assessment of the president's fitness,
writing that Trump "is not well and he's probably too old for the job."
Sc…
@memeorandum@universeodon.com2026-08-11 11:05:39
He Says Obscene Things About Mothers and Children. Mike Johnson Is Raising Money for Him. (Michelle Goldberg/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/08/10/opinion/brandon-herrera-republicans.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/260811/p13#a260811p13
@servelan@newsie.social2026-08-22 05:50:30
The Guardian view on Trump’s MMR executive order: endangering the children he claims to care about | Editorial | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/aug/20/the-guardian-view-on-trumps-mmr-executive-order-endangering-the-children-he-claims-to-care-about
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-01 16:22:43
"Belgian Malinois are loving and patient with the children from their own family,” says Orvis.
“They should always be watched around kids, however, because these herding dogs will try to wrangle children who get unruly.”
Well, someone should.
https://www.orvis.com/belgian-malinois.html
@cdarwin@c.im2026-07-08 05:51:46
Meta is facing $1.4 trillion in damages in a social media addiction case brought by four states.
Thirty-three states have banded together to sue Meta,
alleging that the company was exploiting its young users on Instagram and Facebook for profit,
including by collecting data from children without parental consent.
Four of those states—California, New Jersey, Colorado and Kentucky—also claim that the company misled consumers about the addictive design features on the pla…
@hex@kolektiva.social2026-08-08 11:00:57
There is a conversation to be had here about "comprehensibility." Big tech understands money. Huge capitalist organizations have spent years adapting to markets that dominate everything. They have learned how to ruthlessly destroy competition. They have learned how to take the massive amounts of money they can siphon from society and use it to manipulate political systems. They bent the world to their will, until there was nothing to stop them from destroying it.
But here we are, our lives now threatened by their continued existence. At a certain point, it doesn't matter how much money they can pay you if your house will burn down, your water will dry up, your food won't grow, and your children will cook. At a certain point, free isn't cheap enough to make their continued extraction of our data worth it.
At a certain point we need to do things that are *incomprehensible* to those still operating within capitalism and the captured political systems.
@tiotasram@kolektiva.social2026-08-26 16:24:32
Just finished "Rialto" by Kate Milford. A wonderful book with a *lot* of things to like but also a few I wish had been done differently.
Starting with the good stuff, an #OwnVoices portrayal of anxiety depression is always welcome, *especially* one that portrays positive coping strategies, including active therapy, and complex but ultimately supportive family dynamics. Dad & daughter each reminding each other to use calming strategies at different points in the book was lovely, and getting to see the complexities of the trying to be a supportive sibling was great! Larger than that aspect, portraying a YA adventure in which the parents are actively involved but don't spoil things is so great and must have been difficult to pull off. Most YA stuff quickly ushers the parents out of the picture, and this fails to provide any kind of positive or negative role model for parent/child interaction. This book had ample examples of the former, *and* let the kids have plenty of agency too. Excellent stuff that I absolutely want to see more of.
So what didn't I like?
First, as an anarchist, I always hate to see unapologetically positive (and thus drastically unrealistic) portrayals of the police. Without getting into spoilers, even the stuff about the Piepowder court bothered me. It's presented here as a cutesy alternate court tradition, but I can't help but speculate that these courts were likely not always fair in practice, and the whole "single person makes immediate judgments model" from this book is terrible in general. I just don't like positive portrayals of terrible systems that happen to be good because the people involved are good people, since they reinforce harmful positive mental models of "justice" that don't apply to the real world. This element wasn't enough to totally spoil the book for me (the plot could have mostly functioned without it) but it's a downside to me.
Second, the book is set in rural Missouri, and has plenty of Black characters. Yay for representation? Certainly better than the cast being all-white given the setting. But the book doesn't have any Black *culture* that I picked up on, and it chooses to try to completely sidestep the relevant history. Maybe I'm just not attuned to elements that were there; if anyone who read this did see them feel free to point them out. The history definitely isn't there though... for example, was the park segregated, or not? During the time it was active one imagines most parks would have been, and that if it hadn't been that would have been a very important difference, which would even have been relevant to the plot and themes of the book as written.
Now perhaps this critique is unfair because Black children and young adults *should* get to see themselves portrayed in cozy fantasies without things always having to be about racism... In a choice between erasing Black characters and erasing racism (and especially racist histories) maybe there's no right answer here and this is fine, actually. My instinct tells me that there are ways to do better, though, and that presenting a history with all the racism carefully elided isn't the greatest compromise to make here.
A while ago I read "Under the Heron's Light" by Randi Pink. It also has mythical animal guides, a Southern setting, helpful family members, a multi-generational mystery to solve, and a (slightly older) teen protagonist who is up to the task. In contrast, it is all about racist history, and takes us through multiple extremely harrowing scenes from the past.
In any case, this discomfort also wasn't a deal-breaker for me, in part because, as I said, I think it's probably good for Black children to see uncomplicatedly positive representations of people like them alongside the plenty of stuff out there that does get deep into the racism and history. I also don't have the best perspective to judge this stuff, although that doesn't mean I should default to "it's probably fine" (I'd be happy to hear from anyone who feels they have a better perspective on this, about this book or the trend in general...).
Overall, I enjoyed Rialto quite a lot. I don't think it quite makes it into my top tier of recommendations for my kids, but I think it does make the list somewhere.
#AmReading #ReadingNow #Bookstodon
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.ca2026-08-05 20:29:10
This is so incredibly good it deserves to be reproduced in full: 😆 🔥 😆
“Carney pointed to a map of North America, half of which had been accurately but artistically burned away.
“It is our intention for the pipeline to cross over Saskatchewan and British Columbia, but if they prove too charred already then I plan to divert the pipeline and profits through the Northern states, as part of my next round of capitulations to Trump in CUSMA negotiations.”
Danielle Smith, smiling so wide that many in the audience naturally assumed she was thinking about forcing trans children to dig the pipeline infrastructure themselves, stated that she fully supported the project being moved up before her province was so full of smoke it couldn’t exist anymore.
“This is a great day for Albertans, and none of the rest of you traitorous fucks,” Smith stated, flipping off any reporter who looked like they were from east of her province. “The sooner this gets done, the sooner I can start looking for new ways to hurt endangered wildlife and complain about how no one ever gives Alberta anything.”
#carney #canpoli #cdnpoli #abpoli #climatechange #bcwildfire #endfossilfuels #traitor #theAmericanFascist #trans
https://www.thebeaverton.com/2026/08/carney-vows-to-fast-track-west-coast-pipeline-before-entire-west-coast-burns-to-the-ground/