@memeorandum@universeodon.comThe administration has detained 400,000 immigrants: What do we know about their children? (Maria Cancian/Brookings)
https://www.brookings.edu/articles/the-administration-has-detained-400000-immigrants-what-do-we-know-about-their-children/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260518/p81#a260518p81
@hex@kolektiva.socialI keep seeing the "cars replaced horses" thing related to "AI."
People keep comparing "AI" to cars (positively) without thinking about the fact that cars were forced on people (AAA bought up and destroyed tram lines, there were massive protests, etc), and are the primary driver of climate change that is currently on track to make complex human society impossible. Meanwhile, cities that weren't destroyed for cars, or that have reversed most of the damage, are some of the most desirable places to live.
Maybe we could take the car analogy as a warning. Maybe it could be a reminder to think about how forcing technology on people against their will can reshape society in a profoundly negative way.
The answer for cities has been to right-size transit. Eliminate cars wherever possible, maintain emergency vehicles and mobility aids, and find more efficient alternatives (bikes, trams, metros, and trains) where possible. I feel as though we can extrapolate from the metaphor.
We do not have to repeat the mistake of reshaping society around a single, oversimplified, solution in order to benefit a tiny minority. Perhaps we can actually choose the right technologies based on use cases, rather than hype or dogma.
Cars didn't replace horses. Cars replaced walkable cities, tram lines and mass transit, and children playing in the streets.
"Cars replaced horses" to the benefit of a small group of elite men, at tremendous cost to literally everyone else. When people say, "AI is the new 'cars replacing horses'" they are saying something very specific about their privilege and intentions.
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom 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
@hex@kolektiva.socialFolks in the US right now: Government secret police are still kidnaping people off the streets. A huge chunk of GDP has been dumped into an unprofitable grift. The entire economy has collapsed, except for the part propped up by building data centers that nobody wants, using loans based on no collateral. Basically the entire upper class have either been actively involved in child sex trafficking or ignored it. The president is a pedophile who started a war he can't win to distract from the fact that he's in the Epstein Files. No one can afford anything. People can't even afford diapers. Do something, or this country is going to explode.
Democrats: What if we elect a guy with a Nazi tattoo?
US Government: What if we crack down harder on the people who are resisting those secret police?
US Cops: What if we murder a baby?
Edit: Adding a CW. There are a lot of marginalized folks who are already overwhelmed and don't need a reminder.
@doktrock@toad.social
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMusk v. Altman: Shivon Zilis testifies her relationship with Musk didn't influence her duties as an OpenAI board member; she left in 2023 after Musk started xAI (Carly Nairn/Courthouse News Service)
https://courthousenews.com/mother-of-m
@servelan@newsie.socialTennessee; First Amendment is just a suggestion, I guess...
A new law bars doctors from asking kids about gender. Allies say it'll harm children & clinics. - LGBTQ Nation
https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2026/06/a-new-law-bars-doctors-from-asking-kids-about-gender-allies-say-itll-harm-children-clinics/
@markhburton@mstdn.social"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
@sherold@mastodon.onlineSometimes it’s truly amazing how things come full circle when you have children. It’s as if time folds in on itself and a distant past overlaps with the present at this exact moment.
https://finest.day/posts/bridging-the-gap
@lapizistik@social.tchncs.deOrdinary school of magic stories are about how some (magically gifted) children – some marked with a lightning bolt – learn how to levitate a stone or turn a frog into an accountant. And then there suddenly comes some evil Warlord they have to fight.
Pratchett is completely different. Learning is not about magical tricks but about responsibility, about becoming a person that can handle these powers. He tells us about a university that is basically fights between professors, and about g…
@cdarwin@c.imDuring the first seven months of his presidency, the administration arrested the parents of at least 27,000 children.
During this period in 2025, the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) was deporting about twice as many parents each month compared with 2024.
The records do not detail how many of these children were detained or deported with their parents, and how many families were split up.
But the data provides one of the starkest views yet of how Trump’s mass depo…
@aral@mastodon.ar.al“Colonialism, warned Martinican author Aimé Césaire, ‘works to decivilise the coloniser, to brutalise him in the true sense of the word, to degrade him, to awaken him to buried instincts, to covetousness, violence, race hatred, and moral relativism.’ The horrors of western imperialism – with its dehumanisation and violence – were, he argued, ultimately redirected into Europe in the form of fascism.” @…
@simon_brooke@mastodon.scotOccasionally I shitpost (mainly about programming languages). Occasionally I make silly jokes, or post trivia about my life. It's reasonable to 'like' ⭐ those things. It tells me you like them, and it doesn't spam other people's timelines.
But most of what I post is very serious and pretty dark. It makes no sense to 'like' the fact that the children of Gaza are being starved. If you think these posts are important and should be shared, then quote, share or b…
@Mediagazer@mstdn.socialA Forbes story about a Louisiana man killing 8 children contained a ForbesPredict box asking readers to predict whether Congress would pass new gun safety laws (Matthew Gault/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/forbes-prediction-market-gamefi…
@yaya@jorts.horsechildren I am deeply sorry for the war crime I'm about to commit (getting up because I really need to pee)
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsBack when the Polish TV introduced the Dragon Ball series (in the late 1990s, IIRC), my parents were perplexed. How could you create a children's animated movie (because obviously animated movies must have been for children) with so much violence?
On the other hand, I'm worried about modern animated series (these formally classified as appropriate for children). They are specifically designed to keep children overstimulated, addicted to nonstop action, thirsty for more.
My brother recently told me that he set a Disney animated movie from the era of our childhood to his children. They simply didn't want to watch it, they found it so boring.
PS. I actually find these modern animations tiresome. I mean, why do things have to move that fast all the time?!
@newsie@darktundra.xyzForbes Prediction Market Gamefies Story About Mass Shooting of 8 Children https://www.404media.co/forbes-prediction-market-gamefies-story-about-mass-shooting-of-8-children/
@Techmeme@techhub.socialMusk v. Altman: Altman testified that in 2017 Musk demanded complete control of a proposed OpenAI for-profit arm, musing that he would pass it to his children (Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-12/altman…
@iam_jfnklstrm@social.linux.pizzaIt'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.
@compfu@mograph.social#Kurzgesagt has a new video about how Germany is doomed because of low birth rate and a soon to be defunct retirement system. So far so good but it's a bit concerning that they beat the "taxes are too high so people don't have children" drum and underscore it with this graph. But the tax rate based on income is a curve! Using a bar graph with 4 income brackets of different wi…
@pgcd@mastodon.onlineParents "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…
@Jaffa@social.linux.pizzaI heard the UK Government's Children's Commissioner on #BBCRadio4 #Today Programme about an hour ago.
I won't get into the #UKPolitics of the discussion (a consultation on …
@bencurthoys@mastodon.socialI have just read more about the Chancellor's latest pissing about with VAT and I've only just digested that the reduced rate will only apply to tickets for actual children, and not as I thought tickets for children's shows.
This is the stupidest thing I have ever heard and I would not be surprised if the cost of administering the scheme were greater than the total savings under it.
@CubitOom@social.linux.pizzaAOC: What does it cost us, and you, as a human being, to look the other way.
What is it costing us, as human beings and as a society to look the other way when women, and children, and innocent people, and young men of promise, are ripped off the street and thrown into a van and dissapeared and you never see them again. There's what that cost to them, but think about what that costs you to look the other way. What does it cost us as a society that starts to normalize looking the ot…
@cdarwin@c.imOn 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 …
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itNo, Autocorrect - I *did* mean "goo", not "too." I'm talking about children here, after all.
@yaya@jorts.horsechildren I am deeply sorry for the war crime I'm about to commit (getting up because I really need to pee)
@paulwermer@sfba.socialThings we should be aware of. And respond to. If you believe children need protection, consider not voting for the #GOP candidate - The GOP could stop this. Instead they enabled it and stay quiet about the harms. Because after all, this really affects vulnerable communities the most.
I’m a critical care doctor. I’ve never seen the US harm its children this deliberately
@PaulWermer@sfba.socialThings we should be aware of. And respond to. If you believe children need protection, consider not voting for the #GOP candidate - The GOP could stop this. Instead they enabled it and stay quiet about the harms. Because after all, this really affects vulnerable communities the most.
I’m a critical care doctor. I’ve never seen the US harm its children this deliberately
@aral@mastodon.ar.alHint: it was never about protecting the children anyway. @… https://social.heise.de/@vowe/116515807603012363
@fgraver@hcommons.socialOh ffs, people, it’s not hard.
The Israeli government is an apartheid regime perpetrating a genocide on the Palestinian people and waging illegal wars against Lebanon and Iran.
No jew can be held responsible for the actions of that government just because they’re a jew. No human being is worth less than any other because of their religious beliefs (no matter how hard the religious extremists of all faiths try to convince us this is so).
@UP8@mastodon.socialBeen up cleaning at Room 23 and returning library books so I took a good look at this bookshelf
#photo #photography #bookshelf
@ddrake@mathstodon.xyzThe classic metaphor for introductory computer graphics is the turtle -- the point on the screen is thought of as a turtle, and you tell the turtle to turn, move, and so on.
My understanding is that the turtle metaphor was the one used by folks who worked on teaching basic computer programming to children in the late 60s and early 70s (Seymour Papert and others).
But why *turtles*?
I read about Elmer and Elsie the other day:
@marcel@waldvogel.family"Nehmt den Kindern nicht noch die letzte Gelegenheit, rumzuhängen und sich auszutauschen"
https://alecmuffett.com/article/160943
@fanf@mendeddrum.orgfrom 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
@aral@mastodon.ar.alRE: https://mamot.fr/@joosteto/116526059100315093
It must be done. It’s about protecting children.
I’m afraid pens in general might have to go.
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caAOC is an ‘extreme' leftist, yet the current Republican administration is doing this.
"Back home in western France, Ross says she cannot forget the women she left behind — most of them from South America, many separated from their children.
“If I ever had the chance to speak about them, I would do it,” she said. “To help them.””
Make it make sense.
#USPoli #Authoritarian #TheAmericanFascist #
https://www.africanews.com/2026/05/12/85-year-old-french-woman-describes-ordeal-in-louisiana-ice-facility/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
@cdarwin@c.imAnthony 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…
@hex@kolektiva.socialSo one of the authors is Nicholas Carlini, who works for Anthropic. This is basically an ad for the three letter agencies to use Claude. It massively over-promises compared to what the actual paper says.
But, it is important. First, this is really about silencing people. The threat of identification is designed to make people afraid to talk online. There's a massive asymmetry between the fascists and the people. The fascists are weird racists and pedophiles who are obsessed with control. No one likes them. No one likes their ideas, because their ideas are creepy and bad.
When they talk about their ideas, that people should be murdered or kidnaped based on their skin color, that there should be a national dress code, that people's sex lives should be monitored, that children should be treated like objects that are owned by the parent (specifically, one parent), that people with different skin color or uteri should be considered as livestock, people fucking hate it because it's awful. When we talk about our ideas, that everyone should be able to eat and take care of themselves, that people who can't take care of themselves should be taken care of, that we should live in a society that values life, that we should live in harmony with nature, people like those ideas. When fascists out us for talking about those ideas, people support us. When we out people who are working as fascist goons those people have to face social consequences.
Everyone hates these people. The US government is currently less popular than it has ever been. The only way they can keep power is by making everyone think that they aren't extraordinarily unpopular. The only way to do that, the way authoritarian have always done it, is to make everyone afraid to talk.
But, yes, what this paper is saying is actually kind of bad. It looks like people who don't take any precautions at all in separating identities can be identified about 30% of the time (based on the results). It's unclear how this will actually work in the real world. Larger corpses will probably have more data, making connecting things easier.
This isn't as good as a human trying to dox someone. It's not going to work as well. It may only work in a small number of cases. There will be false positives (just like there are with people doing the work). It's probably not cheaper than hiring people. But it does mean that you can just dump money into a machine that has no ethical framework and get data out. That's the point. It's hard to find humans who will do evil shit like help dictatorships target human rights activists, but if a machine can do it for twice the price then it's a better deal for the dictatorship.
For most people, you just shouldn't care. This isn't for you. As long as you keep doing what you're doing, and you can keep everyone else doing what they're doing, then there aren't enough resources to actually target you. Even if they know who you are, there are just too many people who hate them and too few goons.
For people who might actually be targeted, there are a lot of things. First, keep in mind what you're putting into anonymous accounts. Any feature that's connected to your real life is a feature that can be extracted to identify you. This has always been true, it just may be easier to find now. Your identities should be totally siloed. It's also harder to identify you if you're writing anonymously as a collective. Collectives are better anyway because they can help check your thinking. When you write as a collective, you can help clean up each other's personal details and language. A collective develops its own voice, which is distinct from individual contributors. If you do this, and you also present your work as being from one "person," then it becomes even harder for anyone (systems or individuals) to really figure it out.
I'm not going to do a full deep dive on this because I just don't have time, but your existing threat model should *already cover these threats* if you need to make sure your writing remains anonymous.
This paper doesn't present any novel methodologies. It just extracts a bunch of features, which a human would extract as notes, and tries to correlate those between identities, which is how human researchers work. Linguistic forensics were mentioned (not by name) in the paper, but the actual methodology doesn't actually seem to use them.
So a thing with less ethics can do a worse job for more money (when adjusted for the real, not investor deflated, price of tokens). It's worth knowing. It's not the end of the world, but it is a good reminder to check your threat model and make sure it's up to date.
@andres4ny@social.ridetrans.itThis 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.imMeta 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…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSource: 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…
@lapizistik@social.tchncs.deTIL¹: witr² – Why is this running?
An interactive TUI that shows all the details about processes, their resources, environment, parents and children. Like ps, htop, lsof, ss etc. combine for a process-centered view.
I installed the forky Debian package³ on Debian trixie and it just works.
I played around with it and immediately liked id.
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¹ok, technically it was yesterday. Thanks to @…
@markhburton@mstdn.social"...it is not just about sentencing. Proven sexual offences by children rose 47 per cent in 2023-24 and have kept rising: evidence from the Children’s Commissioner tying this to universal access to online pornography cannot be ignored.
/Cont'd.
Child rapes are on the rise — we must understand why to address that | Morning Star
@brichapman@mastodon.socialWant to boost climate action? Talk about health, not just polar bears.
New research across Brazil, India, Japan, and South Africa found that 80% of people support government climate measures when they understand the health risks—from extreme heat to mental health impacts to children's vulnerability.
It's personal, urgent, and cuts through political divides.
@cdarwin@c.im"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
@mgorny@social.treehouse.systemsA long time ago, when I was still going to school, I often thought about some class or other: "What's the point of this? I'm just wasting time on stuff I won't ever need. And my grades are going down because of it." So I supported all these bright ideas like having schools work the curriculum out with the industry.
Nowadays, I know better. The purpose of school is not to produce ready-made employees. It's to give people a wider perspective. Perhaps they won't use most of what they learn there, perhaps they'll have bad memories of some classes, but that doesn't really matter. What does matter is that you learn how to learn, how to reason, how to think.
I hate what's been happening to schools lately. They are becoming conveyor belts: we throw children on them, throw specific knowledge at them and see what sticks, we do exams and classify them. We expect to get a thoughtless laborer at the end, someone ready to take a specific job immediately.
A human whose only purpose in life is mindless labor and mindless consumption. Metaphorically, someone who's just going to spend their time off by drinking beer in the front of the TV and breeding more babies. Babies who will eventually become more cogs in the machine, fueling the infinite growth, trying to prevent this mindless system from falling apart.
#AntiCapitalism
@newsie@darktundra.xyzCity Learns Flock Accessed Cameras in Children's Gymnastics Room as a Sales Pitch Demo, Renews Contract Anyway https://www.404media.co/city-learns-flock-accessed-cameras-in-childrens-gymnastics-room-as-a-sale…
@Techmeme@techhub.socialSeven families of victims in the Tumbler Ridge shooting in Canada sue OpenAI, accusing it of failing to warn authorities about the suspect's ChatGPT activity (Clare Duffy/CNN)
http://www.cnn.com/2026/04/29/tech/openai-tumbler-ridge-canada-shooting-lawsuit…
@hex@kolektiva.social- 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.)
@Techmeme@techhub.socialPope Leo XIV presents his encyclical on AI, calling for regulation of AI companies, protection for children against hypersexualized AI images, and more (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/25/world/europe/pope-leo-encyclical.html
@cdarwin@c.imThe 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…
@chris@mstdn.chrisalemany.caHorrendous.Russia’s war machine on the brink of collapse. Only Trump’s sanctions relief is keeping the money and drones flowing at this point. Women and children stolen from Africa being used to manufacture.
“The Alabuga Special Economic Zone in Russia’s Tatarstan region is the primary production site for the Geran family. The factory operates around the clock and has sought thousands of workers, primarily young women and girls — some as young as 15 — recruited from Africa. About 200 African women, mostly between 18 and 22 years old, are employed at the facility, with documented reports of workers describing the conditions as a trap, with costs for accommodation, airfare, and Russian-language classes deducted from their wages. In July 2025, multiple reports — including a documentary by the Russian defense ministry’s own Zvezda channel — indicated that Russia was using children and teenagers to assemble the Shahed drones used to attack Ukraine.”
#russiaUkraineWar #russia #usa #TheAmericanFascist
