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“William C. Robinson, a pastor working for Chi Alpha Campus Ministries in Corpus Christi, received 10 years probation after sexually abusing an underage family member [for years].”
Probation? Sounds about white… He molested his own relative and the court ordered him to take parenting classes! Unreal.

PASTOR PLEA DEAL: Pastor who sexually abused child for nearly 7 years receives probation
As part of the deal, William C. Robinson was given 10 years deferred adjudication, avoiding jail time.

Child Speech Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction: Problem Solved?
Ruben Janssens, Eva Verhelst, Giulio Antonio Abbo, Qiaoqiao Ren, Maria Jose Pinto Bernal, Tony Belpaeme
https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.17394

Child Speech Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction: Problem Solved?
Automated Speech Recognition shows superhuman performance for adult English speech on a range of benchmarks, but disappoints when fed children's speech. This has long sat in the way of child-robot interaction. Recent evolutions in data-driven speech recognition, including the availability of Transformer architectures and unprecedented volumes of training data, might mean a breakthrough for child speech recognition and social robot applications aimed at children. We revisit a study on child spee…

Florida Lawmakers Pump the Brakes on 'Unborn Child' Bill After Alabama IVF Decision (AJ McDougall/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/florida-lawmakers-pump-the-brakes-on-unborn-child-bill-after-alabama-ivf-decision
http://www.memeorandum.com/240227/p97#a240227p97

Criminals Are Weaponizing Child Abuse Imagery to Ban Discord Servers https://www.404media.co/criminals-are-weaponizing-child-abuse-imagery-to-ban-discord-servers/

More than 13 thousand children became orphans More than 13,000 children have been granted the status of an orphan or a child deprived of parental care since the start of the large-scale invasion,’ sai Source : https://uacrisis.org/en/ponad-13-tysyach-ditej-staly-syrotamy…

New child-raising challenge: making any number of truths compatible with what the kindergarten teacher said (or the child thought she said). My training in Neoplatonism comes in very handy these days.

🔊 Auf radioeins läuft...
Kate Bush:
🎵 The Man With The Child In His Eyes
#NowPlaying #KateBush
https://open.spotify.com/track/4xjVfArXNQRxAvsUpjmfMt
https://magnumsextendedmixesv3.bandcamp.com/track/kate-bush-the-man-with-the-child-in-his-eyes-magnums-extended-mix

“William C. Robinson, a pastor working for Chi Alpha Campus Ministries in Corpus Christi, received 10 years probation after sexually abusing an underage family member [for years].”
Probation? Sounds about white… He molested his own relative and the court ordered him to take parenting classes! Unreal.

PASTOR PLEA DEAL: Pastor who sexually abused child for nearly 7 years receives probation
As part of the deal, William C. Robinson was given 10 years deferred adjudication, avoiding jail time.

When generative AI isn’t busy generating child pornography it’s busy generating fake children’s books.
All hail the magical ouroboros!

DYNASTY`S CHILD EPISODE 185: Sara Sanchez
#FantasyBaseball #DynastyGuru

17,000 newly minted “WCNSF”: wounded child, no surviving family in Gaza.
No hospitals, no orphanages, no food.
Israeli rage combined with American support amid truly enraging.

[csa]
A Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed by Moms and Stalked by Men https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/22/us/instagram-child-influencers.html?unlock…

A Marketplace of Girl Influencers Managed by Moms and Stalked by Men
Seeking social media stardom for their underage daughters, mothers post images of them on Instagram. The accounts draw men sexually attracted to children, and they sometimes pay to see more.

Robotising Psychometrics: Validating Wellbeing Assessment Tools in Child-Robot Interactions
Nida Itrat Abbasi, Guy Laban, Tamsin Ford, Peter B Jones, Hatice Gunes
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.18325

Robotising Psychometrics: Validating Wellbeing Assessment Tools in Child-Robot Interactions
The interdisciplinary nature of Child-Robot Interaction (CRI) fosters incorporating measures and methodologies from many established domains. However, when employing CRI approaches to sensitive avenues of health and wellbeing, caution is critical in adapting metrics to retain their safety standards and ensure accurate utilisation. In this work, we conducted a secondary analysis to previous empirical work, investigating the reliability and construct validity of established psychological question…

WTAF? 🙀 This 13-year-old was one of Australia's best junior bull riders. Then her brain started bleeding: And it’s her seventh major concussion in three years.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-30/cowgirl-concussion-bull-r…

Dancing with bulls
Ruby was told she had a 75 per cent chance of dying if she kept riding bulls. She liked those odds.

moreno_sociograms: Moreno's sociograms (1934)
Relationships between pupils in a classroom. A directed edge exists if the source wants to sit next to the target. Each child can only choose two others.
This network has 33 nodes and 64 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted
https://ne…

I ❤️ this. When I read it, I immediately thought of “failed adoption.” That’s the term hopeful adopters use when they’ve “matched” w/ a “birthmother” while she’s pregnant, & she then changes her mind about relinquishing. A mother deciding to raise her child isn’t a fail. That baby gets to stay w/ its mom. It gets to hold on to its identity, its family, its heritage & ancestry. That’s a family preserved. & this adoptee calls that a win. A success.

Saxnot (@saxnot@chaos.social)
Attached: 1 image Full transcript in image description. #meme

heh. LinkedIn decided it was a good idea to ask my "expert opinion" about #Blockchain.
Oh you sweet summer child...

BuzzFeed signs an agreement licensing the UK and Ireland operations of HuffPost, Tasty, Seasoned, and BuzzFeed to the Independent, which ~30 staff will join (Benoit Berthelot/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

The Independent Takes Control of BuzzFeed UK and HuffPost UK
BuzzFeed Inc., once the poster child of disruptive online media, will hand what remains of its UK and Ireland operations to British news business Independent Digital News & Media Ltd. in a long-term licensing agreement.

After puberty (apx 14 ) no one is a child. We used to respect that. Sometime in the late 90s, however, teens got reclassified as children. It is nonsense of course, but everyone in the US seems to believe it. Relegating teens to child status is abusive.
https://youtu.be/12J1f0Zqaqw

The Rule of link functions on Binomial Regression Model: A Cross Sectional Study on Child Malnutrition, Bangladesh
Md Mehedi Hasan Bhuiyan
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17948

The Rule of link functions on Binomial Regression Model: A Cross Sectional Study on Child Malnutrition, Bangladesh
Link function is a key tool in the binomial regression model defined as non-linear model under GLM approach. It transforms the nonlinear regression to linear model with converting the interval (-\infty,\infty) to the probability [0,1]. The binomial model with link functions (logit, probit, cloglog and cauchy) are applied on the proportional of child malnutrition age 0-5 years in each household level. Multiple Indicator Cluster survey (MICS)-2019, Bangladesh was conducted by a joint cooperation …

Has anyone actually seen a child bite an ankle?

When generative AI isn’t busy generating child pornography it’s busy generating fake children’s books.
All hail the magical ouroboros!

Hey #javascript coders, how do you call a function prototype’s constructor function from within another constructor function?
Example:
function Parent(a) { this.parentValue = a; }
function Child(a, b) {
// Call Parent(a), how? <—
this.childValue = b;
}
Object.setPrototypeOf(Child.prototype, Parent.prototype);
I know, I know, use `class`. But I’m c…

Meta, Google, OpenAI, child safety group Thorn, nonprofit All Tech Is Human, and other AI groups sign on to an initiative to add new child safety measures (Deepa Seetharaman/Wall Street Journal)
https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-developers-

Russian attack on Kharkiv Oblast town kills 12-year-old child: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/27/russian-attack-on.html

WTAF? 🙀 This 13-year-old was one of Australia's best junior bull riders. Then her brain started bleeding: And it’s her seventh major concussion in three years.
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-03-30/cowgirl-concussion-bull-r…

Dancing with bulls
Ruby was told she had a 75 per cent chance of dying if she kept riding bulls. She liked those odds.

Inspect and refine PATH env variable on both #Windows and #Linux.
it shows your PATH env variable line by line with numbering, comments and color. Note that neither justpath nor any child process cannot change your shell PATH directly.

EXPLORA: A teacher-apprentice methodology for eliciting natural child-computer interactions
Vanessa Figueiredo, Catherine Ann Cameron
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.17264

EXPLORA: A teacher-apprentice methodology for eliciting natural child-computer interactions
Investigating child-computer interactions within their contexts is vital for designing technology that caters to children's needs. However, determining what aspects of context are relevant for designing child-centric technology remains a challenge. We introduce EXPLORA, a multimodal, multistage online methodology comprising three pivotal stages: (1) building a teacher-apprentice relationship,(2) learning from child-teachers, and (3) assessing and reinforcing researcher-apprentice learning. Cent…

Automated Classification of Phonetic Segments in Child Speech Using Raw Ultrasound Imaging
Saja Al Ani, Joanne Cleland, Ahmed Zoha
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.17482

Automated Classification of Phonetic Segments in Child Speech Using Raw Ultrasound Imaging
Speech sound disorder (SSD) is defined as a persistent impairment in speech sound production leading to reduced speech intelligibility and hindered verbal communication. Early recognition and intervention of children with SSD and timely referral to speech and language therapists (SLTs) for treatment are crucial. Automated detection of speech impairment is regarded as an efficient method for examining and screening large populations. This study focuses on advancing the automatic diagnosis of SSD…

#Republican Kern County (CA) district supervisor under investigation for allegedly sexually assaulting his own child
His aunt is the county's District Attorney.

Kern County supervisor investigated for alleged sexual assault of child
Kern County Supervisor Zack Scrivner had a physical altercation with his children and was stabbed twice in the upper torso over allegations that he had sexually assaulted one of them, according to Sheriff Donny Youngblood.

This slipped my mind, but there's something that crossed my mind after Main Story III.2 about Kamlanage. #clae_ae
Remember about the key to activate the Book of Time Dream being Aldo's other name, the so-called "Another Eden"? And Kamlanage also had interest on the Book of Time Dream too back in Main Story II?
Cut to Main Story III.2, we learned about the following stuffs:
- Kamlanage is the child of Hollow Chronos and Hollow Madoka.
- Eden apparently never exists in Hollow Time Layer

After puberty (apx 14 ) no one is a child. We used to respect that. Sometime in the late 90s, however, teens got reclassified as children. It is nonsense of course, but everyone in the US seems to believe it. Relegating teens to child status is abusive.
https://youtu.be/12J1f0Zqaqw

Katrina Baur told police she left her three year old son Elijah with a man in Two Rivers, Wisconsin, on Feb. 12 because she wanted him to teach her son “to be a man."
Now, her son is missing
https://

US News: Mom told police she sent now-missing 3-year-old son away to teach him to ‘be a man’
The mother of a 3-year-old Wisconsin boy who vanished nearly a week ago and a man her son was staying with were formally charged with child neglect Monday in connection with the boy's disappearance. Elijah Vue was last seen on Feb. 20 at a residence in Two Rivers, where prosecutors…

Flexible Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity in Event Studies: Application to the Child Penalty
Dmitry Arkhangelsky, Kazuharu Yanagimoto, Tom Zohar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.19563

Flexible Analysis of Individual Heterogeneity in Event Studies: Application to the Child Penalty
We provide a practical toolkit for analyzing effect heterogeneity in event studies. We develop an estimation algorithm and adapt existing econometric results to provide its theoretical justification. We apply these tools to Dutch administrative data to study individual heterogeneity in the child-penalty (CP) context in three ways. First, we document significant heterogeneity in the individual-level CP trajectories, emphasizing the importance of going beyond the average CP. Second, we use indivi…

Six years ago, I posted a picture of three cherubs using a bubble wand to blow bubbles from an adult female's farts.
Today, Facebook's algorithm blocked me for three days as punishment. It said I was showing 'child sexual content'.
Facebook has always sucked, but this is even suckier. If I were a paying customer, I'd bail.

"Biomass-burning coal plants leave the air even dirtier, Java communities say"
#Indonesia #Energy #AirPollution

Biomass-burning coal plants leave the air even dirtier, Java communities say
INDRAMAYU, Indonesia — A veil of smog lurks over Surono and Umroh’s home as relatives and neighbors file inside to greet the couple. Umroh welcomes the new arrivals over lunch as family members and friends congratulate the beaming pair on the birth of their second child. Outside in Tegal Taman village, here on the northern […]

U.S. fines manufacturer for employing kids to operate heavy machinery - The Washington Post
https://www.

Tennessee company fined $300,000 for hiring kids to run heavy machinery
Tuff Torq also must set aside $1.5 million in profits for the 10 underage workers, the Labor Department announced.

Russian attack on Kharkiv Oblast town kills 12-year-old child: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/27/russian-attack-on.html

Guardian: New Orleans archdiocese must submit clergy-abuse documents to police
In criminal investigation, New Orleans judge demands paper trail from archbishop Gregory Aymond all the way to the Vatican
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a

Works in progress at the Benalla Street Art Festival. Today is supposed to be the last day but some artists have a way to go #StreetArt

Why is the media describing Stormy Daniels as as "adult porn star"? Does America have a lot of child porn stars?

The "no parents in the gym" sign are making a big bet I don't suddenly disown my child mis session.

AS the child of an Austrian Jewish refugee child, I remember my fathers stories of his experience as a schoolchild -Anschluss. I see the same stories, only this time Plaestinians are suffering.
Naomi Kline is more eloquent than I am, and this is worth the read: https://www.

Does this happen to you?
I was advised to never ever use childcare responsibilities as a justification for unavailability, e.g. when rejecting meetings at late hours. Well, because, someone could think that I am not serious about science or that my kids are more important to me than my science, or something like this 🙄
But when a male colleague tells about skipping a meeting because his child is sick, everyone goes like "ah, he is such a good father!" (and a good scient…

AS the child of an Austrian Jewish refugee child, I remember my fathers stories of his experience as a schoolchild -Anschluss. I see the same stories, only this time Plaestinians are suffering.
Naomi Kline is more eloquent than I am, and this is worth the read: https://www.

This rabbit hole is deep as fuck….
If they get Puff Daddy, he will have a lot of beans to spill.
Shit is going way back and Obummers are involved too.
https://x.com/prolotario1/status/1772351496333476284?s=61

Ariel (@Prolotario1) on X
The House of Carter: So it appears that Sean P. Diddy combs is willing to take "The Carters" down with him. Rapper Jay-Z was having an affair with a woman named Cathy White who was said to be pregnant with Jay-Z child upon her death back in 2010. This info is coming from a…

EU opens investigation into TikTok over online content and child safeguarding
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/feb/19/eu-investigation-tiktok-online-content-child-safeguarding?mid=1#cid=1644748

Trying to teach my child about culture and have somehow ended up playing a YouTube video of Psy and Hammer doing a live mashup of “Gangnam Style” and “2 Legit 2 Quit”, which is something I never knew existed but also fully believe children need to be educated about.

🔊 Auf radioeins läuft...
Aphrodite's Child:
🎵 Rain and tears
#NowPlaying #AphroditesChild
https://open.spotify.com/track/0QvS9NHV03oELdNymoaQrn
https://emmatricca.bandcamp.com/track/rain-and-tears-aphrodites-child-cover

Sex offender, ex-Jaguars employee who hacked jumbotron sentenced to 220 years in prison https://theathletic.com/5371434/2024/03/27/jaguars-fired-sex-offender-jumbotron/

Sex offender, ex-Jaguars employee who hacked jumbotron sentenced to 220 years in prison
The FBI found thousands of images and hundreds of videos on Samuel Arthur Thompson’s devices depicting child sex abuse material.

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.01927 has been replaced.
link: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=a

Mathemyths: Leveraging Large Language Models to Teach Mathematical Language through Child-AI Co-Creative Storytelling
Mathematical language is a cornerstone of a child's mathematical development, and children can effectively acquire this language through storytelling with a knowledgeable and engaging partner. In this study, we leverage the recent advances in large language models to conduct free-form, creative conversations with children. Consequently, we developed Mathemyths, a joint storytelling agent that takes turns co-creating stories with children while integrating mathematical terms into the evolving na…

In her latest “Letter from an American”, Heather Cox Richardson includes this chilling quote from Jack Posobiec, given at the opening of CPAC:
“Welcome to the end of democracy. We are here to overthrow it completely. We didn’t get all the way there on January 6, but we will endeavor to get rid of it and replace it with this right here.” /1

February 25, 2024
The last several days have seen a Republican stampede to distance the party from the Alabama Supreme Court’s decision of a week ago, when it ruled that embryos frozen for in vitro fertilization (IVF) should be considered children and that their injury can be treated like injury to a child. That decision has led major healthcare providers in Alabama to stop IVF procedures out of fear of prosecution.

💔 Those poor children. https://journa.host/@samlitzinger/112142529500322234

❤️‍🔥 Was für ein tolles Format.
@… Wie wäre es mit einem Ableger "Design macht ah!"? 🫠 https://vis.social/@florin/111997267174137215

Florin (@florin@vis.social)
Attached: 2 images “Design Ah!” is a children's program on japanese TV and the given examples are such a great way to teach design to kids. Actually, it's for anyone who has kept the inner child alive. I especially love the video on “alignment”. https://arun.is/blog/design-ah/ #design #education #japan

Stanford Internet Observatory: federally authorized CSAM clearinghouse CyberTipline, which gets tens of millions of tips per year, could be overrun by AI images (Will Oremus/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/

AI is about to make the online child sex abuse problem much worse
A flood of AI-generated child pornography threatens to overwhelm the nation’s creaky reporting system for child exploitation, report warns.

ERO Washington, D.C. arrests Honduran national charged with child sex crimes against Virginia minor (ICE)
https://www.ice.gov/news/releases/ero-washington-dc-arrests-honduran-national-charged-child-sex-crimes-against-virginia
http://www.memeorandum.com/240424/p97#a240424p97

at least they don't have child choirs and other bloat. already the 11. song. #dora #eurovision

Now the #AI chatbot got pregnant. What's next?
P.S. Well, it thought so.
https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/17/24133184/metas-ai-apparently-thinks-…

Meta’s AI apparently thinks it has a child.

🔊 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio2's #VernonKay
Destiny’s Child:
🎵 Lose My Breath
#DestinysChild
https://open.spotify.com/track/4dvQg9sD8k9y4qiEURuj8v
https://tfrankdj.bandcamp.com/track/destiny-s-child-lose-my-breath-tfrank-dj

This is the most American thing I've ever seen, and I kinda love it.
https://tacticalbabygear.com/

Military and Tactical Style Diaper Bags for dad | Tactical Baby Gear
The original Tactical Baby Gear, diaper bags, backpacks and MOLLE pouches. | Your diaper bag isn't your child's accessory - it's YOURS. Free shipping $99+ USA

A surprisingly honest must-read on Xtianity's twisted narrative re: #adoption , written by a Xtian adoptive parent. #FamilyPreservation

Adoption Was Beautiful, Precious, and God-Ordained. Then I Adopted.
Facile expectations hurt everyone in the process, including my new son.

Around the country, #Republicans are pushing to make this legal so that companies can exploit more kids without risking fines or penalties.
https://www.

Kids as young as 14 were found working at a Tennessee factory that makes lawn mower parts for John Deere and others
Immigrant children as young as 14 were found working amid heavy equipment at a Tennessee firm that makes parts for lawn mowers sold by John Deere and others.

A Louisiana House committee voted Thursday to repeal a law requiring employers to give child workers lunch breaks and to cut unemployment benefits
— part of a push by Republicans to remove constraints on employers and reduce aid for injured and unemployed workers.
The House Labor and Industrial Relations panel advanced the child labor legislation, House Bill 156, along with House Bill 119,
which would slash the amount of time for which people can collect unemployment aid.

Louisiana lawmakers vote to remove lunch breaks for child workers, cut unemployment benefits
A Louisiana House committee voted Thursday to repeal a law requiring employers to give child workers lunch breaks and to cut unemployment benefits — part of a push by Republicans

I bet it's not constitutional...
Kentucky Parents Could Owe Child Support Before Child Is Born
https://www.theroot.com/kentucky-parents-could-owe-child-support-before-the-chi-1851316485

Kentucky Parents Could Owe Child Support Before The Child Is Born, Some Men Are Mad
Kentucky's Senate just passed a bill granting the right to collect child support for before a child is born.

U.S. fines manufacturer for employing kids to operate heavy machinery - The Washington Post
https://www.

Tennessee company fined $300,000 for hiring kids to run heavy machinery
Tuff Torq also must set aside $1.5 million in profits for the 10 underage workers, the Labor Department announced.

Guardian: New Orleans archdiocese must submit clergy-abuse documents to police
In criminal investigation, New Orleans judge demands paper trail from archbishop Gregory Aymond all the way to the Vatican
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/a

You may have heard that when you abandon #Twitter, it's recommended to leave your account intact and just stop using it, instead of deleting it. Here's a good example of why that's suggested.
Judge Juan #Merchan's daughter deleted her Twitter account last year (presumably after…

Trump Bitterly Attacks Judge Juan Merchan’s Daughter Hours After Gag Order
The former president lashed out on Wedneaday at Juan Merchan’s adult child, complaining once again that the system is unfairly stacked against him.

Doofus: "I'd never let my teenage child date someone X years old!!!!"
Common Sense: "LOL! Hypothetical parents pretending they have hypothetical control over hypothetical sons and daughters who are young adults aged 14-19! (pro-tip: peeps do stuff. you don't have control)"

Trying to teach my child about culture and have somehow ended up playing a YouTube video of Psy and Hammer doing a live mashup of “Gangnam Style” and “2 Legit 2 Quit”, which is something I never knew existed but also fully believe children need to be educated about.

Automatic Annotation of Grammaticality in Child-Caregiver Conversations
Mitja Nikolaus (ILCB, LPL, LIS, TALEP), Abhishek Agrawal (ILCB, LIS, TALEP), Petros Kaklamanis (SED), Alex Warstadt (SED), Abdellah Fourtassi (ILCB, LIS, TALEP)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.14208

Automatic Annotation of Grammaticality in Child-Caregiver Conversations
The acquisition of grammar has been a central question to adjudicate between theories of language acquisition. In order to conduct faster, more reproducible, and larger-scale corpus studies on grammaticality in child-caregiver conversations, tools for automatic annotation can offer an effective alternative to tedious manual annotation. We propose a coding scheme for context-dependent grammaticality in child-caregiver conversations and annotate more than 4,000 utterances from a large corpus of t…

moreno_sociograms: Moreno's sociograms (1934)
Relationships between pupils in a classroom. A directed edge exists if the source wants to sit next to the target. Each child can only choose two others.
This network has 35 nodes and 67 edges.
Tags: Social, Offline, Weighted
https://ne…

DYNASTY`S CHILD EPISODE 184: Eno Sarris
#FantasyBaseball #DynastyGuru

Presented without comment
https://x.com/9mm_smg/status/1772007135565549598?s=61

9mmSMG (@9mm_smg) on X
Rabbi Shmuley, why are you grinding on that child like that?

Doofus: "I'd never let my teenage child date someone X years old!!!!"
Common Sense: "LOL! Hypothetical parents pretending they have hypothetical control over hypothetical sons and daughters who are young adults aged 14-19! (pro-tip: peeps do stuff. you don't have control)"

World First: 13-Year-Old Child Cured of a Deadly Brain Cancer : ScienceAlert
https://www.sciencealert.com/world-first-13-year-old-child-cured-of-a-deadly-brain-cancer

World First: 13-Year-Old Child Cured of a Deadly Brain Cancer
When Lucas was diagnosed with a rare type of brain tumor at the age of six, there was no doubting the prognosis.

Ukraine war latest: Mass attack on Kyiv injures at least 13, including child: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/21/ukraine-war-latest.html

In 9 federal child exploitation cases since 2018, the US said spy cams, sometimes promoted with racy imagery, sold on Amazon or eBay were used to film minors (Thomas Brewster/Forbes)
https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewste

Spy Cameras For Sale On Amazon And eBay Are Being Used For Child Exploitation
Despite cases of abuse, spy cams remain for sale across major online retailers. In some cases, the sellers explicitly use racy images to sell the surveillance devices.

The drive to lay waste to American democracy is not popular.
Nikki Haley won 40% of the vote 🗳️ n the South Carolina primary. This means that Trump must continue spending money he doesn’t currently have on his campaign.   
More important than that, it shows that even in a strongly Republican state, 40% of primary voters
—the party’s most loyal voters
—prefer someone else.
As Mike Allen of Axios wrote today:
“If America were dominated by old, white, election-…

February 25, 2024
The last several days have seen a Republican stampede to distance the party from the Alabama Supreme Court’s decision of a week ago, when it ruled that embryos frozen for in vitro fertilization (IVF) should be considered children and that their injury can be treated like injury to a child. That decision has led major healthcare providers in Alabama to stop IVF procedures out of fear of prosecution.

The idea that we can keep repeating "You're just a child. You're not ready. Your brain is deficient."
while they are literally living in an adult body with adult hormones and adult sex drive
is just as terrible, if not worse than, abstinence only bullshit.

EXCLUSIVE: Trans Activist "Family Bloggers" Who Lived In Feces-Covered Home Arrested On Charges Of Endangering The Welfare Of Their Child (Reduxx)
https://reduxx.info/exclusive-trans-activist-family-bloggers-who-lived-in-feces-covered-home-arrested-on-charges-of-endangering-the-welfare-of-their-child/
http://www.memeorandum.com/240220/p76#a240220p76

Ukraine war latest: Mass attack on Kyiv injures at least 13, including child: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/21/ukraine-war-latest.html

"[S]o it is that Nex Benedict was forced to use a bathroom in school that wasn't safe for them. And so it was that Nex Benedict got the shit knocked out of them. And so it was that Nex Benedict was suspended from school for two weeks. And so it was that Nex Benedict's school did not call an ambulance or the police when Nex Benedict was beaten. And so it was that Nex Benedict died the next day."
The "save the children" crowd kill another child

The "save the children" crowd kill another child
I am beyond angry -- and not at all surprised -- that a hateful "thou shalt not use the bathroom you are comfortable in; thou musteth useth the bathroom whither thy oppressors defecate" law would provide ample opportunity, and location, for beatings....

Designing Child-Centric AI Learning Environments: Insights from LLM-Enhanced Creative Project-Based Learning
Siyu Zha, Yuehan Qiao, Qingyu Hu, Zhongsheng Li, Jiangtao Gong, Yingqing Xu
https://arxiv.org/abs/2403.16159

Designing Child-Centric AI Learning Environments: Insights from LLM-Enhanced Creative Project-Based Learning
Project-based learning (PBL) is an instructional method that is very helpful in nurturing students' creativity, but it requires significant time and energy from both students and teachers. Large language models (LLMs) have been proven to assist in creative tasks, yet much controversy exists regarding their role in fostering creativity. This paper explores the potential of LLMs in PBL settings, with a special focus on fostering creativity. We began with an exploratory study involving 12 middle s…

_"Jugendweihe happens when a child turns 14. It involves a similar ceremony, party, and gifts, marking the next stage of growing up. With all the negativity heaped on adolescents, there’s something to be said for this way of celebrating young adulthood."
https://time.com/3720541/how-to-parent

How to Parent Like a German
An American mom finds some surprising habits

Kentucky senate passes bill granting right to collect child support for fetuses
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/mar/06/kentucky-senate-child-support-unborn-children?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Tennessee Company Accused of Using Child Labor to Clean Slaughterhouses
https://www.usnews.com/news/top-news/articles/2024-02-21/tennessee-company-accused-of-using-child-labor-to-clean-slaughterhouses…

Governor: Russian missile attack on Odesa injures 3, including child: https://benborges.xyz/2024/04/20/governor-russian-missile.html

If you want to express yourself clearly and avoid confusion
use the term "minor" for people under 18
and "child" for people before puberty.
These are two very different groups of people.
17 year olds have nothing in common with 7 year olds.

Hungarian President Novak resigns over child sexual abuse pardon
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20240210-hungarian-president-novak-resigns-over-child-sexual-abuse-pardon

Hungarian President Novak resigns over child sexual abuse pardon
Hungarian President Katalin Novak, a close ally of Prime Minister Viktor Orban, announced her resignation Saturday following outrage over a pardon granted to a man implicated in a child sexual abuse case.

Update: 1 killed, 6 injured, including child, in Russian attack on Mykolaiv: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/17/update-killed-injured.html

Add another one to the list…
“Luis Borunda, a former deputy secretary of state under [Governor Larry] Hogan, was charged with two counts of distribution of child pornography, sexual exploitation of a child, and possession of child pornography”
#Trump previously appointed Borunda to his 2017 “election integrity committee.”

Former GOP Official Accused Of Distributing Child Sexual Abuse Images
Former Maryland Deputy Secretary of State Luis Borunda was first arrested last year after allegedly trying to meet with an investigator posting as 13-year-old girl.

A child was shot at Joel Osteen’s megachurch | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/crime/child-shot-joel-osteen-lakewood-b2494474.html

A child was shot at Joel Osteen’s megachurch
The shooter has also been shot

Children run to a bomb shelter in Kyiv during Russia’s attack: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/25/children-run-to.html

Children Ran to Shelter as Explosions Were Heard over Kyiv, a Missile Strike Was Carried Out: https://benborges.xyz/2024/03/25/children-ran-to.html