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What children in poverty could lose from the 'Big Beautiful Bill' (Cory Turner/NPR)
https://www.npr.org/2025/06/20/nx-s1-5437851/children-poverty-republicans-big-beautiful-bill-reconciliation
http://www.memeorandum.com/250620/p41#a250620p41

Leitfaden von Save the Children: Pädokriminellen das Bild-Material entziehen
Nicht nur Eltern stellen Fotos von Kindern unbedarft ins Netz, auch Einrichtungen wie Schulen und Kitas tun das. Ein neuer Leitfaden soll hier sensibilisieren.

"Pupils in England face lost learning from flooding and extreme heat, study finds"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Climate #ClimateChange

Children riding in school buses became so dehydrated and nauseous that they had to be hosed down by the Fire Department.
Hundreds of young people were hospitalized with heat-related illnesses.
But the elderly, and especially the elderly who lived alone, were most vulnerable to the heat wave.
https://

CHILDREN benefit most of all… by X-RAY shoe fitting
https://migurski.tumblr.com/post/786924386931359744

Readwise würfelte mir heute dieses Zitat in die Wiedervorlage und ich musste direkt nachsehen, wann der Artikel geschrieben wurde. 2014. Wer hätte gedacht, dass sich 6 Jahre später alles noch viel schlimmer entwickeln würde?
https://www.theawl.com/2014/10/shot-through-the-…

The best way to interest children in classical music is to introduce them to compositions liberally punctuated by farts.

Children will get sick and die because Trump owed RFK Jr. a favor
https://thehill.com/opinion/healthcare/5357380-children-will-get-sick-and-die-because-trump-owed-rfk-jr-a-favor/

Now for some theology. Since Eve was created by God from Adam's rib, she/he/they had a Y chromosome, therefore she/he/they was biologically male -- not just the first woman but also the fist trans. Her/his/their three children with Adam must have been created by cloning and thus were all male. Were it not for daughters born from Adam's affair with Lilith, the human species would have ended there, since when the couple left Eden they lost access to free health care including furthe…

lynn bought a couple sheets of these really cute stamps

Is the Home Office so inhumane, or is it just some rogue, cynical (un)civil servant who made this judgement?
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025/jun/18/uk-home-office-brazilian-family-children-return-alone?CMP…

#Sting 1986, when I was young:
****
In Europe and America
There's a growing feeling of hysteria
Conditioned to respond to all the threats
In the rhetorical speeches of the Soviets
Mr. Khrushchev said, "We will bury you"
I don't subscribe to this point of view
It would be such an ignorant thing to do
If the Russians love their children …

Good Morning Canada
On this day in 1991 Canada’s military suffered a casualty that made headlines across the country. Master Corporal Mark Robert Isfeld, known to his friends as Izzy, was killed while disarming a landmine in the village of Kakma, Croatia. He was famous for handing out Izzy Dolls to local children. The dolls were knitted by his mother, and the practice grew to be supported across the Canadian military family.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianHeroes
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Isfeld

I learned¹ about the Baldwin Library of Historical Children's Literature² that has more than 10000 books scanned and available online. Just great.
It is hosted by the University of Florida. So let's hope that it stays available, i.e. that the Republicans don't find the old children's books from 1750 to woke.³
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¹via

Open Culture (Official) (@openculture@toot.community)
Attached: 1 image Enter an Archive of 10,000+ Historical Children’s Books, All Digitized & Free to Read Online https://www.openculture.com/2025/06/enter-an-archive-of-10000-historical-childrens-books.html

“Noor, who made so many friends on Bluesky since she started an account there in the summer of 2023, had her account suddenly suspended on Friday. Bluesky did not send a reason for the suspension, so while she wrote an appeal, she did not know what actions she was appealing, so as of now it's still suspended. She’s been silenced, and effectively disappeared.”

A Future for Noor and Her Children
Hello! I'm Meave, a U.S. citizen sponsoring this fundraiser on behalf of my dear friend Noor Hassan and her children. Noor and her son Abdul Rahman are kind, generous people; though their original fundraiser succeeded last summer, supporting themselves and their extended family cost them everything. This fundraiser will allow them to support themselves and save up to buy passage to Egypt and pursue a better future.

"Understanding the Impacts of Generative AI
Use on Children" , research by Alan Turing Institute.
" ...nearly one in four children (22%) aged 8-12 are using the technology..."
https://www.turing.ac.uk/news/experts-ca…

EU's Frontex has published a children's book for children who are about to be deported
😲
https://op.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/6eea0e99-e464-11ef-be2a-01aa75ed71a1
Official PDFs availabl…

Toolbox for children in return - Publications Office of the EU
Addressing the return of unaccompanied minors or children within families is a delicate matter that demands a humane approach. This approach must not only respect fundamental rights but also prioritise the child's best interests. Additionally, clear and comprehensive information about the return procedures is essential for those involved, enabling them to prepare as effectively as possible. One of the primary objectives of Frontex is to assist MS throughout all stages of the return procedures. …

Look, all I'm saying is, this Kennedy psychopath is trying to kill our children. I feel like self-defense rules apply. Isn't it time for a new HHS Secretary anyway?
https://apnews.com/article/vaccines-fda-kennedy-covid-shots-rfk-tr…

New Trump vaccine policy limits access to COVID shots
Federal health officials will no longer routinely approve annual COVID-19 shots for younger adults and children who are healthy. Companies that want to market their vaccines to those Americans will need to conduct large, new studies, the Food and Drug Administration said Tuesday. It’s a major shift in FDA’s approach to updating vaccines that protect against the virus. It comes as Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his appointees continue to scrutinize the use of vaccines for a numbe…

Q&A with Pavel Durov on his arrest in France, Macron, Russia, the FBI, the fight for Telegram, leaving his wealth to the 100 children he fathered, and more (Guillaume Grallet/Le Point)
https://www.

EXCLUSIVE. Pavel Durov on his arrest in France, Macron, Russia, the FBI — and the fight for Telegram
INTERVIEW. "Le Point" met with the co-founder and CEO of the secure messaging app Telegram, who was charged in August 2024. A sweeping discussion on politics, power and democracy.

I certainly remember learning that standing under a tree is the thing *not* to do in a thunderstorm. Are children no longer getting that lesson?
https://www.cbsnews.com/newyork/news/person-struck-by-lightning-central-park-nyc/

Trump cuts to foreign aid leave food destined for desperate millions rotting in storage. »The dismantling of USAID and cuts to humanitarian aid has been devastating and unacceptable,« said one international aid group. https://www.commondreams.org/news/trump-usa…

Polish people since yesterday: lawks, religious festivities coming, masses, processions, religious songs!
Me since the early morning: "the children of the damned" in my head.

Europe is exporting military dogs—used as weapons by Israel's elite forces. These dogs have been linked to civilian injuries and deaths, including children and people with disabilities. Doors forced open in the middle of the night, piercing cries for help, fangs sunk mercilessly into the flesh of victims. Children are torn from their mothers' arms, women scream for help, men collapse in agony, while apathetic soldiers just laugh as dogs tear bodies apart indiscriminately.

Polacy od wczoraj: olaboga, jutro święto, msze, procesje, pieśni religijne.
Ja od rana: w głowie "the children of the damned".

I'm so hyped for the fourth part of Adrian Tchaikovskys "Time" series, 'Children of Strife'. I'm currently on a re-listening of the audiobooks with the equally phenomenal speaker Mel Hudson.
As each book of the series was increasingly mind bending, I don't know what to expect from the next.
#books

The fascists doing these razzia's don't care at all about children, even regardless of the legal status of their family members.

To the genocide-loving German from mastodon.social who reported @… for being antisemitic:
Fuck you, you genocide-loving piece of shit, opposing genocide isn’t antisemitism. What you’re doing – conflating being anti-genocide with being antisemitic – is the greatest antisemitism as you’re de facto stating that all Jews are pro-genocide.

Indianapolis Colts announce ownership transition as late Jim Irsay passes franchise to children

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/indiana

Study: US kids who said their social media, phone, or video game use was "addictive" were 2x-3x more likely to have thoughts of suicide or self-harm by age 14 (Ellen Barry/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/…

Real Risk to Youth Mental Health Is ‘Addictive Use,’ Not Screen Time Alone, Study Finds
Researchers found children with highly addictive use of phones, video games or social media were two to three times as likely to have thoughts of suicide or to harm themselves.

Safe-Child-LLM: A Developmental Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Safety in Child-AI Interactions
Junfeng Jiao, Saleh Afroogh, Kevin Chen, Abhejay Murali, David Atkinson, Amit Dhurandhar
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13510

Safe-Child-LLM: A Developmental Benchmark for Evaluating LLM Safety in Child-AI Interactions
As Large Language Models (LLMs) increasingly power applications used by children and adolescents, ensuring safe and age-appropriate interactions has become an urgent ethical imperative. Despite progress in AI safety, current evaluations predominantly focus on adults, neglecting the unique vulnerabilities of minors engaging with generative AI. We introduce Safe-Child-LLM, a comprehensive benchmark and dataset for systematically assessing LLM safety across two developmental stages: children (7-12…

If groups of parents can band together when deciding on the right age for a smartphone for their younger children, they will stand a better chance to avoid making decisions based on peer pressure at school.
https://theprivacydad.com/how-parent-c

“Our parents kept us carefully isolated - from birth - from even witnessing examples of other children being disrespectful, and even the faintest disobedience gets slapped out of you starting as a baby.”
https://open.substack.com/pub/aella/p/the-joy-is-not-optional…

I've read now through the "Streets for kids" #cityranking report: https://cleancitiescampaign.org/city-ranking-2025/

Streets for Kids, Cities for All: City Ranking 2025
We've analysed 36 European cities to see how they’re progressing in creating transport systems that prioritise the needs of children.

'In the local data that the audit examined from three [THREE] police forces, they identified clear evidence of “over-representation among suspects of Asian and Pakistani-heritage men”.
'However, the review also criticised the ongoing failure to collect ethnicity at a national level, with it not recorded for two-thirds of perpetrators, making it impossible “to provide any accurate assessment from the nationally collected data”.'
Not so conclusive then.

What is the Casey report on UK grooming gangs – and why did Labour U-turn?
The report addressed the UK’s institutional failure to protect children and teenage girls from sexual exploitation.

Examining the effects of music on cognitive skills of children in early childhood with the Pythagorean fuzzy set approach
Murat Kirisci, Nihat Topac, Musa Bardak
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.12016

Examining the effects of music on cognitive skills of children in early childhood with the Pythagorean fuzzy set approach
There are many genetic and environmental factors that affect cognitive development. Music education can also be considered as one of the environmental factors. Some researchers emphasize that Music is an action that requires meta-cognitive functions such as mathematics and chess and supports spatial intelligence. The effect of Music on cognitive development in early childhood was examined using the Pythagorean Fuzzy Sets(PFS) method defined by Yager. This study created PFS based on experts' opi…

Fact Sheet: Russia's Kidnapping and Re-education of Ukraine's Children
https://medicine.yale.edu/news-article/fact-sheet-russias-kidnapping-and-re-education-of-ukraines-children/

How much can children see and report about their experience of a brief glance at a natural scene? https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/a5ykj_v1
Study extendable to 3-year-olds? Thinking of Mike May: normal vision up to age 3 (children of that age get around fine by eyesight), y…

Little Rock, Minor Rights: Arkansas Leads with COPPA 2.0-Inspired Law
https://fpf.org/blog/little-rock-minor-rights-arkansas-leads-with-coppa-2-0-inspired-law/
@…

Relevant för min artikel om puberteten hos idrottande flickor det här. Mer mogna tjejer är troligen mer mottagliga för instruktioner. Jag tror det påverkar hur intelligent och "träningsbar" som spelaren uppfattas.
"We found a clear correlation between pubertal development and school grades. Those who are further along in puberty perform better in school"

Enabling automatic transcription of child-centered audio recordings from real-world environments
Daniil Kocharov, Okko R\"as\"anen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.11747

Enabling automatic transcription of child-centered audio recordings from real-world environments
Longform audio recordings obtained with microphones worn by children-also known as child-centered daylong recordings-have become a standard method for studying children's language experiences and their impact on subsequent language development. Transcripts of longform speech audio would enable rich analyses at various linguistic levels, yet the massive scale of typical longform corpora prohibits comprehensive manual annotation. At the same time, automatic speech recognition (ASR)-based transcri…

For Father's Day I march with my child in solidarity, love, and grief for all the fathers left in Palestine and for all who've been slaughtered and for all who've had their children massacred or maimed by Israel.
#Galway #Ireland

i wonder if brainrot humor worked the same way back before the internet existed. like did victorian era youth make themselves laugh by inserting vulgar slang or opium and alcohol or women dressing like men or charles darwin or edgy jack the ripper references into phrases coined within a children's author / humorist's "nonsense book" or whatever trashy pulp magazines were popular

Over 90% of Gaza’s schools destroyed by Israeli forces, 658,000 children out of education: UN probe
https://maktoobmedia.com/gaza-genocide/over-90-of-gazas-schools-destroyed-by-israeli-forces-658000-children-out-of-education-un-probe/

Galen, Maarva, Bix, Luthen, Bail, Vader...
Notice the Empire was brought down by people fighting for their children.
"Fighting for a sunrise they'd never see" ...but one their children would.
#StarWars #Andor

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/22/trump-children-flores-settlement-agreement

I forget. What do you call it when a single political appointee overturns an established, disciplined, scientific process because he's smarter than everyone else combined? https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/health/covid-vac…

U.S. Will No Longer Recommend Covid Shots for Children and Pregnant Women
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. upended decades of standard protocol in announcing that the vaccine would be dropped from the immunization schedule for healthy children.

Days after Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. announced that Covid shots would be removed from the federal immunization schedule for children,
the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention issued updated advice that largely countered Mr. Kennedy’s new policy.
The agency kept Covid shots on the schedule for healthy children 6 months to 17 years old, -- but added a new condition.
Children and their caregivers will be able to get the vaccines in consultation with a doctor…

CDC Issues New Advice on Covid Vaccines for Children That Contradicted RFK Jr.
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said on Tuesday that the vaccine would no longer appear on the childhood immunization schedule. C.D.C.’s update counters his policy.

Julia Doubleday on the gamble that covid would be harmless to children
"It’s worth noting that at the time Kulldorff and the rest of the GBD crew were proclaiming COVID’s harmlessness to kids, they couldn’t possibly have had enough information to determine the veracity of their own claims. Viruses like the chickenpox, EBV, HIV, HPV, and HSV often present with mild initial infections but may cause major damage years later. We now know COVID can as well.
"For so-called experts to run with an assumption that an initially mild-presenting acute infection would be long-term harmless was just that; an assumption. They were willing to gamble the health of a generation of children on a guess in order to go “back to normal” because that’s what the oligarchy clamored for. Because it costs money to shut the world economy down. Because people who mattered were angry. Because children aren’t people who matter."
(GBD = Great Barrington Declaration, a bit of 2020 propaganda including the unfounded supposition that everyone who caught covid would be immune forever after)
Overall another excellent pointy article!
#children #covid #LongCovid #CovidIsntOver #GreatBarringtonDeclaration #misinformation

“Supreme Court win for girl with epilepsy expected to make disability lawsuits against schools easier”
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-disabilities-schools-education-access-lawsuits-56f67cf12f1f9c4a7e…

Supreme Court rules for girl with epilepsy in case over access to education
A teenage girl with a rare form of epilepsy has won a unanimous Supreme Court ruling that’s expected to make it easier for families of children with disabilities to sue schools over access to education. Thursday's ruling comes after her family said her Minnesota school district didn’t do enough to get her the disability accommodations she needs to learn. The girl and her family appealed to the Supreme Court after lower courts ruled against their disability discrimination case. Some courts h…

The first crop of blackberries are ripe, ready and delicious. Now the race is on between us, the birds and the neighbor children to see who can get the most over the next couple of weeks. 🤣🤣🤣 🌱
#gardening #fruit

For Father's Day I march with my child in solidarity, love, and grief for all the fathers left in Palestine and for all who've been slaughtered and for all who've had their children massacred or maimed by Israel.
#Galway #Ireland

Greater Manchester still has a long way to go on protected cycling infrastructure.
Share of protected cycling infra-
structure of total roads %:
Paris 44
Hamburg 33
Barcelona 19
Waraw 15
G London 8
Manchester 8 rank 29/36
Did better on school streets and safe speeds
https…

Streets for Kids, Cities for All: Protected cycling infrastructure ranking
We've analysed 36 European cities to see how they’re progressing in creating transport systems that prioritise the needs of children.

"These vehicle homes sheltered dozens of working-class Latinx families, who could no longer afford the city’s soaring rents. Living in RVs was the only way many could keep their jobs in food service, janitorial work and construction while their children stayed enrolled in nearby schools.
"To city officials, it looked like homelessness. But residents didn’t see it that way. Living in RVs was a survival strategy—a way to stay housed, employed and near their communities."…

Gun Deaths of Children Rose in States That Loosened Gun Laws, Study Finds (Roni Caryn Rabin/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/09/health/gun-deaths-children.html?unlocked_article_code=1.Nk8.leTO.CTyJTl_fTL5i&smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
http://www.memeorandum.com/250609/p71#a250609p71

This is the future #Republicans want for you and your children

She went to Ukraine to save children, abducted by Russia | The Committed: https://benborges.xyz/2025/05/29/she-went-to-ukraine-to.html

From Flat to Feeling: A Feasibility and Impact Study on Dynamic Facial Emotions in AI-Generated Avatars
Pegah Salehi, Sajad Amouei Sheshkal, Vajira Thambawita, P{\aa}l Halvorsen
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.13477

From Flat to Feeling: A Feasibility and Impact Study on Dynamic Facial Emotions in AI-Generated Avatars
Dynamic facial emotion is essential for believable AI-generated avatars; however, most systems remain visually inert, limiting their utility in high-stakes simulations such as virtual training for investigative interviews with abused children. We introduce and evaluate a real-time architecture fusing Unreal Engine 5 MetaHuman rendering with NVIDIA Omniverse Audio2Face to translate vocal prosody into high-fidelity facial expressions on photorealistic child avatars. We implemented a distributed t…

Be Kind
Human kindness is amazing!
#kindness

Liberals would rather go to a peaceful candle light vigil for children who have had their parents stolen from them than brick a cop who's stealing parents away from their kids, and they wonder why all their politicians "are so concerned" about Gaza but aren't willing to actually do anything to stop arms shipments to Israel.
#USPol

Fascism is not some distant nightmare locked away in history books. It is a dark, living force that haunts the present, casting its shadow over the United States with terrifying clarity.
The brutal dehumanization, the cruelty inflicted on vulnerable people, the aggressive nationalism and racism, these are not echoes from the past but the harsh reality of today. Concentration camps for children, hateful rhetoric that strips away humanity, and the rise of authoritarian power show that fa…

There's a podcast playing apparently about these children who were stuck in that cave, and this story will always be connected in my mind to Elon brainstorming about a mini submarine he wanted to build to rescue them and then calling the diver hero who actually saved them a pedo for being underwhelmed by the idea. That was such fun.

Isn't it absurd that a medical practice has to keep telling successive people that they need a new referral to set up an appointment for their child, because they have a referral to a medical practice dedicated to children, while their doctor for children is technically employed by a regular practice?
#Poland #HealthCare

"This so-called big, beautiful bill pushes 16 million people off of health care and literally takes food from the mouths of hungry children. An enormous tax cut for the very wealthiest is the definition of an immoral bill," said Sen. Coons, a Presbyterian and graduate of Yale Divinity School.

Episcopalians join other faith leaders, lawmakers, in DC rally against budget bill
[Religion News Service – Washington] Religious leaders are ramping up pressure on lawmakers to reject the Republican-led budget bill currently before the U.S. Senate, arguing proposed cuts to healt…

Slogan ideas welcome too. A few I've been thinking of:
- "Impeach Trump/Abolish ICE/Abolish DHS" - simple, helps build momentum towards at least one specific demand which IMO the movement could use pretty soon.
- "If you separate my family I'll separate yours/As you ride to snatch children are yours safe at home?" - maybe too many words, but inspires fear/defection in ICE other troops, which IMO the movement needs more of. Hopefully too vague to be a criminal threat or incitement (especially version with the conditional?).

Drowning in infosec news overload? Check out today's Metacurity for a concise rundown of the most critical developments you should know, including
--UK military will ramp up offensive cyber attacks against Russia and China
--Victoria's Secret hit by cyberattack,
--LexisNexis Risk Solutions breach affects 364K,
--Procurement database exposed Russian nuclear bases to attack,
--US gov't to mix DNA data of migrant children and sex offenders,
--ASUS …

UK military will ramp up offensive cyber attacks against Russia and China
Victoria's Secret hit by cyberattack, LexisNexis risk arm breach affects 364K, Procurement database exposed Russian nuclear bases to attack, US gov't to mix DNA data of migrant children and sex offenders, ASUS routers ensnared by novel botnet, APT41 exploited Google Calendar, much more

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https://www.theyworkforyou.com/wrans/?id=2025-05-30.55151.h#:~:text=the risks of ,emojis

If you absolutely feel the need to starve children to achieve your dream for the land of milk and honey, you are on the wrong side of history.

Folks in NZ are starting to realise the implications of the impending EOL of Microsoft Windows 10 for our education system. In its finite wisdom, our MinOfEd has effectively locked all schools into either the use of MS Windows or Google ChromeOS. Both have fundamental issues like endless license hassles, EOLing OSs, ending support for Window or ChromeOS on specific computer models, etc. And that doesn't even start to talk about digital colonisation & sovereignty (see

A person ethically committed to nonviolence should see capturing, imprisoning, and expelling immigrant workers and children as violent acts.
Their first duty in Los Angeles this week would be denouncing ICE.
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@… :
Units with <3 bedrooms are bad and should not be built, because children don't live in them.
Units with 3 bedrooms are bad and should not be built, because children will live in them.
@slowbikeiain.bsky.social :
Low cost housing is bad because it will attract the wrong sor…

Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
AVON: I wonder why.
FRANTON: [Through door] Because of these. They're implanted with her cells.
TARRANT: Servalan's?
AVON: Her surrogate womb.
TARRANT: Birth by proxy.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/526 B7…

Blakes7Bot | Search
Companion site to the Blakes7Bot Twitter, Mastodon, and Bluesky accounts. Automated lines of Blakes 7 dialog. Includes a script search facility.

The Orlando Sentinel got a cease-and-desist from Florida's DCF that claims its reporter coerced families for a story on a foundation tied to Gov. DeSantis' wife (Mike Schneider/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/orlando-sen

Florida agency tells newspaper to halt reporting angle on foundation associated with governor's wife
Florida’s child welfare agency has sent a letter to a newspaper telling it to “cease and desist” its reporting on foster families for a story about a nonprofit associated with Gov. Ron DeSantis’ wife. The foundation is the subject of an investigation. The Orlando Sentinel received the letter on Friday from the Department of Children and Families. The letter claims the newspaper’s Tallahassee reporter intimidated foster families who had received money from the Hope Florida Foundation w…

Children's Voice Privacy: First Steps And Emerging Challenges
Ajinkya Kulkarni, Francisco Teixeira, Enno Hermann, Thomas Rolland, Isabel Trancoso, Mathew Magimai Doss
https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00100

Children's Voice Privacy: First Steps And Emerging Challenges
Children are one of the most under-represented groups in speech technologies, as well as one of the most vulnerable in terms of privacy. Despite this, anonymization techniques targeting this population have received little attention. In this study, we seek to bridge this gap, and establish a baseline for the use of voice anonymization techniques designed for adult speech when applied to children's voices. Such an evaluation is essential, as children's speech presents a distinct set of challenge…

“I’ve never hurt anyone!” – Elon Musk
Kills 300,000 children. https://mas.to/@bascule/114598860129053617

Trump Compares Russia and Ukraine to Children Fighting (Jonathan Swan/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/05/us/politics/trump-russia-ukraine-children-fighting.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250606/p3#a250606p3

NYTimes: On the Campaign Trail, Elon Musk Juggled Drugs & Family Drama:
As Mr. Musk entered President Trump’s orbit, his private life grew increasingly tumultuous & his drug use was more intense than previously known.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/elon

Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama on Trump’s Campaign Trail
As Mr. Musk entered President Trump’s orbit, his private life grew increasingly tumultuous and his drug use was more intense than previously known.

NFL players, teams celebrate Father's Day https://www.nfl.com/news/nfl-players-teams-celebrate-father-s-day-2025

Greater Manchester still has a long way to go on protected cycling infrastructure.
Share of protected cycling infra-
structure of total roads %:
Paris 44
Hamburg 33
Barcelona 19
Waraw 15
G London 8
Manchester 8 rank 29/36
Did better on school streets and safe speeds
https…

Streets for Kids, Cities for All: Protected cycling infrastructure ranking
We've analysed 36 European cities to see how they’re progressing in creating transport systems that prioritise the needs of children.

A huge outbreak has made Ontario the measles centre of the western hemisphere
Three-quarters of cases are in unvaccinated children, and this week saw the first fatality:
a premature baby
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jun

Russian delegates call abducted children issue "show for childless European grandmothers" - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/06/03/russian-delegates-call-abducted-children-issue-show-for-childless-european-grandmothers/

Mark your calendars for our upcoming events this Fall from the Love of Children program. You can read and register for these events at https://yaleyouthministryinstitute.org/upcoming-events/

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.00100 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXiv_csCY_…

Children's Voice Privacy: First Steps And Emerging Challenges
Children are one of the most under-represented groups in speech technologies, as well as one of the most vulnerable in terms of privacy. Despite this, anonymization techniques targeting this population have received little attention. In this study, we seek to bridge this gap, and establish a baseline for the use of voice anonymization techniques designed for adult speech when applied to children's voices. Such an evaluation is essential, as children's speech presents a distinct set of challenge…

Sources: Elon Musk engaged in intense drug use during the 2024 presidential campaign, as he juggled the messy consequences of efforts to produce more babies (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/elon

Elon Musk Juggled Drugs and Family Drama on Trump’s Campaign Trail
As Mr. Musk entered President Trump’s orbit, his private life grew increasingly tumultuous and his drug use was more intense than previously known.

Solnit: "It's...routine to blame the Democratic Party for what the Republican Party does. The two parties are unconsciously regarded as akin to a husband and wife in a traditional marriage in which it's the job of the wife to placate and soothe the husband and help him realize his goals or be held responsible for his outbursts and outrages."

Some Notes on the City of Angels and the Nature of Violence
I think maybe it's begun, the bigger fiercer backlash against the Trump Administration which is itself a violent backlash against every good thing that's happened over the past several decades – the advance of rights for nature, women, children, indigenous peoples, BIPOC and immigrants/refugees, queer people, trans people, people with

And children. Every Trump voter elected to deport Mothers & their children.
You ruined their lives. It's your fault.
#trump

Not enough dead Palestinian children for you, asshole? https://chaos.social/@e_es/114648448797778490

President Emmanuel Macron says France will ban social media access for children under 15 within "a few months" if it is not done at the European level (Gavin Blackburn/Euronews)
https://www.euronews.com/my-europe/2025/06…

Macron says France will ban social media for under-15s if EU does not
Macron's pledge comes after a 14-year-old pupil fatally stabbed a staff member during a routine bag check at a school in eastern France. #EuropeNews

According to Medina, the agents told her to exit her home with her children. Standing in the driveway, they showed her a warrant for her husband, with his name listed as David Garcia.
As she explained that her husband’s name is Jorge and that he was not at the house, **one of the agents is captured on an outdoor home surveillance camera turning the device away from what was transpiring. **
Noem attends ICE raid at home of pregnant California mother
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5349185-noem-ice-raid-pregnant-california-mother-dhs-padilla/

When Brooke Nichols plugged in the data, she couldn’t comprehend what she was seeing.
The mathematician and professor of infectious diseases at Boston University had created a model to predict the human cost of the Department of Government Efficiency’s (Doge) USAid funding cuts.
As Elon Musk, the head of Doge, arrived at the White House on Friday afternoon
to be congratulated by President Trump for his work slashing the federal budget,
the number of deaths on Nichols’…

Doge cuts to USAid blamed for 300,000 deaths — most of them children
Elon Musk’s tenure running Trump’s Department of Government Efficiency has, according to the academic Brooke Nichols, caused thousands of ‘preventable deaths’

HHS Secretary Kennedy told us not to listen to him. We agree (STAT)
https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/04/rfk-jr-hhs-cdc-vaccines-covid-pregnant-women-children-policy/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250604/p49#a250604p49

I don’t know, asshole, was 1947 worth it? Was close to 80 years of settler colonialism and apartheid worth it? Is the current genocide of the Palestinian people being committed by israel worth it? https://ravenation.club/@welkin7/114652095075122736

Group tracking Russian abductions of Ukrainian children prepares to shut down following Trump admin funding cut
https://www.yahoo.com/news/group-tracking-russian-abductions-ukrainian-172524783.html

Remember that Emperor #Trump has:
1️⃣ Demanded a $100M military parade
2️⃣ Pardoned 1,500 Jan 6th criminals
3️⃣ Used US soldiers against Americans
4️⃣ Announced plans to dissolve FEMA, & distribute federal money himself
5️⃣ Deported women & children, including US citizens
6️⃣ Openly defied the Courts

I see Secretary of State Marco Rubio as a good man doing bad things,
but perhaps he thinks even worse of me: He recently suggested that I was a liar.
While testifying before Congress, Rubio claimed that the Trump administration’s dismantling of the United States Agency for International Development had not cost any lives.
“No children are dying on my watch,” he asserted.
At another point in the hearing, he broadened his statement to include adults as well: “No one has d…

Opinion | Really, Secretary Rubio? I’m Lying About the Kids Dying Under Trump?
Many thousands of children are dying because of cuts in American humanitarian aid, and denials by Elon Musk and Marco Rubio don’t change that reality.

Watch Elon Musk, high as a kite, during his press conference with Trump today.
In other news, the NYT is reporting his drug use was far more extensive than previously reported.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/us/elon-musk-drugs-children-trump.html…

A federal judge temporarily blocks Florida from enforcing a law banning social media accounts for children under 14, saying the law is "likely unconstitutional" (Kate Payne/Associated Press)
https://apnews.com/article/florida-soc

When unvaccinated families present with measles at healthcare centres, doctors sometimes struggle to even discuss vaccination with the parents, Hussain said.
“It’s really hard to even approach the conversation.
I would ask: ‘How come you aren’t [vaccinated]?’
And they will say: ‘Oh, we’re exempt’
or ‘We’ve had this discussion before and we just don’t want to,’” she said