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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.

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…

US state department stops issuing visas for Gaza's children to get medical care (Robert Mackey/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/16/gaza-children-visas-medical-care-laura-loomer
http://www.memeorandum.com/250816/p71#a250816p71

Sounds like code, if you ask me (I think she's his handler)
Melania Trump pens letter to Putin raising concerns about children
https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/5456305-melania-trump-pens-letter-to-putin-raising-concerns-about-children/

Feature-based analysis of oral narratives from Afrikaans and isiXhosa children
Emma Sharratt, Annelien Smith, Retief Louw, Daleen Klop, Febe de Wet, Herman Kamper
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13164

Feature-based analysis of oral narratives from Afrikaans and isiXhosa children
Oral narrative skills are strong predictors of later literacy development. This study examines the features of oral narratives from children who were identified by experts as requiring intervention. Using simple machine learning methods, we analyse recorded stories from four- and five-year-old Afrikaans- and isiXhosa-speaking children. Consistent with prior research, we identify lexical diversity (unique words) and length-based features (mean utterance length) as indicators of typical developme…

I don’t ask for this often, but if you’re in the US please contact your representatives and demand that this immediately gets revoked. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/16/gaza-children-visas-medical-care-laura-loomer

Trump admin cuts undermine efforts to track abducted Ukrainian children, Council of Europe envoy says: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/18/trump-admin-cuts-undermine-efforts.html

i was put in charge of three grandchildren for a few hours yesterday so we headed straight to ben & jerry's to split a milkshake, then explored the state theater (and even sneaked into a movie but later got thrown out for horsing around on the escalator), then i gave a nickel tour of angell/mason/haven halls, then they chased squirrels on the diag which took longer than you might think, then we looked in all the windows in nickels arcade. it all went slowly and well.

Sick children no longer welcome in the USA.
Christian values are long gone there….
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/trump-gaza-laura-loomer-medical-visas-hospital-1235410184/

Trump Cuts Off Medical Visas from Gaza After Laura Loomer Meltdown
Donald Trump stopped all visas from Gaza, including for humanitarian and medical aid, after Laura Loomer freaked out about children getting care.

Catching Dark Signals in Algorithms: Unveiling Audiovisual and Thematic Markers of Unsafe Content Recommended for Children and Teenagers
Haoning Xue, Brian Nishimine, Martin Hilbert, Drew Cingel, Samantha Vigil, Jane Shawcroft, Arti Thakur, Zubair Shafiq, Jingwen Zhang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12571

Catching Dark Signals in Algorithms: Unveiling Audiovisual and Thematic Markers of Unsafe Content Recommended for Children and Teenagers
The prevalence of short form video platforms, combined with the ineffectiveness of age verification mechanisms, raises concerns about the potential harms facing children and teenagers in an algorithm-moderated online environment. We conducted multimodal feature analysis and thematic topic modeling of 4,492 short videos recommended to children and teenagers on Instagram Reels, TikTok, and YouTube Shorts, collected as a part of an algorithm auditing experiment. This feature-level and content-leve…

... We know from brain research that institutionally reared children have
enlarged, overly active amygdalas---an area of the brain involved in
emotional processing ---especially pay excessive attention to negative
information.  They are easily frightened.  Their emotion regulation
and mental health are permanently damaged, which is why the Romanian
orphanages were known as the "slaughterhouses of souls."
There are many parallels with animals reared in…

I've made a summer quiz for EU energy policy nerds 🤓
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/jaapburger_acers-country-sheets-summer-quiz-acti…

Now that the school year is coming to an end in many European countries, many children are receiving their school reports. | Jaap Burger
Now that the school year is coming to an end in many European countries, many children are receiving their school reports. What are they doing well and where can they improve? Have they learned from the curriculum and have they acted on previous recommendations? How are they doing compared to their peers? EU Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators (ACER) does something similar for countries, their retail energy markets and the level of consumer participation. It's time for their annual …

Designing for Engaging Communication Between Parents and Young Adult Children Through Shared Music Experiences
Euihyeok Lee, Souneil Park, Jin Yu, Seungchul Lee, Seungwoo Kang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10907

Designing for Engaging Communication Between Parents and Young Adult Children Through Shared Music Experiences
This paper aims to foster social interaction between parents and young adult children living apart via music. Our approach transforms their music-listening moment into an opportunity to listen to the other's favorite songs and enrich interaction in their daily lives. To this end, we explore the current practice and needs of parent-child communication and the experience and perception of music-mediated interaction. Based on the findings, we developed DJ-Fam, a mobile application that enables par…

According to Zionists, people who don’t want children killed are antisemitic. People who don’t want civilians killed are antisemitic.
Think what they’re saying:
If you don’t want children killed, you hate all Jews. Ergo, all Jews want children killed.
News flash: Implying that all Jews want children killed is antisemitic.
If you don’t want civilians killed, you hate all Jews. Ergo, all Jews want civilians killed.
News flash: Implying that all Jews want civilian…

Shaiel Ben-Ephraim
What a self own. They see “stop killing children” and are immediately offended.

Internet Matters survey of 1,000 UK kids aged 9 to 17: 67% say they use AI chatbots regularly; of that group, 35% say it feels like talking to a friend (Noor Al-Sibai/Futurism)
https://futurism.com/lonely-children-ai-chatbots

Vast Numbers of Lonely Kids Are Using AI as Substitute Friends
Children are replacing real friendship with AI, and experts are worried about how easily chatbots integrate themselves into their lives.

Crowdsourced collection of examples of hidden e-waste in various products...
https://mastodon.green/@gerrymcgovern/114864772832309511

Each week, Metacurity offers our free and paid subscribers a run-down of the best infosec-related long reads.
This week's selection covers
--A twisted tale of how two men tortured someone for his crypto account passwords,
--Russia's cyber sector supports Putin's Ukraine war,
--A brain-reading implant requires a password,
--Social media algorithms didn't cause America's woes,
--The internet is really bad for children,
--More
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Best infosec-related long reads for the week of 8/9/25
A twisted tale of how two men tortured someone for his crypto account passwords, Russia's cyber sector supports Putin's Ukraine war, A brain-reading implant requires a password, Social media algorithms didn't cause America's woes, The internet is really bad for children, more

My grade 5 class. I remember over 70% of the kids in this picture but not one of their names!
Mount Pleasant Elementary school , Vancouver BC
(I was 11 years old in this photo )

Automatically assessing oral narratives of Afrikaans and isiXhosa children
R. Louw (Stellenbosch University), E. Sharratt (Stellenbosch University), F. de Wet (Stellenbosch University), C. Jacobs (Stellenbosch University), A. Smith (Stellenbosch University), H. Kamper (Stellenbosch University)
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13205

Automatically assessing oral narratives of Afrikaans and isiXhosa children
Developing narrative and comprehension skills in early childhood is critical for later literacy. However, teachers in large preschool classrooms struggle to accurately identify students who require intervention. We present a system for automatically assessing oral narratives of preschool children in Afrikaans and isiXhosa. The system uses automatic speech recognition followed by a machine learning scoring model to predict narrative and comprehension scores. For scoring predicted transcripts, we…

Find someone who fights for you like catholics fight for unborn children.
https://www.br.de/nachrichten/deutschland-welt/aerger-nach-predigt-erzbischof-goessl-spricht-von-missverstaendnis,Ur6bz2L

Ärger nach Predigt: Erzbischof Gössl spricht von Missverständnis
Der Bamberger Erzbischof Herwig Gössl hat sich nach dem Ärger um seine Sonntagspredigt zu Wort gemeldet: Er spricht darin von Missverständnissen und bietet der Juristin Frauke Brosius-Gersdorf ein persönliches Gespräch an.

‘We can take your children’: Shocking figures show kids are 'fair game' for DHS - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/dhs-children/

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. …

Halfway through reading "Mister Magic" by Kiersten White and really enjoying it. I was intrigued by the horror premise and the thought of a nostalgic children's show with little evidence of its existence despite its many decades run. The clencher was that I heard the author was exploring her religious trauma after leaving Mormonism.
This description opening a scene just made me laugh out loud. "A man like mayonnaise in human form stalks towards them."
I…

Scholastic status of congenitally blind children following sight surgery https://internationalsped.com/ijse/article/view/386 "a compelling case for more rigorous assessments and better educational interventions for visually impaired/sight restored 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…

"The paper is only interested in the use of the idea, not the idea itself. Hardly anyone can understand the importance of an idea, it is so remarkable. Except that, possibly, some children catch on. And when a child catches on to an idea like that, we have a scientist." ("The value of science, Richard P. Feynman)
Short, but it took me all day to read it because I had to stop and think all the time, and it will take a lot longer to actually grasp it.

The anatomy of a flash flood: Why the Texas flood was so deadly #Texas

The anatomy of a flash flood: Why the Texas flood was so deadly
Between July 3 and 6, Texas Hill Country experienced catastrophic flash flooding along the Guadalupe River system. The floods claimed at least 130 lives, with over 96 fatalities in Kerr County alone. More than 160 people were missing as of July 12, including children attending camps along the river.

"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…

War is an unconscionable horror. The illusions of "international law" and "rules of war" have lead us to believe that war can be clean, managed, and "civilized."
But wars are fought by humans and humans are messy. Humans are not well suited to following orderly rules. Humans respond to their environment. Humans in extraordinary situations can be extraordinarily vindictive and brutal. Sufficiently traumatized humans can act without a conscience, spreading trauma like an infection. If humans respond to their situation, then there can be no "civilized" war because war is itself an situation outside of the society. It is a place that promotes antisocial behavior and punishes pro-social behavior. War cannot be expected to follow "international law" because it is what fills the void created by the failure of "international law" (so long as we rely on nations).
To call for war is to inflict atrocities on civilians. It is to kill the parents and children who serve, and to destroy the combatants who survive. It is to infect both sides with a trauma that will spread if untreated, when soldiers come home or when they become mercenaries in other wars.
And yet... there are times when the brutality, the incompetence, the evil becomes so unbearable that no other option exists, when taking up arms is simply bringing symmetry to an existing asymmetric conflict. There are times when the worst possible thing is inescapable, though it can never be justified.
In this new era of war, in the scramble of conflict under the collapsing of the (poorly named) "Pax Americana," I hope that we, the people, can understand that war is not a tool to fulfill an objective. It is not part of a larger strategy. It is not an extension of deplomacy.
War is a failure.
While it may be the only way to deal with the irrational - the genocidal, the slaver, the dictator - it is still a failure. It is a failure to build a world in which these people can't control armies and economies, can't turn populations in to cults and bend nations to their will.
And we will continue to have such wars until we unite against those who would use as as pawns, who would control our lives and lead us to our deaths. We will have these wars until we unite, as one world, against those rulers. This is what I mean, and what a lot of other people mean, when we say, "No War, but Class War."

#Children collecting water are majority of the 10 dead Sunday after Israeli missile strike in #Gaza . #IDF claim "technical error" "under review" as they were only seeking to kill a "militant" dozens of metres b…

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Ebo Taylor:
🎵 Children Don't Cry
#EboTaylor
https://wearemawimbi.bandcamp.com/track/ebo-taylor-junior-children-dont-cry-calisto-edit
https://open.spotify.com/track/0A9mqfp5LRPeLYYJQzMmI1

I know it's not critical to the piece, but it contains a hyperlink going directly to LinkedIn's 404 page, apparently to demonstrate a different page had been deleted?
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/16/nevada-arrest-israeli-official

As a Danish parent of vaccinated Danish children, I'm happy to learn there is no evidence for any harm, but also happy to have contributed to such important science.
Science In Action: Vaccine study retraction request* rejected
*(By RFK Jr)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct6yfq

A look at AI-powered stuffed animals like Grem, Grok, and Gabbo, which are being promoted as an alternative to screen time for children as young as 3 (Amanda Hess/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/15/arts/ai

They’re Stuffed Animals. They’re Also A.I. Chatbots.
New types of cuddly toys, some for children as young as 3, are being sold as an alternative to screen time — and to parental attention.

TIL YouTube's restriction on adding videos to playlists if they're tagged as being made for children is only implemented on the video page and you can do it via the history page
this discovery brought to you by wanting to add a mistagged conference talk to Watch Later

Melania Trump wrote letter to Putin about kidnapped Ukrainian children, Reuters reports: https://benborges.xyz/2025/08/16/melania-trump-wrote-letter-to.html

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.

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

#Fracking #Colorado kids with #leukemia are more than twice as likely to live near dense #oil and

Colorado kids with leukemia are more than twice as likely to live near dense oil and gas development
A recent study found that Colorado children who’d been diagnosed with Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia were more than twice as likely to live near dense oil and gas development, including both conventional and fracking wells, than healthy children throughout the state.Oil and gas wells emit chemicals that have been linked to increased risk for this type of leukemia — the most common form of childhood cancer — including benzene and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, among others.

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

Five months into its unprecedented dismantling of foreign-aid programs,
the Trump administration has given the order to incinerate food instead of sending it to people abroad who need it.
Nearly 500 metric tons of emergency food
—enough to feed about 1.5 million children for a week
—are set to expire tomorrow, according to current and former government employees with direct knowledge of the rations.
Within weeks, two of those sources told me, the food, meant for c…

The U.S. Will Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food Aid
Federal workers warned for months that the high-energy biscuits would go to waste.

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…

Israeli government official arrested in Nevada in internet crimes against children sting (Ramon Antonio Vargas/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/16/nevada-arrest-israeli-official
http://www.memeorandum.com/250817/p28#a250817p28

“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.

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…

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

Series C, Episode 07 - Children of Auron
ZEN: Confirm course changing to zero three one zero. Destination: the planet Auron. State speed.
TARRANT: Standard by Six.
ZEN: Confirm.
https://blake.torpidity.net/m/307/171 B7B5

Department of Justice Subpoenas Doctors and Clinics Involved in Performing Transgender Medical Procedures on Children
https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/department-justice-subpoenas-doctors-and-clinics-involved-performing-tr…

o.O
#IYKYK

Israeli strikes in Gaza kill 93 Palestinians, including several families, health officials say | AP News https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-hamas-war-07-15-2025-43e559363cba4eb99cd7238c00d1de12

Israeli strikes in Gaza kill 93 Palestinians, including several families, health officials say
Gaza health officials say Israeli strikes overnight and into Tuesday killed more than 90 Palestinians across the Gaza Strip, including several families. One strike in the northern Shati refugee camp killed a 68-year-old Hamas member of the Palestinian legislature, as well as a man and a woman and their six children in the same building, according to officials from Shifa Hospital, where the casualties were taken. There was no immediate comment from the Israeli military on the strikes.

It amazes me that people still claim that Israel's actions are entirely about defense, or hostages.
“The fact that there are already 50,000 dead in Gaza is necessary and required for future generations. For everything that happened on October 7, for every person on October 7, 50 Palestinians need to die. It does not matter now if they are children. I am not speaking from revenge. I am speaking to future generations. They need a Nakba from time to time to feel the price. There is no…

Impacts of Mainstream-Driven Algorithms on Recommendations for Children Across Domains: A Reproducibility Study
Robin Ungruh, Alejandro Bellog\'in, Dominik Kowald, Maria Soledad Pera
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.06596

Impacts of Mainstream-Driven Algorithms on Recommendations for Children Across Domains: A Reproducibility Study
Children are often exposed to items curated by recommendation algorithms. Yet, research seldom considers children as a user group, and when it does, it is anchored on datasets where children are underrepresented, risking overlooking their interests, favoring those of the majority, i.e., mainstream users. Recently, Ungruh et al. demonstrated that children's consumption patterns and preferences differ from those of mainstream users, resulting in inconsistent recommendation algorithm performance a…

Layer-Wise Analysis of Self-Supervised Representations for Age and Gender Classification in Children's Speech
Abhijit Sinha, Harishankar Kumar, Mohit Joshi, Hemant Kumar Kathania, Shrikanth Narayanan, Sudarsana Reddy Kadiri
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10332

Layer-Wise Analysis of Self-Supervised Representations for Age and Gender Classification in Children's Speech
Children's speech presents challenges for age and gender classification due to high variability in pitch, articulation, and developmental traits. While self-supervised learning (SSL) models perform well on adult speech tasks, their ability to encode speaker traits in children remains underexplored. This paper presents a detailed layer-wise analysis of four Wav2Vec2 variants using the PFSTAR and CMU Kids datasets. Results show that early layers (1-7) capture speaker-specific cues more effectivel…

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

Empowering Children to Create AI-Enabled Augmented Reality Experiences
Lei Zhang, Shuyao Zhou, Amna Liaqat, Tinney Mak, Brian Berengard, Emily Qian, Andr\'es Monroy-Hern\'andez
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.08467

Empowering Children to Create AI-Enabled Augmented Reality Experiences
Despite their potential to enhance children's learning experiences, AI-enabled AR technologies are predominantly used in ways that position children as consumers rather than creators. We introduce Capybara, an AR-based and AI-powered visual programming environment that empowers children to create, customize, and program 3D characters overlaid onto the physical world. Capybara enables children to create virtual characters and accessories using text-to-3D generative AI models, and to animate thes…

Spelling reform gone awry. #English
The radical 1960s schools experiment that created a whole new alphabet – and left thousands of children unable to spell | Education | The Guardian

One place where you CAN donate to support people in Gaza:
https://chuffed.org/project/allchildrenareourchildren

Giving All Children the Right to Life
All children have an equal right to life, and we're committed to giving the children of G❤️‍🔥za what they deserve. All children are our children, and we each have a responsibility to ensure their rights are fulfilled. 

Lithuania to teach school children how to use drones to counter Russian threat | The Independent
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/lithuania-drones-children-russia-ukraine-war-b2808140.html

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

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

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.

Today's episode of #DemocracyNow is important. #MsRachel, heralded as a modern Mr. Rogers, has opened millions of apolitical eyes to the tragedy in #Gaza. If you can spare an hour, you won't regre…

YouTube Star Ms. Rachel on Her Gaza Advocacy: “My Deep Care for Children Doesn’t Stop at Any Border”
We speak with Rachel Griffin Accurso, the educator known to millions around the world as Ms. Rachel, who has become a leading advocate for children in Gaza. Her YouTube channel for young children became wildly popular during the COVID-19 pandemic and today has more than 16 million subscribers. Since the start of Israel’s war on Gaza, Accurso has used her social media reach to speak out for Palestinian children facing hunger, disease, injury and death. She has been hailed as the heir to Mister…

Trump Admin to Incinerate 500 Tons of Emergency Food for Children (Tom Sanders/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-admin-to-incinerate-500-tons-of-emergency-food-for-children/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250715/p70#a250715p70

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

Texas floods leave at least 51 dead, 27 girls missing as rescuers search devastated landscape.
The destructive, fast-moving waters rose 8 meters on the Guadalupe River in just 45 minutes before daybreak Friday, washing away homes and vehicles.
#ClimatechangeisWaterchange

Kerr County floods: 24 dead and more than 20 children missing in Texas
A Texas sheriff says the deaths from flash flooding in central Texas has risen to 27 people. Among those confirmed dead are children. More than two dozen children from a girls’ camp and many others are still missing while search and rescue efforts were continuing in the Texas Hill Country. The destructive fast-moving waters along the Guadalupe River washed away homes and roads early Friday near the river. Authorities say more than 1,000 rescuers are on the ground. The danger is not over as to…

Louisiana AG Liz Murrill sues Roblox, alleging among other things that it continues to facilitate CSAM distribution and the sexual exploitation of children (Todd Spangler/Variety)
https://variety.com/2025/digital/news/roblox-sued-l…

Roblox Sued by State of Louisiana, Alleging Sexual Exploitation of Kids
Louisiana's attorney general is suing Roblox, alleging it has and continues to "facilitate the distribution of child sexual abuse material and the sexual exploitation of Louisiana’s children."

@… can you comment on the technical background?
https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/114852402217569321

European Commission (@EUCommission@ec.social-network.europa.eu)
Attached: 1 image A safer internet starts with smarter age checks. Today, we're rolling out our first prototype of an age verification app to protect minors: 📱 Online platforms will be able to use it to protect our children from harmful and illegal content. 🚸Young people will be able to verify their age without revealing any other info, such as their identity. 🌍 The pilot phase kicks off with 🇩🇰🇫🇷🇬🇷🇮🇹🇪🇸 Making sure our children and young people…

🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
The KLF feat. The Children Of The Revolution:
🎵 3 A.M. Eternal
#NowPlaying #TheKLF #TheChildrenOfTheRevolution
https://syphadj.bandcamp.com/track/the-klf-featuring-the-children-of-the-revolution-3-a-m-eternal-live-at-the-ssi

Excessive Screen Time is Associated with Mental Health Problems and ADHD in US Children and Adolescents: Physical Activity and Sleep as Parallel Mediators
Ying Dai, Na Ouyang
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.10062

Excessive Screen Time is Associated with Mental Health Problems and ADHD in US Children and Adolescents: Physical Activity and Sleep as Parallel Mediators
To examine associations between screen time and anxiety, depression, behavior or conduct problems, and ADHD among children and adolescents during the pandemic, and to assess whether physical activity, sleep duration, and bedtime regularity mediate these associations. Data from 50231 US children and adolescents aged 6 to 17 years in the 2020 to 2021 National Survey of Childrens Health were analyzed. Exact natural effect models and structural equation modeling assessed mediation by physical activ…

Words matter. Explicit images of children document heinous crimes against children. We need to choose our words carefully when we talk about such things.
https://www.bobmuellerwriter.com/you-keep-using-that-word/

You Keep Using That Word – Bob Mueller
Words matter. How do you refer to explicit images of children?

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

Brazil serves potentially contaminated shark meat to children in public schools https://news.mongabay.com/short-article/2025/08/brazil-serves-potentially-contaminated-shark-meat-to-children-in-public-schools/…

Brazil serves potentially contaminated shark meat to children in public schools
Brazil has ordered at least 5,600 metric tons of potentially contaminated shark meat to serve in schools and other public institutions since 2004, a Mongabay investigation has revealed. Shark meat tends to have higher concentrations of toxic heavy metals, as top predators accumulate contaminants like mercury from lower down in the food chain. The contaminants […]

‘Horrific’ report reveals abuse of pregnant women and children at US Ice facilities
The alleged abuses uncovered include deaths in custody,
physical and sexual abuse of detainees,
mistreatment of pregnant women and children,
inadequate medical care,
overcrowding and unsanitary living conditions,
inadequate food and water,
exposure to extreme temperatures,
denial of access to attorneys,
and child separation.
The report, compiled by t…

Best Practices and Considerations for Child Speech Corpus Collection and Curation in Educational, Clinical, and Forensic Scenarios
John Hansen, Satwik Dutta, Ellen Grand
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.12870

Best Practices and Considerations for Child Speech Corpus Collection and Curation in Educational, Clinical, and Forensic Scenarios
A child's spoken ability continues to change until their adult age. Until 7-8yrs, their speech sound development and language structure evolve rapidly. This dynamic shift in their spoken communication skills and data privacy make it challenging to curate technology-ready speech corpora for children. This study aims to bridge this gap and provide researchers and practitioners with the best practices and considerations for developing such a corpus based on an intended goal. Although primarily foc…

Another day.
Another Israeli massacre.
Another lie from IOF.
Children queuing for supplements killed in Israeli strike in Gaza, hospital says - BBC News
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gd01g1gxro

Children queuing for supplements killed in Israeli strike in Gaza, hospital says
Eight children were among 15 people reportedly killed while queuing outside a clinic in the central town of Deir al-Balah.

Simplifications are Absolutists: How Simplified Language Reduces Word Sense Awareness in LLM-Generated Definitions
Lukas Ellinger, Miriam Ansch\"utz, Georg Groh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11981

Simplifications are Absolutists: How Simplified Language Reduces Word Sense Awareness in LLM-Generated Definitions
Large Language Models (LLMs) can provide accurate word definitions and explanations for any context. However, the scope of the definition changes for different target groups, like children or language learners. This is especially relevant for homonyms, words with multiple meanings, where oversimplification might risk information loss by omitting key senses, potentially misleading users who trust LLM outputs. We investigate how simplification impacts homonym definition quality across three targe…

Reports of young children accidentally eating nicotine pouches rose dramatically
https://www.statnews.com/2025/07/14/reports-of-young-children-accidentally-eating-nicotine-pouches-rose-763-percent-study/?utm_campaign=rss

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…

Number of Ukrainian children killed and injured amid Russian full-scale invasion jumps threefold in recent months: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/04/number-of-ukrainian-children-killed.html

Israeli Minister: 'Gaza must be in Ruins for Decades,' as Airstrike Kills Children seeking Water
https://www.juancole.com/2025/07/minister-airstrike-children.html

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/

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…

Sen. Josh Hawley launches a probe of Meta following a report on its AI policy allowing sensual chats with kids, tells Zuckerberg to produce docs by September 19 (Jonathan Vanian/CNBC)
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/15/meta-ai-bot-child-investigation.html

Sen. Hawley to probe Meta AI bot policies for children following damning report
Sen. Josh Hawley called on Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg to preserve relevant materials, including emails.

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.

Excavation of Children’s Remains Begins at Irish Home for Unwed Mothers - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/world/europe/ireland-excavation-children-tuam.html

Ukrainian doctors transplant organs of deceased girl amid Russian strikes, saving 3 children: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/12/ukrainian-doctors-transplant-organs-of.html

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

Since July 9, Ayman Soliman,
who served for years as a Muslim chaplain at Cincinnati Children’s Hospital,
has been held at the Butler County Jail in Ohio.
His arrest by Donald Trump’s quota-obsessed ICE, during a routine federal check-in,
sparked a local outcry, largely due to his well-established track record of comforting and working with the families of dying and severely ill children during his years at Cincinnati Children’s.

Jailed by Trump’s ICE, Children’s Hospital Chaplain Was Thrown Into ‘Solitary’
Ayman Soliman, a former chaplain at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital, was put in "solitary confinement" after being jailed by Donald Trump's ICE.

5 killed, 53 injured in Ukraine as Russia strikes hospitals, residential areas across country: https://benborges.xyz/2025/07/15/killed-injured-in-ukraine-as.html

Why is the Trump Administration Destroying Almost $10 Million of Contraceptives? (They're also burning 500 tons of food aid meant for hungry children.)
https://jill.substack.com/p/why-is-the-trump-administration-destroying

Role-Playing LLM-Based Multi-Agent Support Framework for Detecting and Addressing Family Communication Bias
Rushia Harada, Yuken Kimura, Keito Inoshita
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.11210

Role-Playing LLM-Based Multi-Agent Support Framework for Detecting and Addressing Family Communication Bias
Well-being in family settings involves subtle psychological dynamics that conventional metrics often overlook. In particular, unconscious parental expectations, termed ideal parent bias, can suppress children's emotional expression and autonomy. This suppression, referred to as suppressed emotion, often stems from well-meaning but value-driven communication, which is difficult to detect or address from outside the family. Focusing on these latent dynamics, this study explores Large Language Mod…

The European Commission says France, Spain, Italy, Denmark, and Greece will test an age verification app meant to protect kids online (Foo Yun Chee/Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-pol…

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/

Children Died to Own the Libs - emptywheel
https://www.emptywheel.net/2025/07/11/children-died-to-own-the-libs/

Russia declares Yale University "undesirable" after it tracked 30,000 stolen Ukrainian children - Euromaidan Press
https://euromaidanpress.com/2025/07/08/russia-declares-yale-university-undesirable-after-it-tracked-30000-stolen-ukrainian-children/