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Israel has killed on average a child every hour for past 23 months.
– Save The Children
https://www.democracynow.org/2025/9/8/headlines/save_the_children_israel_has_killed_on_average_a_child_every_hour…

Save the Children: Israel Has Killed on Average a Child Every Hour for Past 23 Months
Save the Children reports that Israel has killed more than 20,000 Palestinian children over the past 23 months — this means at least one Palestinian child has been killed every hour on average by Israeli forces. The group said, “If the international community does not step up, an entire generation of children in Gaza will be lost.” Meanwhile, another six Palestinians have died from “famine and malnutrition,” bringing the total to almost 400, including 140 children, who have starved to…

How Children Are Influenced by Their Neighborhoods https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item/how_children_are_influenced_by_their_neighborhoods?utm_s…

How Children Are Influenced by Their Neighborhoods
A new study looks outside the home to see how children's surroundings impact their cognitive and emotional development.

In an internal Meta essay, an outgoing AI researcher says a "culture of fear", with performance reviews and layoffs, is spreading like "a metastatic cancer" (Kalley Huang/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/me…

Meta AI Researcher Warns of ‘Metastatic Cancer’ Afflicting Company Culture
Over the past month, Meta Platforms has overhauled its stumbling efforts in artificial intelligence by making a head-spinning series of hires of leaders and researchers from outside the company. But a key question has lingered: Why has Meta struggled so badly in AI that it’s injecting so much ...

Major outlets have cut or reassigned cultural criticism roles, amid industry contraction and the difficulty of stand-alone reviews generating traffic (Charlotte Klein/New York Magazine)
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/do-media-organiza…

Do Media Organizations Even Want Cultural Criticism?
Do reviews draw readers? Boost subscriptions? Sell ads? And if the answer is ‘no,’ what then? Charlotte Klein explores the precarious state of cultural criticism.

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 […]

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-15171489/two-men-arrested-hackers-stole-pictures-addresses-8000-children-nursery.html
Two men are arrested after hackers stole pictures, names and addresses of …

Two men are arrested after hackers stole pictures, names and addresses of 8,000 children from nursery chain database
Met Police officers confirmed they had taken a 17-year-old and 22-year-old into custody where they remain for questioning.

Almost 55,000 children in Gaza are estimated to be acutely malnourished,
far more than have so far been identified as victims of the potentially lethal condition,
a study published in the Lancet, the respected international medical periodical, has revealed.
The study, published on Wednesday, and led by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees (Unrwa),
offers a month-by-month breakdown through much of the two-year conflict,
and shows for the first ti…

"federal agents detained nearly every resident of the 130-unit building—including children and babies—placing them in zip ties and separating them by race into vans for more than two hours early Tuesday morning. "
https://southsideweekly.com/federal-ag…

Federal Agents Storm South Shore Building, Detaining Families and Children
Families were woken by flashbangs and helicopters as hundreds of federal agents raided their homes. Days later, neighbors are still searching for the missing.

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Worth reading. #ai https://open.substack.com/pub/robertsaltzman/p/whos-flirting-with-your-children?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=e…

Who’s Flirting With Your Children?
An Empty Machine With No Mind, No Empathy, No Care