Meanwhile, in one of the worst ad placements I've seen in my life: McDonald's asks you to "Activate Spicy Mode" partway through this article.
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Goes well with their new fish sandwich mascot Sea Sam!
unsurprising, the technology has been capable of this for years all it took was someone being brazen enough to make it into a buisness
So by viewing ads you get CSAM in your browser cache. Therefore you can be charged with 1 count of possession for each image saved. Failure to use an ad blocker is dangerous.
Let's make toxic masculinity work for good.
"Real men don't use AI."
As bad as this guy is (literally just one of THE worst guys), I can never get over how his wife is a pediatrician and they have three daughters and she's just along for the ride? The damage that family does to millions of children, and especially girls, through their direct action and inaction is astonishing.
Must be an ironclad prenup
I really feel bad for parents like you. What a horrible era to live through. Younger people like me, who don't have any direct siblings or significant others don't have much to worry about. But I can't even imagine what it must be for people with families.
The Epstein class supports kiddy porn for profit? Shocked! I tell you shocked!
I'm so happy that photo exists.
zuck attended epstein's party at one of his "properties" along with other well known billionaires in the past, he definitely knows or is involved.
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Other ads animated a photo of a 14-year-old Instagram influencer “showing off her new sports club uniform” into “a video of her performing oral sex.”
Ok that's enough internet for now. Please alert me when it is safe to return.
Internet? That's enough humanity. We had a... run. Time to burn it all down.
fwiw, I think this is their actual endgame: use digital to convince people this isn't a small cabal of the ultrawealthy causing so much of this harm.
They say dictators don't need majority support, only a majority of people doubting themselves.
At least 56,575 children are sexually abused every year.
That’s according to U.S. child protective services records.
The number is staggering—yet it only reflects child sexual abuse that is recognized, reported, and found likely to have occurred against children ages 0-17.
FBI crime data shows that 51% of reported rape is perpetrated against people ages 0-19.
That’s approximately 61,754 young rape victims every year, including our most vulnerable children, adolescents navigating middle and high school, and young adults just beginning to move through the world with more independence.
Out of 73 million.
The point I was making was that it isn't just a small cabal of the ultrawealthy that commit these crimes. A point that went right over your head in your attempt to downplay the severity of child rape.
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Don't wait standing
(I dont know if this translates, in argentina we day "get yourself a chair" or "don't wait standing" meaning that something wont happen)
The English equivalent would be "Don't hold your breath"
The meaning of the idiom is remarkably clear in English. I propose we adopt this one.
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I think we say, "don't hold your breath," in English.
Or “don’t count on it” (because if you did you’d be counting for eternity)
I’m sure there’s more I’m not thinking of right now…
“Why don’t you wish in one hand and shit in the other, and see which one fills up first”
… yeah, I like the chair one
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Ah, in English we say "don't hold your breath" for that, although sometimes it's also used for things that might happen eventually but it will take a long time.
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Uk what sucks? We knew AI was capable of it from start. Hell, we even saw this happen on twitter. And yet what we did? Just let it happen. Gave a slap on the wrist to elon, and did nothing to address this.
I remember when I first saw nano banana I immediately deleted all my profile photos, and looked up on wayback machine to see if any of my photographs were archived or not. Yeah it's kinda late and it must be somewhere on some hidden archive, but atleast I've bought myself some time. Since that day I have maintained a strict policy amongst my friends and family that I'm not going to be in photographs that are going to be posted online.
Also I want to be clear, I'm not saying it's corporations responsibility alone. It's responsibility of individual people to not use it. This is freaking crime. But I'm pissed how world is trying to make it the new normal, and regulators have been too sluggish to respond to it.
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There's a nonzero chance oligarchs are pushing this to normalize pedophilla.
Like how Ghislane Maxwell was super involved in early reddit and their main draw for a long time was "legal" sexualization of children.
Especially since it's a common accusation they make against "the left". Most of the time when they accuse, it's a confession.
pushing this to normalize pedophilla.
They don't really need to manufacture how normalized pedophilia is in our society. They're simply capitalizing on it.
Doesn't the widespread outrage kind of speak against this, though?
Here in Hungary, it was a scandal regarding the cover up of sexual abuses of young children under state protection that sparked the overthrow of Orbán, and was the only thing that managed to crack that nut finally. It's hard to overstate how much it galvanized people, even his own supporters, against him.
I don't know, I understand that it's demoralizing and I can even buy the argument it's more normalized than it should be, but the very existence of outrage against figures like Epstein (which seem to me to be extremely widespread, though maybe I'm missing something being out of the country for some years at this point) or this Hungarian scandal lead me to think the vast, vast majority of people do not find it remotely normal or acceptable. I don't think tarring all of society with the brush that it's been normalized is accurate. Or I'm misunderstanding what you mean by normalized.
It's extremely telling that your comment is the first I've heard of that aspect of the election in Hungary. The mainstream press in the US effectively shrugged and said "I guess they just got tired of him"
In fact, it feels a lot like how the press in my country "explained" Obama's first election. Just a vague "Americans are tired of the Republican leadership and wanted change," Like the torture and disappearing of anyone they could sweep under the abstract wars of the time wasn't outrageous enough
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Hell, I vividly remember the old /u/ViolentAcrez thing, and tons of users being butthurt when subs like /r/Jailbait, /r/CreepShots, and /r/Upskirting were taken down.
Fuck spez
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You know how in the movie Idiocracy they used " 'baitin" as a shock factor, and had all the woman characters be demeaned and sexualized?
Somehow, this is a lot worse.
Avoiding all meta apps is a good decision.
Good to know what the data centers get built for.
Bro what the fuck
This country hates its children. And all vulnerable people. We continually treat them as disposable, exploitable resources instead of people deserving of protection and care.
Today's kids regularly have to rehearse finding cover from a hail of bullets at school, try to prepare themselves for an unlivable ecology, and wonder if any random picture of them will instantly be turned into porn via the new basis of our country's economy. Capitalism is going great.
yes, you can tell this by just looking at all the things that require ID to use (amtrak for example)
We always have treated our children as disposable. It was difficult even to prohibit factory child labor, which faced serious resistance from the courts. Some states are even reversing that. (Agricultural child labor is still legal.)
I good deep dive is the You're Wrong About on Juvenile Justice (here on YouTube.)
TL:DR we have a whole subset of crime for kids, delinquency which is stuff that's a crime for kids to do, but not adults. And delinquency crimes are totally used as a pipeline to get kids into the prison industrial complex.
Also, our public education system has always had containment as a priority. When kids are not working but their parents are, they get into mischief, and thus we needed somewhere to cage them. This, and not edification, is why school is mandatory.
Children have fewer rights than adults do, and the law enforcement and the justice system takes full advantage of that to exploit kids.
This is the United States of America.
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Abolish Facebook
Legend has it that every new technology is first used for something related to sex or pornography. That seems to be the way of humankind.
---Tim Berners-Lee, inventor of HTTP and HTML
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2002/mar/03/internetnews.observerfocus
The dirty secret that drives new technology: it's porn
The Guardian, 24 years ago
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