Welcome to modern astroturfing in the social media age.

Statistics related to NCMEC reports can be nuanced. Increased reports can sometimes indicate changes in a platform’s automated moderation, or the criteria it uses to decide whether a report is necessary, rather than necessarily indicating an increase in nefarious activity.

Additionally, the same piece of content can be the subject of multiple reports, and a single report can be about multiple pieces of content. Some platforms, including OpenAI, disclose the number of both the reports and the total pieces of content they were about for a more complete picture.

Once again ArsTechnica pushing shit misleading headlines as usual.

It’s a good thing Google posts the DMCA order so I can see what the URL is so I can never visit it ^{by accident}

Right? Get your kid out of the water, make sure they are safe, get the other kids parents near the pool then accidentally trip them into the pool. It’s not that hard people…

The usual MAGA playbook:

• Denial <<<< headline indicates they are here
• Anger
• Bargaining
• Depression
• Acceptance (or lack thereof)

So I still have to go to work on Monday?

I’ll add that it lowers the reputation of news media to cover gossip trash like this. We have enough TMZs and SkyNews.

Maybe they’ll unlock an AI that is so smart it traps all of them in a room so the rest of humanity can be saved from their evil.

Every nation has the right to protect its citizens at sea from piracy or acts of war.

If a Ukrainian cargo ship was attacked by the Russian navy then Ukraine could protect it and no one would question those actions.

Surely every U.S. Navy admiral and ship captains would know that if they got an order to attack Venezuelan Navy vessels.

Yup go Waterfox. Truely open and a fork of Firefox. It’s the best we have unfortunately.

I believe people in the south often eat loaves of bread whole at once stuffed into their fat faces. Occasionally they make a bread bowl full of fat and butter.

requires a victim to first install a malicious app

Let me stop you right there… and leave.