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Thursday May 14th, 2026
Scam ads on Facebook
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Santa Clara County Sues Meta for Making
Billions from Scam Ads on Facebook and Instagram
The complaint alleges that Meta tracks up to 15 billion scam ads shown to users
every day across its platforms, generating $7 billion in revenue. The county said in its
complaint that Metas own systems flag ads that are likely scams but, instead of stopping
them, charges scammers a premium price.
Conservatives & worse health outcomes
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Nature Human Behavior: The
political polarization of health outcomes in the USA
Using individual-level medical data and death records, this study shows that
conservative Americans experienced worsening health and higher mortality than liberals
during the 2010s. Here we find evidence consistent with two potential mechanisms. First,
demographic realignment within political coalitions brought less healthy individuals into
the conservative camp. Yet by the 2020s, demographic change, public policy and COVID-19 do
not fully account for the widening gap in mortality rates. Public opinion data are
consistent with a second mechanism: declining trust in medical professionals among right-
leaning individuals, including lower willingness to seek care, follow clinical advice or
believe in medication effectiveness, even for issues unrelated to COVID-19.
$4.9m to open the strait...
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Man lost $4.9m to
impersonation scam claiming Signapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong sought 'funding
assistance' for Hormuz
He was told to sign a non-disclosure agreement, furnish a copy of his
identification card, and was issued with a "letter of guarantee" for reimbursement within
15 business days
Via.
If like our household you are hooked
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If, like our household, you are hooked on the Hallmark series "The Way Home", someone has pieced together the song "Breathe" and recorded it.
https://youtu.be/-FyvmLOE9e4?si=2Rsrs3g73a6BeJ20
a lie citing interface
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You Can't Spell
@cantspell@mastodon.social
You can't spell artificial intelligence without a lie citing interface
AI filtering history
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This thread: Caitlin G.
DeAngelis
@caitlindeangelis.bsky.social
Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records,
including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort
of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents.
I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in
18thc documents.
Wait so basic functionality in MacOS
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Wait, so basic functionality in MacOS has been broken for at least two and a half years?
Sigh.
https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255271725
Wednesday May 13th, 2026
full trippy mode
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COVID was not the cause of test declines
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Oh, you mean the complaints about remote learning not working were largely bullshit, and
the children's happiness at not being forced into bullying situations was seen as a
downside? Golly, who might have thought that the advocates for violence against non-
conforming children might be willing to draw false conclusions?
Kids' test
scores began declining way before COVID. These schools are making gains
The pandemic-era backslide in math and reading scores for students across the
U.S. was not a sudden catastrophe but the continuation of a brutal, decade-long "learning
recession" that began years before COVID-19's arrival. That's according to the latest Education Scorecard, an
annual deep-dive into student data from The Educational Opportunity Project at Stanford
University and Harvard University's Center for Education Policy Research.
Via
Medical AI transcribers full of errors
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