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[caemag]

might aswell list my other blogs

@hexxeh is the more heavy stuff

@caemag is for more lighthearted stuff

@nxacev is for the cute stuff

@skipmag lighthearted stuff more fanart reblogs

[probablyasocialecologist]

Age verification tech could put children at greater risk, says think tank | Computer Weekly

UK proposals for mandatory age verification will not mitigate children’s exposure to harmful content and ‘addictive’ app design, and risks e

The Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) warned that many of the proposed solutions for age verification will exacerbate the harms they are trying to prevent, and could expose children to risks of blackmail and abuse. The warning follows comments from technology secretary Liz Kendall that “drastic” action was needed to protect young people from social media, with nine out of 10 parents saying they are in favour of a ban in response to a government consultation. FIPR said in evidence to the Department of Science, Innovation and Technology that mandatory age verification does not address harmful content on social media and could lead to many adults in the UK being excluded from digital services. “While it is tempting to rely on ‘magic’ technological fixes for online harm, these will not work, will concentrate even more power in the hands of large tech platforms, and will risk letting them off the hook for the wider social harms to which they contribute,” said Ben Collier, FIPR chair and senior lecturer at the University of Edinburgh.

[...]

The think tank points out that many of the more technically focused approaches to age verification do not effectively mitigate children’s exposure to harmful content, “addictive” app design, and risks to children’s privacy and security of their data, and could increase children’s exposure to them. For age verification to be effective, both children and adults may be required to prove their age to use online services, for example, by providing biometric information, credit cards or government-issued identification to verification services or online sites. This poses security and privacy risks for both adults and children, and requires users to trust the verification service will store their data securely and will not misuse or profit from the data provided, as Facebook did in 2018 when it came under fire for reusing phone numbers provided for account verification for advertising purposes. Technology that detects the age of people from their face is trained on data from an average population, and tends to perform poorly with minority, ethnic, disabled, LGBT and other “structurally disadvantaged groups” at risk of being excluded from social media and other internet sites, and could be further marginalised. Such systems risk normalising repeated age checking across the internet, making it easier for hostile actors or criminals to use age verification to steal biometric data or credit card information.

2 June 2026

[segamascott]

[kropotkindersurprise]

ooooo they updated the visualisation of the reblog graph to be radial instead of kinda randomly mixed together! look how pretty it is now!

I know I normally only complain about Tumblr, but this is pretty cool @staff

[kropotkindersurprise]

it even has a handy fullscreen view :3

[kropotkindersurprise]

before this update this was already a handy tool to figure out how your post got to be circulated among maga tumblr, or terf circles or whatever. Just find out the first person in the chart at the start of a whole branch of bigots reblogging your post and then block them (and possibly the person they reblogged from) and it will cut down on a ton of exposure to garbage corners of tumblr. thye just made it a lot easier to work with.

Now, if they would actively start doing something against the pro-genocide and transphobic and nazi communities on here i would be even more excited.

[kropotkindersurprise]

ooooo they updated the visualisation of the reblog graph to be radial instead of kinda randomly mixed together! look how pretty it is now!

I know I normally only complain about Tumblr, but this is pretty cool @staff

[kropotkindersurprise]

it even has a handy fullscreen view :3

[kropotkindersurprise]

before this update this was already a handy tool to figure out how your post got to be circulated among maga tumblr, or terf circles or whatever. Just find out the first person in the chart at the start of a whole branch of bigots reblogging your post and then block them (and possibly the person they reblogged from) and it will cut down on a ton of exposure to garbage corners of tumblr. thye just made it a lot easier to work with.

Now, if they would actively start doing something against the pro-genocide and transphobic and nazi communities on here i would be even more excited.

[probablyasocialecologist]

Derisking, as a weak strategy of stabilizing on behalf of capital, often triggers political backlash since it uses public power to secure disproportionate distributional gains for investors. It is also ridden with coordination failures, since it assumes that the state can stabilize markets by modulating price signals without controlling them. Despite such systemic fragilities, the derisking regime remains politically appealing because it promises effective crisis management without institutional change and large public spending. Derisking is the path of least institutional resistance, the mark of a state that has hollowed out its capacity for direct intervention. This is why, in a situation of large price shocks—the kind triggered by petro wars, climate disasters, or supply chain shocks—derisking can easily tip into carbon shock therapy.

Daniela Gabor, Benjamin Braun, Against Carbon Shock Therapy

[probablyasocialecologist]

Zack Polanski warns Britain’s food system is ‘close to collapse’

The Greens have called for a £1,000-a-month basic income for some agricultural workers

is set to deliver a stark warning about the UK's food system, describing it as "close to collapse" and asserting that food workers' contributions are "sneered at." He will use a speech on Monday to call for greater support for farmers. Mr Polanski will advocate for robust regulation of supermarkets to ensure growers receive a fair deal for their produce. He is also expected to demand that the Government present a "real plan" to bolster the struggling agricultural sector. Among the Greens' proposals are extending free school meals to all primary and secondary pupils. They also suggest a £1,000-a-month basic income for some agricultural workers, which they state would be financed through a levy on the wealthiest landowners. Furthermore, the party pledges a universal £15 per hour minimum wage for all workers, irrespective of age, with the costs for small businesses mitigated by reductions in their National Insurance contributions. Speaking to the Bakers, Food and Allied Workers Union on Monday, Mr Polanski will say: “Just a couple of weeks ago, we saw the hottest May day ever recorded in the UK. “By the beginning of May, the UK had received 23% less rain than average. The Climate Change Committee warns that within 25 years we could see temperatures above 40C. “That doesn’t just mean more people getting sick from extreme heat, or more pressure on infrastructure that just isn’t built for these temperatures. As many of you in this room well know, it has terrifying implications for the most fundamental need we all have – food.”

8 June 2026

[lupusbaby]

Say it with me! Wheelchairs aren’t sad! Mobility aids aren’t sad! Mobility aids are instruments of freedom!

[goth-princess-gwennie]

Forgive me if this is inappropriate but

So are

colostomy bags

Diapers

insulin pumps

Oxygen systems

Braces

[elliespectacular]

A lot of people imagine being able to comfort their past selves, telling them things are gonna be ok and to keep going, etc.

You ought to imagine your future self doing that for present-day you. Who would you be not to listen?

[elliespectacular]

A lot of people imagine being able to comfort their past selves, telling them things are gonna be ok and to keep going, etc.

You ought to imagine your future self doing that for present-day you. Who would you be not to listen?

[afloweroutofstone]

Every single American is on welfare, they just find ways to pretend that it isn’t welfare. Do you think that your home mortgage interest deduction fell from the sky? Do you think God granted you a child tax credit

[depsidase]

[fallout-lou-begas]

currently explaining "chap hop" to a coworker. they weren't there. it feels like a hallucination

[fallout-lou-begas]

so back in the late 2000s/early 2010s a bunch of reddit white guys thought it would be epic and awesomesauce to tongue-in-cheekly "class up" rap music by performing as antiquated british gentlemen dandies and rapping about only the most distinguished subject matters (like the "nerdcore" craze but so much worse, genuinely) and that's how you got shit as radioactive as this

[fallout-lou-begas]

this godforsaken website is so white that i really should have foreseen real human bloggers shooting for chap hop in the big 2026

[captain-price-returns]

Cops busting through a barricade that they set up is pretty tough to misinterpret.

[stalinita]

Marco Rubio is such a fucking idiot. He keeps trying to convince CUBANS who have been enduring shit from the US for six decades that it's actually communism's fault and that Cuba's government is actually the one causing blackouts and not letting anything in.

I mean, the blockade is just an established fact.

He really thinks that Cubans are dumb. He thinks that they have no idea how Cuba was before Fidel- that they know nothing about their own history, about why they had a revolution.

Cubans KNOW why there was a revolution, a lot of older Cubans even remember it, and that's why so many would do anything for the revolution.

I hate Marco Rubio so much.

[kropotkindersurprise]

[guerillas-of-history]

Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine (DFLP)

Military wing: National Resistance Brigades (Martyr Omar Al-Qasim Forces)

(Photo credit: Jaafar Ashtiyeh/AFP)

[guerillas-of-history]

A portrait of a member of the Sandinista National Liberation Front (FSLN), Nicaragua, 1979.

(Photo credit: Richard Cross)