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[Max ماكسويل تايلر @mxtylr]

Happy beginning of bulk season 🏋🏻‍♀️

[Max ماكسويل تايلر @mxtylr]

hola

[Gus Tawse @gus_tawse]

Tesco just arrived with the Christmas delivery. The driver handed me a bag and said ‘There’s a couple of substitutions, here’s your sprig of rosemary and haddock’

I said to him ‘This isn’t the thyme or the plaice’.

[Ms.K @mskmalibu]

you seriously need to have an unshakable belief in your ability to create your own reality

[Max ماكسويل تايلر @mxtylr]

sure

[pinkie pie @specialKslut]

can everyone post their mirror selfie wrapped again this year

[David Leavitt 🎲🎮🧙‍♂️🌈 @DavidLeavitt]

Why?

[Max ماكسويل تايلر @mxtylr]

Proof of life 🩲

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

this is an absolute disaster for meta.

and most people don’t know the tenth of it.

meta studied the solutions to child safety problems, calculated the growth impact, then shelved the fixes for years because metrics mattered more than protecting kids.

in 2019, safety researchers recommended making teen accounts private by default to stop adult strangers from messaging minors. the growth team ran the numbers and found it would cost 1.5 million monthly active teens per year.

policy, legal, communications, privacy, and safety teams all pushed for the change. one safety researcher asked: “isn’t safety the whole point of this team?”

meta waited five years. during that time, teens experienced billions of unwanted interactions with adults. billions. instagram had 38 times more inappropriate adult-teen interactions than facebook messenger.

the company had a 17-strike policy for accounts trafficking humans for sex. you could violate prostitution and solicitation policies 16 times before meta suspended your account. when the head of safety joined in 2020, she was shocked to find instagram had no way to report child sexual abuse content, even though users could easily report spam or intellectual property violations.

meta’s own employees saw what was happening. one wrote: “targeting 11 year olds feels like tobacco companies a couple decades ago. like we’re seriously saying ‘we have to hook them young’ here.”

another researcher studying problematic use said: “oh my gosh yall ig is a drug. we’re basically pushers.”

when meta ran a study showing that deactivating facebook and instagram reduced anxiety, depression, and loneliness, they killed the research and never published results. one employee worried internally: “is it going to look like tobacco companies doing research and knowing cigs were bad and then keeping that info to themselves?”

then in 2020, when congress asked if meta could determine whether increased platform use among teenage girls correlated with depression or anxiety, meta answered: “no.”

they had the data. they had the solutions. they had employees begging them to act. meta chose growth metrics instead, then lied to congress about what they knew.

they knew kids were being trafficked. they knew adults were messaging minors. they knew their products were addictive. they knew the fixes. they ran the math on protecting children and decided it cost too much engagement.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

absolute disgrace.

[David Lawrence @dc_lawrence]

Amazing just how out of touch British political discussion is with reality. The UK has, on one (very sensible) measure, the most "progressive" tax system in the developed world.

But inequality and poverty are still high. Which surely tells you that we need more fundamental reforms for growth and productivity than the lazy "just tax the rich more" nonsense which is espoused by populists on the left. Labour is right to focus its mission on growth, and I hope they keep to that in the Budget.

[lcamtuf @lcamtuf]

Me: I want to have more friends

Tech companies:

[Chloe Timms @clotimms]

The question bothering me: am I getting old, or are M&S making nicer clothes? 🤔

[GL @gldivittorio]

Woke was holding this entire country together

[trash jones @jzux]

this just restored 5 years to my life

[ghost of cool @belovedonly0]

when we were interviewing for an italian linguist one of the candidates said "translations are like women. some are beautiful and some are not"

[The Killers Gay Stan News and Updates @legofsantaanna]

Jay-Z cheated on him too?!?!

[PointlessHub @HubPointless]

Imagine telling someone a month ago that Trump was gonna announce the cure to autism at Charlie Kirk’s funeral

[A Shot @ashotmagazine]

Dua Lipa has dropped her agent David Levy after he signed a letter calling to stop KNEECAP from performing at Glastonbury, due to their pro-Palestine activism.

“She views him as being a supporter of Israel's war in Gaza, and the terrible treatment of the Palestinians and that was made very clear through the letter that he signed and sent to Michael Eavis”, The Daily Mail reports.

[Vittoria @vitt2tsnoc]

It’s been 20-something years & we’re no closer to understanding how Tess Daly got this gig, or how she’s managed to keep it with the wooden delivery, forced banter, fake laughter… yet here she is. Year in year out, prime time TV. An enduring BBC mystery. #StrictlyComeDancing

[al @fxingalx]

Been saying this

[Max ماكسويل تايلر @mxtylr]

Sunday