ABC Australia has a YouTube series called “You Can’t Ask That” in which they bring in people from various marginalized/stereotyped groups who have volunteered to answer “inappropriate” questions. I’m sure they aren’t fully representative but they do foster empathy & I think they’re generally great.
Muslim women on hijabs, gender inequality, abuse and faith | You Can't Ask That | Full Episode
youtu.beJul 26, 2026 at 2:51 PM
Advocacy groups urge YouTube to protect kids from 'AI slop' videos
Advocacy groups and experts have slammed YouTube for serving up low-quality artificial intelligence-generated videos to its most vulnerable audience: children.
Australia’s teen social media ban is a flop. But there’s no joy in ‘I told you so’ | Samantha Floreani
Around seven in 10 children remain on major platforms. Who could possibly have predicted that this wasn’t going to work? Well, lots of people
Google AI Giving Staggeringly Racist “Advice” About Being Alone With Certain Groups of People
Google's AI Overviews feature is showing overtly racist responses about being alone with certain groups of people.
I am a 15-year-old girl. Let me show you the vile misogyny that confronts me on social media every day | Anonymous
Objectification, hate, rape threats: the politicians debating online abuse mean well, but to truly understand, they need to see what I see
Too amused to stop? Self-control and the disengagement process on Netflix
Abstract. Consuming media entertainment often challenges recipients’ self-control. While past research related self-control almost exclusively to whether i
ThisIsMissEm/questionable-fyi
Questionable is an AT Protocol app for asking questions and getting answers, receiving asks and doing interviews or AMAs
Mel Andrews on Twitter / X
Whether predictive systems can be ethically—or even functionally—used in socially sensitive contexts depends on their epistemic credentials. I am delighted to see my work inform policy recommendations in a new report from Amnesty International. https://t.co/NbQBM31N5M pic.twitter.com/EXPgxXgszF— Mel Andrews (@bayesianboy) June 11, 2026
Norms in the Wild: How to Diagnose, Measure, and Change Social Norms
Abstract. Norms in the Wild takes a unique look at social norms, answering questions about diagnosis (how can we tell that a shared practice is a social no
Inside ‘AI Addiction’ Support Groups, Where People Try to Stop Talking to Chatbots
People are self treating themselves and other community members in subreddits like character_ai_recovery, ChatBotAddiction, and AIAddiction.
The forced global adoption of puritanistic American cultural norms vis sexuality and nudity via app store/payment processor rules is one of the least-discussed free speech issues of the last decade and this lack of attention is going to hurt online expression so much in the years to come.
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I think also we cannot ignore the potential social and cultural ramifications of normalizing the demonification of anything adult or sexual The whole system is stacked against any sort of movement in the other direction and it's not something the porn industry can handle alone at this point
humble opinon: it's hard to be taken seriously when you tell everyone about respecting users' agency and then force a change of *their content presentation* with no controls in other words: why do y'all have so much care at the protocol level and seems to have so little on everything user facing?!
I wish the Atmosphere had content warnings (like on the fediverse)... because I'd like to show you the limits of free speech absolutism and the kind of content that is allowed on #WSocial: blatant racism, xenophobia and transphobia. X vibes... but hey, it's "hosted in Europe" 😒
Ooof, this is really bad and their lackadaisical response is even worse
Robin Berjon
It looks like W Identity, the part of @wsocial.eu that checks your papers before you go in, has a very basic XSS on its admin backend, found hours after launch. This seems almost too predictable... Cyberfriends, any thoughts on how bad? 23.social/@kantorkel/116767220594438841
Ooof, this is really bad and their lackadaisical response is even worse
Robin Berjon
It looks like W Identity, the part of @wsocial.eu that checks your papers before you go in, has a very basic XSS on its admin backend, found hours after launch. This seems almost too predictable... Cyberfriends, any thoughts on how bad? 23.social/@kantorkel/116767220594438841
