Fernando Maidana Benegas

By and large, however, the allegations against the other social media platforms are less detailed than those against Meta. The internal documents cited by the plaintiffs allege: Meta intentionally designed its youth safety features to be ineffective and rarely used, and blocked testing of safety features that it feared might be harmful to growth. Meta required users to be caught 17 times attempting to traffic people for sex before it would remove them from its platform, which a document described as “a very, very, very high strike threshold." Meta recognized that optimizing its products to increase teen engagement resulted in serving them more harmful content, but did so anyway. Meta stalled internal efforts to prevent child predators from contacting minors for years due to growth concerns, and pressured safety staff to circulate arguments justifying its decision not to act.

17 strikes and you’re out. 💀

I don’t mean to overreact or anything, but this is the commander-in-chief telling military personnel that Democrats are a problem to be dealt with.

US issues sanctions against UN official investigating abuses in Gaza Trump administration targets Francesca Albanese, a special rapporteur, in latest action against critics of Israel’s war

Trump regime has disgracefully issued sanctions against Francesca Albanese because of her work on #humanRights abuses in the OPT. She recently called out US companies for their role in the #genocide in #Gaza. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

Using TikTok could be making you more politically polarized, new study finds Users on TikTok gravitate to networks of like-minded people, but right-leaning users tend to be in more tightly sealed echo chambers.

TikTok is fueling political echo chambers. A new study shows it’s making users more polarized.

(We love TikTok, too, but take this as a warning to not make it your only or primary news source. TikTok is designed to feed you what you like — and politically, that’s a problem.)

SIBERIA RECORD HEAT
We are past 110 consecutive days breaking records allover Siberia.
Tonight it was the warmest June night in history for more stations in Far East Russia.
HIGH MINIMUMS
22.8 Astrahanka
22.0 Vladivostok
19.2 Jikimda
18.7 Ternej
18.3 Ust'- Njukzha
17.3 Tyanya
16.8 Tongulah

🚨The North Carolina Legislature voted unanimously (107 to 0) to ban minimum parking requirements in new developments statewide.

En su 80 aniversario, la carta de la ONU sufre "ataques como nunca antes", dice el secretario general - EFE El secretario general de la ONU lamentó que la carta fundacional sufre "ataques contra sus objetivos y principios como nunca antes".

El secretario general de la ONU dice que, al cumplirse el 80 aniversario de la firma de la carta de Naciones Unidas, este documento fundacional sufre "ataques contra sus objetivos y principios como nunca antes".

drawing of a cup of coffee When kids can walk/roll safely and independently to school, you can enjoy some peaceful time to yourself. prioritizing youth mobility is prioritizing adult relaxing

Prioritizing Youth Mobility Is Prioritizing Adult Relaxing.

Rue Pierre Castagnou via Google August 2017. It is full of cars.

Same location. Photo by me yesterday.

BEFORE and AFTER: Paris removed cars and added…
✅ greenery
✅ a public restroom, and
✅ two lovers strolling hand-in-hand

Like so many elections around the country, today is about organized money vs. organized people.

I believe people will win.

Rule 25: Don’t Mistake Uber for Transit

In NYC, alcohol-related crashes dropped 25–35% after Uber arrived. But in cities nationwide, ride-hailing has added over 600 million extra miles driven per year.

Walkable City Rules amazon.com/dp/16109189834

A bar chart comparing two financial figures from 2023. On the left, a blue bar labeled "Global transaction costs for money sent home by international migrants" measures $51 billion. On the right, a taller teal bar labeled "Foreign aid from the United States" measures $66 billion. The chart title indicates that global migrant transfer fees nearly matched total U.S. foreign aid in 2023. The data source information notes the OECD from 2024 and the World Bank from 2025, and it explains that "foreign aid" refers to net official development assistance. The graphic has a "CC BY" copyright indication.

Transfer fees for money sent home by international migrants were nearly as high as US foreign aid in 2023

I’m checking out shared streets in Paris.

Donald Trump asegura que Irán notificó de antemano a EE.UU. del bombardeo que Teherán llevó a cabo hoy contra su base aérea en Catar y califica de "muy débil" el ataque. https://efe.com/mundo/2025-06-23/eeuu-ataques-iran-base-oriene-medio-conflicto/

A HISTORIC MILESTONE: For the first time, solar power generated more electricity globally than nuclear, making it the world’s 4th largest power source.

In just 5 years, solar output nearly tripled—from 79 TWh (Apr 2020) to 233 TWh (Apr 2025). The energy transition is speeding up.

@ember-energy.org

The country of free speech

Buenos días
Esto que dice doña Mafalda es muy frecuente ⬇️

CARTOON OF THE DAY… 🇺🇸

Hope! Estamos a tiempo - Episodio 1 | Ver ahora Accede a RTVE Play para disfrutar del episodio 1 de 'Hope!', serie documental con Javier Peña, que aborda medidas concretas para frenar el cambio climático

No puedo dejar de recomendar la serie Hope! Ya disponible en RTVE Play (www.rtve.es/play/videos/...). Muy emotivo el primer episodio.

Mi enhorabuena a @hopeenpie.bsky.social y a todo el equipo. ¡Hace falta esperanza!

Hope! Estamos a tiempo - Episodio 1 | Ver ahora Accede a RTVE Play para disfrutar del episodio 1 de 'Hope!', serie documental con Javier Peña, que aborda medidas concretas para frenar el cambio climático

En estos tiempos convulsos, en que el ser humano sigue empeñado en matarse los unos a los otros por intereses espurios, esta magnífica serie (www.rtve.es/play/videos/...) nos recuerda cuál es la única guerra que merece la pena librar @hopeenpie.bsky.social

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New study provides insights for developers and stakeholders in the #housing sector to pinpoint avenues for increasing acceptance for #downscaling living space, thereby aiding the transition to more #SustainableHousing choices
buff.ly/BChkQQF

Countries With Temperature Extremes Above 48°C and/or Below -48°C

Source: moverdb.com/above-below-48/

We are governed by a petty, thin-skinned, grievance-filled, insecure man-child.

Locked in at the cafe

I know it's a cliche to be posting pictures of Dutch cyclists, so let me stop.

Just this much: We can have nice things, too, If we just think a bit more about the infrastructure we build, and the society we build with it.

Headline reading "US Energy Secretary Pledges to Reverse Focus on Climate Change" Subhead: "To applause from oil and gas executives, Chris Wright said natural gas was preferable to renewable energy and climate change was a 'side effect of building the modern world'.

It is both true:

1) Fossil fuels made possible unprecedented human prosperity during the last 150 years.

2) Their byproducts are harmful.

We've reached a level where we can replace fossil fuels and still ensure human well-being, but some prefer to keep polluting.

www.nytimes.com/2025/03/10/c...

True facts.

An illustration showing the impact of parking requirements on land use. From left to right, the image depicts a gradient of increasing parking mandates: 'No Parking Required' allows for dense, walkable development; '1 Space per 500 Square Feet' introduces some parking; '1 Space per 250 Square Feet' adds more parking lots; and '1 Space per 100 Square Feet' results in sprawling, car-centric infrastructure with large parking lots dominating the landscape. The logo 'PRN' and 'PARKING REFORM NETWORK' are visible at the bottom.

“The right to have access to every building in the city by private motorcar, in an age when everyone possesses such a vehicle, is actually the right to destroy the city.”

- Lewis Mumford

Op-Ed: Elon Musk Is Wrong About Amtrak — Streetsblog USA No, America should not privatize Amtrak "like China." But we could learn a thing or two from their rail success. (Spoiler: it's largely state-funded.)

No, America should not privatize Amtrak "like China." But we could learn a thing or two from their rail success. (Spoiler: it's largely state-funded.)

Musk told the Polish FM, a long-standing conservative ally of the US, "be quiet small man".

What I find so fascinating about Trump, Vance and Musk's verbal abuse of Ukrainians & Polish officials etc, is: can you imagine them speaking like this to a Russian or Chinese official?