All 200 episodes of Beavis and Butt-Head have been restored and will soon start streaming on Paramount+ with the original music videos included.

Meta on Tuesday agreed to alter its ad technology and pay a penalty of $115,054, in a settlement with the Justice Department over claims that the company’s ad systems had discriminated against Facebook users by restricting who was able to see housing ads on the platform based on their race, gender and ZIP code. Under the agreement, Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, said it would change its technology and use a new computer-assisted method that aims to regularly check whether those who are targeted and eligible to receive housing ads are, in fact, seeing those ads. The new method, which is referred to as a “variance reduction system,” relies on machine learning to ensure that advertisers are delivering ads related to housing to specific protected classes of people. “Meta will — for the first time — change its ad delivery system to address algorithmic discrimination,” Damian Williams, a U.S. attorney for the Southern District of New York, said in a statement. “But if Meta fails to demonstrate that it has sufficiently changed its delivery system to guard against algorithmic bias, this office will proceed with the litigation.” Facebook, which became a business colossus by collecting its users’ data and letting advertisers target ads based on the characteristics of an audience, has faced complaints for years that some of those practices are biased and discriminatory. The company’s ad systems have allowed marketers to choose who saw their ads by using thousands of different characteristics, which have also let those advertisers exclude people who fall under a number of protected categories, such as race, gender and age. The Justice Department filed both its suit and the settlement against Meta on Tuesday. In its suit, the agency said it had concluded that “Facebook could achieve its interests in maximizing its revenue and providing relevant ads to users through less discriminatory means.” While the settlement pertains specifically to housing ads, Meta said it also planned to apply its new system to check the targeting of ads related to employment and credit. The company has previously faced blowback for allowing bias against women in job ads and excluding certain groups of people from seeing credit card ads. The issue of biased ad targeting has been especially debated in housing ads. In 2016, Facebook’s potential for ad discrimination was revealed in an investigation by ProPublica, which showed that the company’s technology made it simple for marketers to exclude specific ethnic groups for advertising purposes.

When kids make mistakes, and classmates never forgive. (nocash is going out of town for a week and a half. so long suckers)

Last August, Citigroup Inc. wired $900 million to some hedge funds by accident. Then it sent a note to the hedge funds saying, oops, sorry about that, please send us the money back. Some did. Others preferred to keep the money. Citi sued them. Yesterday Citi lost, and they got to keep the money. I read the opinion, by U.S. District Judge Jesse Furman, expecting to learn about the New York legal doctrine of finders keepers—more technically, the “discharge-for-value defense”—and I was not disappointed. But I was also treated to a gothic horror story about software design. I had nightmares all night about checking the wrong boxes on the computer.

Hensel was arrested in November 2019 on suspicion of communicating with a minor for a sexual purpose and faces up to 18 months in prison if convicted. In the years since, Hensel has sought a plea deal that would allow him to avoid registering as a sex offender, according to three people with knowledge of the case who spoke on the condition of anonymity. And he’s picked up an unlikely ally in that bid: former Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Steve Cooley, who over the last year has emerged as one of the leading voices in the movement to recall current Dist. Atty. George Gascón. The recall movement, which now seems to have a chance to collect enough signatures to force Gascón into a recall election, has largely been animated by the idea that the district attorney’s policies are harmful to crime victims. Cooley’s decision to work with a defendant accused of a sex crime involving a child has angered many prosecutors and recall supporters, who say his actions are hypocritical.

The “Late Show” host also fired back at pundits like Tucker Carlson for “drawing any equivalence between rioters storming our Capitol” and a “cigar-chomping toy dog.”

I was invited by Meta (parent company of Facebook & Instagram) to attend a conference called Gather in Washington DC, which took place in May. I learned a ton of stuff while there, both from the workshops and from talking to small business owners from all over the country. As a representative of the digital artist / small business community, I wanted to share my insights about what I learned and what it means for us as creators who make a living off of social media platforms such as Instagram, & Facebook. Quick summary of the things I’ll talk about in this post & what I learned: - what is gather? why is gather?? - reels ? we love reels ? everybody loves reels ? make reels ? - be a good person because gen z likes that shit apparently - you must become an expert in making sick transitions and effects in reels. meta does not care if you are a 65 years old and barely understand how to operate a cell phone. - make your reels ideally only 15 seconds but Also somehow tell a story with a problem, solution, evidence, and a resolution :) - a trend of low engagement on Meta apps across the board for all types of businesses - no reach? no bitches? buy ads :)

One of the most-used tools on the internet is not what it used to be.

The 18-year-old wrote in a court petition that she does not “wish to be related to my biological father in any way, shape or form.”

Louis Jacques Wilguens, 25, was last seen getting off a bus at Disney’s All-Star Sports Resort Saturday near Orlando and was scheduled to return to Haiti the following day.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — A standoff over the security of voting machines between a Republican-leaning county in New Mexico and Democratic state officials that threatened to erupt into a wider political crisis was defused Friday after local commissioners voted to certify their election results. ... “My vote to remain a ‘no’ isn’t based on any evidence. It’s not based on any facts,” Griffin said, nevertheless requesting a hand recount of ballots. “It’s only based on my gut feeling and my own intuition.”

Three people claiming to be "sovereign citizens" were arrested Saturday morning after live ammunition and explosives were found in a vehicle they were driving and at their remote compound, according to the San Bernardino County Sheriff's Department. Deputies had conducted a traffic stop for suspected vehicle code violations Saturday just after 10 a.m. PT on a Ford Taurus near Joshua Tree National Park, a press release from the sheriff's department said. Inside the car were David Russell, 50, and Jeffery Russell, 46, who identified themselves as sovereign citizens. Sovereign citizens are a fringe group whose members consider themselves exempt from U.S. law and who sometimes use violent tactics to justify their beliefs, according to the Southern Poverty Law Center. Authorities said a records check showed that the two men were prohibited from possessing and owning firearms. Deputies found "live ammunition, black gunpowder, and an improvised military-grade explosive device" inside the car, they said, adding that the explosive device was safely disposed of.

Scientists need to know how animals, such as bears, react to the drones being used increasingly to study them.

Like scenes out of a narco television series, exotic animals have been long been part of the Mexican criminal underworld.

A Supreme Court environmental case being decided this month is the product of a coordinated, multiyear strategy by Republican attorneys general and conservative allies. Within days, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court is expected to hand down a decision that could severely limit the federal government’s authority to reduce carbon dioxide from power plants — pollution that is dangerously heating the planet. But it’s only a start. The case, West Virginia v. Environmental Protection Agency, is the product of a coordinated, multiyear strategy by Republican attorneys general, conservative legal activists and their funders, several with ties to the oil and coal industries, to use the judicial system to rewrite environmental law, weakening the executive branch’s ability to tackle global warming. Coming up through the federal courts are more climate cases, some featuring novel legal arguments, each carefully selected for its potential to block the government’s ability to regulate industries and businesses that produce greenhouse gases. “The West Virginia vs. E.P.A. case is unusual, but it’s emblematic of the bigger picture. A.G.s are willing to use these unusual strategies more,” said Paul Nolette, a professor of political science at Marquette University who has studied state attorneys general. “And the strategies are becoming more and more sophisticated.” The plaintiffs want to hem in what they call the administrative state, the E.P.A. and other federal agencies that set rules and regulations that affect the American economy. That should be the role of Congress, which is more accountable to voters, said Jeff Landry, the Louisiana attorney general and one of the leaders of the Republican group bringing the lawsuits.

And I’m supposed to believe this just happens to occur on the day we observe the Juneteenth holiday.

Leftist Gustavo Petro, a former member of the M-19 guerrilla movement who has vowed profound social and economic change, won Colombia’s presidency on Sunday, the first progressive to do so in the country’s history. Petro beat construction magnate Rodolfo Hernandez with an unexpectedly wide margin of some 716,890 votes. The two had been technically tied in polling ahead of the vote. Petro, a former mayor of capital Bogota and current senator, has pledged to fight inequality with free university education, pension reforms and high taxes on unproductive land. He won 50.5% to Hernandez’s 47.3%. Petro’s proposals — especially a ban on new oil projects — have startled some investors, though he has promised to respect current contracts.

As police waited outside the Uvalde school classrooms where students and teachers were being killed, none of them tried to see if the door was unlocked. (So at this point, I have to assume the body camera footage shows the cops shooting at least one of the students, or just practicing their favorite racial slurs as they waited in the hallway.)

Do you worry much about culture wars? I have to admit, I do. I worry for my children and for all our futures, when I see such terrible division online; such hatred and abuse being hurled by people. The tendency — perhaps because we’re at a remove from each other on these platforms — is to insult, deride, even to threaten. It’s dangerous. It leads to anger, conflict, hate and, potentially, violence. It seems almost insurmountable — is there any way back from here?

Blood work showed that Barnaby had an abnormally high level of testosterone — as much as a grown man — when it should be negligible for a boy his age. He also had the bone density of a 4.5-year-old child.