As a parent or caregiver, you’ve probably overheard some slang from your kid. They may say things like, “I’m amped about my drip today,” or, “He’s got rizz. Giving off major BDE.” Maybe they’ve said something like, “No cap, this sandwich is bussin’,” or, “Spill the tea, sis!”

The lingo our kids use every day may be incomprehensible to us, but these words actually have meaning— some we may know, and some we can understand from the context of the conversation.

There are also slang words spoken by our kids that as parents we can be pretty clueless about. Some of these words are made up, shortened, or said as acronyms. Some slang terms are everyday words but hold different meanings.

We’ve come up with a list of popular slang words to help parents better understand their kids and their friends. This list is not comprehensive. Our team will add more words as we collect them and slang trends emerge.

Read more here. 

Scammers are targeting parents by using AI to clone their children’s voices and then calling with fake emergencies and ransom demands. The rapid rise of artificial intelligence technology has allowed scammers to make sophisticated scams with as little as three seconds of a victim’s voice. 

Scammers are using artificial intelligence to mount terrifying scams which see social media users’ voices cloned – with fakers then calling their targets’ parents and pretending to be in trouble, before begging for cash for help.

So-called imposter scams, where a fraudster impersonates someone in order to steal money, are the most common scam in the US, losing American’s $2.6 billion in 2022 alone, the Federal Trade Commission reported.

Artificial Intelligence has now supercharged the ‘family emergency’ scam, where the criminal convinces the victim that a family member is in distress and in immediate need of cash.

One in four respondents to a McAfee survey in April 2023 said they had some experience of an AI voice scam and one in ten said they had been targeted personally.

Scammers can need as little as three seconds of audio, which can easily be extracted from a social media clip, to clone a person’s voice, McAfee’s study found.

Read more here.

“Because God’s children are not for sale.”

Don’t listen to or mind anything you read.

Go see this movie from Angel Studios. #PayItForward.

“Sound of Freedom,” a faith-based film about child sex trafficking, is shaping up to be an unlikely box office hit. Angel Studios, the streaming and distribution company behind the low-budget drama, claims that the film has generated more than $10 million in pre-sales ahead of its theatrical release on July 4. That’s an impressive number for a movie that isn’t relying on a glossy big studio marketing campaign. It’s also another sign of the buying power of religious moviegoers, who helped propel this spring’s “Jesus Revolution” to an improbable $53 million at the global box despite the fact that the biggest star in that movie was Kelsey Grammar.

Read more here. 

Warriors, take a bit of a break. One day. Have some good, old-fashioned quiet time with family and friends.

CALL 911 and report immediately and then contact the CyberTipline. THIS is a crime.

MADISONVILLE, La. – Sen. John Kennedy (R-La.), a member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, today joined Sens. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) and others on the committee in writing to Meta Chief Executive Officer Mark Zuckerberg regarding recent reporting that Instagram’s algorithm promotes and facilitates sexual interest in and activity with children, including the production and sharing of child sexual abuse material (CSAM).

“We are gravely concerned that Instagram’s failure to prevent this perverse use of its algorithms is not due to a lack of ability, but instead a lack of initiative and motivation. In other contexts, Meta has taken steps to map out user networks facilitated by its algorithm, and has even been able to suppress unlawful user content within those networks,” the senators wrote.

“Nevertheless, the Stanford experts determined that Instagram has been ‘ineffective’ in preventing the growth of Self-Generated Child Sexual Abuse Material (SG-CSAM) networks on its platform, largely because of a ‘general lack of resources devoted to detecting SG-CSAM and associated commercial activity.’ It is alarming that online child sexual exploitation and the proliferation of CSAM, including SGCSAM, is not among Meta’s highest priorities—especially when its platform directly facilitates and bolsters the black market for child sexual abuse material,” they continued.

“This Committee has united across the political aisle to combat the evil of online child sexual exploitation. Tech companies cannot assist malevolent actors who seek to take advantage of children. As the experts at Stanford so succinctly articulated, ‘minors do not have the ability to meaningfully consent to the implications of having widely distributed explicit material and the other harms for which it puts them at risk.’  We refuse to let those who traffic in CSAM subject children to these harms and alter the course of their lives. And we refuse to accept Meta’s facilitation of these crimes. We therefore urge Meta to join us in combatting this threat,” the senators concluded.

Sens. Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.), Chris Coons (D-Del.), Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa), Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), Peter Welch (D-Vt.) and Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) also signed the letter.

The letter is available here.

Newly resurfaced footage shows the disturbing DUI arrest of an alleged child rapist who had six young boys and girls in his car along with empty bottles of tequila and Fireball whiskey.

Jeremy Guthrie was arrested last year on a New Mexico highway while driving erratically and police discovered the children — one of which he allegedly raped and impregnated after meeting on social media.

Police bodycam footage from July 5, 2022, showed then 41-year-old Guthrie driving across a highway, and then behaving incoherently once stopped.

When police approached the car they were stunned to find it full of young boys and girls, who Guthrie claimed were “his friends” and insisted with slurred words were all 18.

Read more here.

A full ban on child marriage on Wednesday cleared the Michigan House. The legislation could make Michigan the 10th state to ban the practice that critics call a human rights abuse.

Currently, Michigan is one of seven states that have no legal minimum age for marriage and of the over 5,400 child marriages that occurred in Michigan between 2000 and 2001, according to Unchained at Last, a national nonprofit advocating for an end to child marriage, with 95% of them were marriages between girls and older men.

It is hard to believe child marriage still exists in Michigan, Rep. Kara Hope (D-Holt), who the sponsor of the main bill said on the House floor before votes on the package.

“Often, parents force their kids into marriage because they become pregnant or because they want to be free from their own obligations as parents and in some nightmare scenarios, children become pregnant [with a child rapist’s child] and their own parents make them marry,” Hope said.

Read more here.