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Ablokeimet @ablokeimet.bsky.social · Dec 15
melbacg.au/hail-the-oct...

We put this out in 2017. #Anarchism
HAIL THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION! – Melbourne Anarchist Communist Group
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ablokeimet.bsky.social
AUKUS will be scrutinised - but not too closely. #EndAUKUS
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Albanese and Ley to decide members of ‘secret’ new committee set to scrutinise Aukus – but Greens excluded
No more than seven government MPs will be appointed but Greens and independents will not be included
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 1:34 PM
ablokeimet.bsky.social
There is grave danger of the death toll being in the hundreds - all because the construction company was trying to hold down costs. #OHS #MurderNotTragedy
www.theguardian.com/news/2025/no...
Hong Kong fire: police blame construction firm’s ‘gross negligence’ as death toll rises to 55
Three construction industry employees arrested after police allege unsafe scaffolding materials may have been behind fire’s rapid spread
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 11:32 AM
ablokeimet.bsky.social
The judges of the Orwell Prize demonstrating what he was warning about.
carolecadwalla.bsky.social Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 1d
I’m a past winner of the Orwell Prize & won partly because I exposed Vote Leave’s unlawful activities.

Michael Gove was its co-convener & refused to answer a single q. He’s now a judge of the prize & our world is truly one that Orwell would recognise

bylinetimes.com/2025/11/25/m...
Michael Gove Made Orwell Prize Judge Despite Record of Attacking Journalists and Dodging Scrutiny
Critics say "Orwell would have enjoyed the irony" of the former Conservative minister's appointment
bylinetimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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patriottakes.bsky.social
Oh…
November 25, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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anildash.com
I keep saying, Google intentionally making its search worse is a world-historical fumble, and it's a huge opportunity for so many others across the internet, if they'll just seize it..
davelevitan.bsky.social Dave Levitan @davelevitan.bsky.social · 2d
Google at its peak was basically the best information retrieval system in human history and they and every competitor decided going from there to “you didn’t want answers you wanted half-assed auto-complete 80%-wrong hallucinations” in a few years was the right idea
November 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
ablokeimet.bsky.social
the article has much info about Christianity amongst the Far & Extreme Right, there's little evidence that it will get them anywhere.

Religious belief in the UK is plummeting &, unlike the US, "No Religion" now nearly outnumbers Christians.
www.theguardian.com/world/commen...
Is British politics immune to US-style rightwing Christianity? We’re about to find out | Lamorna Ash
Nigel Farage and Tommy Robinson are increasingly espousing Christian ‘values’, and a wealthy US legal group is becoming influential – this could have dire consequences, says author Lamorna Ash
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:10 PM
ablokeimet.bsky.social
So much for making America *healthy* again.
November 26, 2025 at 6:29 AM
ablokeimet.bsky.social
And this is a long way from being the 1st false flag action. A few others are given at the end.

Dishonesty is integral to MAGA world. #Antifa
www.thehandbasket.co/p/rep-jeff-v...
NJ GOP congressman's former staffer charged in staged MAGA attack
Natalie Greene worked for Rep. Jeff Van Drew and had body modifications to make it appear she'd been assaulted.
www.thehandbasket.co
November 26, 2025 at 5:52 AM
ablokeimet.bsky.social
#DeleteFacebook
mskohut.bsky.social MS Kohut @mskohut.bsky.social · 2d
“Facebook accounts for 59 to 65 percent of online trafficking recruitment in federal cases. For children specifically, 65 percent. Meta platforms generated 85 percent of all child sexual abuse material reports to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children in 2022.”

GET OFF META!
Mark Zuckerberg has more in common with Jeffrey Epstein than you might expect
Is Meta complicit in a massive transnational human trafficking trade?
open.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:53 AM
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ketanjoshi.co
The more I think about this, the more it really, really, REALLY bothers me

We've reached a point where a text-based reference fabrication engine - comfortably the most effective machine liar we've ever invented - is being pushed by an ultra-polluting tech company and accepted by climate scientists
ketanjoshi.co Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 2d
Deeply absurd. This Google PDF published on a blog (arxiv, not peer reviewed) claims an LLM is "PhD level" but in most cases the MAJORITY of reference URLs were invalid or inaccessible.

A PhD sitting down and just fabricating >50% of sources = career ending

arxiv.org/abs/2511.11597
CLINB: A Climate Intelligence Benchmark for Foundational Models Michelle Chen Huebscher1 , Katharine Mach2 , Aleksandar Stanić1 , Markus Leippold1,3, Ben Gaiarin1 , Zeke Hausfather4 , Elisa Rawat , Erich Fischer5 , Massimiliano Ciaramita1 , Joeri Rogelj6 , Christian Buck1 , Lierni Sestorain Saralegui1 and Reto Knutti5 1Google DeepMind, 2University of Miami, 3University of Zurich, 4Stripe, 5ETH Zurich, 6 Imperial College London Evaluating how Large Language Models (LLMs) handle complex, specialized knowledge remains a critical challenge. We address this through the lens of climate change by introducing CLINB, a benchmark that assesses models on open-ended, grounded, multimodal question answering tasks with clear requirements for knowledge quality and evidential support. CLINB relies on a dataset of real users’ questions and evaluation rubrics curated by leading climate scientists. We implement and validate a model-based evaluation process and evaluate several frontier models. Our findings reveal a critical dichotomy. Frontier models demonstrate remarkable knowledge synthesis capabilities, often exhibiting PhD-level understanding and presentation quality. They outperform “hybrid" answers curated by domain experts assisted by weaker models. However, this performance is countered by failures in grounding. The quality of evidence varies, with substantial hallucination rates for references and images. We argue that bridging this gap between knowledge synthesis and verifiable attribution is essential for the deployment of AI in scientific workflows and that reliable, interpretable benchmarks like CLINB are needed to progress towards building trustworthy AI systems. Total Reference URLs Generated claude-opus-4-1 claude-sonnet-4 gpt-5 hybrid gemini-2.5-pro gemini-2.5-flash o3 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 Proportion Reference URL Status hybrid gemini-2.5-pro claude-opus-4-1 o3 gemini-2.5-flash claude-sonnet-4 0 200 400 600 800 1000 Count of URLs Total Image URLs Generated hybrid claude-opus-4-1 gemini-2.5-flash gemini-2.5-pro claude-sonnet-4 o3 0.0 0.2 0.4 0.6 0.8 1.0 Proportion Image URL Status Status OK INACCESSIBLE_CONTENT INVALID_URL ERROR Figure 3 | Number of reference (top), and image (bottom), URLs and their status. Ablations We perform several ablation studies with the autorater (Table 4). Notably, removing the question-specific rubrics from the prompt changes the results only in the bottom half, with the Hybrid answers overtaken by Gemini 2.5 Flash and Claude Sonnet 4. This suggests that the additional resolution provided by the rubrics applies primarily to the kind of responses used to develop the rubrics. Or, in other words, that rubrics are far from complete. Hence, it is important that rubrics adapt to new data as better models become availab A New Expert-Grounded Benchmark for Scientific AI We introduce CLINB, a benchmark for modelbased evaluation of frontier models on complex, multimodal scientific communication. Its core is a new dataset of real-world climate questions paired with data-driven, question-specific evaluation rubrics, curated and validated by leading climate scientists through a novel three-phase, human-in-the-loop process.2 PhD-Level Synthesis vs. Attribution Failures Frontier models demonstrate remarkable knowledge synthesis, often exhibiting a PhD-level understanding. However, this performance masks a critical inadequacy in grounding. We report substantial hallucination rates for references (10% to 25%) and even more failures for images (50% to 80% in certain settings), exposing a major gap between synthesis and verifiable attribution. Insights into Human-AI Collaboration Dynamics Autonomous frontier models surpass ’hybrid’ answers (curated by experts using weaker AI assistance), revealing the assisting model’s capability—not human oversight—as the primary bottleneck. Counter-intuitively, highly motivated non-specialists (our ’Advocates’) who deeply engage with AI tools can produce higher-quality answers than domain experts who engage less with AI during answer curation. A Validated Methodology for Scalable Oversight We validate a rigorous, rubric-based autorater. Ablation studies demonstrate that structured prompts and automated evidence-checking are essential for mitigating inherent LLM judge biases. This process is hampered by inaccessible sources (up to 50%). Furthermore, we identify evaluation challenges, including model familiarity bias in human raters and the limitations of rubrics to generalize across models.
November 25, 2025 at 7:01 PM
ablokeimet.bsky.social
"Make [somewhere] [something good] Again" is the telltale slogan of reactionaries who want to drag society back to an imagined golden age, usually two generations ago.

In this case, the reactionaries are rejecting two generations &, in the case of vaccines, two centuries (!) of medical progress.
November 26, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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papakila.bsky.social
The Thailand connection makes me wonder if the Trumpers are using the slave labor camps in Burma to manage these fake accounts.
November 23, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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bendobrown.bsky.social
X rolled out a new feature overnight showing where accounts are based. This network of “Trump-supporting independent women” that claimed to be “real Americans” are based in Thailand.

The photos were stolen from European models & posts pushed pro-Trump lines while targeting Islam and LGBTQ people.
November 23, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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3arabawy.substack.com
As a socialist, words cannot describe how grateful I feel everyday for the existence of outlets like @workingclasshistory.com
workingclasshistory.com Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 4d
#OtD 23 Nov 1969 160 car spray painters at the Peugeot plant in Sochaux, France, went on strike for better sickness benefits. The stoppage idled 21,000 other workers, and two weeks later management were forced to concede stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9599...
November 23, 2025 at 2:09 PM
ablokeimet.bsky.social
This is the effective abolition of important civil liberties, purely for the convenience of Victoria Police. #springst #ACAB
www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
‘Vast overreach’: police allowed to conduct warrantless pat-downs of people across inner Melbourne for six months
Search powers, usually reserved for protests, will be in effect in the CBD and beyond in a move criticised by human rights groups
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 11:40 AM
ablokeimet.bsky.social
A small proportion of the psychological trauma of the Palestinians of #Gaza. Though a different flavour: many fewer Gazans will be suffering the guilt experienced by those who commit atrocities. #Palestine #genocide
161bklyn.bsky.social Ⓐnarchohoodism 🐈‍⬛ 🏴 @161bklyn.bsky.social · 4d
I don’t think I was the only one who said it but, I said eventually the soldiers who committed these acts will eventually pay the price, mentally. And it won’t be just PTSD or missing limbs but extremely violent human beings.

www.middleeasteye.net/news/israel-...
Israel faces ‘mental health tsunami’ after two years of war, report finds
Depression, anxiety, PTSD and addiction soar as experts warn of long-term societal impact without urgent government action
www.middleeasteye.net
November 24, 2025 at 7:26 PM
ablokeimet.bsky.social
One of the sillier articles recently by Simon Tisdall. Amongst the various inanities:

* "The American pope could ... shame and tame the monster." Wrong. Trump is shameless.

* "After all, brave Saint George was martyred." No, St George is a myth.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Who can tame Trump? An unlikely candidate is emerging: the Catholic church | Simon Tisdall
Inequality, immigration and civil rights are the battlegrounds on which the church, and some other Christian denominations, are fighting, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 1:10 PM
ablokeimet.bsky.social
"The challenge of stranding potentially trillions of dollars in fossil capital and rebuilding the world is enormous."

Exactly. Stopping #climatechange will require writing off the equity of trillion dollar corporations. #capitalism
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Another Cop wrecked by fossil fuel interests and our leaders’ cowardice – but there is another way | Genevieve Guenther
The fingerprints of Russia and Saudi Arabia are all over the decision text in Brazil. But a group of nations led by Colombia and the Netherlands offer hope, says End Climate Silence founding director ...
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
ablokeimet.bsky.social
An excellent initiative. Cats don't belong in NZ. If it works, it should be expanded to Australia.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
‘Stone-cold killers’: New Zealand to eradicate feral cats by 2050
Feral cats are already caught and killed in some areas but will now be subject to coordinated targeting, with large-scale eradication programs
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:47 AM
ablokeimet.bsky.social
At least stand-up comics' jobs are safe.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Can’t tech a joke: AI does not understand puns, study finds
Researchers say results underline large language models’ poor grasp of humour, empathy and cultural nuance
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:42 AM
ablokeimet.bsky.social
TL;DR: You don't sell your soul to the Devil, you give it away. #racism
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The ‘Danish model’ is the darling of centre-left parties like Labour. The problem is, it doesn’t even work in Denmark | Cas Mudde
This week’s local elections are the latest reminder that when social democrats move rightwards, they’re making a mistake, says academic and author Cas Mudde
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:39 AM
ablokeimet.bsky.social
Right wing activists exploiting a loophole in NSW law to attempt to obstruct construction of #renewables.
ketanjoshi.co Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 3d
"It is located 5km from the town of Deniliquin, but none of that town’s population of more than 2,700 people objected to it.

All 66 objections came from more than 50 kms away, with 60 of them from people located more than 100kms away, and 26 from interstate"

reneweconomy.com.au/long-distanc...
Indeed, there were no objections that related specifically to this project, its location or its impact on any local fauna or flora. It is likely that few if any of the objectors had actually read the project documents in detail. Several objectors think the battery is actually a wind farm, and others think it is a solar project. One is concerned about its impact on the catchment of the Keiwa River, which is 250 kms away, located in another state and on the other side of the Murray River. Maybe they had been encouraged to complain about another project, and forgot to change it for this one. Most simply don’t like the idea of renewables: “Soon, we’ll all be in the dark thanks to delusional Global Boiling cultists!” said one. Some object to the use of agricultural land for a big battery. But the project is located right next to a substation, and is not used for any grazing or crops because it has been degraded by a gravel borrow pit on the site, which has formed a depression with poor soils and weedy vegetation. The battery project developers are actually proposing to do something the previous users didn’t do – rehabilitate it so it can actually be used for agriculture in the future, perhaps sheep grazing. The department of planning said it is likely the project would improve the land, not degrade it. There were plenty of constructive consultations, mostly with local council and other bodies such as the Rural Fire Service, the local Fire Brigade, the local irrigation council, and other entities. The developers, Avenis, responded accordingly and made some adjustments to the project. It has waded through thousands of pages of documents and patiently responded to each and every concern, no matter how wild the claim. The NSW Planning department noted the considerable local benefits, saying some $1.4 million in community benefits had been offered via the council through a voluntary planning agreement, and also noting the injection of some $206 million of capital inv…
November 24, 2025 at 10:38 AM
ablokeimet.bsky.social
#EndTheArmsTrade #DownWithTheHouseOfSaud!
www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Human rights fears over Australia’s role in F-35 parts after Trump’s decision to sell fighter jets to Saudi Arabia
Experts warn US deal on ‘lethal’ aircraft presents issues for Australia that ‘we’ve tried desperately to ignore with the Israelis’
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:32 AM
ablokeimet.bsky.social
AI will destroy real media. This investigation shows you how.
ketanjoshi.co Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 3d
"I was embarrassed. I had been naively operating with a pre-ChatGPT mindset, still assuming a pitch’s ideas and prose were actually connected to the person who sent it"

Stunning investigation of how slop merchants are getting work into established media outlets

thelocal.to/investigatin...
A 2024 story about climate change memes from the non-profit Outrider quotes “Juliet Pinto, a Professor of Psychology” at Pennsylvania State University. I emailed Pinto, who is in fact a communications professor at Pennsylvania State University. “I have not spoken with any reporter about that piece of research, and I am not a professor of psychology,” she wrote back. The piece also quotes “Terry Collins, a climate scientist and professor of environmental science at the University of California.” I could not find anyone of that description, but Terry Collins, the director of the institute of green science at Carnegie Mellon, said he’s never communicated with Goldiee.
November 24, 2025 at 3:36 AM
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workingclasshistory.com
#OtD 23 Nov 1913 Margarita Ortega, a Mexican schoolteacher, sharpshooter and anarchist, was executed by the government of Victoriano Huerta. She had endured four days of torture, but refused to name any of her comrades stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/9596...
November 23, 2025 at 7:25 PM