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Many machines on Ix. New machines.

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#Auspol Leftie, not proud of our performance on The Voice referendum.

You can call me Nick.

Gen X, Elec Engineer, Pro-Palestine, Pro-Renewables, independent Media 👍
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kitykatz.bsky.social
In a nice twist on interfaith cooperation, the blast-proof glass that once protected the Catholic Pope, will now protect Palestinian children & health workers in Gaza from Israeli snipers during mobile medical treatment.

#SanctionIsrael #AusPol

www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Pope Francis's Popemobile transformed into mobile clinic for Gaza children
A former "Popemobile" used by Pope Francis during his 2014 tour of the Holy Land has been transformed into a mobile health clinic for Gaza's children, but Israeli authorities are yet to give permissio...
www.abc.net.au
November 26, 2025 at 12:44 AM
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mrsbettybowers.bsky.social
Riddle me this:

If Trump's military hasn't issued any illegal orders, why has Pete Hegseth been unable to come up with *any* legal justification for killing those fishermen in boats in the Caribbean?🤔
November 25, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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chaos0s.bsky.social
The military is the key. There are too many good people and they will make a difference. Mark Kelly, Mark Milley. Can't imagine ICE with 16th largest military budget not recruiting professional service men + women. Only thugs will join...

www.jackhopkinsnow.com/p/why-senator-mark-kellys-reminder
Why Senator Mark Kelly’s Reminder to the Troops Mattered More Than Anyone Realizes
And Why It Landed Like a Moral Thunderclap Across America’s Democracy-Defending Ranks
www.jackhopkinsnow.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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simonrosenberg.bsky.social
The new standards “send the message that the US no longer believes in the foundational element of the human rights system it helped build.”

How are those "shared values" going @albomp.bsky.social ? #auspol
broadwaybabyto.bsky.social Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 6h
Countries that have abortion access, DEI policies or protection for LGBTQ+ people will be considered “human rights violators“ by the Trump regime

We’re in the upside down.

www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...
Abortion And DEI Policies Now Considered Violations Of Human Rights, U.S. Says
The Trump administration has overhauled how the State Department conducts its annual Human Rights Report.
www.forbes.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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maxberger.bsky.social
When Kash Patel was appointed, it freaked me out as much as any appointment. It was clear his goal was to persecute Trump's political opponents by any means necessary.

But, seeing what a total nincompoop he is, I will almost miss him. He's become my favorite incompetent in the whole regime.
November 25, 2025 at 7:04 PM
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alanlester.bsky.social
Well done BBC News for covering Nigel Farage’s antisemitic bullying at school and his lies about it since.
November 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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teslatakedownuk.bsky.social
"Tesla nearly halved (-48%) its operations in the European Union, with 5,647 registrations in October compared with 10,867 in the same month last year, making it the car brand with the worst performance in the last month."

It's a cult, but a dying one!

mobilityportal.eu/byd-doubles-...
BYD doubles its registrations in the EU in October as Tesla continues to lose ground - Mobility Portal
BYD has accumulated a 240% increase in registrations in the European Union up to the tenth month of the year compared with the same period the year before, reaching a total of 94,216 units.
mobilityportal.eu
November 25, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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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 · 1d
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
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abeba.bsky.social
what stage of capitalism is this
whippoorwont.bsky.social tunes to make you run away @whippoorwont.bsky.social · 10h
stupid young people, stop buying a new phone every year if you don't want to be broke. wait no, not like that.
November 25, 2025 at 6:43 PM
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brainnotonyet.bsky.social
America is so far into the machinery of open fascism that they will be forced to literally fight the cancer off and burn it out of the country or democracy will not be reestablished for generations.
kylegriffin1.bsky.social Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 8h
Breaking: The six Democrats now confirmed they've been contacted by the FBI.

The lawmakers accuse Trump of using the FBI "as a tool to intimidate and harass members of Congress."
kylegriffin1.bsky.social Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 10h
MS NOW confirms: The FBI is working with Capitol Police to schedule interviews with the six Democratic lawmakers who urged service members to refuse to comply with illegal orders.
November 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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chantalalive.blacksky.app
Don't have a kid if you won't vaccinate them against diseases that will kill them with horrible suffering in infancy. I bet these people whose babies are dying of whooping cough in 2025 are pro-life too.
November 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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peggysanders.bsky.social
Jack Waterford: The public doesn’t want what the Liberal Party has been selling. Even more alarming is that opinion polls show that party is on the nose with younger voters, middle aged voters, better-educated voters, women and first-and second-generation migrants. johnmenadue.com/post/2025/11....
Will there be Liberals around to take power in 2034?
The Liberal Party’s rejection of net-zero and its lack of compelling leadership or clear policy vision has left it floundering with key voter groups. Without a coherent plan to make a difference, it r...
johnmenadue.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:48 PM
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sallylawry.bsky.social
In case you missed this on msm.
All that left over food from the two day test seems to have been donated to charities. 450 kg of tomatoes turned into passata 😊
November 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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mariahbrown.bsky.social
🖕 Trump 🤮
mrdhee.bsky.social Mr Dhee @mrdhee.bsky.social · 1d
Hmmm 🤔…
not surprised at all
November 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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davidshoebridge.bsky.social
Last night @davidpocock.bsky.social and I read onto the Hansard an interview by the President of Nauru that the Albanese Government has been desperately trying to keep secret.

It shows Nauru plans to send refugees to places they fled. No wonder the secrecy.
November 24, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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gergyl.bsky.social
One thing that strikes you from this is that, though it's widely claimed Labor had a historically huge election win in May (it did, on seats), that's invisible in primary support. In late 2024 it even looked possible it could lose.

Albanese is flattered by our electoral system.
gergyl.bsky.social Glen @gergyl.bsky.social · 1d
Even longer view, with *election results* long-term trend lines.

Trend LNP polled support is now the lowest on record. It's also well below the long election results downtrend, but not yet remarkably so.

One Nation polled support is well above trend, and headed higher.
November 24, 2025 at 8:45 PM
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climatecouncil.org.au
International and domestic courts are increasingly clear: governments have a legal duty to consider the greenhouse gas emissions released by the projects they approve.

theconversation.com/long-awaited...
Long-awaited environment laws might get Australia sued. Here’s why
Labor has pledged to pass long-awaited environment laws this week. But the current reforms leave Australia open to legal challenge.
theconversation.com
November 24, 2025 at 11:52 PM
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louisviljee.bsky.social
#capturedstate
#fossilcriminals
#auspol
#wapol
November 24, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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peggysanders.bsky.social
Senate was suspended for more than an hour and a half on Monday 24/11/25 during the final sitting week year.
The rare shutdown came after One Nation's Pauline Hanson entered the chamber wearing a burka and subsequently refused to leave after being sanctioned.
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11....
Senate shut down for 1.5 hours after Pauline Hanson's burka stunt
The rare break in proceedings came after One Nation's Pauline Hanson strode into the chamber wearing a burka and then refused to leave after being slapped with a sanction.
www.abc.net.au
November 24, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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beckybunzy.bsky.social
White people just weren’t satisfied with Trump’s ruinous first term. They had to bring him back so he could finish the job of destroying this country.
November 24, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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wtgator.bsky.social
Yes, it is. You paved the way, you insufferable and corrupt bastard. You, sir, are despicable.
November 24, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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peggysanders.bsky.social
Good chance Labor’s environment laws won’t stand up to legal scrutiny. theconversation.com/long-awaited...
Long-awaited environment laws might get Australia sued. Here’s why
Labor has pledged to pass long-awaited environment laws this week. But the current reforms leave Australia open to legal challenge.
theconversation.com
November 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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nickfeik.bsky.social
Hopefully the Greens won’t cave this time. The Safeguard Mechanism was a disaster and this looks even worse.
Labor offers Greens forestry deal in exchange for support on environment laws
The ABC has been told the federal government is willing to ensure native forestry complies with tougher new standards within three years if the Greens back the reforms.
www.abc.net.au
November 23, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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altnps.bsky.social
The Defense Department opened an investigation into Senator Mark Kelly (a former Navy captain and astronaut) after he appeared in a video urging service members to reject unlawful commands.
November 24, 2025 at 10:03 PM