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Rain
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Friend. Librarian. Employed. Artist. Patron. Advocate. Ally. Activist. Listener. Caregiver. Human. And MUCH more. Personal account--thoughts are my own. she/they
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Standard Disclaimer: This is my PERSONAL account.

I dump my life here--work, home, brain, politics--good, bad, & ugly.

I am happy to have you here, but I get it if I too much!
I love when new people follow me after I do a chat & then they are like, "WOAH! I didn't sign-up for THIS much Rain!" 🤣🤣🤣
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After two infants died, the Louisiana Dept of Health under the leadership of the new incoming deputy director of the CDC, delayed notifying the public for months of a whooping cough outbreak. Instead, he ordered DOH to stop promoting vaccines. Pertussis is currently a national health crisis.
Louisiana officials waited months to warn public of whooping cough outbreak
After a whooping cough outbreak killed two infants, Louisiana health officials waited months to officially alert physicians or do public outreach. That's not the typical public health response.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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Pertussis cases in Texas are 10x higher than all of 2023, and 2x as high as last year — 4x for the same period. The official count is higher by a 1k than it has been in more than a decade. Last time it was over 2k was 2014 with 2,576. It’s past 3,500 for 2025.

www.dshs.texas.gov/news-alerts/...
November 5, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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A third infant has died in Kentucky, KYDPH adds:

“These are Kentucky’s first pertussis deaths since 2018. None of the infants nor their mothers received the recommended pertussis vaccinations during pregnancy or early infancy.”

s3.amazonaws.com/nursing-netw...
November 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
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There’s no nice way to say this: promoting anti-vax bullshit while kids are dying of vaccine preventable illnesses is tantamount to murder, and should be treated as such in the media and the courts.
November 25, 2025 at 9:59 PM
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Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.

What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.

And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.
heated.world
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
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It's way past time to #EndCitizensUnited. Robert Reich just posted a way that avoids SCOTUS and a Constitutional Amendment.

I just wrote this letter to my State AG. I encourage everyone to write to theirs.
November 25, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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Good grief: The outrage over eyelashes has been eclipsed by panic over nonexistent cartoon unicorn genitals. Book banners are seriously out of their minds.
Please don’t say “genitals” one more time, Carroll ISD SLAC.
Listen to the audio of the committee that decided to ban Pretty Perfect Kitty Corn from Carroll ISD. If you dare.
franklinstrong.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 1:52 AM
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Teddy wanted y’all to see his new cut
November 26, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Goodnight, friends.

If you're traveling, stay safe. If you're spending time with folks who make you anxious or don't respect you, breathe and protect your boundaries.

If you're by yourself, know that someone cares. If you're with people who love you, savor it and share it.

I love you.
a cartoon character is hugging another cartoon character with the words take care above it
Alt: a cartoon character is hugging another cartoon character with the words take care above it
media.tenor.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:06 AM
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“The chatbot tells you to kill yourself because you violated the TOS” is fucking diabolical.

Why does this company exist.
November 26, 2025 at 12:56 AM
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“OpenAI’s court filing argued that the harms in this case were at least partly caused by Raine’s ‘failure to heed warnings, obtain help, or otherwise exercise reasonable care,’ as well as the ‘failure of others to respond to his obvious signs of distress.’”
OpenAI denies allegations that ChatGPT is to blame for a teenager's suicide
Adam Raine's family sued the AI company in August. On Tuesday, OpenAI said in a new court filing that it isn't responsible for the teen's death.
www.nbcnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
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#OpenAI is blaming the victim. This company should be shut down.
“OpenAI’s court filing argued that the harms in this case were at least partly caused by Raine’s ‘failure to heed warnings, obtain help, or otherwise exercise reasonable care,’ as well as the ‘failure of others to respond to his obvious signs of distress.’”
OpenAI denies allegations that ChatGPT is to blame for a teenager's suicide
Adam Raine's family sued the AI company in August. On Tuesday, OpenAI said in a new court filing that it isn't responsible for the teen's death.
www.nbcnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:16 AM
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NEW - OpenAI has responded to the lawsuit from the family of Adam Raine, the teen who committed suicide after months of talking to ChatGPT.
November 25, 2025 at 11:45 PM
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Highly recommend setting aside some time to read the full investigation into Oregon's AI-fueled toxic drinking water crisis by @rollingstone.com and @thefern.org

It’s one of the most important pieces of accountability reporting I’ve seen this year
‘The precedent is Flint’: How Oregon’s data center boom is supercharging a water crisis | Food and Environment Reporting Network
In the spring of 2022, Jim Doherty kept having the same conversation with folks at the only grocery store in Boardman, his eastern Oregon hometown, or at the grain depot where he picked up food for…
thefern.org
November 25, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, keeps shooting out of the ground in Oklahoma.

Experts say it means even more wastewater is spreading underground, poisoning the state’s water supply.

With @readfrontier.bsky.social
Toxic Wastewater From Oil Fields Keeps Pouring Out of the Ground. Oklahoma Regulators Failed to Stop It.
Salt water laced with cancer-causing chemicals, a byproduct of oil and gas drilling, is spewing from old wells. Experts warn of a pollution crisis spreading underground and threatening Oklahoma’s drin...
www.propublica.org
November 26, 2025 at 2:30 AM
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Asked a student how he was doing and he responded "Living the dream one nightmare at a time"
If that doesnt capture the absurdity and dread of this moment
November 26, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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It’s blowing my mind that schools, universities, public services would run headlong into this. We spent 15 years documenting black boxes. This is a black box in a black hole!
I don't understand how anyone can watch how blatantly Grok is manipulated to answer the way ownership desires it to and then act like the other LLM chatbots couldn't possibly be similarly but less obviously compromised to produce responses in whatever way corporate interests and priorities dictate.
November 23, 2025 at 11:16 PM
Time for Pumpkin Whip!!!
November 26, 2025 at 3:02 AM
Still dumbfounded how everything 24 hours pre 2020 now has 7am-9pm hours.

Did we need *everything* 24 hours? No.

Do I need to run to the grocery up to 11? Yes.
November 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
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University among nation’s first institutions to partner with serial arsonist on fire safety programs.
University of Kentucky among nation’s 1st institutions to partner with Microsoft on responsible AI innovation
The University of Kentucky and Microsoft have formed a strategic partnership to advance the responsible use of artificial intelligence (AI) and strengthen learning, innovation and care across the Comm...
uknow.uky.edu
November 25, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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For the first time ever- it’s a Winter edition of Food in Transit! IndyGo is bringing back the popular summer giveaway of fresh produce on December 2 in collaboration with Second Helpings!
November 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Here is the video for our latest FOIA Forum, where we told you how to get information about Flock from your local agencies/government. Includes network audits, which are the files that show why exactly cops are using the cameras (helping ICE, for example): www.404media.co/heres-the-vi...
Here's the Video for Our Seventh FOIA Forum: Flock
Here is the archived video of our FOIA Forum about how to do reporting on Flock.
www.404media.co
November 25, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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November 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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1/ ⚠️ Breaking: At CDC, we've been told the US Government will not officially commemorate World AIDS Day this year. No explanation given.
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 PM