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Rain @simplyrain.bsky.social · Apr 23
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!
simplyrain.bsky.social Rain @simplyrain.bsky.social · Apr 23
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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hypervisible.blacksky.app
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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williamhazen.bsky.social
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!
Food In Transit Flyer
November 25, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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josephcox.bsky.social
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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indianacapitalchronicle.com
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November 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
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altcdc.altgov.info
1/ ⚠️ Breaking: At CDC, we've been told the US Government will not officially commemorate World AIDS Day this year. No explanation given.
Photograph of a printed guidance memo stating that the U.S. Government will not be commemorating World AIDS Day this year. Key points include: USG funds should not be used for related events, personnel should refrain from public promotion via social media or other channels, and CDC and other USG staff may attend local events but cannot speak or promote attendance. The memo notes this guidance supersedes previous blanket approval and may require adjustments to planned activities.
November 25, 2025 at 4:16 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 · 4h
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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slj.com
Best Young Adult Books 2025 | SLJ Best Books
www.slj.com/story/best-y...
Best Young Adult Books 2025 | SLJ Best Books
The 2025 YA Best Books list has a choice for every teen—long-anticipated companion novels, adorable rom-coms, and genre-bending romanstasy.
www.slj.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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indianacapitalchronicle.com
Indiana House returning next week amid redistricting standoff; Senate will return Dec. 8

indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/11/25/i...
Indiana House returning next week amid redistricting standoff; Senate will return Dec. 8 • Indiana Capital Chronicle
Indiana House members will return to the Statehouse next week in an apparent attempt to force action on President Donald Trump’s demands for congressional redistricting in the state.
indianacapitalchronicle.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:50 PM
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boghuma.bsky.social
- He stopped the policy of encouraging flu immunization in Louisiana
- Delayed reporting on a pertussis outbreak that killed two children in Louisiana.
-Promoted false information on covid vaccine harms.
He is now number 2 at CDC.
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
Controversial Louisiana surgeon general tapped for CDC leadership role
Louisiana Surgeon General Ralph Abraham has spoken against Covid shots and ended mass vaccination campaigns. Now he's in a position to make national health decisions.
www.nbcnews.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:49 PM
simplyrain.bsky.social
Are there demographics on who took the survey???
slj.com School Library Journal @slj.com · 3h
Sorry about the lack of clarity in the graphic. Yes, this was a survey of school and public librarians. They shared what they felt were the most influential books for ages 0-12 and 13-18. The full story is here:
www.slj.com/story/Reader...
Readers
From Wonder to The Hunger Games, readers pick the most influential books of the last 25 years.
www.slj.com
November 25, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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slj.com
Sorry about the lack of clarity in the graphic. Yes, this was a survey of school and public librarians. They shared what they felt were the most influential books for ages 0-12 and 13-18. The full story is here:
www.slj.com/story/Reader...
Readers
From Wonder to The Hunger Games, readers pick the most influential books of the last 25 years.
www.slj.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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joshfunkbooks.bsky.social
ETA: This is apparently based on a readers survey (which is not mentioned on the graphic SLJ is showing, so they deserve any flack they get). But this reflects very poorly on those who fill out SLJ surveys.
November 25, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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mrspowersdayjob.bsky.social
Hey!

Do you know an awesome librarian?

Do you think they’re awesome enough for you to spend a minute nominating them?

I bet they are!

ilovelibraries.org/love-my-libr...
I Love My Librarian Award
Nominate a librarian you love for the 2026 I Love My Librarian Award - they could win $5,000 and the recognition of a lifetime! Nominations close December 15, 2025!
ilovelibraries.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:46 AM
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rudetuesday.bsky.social
A couple of my local libraries have restroom posters with the locations of certain topics. Librarians and libraries are fantastic and necessary.
mrspowersdayjob.bsky.social It’s “Mrs. Powers” during my day job @mrspowersdayjob.bsky.social · 20h
Sometimes I think it’s going to be the librarians who will save us all.
A large (maybe 3 feet wide by 5 feet tall) sign on the end of a row of bookshelves that tells the “address” of books that have sensitive content.
November 25, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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newslit.org
❌ NO: This is not a legit video of a moose pushing a polar bear over an icy ledge. It's AI-generated.

🐌 Before you assume a video is real, slow down to look for clues that it might be AI slop.

🐻‍❄️ Read our RumorGuard post for more tips to spot deceptive clips: go.newslit.org/MooseAndPolarBear
A social media post reads, “Hey @Grok is this real? But more importantly, why am I picking sides?” and features a video that appears to show a moose pushing a polar bear off a cliff in Alaska. The News Literacy Project has added a label that says “AI VIDEO.”
November 25, 2025 at 7:00 PM
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davekeating.substack.com
BREAKING: This is huge news, the EU's equivalent of the 🇺🇸Supreme Court's 2015 Obergefell v. Hodges ruling.

🇪🇺Court of Justice just ruled all 🇪🇺countries must recognise same-sex marriages granted in other member states.

This effectively legalises gay marriage across 🇪🇺
www.reuters.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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acluindiana.bsky.social
The House announced just days before a major holiday that they will vote next week on a bill that hasn't been filed — to redraw maps that haven't been released. This is bad governance in the extreme. Hoosiers deserve fair maps. And they deserve transparency.
BREAKING: Indiana lawmakers will vote on redistricting in December - The House will meet on Dec. 1, followed by the Senate on Dec. 8.
November 25, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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courtneymilan.com
My phone is doing all the same things from 2015 with only minimal benefits. The only reason we have to upgrade is increased software bloat.

We should actually just have phones that last 15 years now.
November 25, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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carleylanich.bsky.social
📣 It's time to sound off!

What do you think of ideas for changing Indianapolis schools? Officials gave their presentations last week and now there's TWO surveys open.

Here's how to share feedback, via @mirrorindy.org👇 mirrorindy.org/ips-indianap...
Tell Indy officials what you think about proposed school changes
Here’s two online surveys you can take to give feedback on Indy schools.
mirrorindy.org
November 25, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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ketanjoshi.co
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 24, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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noethematt.bsky.social
Hey librarians,

How is sustainability one of our core values if we're also supposed to be all-in on the AI hype?

Asking for these folks.

#medlibs 📚
rollingstone.com Rolling Stone @rollingstone.com · 20h
In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.

In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.

🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 7:18 PM
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kashana.blacksky.app
Everybody knows the only solution to the rich eliminating all the jobs is to keep buying $1700 phones
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever and it's costing the economy
Americans are holding onto devices longer than ever before, and while it may be consumer smart, it comes at a cost to work productivity and the U.S. economy.
www.cnbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:56 PM
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anuncivilphd.bsky.social
I have given
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
the groundhog
looked sweet
and so hungry
artologica.net Artologica aka Michele Banks @artologica.net · 9h
Big news! The groundhog is back at my sister's and she gave him a plum
November 25, 2025 at 4:19 PM
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financialtimes.com
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates on.ft.com/4ij0yh8
OpenAI needs to raise at least $207bn by 2030 so it can continue to lose money, HSBC estimates
A burning platform
on.ft.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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juddlegum.bsky.social
1. In Tennessee, public libraries have closed for up to a week to facilitate a Trump-inspired book purge.

Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) has ordered most of the state's public librarians to remove children's books with LGBTQ characters or themes.
Tennessee public libraries close for Trump-inspired book purge
One hundred and eighty-one public libraries in Tennessee are reviewing their children’s collections after Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett (R) ordered them to remove books with LGBTQ themes…
popular.info
November 25, 2025 at 3:09 PM