Gala
@galashine.bsky.social
City Planning observer interested in inclusive public participation in planning process
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This Christmas Eve, remember Ukraine.
Darkness, empty chairs, voices gone forever —
this is not fate.
So many beautiful lives were taken,
not by time,
but by Russia’s war.
Darkness, empty chairs, voices gone forever —
this is not fate.
So many beautiful lives were taken,
not by time,
but by Russia’s war.
December 25, 2025 at 6:34 AM
This Christmas Eve, remember Ukraine.
Darkness, empty chairs, voices gone forever —
this is not fate.
So many beautiful lives were taken,
not by time,
but by Russia’s war.
Darkness, empty chairs, voices gone forever —
this is not fate.
So many beautiful lives were taken,
not by time,
but by Russia’s war.
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"Since LLMs have become commonplace tools, academics have warned that they threaten to undermine our grasp on data by flooding the zone with fraudulent content."
Https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-chatbot-journal-research-fake-citations-1235485484/
Https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-chatbot-journal-research-fake-citations-1235485484/
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 24, 2025 at 12:56 PM
"Since LLMs have become commonplace tools, academics have warned that they threaten to undermine our grasp on data by flooding the zone with fraudulent content."
Https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-chatbot-journal-research-fake-citations-1235485484/
Https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-features/ai-chatbot-journal-research-fake-citations-1235485484/
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On Christmas Eve 1968, in Lunar orbit, the Apollo 8 crew took this photo: “Earthrise."
I'll never forget how inspiring the Apollo missions were to my brother and me as kids. They showed us what our country and humanity can accomplish when we work together toward a common goal.
I'll never forget how inspiring the Apollo missions were to my brother and me as kids. They showed us what our country and humanity can accomplish when we work together toward a common goal.
December 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
On Christmas Eve 1968, in Lunar orbit, the Apollo 8 crew took this photo: “Earthrise."
I'll never forget how inspiring the Apollo missions were to my brother and me as kids. They showed us what our country and humanity can accomplish when we work together toward a common goal.
I'll never forget how inspiring the Apollo missions were to my brother and me as kids. They showed us what our country and humanity can accomplish when we work together toward a common goal.
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Dec 24 in University District History: Beloved campus groundskeeper Washington Townsend dies at 76 at his Northwood and High home. Escaped from Andrew Jackson's plantation to freedom in Ohio in 1860. Spent 30 years shaping the campus, running Orton Hall, and befriending faculty and students. In 1904
December 24, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Dec 24 in University District History: Beloved campus groundskeeper Washington Townsend dies at 76 at his Northwood and High home. Escaped from Andrew Jackson's plantation to freedom in Ohio in 1860. Spent 30 years shaping the campus, running Orton Hall, and befriending faculty and students. In 1904
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Or go with one of my Made in Canada custom coats! 🍁⛄️🐶
December 24, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Or go with one of my Made in Canada custom coats! 🍁⛄️🐶
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bluesky developers, please let us add more than one video to a post 😔
December 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
bluesky developers, please let us add more than one video to a post 😔
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i've been weirdly invested in this dog's sweater alteration
IG roodabeguh
IG roodabeguh
December 24, 2025 at 10:32 PM
i've been weirdly invested in this dog's sweater alteration
IG roodabeguh
IG roodabeguh
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Staring up at the aurora shimmering above. So beautiful.
December 25, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Staring up at the aurora shimmering above. So beautiful.
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This has happened before. In the late 1930s, Eddie Bauer doctored a photo of their original store, removing the animal carcasses. This was to appeal to urban lifestyle customers drawn to the idea of outdoor life, but didn't like the idea of hunting. Hence renaming hunting coats to barn coats postwar
December 24, 2025 at 4:16 AM
This has happened before. In the late 1930s, Eddie Bauer doctored a photo of their original store, removing the animal carcasses. This was to appeal to urban lifestyle customers drawn to the idea of outdoor life, but didn't like the idea of hunting. Hence renaming hunting coats to barn coats postwar
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I taught Philosophy of Disability for the first time at my institution this year and I was absolutely not prepared for the sheer number of students who were like "this course taught me SO much about my disability that I did not know" in their finals.
December 23, 2025 at 5:49 AM
I taught Philosophy of Disability for the first time at my institution this year and I was absolutely not prepared for the sheer number of students who were like "this course taught me SO much about my disability that I did not know" in their finals.
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I always thought the first time I had a chance to see and photograph the Aurora it would be somewhere like Iceland, or Alaska. I was wrong. It was in New Mexico! 😂
And if you look closely, you can see a bit of the Milky Way up above as well.
#on1pics #photography #astrophotography
And if you look closely, you can see a bit of the Milky Way up above as well.
#on1pics #photography #astrophotography
December 23, 2025 at 3:50 PM
I always thought the first time I had a chance to see and photograph the Aurora it would be somewhere like Iceland, or Alaska. I was wrong. It was in New Mexico! 😂
And if you look closely, you can see a bit of the Milky Way up above as well.
#on1pics #photography #astrophotography
And if you look closely, you can see a bit of the Milky Way up above as well.
#on1pics #photography #astrophotography
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It is worth pointing out once again that High St near the OSU campus in Columbus had protected bike lanes in 1986; something that is apparently impossible today. See screenshot in the thread.
www.columbusnavigator.com/1986-columbu...
www.columbusnavigator.com/1986-columbu...
This 1986 Footage from OSU's Campus Is Absolutely Wild
10/10 for the people watching alone.
www.columbusnavigator.com
December 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
It is worth pointing out once again that High St near the OSU campus in Columbus had protected bike lanes in 1986; something that is apparently impossible today. See screenshot in the thread.
www.columbusnavigator.com/1986-columbu...
www.columbusnavigator.com/1986-columbu...
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The russian pre-Christmas peace proposals are once again flooding Ukrainian skies — in drones and missiles.
December 23, 2025 at 4:38 AM
The russian pre-Christmas peace proposals are once again flooding Ukrainian skies — in drones and missiles.
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“I carried him on my back. It took seven days.” A camp in eastern Chad is now home to more than 100,000 refugees of Sudan’s civil war, and is a key destination for those fleeing El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur State. Resources are strained as the number of newly displaced people increases.
Escape From the Abyss: Surviving the Atrocities in El Fasher
www.nytimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 10:27 PM
“I carried him on my back. It took seven days.” A camp in eastern Chad is now home to more than 100,000 refugees of Sudan’s civil war, and is a key destination for those fleeing El Fasher, the capital of North Darfur State. Resources are strained as the number of newly displaced people increases.
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Trying to get comments back from your coauthors before Christmas
December 22, 2025 at 5:06 AM
Trying to get comments back from your coauthors before Christmas
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"In Ohio, nearly 3,000 math teachers have left the teaching profession in the past five years. "
An argument for higher pay and better working conditions.
#union #AFT #Cleveland #Ohio
www.cleveland.com/opinion/2025...
An argument for higher pay and better working conditions.
#union #AFT #Cleveland #Ohio
www.cleveland.com/opinion/2025...
When math teachers leave, students pay the price: Patricia Levesque
If good math policies are the ingredients, qualified math teachers are the chefs serving students an opportunity to compete in the global economy, writes guest columnist Patricia Levesque, CEO of the ...
www.cleveland.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:14 PM
"In Ohio, nearly 3,000 math teachers have left the teaching profession in the past five years. "
An argument for higher pay and better working conditions.
#union #AFT #Cleveland #Ohio
www.cleveland.com/opinion/2025...
An argument for higher pay and better working conditions.
#union #AFT #Cleveland #Ohio
www.cleveland.com/opinion/2025...
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But my view is that if you need to use Gemini in order to prepare your function report in order to get SSDI in order to stay alive? Do it. (I might include "this report was prepared with assistance")
December 20, 2025 at 4:35 AM
But my view is that if you need to use Gemini in order to prepare your function report in order to get SSDI in order to stay alive? Do it. (I might include "this report was prepared with assistance")
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Celebrate the Public Domain with the Internet Archive in 2026!
#PublicDomainDay is nearly here. Works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will soon be open to reuse.
Enter our film contest & join our events! All the details ⤵️
blog.archive.org/public-domai...
#PublicDomain #event #contest
#PublicDomainDay is nearly here. Works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will soon be open to reuse.
Enter our film contest & join our events! All the details ⤵️
blog.archive.org/public-domai...
#PublicDomain #event #contest
December 19, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Celebrate the Public Domain with the Internet Archive in 2026!
#PublicDomainDay is nearly here. Works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will soon be open to reuse.
Enter our film contest & join our events! All the details ⤵️
blog.archive.org/public-domai...
#PublicDomain #event #contest
#PublicDomainDay is nearly here. Works from 1930 & sound recordings from 1925 will soon be open to reuse.
Enter our film contest & join our events! All the details ⤵️
blog.archive.org/public-domai...
#PublicDomain #event #contest
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i signed up for this site that helps connect you with volunteer opportunities, and holy shit look what they just sent me
December 18, 2025 at 12:33 AM
i signed up for this site that helps connect you with volunteer opportunities, and holy shit look what they just sent me
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"a clear pattern of essential recurring arguments:
-accommodations unfairly advantage disabled students.
-Disabled students “game the system”
-More rigid documentation stds are needed to “create equity”
Each claim requires a full-throated counterargument…"
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
-accommodations unfairly advantage disabled students.
-Disabled students “game the system”
-More rigid documentation stds are needed to “create equity”
Each claim requires a full-throated counterargument…"
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
Colleges Don’t “Over-Accommodate” Disabilities (opinion)
A certain genre of articles skeptical of higher ed’s disability accommodation process fuels attacks on civil rights.
www.insidehighered.com
December 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
"a clear pattern of essential recurring arguments:
-accommodations unfairly advantage disabled students.
-Disabled students “game the system”
-More rigid documentation stds are needed to “create equity”
Each claim requires a full-throated counterargument…"
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
-accommodations unfairly advantage disabled students.
-Disabled students “game the system”
-More rigid documentation stds are needed to “create equity”
Each claim requires a full-throated counterargument…"
www.insidehighered.com/opinion/view...
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The Kremlin relies on oil to prop up its war spending and wait out efforts to achieve a just peace.
Republicans and Democrats have a new bill to change that.
Time to make clear that individuals and companies who help Russia sell oil risk losing access to the financial system.
Republicans and Democrats have a new bill to change that.
Time to make clear that individuals and companies who help Russia sell oil risk losing access to the financial system.
December 17, 2025 at 12:37 AM
The Kremlin relies on oil to prop up its war spending and wait out efforts to achieve a just peace.
Republicans and Democrats have a new bill to change that.
Time to make clear that individuals and companies who help Russia sell oil risk losing access to the financial system.
Republicans and Democrats have a new bill to change that.
Time to make clear that individuals and companies who help Russia sell oil risk losing access to the financial system.
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I hate this game for the ridiculously obscure groups eg homophones of southern hemisphere marine crustaceans minus the first letter
December 14, 2025 at 7:37 PM
I hate this game for the ridiculously obscure groups eg homophones of southern hemisphere marine crustaceans minus the first letter
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the floodplain is the river, rivers just live in non-human timescales so we don’t usually see:
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8yd2W3a/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8yd2W3a/
December 14, 2025 at 10:02 PM
the floodplain is the river, rivers just live in non-human timescales so we don’t usually see:
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8yd2W3a/
www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8yd2W3a/
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December 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM