Nebby
@nebbynebula.bsky.social
Leftie. Tolerance for all, except fascists. Mastodon: http://todon.nl/@nebby http://pronoun.is/he/him?or=they
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“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”
AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals
The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives
www.scientificamerican.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”
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“Users who are 18 or over will have full access to the platform. For users who are 16 or over, but under 18, we’ll make adult-appropriate content inaccessible, and we’ll disable features like direct messaging”. Which is kinda sad, cos the only ppl my 16 yo directly msgs on bsky are scientists
Was wondering if this was re other codes for adult content but BlueSky's post here makes clear it is a response to the social media ban. bsky.social/about/blog/0...
December 9, 2025 at 4:06 AM
“Users who are 18 or over will have full access to the platform. For users who are 16 or over, but under 18, we’ll make adult-appropriate content inaccessible, and we’ll disable features like direct messaging”. Which is kinda sad, cos the only ppl my 16 yo directly msgs on bsky are scientists
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They're not safe for adults either.
And instead of making them safe, we've just cut children off from communicating with each other.
It's like instead of requiring cars to have crash standards, seatbelts, airbags, we just banned people from driving.
And instead of making them safe, we've just cut children off from communicating with each other.
It's like instead of requiring cars to have crash standards, seatbelts, airbags, we just banned people from driving.
What the social media ban assumes about our society is that the places where adults congregate to share ideas are never safe for children. And it’s wrong
December 9, 2025 at 2:06 AM
They're not safe for adults either.
And instead of making them safe, we've just cut children off from communicating with each other.
It's like instead of requiring cars to have crash standards, seatbelts, airbags, we just banned people from driving.
And instead of making them safe, we've just cut children off from communicating with each other.
It's like instead of requiring cars to have crash standards, seatbelts, airbags, we just banned people from driving.
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It also shows a fundamental lack of understanding of young people, because they will simply circumvent the ban and thereby be exposed to more of the adult spaces they should actually be protected from.
What the social media ban assumes about our society is that the places where adults congregate to share ideas are never safe for children. And it’s wrong
December 9, 2025 at 1:48 AM
It also shows a fundamental lack of understanding of young people, because they will simply circumvent the ban and thereby be exposed to more of the adult spaces they should actually be protected from.
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Life is inherently dangerous.
Good parenting is a scaffold that wraps around when necessary and drops away when young people are ready to make good decisions.
The government will never be a welcome partner in my parenting decisions
Good parenting is a scaffold that wraps around when necessary and drops away when young people are ready to make good decisions.
The government will never be a welcome partner in my parenting decisions
And besides, the entire fucking point of parenting is teaching them to do dangerous things safely. Support and supervision gradually tapering off until they don't need it any more.
Not a total lack of experience or guidance followed by boom good luck kid.
Not a total lack of experience or guidance followed by boom good luck kid.
December 9, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Life is inherently dangerous.
Good parenting is a scaffold that wraps around when necessary and drops away when young people are ready to make good decisions.
The government will never be a welcome partner in my parenting decisions
Good parenting is a scaffold that wraps around when necessary and drops away when young people are ready to make good decisions.
The government will never be a welcome partner in my parenting decisions
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Worth reading for lots of reasons, but particularly because it closes with something I see in my work and travels speaking on writing and AI. Many, maybe most students do not want AI-mediated schooling or lives. We can offer them something better. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
AI is Destroying the University and Learning Itself
Students use AI to write papers, professors use AI to grade them, degrees become meaningless, and tech companies make fortunes. Welcome to the death of higher education.
www.currentaffairs.org
December 7, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Worth reading for lots of reasons, but particularly because it closes with something I see in my work and travels speaking on writing and AI. Many, maybe most students do not want AI-mediated schooling or lives. We can offer them something better. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
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The Australien Government has made an ad about the Social Media Ban for Under-16s, and it's surprisingly honest and informative.
Honest Government Ad | Social Media Ban
YouTube video by thejuicemedia
www.youtube.com
December 8, 2025 at 3:49 AM
The Australien Government has made an ad about the Social Media Ban for Under-16s, and it's surprisingly honest and informative.
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We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
The relative contribution of close-proximity contacts, shared classroom exposure and indoor air quality to respiratory virus transmission in schools - Nature Communications
The relative importance of close-proximity interactions, shared space and air quality to the transmission of respiratory viruses is not well understood. Here, the authors investigate this question by ...
www.nature.com
December 8, 2025 at 4:23 AM
We're half a decade into studies finding that improving airflow in classrooms will reduce disease transmission enormously, and that bleaching surfaces etc. does very little. And yet nothing changes. Waves of flu and colds wash over schools, and the schools pretend it's an act of God.
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Amnesty International released findings from its investigation into the Everglades Concentration Camp (Alligator Alcatraz), which was built by the Florida Division of Emergency Management.
They found evidence of torture, among other human rights violations.
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
They found evidence of torture, among other human rights violations.
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
December 7, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Amnesty International released findings from its investigation into the Everglades Concentration Camp (Alligator Alcatraz), which was built by the Florida Division of Emergency Management.
They found evidence of torture, among other human rights violations.
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
They found evidence of torture, among other human rights violations.
www.amnesty.org/en/documents...
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The average amount already paid to the 338 who have received money is around $8,579 each
📢 Services Australia told SBS News they've refunded $2.9 million to just 338 of the 44,000 people potentially owed money.
Nearly 44,000 Australians are owed Centrelink refunds. Some died without knowing
www.sbs.com.au
December 3, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The average amount already paid to the 338 who have received money is around $8,579 each
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I’ve never paywalled my articles because I know many of my readers are on disability & can’t afford it.
I’m in a terrible situation with my housing and may need to ask for help.
What’s the best way to do this? Paywall? Wish list? Go fund me?
Would folks be bothered by a GFM in lieu of a paywall?
I’m in a terrible situation with my housing and may need to ask for help.
What’s the best way to do this? Paywall? Wish list? Go fund me?
Would folks be bothered by a GFM in lieu of a paywall?
December 3, 2025 at 6:05 AM
I’ve never paywalled my articles because I know many of my readers are on disability & can’t afford it.
I’m in a terrible situation with my housing and may need to ask for help.
What’s the best way to do this? Paywall? Wish list? Go fund me?
Would folks be bothered by a GFM in lieu of a paywall?
I’m in a terrible situation with my housing and may need to ask for help.
What’s the best way to do this? Paywall? Wish list? Go fund me?
Would folks be bothered by a GFM in lieu of a paywall?
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Wow I am blown away by this new data on Australia's climate views
Highest levels of outright science denial since 2009. Highest level of 'gov't is doing too much' (!!!)
And more people afraid of 'self aware AI' than climate.
What a nightmare set of results
pca.st/episode/6577...
Highest levels of outright science denial since 2009. Highest level of 'gov't is doing too much' (!!!)
And more people afraid of 'self aware AI' than climate.
What a nightmare set of results
pca.st/episode/6577...
November 26, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Wow I am blown away by this new data on Australia's climate views
Highest levels of outright science denial since 2009. Highest level of 'gov't is doing too much' (!!!)
And more people afraid of 'self aware AI' than climate.
What a nightmare set of results
pca.st/episode/6577...
Highest levels of outright science denial since 2009. Highest level of 'gov't is doing too much' (!!!)
And more people afraid of 'self aware AI' than climate.
What a nightmare set of results
pca.st/episode/6577...
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The School Strike for Climate was built on social media. Activists fear the teen ban means there won’t be a next one, writes Cam Wilson.
Youth activists fear the teen social media ban will crush their political voice
www.crikey.com.au
November 25, 2025 at 4:47 AM
The School Strike for Climate was built on social media. Activists fear the teen ban means there won’t be a next one, writes Cam Wilson.
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"This year, a Bloomberg News analysis found that roughly “two-thirds of new data centers built or in development since 2022 are in places already gripped by high levels of water stress.”
How Oregon’s Data Center Boom Is Supercharging a Water Crisis
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
Amazon has come to the state’s eastern farmland, worsening a water pollution problem that’s been linked to cancer and miscarriages.
Rolling Stone reports in collaboration with @thefern.org: www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 3:30 AM
"This year, a Bloomberg News analysis found that roughly “two-thirds of new data centers built or in development since 2022 are in places already gripped by high levels of water stress.”
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This is, of course, tragic, and a damning indictment of these technologies, but this is also how every reference to credentialism about higher education sounds to the rest of us, fwiw.
I'm literally just living a normal life while also experiencing a theophany via communication with the satellite called VALIS.
November 25, 2025 at 6:13 AM
This is, of course, tragic, and a damning indictment of these technologies, but this is also how every reference to credentialism about higher education sounds to the rest of us, fwiw.
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‘Vast overreach’: police allowed to conduct warrantless pat-downs of people across inner Melbourne for six months
‘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 move criticised by human rights groups
Victoria police will have the power to conduct warrant-less pat-downs, search cars and move people on in Melbourne’s CBD for six months, in a move human rights and legal groups have described as a “vast overreach”.
Police on Tuesday declared the CBD, Docklands, Southbank, the sporting and entertainment precinct and parts of East Melbourne and South Melbourne as a “designated area” from Sunday, until 29 May 2026. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 6:21 AM
‘Vast overreach’: police allowed to conduct warrantless pat-downs of people across inner Melbourne for six months
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8 years since I published the first investigative piece into gig economy rider safety conditions here in Australia. No one else was writing about it at the time medium.com/@Asher_Wolf/...
November 25, 2025 at 7:14 AM
8 years since I published the first investigative piece into gig economy rider safety conditions here in Australia. No one else was writing about it at the time medium.com/@Asher_Wolf/...
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AOC: Should this AI bubble pop, we should not be entertaining a bailout of these corporations while healthcare is being denied to Americans and SNAP is being denied to Americans —
November 18, 2025 at 10:02 PM
AOC: Should this AI bubble pop, we should not be entertaining a bailout of these corporations while healthcare is being denied to Americans and SNAP is being denied to Americans —
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Giving away a record amount of money from my checking account to my savings account
Elon Musk’s foundation gave away a record $474 million in 2024, with the vast majority again going to entities he controls
Elon Musk Gave Away $474 Million in 2024, Mostly to Entities He Controls
Elon Musk’s foundation gave away a record $474 million in 2024, with the vast majority again going to entities he controls.
bloom.bg
November 19, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Giving away a record amount of money from my checking account to my savings account
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Just so it’s clear, Cook would be in prison if he lived in Saudi Arabia
Tim Cook, the head of Apple, is having a nice dinner with MBS, who regularly orders executions, including for tweets.
Apple hosts "a Saudi app that allows men to track the movement of their wives and daughters. In 2019, Mr. Cook said he would investigate the app, but it is still available today."
Apple hosts "a Saudi app that allows men to track the movement of their wives and daughters. In 2019, Mr. Cook said he would investigate the app, but it is still available today."
November 19, 2025 at 3:41 AM
Just so it’s clear, Cook would be in prison if he lived in Saudi Arabia
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Sydney Customer Dies After Samsung Phone Blocks Triple Zero Call on TPG Network#auspol #Australia #Politics #News #AussieNews #PoliticalNews #JournalismThreads #FederalPolitics #BreakingNews
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www.readmencari.com
Sydney Customer Dies After Samsung Phone Blocks Triple Zero Call on TPG Network
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November 19, 2025 at 6:32 AM
Sydney Customer Dies After Samsung Phone Blocks Triple Zero Call on TPG Network#auspol #Australia #Politics #News #AussieNews #PoliticalNews #JournalismThreads #FederalPolitics #BreakingNews
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While everyone's paying attention to the Epstein files, a big story just broke about another alleged human trafficker with ties to Trump — Andrew Tate:
Trump official intervened in investigation on behalf of Andrew Tate, report says:
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
All props to ProPublica on this:
www.usatoday.com/story/news/p...
All props to ProPublica on this:
Trump official intervened in investigation on behalf of Andrew Tate, report says
An investigation from ProPublica claims a Trump administration official asked investigators to return electronics belonging to influencer Andrew Tate
www.usatoday.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:15 PM
While everyone's paying attention to the Epstein files, a big story just broke about another alleged human trafficker with ties to Trump — Andrew Tate:
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They conditioned y'all to be like this with them Nextdoor accounts
NEW: a contractor is paying random people $300 to physically track immigrants for ICE. They're given addresses, vehicles, told to monitor the target. That information then goes back up to ICE. These are not licensed private investigators; members of the public
www.404media.co/contractor-p...
www.404media.co/contractor-p...
Contractor Paying Random People $300 to Physically Track Immigrants for ICE
“The more I listened to it, the more I’m like, something doesn’t sound right,” a person who was briefed on the pilot plans told 404 Media.
www.404media.co
November 19, 2025 at 4:02 AM
They conditioned y'all to be like this with them Nextdoor accounts
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Reading this is a good reminder that no one should be stupid enough to start thinking Marjorie Taylor-Greene is some kind of ally.
This is the hardest I have seen any member of Congress work to try and address transphobia in Congress, and her ability to get nearly all Democratic lawmakers to sign onto this letter is something any first would applaud
House Dems unite to tell GOP to stop "demonizing" trans people with "dehumanizing" slurs - LGBTQ Nation
Rep. Nancy Mace's "tra**y, tra**y, tra**y!" tirade is just one example.
www.lgbtqnation.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:28 AM
Reading this is a good reminder that no one should be stupid enough to start thinking Marjorie Taylor-Greene is some kind of ally.
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Relying on algorithms to assist NDIS support planning can cause significant harm to people living with disability, says Dr Georgia van Toorn from UNSW’s School of Social Sciences www.unsw.edu.au/arts-design-...
Automating NDIS support planning can dehumanise and harm people living with disability
www.unsw.edu.au
November 18, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Relying on algorithms to assist NDIS support planning can cause significant harm to people living with disability, says Dr Georgia van Toorn from UNSW’s School of Social Sciences www.unsw.edu.au/arts-design-...