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Read this if you are worried or angry about Climate:
"This is a story we're kind of seeing now happening all over the place, people … import solar panels from China, you stick it on the back of a moped, and you carry it into the countryside, and you just put it up"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
"This is a story we're kind of seeing now happening all over the place, people … import solar panels from China, you stick it on the back of a moped, and you carry it into the countryside, and you just put it up"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
November 22, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Read this if you are worried or angry about Climate:
"This is a story we're kind of seeing now happening all over the place, people … import solar panels from China, you stick it on the back of a moped, and you carry it into the countryside, and you just put it up"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
"This is a story we're kind of seeing now happening all over the place, people … import solar panels from China, you stick it on the back of a moped, and you carry it into the countryside, and you just put it up"
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
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Merry Christmas, everyone!
Cardiff couple invited man in for Christmas, he stayed for 45 years
An arrangement Rob and Dianne Parsons thought would last a few days ended up changing their lives.
www.bbc.co.uk
December 25, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Merry Christmas, everyone!
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"Alberto" has been harvesting mushrooms at Monterey Mushrooms for almost a decade under a UFW contract. He says the union contracts guarantees workers many important things including paid vacation days and holidays like Christmas and New Years. #WeFeedYou
December 25, 2025 at 9:00 PM
"Alberto" has been harvesting mushrooms at Monterey Mushrooms for almost a decade under a UFW contract. He says the union contracts guarantees workers many important things including paid vacation days and holidays like Christmas and New Years. #WeFeedYou
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CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
Deported and Imprisoned Archives
A case-by-case investigation that examines the Trump administration’s claims that these immigrants are all “sick criminals” and “terrorists” and that shows what they suffered during months in one of t...
www.propublica.org
December 22, 2025 at 4:08 PM
CBS didn't run the 60 Minutes segment on CECOT, but over here at @propublica.org we've been working on the story since March, including finding out who each and every man sent to that maximum security prison was.
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
You can see our reporting here: www.propublica.org/series/depor...
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This, for the record, is what goes into a footnote. It’s the key part of the research process where I examine the practical, methodological, ethical implications of my sources before I join the stream of interpretation. It cannot be outsourced to an LLM.
Rare footage of a footnote being born in the wild.
December 21, 2025 at 5:53 AM
This, for the record, is what goes into a footnote. It’s the key part of the research process where I examine the practical, methodological, ethical implications of my sources before I join the stream of interpretation. It cannot be outsourced to an LLM.
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When “AI-enhanced pathology diagnostic systems” were presented with radiology results, they tended to identify demographic information from the images then use those demographics as the basis of diagnosis. Leading to errors in 1/3 of diagnoses for Black patients.
Doctors Catch Cancer-Diagnosing AI Extracting Patients’ Race Data and Being Racist With It
"Reading demographics from a pathology slide is thought of as a 'mission impossible' for a human pathologist, so the bias in pathology AI was a surprise to us."
www.yahoo.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:46 PM
When “AI-enhanced pathology diagnostic systems” were presented with radiology results, they tended to identify demographic information from the images then use those demographics as the basis of diagnosis. Leading to errors in 1/3 of diagnoses for Black patients.
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“Back in June, medical researchers discovered a similar racial bias in large language model (LLM) psychiatric diagnostic tools. In that case, results showed AI tools often proposed “inferior treatment” plans for Black patients whenever their race was explicitly known.”
Racial bias in AI-mediated psychiatric diagnosis and treatment: a qualitative comparison of four large language models - npj Digital Medicine
npj Digital Medicine - Racial bias in AI-mediated psychiatric diagnosis and treatment: a qualitative comparison of four large language models
www.nature.com
December 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
“Back in June, medical researchers discovered a similar racial bias in large language model (LLM) psychiatric diagnostic tools. In that case, results showed AI tools often proposed “inferior treatment” plans for Black patients whenever their race was explicitly known.”
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The truly great writers have a way of explaining your own feelings to you:
December 20, 2025 at 3:47 PM
The truly great writers have a way of explaining your own feelings to you:
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New measure of academic impact just dropped: number of citations received to papers that chatgpt created and fraudulently attributed to you.
These are all the 42 papers Google Scholar has found citing "our" paper that we never wrote - who knows how much actual human touch went into them? scholar.google.com.vn/scholar?star...
scholar.google.com.vn
December 19, 2025 at 7:19 PM
New measure of academic impact just dropped: number of citations received to papers that chatgpt created and fraudulently attributed to you.
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A non-existent paper attributed to Ben Williamson has already been cited 42 times.
It's like Scholarly Communication has been injected with misinformation bombs. Events are totally out of control. No one has a handle on its extent. And, there's no plan to stop it.
@benpatrickwill.bsky.social
It's like Scholarly Communication has been injected with misinformation bombs. Events are totally out of control. No one has a handle on its extent. And, there's no plan to stop it.
@benpatrickwill.bsky.social
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 6:18 PM
A non-existent paper attributed to Ben Williamson has already been cited 42 times.
It's like Scholarly Communication has been injected with misinformation bombs. Events are totally out of control. No one has a handle on its extent. And, there's no plan to stop it.
@benpatrickwill.bsky.social
It's like Scholarly Communication has been injected with misinformation bombs. Events are totally out of control. No one has a handle on its extent. And, there's no plan to stop it.
@benpatrickwill.bsky.social
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I take it all back we should absolutely let AI run the vending machines
December 18, 2025 at 4:55 PM
I take it all back we should absolutely let AI run the vending machines
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Public Domain Day 2026: works from 1930 and sound recordings from 1925 open to everyone on January 1, including Betty Boop, Blondie and Dagwood, Animal Crackers, and so much more https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/...
Public Domain Day 2026
January 1, 2026 is Public Domain Day: Works from 1930 are open to all, as are sound recordings from 1925! By Jennifer Jenkins and James Boyle[1] CC BY 4.0 Please note that this site is only about US
web.law.duke.edu
December 17, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Public Domain Day 2026: works from 1930 and sound recordings from 1925 open to everyone on January 1, including Betty Boop, Blondie and Dagwood, Animal Crackers, and so much more https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/...
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1/ Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai has been found guilty of collusion and sedition in his national security trial.
hongkongfp.com/2025/12/15/b...
hongkongfp.com/2025/12/15/b...
December 15, 2025 at 3:41 AM
1/ Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai has been found guilty of collusion and sedition in his national security trial.
hongkongfp.com/2025/12/15/b...
hongkongfp.com/2025/12/15/b...
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BREAKING: Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai found guilty under national security law
Monday’s verdict comes five years after the media tycoon and founder of newspaper Apple Daily was accused collusion under Beijing’s national security law.
hongkongfp.com/2025/12/15/b...
Monday’s verdict comes five years after the media tycoon and founder of newspaper Apple Daily was accused collusion under Beijing’s national security law.
hongkongfp.com/2025/12/15/b...
Hong Kong's Jimmy Lai found guilty under national security law
Hong Kong media mogul Jimmy Lai has been found guilty of collusion and sedition in his national security trial.
hongkongfp.com
December 15, 2025 at 2:49 AM
BREAKING: Hong Kong tycoon Jimmy Lai found guilty under national security law
Monday’s verdict comes five years after the media tycoon and founder of newspaper Apple Daily was accused collusion under Beijing’s national security law.
hongkongfp.com/2025/12/15/b...
Monday’s verdict comes five years after the media tycoon and founder of newspaper Apple Daily was accused collusion under Beijing’s national security law.
hongkongfp.com/2025/12/15/b...
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Read this thread.
It's exactly right. But also note on the internet related stories—the banning of TikTok and the attack on Sec 230—Democrats happily helped MAGA accomplish their goals and people have cheered it on.
Democrats trying to destroy 230 are not helping you. They're helping Trump.
It's exactly right. But also note on the internet related stories—the banning of TikTok and the attack on Sec 230—Democrats happily helped MAGA accomplish their goals and people have cheered it on.
Democrats trying to destroy 230 are not helping you. They're helping Trump.
There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it."
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
December 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Read this thread.
It's exactly right. But also note on the internet related stories—the banning of TikTok and the attack on Sec 230—Democrats happily helped MAGA accomplish their goals and people have cheered it on.
Democrats trying to destroy 230 are not helping you. They're helping Trump.
It's exactly right. But also note on the internet related stories—the banning of TikTok and the attack on Sec 230—Democrats happily helped MAGA accomplish their goals and people have cheered it on.
Democrats trying to destroy 230 are not helping you. They're helping Trump.
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A veteran court watcher has informed me that of the 70 present, the majority present belong to what is locally known as 排隊黨, locals paid by pro-China groups to wait in line and occupy a seat in the courtroom to prevent Lai's well wishers and the general public from being him in person.
December 14, 2025 at 5:39 PM
A veteran court watcher has informed me that of the 70 present, the majority present belong to what is locally known as 排隊黨, locals paid by pro-China groups to wait in line and occupy a seat in the courtroom to prevent Lai's well wishers and the general public from being him in person.
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Ahead of the Jimmy Lai trial verdict being announced tomorrow, a long line of approx. 70 people has already formed outside the courthouse, with many well equipped to spend the night outdoors until tomorrow morning.
December 14, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Ahead of the Jimmy Lai trial verdict being announced tomorrow, a long line of approx. 70 people has already formed outside the courthouse, with many well equipped to spend the night outdoors until tomorrow morning.
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Beautiful piece by @ashiggins.bsky.social on language invention in Le Guin's Always Coming Home #UrsulaLeGuin
drandrewhiggins.substack.com/p/world-buil...
drandrewhiggins.substack.com/p/world-buil...
World Building and Language Invention In Focus
"Mythology is Language and Language is Mythology" Listening to Future Voices: Ursula K. Le Guin’s Kesh Language.
drandrewhiggins.substack.com
December 14, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Beautiful piece by @ashiggins.bsky.social on language invention in Le Guin's Always Coming Home #UrsulaLeGuin
drandrewhiggins.substack.com/p/world-buil...
drandrewhiggins.substack.com/p/world-buil...
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Today is "Suzhou numerals" (a traditional Chinese number notation system) appreciation day 😍 :
〇、〡、〢、〣、〤、〥、〦、〧、〨、〩.
The system has become rare, but one might still encounter it occasionally, e.g. in Hong Kong markets and restaurants😁
〇、〡、〢、〣、〤、〥、〦、〧、〨、〩.
The system has become rare, but one might still encounter it occasionally, e.g. in Hong Kong markets and restaurants😁
December 14, 2025 at 10:55 AM
Today is "Suzhou numerals" (a traditional Chinese number notation system) appreciation day 😍 :
〇、〡、〢、〣、〤、〥、〦、〧、〨、〩.
The system has become rare, but one might still encounter it occasionally, e.g. in Hong Kong markets and restaurants😁
〇、〡、〢、〣、〤、〥、〦、〧、〨、〩.
The system has become rare, but one might still encounter it occasionally, e.g. in Hong Kong markets and restaurants😁
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always correspond to the astronomical equinox
December 14, 2025 at 8:40 AM
always correspond to the astronomical equinox
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So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
At least 60,000 murdered in Sudanese city, which resembles ‘a slaughterhouse’
Satellite evidence shows extent of paramilitary massacre in El Fasher
www.irishtimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 3:50 AM
So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified
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ok so apparently I have to give some backstory to this event.
(this is why a lot of my childhood stories are things like "And then the Patriarch of Constantinople poked his head round the door and said "Boys! Would you like a lift back to the city on my yacht?")
December 13, 2025 at 6:40 AM
ok so apparently I have to give some backstory to this event.
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I have measured out my life with out-of-office messages
I know the emails deleted without being read
Beneath the notifications from a farther LMS
So how should I say yes?
I should have been a pair of SharePoint files
Syncing across the miles of campus IT.
I know the emails deleted without being read
Beneath the notifications from a farther LMS
So how should I say yes?
I should have been a pair of SharePoint files
Syncing across the miles of campus IT.
Do I dare
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which an admin can reverse.
For I have known the MF Authentications:
Have known the lockouts, resets, sign-ins...
Disturb the universe?
In a minute there is time
For decisions and revisions which an admin can reverse.
For I have known the MF Authentications:
Have known the lockouts, resets, sign-ins...
December 13, 2025 at 4:07 AM
I have measured out my life with out-of-office messages
I know the emails deleted without being read
Beneath the notifications from a farther LMS
So how should I say yes?
I should have been a pair of SharePoint files
Syncing across the miles of campus IT.
I know the emails deleted without being read
Beneath the notifications from a farther LMS
So how should I say yes?
I should have been a pair of SharePoint files
Syncing across the miles of campus IT.