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angelnumbers.bsky.social
I wish expansive mutual aid networks existed and begging wasn't just like shouting into the void
February 9, 2026 at 2:47 AM
angelnumbers.bsky.social
posting my own fundraiser here - my dad's in the ER - not sure what to say but my I'm asking for money to care for my parents once again
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💬 0  🔁 2  ❤️ 1 · okay in other news my father's in the emergency room snd I just found out he needs surgery (a nephrostomy?) and want to send food to my mom who's staying w him in the hospital, i…
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February 9, 2026 at 2:47 AM
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ziibiing.com
tomorrow, StandWithMinnesota.com will hit a million site visits and over 650,000 unique visitors.

i made it 10 days ago with $600 from you guys for hosting and cloudflare.

thank you. thank you.
Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory
Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.
StandWithMinnesota.com
January 25, 2026 at 8:12 PM
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revontulet.bsky.social
Marjane Satrapi made a similar observation in "Persepolis":
Screencap from the "Persepolis" graphic novel of two panels: a woman in a long black coat, pants, and headscarf carrying a black bag across her body. Panel 1 shows the woman walking toward the viewer at an angle. The text reads: "The regime had understood that one person leaving her house while asking herself: Are my trousers long enough? Is my veil in place? Can my makeup be seen? Are they going to whip me?" Panel 2 shows the woman's back as she's walking away from the viewer. The text continues: "No longer asks herself: Where is my freedom of thought? Where is my freedom of speech? My life, is it liveable? What's going on in the political prisons?"
February 1, 2026 at 12:10 PM
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dynamicsymmetry.bsky.social
Conspiracy theorizing is a cognitive error, it’s what happens when our powerful ability to find patterns and construct narratives loses any real braking mechanism and runs completely off the rails, operates unchecked

People are especially vulnerable to it when they feel beset and helpless
February 1, 2026 at 6:26 PM
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jjinandtonic.bsky.social
“Notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein played a role in convincing Bobby Kotick to embrace loot boxes, essentially gambling for children” what is this sentence, what is this world
February 1, 2026 at 1:54 AM
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jameelawahlgren.bsky.social
Pinterest CEO says in layoff email: "We’re doubling down on an AI-forward approach – prioritizing AI-focused roles, teams, and ways of working"

So it's time for me to move to another platform to save images
Linkedin Post from a Pinterest designer reading: "Yesterday I was impacted by the Pinterest layoffs. I was Pinterest's only icon designer and product illustrator. In his email to the company, the CEO said "we’re doubling down on an AI-forward approach – prioritizing AI-focused roles, teams, and ways of working". I WAS working on AI projects including the Pinterest Assistant that soft-launched in October. If you haven't heard about that feature launch, you can find it on Pinterest's own newsroom or with a Google search. I was vocal internally about how our users don't want AI slop or features on the platform, how we as employees are feeling uncomfortable and discouraged about AI, and what I wanted from leadership. Last year, I told my manager I was worried about AI-based layoffs. I was told not to worry. At an onsite, we were told that "in the future", we would all be "managers of AIs". That I would be expected to manage some sort of AI employees, rather than craft and design my own work. Human-made art and design matter. I am never going to stop creating, even if the "home of inspiration" decides that creators are secondary to profits. If you want to support me, you can follow me on threads or instagram @bonniekatewolf where I post my hand-knit sweaters and oil paintings. If you want to hire a human illustrator, designer, or iconographer, my email and DMs are open for freelance, contract, or FTE roles."
February 1, 2026 at 5:55 PM
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moreperfectunion.bsky.social
In our increasingly unequal economy, the top 20% of earners power 59% of consumer spending.

Everyone else accounts for 41% of spending.
a chart showing how in 1995 the top 20% and everyone else each conducted about 50% of consumer spending. That has now diverged to 59% and 41%.
January 22, 2026 at 4:48 PM
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jeffrueter.bsky.social
Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."
Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.
January 25, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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reckless.bsky.social
I regret to inform you the head of Instagram quietly announced last month that videos on the platform he runs can no longer be trusted to be real and it is only a matter of time before that becomes the immediate authoritarian response to any atrocity www.theverge.com/news/852124/...
mosseri 3.6M followers For most of my life I could safely assume photographs or videos were largely accurate captures of moments that happened. This is clearly no longer the case and it's going to take us years to adapt.
January 25, 2026 at 12:59 AM
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reckless.bsky.social
We have been pounding the table about fake imagery in these moments for years - execs at the big tech companies have all told me we are right about it. But they have done appropriately nothing to manage the death of visual reality www.theverge.com/2024/8/22/24...
No one’s ready for this
The photograph is now meaningless as evidence. We are not prepared.
www.theverge.com
January 25, 2026 at 1:01 AM
angelnumbers.bsky.social
Someone needs to make an american version of Mad Max about teamsters
December 10, 2025 at 6:54 AM
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nicetopatrick.bsky.social
food takes are what got jean valjean into trouble
November 25, 2025 at 10:20 PM
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depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social
huge news I just found a folder of these that I forgot i had!!!!!!!
November 25, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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reckless.bsky.social
I’ve been running around asking tech execs and academics if language was the same as intelligence for over a year now - and, well, it isn’t. @benjaminjriley.bsky.social explains how the bubble is built on ignoring cutting-edge research into the science of thought www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
November 25, 2025 at 1:54 PM
angelnumbers.bsky.social
Claude said it was citing research on the topic I was asking it about, but the sources were continually wrong
It then just gave up and told me what I wanted to hear, which is that it should stop pretending to know how to read :-(
November 25, 2025 at 6:41 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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riibrego.bsky.social
"there are no third spaces anymore" wrong. blast furnace
November 25, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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moreperfectunion.bsky.social
Amazon is now integrating betting platform FanDuel directly into Amazon Prime.

Bettors will be able to link their FanDuel accounts to their Prime profiles and see how their NBA wagers are playing out in real time, according to Amazon’s latest announcement.
September 30, 2025 at 7:41 PM
angelnumbers.bsky.social
Maybe the world is falling apart but thanks to modern technology I can go to vr raves on my MacBook and dance shyly in the corner
September 28, 2025 at 7:33 AM
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tuckfriendly.bsky.social
None of the videos were in black and white, so I figured we were ok.
June 7, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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vortexegg.com
Insecurity theater
collie.bsky.social collie.bsky.social @collie.bsky.social · Jun 3
I cannot get over these cops wearing night vision to arrest a dude on a Southwest Airlines flight in broad daylight.
June 3, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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dorwright.bsky.social
LRT; i think about recycling whenever discussion of cybersecurity comes up. We've been successfully gaslight into thinking its an issue of personal responsibility but the problems are entirely the result of corporate cost-cutting and accountability dodging.
May 28, 2025 at 2:46 PM
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tofupixel.bsky.social
some thing
May 28, 2025 at 10:12 PM
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northerniion.bsky.social
extremely important PSA
February 11, 2025 at 4:30 AM