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Rest of World @restofworld.org · 1h

A trial program is testing if it’s better for disaster victims to receive cash assistance even before the emergency strikes: “If I get money from ‘GiveDirectly’ before the flood, I will be able to store food and arrange strengthening my house for my family and cow”

AI flood forecasting allows aid to reach farmers before disaster strikes

Using Google’s Flood Hub, nonprofit trial program sends early warning and unconditional cash to workers.

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 2h

this is not true? the public was broadly supportive of the BLM protests bsky.app/profile/cycl...

cyclesixmile @cyclesixmile.bsky.social · 2h

I tend to agree but also during protests in 2020 there were many videos of police brutalizing people and some of the general public actually thought that was a good thing and wanted to see the police do more brutalizing. Hopefully that was just a fringe.

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Jack Tripper @chadstanton.blacksky.app · 2h

“Patrek Chase, kidney transplant program director at Parkland Health in Dallas, claimed that patients at his hospital – which generally serves a poorer population – were passed over for a healthy organ in favor of patients at UT Southwestern Medical Center, which generally helps the affluent.”

Whistleblower claims Dallas hospitals kept kidneys from poorer patients

Kidneys that were deemed unsuitable for patients at Parkland hospital were allegedly given to others at UT Southwestern Medical Center.

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Lynne M. Thomas 🏳️‍🌈🚀🦄 📜 @lynnemthomas.com · 2h

NB: Librarians have specific training in this! Helping folks find books that they will like in genres they are unfamiliar with. We call it “reader’s advisory.” ASK YOUR LIBRARIANS (bonus: many of us are SFF nerds and you will get deep cuts of the good shit)

John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 3h

Sure. That said, not everyone knows what they want to read when they first approach a genre, and if they ask someone with more experience in that area, it's useful to be able to point to something that will be a enjoyable gateway text for them. They can explore further and deeper from there.

Ed Rybicki 🇿🇲🇿🇦🍷🚀 @edrybicki.bsky.social · 8h

And you know something? Everyone should try whatever they feel like reading. Your adolescent / YA could go on to write a doctoral thesis on Contemporary Biases in Vintage Science Fiction - which they could never do without reading it.

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The Economist @economist.com · 2h

The damage from the tariffs that are in place is starting to be felt. And the collapse in migration is an enormous and underappreciated shock to the American economy

Donald Trump’s fortress economy is starting to hurt America

The pain from trade and immigration restrictions cannot be postponed forever

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 2h

What’s especially wild (legally) about this is that NSBP, NSHP, and SACNAS have always welcomed people of all backgrounds, including white people. NSHP has had a white president, my SACNAS leadership institute class has several white members, and NSBP has a sizable white membership.

Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 2h

Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

Ohio State changes policy on group conferences after Trump administration threats

A federal investigation into potentially discriminatory practices at Ohio State prompted the university to change its policies regarding conferences.

www.dispatch.com

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Lynn Sacco @urbanexile.bsky.social · 2h

Amazingly how quickly some universities can comply with the new civil rights directives, unlike earlier decades of lying and foot dragging.

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Benjamin McKean @blmckean.bsky.social · 2h

Very bad: OSU unilaterally cancelled the registration of grad students attending the joint conference of the National Society of Black Physicists and the National Society of Hispanic Physicists. And OSU won't fund recruiting at the Society for Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science.

Ohio State changes policy on group conferences after Trump administration threats

A federal investigation into potentially discriminatory practices at Ohio State prompted the university to change its policies regarding conferences.

www.dispatch.com

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N.V. Binder 𓀨 @nvbinder.io · 3h

She’s got a super cozy spot in the car for our road trip but it’s got to be hard to be a dog and just have to trust that it’s going to be OK

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N.V. Binder 𓀨 @nvbinder.io · 3h

Wild things are happening to the English language in the NYT

New New York Times @nyt-first-said.bsky.social · Aug 12

crimescape

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N.V. Binder 𓀨 @nvbinder.io · 3h

surprised this one took that long

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New New York Times @nyt-first-said.bsky.social · 2d

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The girl Bar-boo-ssa (~'o')~ @thegreatbarbossa.bsky.social · 5h

oh you asked chatgpt? well I got high on paint fumes and asked the fae in the woods and they think you're lame as hell for that.

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N.V. Binder 𓀨 @nvbinder.io · 3h

for some reason all kinds of people keep trying this

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 17h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

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Sojourners @sojo.net · 3h

America’s ideology of a meritocracy enables overwork. In the U.S., economic security is too often associated with worthiness and worthiness with work, writes Rachel Anderson.
sojo.net/magazine/jan...

We Need Sabbath. In the U.S., We Don’t Trust Each Other Enough to Take It

Holy rest is only possible in community.

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N.V. Binder 𓀨 @nvbinder.io · 3h

Packing all our stuff to move. Winnie says “que?”

White dog with blue Fi collar looking concerned

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@NewsJennifer (Jennifer Schulze) @newsjennifer.bsky.social · 4h

“there are a lot of people in this country …who are disgusted, appalled & frightened”by the Trump admin.
@sulliview.bsky.social is right: where’s the news coverage on these folks & the No Kings march? There are countless stories to be told…
open.substack.com/pub/margaret...

The media is largely ignoring the trauma of millions. Here's why.

Plus: Watch George Stephanopolous pushes JD Vance with follow-up questions, cringe at Bari Weiss's pep talk to CBS journalists; and more

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Josue Hurtado @josuehurtado.bsky.social · 4h

Yikes www.infodocket.com/2025/10/10/r...

Report: UNC Schools of Data Science and Information Science to Merge, Forming Unnamed ‘School of AI’

From The Daily Tar Heel: The UNC School of Data Science and Society and the School of Information and Library Science will be consolidating into a new school focused on artificial intelligence. SILS a...

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 5h

"We always think about America’s postwar role in Europe as an act of great generosity, the defense of allies from Soviet aggression. But by putting democracy at the center of our international identity, we also helped strengthen our own political system"
www.theatlantic.com/magazine/arc...

The Beacon of Democracy Goes Dark

For nearly 250 years, America promoted freedom and equality abroad, even when it failed to live up to those ideals itself. Not anymore.

www.theatlantic.com

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 5h

lol

Donald J. Trump @realDonald Trump

Time Magazine wrote a relatively good story about me, but the picture may be the Worst of All Time. They "disappeared" my hair, and then had something floating on top of my head that looked like a floating crown, but an extremely small one. Really weird! I never liked taking pictures from underneath angles, but this is a super bad picture, and deserves to be called out. What are they doing, and why?

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History Today @historytoday.com · 4h

#OnThisDay in 1943 300 forced labourers at Sobibór staged a revolt.

The mass breakout from Sobibór death camp has been largely forgotten. What happened?

🔓 This archive article is free for 7 days

www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...

Sobibór Uprising: The Other Great Escape

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Neville Morley @nevillemorley.bsky.social · 7h

A really excellent Open Letter to Students on using GenAI, which I came across over on Mastodon: librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2025/10/10/a...

An open letter to students considering submitting AI generated work

“We have concluded a Faustian pact with our science and technology generally, and with the computer in particular. So it seems to me. And in such a pact with Mephistopheles both partners gain somet…

librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com

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Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 4h

DK says school librarians are gonna work on overthrowing capitalism during AASL this year and I've got just one question:

Why didn't y'all invite me?!

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Carceral Abolition @carceralabolition.bsky.social · 8h

How Lego MRI scanner sets are reducing anxiety in children undergoing medical treatment www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/l...

How Lego MRI scanner sets are reducing anxiety in children undergoing medical treatment

Lego's MRI scanner play sets, which launched in 2023, are significantly reducing anxiety and the use of sedation in children, according to new research.

www.cnbc.com

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Nik Butler -- next stop PlayFest - London Sept @awittyremark.bsky.social · 7h

constantly , i mean , CONSTANTLY , Astounded watching professionals talk about using LLMs and prompt engineering as if they are dealing with a reasoning machine. Phrasing their terms with subjective qualifiers and believing that this is giving them results. FMGWaC ! the machine has no reasoning!

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