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minakimes.bsky.social
Read this: www.wgbh.org/news/local/2...
Becoming a U.S. citizen takes years and involves immigrants acquiring a green card, extensive interviews, background checks, classes and a citizenship test. The naturalization ceremony is the final step to the process, where the oath of allegiance and a citizenship certificate are granted. Immigrants approved to be naturalized went to Faneuil Hall Thursday - known as the country's cradle of liberty - for that long-awaited moment to pledge allegiance to the United States. But instead, as they lined up, some were told by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services officials that they couldn't proceed due to their countries of origin.
December 7, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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h/t @robertfreundlaw.bsky.social

holy shit, an accurate legal critique of LLMs. LLMs don't reason because they're just stitching together plausible-looking sentences indifferent to the content
What happens when ChatGPT cites to a real case but misstates what the case stands for? That doesn't fly for Judge Behm in Michigan. The court says that while a litigant could make the same error based on faulty reasoning, LLMs can't, because they can't reason. And while a litigant might get away with similar overstatements because they could, perhaps, reason their way to showing how a case's stated holding might extend to novel situations, an LLM does not reason in the way a litigant must. To put it in a slightly different way, LLMs do not perform the metacognitive processes that are necessary to comply with Rule 11. When an LLM overstates a holding of a case, it is just piecing together a plausible-looking sentence
December 3, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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physiciandemocracy.medsky.social
www.nbcnews.com/health/healt...
The HPV vaccine is safe and cuts cervical cancer risk by 80%, 2 large reviews find
Hundreds of studies, including gold-standard clinical trials, challenge Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s claim that the cancer vaccine is harmful.
www.nbcnews.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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joncooper-us.bsky.social
So am I.
December 3, 2025 at 4:12 AM
yadananathdesm.bsky.social
Wired FTW again!
couts.bsky.social Andrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 5d
NEW: A newly enacted NY state law requires retailers to reveal whether it used "surveillance pricing" to decide how much you pay for goods. Target, for example, shows the alert on a pop-up when you try to buy eggs online. @regret.bsky.social—@wired.com's new investigative data reporter!—reports:
Your Data Might Determine How Much You Pay for Eggs
A newly enacted New York law requires retailers to say whether your data influences the price of basic goods like a dozen eggs or toilet paper, but not how.
www.wired.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:25 PM
yadananathdesm.bsky.social
Wow.
harrywallop.co.uk Harry Wallop @harrywallop.co.uk · 5d
Great culture can save lives. Literally.

Amazing letter in today’s @thetimes.com about Tom Stoppard
December 2, 2025 at 4:12 PM
yadananathdesm.bsky.social
Riiight because if sales.
December 1, 2025 at 9:58 PM
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tobyontv.bsky.social
‘You boy! How do I unsubscribe from all these Black Friday emails?’
Scrooge leaning out of his window, yelling to a passing lad at the end of the film
December 1, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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captmarkkelly.bsky.social
No one will stop me from defending our freedoms.
November 29, 2025 at 1:02 AM
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bookshopghost.bsky.social
Communities need used-book shops.

As the trends in our world are increasingly standardized and entrenched by "predictive" technologies that stifle innovation and reduce human actions into economic categories...

We need a full range of possibilities for readers and communities to explore and share.
On the left, a narrow, glass-fronted display case with a mix of letterpress, hand-bound, antiquarian, and collectors' books; stretching off to the right, 8-foot bookcases laden with literary and contemporary commercial fiction, about one thousand books out of the 6-7 thousand in that section. LED lighting and light-colored wood cases and flooring keep the room feeling relatively spacious despite the sheer quantity of books.
November 27, 2025 at 11:11 PM
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physiciandemocracy.medsky.social
www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...
‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says
Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.
www.seattletimes.com
November 27, 2025 at 10:33 PM
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ufw.bsky.social
Without farmworkers we wouldn’t be able to celebrate Thanksgiving. Be thankful for their hard work this holiday season!

Sin los trabajadores agrícolas no podríamos celebrar el Día de Acción de Gracias. ¡Agradece su arduo trabajo en estas fiestas!

#WeFeedYou #Thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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wired.com
Myanmar’s military has been blowing up parts of the KK Park scam compound. Experts say the actions are likely for show. www.wired.com/story/myanma...
The Destruction of a Notorious Myanmar Scam Compound Appears to Have Been ‘Performative’
Myanmar’s military has been blowing up parts of the KK Park scam compound. Experts say the actions are likely for show.
www.wired.com
November 26, 2025 at 4:40 PM
yadananathdesm.bsky.social
141! Damn!
November 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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maladroithe.bsky.social
I will wear a skirt suit to the airport when the flight staff start serving aged prosciutto and olives from Greece with a French 75 to me in my full grain leather bucket seat
November 25, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social
Retired 4-star Army General Barry McCaffrey said the Pentagon's threats to Sen. Mark Kelly are making the U.S. start to look like the government of North Korea.
November 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
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davidjbier.bsky.social
ICE deported a woman who owned a home in the US for 30 years. A judge banned ICE from deporting her to Sierra Leone where she had been tortured, so it deported her to Ghana, which kidnapped her and sent her back Sierra Leone anyway. ICE is part of this illegal conspiracy.
November 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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cliff229.bsky.social
Now, remind me again that non-Americans should mind their own business.
November 25, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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katie-drummond.bsky.social
NEW: ICE had initially planned a limited pilot program to hire bounty hunters and private investigators for immigrant tracking.

The agency has now scrapped that plan and is going all-in, removing the program’s spending cap and offering up to $280M to any given contractor.

From @dell.bsky.social
ICE Offers Up to $280 Million to Immigrant-Tracking ‘Bounty Hunter’ Firms
Immigration and Customs Enforcement lifted a $180 million cap on a proposed immigrant-tracking program while guaranteeing multimillion-dollar payouts for private surveillance firms.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 7:59 PM
yadananathdesm.bsky.social
??!!
wildwoods.bsky.social Evan Frost @wildwoods.bsky.social · 12d
Another destructive solar project approved in n CA -- “There's nothing environmentally friendly about cutting down 4,000 oak trees, the most ecologically valuable native tree in all of North America. Over 2,000 other species depend on them." 🌎 www.capradio.org/articles/202...
SMUD’s controversial Coyote Creek solar project moves forward
The Sacramento County Board of Supervisors unanimously approved the project at a packed Tuesday meeting, where over 150 people showed up to voice concerns or support.
www.capradio.org
November 25, 2025 at 3:59 AM
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chanda.blacksky.app
“To be honest,” Etoria added, “it helped me imagine how the slaves might have felt, going to another land in shackles and chains—that loneliness, that disconnect, that sense of loss.”

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...
Disappeared to a Foreign Prison
The Trump Administration is deporting people to countries they have no ties to, where many are being detained indefinitely or forcibly returned to the places they fled. Sarah Stillman reports.
www.newyorker.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
yadananathdesm.bsky.social
We should prooobbly be talking about this a bit more.
irisvanrooij.bsky.social Iris van Rooij 💭 @irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 14d
People who adore the LLM-machine, that by design has no concern for truth, must have no concern for truth
November 23, 2025 at 8:09 PM
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steadystatevets.bsky.social
A federal judge didn’t “steal” the Commander-in-Chief’s powers—she ruled that DoD exceeded the limits Congress set. That is the rule of law working as designed. What threatens the Republic isn’t judicial review, but officials who insist they’re above it.
November 23, 2025 at 5:46 PM
yadananathdesm.bsky.social
!!
November 23, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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apnews.com
Storms that battered Alaska’s western coast this fall have brought renewed attention to low-lying Indigenous villages left increasingly vulnerable by climate change.
Alaska Native villages have few options and little US help as climate change devours their land
Storms that battered Alaska’s western coast this fall have brought renewed attention to low-lying Indigenous villages left increasingly vulnerable by climate change.
bit.ly
November 23, 2025 at 4:00 AM