Laurie Sefton
@lsefton.bsky.social
Somewhat retired research librarian, "information professional" and part-time weather forecaster. Known to be found around Astronomers, Astrophysicists, and Science Journalists.
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“The Index of Consumer Sentiment, a continuing survey that has been maintained by the University of Michigan since 1958, is the lowest it has been in 40 years.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/d...
Anxiety. It’s What’s for Thanksgiving Dinner.
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 6:09 AM
“The Index of Consumer Sentiment, a continuing survey that has been maintained by the University of Michigan since 1958, is the lowest it has been in 40 years.” www.nytimes.com/2025/11/25/d...
The Tartan Army is coming to the US!
Don’t worry—they’re really quite nice. www.thenational.scot/sport/256423...
Don’t worry—they’re really quite nice. www.thenational.scot/sport/256423...
'Earthquake' recorded as Tartan Army fans celebrate World Cup qualification
An earthquake was recorded after Tartan Army fans celebrated Scotland's men qualifying for the first World Cup in nearly 28 years
www.thenational.scot
November 23, 2025 at 6:32 AM
The Tartan Army is coming to the US!
Don’t worry—they’re really quite nice. www.thenational.scot/sport/256423...
Don’t worry—they’re really quite nice. www.thenational.scot/sport/256423...
“…Schmidt confided that when he worked at Google, he built an insider “backdoor” to Google servers with a team of Google engineers in order to spy on Google employees. Accordingly, the backdoor enabled him to access anyone’s Google account and private information,” www.latimes.com/business/sto...
Former Google chief accused of spying on employees through account 'backdoor'
Former Google CEO and chairman Eric Schmidt was accused in a lawsuit filed Wednesday by a former girlfriend and business partner of using a Gmail "backdoor" to spy on her and company employees.
www.latimes.com
November 20, 2025 at 8:33 PM
“…Schmidt confided that when he worked at Google, he built an insider “backdoor” to Google servers with a team of Google engineers in order to spy on Google employees. Accordingly, the backdoor enabled him to access anyone’s Google account and private information,” www.latimes.com/business/sto...
Local wolves have figured out how to get to the traps and eat the bait: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
B.C. wolves use line to pull up crab traps in first possible tool use by species | CBC News
Within a day of the cameras being set up in the Heiltsuk First Nation last year, researchers captured footage of a sea wolf emerging from the water with a buoy hanging from its mouth. The footage the...
www.cbc.ca
November 19, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Local wolves have figured out how to get to the traps and eat the bait: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
UT Austin, Texas A&M, and Purdue fed a lot of “low quality” items to LLMs, and guess what? GIGO still works! arxiv.org/abs/2510.13928
LLMs Can Get "Brain Rot"!
We propose and test the LLM Brain Rot Hypothesis: continual exposure to junk web text induces lasting cognitive decline in large language models (LLMs). To causally isolate data quality, we run contro...
arxiv.org
November 17, 2025 at 11:07 PM
UT Austin, Texas A&M, and Purdue fed a lot of “low quality” items to LLMs, and guess what? GIGO still works! arxiv.org/abs/2510.13928
“The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled that forgery charges filed in Clark County can move forward against Nevada’s six so-called “fake electors” who sought to overturn the 2020 election for President Donald Trump.” thenevadaindependent.com/article/neva...
Nevada fake electors case can proceed in Clark County, state Supreme Court rules - The Nevada Independent
Nevada fake electors case can proceed in Clark County, state Supreme Court rules. Read more from The Nevada Independent.
thenevadaindependent.com
November 15, 2025 at 1:43 AM
“The Nevada Supreme Court has ruled that forgery charges filed in Clark County can move forward against Nevada’s six so-called “fake electors” who sought to overturn the 2020 election for President Donald Trump.” thenevadaindependent.com/article/neva...
Scientists hope to find out why the Lynx is leucistic: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Rare white Iberian lynx captured on film in Spain by amateur photographer
Researchers to investigate whether environmental factors may have affected female animal’s pigmentation
www.theguardian.com
November 4, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Scientists hope to find out why the Lynx is leucistic: www.theguardian.com/environment/...
I don’t blame them.
www.techradar.com/pro/the-inte...
www.techradar.com/pro/the-inte...
The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft software for an open source alternative
The ICC says it has become too dependent on US tech
www.techradar.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:52 PM
I don’t blame them.
www.techradar.com/pro/the-inte...
www.techradar.com/pro/the-inte...
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Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.
October 18, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Giant copy of the Constitution being carried down Pennsylvania Avenue.
Without access to their phones, students went to the school library: www.wweek.com/news/schools...
PPS Students Are Flocking to Their School Libraries
This fall, phones went out of sight at Portland Public Schools buildings. And then something unexpected happened.
www.wweek.com
October 18, 2025 at 5:55 AM
Without access to their phones, students went to the school library: www.wweek.com/news/schools...
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A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.
ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.
A judge has ordered his immediate release.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.
A judge has ordered his immediate release.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
October 5, 2025 at 1:35 AM
A WILD ONE: A man broke his leg during an arrest by ICE at a car wash south of L.A.
ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.
A judge has ordered his immediate release.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
ICE has held him under 24/7 guard at a hospital, registering him under a pseudonym, for *37 days* without telling him why.
A judge has ordered his immediate release.
storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Reposted by Laurie Sefton
Nancy Pelosi is sick of their bullshit.
October 16, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Nancy Pelosi is sick of their bullshit.
Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request
The group ICE Sighting-Chicagoland has been increasingly used in the last five weeks of President Donald Trump’s intense deportation campaign to warn neighbors that federal agents are nearby.
chicago.suntimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 6:08 AM
Facebook suspends popular Chicago ICE-sightings group at Trump administration’s request chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Feds ram SUV after pursuit into residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
Feds ram SUV after pursuit into residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd
The crash happened late Tuesday morning near 105th Street and Avenue N in the East Side neighborhood. Two men being pursued were arrested as were two bystanders. The crash drew dozens of neighbors who...
chicago.suntimes.com
October 15, 2025 at 2:02 AM
Feds ram SUV after pursuit into residential street in Chicago, then tear-gas crowd chicago.suntimes.com/immigration/...
This bunch is the future of the Republican Party? www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
‘I love Hitler’: Leaked messages expose Young Republicans’ racist chat
Thousands of private messages reveal young GOP leaders joking about gas chambers, slavery and rape.
www.politico.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:15 PM
This bunch is the future of the Republican Party? www.politico.com/news/2025/10...
Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis prospect.org/politics/tru...
Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis
In a filing in the Federal Register, the Labor Department argues there are “immediate dangers to the American food supply” due to a lack of migrant agricultural workers.
prospect.org
October 13, 2025 at 1:12 AM
Trump Labor Department Says His Immigration Raids Are Causing a Food Crisis prospect.org/politics/tru...
‘I’m not a criminal’: Man busted with stolen Porsche, guns, pound of meth claims innocence: sfstandard.com/2025/10/03/s...
SFPD seized guns, meth, stolen Porsche at home next to high school
“They completely lied,” John Richard Choy says about the allegations lobbed by the San Francisco police.
sfstandard.com
October 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM
‘I’m not a criminal’: Man busted with stolen Porsche, guns, pound of meth claims innocence: sfstandard.com/2025/10/03/s...
It’s so good that they are so bad at OpSec: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
White House official inadvertently reveals plans to send elite army unit to Portland
Anthony Salisbury displayed chat about deployment of 82nd airborne division on cell phone while in Minnesota
www.theguardian.com
October 4, 2025 at 7:02 PM
It’s so good that they are so bad at OpSec: www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Reposted by Laurie Sefton
The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...
www.chosun.com/english/nati...
National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders
National Defense Ministry Honors 11 Soldiers for Refusing Illegal Orders Honored for rejecting illegal orders during martial law, Marine death probe
www.chosun.com
September 27, 2025 at 6:44 PM
The South Korean Ministry of Defense has awarded medals of merit to 11 officers for disobeying direct orders of superiors during the martial law fiasco, orders that they deemed to be contrary to the constitution and endangerment to democracy.
www.chosun.com/english/nati...
www.chosun.com/english/nati...
Reposted by Laurie Sefton
Reposted by Laurie Sefton
🚨NEW: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel.
Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣
This is a must-watch. 🔥
Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣
This is a must-watch. 🔥
September 19, 2025 at 3:02 AM
🚨NEW: "The Late Show with Stephen Colbert" just dropped its first response to ABC, FCC chair, and Disney firing Jimmy Kimmel.
Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣
This is a must-watch. 🔥
Trump ain't sleeping tonight. 🤣
This is a must-watch. 🔥