Jeannette Ho
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Cataloging/Metadata Librarian at Texas A&M University
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy
about 5 hours ago
USA: Epidemic trend summary: Jan 5, 2026 COVID-19 As of December 30, 2025: š¹37 states have COVID-19 infections growing or likely growing š¹1 state has infections declining or likely declining š¹10 states show no change Source:
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chadzia dax šš·
about 8 hours ago
reminder that more kids now have long covid than asthma.
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Sandy K
about 7 hours ago
This Is the Damage Kennedy Has Done in Less Than a Year
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/o...
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Opinion | This Is the Damage Kennedy Has Done in Less Than a Year
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/30/opinion/kennedy-vaccines-hhs-cdc.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CVA.K876.GLEl5jxY0HgZ&smid=nytcore-ios-share
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Mike Miliard
about 6 hours ago
"Itās difficult to overstate how absurd this state of affairs is. And itās a bit of a mystery why this disconnect still has yet to figure more prominently in U.S. news coverage."
talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/venez...
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Venezuela Regime Change and the Theater of the Absurd
On Saturday, a friend and I were comparing notes on the events...
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/venezuela-regime-change-and-the-theater-of-the-absurd/sharetoken/2de9619f-24ab-4433-b006-d7af6630cee3
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Captive
about 5 hours ago
"Cartel de los Soles" was a 5 year lie they are too scared to put in US legal documents. Why doesn't America care about truth at all anymore? No society can function without truth. When did Americans start expecting so little? Gift article from The New York Times.
www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/u...
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Justice Dept. Drops Claim That Venezuelaās āCartel de los Solesā Is an Actual Group
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/us/trump-venezuela-drug-cartel-de-los-soles.html?unlocked_article_code=1.CVA.f2pt.Pq7x2mh11wo_&smid=bs-share
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Benj Edwards
about 15 hours ago
As people continue to ask Grok to explain itself, feel free to point them to this article:
arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/w...
Also this:
arstechnica.com/information-...
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Why itās a mistake to ask chatbots about their mistakes
The tendency to ask AI bots to explain themselves reveals widespread misconceptions about how they work.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/08/why-its-a-mistake-to-ask-chatbots-about-their-mistakes/
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Eryk Salvaggio
about 14 hours ago
Some people are mad about this. I think itās great. Let kids build stuff and understand sensors as a material that can be repurposed! It seems like a foundational bit of tech literacy that could spur creativity. Iād have used the hell out of this brick. As an artist I still might!
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Lego announces Smart Brick, the āmost significant evolutionā in 50 years
Starting with Lego Star Wars.
https://www.theverge.com/tech/854556/lego-announces-smart-brick-the-most-significant-evolution-in-50-years
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404 Media
about 13 hours ago
We are experiencing world events like the kidnapping of Maduro through the lens of the most depraved AI you can imagine.
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Grok's AI CSAM Shitshow
We are experiencing world events like the kidnapping of Maduro through the lens of the most depraved AI you can imagine.
https://www.404media.co/groks-ai-csam-shitshow/
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Center for Democracy & Technology
about 12 hours ago
CDTās
@kateruane.bsky.social
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@austinchronicle.bsky.social
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Texas App Store Age Verification Law Blocked in Court ⢠The Austin Chronicle
As a queer, brown teenager growing up in a conservative part of Texas, Sarah Philips, a campaigner for Fight for the Future, said the internet served as a place to find community. āMost people I know with that experience looked to some sort of online connection when they didnāt find it in-person,ā Philips reflected. Back [ā¦]
https://www.austinchronicle.com/news/texas-app-store-age-verification-law-blocked-in-court/
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Andrew Hundt
about 11 hours ago
Oh no
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Michael Caley
24 days ago
excellent Times piece getting at the core of the US escalation with Venezuela Marco Rubio is a deranged anticommunist bent on overthrowing the Venezuelan and Cuban regimes and everything is downstream from that
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/u...
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Ernesto CastaƱeda
3 days ago
The events in Venezuela were fueled by Marco Rubio and his close advisors obsessed with Cuba. Do not use the term "narcoterrorism" to talk about this. More here:
aulablog.net/2025/12/23/w...
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What is behind the US Escalation of Threats against Venezuela?
By Ernesto CastaƱeda Regarding the question of what is happening between the United States and Venezuela, the answer is that this is a partially unintended, unanticipated international focus at theā¦
https://aulablog.net/2025/12/23/what-is-behind-the-us-escalation-of-threats-against-venezuela/
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Shannon Mattern
about 7 hours ago
It seems that Curbed has now been disappeared, too. It's of course great that the Wayback Machine exists āĀ but we shouldn't have a media ecosystem in which we depend on a nonprofit to preserve "content" monetized by commercial outlets with zero obligation to preservation and access
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Hypervisible
about 6 hours ago
What fucking safeguards.
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A.I. Images of Maduro Spread Rapidly, Despite Safeguards
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/technology/nicolas-maduro-ai-images-deepfakes.html
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Queens Public Library
about 10 hours ago
Join us for a brand new year of Literary Thursdays virtual author talks! Learn More about our January guests: Gloria J. Browne-Marshall, Robert J. Coplan, the anonymous author of āDiary of an Oxygen Thief," and
@danielwhiteson.bsky.social
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www.queenslibrary.org/calendar?sea...
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10 days ago
Dear Jon Stewart c/o
@weeklyshowpodcast.bsky.social
I recently watched, with great surprise and disappointment, a weeklyshowpodcast segment in which you and other "personalities," gleefully mocked and derided the relatively small subset of individuals who continue to wear a face mask in public.
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A.R. Moxon
8 days ago
Next time someone says they donāt have to apologize for being white anymore, ask them to tell about the most recent time they were forced to apologize for being white and who made them do it.
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kate bushās husband
5 days ago
Fuck it I donāt care anymore
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Alex Brown šµšø (they/them)
about 16 hours ago
Students go back to school starting this week. Exciting times!
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Matt
about 13 hours ago
This list showcases just some of the shows that were made available at least in part thanks to funding from the Corporation for Public Broadcasting over the years.
jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/list/disp...
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Phil Lewis
about 14 hours ago
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting has been dissolved, ending its 58 years as the primary funder for PBS, NPR and local TV and radio stations
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Corporation For Public Broadcasting Is Dissolved After 58 Years Of Service
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/latest-news-trump-maduro_n_695bb603e4b0d6beb5fd9469/liveblog_695c153ce4b0d6beb5fe025f
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NBC News
about 15 hours ago
BREAKING: CDC announces an unprecedented overhaul of the childhood vaccine schedule, a significant shift that recommends fewer shots for all kids.
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CDC overhauls childhood vaccine schedule to resemble Denmark in unprecedented move
The new U.S. guidelines recommend all children get vaccines for 11 diseases, compared with the 18 previously on the schedule.
https://nbcnews.to/499eSWN
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Kevin Brackley
1 day ago
This is exactly what long covid feels like
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Augie Ray
5 days ago
I don't normally ask, but if you are concerned about
#COVID19
, please share my latest post with others. I'd like it to reach folks who AREN'T already COVID-aware. Iāve Read 3,000 Studies About COVID: Hereās What Youāre Ignoring That Could (Still) Harm You or a Loved One
medium.com/@augieray_66...
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Iāve Read 3,000 Studies About COVID: Hereās What Youāre Ignoring That Could (Still) Harm You or aā¦
Six years ago today, on December 31, 2019, the World Health Organization (WHO) Country Office in China was informed of several cases of aā¦
https://medium.com/@augieray_66704/ive-read-3-000-studies-about-covid-here-s-what-you-re-ignoring-that-could-still-harm-you-or-a-accafe0f7c66
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Augie Ray
3 days ago
Weekly update: COVID and Flu Accelerating as 2026 Begins: Update for January 2, 2026 - No new wastewater data from the CDC due to the holiday - WastewaterSCAN has COVID, flu, and RSV concentrations at high and rising - Walgreens' virus map is solid red in most of the US
medium.com/@augieray_66...
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COVID and Flu Accelerating as 2026 Begins: Update for January 2, 2026
The New Yearās holiday is interrupting the flow of wastewater data from the CDC, so there was no update today. However, we know that, asā¦
https://medium.com/@augieray_66704/covid-and-flu-accelerating-as-2026-begins-update-for-january-2-2026-e6695103179e
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Miles W. Griffis
7 days ago
One of the most disappointing parts of Jon Stewartās recent ājokeā on masks is that ME and Long COVID advocates been calling on him to expose āthe greatest medical scandal of the 21st centuryā on his show. Instead he chose to ignore the topic and punch down.
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Denis - The COVID Info Guy
1 day ago
US Weekly COVID update: Dec 29, 2025 šø1 in 51 Actively Infectious šø958,000 New Daily Infections šø6,320,000 Infections In The Past Week šø239,000,000 Infections in 2025 šø316,000 to 1,260,000 Weekly Long COVID Cases šø1,900 to 3,200 Weekly Deaths Source:
pmc19.com/data/
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Amalia S. Levi, PhD
1 day ago
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Mary Grace
1 day ago
I think we already figured that out if we have any common sense along with trust in medical science.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...
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Canadian officials say US health institutions no longer dependable for accurate information
Misinformation from the Trump administration is cited as fuelling Canadiansā concerns over childhood vaccinations
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/04/canada-us-health-institutions-information
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The Bulwark
1 day ago
You *can* get special immigration treatment in this administration...as long as you launder Russian propaganda. ICYMI
@willsommer.bsky.social
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Trump Admin Scores Visa for Founder of Russian Propaganda Outlet
Tenet Mediaās Lauren Chen is backāeven though the illegal-influence and money-laundering investigation remains open.
https://lnk.thebulwark.com/4pj2vMz
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Prof Gavin Yamey
1 day ago
ā¼ļøHow incredibly dangerous These are kids covered by Medicaid/CHIPādisadvantaged kids If we donāt have data on vaccine coverage, we canāt identify communities most at risk of harm or death from outbreaks šRFK Jrās anti-vaxx MAHA movement is a death cult Great reporting by
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Chantzy
2 days ago
The comments on this Reddit post are redeeming. Suggest reading them if anyone is struggling with this too. How many women are being bullied daily for masking & taking Covid precautions?
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Mary Grace
1 day ago
āFrom now on, every other country faces a global threat dedicated to expanding its power, one that cannot be trusted...Trump ensured that the US will no longer be admired or respected around the world as that shining beacon of liberty and law. America will now be feared and despised.ā
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The Joe Gross
1 day ago
Literally a publication for eight-year olds 40 years ago
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Hourly Foxes
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EveryLibrary
4 days ago
In communities across the country, school and public libraries are under attack from another direction: book bans, criminalization of librarians, and efforts to erase entire groups and perspectives from public view.
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Defending Free Speech in the Stacks
How Libraries, Book Bans, and Censorship Impact All of UsĀ (Problem vs. Solution) Libraries used to feel untouchable. As a kid, I thought of them as neu...
https://buff.ly/uGROdea
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Dr Abeba Birhane
2 days ago
no surprise here as social media platforms like facebook have been fuelling genocide, amplifying hate and racism and destroying the rule of law for user engagement, which has now made these companies too big & powerful to regulate
www.wired.com/story/disinf...
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Disinformation Floods Social Media After NicolĆ”s Maduroās Capture
From seemingly AI-generated videos to repurposed old footage, TikTok, Instagram, and X did little to stop the onslaught of misleading posts in the wake of the US invasion of Venezuela.
https://www.wired.com/story/disinformation-floods-social-media-after-nicolas-maduros-capture/
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Open Access Tracking Project
2 days ago
U.S. Institutional Repositories Respond to AI: Perspectives on Policy and Technical Measures, Labor Impact, and Engagement Metrics: Journal of Library Administration: Vol 65, No 8
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/01930826.2025.2597157
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Sandwich āHamā Frankenstein
2 days ago
MTV is officially ending all of its music channels. In honor of that, whatās your favorite music video?
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Sherrilyn Ifill
4 days ago
And please, PLEASE let us not forget that time in 2023 when Karen Smith was elected President of the school board in Bucks County, Pa and swore her oath on a stack of banned books. The most gangsta oath ever! Just brilliant.
www.edweek.org/leadership/t...
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This School Board President Took Her Oath on a Stack of Contested Books. Here's Why
The school board for Central Bucks County, Pa., has been at the center of divisive political debates.
https://www.edweek.org/leadership/this-school-board-president-took-her-oath-on-a-stack-of-contested-books-heres-why/2023/12
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Nicole Hennig
3 days ago
Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC76ā¦
#InformationLiteracy
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Critical Ignoring as a Core Competence for Digital Citizens
Low-quality and misleading information online can hijack peopleās attention, often by evoking curiosity, outrage, or anger. Resisting certain types of information and actors online requires people to adopt new mental habits that help them avoid ...
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7615324/
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Idaho Capital Sun
6 days ago
In a settlement agreement, the NIH and a group of Democratic attorneys general whoād challenged the new criteria for grant funding said the NIH would consider grant applications made up to Sept. 29, 2025, without judging the efforts related to diversity, equity and inclusion, or DEI, or vaccines.
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Trump administration agrees to drop anti-DEI criteria for stalled health research grants ⢠Idaho Capital Sun
The Trump administration will review frozen grants to universities without using its standards that discouraged DEI initiatives and vaccine research.
https://idahocapitalsun.com/2025/12/31/repub/trump-administration-agrees-to-drop-anti-dei-criteria-for-stalled-health-research-grants/
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Jeremy Berg
4 days ago
For anyone trying to keep up with the grant termination/delay litigation against NIH, the ACLU has a good page with summaries and links.
www.aclu.org/cases/apha-v...
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APHA v. NIH | American Civil Liberties Union
APHA v. NIH is a legal challenge to the unprecedented and ideologically-driven purge of hundreds of biomedical research projects by the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Years of research on a wide...
https://www.aclu.org/cases/apha-v-nih
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Frank Strong
5 days ago
I made an interactive map! This is a look at the effects Tx book-banning laws have had just *since the end of last school year*. I made it because it's easy to hear a shocking story about a book ban and then forget it and lose the larger picture.
www.google.com/maps/d/viewe...
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Mapping Texas Book Bans SY 25-26 - Google My Maps
Mapping Texas Book Bans SY 25-26
https://www.google.com/maps/d/viewer?ll=29.850934499999994%2C-97.93749479999998&z=8&mid=1R5aIX1ZjvnBiVtqAd02UI730ZVuLuos
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Eliot Higgins
3 days ago
Good time to repost this
www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
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OSHIT: Seven Deadly Sins of Bad Open Source Research - bellingcat
Learning to recognise these widespread mistakes will help you judge the quality of open source analysis ā or improve your own.
https://www.bellingcat.com/resources/2024/04/25/oshit-seven-deadly-sins-of-bad-open-source-research/
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Shayan Sardarizadeh
3 days ago
THREAD: I'll fact-check all the viral misinformation about the US military operation in Venezuela in this thread This image, purporting to show the US military arresting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, is AI-generated. According to Google's SynthID detector, it was created using Google AI.
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āMcCabe quotes first-term Trump saying Venezuela was āthe country we should be going to war with, they have all that oil and theyāre right on our back doorā.ā
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Frankie Huang é»ē¢§čµ¤
3 days ago
The US invades a sovereign nation to force a regime change and a major news network reports it like this and itās only January 3rd
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Tech Policy Press
5 days ago
Most-listened Tech Policy Press podcasts of 2025: In June, Justin Hendrix spoke to Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna about their new book, The AI Con: How to Fight Big Techās Hype and Create the Future We Want.
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Taking on the AI Con | TechPolicy.Press
Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna are the authors of The AI Con: How to Fight Big Techās Hype and Create the Future We Want, just out from Harper Collins.
https://buff.ly/ojw716o
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