Theodora Ruhs

🆘DON’T KILL BIGS

Found tied to a tree, Bigs is big, 86 pnds & 4 y/o, distressed in his small kennel. Once outside he can relax & is happy carrying his toy, turns to handlers for attention & treats

Scared at 1st, he’s now described as resilient & brave; needs ❤️ & security

Repost to find a #foster

“A lot of A.I.’s choices make sense when you understand that it’s constantly tickling the Simpsons.”

Here's the reality this example illustrates:

It's not even just about people blindly trusting what ChatGPT tells them. LLMs are poisoning the entire information ecosystem. You can't even necessarily trust that the citations in a published paper are real (or a search engine's descriptions of them).

Dollar Stores: Where Trumpian Sleaze Meets Affordability Widespread mispricing at Dollar stores may hide real inflation, frustrate shoppers, and show how weak consumer protection enables corporate cheating.

This is fascinating www.reddit.com/r/Frugal/com... If stores typically charge more at the checkout than their shelf prices, it would not be picked up in inflation measures. Wrote about this with Dollar stores cepr.net/publications...

This was just sent to me by an LAUSD parent. A 4th grader was assigned to design a book cover for Pippi Longstocking using Adobe for Education. Here is what the AI tool generated:

YouTube video by Jenny Nicholson The Last Bronycon: a fandom autopsy

I too was fascinated by this phenomenon. And I don’t know how anyone who was online in the 2010s doesn’t at least know it was a thing, even if they don’t fully understand it. Jenny Nicholson made a YouTube documentary 5 years ago that might be useful for the uninitiated.
youtu.be/4fVOF2PiHnc?...

Famous is at Risk! Pls nycacc.app/browse/235623

We need to get this poor baby a safe home!

“In your world, the freedom of light. In my world, the game of shadows [...] Somewhere, you begin. You call out the whisper of life. In a thousand places, I end. I burn. I become a dying star Silent in your sky like smoke.” The Dying Star by Parnia Abbasi Translated by Sophia Babai

Parnia Abbasi was a 23-year-old Iranian poet who, along with her whole family, was killed this past June by Israel. I just translated an excerpt of her poem The Dying Star for my book. I have no idea if I'll get to use it in the book, but translating it made me cry, so I'd like to share it with you:

It’s nice that they based this on the well-known thing in soccer where everybody puts their hands on the ball at the same time.

I really hope my topics class on emerging technology and the future of news runs in the spring because, oh boy, is there a lot of great material for discussions.

I’m Melvin! I’m going 2b euthanized bc I’m 2excited when I see others! That’s just part of my charm! I am loving- sweet-affectionate! If you’re in NY NJ NH NE ME MD DC FE PA VA RI VT CT I CAN BE TRANSPORTED 2u- vet/food 2- I just need a home! Pls repost me! #dogsofbluesky

Don’t let this sweet boy be KILLED! Zeus needs to be SEEN! He needs REPOSTS! Please someone on the East Coast save him!

Contributor: Moving to a climate-disaster zone just to afford a home The only affordable property is often in low-lying areas at flood risk, such as in Houston and coastal Texas, or in higher-wildfire-risk areas, such as in California foothills and canyons.

Again and again across the US, the cheapest housing is often in the most dangerous places – the ones most exposed to floods, fires and storms made worse by climate change.

Our story in the LA Times:

~40% of Hepatitis B infections are caught in childhood. It is contagious enough that it can be spread just from sharing common household objects.

The chance of chronic infection (ie does not clear, and is associated with high rates of liver failure and cancer) ranges from 50%-90% in this age group.

They are quite literally proposing an already-tried-and-failed policy that led to kids getting preventable diseases, organ failure, and cancer.

The CDC is compromised and is advocating against evidence-based public health.

This is a pro-death and pro-disease recommendation.

I would love to. Truly, I love a good full moon, but honestly, I hate the cold (“Feels like 8°”–are you freaking kidding me!) more than I love the idea of a super moon. Why can’t these things only happen in the summer?

For a little under an hour — 41 minutes, according to a separate US official — Bradley and the rest of the US military command center discussed what to do as they watched the men struggle to overturn what was left of their boat, the sources said.

Ultimately, Bradley told lawmakers, he ordered a second strike to destroy the remains of the vessel, killing the two survivors, on the grounds that it appeared that part of the vessel remained afloat because it still held cocaine, according to one of the sources. The survivors could hypothetically have floated to safety, been rescued, and carried on with trafficking the drugs, the logic went.

41 minutes. www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...

At least this type of plan will keep plumbers in business. Apparently, it’s the e of the few AI-proof career choices.

Women Are Telling the Truth in Their Out-of-Office Messages. It’s Devastating A national campaign is delivering a radically honest wake-up call about childcare, burnout, and what it means to live in a country without paid leave.

"I'm out of office because I'm a single mom paying $3,000 for childcare with no paid leave to fall back on."

"I'm OOO in the hospital for preeclampsia but I don't qualify for FMLA because I've been at my job less than 12 months.

www.marieclaire.com/politics/out...

"'Everyone knows' this thing, I'm gonna try to find out whether it's true" is the recipe behind some of the most interesting journalism of the century. Sometimes it is and sometimes it isn't but you need to do the work of finding out rather than just assuming the 'everyone knows' part is enough.

ICE Arrested and Separated Chinese Father From 6-Year-Old Son, Advocates Say The father and son were detained at an ICE check-in on Nov. 26, advocates say. The son’s location is currently unknown, while the father is being held at an upstate ICE facility.

A 6-year-old boy is missing after ICE arrested him and his dad in NYC last week and shipped them off to separate facilities. www.thecity.nyc/2025/12/02/i... @thecity.nyc @gwynnefitz.bsky.social

"Demanding an RCT would prevent pregnant women from receiving most vaccines, said Jake Scott, MD, a clinical associate professor of infectious disease"

It also will prevent #seniors from accessing #vaccines, who will die without them. In droves.

I'm tired, man. #Geriatrics in the USA=exhausting

Airlines Will Shut Down Program That Sold Your Flights Records to Government The move comes after intense pressure from lawmakers and 404 Media’s months-long reporting about the airline industry's data selling practices.

One thing we're vvv proud of: 404 Media independent + journalist-owned. Here's a rundown of some of our recent work:

After months of 404 Media reporting and pressure from lawmakers, US airlines will shut down a program that sold millions of YOUR flight records to the government.

Flow chart from TX Tech memo showing that most class materials must be reviewed by chair, dean, and provost, and that all curricular material must be disclosed

TX Tech has a flow chat for guidance on what can be taught in the university system. Two things:
1. Very little content seems to be permitted. This is partisan control of the curriculum.
2. I would not enjoy teaching under these conditions, but I really would not want to be a Chair or Dean.

🐶🆘 DON’T KILL Myra May

Myra May, a senior stray, found emaciated needs help! She needs medical care/ diagnostics - and instead they gave this sweetie a death sentence

Allowed all handling w/soft body for medical exam. Eating well & gaining weight. Wants to sit in laps!

🙏repost to find a #foster

Brian Goldstone appears on a PBS News Weekend, speaking from a room lined with bookshelves. A lower-third caption reads: “BRIAN GOLDSTONE — Journalist and Author, ‘There Is No Place for Us.’”

"Homelessness today isn't just the person sleeping outside a Walmart. It's often the cashier or worker stocking the shelves inside."

I joined @pbsnews.org to talk about There Is No Place for Us and the staggering rise of the "working homeless":
www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

YouTube video by BBC Comedy Greats Will Invents Musical Theatre | Upstart Crow | BBC Comedy Greats

Much better, but Shakespeare should really be portrayed as a foolish braggart as he is in “Upstart Crow.”

Hegseth order on first Caribbean boat strike, officials say: Kill them all Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth issued a verbal order to kill all crew members in the Sept. 2 strike on a suspected drug boat. Navy SEALs fired a second missile.

If the U.S. was at war, Pete Hegseth's order would be a war crime, a military lawyer said. Instead, it might just be murder. wapo.st/49KbUJ1

I found an answer! 😁 “… in 1900, there were 200 people killed in horse related accidents in New York City. In 2003 there were 344 auto related fatalities, so taking into consideration the population increase, the per capita fatalities in 1900 were about 75 per cent higher than today.”