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✍️ New post: Age Quod Agis
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https://matthiasott.com/notes/age-quod-agis

Age Quod Agis · Matthias Ott
Matthias Ott is an independent user experience designer and web design engineer from Stuttgart, Germany. He also teaches Interface Prototyping at the Muthesius Academy of Fine Arts and Design.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #Early
Made Kuti:
🎵 Won Na Pa
#MadeKuti
https://madekuti.bandcamp.com/track/won-na-pa
https://open.spotify.com/track/3PrxYu5fOIpaI3m9CfP9X8

Medicaid cuts threaten rural hospitals -- and access to maternity care (Yasmeen Abutaleb/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/09/01/medicaid-cuts-rural-maternity-care/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250901/p4#a250901p4

Unions are challenged with protecting their members from the Trump Administration's immigration raids, cuts in Medicaid services and a weakened National Labor Relations Board.
In June, tens of thousands of demonstrators showed up for "No Kings" protests across Southern California.
Now union organizers have put together the nationwide protest
"Workers over Billionaires,"
calling it a "refusal to let billionaires slash care, scapegoat immigran…

Freedom of the Press Foundation and 404 Media file a FOIA lawsuit against the US DHS and CMS, seeking documents about Medicaid patient data sharing with ICE (Joseph Cox/404 Media)
https://www.404media.co/404-media-and-freedom-of-the-press-foundation-sue-dhs/

404 Media and Freedom of the Press Foundation Sue DHS
Both organizations are seeking a copy of a data sharing agreement that is giving the personal data of nearly 80 million Medicaid patients to ICE.

HalluGuard: Evidence-Grounded Small Reasoning Models to Mitigate Hallucinations in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Loris Bergeron, Ioana Buhnila, J\'er\^ome Fran\c{c}ois, Radu State
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.00880

HalluGuard: Evidence-Grounded Small Reasoning Models to Mitigate Hallucinations in Retrieval-Augmented Generation
Large Language Models (LLMs) excel in many NLP tasks but remain prone to hallucinations, limiting trust in real-world applications. We present HalluGuard, a 4B-parameter Small Reasoning Model (SRM) for mitigating hallucinations in Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG). HalluGuard classifies document-claim pairs as grounded or hallucinated and produces evidence-grounded justifications for transparency. Our approach combines (i) a domain-agnostic synthetic dataset derived from FineWeb and refined …

H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report for H-Mideast-Medieval: 21 September - 28 September https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20126957/h-net-job-guide-weekly-report-h-mideast-medieval-21-september-28

So today is my fediversary... 3 years of you lot brightening up my life.

Spotted on a wall in Lisbon #streetart

📢 Oktoberfest in München wegen Bombendrohung geschlossen
Das Oktoberfest in München bleibt heute bis mindestens 17 Uhr wegen einer Bombendrohung geschlossen. Das hat Oberbürgermeister Dieter Reiter mitgeteilt. Die Drohung stehe in Zusammenhang mit einem Einsatz im Münchner Norden.
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Oktoberfest in München wegen Bombendrohung geschlossen
Das Oktoberfest in München bleibt heute bis mindestens 17 Uhr wegen einer Bombendrohung geschlossen. Das hat Oberbürgermeister Dieter Reiter mitgeteilt. Die Drohung stehe in Zusammenhang mit einem Einsatz im Münchner Norden.