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I was wondering why I wasn’t getting reminders from #libby about a hold that I had asked to deliver later.
They changed the system: you must suspend a hold and remember to unsuspend it when you’re ready to be back in line.
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We had to drive over to Queanbeyan to pick up an order at the farm shop there.
We don't get there very often so we took the opportunity to go for a bit of a wander by the river afterwards. I forgot how pretty it is.
#Queanbeyan #Australia

Indonesia suspends TikTok's local operating license, saying it failed to share complete livestream activity data during protests following a government request (Chandra Asmara/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence
Myra Cheng, Cinoo Lee, Pranav Khadpe, Sunny Yu, Dyllan Han, Dan Jurafsky
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.01395 h…

Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence
Both the general public and academic communities have raised concerns about sycophancy, the phenomenon of artificial intelligence (AI) excessively agreeing with or flattering users. Yet, beyond isolated media reports of severe consequences, like reinforcing delusions, little is known about the extent of sycophancy or how it affects people who use AI. Here we show the pervasiveness and harmful impacts of sycophancy when people seek advice from AI. First, across 11 state-of-the-art AI models, we …

These socks have just sneaked into #sockvember but the 1x1 rib is just flying 🙄 so they should be finished soon. After that it's Christmas #knitting, including a few Arne & Carlos baubles.

Here are some more photos from our wander in Queanbeyan. The suspension bridge is quite old and rather wobbly. I loved it. We met an old man who told us about platypus sightings around the river.
#Queanbeyan #Australia

researchers picked 2000 posts from r/AmITheAsshole where consensus response was "yes, YTA", and they asked LLMs to respond.
Claude and GPT said "no, NTA" 50% of the time.
Gemini was the least sycophantic at 20% NTA.
they also tested human reaction to sycophantic vs non-sycophantic LLMs. results are as expected (but not very large)
arxiv.org/abs/2510.01395

SBA says it has suspended ‘6,900 Minnesota borrowers’ over suspected fraud
https://thehill.com/homenews/state-watch/5669459-minnesota-fraud-sba-ppp/

Nexperia's China unit says it has "sufficient inventories" to sustain order fulfillment "through year-end and beyond", after the parent suspended wafer supplies (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/nexper

Letter: Nexperia suspends supplies of wafers to its Chinese assembly plant, citing a failure to "comply with the agreed contractual payment terms" (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/nexperia-suspends…