This month on Creation Station Monthly we feature three people passionate about Librarianship.

Guests on this episode:

Billy Allen

https://3kingvisions.com/

https://www.instagram.com/3kingvisions

 https://www.youtube.com/@3kingvisions

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Robert Anstett

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Episode Number 252 – September 25th – Artemis surprise, new satellites, scalpers, tech workers, ambient computing

This week's guest: No Guest

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Artemissurprise:
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy7pegvz17yo

Next Gen Satellite images:

https://apnews.com/article/satellite-nasa-india-radar-73f610a8e03fa544db8826b170ce0fcc

Ticketmaster Scalpers:

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/ticketmaster-intentionally-screwed-fans-out-of-billions-ftc-lawsuit-says/

How much disruption in one year?

https://www.visualcapitalist.com/all-u-s-critical-minerals-in-2025-ranked-by-supply-disruption-risk/

TechWorker movement:
https://restofworld.org/2025/chinese-tech-workers-leave-silicon-valley/

https://restofworld.org/2025/trumps-h-1b-crackdown-workers/

AmbientComputing is here?
https://gizmodo.com/we-need-to-talk-about-smart-glasses-2000661487

https://www.engadget.com/ar-vr/xreals-one-pro-intrigues-me-in-ways-metas-smart-glasses-dont-120000554.html

Bonus Link:

Documentary about book bans:
https://www.theguardian.com/film/2025/sep/24/the-librarians-review-the-heroic-women-battling-against-book-bans-and-censorship

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Episode number 251 - September 18th 2025 – Our Sun is Waking Up, Evidence of ancient life on Mars, but it’s not really in the budget, Is ChatGPT usage really that high?, Nuclear Energy Renaissance.

This week's guest: Sean Skinner from West Regional

Links to this week’s stories:

The Sun is Slowly Waking Up

⁠https://www.livescience.com/space/the-sun/the-sun-is-slowly-waking-up-nasa-warns-that-there-may-be-more-extreme-space-weather-for-decades-to-come⁠

NASA found clues of life on Mars, but budget cutsthreaten future missions.

⁠https://www.theverge.com/nasa/776554/nasa-mars-jezero-crater-budget-cuts⁠

What do people actually use ChatGPT for? OpenAI providessome numbers.

⁠https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/09/seven-things-we-learned-from-openais-first-study-on-chatgpt-usage/⁠

The US is trying to kick-start a “nuclear energyrenaissance”

⁠https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/09/the-us-is-trying-to-kick-start-a-nuclear-energy-renaissance/⁠

Survey:

⁠https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/2M3VXCR⁠

Episode Number 250 – September 11th –  Maybe life? Science at home for your lungs, Nepal protests, VR problem? “free” AI, What blue do you see?

This week's guest: Kristen from Creation StationSunrise

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Listener Article:
Maybe life?

https://www.space.com/astronomy/mars/did-nasas-perseverance-rover-actually-find-evidence-of-life-on-mars-we-need-to-haul-its-samples-home-to-find-out-scientists-say

Scienceat home for your lungs:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250908-the-simple-test-to-check-how-old-your-lungs-are

Hackathon:
https://broward.libnet.info/events?l=North+Lauderdale+Saraniero+Branch&r=range&start=2025-09-11&end=2025-09-27

Nepal protests over Social Media bans:

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/c741n80ndlxt

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/09/nx-s1-5534953/nepal-social-media-ban-protests

https://restofworld.org/2025/nepal-gen-z-protest/

https://globalvoices.org/2025/09/09/gen-z-stands-up-to-expose-corruption-in-nepal/

VR problem? Or Predator problem?

https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/meta-reportedly-suppressed-research-about-how-dangerous-its-vr-headsets-are-for-kids-162509006.html

the limits of “free” AI:

https://www.theverge.com/news/773496/google-gemini-usage-limits

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/09/pay-per-output-ai-firms-blindsided-by-beefed-up-robots-txt-instructions/

What color do you see?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02901-3

Bonus Link:

https://www.mineralcup.org/

Bluesky and Social Media Bans:
https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/10/bluesky-will-comply-with-age-verification-laws-in-south-dakota-and-wyoming-after-exiting-mississippi/

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Episode Number 249 – September 4th – Magnets, jaguars, Decentralize or be blocked, self-cleaning seas, autonomous ships, demographics catch up to everyone, Google is not done, and bonus Mineral Cup

This week's guest: No guest

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Listener Article:

How many magnets are too many magnets?

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/whirlpool-fridge-magnets-impact-electricity-111507135.html

Good news but not there yet:
https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/mexicos-jaguar-is-making-a-comeback/

Decentralize or be blocked?
https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/28/mississippis-age-assurance-law-puts-decentralized-social-networks-to-the-test/

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/29/mastodon-says-it-doesnt-have-the-means-to-comply-with-age-verification-laws/

The sea cleans itself… sort of:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250901-why-plastic-filled-neptune-balls-are-washing-up-on-beaches

Autonomous Ships:
https://container-news.com/abs-issues-certificate-for-the-worlds-largest-classed-usv/

Demographics is a world wide concern:
https://apnews.com/projects/africa-aging-demographics/

The Google settlement… is not a victory and it is not over
https://www.cnn.com/2025/09/03/tech/google-antitrust-apple

Bonus Link:

https://www.mineralcup.org/

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Episode Number 248 – August 28th – SpaceX, Bluesky, Science takes time and patience, where we get power from changes, and once you start eatingants you can’t go back

This week's guest: Hadi  from The Teen Studio

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Listener Article:

SpaceX pulls it off:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/26/spacex-starship-launch

Blocking the Internet STILL does not work:

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/24/bluesky-blocks-service-in-mississippi-over-age-assurance-law/

Once you start eating ants you don’t go back
https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/mammals-that-chose-ants-and-termites-as-food-almost-never-go-back/

Study link:
https://academic.oup.com/evolut/advance-article-abstract/doi/10.1093/evolut/qpaf121/8155241?redirectedFrom=fulltext&login=false

Check your results over time
https://news.tulane.edu/pr/study-finds-sea-level-projections-1990s-were-spot

Study link:

https://essd.copernicus.org/articles/16/3471/2024/

Electricity use is up…. Or down?

https://arstechnica.com/science/2025/08/us-electricity-2025-solar-continues-growth-coal-still-up/

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This month on Creation Station Monthly we feature two people passionate about working in Non-Traditional Labor.

Guests on this episode:

India Williams

https://www.instagram.com/indi.willi/

https://www.instagram.com/indias.lens/

https://indiacreates.myportfolio.com/

Devin Ladner

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6009519/

https://www.coursicle.com/loyno/professors/Devin+Ladner/

https://www.instagram.com/theneonharlot/

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Episode Number 247 – August 21st – AI, robot Olympics,Internet bans, and hacking solar panels?

This week's guest: Aaliya  from Main Creation Station

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Listener Article:

Another AI for free scheme:

https://restofworld.org/2025/africa-ai-for-good-big-tech/

World Robotics Olympics:
https://apnews.com/photo-gallery/china-world-humanoid-robot-games-ai-98acfd5ca24cd5fe331af8a7ab51ddec

https://www.engadget.com/ai/chinas-inaugural-robot-olympics-delivers-impressive-feats-and-disastrous-falls-221450458.html

What is holding them back?

https://www.sciencealert.com/humanoid-robots-have-a-serious-design-flaw-and-we-need-to-fix-it

Blocking the Internet rarely works:

Pakistan:

https://globalvoices.org/2025/08/18/the-politics-and-people-behind-balochistan-pakistans-internet-shutdowns/

The UK:

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn438z3ejxyo

Is your solar being hacked? Not really

https://techcrunch.com/2025/08/15/how-your-solar-rooftop-became-a-national-security-issue/

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Episode Number 246 – August 14th 2025 – Batteries,Free AI, Water for Humans? Or Computers? How deepfakes work, and what are you seeing on the Internet?

This week's guest: Creation Station Music

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Links to this week’s stories: 

Batteries are the key to the future:

https://www.thecooldown.com/green-tech/virtual-power-plant-california-grid-battery-test/

Give them free access to bring the in:

https://restofworld.org/2025/chatgpt-alternative-uae-falcon-ai/

https://falconfoundation.ai/

Water - For humans? Or Computers?

https://globalvoices.org/2025/08/10/as-summer-temperatures-soar-irans-water-crisis-worsens/

https://time.com/7308925/elon-musk-memphis-ai-data-center/

https://www.protectouraquifer.org/issues/xai-supercomputer

How deepfake video works:

https://arstechnica.com/security/2025/08/heres-how-deepfake-vishing-attacks-work-and-why-they-can-be-hard-to-detect/

We talked about this last year on Episode #211

Pay attention to what you are not seeing on the Internet

https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250812-how-language-is-hiding-the-real-internet-from-you

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