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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 22h

if you can chip in a little something 🌈

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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 16/10/2026

Thank you for letting me know - deleting my post.

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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

she en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arundha... and Im thinking maybe you didn't read the whole article if this is the take-away? It's worth reading all of it, highly recommend.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 15/10/2026

Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination -- Arundhati Roy www.equator.org/articles/aru... 🧵

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Apocalypse Now and Then • EQUATOR

Artificial intelligence is capitalism’s final destination

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 15/10/2026

> There was no outbreak of oligarch support when Timnit Gebru […] was fired from Google in 2020 for refusing to take down a research paper she had co-authored. […] Her findings were buttressed by another researcher, Abeba Birhane, who co-authored a paper called “On Hate Scaling Laws for Data-Swamps”

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🌶 David Gray Widder @davidthewid.bsky.social · 15/10/2026

This was probably my favorite paper at AIES

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Jennifer Sano-Franchini @jsanofranchini.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

Something we didn't include in this piece (we were already way over IHE's typical word count) is how we point blank asked a member of the NCTE Presidential Team whether we should even bother continuing to do work for the Special Committee given the delays we were experiencing...

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Tympanic & Frisketty @luckyerica3.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

When I showed the Home Treatment Team my crisis plan, they saw that I have a section about hospital admission that lays out that I do not consent to a room with Oxevision and I require written confirmation from a manager that Oxevision isn't used. I had to get that doc witnessed and signed.

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Boycott Citizens @boycottcitizens.org · 13/10/2026

Local LE agencies are an important source of data for LexisNexis, which plays a key role in ICE's surveillance apparatus. One data channel is the Desk Officer Reporting System, which takes reports directly from community members through a LexisNexis-hosted portal branded like an agency page.

An excerpt from promotional material about the LexisNexis Desk Officer Reporting System. A diagram shows a police officer icon connected to four incident types that can be handled without dispatching an officer: minor motor vehicle accidents, anti-bullying reporting, shoplifting reports, and supplements for burglaries. Easy and convenient for citizens and officers: Community members file reports, crime tips, and other incidents 24/7 through a secure online system that supports multiple languages, while agency personnel review reports in English. Officers can review and route reports within minutes. Approved reports transfer automatically into the agency RMS and are treated like any report filed in the field. Case management, crime analysis, and UCR/NIBRS reporting work without changing current procedures. Crime victims automatically receive a PDF copy of approved reports by email. Implementation includes training, sample operational directives, and deployment strategies. New mobile quick connect text service included at no cost: non-emergency inbound calls can be routed to the Desk Officer Reporting System web application, giving callers instant access to the custom non-emergency reporting website and freeing staff to respond to emergency calls.

Abilene Police online reporting form for a burglary, with the footer highlighted showing it’s run by LexisNexis Risk Solutions (RELX).

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LittleKuriboh @littlekuriboh.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

Can’t even joke about this myself. Hard to be happy. Teens that would have been alive today are not. But it’s satisfying to see.

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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

I was assisting on a psych dr call as an advocate & they (inexplicably) use zoom. For first time, another rectangle appeared on the video call titled "AI Agent". NOPE. Gave my thoughts on that. Id hope this clinic wld dump #Zoom entirely but at least, stopped part of the surveillance-deskill tech.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 12/10/2026

> The earliest account of [the hazards of] asbestos was provided by Lucy Deane [in 1898], one of the first Women Inspectors of Factories in the UK. [T]hese laywomen might not have been categorised as [experts] but they were competent observers [& t]heir reports were not refuted but simply ignored.

The earliest account of the health hazard of
working with asbestos was provided by Lucy
Deane, one of the first Women Inspectors of
Factories in the UK. Writing in 1898, Deane
included asbestos work as one of the four
dusty occupations which came under
observation that year, ‘on account of their
easily demonstrated danger to the health of
workers and because of ascertained cases of
injury to bronchial tubes and lungs medically
attributed to the employment of the
sufferer’.
She went on to observe that: ‘the evil effects
of asbestos dust have also instigated a
microscopic examination of the mineral dust
by HM Medical Inspector. Clearly revealed
was the sharp glass-like jagged nature of the
particles, and where they are allowed to rise
and to remain suspended in the air of the
room in any quantity, the effects have been
found to be injurious as might have been
expected.’ (Deane, 1898)
Two similar observations by Women
Inspectors followed in 1909 and 1910. They
appeared in the annual reports of HM Chief
Inspector of Factories, which were widely
circulated amongst policy-makers and
politicians.
The observations of these lay

The observations of these laywomen might
not have been categorised as ‘expert
opinion’ but they were competent observers
whose discussion of occupational disease
would have done credit to a medical scientist.
Their reports were not refuted but simply
ignored.
One year after

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($150/250) Zoe🏳️‍⚧️the Authoress @zoetheauthoress.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Please help QP with money for food, medication, and dog food!

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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Feeling overwhelmed yet have to keep going? Try: > break into manageable parts > set some things aside > start on something you CAN do > start with what you know, work towards what you don't know. > what thing would give the most relief, to make progress on? > focus on the step you're taking

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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Please keep this in mind over the next few months. This is how I want to be honored: emulation, people following my example & becoming the change they want to see. Helping marginalized people is the main goal. Polishing my legacy should only be a priority in service of that goal.

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/08/2026

🔇 🔇 🔇 My book, Deep Unlearning, is now available for preorders! I don't know how people write so many books because this one took a lot out of me. It turns out, I had a lot to say 😂, with editors cutting out 50k of my words 🫣 ✴️ You can now preorder it at www.simonandschuster.com/books/Deep-U....

Cover of my new book, Deep Unlearning: The Rise of AI and The Radicalization of a Tech Idealist.

There are two concentric circles in the book, the left being circuits in black an white, and the right being a bunch of dots with orange accents. The cover background is cream. And the words are written in black except for "Un" which is in orange.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · 04/10/2026

Researcher @timnitgebru.blacksky.app says Silicon Valley discourse about the supposed "existential risks" of artificial intelligence is part of a ploy to avoid regulation of the industry. www.democracynow.org/2026/10/1/ti...

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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Such important and thoughtful messaging ty. As #988Lifeline allows #AI into #CrisisLines space, & #Vibrant Emotional Health becomes a tech company, they run risk of destroying trust in the service. I wrote about this - paper title The "AI" Infestation of 988 Lifeline. Blogs, reformcrisistextline.com

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Dr Pete Olusoga @dr-peter-olusoga.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

A little reminder on #worldmentalhealthday that opening up about mental health struggles isn't always easy for anyone, but might be even harder for some.

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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Yes please I'd like to make #988Lifeline a zone. some temporary recording wld be reasonable for quality control but that doesn't need AI

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 09/10/2026

(I have always hate the way “privacy” is conceptualized in most contexts tbh. tech bros have warped and weaponized it for their own gain and we need to either reclaim it or use a different word and I know folks are doing some of that good work so drop a link or mention if you feel so inclined :))

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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Important reminder on World Mental Health Day that allowing #AI into #CrisisLines space is a very very very...VERY bad idea. Lack of consent, vulnerability of persons, tracking/surveillance, lack of transparency abt data storage & use breaks trust #988Lifeline #CrisisTextLine #TheTrevorProject

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dj vulcan barbie @spacedaddy.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

i will offer my landlord half and e-mail.... if you can help at all or share (lol everyone is so poor i hate myself for even asking) thank you 0/700 venmo.com/u/nellarosmarino paypal.me/aizykows cash.app/$spacedaddie

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Karen Attiah @karenattiah.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

It's not so much that we need to be afraid of AI itself, it's that we are afraid of what most *men* want to do with it -- to us.

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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

The paper "Common Knowledge of the Second Kind" by Dave Bella and Jonathan King is relevant to your note. Anticipating, almost 40 years ago, the “AI” realities of today and offering hopeful ways forward by nurturing human communities of care. link.springer.com/content/pdf/...

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Lilian Edwards @lilianedwards.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

What's the betting someone has a little AI model that says better to pay 200 ppl pitiful compensation (£8 voucher for over 2 hrs so far) than pay another airline for well anything?

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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Are you a crisis line or tech worker for #988Lifeline? Are you someone who could breathe life into the website crisislineworkers.org, manage email lists, take on organizing labor? Are you someone who could communicate within orgs like #CrisisTextLine and #TheTrevorProject? Contact me.

crisislineworkers.org

Our website is coming soon

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 29/09/2026

A key component of the Cambridge Analytica outrage was your friends subjecting you to data theft without your consent or knowledge. Facebook is running the same playbook on your text messages. Even if you’re not on Meta properties, they’re ingesting your interactions.

Aten installed Muse on both his iPhone and a Mac mini that he uses to test out various Al agents and tech. It took Meta a single day to begin "helpfully" pitching article ideas based on texts he'd sent to a podcast co-host.
When he asked Muse how it got the information, it said that it read banners from incoming texts. But that's not true, either.
After doing a little digging, Aten says Muse synced 187,000 lines from his Messages database, despite Full Disk Access being Off.

Unless Aten is the most popular person on the face of the planet, I sincerely doubt he'd gotten 187,000 lines of text in roughly 24 hours. What happened is that, without permission, Muse went into the app and downloaded the information.
He had not given Muse permission to access Messages, and full disk access was not enabled. It just went ahead and uploaded those texts anyway.
Muse can take "unexpected actions" indeed.

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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Engineering and Erosion of Trust www.academia.edu/109214232/En... +his work on distortion of info w/in orgs. for example: gradebuddy.com/doc/508038/s... The Dark Side of Organizations and a Method to Reveal It cognexus.org/darkside.pdf Emergence and Evil paperzz.com/doc/8982863/... keep going!

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Engineering and Erosion of Trust

Engineering is a social enterprise. What makes this enterprise worthy of public trust? A model is developed to explain how disciplinary communities within engineering evolve credible bodies of knowled...

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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

You may be interested in Dave Bella's work both relating to trust and complex organizations. "Establishing trust: Nuclear waste disposal" (unfort paywalled). google scholar list: scholar.google.com/citations?us... (cont'd)

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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

New insight for me, that involuntary holds occur for emotional distress but not for medical. w example of a cancer patient who chooses not to seek treatment--they are not forced against their will. So much justification is claimed under the fraught "poses an imminent threat to self or others"

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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#WashUPublicHealth #BurskySchool #SuicideResearch Wonderful work being done by @morgancshields.bsky.social WashU Bursky School of Public Health. The importance of respect for persons in #mh care. Trust at the institutional level. 20m interview. Link to papers at video www.youtube.com/watch?v=bAhs...

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Public Health Ideas with Morgan Shields

YouTube video by WashU Bursky School of Public Health

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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

ty and thank you for this work. these are self-reinforcing system feedback loops that are difficult to escape. that is a system critique, which is not the point of the paper. within these systems the paper is addressing something important and that can be appreciated!

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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

study for awareness. I'm torn between recognizing the informational benefit of the survey, against conundrum of the framing of it. How do we break free from medicalized people-boxes that are part of the problem, while trying to address the issues? For thinking abt -- if you have that privilege

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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My campaign to end @404media.co 's #Betterhelp endorsements continues to have ZERO effect w ZERO response from them for over 2 years. At this point I'm feeling like these ads are taunting me. I know they know how to respond. Silence. Rec'd today from @beckyferreira.bsky.social via email

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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

i never saw with this good of reception and it's glorious 📺

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The Creatively Maladjusted @tyrotcm.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

My best friend is going through a very hard time. Help her out?🙏🏻

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rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 03/10/2026

Canadian journalists! get on this! talk to Ian!

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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

related - Betterhelp's parent company accused of sharing website user's PII with facebook. Can we expect #404Media to investigate Betterhelp for what Teladoc is doing w users' and therapists' data? www.classaction.org/news/teladoc...

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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

#MutualAid if you can give a little or lot to my friend vivienne it would give them a boost in many ways They're doing online training to become a pilates instructor / Movement Therapist but needs support in meantime for food, meds, fees ven/ca: viviennedee more here: chuffed.org/project/1299...

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Help a Disabled Teacher Become a Movement Therapist & Survive

I am raising funds to pay my tuition to my movement therapy schooling – which will likely propel me to earning more money than I do now as more people seek physical therapy for injury, disability and ...

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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

...and we do not discuss Teladoc-Betterhelp, ever. Except to tell our readers and subscribers and everyone else watching our content forever into the future to give them a try.

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dj vulcan barbie @spacedaddy.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Also once you sign up with @404media.co it’s impossible to get your info deleted

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