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James Minton

@jamesminton.bsky.social
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Founder/Creative Director of hyperobjekt.com. Making public interest websites & data viz for researchers and nonprofits

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James Minton @jamesminton.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
How is Search Party not on this list? What are we even doing here
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Hyperobjekt @hyper0bjekt.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Increasingly, communities across California and the U.S. are threatened with exposure to wildfire smoke, but distribution and impacts are uneven. With researchers at Stanford, we built the Environmental Hazard Adaptation Atlas, a tool to explore exposure risk and identify vulnerable populations.
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Environmental Hazard Adaptation Atlas | ECHO Lab | Stanford University
Studying the impacts of environmental change on human health and well-being
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Hyperobjekt @hyper0bjekt.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
“Pay-to-Stay” laws charge incarcerated people for the cost of their detention, impacting families long after sentences are served. Check out a new site from Hyperobjekt and Captive Money Lab showing the evolution and status of these laws in the U.S: www.captivemoneylab.org/state-of-pay...
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The State of Pay-to-Stay in the U.S. | Captive Money Lab
Interactive state-by-state data on the practice of states and local governments charging fees for the day-to-day cost of incarceration.
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James Minton @jamesminton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
I took it as acknowledging a Sisyphean futility within what is posited as an unavoidable dynamic. “The savagery at the periphery must be brutally & lawlessly kept at bay to protect the luxuries of law & civility within the imperium. The final victory is never won but the fight is still mandatory”
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James Minton @jamesminton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
of violence underpinning civilization & law, and they must be allowed to operate in the shadows outside of it. The message it seems to very emphatically endorse is that you gotta get dirty and "mow the lawn" periodically, even if it the grass keeps growing back.
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James Minton @jamesminton.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
While the ops' meaninglessness is acknowledged, the message is still explicitly fascist I think. Emily Blunt represents the Law, feminine-coded with all its high-minded & fine-pointed niceties, self-important but fundamentally impotent. Operators represent the "real world" ...
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Hyperobjekt @hyper0bjekt.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
New research suggests U.S. students face a "learning recession." To visualize the data and help communities better understand the current state of education, we worked with teams at Stanford and Harvard to launch The Educational Opportunity Trends Project: edopportunity.org/trends/explo...
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James Minton @jamesminton.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
90% of the merch in this photo is new age silliness I'll agree, but if you have an open mind to any of it, the Sedona Method is legit. However goofy its packaging, It's essentially a very powerfully-distilled mindfulness/zen-type practice, helped me through some stuff
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James Minton @jamesminton.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Continuing - LA Woman, The Doors - Susie Q, Creedence - Baby Please Don't Go, Them - Misirlou, Dick Dale - Green Onions, Booker T. & the MGs
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James Minton @jamesminton.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
Rest assured I did not think too hard
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James Minton @jamesminton.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
- Don't Worry Baby, The Beach Boys - Monkey Man, The Rolling Stones - Stop Me If You Think You've Heard This One Before, The Smiths
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James Minton @jamesminton.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
One per artist - Anemone, Brian Jonestown Massacre - Honky Tonk Part 1, Bill Dogget - Surf Rider, The Lively Ones - Bonnie & Clyde, Serge Gainsbourg & Brigitte Bardot - Every Day is Like Sunday, Morrissey - Ceremony, New Order/Joy Division - Put Your Number In My Phone, Ariel Pink
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Eviction Lab @evictionlab.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
For the third year in a row, landlords filed more than 1.2 million evictions across the 30+ cities and 10 states we track monthly. Break down the numbers with us below in our 2025 annual report 🧵 evictionlab.org/ets-report-2...
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Preliminary Analysis: Eviction Filing Patterns in 2025
Amid benefit cuts, rising rents, and immigration enforcement, renters faced mounting pressures in 2025. Our data show landlords still filed over 1.2 million eviction cases across the country.
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Eviction Lab @evictionlab.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
Would you believe evictions are more common in Portland, Oregon, than in New York City? Portland’s eviction filing rate is 6%—slightly higher than NYC’s 5%. We’ve added four new Pacific Northwest locations to our tracking data. Explore here: evictionlab.org/eviction-tra...
Tacoma, Portland, Eugene and Southwest Oregon join more than 30 cities and 10 states under Eviction Lab's monthly eviction tracker.
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James Minton @jamesminton.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drugsto... The book is lesser known but as phenomenal as the film. Autobiographical fiction by a guy who spent most of his life in prison for living the life of the main character. Shockingly good outsider art by an incorrigible ne’er do well with zero literary training
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Drugstore Cowboy - Wikipedia
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Hadas Weiss @hadas.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
europeans when asked to help unblock the strait of hormuz
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James Minton @jamesminton.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Awful good cereal flakes, Miz McDonough
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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Emmanuel Damas, 56, died in ICE custody on Monday. Damas came to the US from Haiti seeking asylum. After six months in ICE custody—the last four at CoreCivic's Florence Correctional Center—he died from complications from a tooth infection, according to ICE. A tooth infection. He's death number nine.
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Florence ICE detainee dead after untreated tooth infection, official says
An ICE detainee, who had been at a Florence detention center for four months, died Monday following an untreated tooth infection.
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Hyperobjekt @hyper0bjekt.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Over 68,000 people are now detained in U.S. immigration facilities, and people are dying in ICE custody at record rates. Built with our partners @law.ucla.edu and journalist Andrew Free, you can use our new data tool explore that data going back to 2003: uclaprisondata.org/ice-deaths-i...
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ICE Deaths in Custody | UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project
The UCLA Law Behind Bars Data Project works to increase transparency and accountability in the US carceral system by compiling and researching data on deaths in custody.
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James Minton @jamesminton.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
The rizz is beyond anything we've ever seen. We must devote every resource to studying it
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Hyperobjekt @hyper0bjekt.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
The Educational Opportunity Project (edopportunity.org) combines the gold standard in U.S. academic data with a focus on socioeconomic inequality, segregation, and pandemic-related recovery. On behalf of researchers at Stanford and UCLA, we just launched major updates on all these fronts (🧵):
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Eviction Lab @evictionlab.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
New eviction data just dropped for the Atlanta region 📊 For the first time on our site, see where filings are rising, what buildings are driving the crisis and how trends are shifting across metro Atlanta. Explore the data: evictionlab.org/eviction-tra...
evictionlab.org
Atlanta, Georgia | Eviction Tracking System
Real time eviction tracking in U.S. cities during COVID-19.
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Eviction Lab @evictionlab.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
“Beyond the fact that the budget was approved on this occasion, there are still reasons to be concerned. LSC has expressed that this funding still won’t be enough to help all the Americans who deserve eviction legal aid or help in other civil law cases.” evictionlab.org/legal-aid-un...
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Legal aid under threat: the human cost of federal budget cuts
The Legal Services Corporation funds over 100 legal aid organizations nationwide. Proposed budget cuts put their services in jeopardy, with potentially dire consequences for tenants facing eviction ac...
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James Minton @jamesminton.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
It's real gothamist.com/food/inside-...
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Inside The Zodiac Club: NYC's 145 Year Old Secret Dinner Society
On May 25th, a group of twelve men will meet for an elite culinary ritual that has been shrouded in secrecy since 1868.
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Hyperobjekt @hyper0bjekt.bsky.social · 29/01/2026
In light of recent events in Minneapolis, a timely new launch from our partners at @law.stanford.edu: The Use of Force Policy Explorer. Built in collaboration with the Center for Racial Justice, the site allows anyone to explore and compare these policies across the country.
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Model Use of Force Policy | Home
Let’s raise the standard. Learn about smarter use of force policies for safer communities, and explore policies in departments across America.
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James Minton @jamesminton.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
Receiving zero Oscar nominations today: Eddington, which I saw over the weekend and haven’t been able to stop thinking about. My intro to Ari Aster, probably not what nature intended, but I loved it. That said, really can’t recommend it except to other freaks like me. observer.co.uk/culture/film...
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Why Ari Aster’s Eddington deserves a reappraisal
On second watch, this widely panned satire – now on digital platforms – plays less like absurdist parody and more as dead-on portraiture of our polarised, hyper-online moment
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James Minton @jamesminton.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
I wonder often what Greg Bovino thinks of his portrayal in this film
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James Minton @jamesminton.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
TBH I just saw basically this at Radio City Music Hall—the camels, flying Santa and everything, plus Rockettes. This just seems like the flyover country version Coming from a place like this I can say ppl there want culture and spectacle as much as anywhere else; megachurches fill the void
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Hyperobjekt @hyper0bjekt.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
Hyperobjekt's 2025 Year in Review: In a time marked by serious challenges to public-interest data and research, we reaffirm our dedication to transparency and understanding of critical social issues. We end 2025 grateful for our partnerships and inspiring collaborations. Here are some highlights:
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James Minton @jamesminton.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
There's a specific "gifted kid's practiced way of evading accountability" quality to her answer—faux high-minded word salad with a helping of self pity. Basically paraphrasing another tragic gifted kid, Margot Tenenbaum: "I couldn't even begin to think about knowing how to answer that question"
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James Minton @jamesminton.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Heard this song in a car commercial the other day. Damned Gen X creative directors www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG9f...
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Age of Consent (2015 Remaster)
YouTube video by New Order - Topic
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James Minton @jamesminton.bsky.social · 21/10/2025
Same, mine was in a B-24.
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James Minton @jamesminton.bsky.social · 16/10/2025
Omg it's the same Jarett Kobek who wrote one of the better books on the Zodiac case. Once you catch the cryptography bug ... www.goodreads.com/book/show/60...
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James Minton @jamesminton.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
As the opening credits rolled I saw the name "Bill Forsyth" and the connection / synchronicity slowly dawned on me. At least half the audience didn't like it or make it through the movie if I'm honest, but I was thoroughly charmed and think back to it often.
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James Minton @jamesminton.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Funny story, last year I learned my neighbor is a close relative of the director's, none of whose films I'd seen. Not long after, I visited a group of friends across the country and someone recommended we watch their favorite movie, an "obscure offbeat comedy from the 80s."
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Rana Abdelhamid @ranafromqueens.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Just days ago, Brad Lander called me to interpret for an Arabic-speaking asylee whose case was approved, yet ICE was still harassing him inside the building. Brad personally escorted him out to safety. He does this kind of work quietly, every day.
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James Minton @jamesminton.bsky.social · 17/05/2025
The workweek is never finished, only abandoned
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Eviction Lab @evictionlab.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
We're hiring! Join the Eviction Lab as a Data Engineer and help build powerful, scalable data tools that inform housing research and policy nationwide. Apply now: tinyurl.com/evictionlab2025
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Eviction Lab @evictionlab.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
In 2024, landlords filed more than a million evictions in the 30+ cities and 10 states we monitor. While some jurisdictions showed progress, others revealed concerning trends. We’re sounding the alarm in several cities. Learn more in our 2024 report: evictionlab.org/ets-report-2...
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Preliminary Analysis: Eviction Filing Patterns in 2024
The days of emergency rental assistance and eviction protections are long gone. Now, our data show that landlords are filing evictions at nearly the same levels as before 2020.
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Lauren Parlett, PhD @laurenparlett.com · 03/03/2025
🚨 Public health data disappeared. We’re restoring it. 🚨 RestoredCDC.org preserves unaltered CDC content after key pages were removed or changed without notice. Public data belongs to all of us. 🔗 RestoredCDC.org #PublicHealth #ScienceTransparency #RestoredCDC
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Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
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James Minton @jamesminton.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
It explains the people I know who aren't necessarily reactionaries or deplorables, but who went for Trump because they believe the hype of a coming AI- and crypto-utopia being held back by the current stodgy old systems. Trump being the consummate hype man and system-disruptor, it all aligns
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James Minton @jamesminton.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
There seems to be a single-circle Venn diagram of the people who believe in AI hype, crypto hype, and MAGA hype. These are all of a piece & unite everybody from billionaires to gig workers. The weird new political coalition that probably best defines Trump 2.0 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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LA Times to display AI-generated political rating on opinion pieces
Los Angeles paper’s ‘Insights’ tool comes after months of public debate between opinion staff and billionaire owner
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James Minton @jamesminton.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
How far back did you clock him? I feel like I saw the red flags within the first 2-3 early aughts Rolling Stone articles I can never quite put my finger on it, but there's some kind of d-bag early warning radar at play. Felt it for Andrew Cuomo too back when the everyone was swooning
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Erik Adams @erikadams.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
"Hell of a damn grave. Wish it were mine."
Luke Wilson and Gene Hackman in The Royal Tenenbaums. Two men stand in front of a cemetery monument. The man on the left has long brown hair and a beard and wears sunglasses and a camel overcoat. The man on the right wears a pageboy cap, oversize spectacles, and a tweed overcoat. The monument reads: "Nicholas Lundy born August 24 1889 Died August 15 1949"
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James Minton @jamesminton.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
New work from my team @hyper0bjekt.bsky.social 👇
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James Minton @jamesminton.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Far be it from me to second guess the supergeniuses in charge, but cannot for the life of me understand the logic of this www.reddit.com/r/epidemiolo...
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From the epidemiology community on Reddit
Explore this post and more from the epidemiology community
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James Minton @jamesminton.bsky.social · 16/01/2025
They labeled him a surrealist but I'll remember him as one of our foremost realists—he simply refused to edit out all the strangeness of life from his stories, the way most of us do. www.nytimes.com/2025/01/16/m...
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David Lynch Dead: ‘Twin Peaks’ and ‘Mulholland Drive’ Director Was 78
A visionary, his films included “Eraserhead,” “Blue Velvet” and “Mulholland Drive,” considered his masterwork. He brought his skewed view to the small screen with “Twin Peaks.”
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Hyperobjekt @hyper0bjekt.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
As we wrap up 2024, Hyperobjekt celebrates another year of impactful work and partnerships both new and enduring. With so many incredible projects this year, we can’t showcase them all, but we’re excited to share a few highlights:
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James Minton @jamesminton.bsky.social · 01/02/2024
Great work from researchers at Stanford & Harvard, and my team @hyper0bjekt.bsky.social
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