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Jeff Mitchell

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Former vacuum cleaner repair boy, current sociologist

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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 10h
Wow! This is a brave act for a country singer and a very significant stand. Moreover, this is not only a dare to Kraft and the NFL stadium owners but also a clear illustration of how deep the rift over Israel in U.S. society has grown.
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Grodaeu @groda.eu · 17/09/2026
The best would be if the Social Democrats toppled the current leader Magdalena Andersson. She comitted the party to centrism and racism and they did their worst result since 1908. Thats 118 years ago. Its a monumental failure by campaigning on issues that are not even popular in the party
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Sarah Miller @smiller.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
A public-use version of the Open Research Unconditional income Study (ORUS) dataset is now posted! This RCT paid $1000/month to a treatment group for 3 years. Test your favorite hypotheses about the effects of guaranteed income! data.openresearchlab.org
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OpenResearch Unconditional Cash Study Public-Use Data – OpenResearch
Public-use data and documentation from OpenResearch’s randomized study of unconditional cash transfers.
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Jeff Mitchell @jeffreymitchell.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Jag tror verkligen inte att svenskar förstår vad som väntar. Vi befinner oss mitt i en historisk utveckling som stöds av så gott som alla politiska partier.
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Christian Christensen @chrchristensen.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Swedish election timeline... 20:00: Polls close in Sweden, first exit poll 21:15: Swedish Television present their estimate of final results 22:30-23:00: First preliminary vote count After 23:00: Party leaders give speeches
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Alexandra Urisman Otto @alexandrauo.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
”Vad väljer vi mellan i år? De som skapat rädslan och de som är för fega för att benämna att rädslan har skapats. De som förvisat människor till spöklandskapen och de som var tysta när det skedde.” Läs denna text av Elina Pahnke.
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Folkmordet är helt osynligt i valrörelsen
ELINA PAHNKE Vi förväntas glömma de som jagats bort
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Bitte Hammargren @bitteham.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Sometimes foreign media come closer to describing what’s going on in your own country. Like this story. I feel disheartened and ashamed reading this.
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 04/09/2026
Let me say as loudly as I can to all the Europeans on here who have been rightly appalled watching the Trump regime’s third-country removals: Your government has been watching, too, and they like what they see.
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Jeff Mitchell @jeffreymitchell.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
From what I can tell, the most prominent Swede to sign is Agnes Wold, who recently made national news when she said that she would rather go to prison than let her child be trans, and that the 'trans lobby' was responsible for the UN describing anti-conversion therapy as torture
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Austin Kocher, PhD @austinkocher.com · 12/08/2026
New Tool Now Available: The ICE Detention Mortality Dashboard A new interactive tool from Relevant Research tracks the growing number of deaths inside ICE's civil immigrant detention system, with links to source material and downloadable data. austinkocher.substack.com/p/launched-t...
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New Tool Now Available: The ICE Detention Mortality Dashboard
A new interactive tool from Relevant Research tracks the growing number of deaths inside ICE's civil immigrant detention system, with links to source material and downloadable data.
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Jeff Mitchell @jeffreymitchell.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
Det finns inget vänsterparti.
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
Think about it, without all the new toys and bells and whistles, policing in 2026 would be kind of indistinguishable from policing at any other moment in the last 100 years. The way they prove they are doing more and more to fight crime is by slapping up more cameras, bragging about software, etc.
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Patrik Opacic @opacic.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Vi får hoppas att oppositionspartierna lyfter denna grundläggande orättvisa i valrörelsen. www.dn.se/debatt/sveri...
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DN Debatt. ”Sverige beskattar inte de allra rikaste som vi tror”
DN Debatt. Nationalekonomerna Marius Ring, David Seim och Gabriel Zucman om hur personliga holdingbolag gör att Sveriges rikaste beskattas lägre än andra.
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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
A worthwhile philosophy to live by.
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Tom Joscelyn @tomjoscelyn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
“In recent months, ICE has deployed a round-the-clock digital dragnet to scour the public internet—from Facebook to Instagram to X—for speech that could endanger the agency’s mission.” Speech. www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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How ICE Is Weaponizing Social Media Against its Critics
Agency says its surveillance program searches for threats to agents, but critics see free-speech infringements.
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Myra Åhbeck Öhrman 🧢 @myrannosaurus.doomscroll.se · 02/08/2026
Tom Morello har släppt en ny låt som handlar om de tre holländska unga kvinnorna - Hannie Schaft och Freddie & Truus Oversteegen - som lurade ut nazister skogen och avrättade dem. youtu.be/QANNQIspgFs?...
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Tom Morello - Date Night
YouTube video by Tom Morello
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 26/09/2025
I spent the week at the police surveillance convention and let me tell you my biggest observation: The name of the game now is consolidating as much information as humanely possible from surveillance devices, the internet, other governmental data, and literally a million other places. 🧵
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Torin Monahan @torinmonahan.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
🚨New article:🚨 “Flock on Campus: University Police as Appendages of a National Policing Apparatus.” Based on #FOIA requests & reviews of audit logs, this article documents at least 150 colleges & universities using #Flock. Unis have also permitted #ICE searches, even in sanctuary states. #openaccess
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Flock on campus: university police as appendages of a national policing apparatus
Dangerous new forms of networked surveillance are gaining traction with police departments across the United States. One popular example is Flock Safety’s Automated License Plate Recognition (ALPR)...
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John Pfaff @johnpfaff.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
When crime goes up, the media cries out how rising crime hurts us. When crime goes down, the media cries out about how ... DECLINING crime hurts us.
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Auto glass repair businesses suffer as Oakland break-ins decline
A decline in car break-ins across Oakland is being welcomed as a public safety win, but it is also contributing to a downturn for some local auto glass repair businesses.
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ICREA Community @icreacommunity.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
1/ 🤔 🌍 Are poorer countries "catching up" with the richer ones? A new study led by #ICREAResearcher @jasonhickel.bsky.social and Dylan Sullivan(@icta-uab.bsky.social) found that the income gap between richer and developing countries widened by 170–270% between 1960 and 2023.👇 bit.ly/4b4a05O
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The myth of catch-up development: trends in core–periphery inequality from 1960 to 2023
The conventional narrative in international development holds that poorer countries are “catching up” with richer countries through the process of capitalist growth. This paper assesses this claim ...
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Adam Sawyer @adamjst.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
It's very difficult for the public to understand what it looks like when ICE overcrowds detention centers and hold rooms. Very grateful to see this report. The conditions are heinous. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...
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ICE officials warned of dangerous crowding. See how they kept packing people in.
Dozens were held for days in small rooms last year with no beds, showers or full-time medical staff, records analyzed by The Post show.
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Julia M. Rohrer @dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 20/07/2026
New paper out now 🥳 When psychologists discuss generalisability, they often refer to vague notions of representativeness. We provide an accessible intro to the total survey error framework as a tool to reason about this more rigorously. w @taymalsalti.bsky.social @ruben.the100.ci >
Thinking Clearly About Sampling and Representation With the Total Survey Error Framework

Collecting a sample that represents the population of interest well constitutes a challenge across the social and behavioural sciences. Psychology in particular frequently relies on convenience samples—most notably students and, increasingly, online participants—with a tendency to either (implicitly) assume representativeness without substantive justification, or to acknowledge a lack of it only in passing. In contrast, researchers rarely engage with the actual implications for their inferences, which undermines the generalisability of psychological findings. Critically, representativeness must be defined with respect to variables relevant to the target of inference, rather than superficial demographic diversity. Here we present the Total Survey Error (TSE) framework as a methodological tool that systematically addresses the multifaceted sources of error—particularly those related to representation—that emerge throughout the research cycle. Although TSE originated in survey research, its principles are broadly applicable to any psychological study seeking inference from sample to population. We offer practical strategies for identifying, preventing, and mitigating representation errors to improve the credibility and generalisability of psychological research.

Illustration of the total survey error framework with the representation strand highlighted. It shows how coverage error, sampling error and non-response error arise during the sampling process.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The extremely rare issue when you find myself, CIS, and the Heritage Foundation on the same side; ICE must resume publishing basic enforcement data. The last time ICE posted data on arrests was January 2025. The last time ICE posted data on detention and removals was April 2026.
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Amid Increased Scrutiny, ICE Detention and Deportation Data Goes Dark
ICE says ‘millions’ of immigrants have left or been deported in Trump’s crackdown. But where are the receipts?
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Jill McCorkel @jillmccorkel.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Recent events in US reminiscent of Judge Roy Bean (1880s) He presided over trial of white man charged with murder of Chinese man during construction of Southern Pacific. The ruling as it was attributed to Bean: "... there is no law against a man killing a Chinaman." www.loc.gov/resource/sn8...
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Image 3 of El Paso daily herald (El Paso, Tex.), August 28, 1897
El Paso, Tex.
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Jill McCorkel @jillmccorkel.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Legal accountability re:lethal law enforcement encounters eroding so quickly that even the flimsiest of pretenses to justify use of force no longer seem necessary with racial/ethnic, immigration status, name, and/or geographic location factors in play.
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Jeff Mitchell @jeffreymitchell.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Sadly, many people that start very serious and vital data collection efforts are 1) never rewarded or recognized for their efforts and 2) their work is effectively stolen later by bigger and better funded outlets. This was the story of www.fatalencounters.org Someone hire @gillianbrockell.com
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Fatal Encounters – A step toward creating an impartial, comprehensive and searchable national database of people killed during interactions with police.
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Lukas Lehner @lukaslehner.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
#Walmart #Supercenter openings are associated with a 2.2 percentage point (18%) rise in #poverty, and the increase persists for at least a decade. Our article is now published in #LabourEconomics, with @zparolin.bsky.social, Clemente Pignatti & Rafael Pintro-Schmitt.
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Cas Mudde @casmudde.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Good social science sometimes states what should be obvious, but sadly isn't. Can't wait to read this important article! The "polarization" frame is yet another invention of the reactionary centrists, which ultimately only helps the far right and weakens democracy.
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A.S. Paglayan @aspaglayan.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Brief pause from Messi's magic to share my new piece in the Annual Review of Political Science: "Education as a Political Institution" which explains why we should stop treating education as just another public service Open access here: tinyurl.com/yezzkam5
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Education as a Political Institution
Education institutions are fundamentally political. They mold political values, shape inequality, create opportunities for patronage through teaching jobs, and can even be used for political surveilla...
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Petter Hellström @nphellstrom.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
The Linnaeus University (southern Sweden) is inviting applications for 5-6 fully funded PhD positions in the arts and humanities, including #history, #arthistory and #religiousstudies. International applicants without prior knowledge of Swedish are encouraged to apply.
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Doctoral studentships across the Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Department of Cultural Sciences
The Faculty of Arts and Humanities invites applications for 5–6 doctoral studentships. The studentships are available
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 28/06/2026
ABAB
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Jacob Kang-Brown @jkangbrown.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
This month @prisonpolicy.org we published an new data file with the number of people in jail, prison, and under community supervision for each state from 1978-2024. www.prisonpolicy.org/blog/2026/06...
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Probation and parole trends by state: A look back at the data on ‘alternatives’ to incarceration
We compiled, corrected, and analyzed 45 years of state-level probation and parole data, and found that while most (but not all) states have reduced the ...
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 26/06/2026
Over the past quarter of a century, we have distributed hundreds of thousands of copies of this poster that the FBI cited as evidence in the Prairieland case. The poster hangs in countless grade schools. crimethinc.com/GenderPoster... They are making war on a society of millions. We can stop them.
A photograph of a copy of the classic CrimethInc. gender poster and the revised version of the poster. Over the image, there is text reading "Evidence taken from the home of defendant Champagne Song included a poster from the anarchist site Crimethinc [sic—the capitalization and punctuation are incorrect] invoking solidarity for queer and trans people and people seeking abortions."
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Peter Hellman @hrhellman.bsky.social · 21/06/2026
Ser att folk ibland tror att polisens kroppskameror alltid är på och därmed övervakar polisen, till skydd mot exempelvis polisiära övergrepp. Så är det inte. Polismannen bestämmer när de aktiveras. Det är vi som övervakas, inte staten.
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Aurelien Mondon @aurelmondon.com · 21/06/2026
Until the left understands that "immigration" is a "concern" created in a top down manner to divert from other issues, it will continue to fight the (far)right on its turf This is what I explored here at length journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Populism, public opinion, and the mainstreaming of the far right: The ‘immigration issue’ and the construction of a reactionary ‘people’ - Aurelien Mondon, 2025
While mainstream elite actors with the ability to shape public discourse (politicians, academics, and the media) generally oppose far-right politics, it is wide...
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Somar Al Naher @somar.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
Att ämnet väcker starka känslor räknade jag med, dock trodde jag vi idag skulle vara mer överens om vad som hände med tanke på så många dokumentärer och vittnesmål som finns, ändå finns det många som vill se världen svartvit. De som enbart köper polisens version 2001.
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Daniel La Parra @daniellaparra.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
El futuro ya está aquí, pero hay que esperar un poco más. La visión del futuro de Elon Musk, en Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. substack.com/@daniellapar...
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Demography - the flagship journal of PAA @readdemography.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
“Effect of the Great Recession on U.S. Fertility”: Using a cohort discontinuity design, Wu, @nickdemark.bsky.social & Hill show “strong & credibly causal evidence” that the GR altered fertility behavior, esp. for the youngest cohorts (relative declines of 7-30%). read.dukeupress.edu/demography/a...
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Victor Ray @victorerikray.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Next time someone incredulously asks me what "racial capitalism" means, I'm going to point them to this article about how their retirement account funds a South-African Nazi who spends all day posting racism on his propaganda app and is committed to reviving eugenics.
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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
Missing from lots of literature on immigration is just how much survival is contingent the communal orientation of co-travelers. I have stories of a Bangladeshi man jumping into a river to save a Haitian. Of Sudani paying Chadian smuggler fees. Of Ecuadorians advocating for Mauritanians.
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Marcel Roman @mfroman.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
🚨NEW PUBLICATION🚨 in Science Advances. We meta-reanalyze 100 conjoint experiments to assess which immigrants citizens prefer around the world. Our evidence reinforces existing findings, identifies novel insights, and provides a basis for future research 1/n www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
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Which immigrants do citizens prefer? A meta-reanalysis of 100 conjoint experiments
Meta-reanalysis of 100 conjoint experiments reveals patterns of similarity and variation in public immigration preferences worldwide.
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Manne Gerell @mannegerell.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
New paper out✅ In work led by Mia Puur we do Risk Terrain Modeling of 32 Swedish cities and show that city characteristics matter a little for model performance - whereas methodoligical choices matter much more. link.springer.com/article/10.1...
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Scaling Risk: Evaluating the Impact of Spatial Resolution on RTM Predictive Performance in 32 Swedish Urban Areas - Applied Spatial Analysis and Policy
This study systematically examines how spatial resolution, operationalized as grid cell size, influences the predictive performance of Risk Terrain Modeling (RTM) across 32 Swedish urban areas with va...
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Belén Fdez. @abelenfg.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
📚New paper with @jakobschwoerer.bsky.social @saengler.bsky.social in @prxjournal.bsky.social📚 We show that moving toward the far right on immigration doesn't benefit mainstream parties. Not even in elections where immigration is salient. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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When everyone talks about migration: how mainstream parties shift to the right and still lose
The rise of populist radical right parties (PRRPs) has prompted mainstream parties (MPs) to adopt more sceptical positions toward immigration. Spatial theory suggests that MPs benefit electorally b...
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CrimethInc. Ex-Workers' Collective @crimethinc.com · 28/05/2026
If you are attending demonstrations this week at Delaney Hall or other detention centers, please study operational security and arrive properly equipped. How do police and federal agents identify and target those who participate in protests? How can we protect ourselves? crimethinc.com/opsec 🧵⬇️
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A Demonstrator’s Guide to Operational Security
How do police identify and target those who participate in demonstrations? What countermeasures can we take to hinder repression?
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Gwynne Hogan @gwynnefitz.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
My colleagues @rosalindadams.bsky.social @haidee.bsky.social and I at @thecity.nyc spent the past several months tracking hundreds of ICE street arrests across the region through federal court records..🧵🧵 projects.thecity.nyc/ice-street-a....
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Matthew Guariglia @mguariglia.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
STILL the most complete and accurate articulation of the government's playbook for sabotaging and dismantling opposition political movements in the U.S. and the world. For it's 50th anniversary, read the new abridged essential edition of the Church Committee Report. bookshop.org/p/books/the-...
"There is no inherent constitutional authority for the president or any intelligence agency to violate the law" a quote from the church committee report floating above a copy of the new edition
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Sasha Gusev @sashagusevposts.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
I assigned random gender/ethnicity labels to scientific abstracts from the literature and then asked Claude to do a thematic analysis. Claude identified a clinical versus computational split for female/male authors and a DEI focus for Black/URM authors. All in completely random data.
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Peter Hellman @hrhellman.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
I dag skriver jag i Altinget om kroppskameror och om den tilltagande normaliseringen av ständig övervakning, med utgångspunkt i såväl evidens som den mer principiella fråga som uppstår när kameror allt oftare är närvarande i vardagen. Läs gärna! www.altinget.se/rikspolitik/...
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Advokat: Kroppskameror ger falsk trygghet – inte verklig säkerhet - Altinget
Det är dags att sluta normalisera övervakning i vardagen, skriver Peter Hellman, advokat.
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Jeff Mitchell @jeffreymitchell.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Hopefully the countries that voted for this take their legal obligation to address climate change more seriously than the did their obligation to prevent genocide
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Philip N Cohen @philipncohen.com · 19/05/2026
For the years 2015-2019, the UN reported that 52 countries had policies intended to raise fertility rates, and 69 were trying to lower fertility; 19 wanted to maintain current rates, and 52 specified no national policy. These are their stories.
graph showing declining TFR in all four groups, but steepest decline in the Lower and Raise groups.
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