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Alexandra Olteanu @aolteanu.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Wrote a brief reflection on poor conceptualizations in AI work and why they matter, something I believe is so startlingly neglected. TL;DR - Poor conceptual foundations can severely undermine the credibility and reliability of knowledge claims.
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Back-to-basics: on poor conceptualizations in AI work
TL;DR — Poor conceptual foundations can severely undermine the credibility and reliability of knowledge claims. (And, no, your metric is not your construct.)
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John Scott-Railton @jsrailton.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
BREAKING: You checked the weather this morning. And you just told a surveillance company where you sleep. Meet #Webloc, used by ICE, cops & foreign govs to track 500m+ phones. No warrant required. Our @citizenlab.ca investigation + how to protect yourself 🧵/1 citizenlab.ca/research/ana...
heatmaps from the report showing tracking
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
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Colin Carlson @colincarlson.bsky.social · 29/08/2025
But by far and away, the biggest priority for a Heritage Foundation-captured CDC is going to be using the agency's legal frameworks for access to medical data, and weaponizing them to control women. *Most* of the Project 2025 plan for CDC is a witch hunt against abortion on an unprecedented scale.
Respect for Life and Conscience. The CDC should eliminate programs and
projects that do not respect human life and conscience rights and that undermine 
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family formation. It should ensure that it is not promoting abortion as health care.
It should fund studies into the risks and complications of abortion and ensure that
it corrects and does not promote misinformation regarding the comparative health
and psychological benefits of childbirth versus the health and psychological risks
of intentionally taking a human life through abortion.
The CDC oversaw and funded the development and testing of the COVID-19
vaccines with aborted fetal cell lines, insensitive to the consciences of tens of
thousands to hundreds of thousands of people who objected to taking a vaccine with such a link to abortion. As evidenced by litigation across the country,
it is likely that thousands were fired unjustly because of the exercise of their
consciences or faith on this question, which could have been avoided with a
modicum of concern for this issue from CDC. There is never any justification for
ending a child’s life as part of research, and the research benefits from splicing or
growing aborted fetal cells and aborted baby body parts can easily be provided
by alternative sources. All such research should be prohibited as a matter of
law and policy.
CDC should update its public messaging about the unsurpassed effectiveness of
modern fertility awareness–based methods (FABMs) of family planning and stop
publishing communications that conflate such methods with the long-eclipsed
“rhythm” or “calendar” methods. CDC should fund studies exploring the evidence-based methods used in cutting-edge fertility awareness.Data Collection. The CDC’s abortion surveillance and maternity mortality
reporting systems are woefully inadequate. CDC abortion data are reported by
states on a voluntary basis, and California, Maryland, and New Hampshire do not
submit abortion data at all. Accurate and reliable statistical data about abortion,
abortion survivors, and abortion-related maternal deaths are essential to timely,
reliable public health and policy analysis.
Because liberal states have now become sanctuaries for abortion tourism, HHS
should use every available tool, including the cutting of funds, to ensure that every
state reports exactly how many abortions take place within its borders, at what
gestational age of the child, for what reason, the mother’s state of residence, and
by what method. It should also ensure that statistics are separated by category:
spontaneous miscarriage; treatments that incidentally result in the death of a child
(such as chemotherapy); stillbirths; and induced abortion. In addition, CDC should
require monitoring and reporting for complications due to abortion and every
instance of children being born alive after an abortion. Moreover, abortion should
be clearly defined as only those procedures that intentionally end an unborn child’s
life. Miscarriage management or standard ectopic pregnancy treatments should
never be conflated with abortion.
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abortion providers and whether better prenatal physical, mental, and social care
improves infant outcomes and decreases abortion rates, especially among those
who are most vulnerable.
The Ensuring Accurate and Complete Abortion Data Reporting Act of 20239
would amend title XIX of the Social Security Act and Public Health Service Act
to improve the CDC’s abortion reporting mechanisms by requiring states, as a
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Emanuel Maiberg @emanuelmaiberg.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Caught up with the creator of Anubis, an open-source software that's stopping AI bot scrapers from crashing sites across the internet www.404media.co/the-open-sou...
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The Open-Source Software Saving the Internet From AI Bot Scrapers
Anubis, which block AI scrapers from scraping websites to death, has been downloaded almost 200,000 times.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/06/2025
New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41... We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance 1/
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Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature
An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.
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🦇🎃💀 Riana-mator 💀🎃🦇 @riana.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Today's phone calls to my reps: Work with @wyden.senate.gov to reintroduce the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act. What you can do to get data brokers' filthy hands off your PII: use @yaelwrites.com's BADBOOL: github.com/yaelwrites/B...
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GitHub - yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List
Contribute to yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Chad Loder @chadloder.dev · 17/06/2025
Gavin Newsom vetoed a data broker privacy bill that our legislature passed last year that would have allowed Californians to opt out of all data brokers with a single click.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
1/ Really recommend reading this from @propublica.org, one of the more detailed looks at how DOGE has attempted to use AI to go after government contracts. And below, I recommend further reading.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Good news! The same company building the domestic intelligence data panopticon is going to check you out at your local grocery!
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Sebastian Deterding @codingconduct.cc · 30/04/2025
Clean, simple, important call-out by Rock Yuren Pang at #chi25 on LLM-ification of HCI research transparency & reproducibility matter! programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...
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Kevin Feng @kjfeng.me · 15/04/2025
Do you make custom feeds on Bluesky? We'd love to hear about your experiences as part of a research project at @uofwa.bsky.social @socialfutureslab.bsky.social ! Come chat with us for 45 mins and get $20 gift card. Express your interest here: forms.gle/CtoZTwCovTv8....
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
When people hear of Italian tailoring, they imagine an old maestro quietly sewing away, even if the actual production is done in a factory (like anywhere else). Italy sold the idea of romantic craftsmanship—which brought higher prices and a garment industry boom. This is regional branding.
An older man is sewing a piece of fabric. A photo of an Italian garment factory. There are people of different ethnicities surrounded by sewing machines.
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Dr. Rebecca J. Epstein-Levi @rjelevi.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Yes, this is all about phones and the vices they supposedly inculcate, and has nothing to do with the fact that K-12 education has been forced to teach to tests for decades and constant messaging that the humanities are useless indulgences.
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Nina Beguš @ninabegus.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
My way from Pygmalion to AI in Harvard's Colloquy! "Nina Beguš explores the way that cultural tropes shape artificial intelligence and reveal the creative limits of AI." gsas.harvard.edu/sites/defaul...
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Maya Sen @mayasen.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
Fwiw one thing university faculty can do is provide simple explainers for their students on how federal funding works and how cuts to higher ed & endowment taxes will concretely damage their education and possibly spike tuition costs Many students don’t know how university finances work!
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 09/03/2025
List includes Harvard University, George Washington University, Johns Hopkins University, New York University, Northwestern University, the University of California, Los Angeles; the University of California, Berkeley, the University of Minnesota, and the University of Southern California.
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Trump Pulled $400 million From Columbia. Other Schools Could Be Next.
The administration has circulated a list that includes nine other campuses, accusing them of failure to address antisemitism.
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c0nc0rdance @c0nc0rdance.bsky.social · 12/05/2024
So, not burned. Diaspora, defunded, privatized, and finally destroyed by religious zealots. That's how learning and knowledge was lost in the Classical World. www.vox.com/politics/202...
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The rising Republican movement to defund public libraries
Libraries bolster democracy. Republicans want to get rid of them.
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Rob Davis @robwdavis.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
Great job alert: ProPublica is hiring a computational journalist, "someone who will use technology and data to identify and unlock stories that would otherwise be out of reach." Salary: $120K-$140K Remote: ✅ Come join us!
boards.greenhouse.io
Computational Journalist
New York, New York, United States
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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 04/03/2025
Wrote up something about Techdirt's recent coverage, and why (whether we like it or not) we need to be a "democracy blog" now, rather than just a "tech" blog (not that we've ever been just a tech blog). This story is *the* story and it impacts everything else. www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...
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Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not)
While political reporters are still doing their view-from-nowhere “Democrats say this, Republicans say that” dance, tech and legal journalists have been watching an unfortunately recogn…
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 03/03/2025
Listen, I'm not going to pretend that I'm even remotely surprised, but I will tell you that this is a slap in the face to every person in the infosec community that has worked to track and thwart Russian APTs for the last several decades. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
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Trump administration retreats in fight against Russian cyber threats
Recent incidents indicate US is no longer characterizing Russia as a cybersecurity threat, marking a radical departure: ‘Putin is on the inside now’
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 02/03/2025
18F was dissolved because it saved money. We pushed back against contractors who tried to screw American taxpayers. We showed how cheap and good government software can be. Musk hates that. writing by Dan Tangherlini via @donmoyn.bsky.social
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
The biggest reason why I dislike the idea of respectability in dress is because it conflates the *appearance* of virtue with *actual* virtue. Wearing a suit doesn't make you respectful, intelligent, or capable, just as wearing a leather jacket doesn't make you rugged.
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Sam Altman says GPT-4.5 has "a magic to it i haven't felt before." I'm reminded of Peter Nagy and Gina Neff's article about "the conjuration of algorithms—a strategically deployed narrative device that uses the principles of magic to manipulate the public perception of technologies."
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Conjuring algorithms: Understanding the tech industry as stage magicians - Peter Nagy, Gina Neff, 2024
In this article, we introduce the term “conjuration of algorithms” to describe how the tech industry uses the language of magic to shape people’s perceptions of...
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Chrystal Starbird @drstarbird.bsky.social · 27/02/2025
Now how does one get nominated for this…😁 But seriously, I’m glad to see a philanthropic organization using their power to support science and academic freedom 👏🏾
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Shayne Longpre @shaynelongpre.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Thrilled to be at #AAAI2025 for our tutorial, “AI Data Transparency: The Past, Present, and Beyond.” We’re presenting the state of transparency, tooling, and policy, from the Foundation Model Transparency Index, Factsheets, the the EU AI Act to new frameworks like @MLCommons’ Croissant. 1/
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David Slack @slack2thefuture.bsky.social · 24/02/2025
Hitler said the Third Reich would last 1000 years. It lasted 12 and he died cowering in a bunker. Fascism always fails.
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naitian @naitian.org · 18/02/2025
There's been a lot of work on "culture" in NLP, but not much agreement on what it is. A position paper by me, @dbamman.bsky.social, and @ibleaman.bsky.social on cultural NLP: what we want, what we have, and how sociocultural linguistics can clarify things. Website: naitian.org/culture-not-... 1/n
Culture is not trivia: sociocultural theory for cultural NLP. By Naitian Zhou and David Bamman from the Berkeley School of Information and Isaac L. Bleaman from Berkeley Linguistics.
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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · 02/02/2025
Hayao Miyazaki's short guide to watercolor painting -- we put this translation together a couple of years ago
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Some useful Surveillance Self Defense links for people who want to lock their shit down right now: Attending a protest: ssd.eff.org/module/atten... How to Use Signal: ssd.eff.org/module/how-t... Security starter pack: ssd.eff.org/playlist/wan...
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How to: Use Signal
Download location: Google Play Store, Apple App Store System requirements: Android 5 or later, iOS 13 or later Version used in this guide: Android: 7.0. iPhone: 7.0 License: GPLv3 Level: Beginner Time...
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jonathan w. y. gray @jwyg.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
how to save stuff on the internet? short, sweet & useful zine on diy web archiving by @bitarchivist.net @ilya.webrecorder.net @quinnanya.me @akijas.bsky.social @literaturegeek.bsky.social ✨💾🐢 zinebakery.com/homemade-zin... #webarchiving
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Bloomberg and (to my surprise) Axios launched Project 2025 trackers this week, connecting Trump's moves to the wildly unpopular manifesto. This is a really good opportunity for Democrats to run riot over this already plowed and seeded terrain and keep their grip on the Project 2025 narrative.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
New from 404 Media: meet GeoSpy, a powerful AI tool that lets cops (& stalkers) geolocate photos in seconds. Trained on millions of images, it picks out soil, architecture, etc. GeoSpy closed public access after asked for comment, now marketing to police www.404media.co/the-powerful...
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Here are the three open libraries that I maintain: Against AI and Its Environmental Harms: pad.riseup.net/p/Against_AI... Against School Surveillance Technologies: docs.google.com/spreadsheets... Against Online Proctoring: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 18/12/2024
1/ ProPublica is powered by one of the largest data teams in the country. 📊 Our data reporters sift through complex datasets to help you track, visualize and look up the information you care about, while strengthening our work and increasing its potential for impact.
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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14/11/2024
IMO, consumers often just want their cake and eat it too. They want cheap clothes without the yucky suspicion that someone was exploited on the other end. Many make up totally fantastical ideas about automated manufacturing to justify cheap t-shirt, but reality is often yucky.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 20/11/2024
ProPublica spoke with 135 people who had experienced "sweeps" of homeless encampments. We also distributed notecards so people could write about it in their own words. In Portland, Teresa Stratton told us her husband’s ashes were taken in a removal: propub.li/4fW8YIT
Text from handwritten note: My Husbands ashes. I made me feel alone scared, empty. now I wonder where he is and if He's all still in His urn and if Hes ok And I Hope He's not in the Dump
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 20/11/2024
The exhibition “explores the precursors of current biometric surveillance in Cold War manuals for police, border guards and spies; in forensic portraiture; and in the little-known early history of computer facial recognition, revealing links between forensics, science, art, and popular culture.”
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Counter/Surveillance: Control, Privacy, Agency
This exhibition traces the historical roots of surveillance devices and methods, and the Cold War dynamics that shaped and spread them.
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William Fitzgerald @williamfitz.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
ICE has 20,000 agents. The only way they'll deport millions of people is with the help of software. If you work for a company that's selling their tools to help ICE do this work, you should leak to reporters what's going on.
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Zarine Kharazian @zarine.net · 09/11/2024
i guess "governance capture" may be kind of relevant these days... i'll be at CSCW this week presenting our paper with @mako.cc and @katestarbird.bsky.social exploring why some self-governing online communities are more vulnerable to capture than others: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
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Governance Capture in a Self-Governing Community: A Qualitative Comparison of the Croatian, Serbian, Bosnian, and Serbo-Croatian Wikipedias | Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
What types of governance arrangements make some self-governed online groups more vulnerable to disinformation campaigns? We present a qualitative comparative analysis of the Croatian and Serbian Wikip...
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Haymarket Books @haymarketbooks.org · 09/11/2024
For the next two weeks, we’re offering ten free ebooks for getting free Another world is possible if we fight for it www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/517-te...
Ten book covers: How We Get Free, Hope in the Dark, Freedom is a Constant Struggle, Palestine in a World on Fire, Let This Radicalize you, Socialism... Seriously, The Black Antifascist Tradition, Elite Capture, Class Struggle Unionism, and Unbuild Walls. More details at the included link.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 09/11/2024
the challenge is building out an alternative cultural story that connects prosperity to solidarity and democracy. that *convinces* people that you can be a success without climbing over others. i don’t know where that will come from! i think it is something that you’ll ultimately have to find.
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Daniel Laurison @daniellaurison.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
Trans friends - here's an overview of what to expect/prepare for legally. This is from a lawyer I know well, who specializes in LGBT family law. I trust him to be 100% accurate and careful in his analysis. www.jernerlaw.com/after-the-el...
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After the Election: Things Trans People Should Know Now | Jerner Law Group, P.C.
Following the election, many U.S. policies and regulations may be affected by the new administration. Transgender and gender non-conforming individuals can take steps now to protect themselves and pre...
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evacide @evacide.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
I'm seeing a lot of bad digital security advice out there right now. I'm begging you, for the love of God, if you are trying to tighten up your digital security, please start with threat modeling: ssd.eff.org/module/your-...
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Your Security Plan
Trying to protect all your data from everything all the time is impractical and exhausting. But, have no fear! Security is a process, and through thoughtful planning, you can put together a plan that’...
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Freedom of the Press Foundation @freedom.press · 08/11/2024
The @theverge.com calls on everyone to contact your Senator and urge them to support the PRESS Act — a vital bill which would protect journalists from spying and the threat of jail time. Every news org should put out a similar call! Time is running out.
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Tell your Senator to pass the PRESS Act.
The PRESS Act, which has been sitting in limbo since it passed the House in January, would protect reporters from having to reveal their sources except for national security reasons. It has bipartisan...
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 08/11/2024
Private prison groups expressed a nearly unrestrained glee on earnings calls over the “unprecedented opportunity” a second Trump term brings
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Private Prison Companies Call Trump’s Deportation Plans ‘Unprecedented Opportunity’
Private prison executives imagined tracking “millions” of people electronically, transporting hundreds of thousands by plane, and expanding detention centers.
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