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Jan Merta

@lunruj.bsky.social
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Interested in science, especially physics, evolutionary biology, psychology. Hunting fungi mostly not to eat them, a bit of an amateur mycologist. Chess noob. From Czechia.

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Peer-Reviewed Slop @peer-reviewed-slop.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Springer Nature uses a combination of screening tools, AI-enabled approaches and expert human oversight to identify and assess unethical or fraudulent content, according to director of research integrity Chris Graf. www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo... AND THEN WE PUBLISH ANYWAYS LOL XD
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
Trump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..."
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Darth Putin @darthputinkgb.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
OTD in 1939 the Jabłonków incident took place. Units of the German army attacked Poland thinking the original invasion was still scheduled for that day. The Nazis claimed they were "rogue units with nothing to do with Berlin". Imagine lying like that today.
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@amybisinthewoods.bsky.social 🍄🍄‍🟫 @amybdogsandfungi.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
A fungus photo a day: Multiclavula mucida, taken last February. A few more photos below. #fungifriends #fungi #mycology #naturephotography
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
13 years since the huge Sarin attacks in Damascus. It's really hard to underestimate what a huge catalyst that was for a denialist network that has spent the last 13 years twisting themselves into knots to find ways to deny the use of chemical weapons by the Assad regime.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 15/08/2026
UPDATE: After the Texas Supreme Court refused to block the GOP-led Galveston County yesterday from changing voting maps after primary ballots have already been cast, the pro-voting plaintiffs challenging those map changes filed an emergency motion with an appeals court later that night.
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Texas Supreme Court refuses to stop GOP-led county from changing voting maps between primary and November election
The county has openly acknowledged the partisan motivation behind the change. In its response to the Texas Supreme Court, Galveston County argued that commissioners could have several reasons to…
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Richard Delevan @richard.wickedproblems.earth · 27/06/2026
This is like B-movie level silly but so is every other 2026 villain. This @opendemocracy.net exposé on climate disinfo tinfoil hat 'doomsday cult' AllatRa - and how it has managed to infiltrate COPs, European Parliament, US Capitol, *and the Vatican* - is BEYOND WILD. But wait there's more... 🧵
Investigation
Inside the doomsday ‘cult’ spreading climate disinformation to global leaders
In Parliaments, TikTok and COP summits, AllatRa spread claims that greenhouse gases are not main cause of climate crisis

By Julián Reingold and Ignacio Conese

A photograph taken at the European Parliament. Czech MEP Ondřej Knotek (third from the left), Pastor Mark Burns and AllatRa president, Maryna Ovtsynova, during a conference on nanoplastics at the European Parliament |AllatRa website
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Buddies Online Fighting Allatra (BOFA) @bofa-anticult.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
ITS OFFICIAL I'm in an actual Allatra video. Apparently I'm an "informational hitman" and not just some dipshit Twitch streamer who stumbled onto a cult one day and decided it would be fun to troll them. You can obviously tell they know NOTHING about me besides the fact I allegedly live in AZ
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 15/07/2026
OSSOFF: Who won the 2020 election? CLAYTON: Uhm, you know, I'm not going to do this with you O: This is a job interview. You have an obligation to be honest with the committee. Who won the 2020 election? C: I'm not gonna get into that with you O: You're not being honest or forthright C: ...
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Vatnik Soup @vatniksoup.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Nigel Farage called a by-election to prove he still has the people's support. Instead, the major parties dropped out, leaving his only opponent as Count Binface, a satirical candidate known for mocking British politicians.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/07/2026
New in PN with @juddlegum.bsky.social: How Kalshi infects the news "Since last December, both CNBC & CNN have promoted Kalshi to viewers extensively, frequently vouching for its accuracy. The existence of financial ties between the networks & Kalshi, however, is disclosed to viewers inconsistently"
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How Kalshi infects the news
CNN and CNBC are pushing Kalshi on viewers but not telling them the whole story.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
Notably, FOUR justices would have rewritten the Constitution by fiat. Kavanaugh only concurred because he thinks the law Congress passed in the 1950s granting birthright citizenship governs the case, but he thinks Congress could eliminate birthright citizenship along Trump's lines if they wanted.
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES No. 25–365 DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES, ET AL., PETITIONERS v. BARBARA, ET AL. ON WRIT OF CERTIORARI BEFORE JUDGMENT TO THE UNITED STATES COURT OF APPEALS FOR THE FIRST CIRCUIT [June 30, 2026] JUSTICE KAVANAUGH, concurring in the judgment and dissenting in part. Executive Order No. 14160 establishes new exceptions to birthright citizenship for children born to foreign citizens unlawfully or temporarily in the country. 90 Fed. Reg. 8449 (2025). The Court today holds that the Order violates the Fourteenth Amendment to the Constitution. I respectfully disagree with the Court’s constitutional holding. In my view, the Executive Order does not violate the Fourteenth Amendment. But the Order does contravene a federal statute, 8 U. S. C. §1401(a). Congress could—consistent with the Fourteenth Amendment—amend §1401(a) or otherwise enact new legislation establishing exceptions to birthright citizenship for children born to foreign citizens unlawfully or temporarily in the country. But Congress has not yet done so.
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Fakta o klimatu @faktaoklimatu.cz · 18/06/2026
Dalo by se očekávat, že s růstem průměrné globální teploty se bude zvyšuje i četnost vln veder. Co říkají data o změně počtu epizod vln veder v ČR? Od roku 1961 vzrostla průměrná roční teplota v ČR o +2,3 °C, roste i počet vln veder.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 17/06/2026
⚠️ The DOJ wants to cancel voter registrations across the country in the days leading up to the midterm elections in November. The alarming offensive is emerging in two court cases that could have far-reaching consequences for elections across the country — and SCOTUS could have the final say.
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Trump’s DOJ wants to purge voters right before elections. Will the Supreme Court allow it?
Eligible voters “removed days or weeks before Election Day will likely not be able to correct the State’s errors in time to vote."
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
New: Meta scraped Blacked[.]com and other porn sites. Now a judge has said the company that owns Blacked and other porn sites can sue Meta for doing so www.404media.co/judge-rules-...
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Judge Rules Blacked.com Can Sue Meta for Scraping Its Porn
The judge found that Meta’s attempt to blame the pirating of thousands of Vixen.com and Tushy.com porn videos on rogue employees “strains credulity.”
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16/06/2026
HOSTIN: Why haven't we seen the release of over 2.5m additional Epstein file documents? JD VANCE: My understanding -- I'm gonna check on this to be sure -- but my understanding is that a lot of those are duplicates of things that have already been released NAVARRO: So they why not release them?
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Reese Richardson @reeserichardson.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Thermo Fisher now has a page up in response to our observations. They flatly deny that images were manipulated or fabricated while repeating that images were "optimized for presentation and clarity on the website", no lie, six times. www.thermofisher.com/us/en/home/l...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
This is absolutely nuts: hackers are hijacking high-profile Instagram accounts by simply asking Meta's AI chatbot to change the email on the account. Meta's AI does it, hacker gets password reset code, they're in. A staggering security issue www.404media.co/hackers-simp...
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Hackers Simply Asked Meta AI to Give Them Access to High-Profile Instagram Accounts. It Worked
The exploit shows the extreme risk of offloading technical support to AI.
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Meta legal action forces Facebook whistleblower to sit in silence at Hay festival
Sarah Wynn-Williams did not speak during event after lawyers warned of possible sanctions from tech firm
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 13/04/2026
Hey, look at Substack promoting Andrew Tate as the #1 new bestseller. The company's amoral leadership & backers will platform anyone, even ludicrously toxic rapists & human traffickers.
a screenshot of the "New Bestsellers" list from Substack, with Andrew Tate in the #1 position
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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 14/04/2026
WaPo website replaced search with AI and it's going great
doordash grandma

DoorDash does not have a specific policy for seniors or helping grandparents, as the provided articles do not mention DoorDash's policies or services for seniors.

If you have a follow-up question, feel free to let me know.

how the fuck do I just search WaPo articles?

To search Washington Post articles, you can use the "Ask The Post Al" tool, which is a generative Al tool that provides summary answers and curated results directly to users.

If you have a follow-up question, feel free to let me know.

I asked. Show me article about "doordash grandma"

There is no information about DoorDash and grandma in the provided articles.

If you have a follow-up question, feel free to let me know.
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Sholto David @sholtodavid.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Lorenzo Cohen at MD Anderson presented "Biofield Therapy" results at AACR last week. "Biofield Therapy" sounds scientific but is just a fancy name for telekinesis - AKA staring at mice. Actual photo from his lab below, now deceased psychic staring at mice. Not clear who does the staring these days.
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Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com · 28/03/2026
This is the proper reaction when a pastor tries to work a miracle by pushing your forehead.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 28/03/2026
“DUE TO TO THE TENOR AND DEPTH OF THIS FEMALE ANGEL’S LOVE MAKING, I ORGASMED MULTIPLE TIMES BEFORE WAKING UP NUDE IN HEAVEN. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER! I DID NOT WEAR A CONDOM!” said President Trump
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Markets Surge After Trump Claims He Had Sex With An Angel
NEW YORK—In what came as a welcome shock to investors amid recent dips in the global economy, markets reportedly surged Tuesday after President Donald Trump wrote in a Truth Social Post that he’d had ...
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nilay patel @reckless.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Google is now screwing with the 10 blue links in traditional search and rewriting headlines - including ours - to be the worst kind of slop. This sucks so bad www.theverge.com/tech/896490/...
A screenshot of Google search with verge headlines rewritten as slop

Lego Computer Brick - Engineer James Brown
Aug 20, 2022 — James Brown has brilllantly brought classic Lego computer bricks to life by outfitting them with a tiny OLED screen, processor, ...
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The Verge
https://www.theverge.com› Al> Tech, Reviews:
"Cheat on everything" Al tool
Apr 23, 2025 - Two 21-year-old Columbia University dropouts are proposing a new $5.3 million twist on the concept: use their Al tool Cluely to "cheat on everything." Read more
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https://www.theverge.com» » Microsoft›Al› Tech:
Copilot Changes: Marketing Teams at it Again
22 Aug 2024 — Microsoft is getting ready to rebrand its Copilot for its business Al efforts. It's part of an effort to push Microsoft 365 Al tools.
The Verge
https://www.theverge.com› Wearable Science Tech:
Dexcom Stelo hands-on - OTC Continuous Glucose Monitor
Aug 26, 2024 - The $99 Dexcom Stelo is an over-the-counter continuous glucose monitor designed for Type 2 diabetics who don't use insulin.
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Vláďa Foltán @vladafoltan.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
🤑👀 Trumpova parta tuneluje stát tak nevídaným způsobem, že to překvapuje i zkušený novináře. Pár dní zpátky jsem psal o tom, jak si teď už odvolaná ministryně pro vnitřní bezpečnost Kristi Noem přihrála přes svoje přátele víc jak 200 milionů dolarů. Ty se utratily za v
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Congratulations Substack on your new partnership with Polymarket! And to those publishing on Substack, is this really the tool you want from the folks who take part of your revenue?
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 26/02/2026
Kansas is sending letters to trans people telling them that their licenses will be revoked as of tomorrow and that they risk arrest for driving on a suspended license. This is pure cruelty. www.erininthemorning.com/p/kansas-sen...
An official letter from the Kansas Division of Vehicles dated February 23, 2026, with a redacted recipient address. The letter notifies the recipient that due to the enactment of Senate Bill 244, all Kansas driver's licenses and IDs must reflect the holder's sex at birth. It states that the recipient's current credential will become invalid immediately upon the law's publication on February 26, 2026, with no grace period. The recipient is directed to surrender their current ID to receive a new one matching their sex assigned at birth. The document concludes with instructions on how to appeal the notice if received in error, along with contact information for the department.
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Edwin Park @edwincpark.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
VP Vance is falsely claiming the Trump Admin somehow has the “inherent” authority to just unilaterally withhold from MN mandatory federal #Medicaid funding to which the state is entitled.
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Zachary Levenson @grundrza.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Yesterday, those who teach Intro to Sociology at Florida colleges (as opposed to universities) received a ready-made curriculum from the state and were ordered to teach it. Yes, you read that correctly. The *state* is enforcing a curriculum on college profs, complete w/ the following restrictions:
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 04/02/2026
Rep. Beatty to Bessent after he refuses to answer a question about affordable housing: "No no. We're not gonna to do that with me. You get to hear my wrath that you refuse to answer a question under your authority, and yet you've talked about the value of housing and you're not releasing the funds."
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Hemant Mehta @friendlyatheist.com · 01/02/2026
Every Founding Father "would be labeled a far-right Christian Nationalist," said Indiana Lt. Gov. Micah Beckwith. He's rewriting history because facts contradict his theology. www.friendlyatheist.com/p/indianas-l...
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Indiana’s Lt. Gov. falsely claims every Founding Father would be labeled a "far-right Christian Nationalist"
Micah Beckwith’s Christian Nationalist fantasy relies on rewriting America’s secular origins
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
He's right: in light of Republican policies, rural Americans will have decreasing access to real healthcare. They will have to settle for some garbage chatbot selling them snake oil. It shouldn't be this way, but it absolutely will be this way if Republicans stay in power.
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Vláďa Foltán @vladafoltan.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
➡️ Epstein Files Páteční zveřejnění další části Epstein Files přineslo nové dokumenty a svědectví, která dál rozšiřují mapu vztahů kolem Jeffreyho Epsteina a jeho okolí. Základní info o tom, co byl tenhle člověk zač, si můžete připomenout tady:
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Jeffrey Epstein: Pád muže, který otřásl světem mocných — Vladimir Foltan
Post by Vladimir Foltan
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Eric Champnella @echamp.bsky.social · 02/02/2026
And there it is. He has no intention of allowing a free and fair midterm. In a sane world, this would be instantly impeachable.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 01/02/2026
Trump on his multiple suits against the federal government: "I'm supposed to work out a settlement with myself ... We could make it a substantial amount, nobody would care, because it's gonna go to numerous, very good charities."
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Michal Bláha @michalblaha.cz · 27/01/2026
👍 Na výzvě je také důležité, kdo tam NENÍ (nevim proč). Z velkých redakcí/vydavatelství tam není 👉 Vltava Labe Press 👉CZECH NEWS CENTER 👉MAFRA 👉TV Nova 👉FTV Prima 👉 Media Bohemia (Radio Blaník, …) a vůbec všechna rádia mimo ČRo
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The Onion @theonion.com · 26/01/2026
Kristi Noem Calls On Minneapolis Residents To Stop Obstructing Murders theonion.com/kristi-noem-calls-on-m…
Kristi Noem Calls On Minneapolis Residents To Stop Obstructing Murders
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Mark A. Hanson @hansonmark.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
We've got ISSUES. Literally. We scraped >100k special issues & over 1 million articles to bring you a PISS-poor paper. We quantify just how many excess papers are published by guest editors abusing special issues to boost their CVs. How bad is it & what can we do? arxiv.org/abs/2601.07563 A 🧵 1/n
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David Leavitt @davidleavitt.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
#TikTok has begun censoring anti-Trump and anti-Ice content
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Elisabeth Bik @elisabethbik.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Thousands of scientists inflate their CVs with self-published studies that cost millions of dollars of public money 1 in 8 'special issues' is filled with articles written by the editor, particularly at the publisher MDPI @manuelansede.bsky.social english.elpais.com/science-tech...
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Thousands of scientists inflate their CVs with self-published studies that cost millions of dollars of public money
An analysis of 100,000 special issues of academic journals reveals that one in eight is filled with articles written by the editor, particularly at the publisher MDPI
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Kendal Killian @kedrickillian.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
They’re governing by ransom, trying to flip Minnesota red by force.
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Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · 23/01/2026
I would like to gently request that AI pharmacy bots stop trying to kill my mother
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Jan Merta @lunruj.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
Converting the concentration of carbon dioxide from ppm to % and saying it's a small number and therefore CO₂ has no role in global warming. It's like looking at 0.04% solution of potassium permanganate and claiming it's not pink/purple. (We can actually "look" at the CO₂ in IR spectrum.)
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 23/01/2026
“and then our goons will kidnap that life and send it to a concentration camp if we deem them the wrong color”
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
I’ve been reading Trump’s "Board of Peace Charter," and despite the name, this isn’t a multilateral institution, it’s a centralised structure built entirely around the authority of one person (Trump). www.timesofisrael.com/full-text-ch...
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Full text: Charter of Trump’s Board of Peace
No mention of Gaza, which bolsters ToI's reporting that US also envisions panel helping resolve other conflicts worldwide; member countries must pay $1 billion for permanent spot
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 19/01/2026
Blanche won’t investigate the killing of an innocent woman on camera but they’ve got all hands on deck for a church service being interrupted
.@DAGToddBlanche: “It’s a crime — and so they will face a jury. If they’re convicted, they will go to prison… every single American should be enraged and heartbroken at what happened yesterday in that church.
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Darren Dahly @statsepi.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
We are increasingly exposed to surveillance and algorithmic classification but with little appreciation for the risk false positives and the costs of those errors.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 19/01/2026
Florida Passes Law Granting Viruses Personhood theonion.com/florida-passes-law-gra…
Florida Passes Law Granting Viruses Personhood
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Adam Parkhomenko @adamparkhomenko.bsky.social · 18/01/2026
This is the sixth death in ICE custody in 18 days. This isn’t enforcement, it’s a system that cages people, outsources care, and shrugs when they die. Abolish ICE.
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