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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 19/08/2026

🚨 Big changes to the PSB Tracker! Instead of focusing solely on warehouses, we pivoted to track ICE's unprecedented buy-up of private prison space, too. This new tool focuses on all jail space ICE has bought, for how much, and from whom. Old data is still available from the dropdown.

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ICE Warehouse Tracker

Data Studio turns your data into informative dashboards and reports that are easy to read, easy to share, and fully customizable.

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Mel Andrews @bayesianboy.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

When utilized in literature review, LLMs consistently 1. fail to mention female authors in female-led literatures, 2. insist that men are more influential or more heavily cited when this is contradicted by objective citation counts, and 3. attribute women’s work to hallucinated male scholars.

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Marco Fonseca @marcofonseca.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

🧵 Enbridge Gas, a for-profit company, is literally writing pro-natural gas resolutions and getting Ontario municipalities to pass them. This is not democracy. This is corporate capture of local government. Let's talk about what's really going on. www.nationalobserver.com/2026/05/11/n...

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Enbridge is writing pro-gas resolutions and Ontario municipalities are passing them

In August 2025, the province launched Ontario’s Environmental Registry consultation on expanding natural gas usage. Soon after, Enbridge sent municipalities across Ontario a ready-made lobbying packag...

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Jeffrey Vagle @jvagle.me · 25/04/2026

Good lord, the mendacity.

One of the tactics Native tribes are increasingly seeing is the bait-and-switch, in which developers come in looking to build renewable energy infrastructure, only to swap the plan to a data center at the last minute.

“What we’re hearing from different Native nations is that corporations will come, they’ll start by talking about solar panels and installing that on their lands, and then it quickly shifts to a hyperscale data center,” Two Bulls said. “But often, before they even get to that conversation, they’re asking them to sign an NDA. And so that makes our tribal leadership accountable to them and not to the people… they’re actually supposed to represent.”

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peter_donnelly @peter-donnelly.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Not quite the same, but anyway ... All LLMs use the same recipe. They're all based on this 8 page long research paper from 2018. There have only been a tiny number of innovations since then, which everyone knows about and uses. cdn.openai.com/research-cov...

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Mark Ungrin @mark-ungrin.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

From populists on the right, but also from establishment figures desperate to bury their responsibility, there's an ongoing push to bury the harms of COVID. Long COVID alone costs 7M life-years (QALYs) and on the order of a trillion dollars a year in the OECD. www.oecd-ilibrary.org/social-issue...

1. While a precise estimate of long COVID prevalence is still emerging, current research suggests that up to 10-30% of people who contracted COVID-19 exhibit symptoms corresponding to long COVID in the weeks and months following acute infection. Across OECD countries at a minimum, this would represent upwards of 39 million people who had or are currently living with long COVID. Sustainable investment in long COVID research is crucial to inform health and social care resource allocation. As the evidence base grows, developing standardised measures of symptoms and functional impact to support a more precise definition that enables the disaggregation of levels of long COVID severity could be useful to better understand the condition, assess its impact, and to tailor care and support.
3. Long COVID can severely limit people’s ability to undertake basic activities of daily life and can dramatically hamper quality of life. More than 7 million quality-adjusted life years may be lost annually across OECD countries due to the condition. Studies from across a range of OECD countries suggest that one sixth to more than one-third of people may have persistent cognitive symptoms, often lasting more than 12 weeks, after a COVID-19 infection.
4. Even conservative estimates of long COVID prevalence would indicate that long COVID may be reducing the workforce by nearly 3 million workers across OECD countries, amounting to an economic cost of at least $141 billion USD from lost wages alone. Moreover, even among those who were able to return to the labour force, a significant proportion reported needing to reduce the number of hours they worked, compared to before their infection.

5. The economic and social welfare costs of long COVID are dramatic: Even excluding the direct costs of health care, long COVID is likely costing OECD countries as much as $864 billion $1.04 trillion USD per year due to reductions in quality of life and labour force participation. The limitations in activities experienced by long COVID patients, including dropping out or reducing their participation in the labour force, as well as direct medical care costs, can have dramatic implications on their financial well-being. Costs to health and social protection systems may also be high over time.
6. Long COVID could further exacerbate inequalities: The COVID-19 pandemic brought attention to longstanding socioeconomic and demographic inequalities in health. Evidence from some countries suggests that certain groups – including populations with lower education attainment, and those living in more deprived areas – may be at risk of developing long COVID, and of experiencing more severe symptoms.
7. Patients have played a critical role in bringing attention and action to long COVID: Throughout the pandemic, countries deprioritized many key aspects of person-centred care in exchange for rapidly implementing policies intended to contain the virus. While the need for rapid action was clear, the lack of patient voice in the process was notable. In contrast, patients and patient groups have been at the forefront of advocating for both a recognition of long COVID as a legitimate condition, in articulating their care and support needs, and in spearheading research into the condition. In many cases, countries have responded by actively working together with patient groups to disseminate information and develop patient-centred support services.

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Evan Greer @evangreer.bsky.social · 16/03/2026

Meta purposely making their DMs un-encrypted and rolling out facial recognition equipped surveillance glasses in the same year in the midst of an attempted fascist takeover of the United States tells you everything you need to know about Meta

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 20/11/2025

I just wrapped up two projects with students working on automated license plate reader tech in the context of abortion and this is still more dystopian and horrific than anything we uncovered. The US is now a surveillance state with border patrol as the Gestapo. apnews.com/article/immi...

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Border Patrol is monitoring US drivers and detaining those with 'suspicious' travel patterns

The U.S. Border Patrol is monitoring millions of American drivers nationwide in a secretive program to identify and detain people whose travel patterns it deems suspicious.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 12/08/2025

Modern AI tools emulate the classic con-man tricks of mentalism, tricking people into believing that they’re far more clever - and sapient - than they actually are. Fantastic piece by @baldurbjarnason.com : softwarecrisis.dev/letters/llme...

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The LLMentalist Effect: how chat-based Large Language Models rep…

The new era of tech seems to be built on superstitious behaviour

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Logan Grendel @focusedoninfinity.bsky.social · 12/08/2025

Yes, it's said in Project 2025 (long before tbh) & now it's happening. We get it. What do you intend to do about it?? Yes, maybe this could have been prevented one way or the other before now & I'm sure there's blame to go around. Regardless, we are where we are. What are you going to DO about it?

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Shawn's Socialist Slipstreaming（宇祥）- he/him/他/dia @shawnslipshrimp.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

Reminder that the Zionist entity trains US cops in their brutaility especially towards POC,the same tactics that killed George Floyd. If you choose ear-plugging in the midst of these atrocities don't be flabbergasted when the boomerang swings back towards your jaw. www.aljazeera.com/video/the-st...

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The US is using Israeli tactics on marginalised communities

Discover how Israeli military tactics shape US ‘cop cities’, affecting civil liberties for marginalised communities.

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Radiant G🌈 @radiantg.bsky.social · 27/07/2025

I’m so glad to see so many folks calling, but while I am seeing a lot of pressure on Visa, Mastercard, and PayPal, don’t forget Stripe. The Itch team labeled them as enemy number one in this fight. Call Stripe. Wear them out! #itchio #indiegames #stripe

Stripe Complaint Form: https://stripe.com/legal/complaints
Stripe Complaint Email: complaints@stripe.com
Phone Number (United States): +1 (877) 887-7815
Phone Number (France): +33 805 11 19 67

Stripe United States Address for Physical Letters:

Stripe, Inc.
354 Oyster Point Boulevard
South San Francisco, California, 94080

Stripe Europe Address for Physical Letters:

Stripe Payments Europe, Ltd.
10 Boulevard Haussmann
75009 Paris, France

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Ali Nahdee @alinahdee.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I am going to be attending a wedding in October and need to find something really nice to wear. #NativeSky what are some of your favorite Native run stores/boutiques? J. Okuma, B. Yellowtail, etc

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miskwaanakwad @miskwaanakwad.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Endlessly frustrating! Shortened comment period and ridiculous permits. #NoLine5Tunnel

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Rothaí @rothaiocht.bsky.social · 24/06/2025

I left Ireland and moved to New York in 1997. Decades on, what the US has become has broken my immigrant heart. It also baffled me, until I began to piece together Gen X memories of apartheid South Africa.

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AjiWings @ajijaakwe.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

🧵 Pay particular attention to the points about who gets to tell what. This is just one of the very important reasons we insist that some stories are not outsiders' to tell.

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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 17/06/2025

One month apart.

A screenshot of a Wired article by Dell Cameron and Dhruv Mehrotra, published May 14, 2025, with the headline: "CFPB Quietly Kills Rule to Shield Americans From Data Brokers."

A screenshot of a Wired article by Lily Hay Newman, published June 16, 2025, with the headline: "Minnesota Shooting Suspect Allegedly Used Data Broker Sites to Find Targets' Addresses."

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∙ ᴘᴀᴜʟɪɴᴀ ∙ @iamthepaulina.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

Take a listen and seriously consider it. While this is not an uncommon practice, I am glad people are beginning to speak up about it.

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Ali Nahdee @alinahdee.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Jonathan Joss was MURDERED. Words matter here. He was MURDERED. it was a HATE CRIME because he is a gay Indigenous man. Say those words. Do not dance around it. He wasn't "killed in a shooting." He was murdered in a hate crime.

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Lauren McKenzie @themckenziest.gay · 18/05/2025

These humans are desperate for our help, and they keep getting called scammers and frauds all while trying to survive a genocide. If they have a gofundme, that shit is verified. Just help them, interact with them, let them know they’re not alone, and that we do care.

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Lex McMenamin (they/them) @lexmcmenamin.com · 14/05/2025

I struggle with the reporting on ChatGPT in education because it often confirms society’s negative bias against young people—oh no, this generation is unsaveable!—when it’s possible to just educate people to be less credulous about it. which is why I wrote this: so teachers could print and assign it

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ChatGPT Is Everywhere — Why Aren't We Talking About Its Environmental Costs?

One estimate found that a single ChatGPT search uses 10 times the energy of a normal Google search.

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

If this isn't a cautionary warning for academics then I don't know what is. You are putting yourself one step closer to unemployment each time you use AI to write an email, synthesize literature, code any data, use the socratic method to organize ideas, or write syllabi, lectures & papers.

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Oil & Water Don't Mix @owdm.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Live in Traverse City? Don't have plans tonight? Good news - Troubled Water, a documentary adventure-conservation feature about Line 5 is showing this evening! RSVP: www.oilandwaterdontmix.org/oryana_prese...

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Oryana Presents: Troubled Water

Join us in Traverse City as Oryana Presents: Troubled Water, the adventure documentary to protect the Great Lakes.

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People’s City Council - Los Angeles @pplscitycouncil.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

“you have to make a movement popular for normies to join” 👍🫡

54 Percent of
Americans Think
Burning Down
Minneapolis Police
Precinct Was Justified After George Floyd's Death

Picture of 3rd precinct burning with people standing in front

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ACLU of Michigan @acluofmichigan.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

It is more important than ever to know your rights when engaging with ICE. Know your rights.

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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

Metadata like timestamps, author names, device details, and version history can quietly reveal your identity. Screenshots may expose screen resolution, open apps, or UI elements unique to your setup. Some files even include invisible tracking pixels or custom fonts as digital fingerprints.

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KLo @klogoldman.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

As someone who spent the trump years in the DC courts and doing court support for protesters I want to offer some opinions about protests going forward because things have changed and we need to adapt. 1. Don't commit symbolic crimes. It doesn't work the message is lost on most people and placing

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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

These are the senators who collaborated with the GOP. Schumer Fetterman Cortez Masto Durbin King Shaheen Gillibrand Schatz Hassan Peters Don’t let them forget it. No peace for them.

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Dax, sapphic fantasy author @daxaeterna.ink · 10/03/2025

"I want to keep boycotting Amazon, but I also want to support indie authors. How do I do that?" Many indie authors have their books on Barnes & Noble & Kobo! There are also places like Smashwords & Campfire that are almost all indie books! Itchio now has a THRIVING LGBTQ Indie Book Scene.

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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 06/03/2025

Reminder: Amazon Blackout—starting tomorrow. Amazon ❌, Whole Foods ❌ off the to-do list!

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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 07/03/2025

send this to your parents if they fit the bill (both mine do)

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pj harvey dent @surrealisthells.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Briefly going to use this as a jumping off point to talk about art! There's a concept in art history called kunstwollen or "will to art" introduced by Alois Riegel, who was a late 19th century Austrian art historian. It is often used to explain why certain motifs appear at certain times in history.

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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 21/02/2025

Ok, I'm doing a version of this thread for 🧪 who are new to political conditions where info security is a safety issue: 1. Don't make public lists of people who are engaging in acts of resistance 2. Be weary of calls to advertise acts of subversion 3. Don't live post resistance meetings

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Terrill Tailfeathers @terrilltf.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

I haven’t tried fundraising on this site much yet so give me a hand and help boost it. Donate if you are at all able to. He really needs the help. Let’s help get him more donations. Please help today.

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Allen Toulouse @pakneh.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Cancelling my card if visa follows through on this deal

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Gabriella Mirabelli @gamirabelli.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

A great app / website that (based upon a zip code you supply) will pull together the phone numbers and relevant reps for issues. You can click to dial and they provide a useful script. The app is the same name. 5calls.org

5calls.org

5 Calls

Spend 5 minutes. Make 5 calls. Make your voice heard.

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Beadwork By Kay @beadworkbykay.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

✨Happy Tuesday Everyone! ✨ I still have these 4 pairs available from my Mocha Mousse Collection! Thank you for all the love and support on it so far! 🤎 If all 4 of these found homes I would be caught up on all my bills finally from December 🤞🏼🤞🏼 linktr.ee/Beadworkbykay

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