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Paul Allen 🌐🇨🇦

@paulallen.ca
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Clinical director of intensive mental health services for children and youth in Canada (ret.). Believer in Truth and Reconciliation. Denier of Denialism. Student of semantics and statistics. "AI" too.

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Ben Zipperer @benzipperer.org · 01/10/2026
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Wage suppression in 10 charts
Wages for typical workers lag far behind productivity growth. It hasn't always been this way and does not have to be this way. These 10 charts outline the historical context of workers’ wage trajector...
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The Narwhal @thenarwhal.ca · 01/10/2026
In Manitoba, a campground near the former Brandon Indian Residential School has been acquired by the province to educate future generations on the horrors of residential schools. In an era of denialism, Premier Wab Kinew said it's important to keep the "truth alive." thenarwhal.ca/manitoba-res...
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Manitoba to protect burial site near former residential school | The Narwhal
Over 50 children who attended residential school are buried on the site of a Manitoba campground. It will be acquired by the province and used for education.
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Is residential school denialism more prevalent than it’s ever been? University of Manitoba professor Sean Carleton says it’s getting louder. Listen to the full discussion on the latest APTN News InFocus: youtu.be/QVl3pPNQZkg?...
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APTN News @aptnnews.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Three new initiatives have been announced by the Manitoba government to support young adults that are aging out of their child and family services system.
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Manitoba government announces supports for those aging out of CFS - APTN News
Three new initiatives have been announced by the Manitoba government to support young adults that...
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Andrew Longhurst 🇨🇦 🍉 @alonghurst.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
The Ontario government is aggressively privatizing surgeries and medical imaging—core hospital services My new @policyalternatives.ca research study evaluates whether this policy direction reduces wait times and serves the public interest www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc... #onpoli
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Not adding up: Surgical and diagnostic privatization in Ontario | CCPA
The Ontario government favours for-profit delivery of surgeries and medical imaging, but the evidence shows this isn't good health policy
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Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 27/09/2026
Google finally updated some of its satellite images of Gaza and my god, it's horrific. The entirety of Rafah has been demolished. The majority of Khan Younis is in ruins. Entire towns completely leveled and erased of the map.
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Jen St. Denis @jenstden.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A super concerning meeting of white nationalists in advance of Truth and Reconciliation day cfjctoday.com/2026/09/27/a...
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Apparent white nationalist gathering spotted on Tkʼemlúps reserve Sunday
TK'EMLUPS - A post on social media appears to show a group of masked individuals gathered on the Tkemlps te Se...
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Trapdinawrpool @trapdinawrpool.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
It's ok to have voted for Carney, I get it. What isn't acceptable is refusing to hold him and his government accountable for their actions. Democracy requires far more from us than just voting.
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FranklyMyDear @frank-lee.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Absolutely it is. And, we will continue to do so. Meantime I personally hope for a great humbling of the USA for (twice) electing the insane crooked orange buffoon. The US has f*cked up (and f*cked itself) major league. Meanwhile things will be rough between them and us (Canada) for a long while.
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Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is · 16/09/2026
When I keep making xeroxes of xeroxes, the machines are making some sort of glitch art remix of it as a way to communicate
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Niigaan Sinclair @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Latest @winnipegfreepress.com column: AI poses threat to Indigenous culture, knowledge, creativity www.winnipegfreepress.com/local/2026/0...
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Opinion: AI poses threat to Indigenous culture, knowledge, creativity
It’s the beginning of the school year and the now-annual conversation every teacher and professor has to have with students about the ethics of using artificial intelligence.
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Sean Carleton @seancarleton.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Ahead of Wednesday’s release of Truth Before Reconciliation, here’s @niigaanwewidam.bsky.social and I on CBC’s Front Burner talking about what’s fueling the recent rise in residential school denialism and what we can do about it: youtu.be/BdJImlySLKk
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What’s fuelling residential school denialism? | Front Burner
YouTube video by CBC News
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Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 08/09/2026
First class of the semester is completed. Running iteration 9 of my seminar, How to Pay Attention. Doing it fully on paper this year, but the web copy of the syllabus is here: classes.nickseaver.net/HTPA/
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How to Pay Attention
Undergraduate seminar critically examining attention: how it is measured, valued, and managed in social, cultural, and technical contexts, from driver monitoring to AI.
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Paul Allen 🌐🇨🇦 @paulallen.ca · 07/09/2026
One day.
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Tabatha Southey🇨🇦 @tabathasouthey.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
“This is not just gutter social science: it is a drive-by smear. Some people would call it clearly racist and sexist. You can count me among them.” Well worth your time.
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Catelli @catelli.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Anyway, I'm having a blast using the European Mu.Social interface for my BlueSky account. I'm tempted to port my handle over to them to get my data out of the USA and into friendlier territory. Just need to create a test account on BlueSky first, and port that and see what happens...
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 31/08/2026
Don’t worry! I have a long guide with plenty of alternatives.
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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
this is important and seems relevant to discussions about the delegitimization of maintenance in various senses across different sectors, including education and academic research the breaking of institutions and steady career paths has helped produce many would-be destroyers of what remains
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Paul Allen 🌐🇨🇦 @paulallen.ca · 27/08/2026
Malice in Blunderland.
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Semafor @semafor.com · 27/08/2026
A new Stanford research paper lays out a problem that is being largely ignored: It’s becoming less clear whether recommendations by AI chatbots are driven by advertising dollars or genuine information. www.semafor.com/article/08/2...
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AI agents may raise conflict-of-interest risks, study finds
A new Stanford research paper finds that it’s becoming less clear whether recommendations by AI chatbots are driven by advertising dollars or genuine information.
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The Captain @thoreau.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
this is also a nice guide for us Americans who are wanting to support pro-democracy technology and efforts.
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Canadian Anti-Hate Network @antihate.ca · 25/08/2026
CAHN is releasing the first public full-length report on the Dominion Society of Canada, a white nationalist non-profit that uses propaganda and political campaigning to promote mass deportations on the basis of race, ethnicity, and religion. 🧵
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Dominion Society of Canada: The White Nationalist Non-Profit with a Mass Deportations Agenda
The Dominion Society of Canada (DSC) is a white nationalist organization that uses propaganda and political campaigning to promote mass deportations on the basis of race, ethnicity, and religion.
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Laurel @laurelfynes.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I’m not here to argue what you call this magnificent and truly Great Lake. I just want us all to take care of this place like our lives depend on it, and like those others whose lives depend on it also matter.
Looking south over Lake Ontario from low on shore, with dramatic grey and white clouds reflecting on the water. The tip of a breakwater spit sticks out at the left of me, tree branches overhead on my right.View from my hammock strung on the spit visible in the last photo. The early evening sky is peachy as the sun lowers behind the clouds towards the horizon over the calm water of the bay.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 25/08/2026
A federal court has ruled that DOGE must release its internal communications related to a controversial deal between the IRS and the Department of Homeland Security. trib.al/UUBaTqg
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We’re About to Learn How DOGE Helped ICE Get Taxpayer Data
A federal court has ruled that DOGE must release its internal communications related to a controversial deal between the IRS and the Department of Homeland Security.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
This is such a great book. A must read if you want to understand white Christian nationalism, and see how it’s supported by powerful people 
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The Local Magazine @thelocal.to · 22/08/2026
📢 We’re thrilled to introduce the 2026 Local Fellows: Jessica Kim, Nic Hotchkiss, Victoria Hincapie Gomez, and Gabrielle McMann! thelocal.to/introducing-...
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Introducing the 2026 Local Fellows | The Local
We’re excited to welcome Victoria Hincapie Gomez, Nic Hotchkiss, Jessica Kim, and Gabrielle McMann.
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Paul Allen 🌐🇨🇦 @paulallen.ca · 22/08/2026
#gift www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/86d984a...
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Ottawa fires back after rejecting U.S. trade deal
Trump administration imposes 50% tariffs on $28-billion of Canadian goods; Carney says Canada will respond ‘dollar for dollar’
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Benjamin Riley @benjaminjriley.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Both the Economist and others suggest this study demonstrates that AI can help students. So I contacted the lead researcher to figure out how many. Answer: Out of ~26,000 kids, a total of 20. And five months after starting to use AI, only four continued to spend 65 minutes on homework. Four.
Graph of student exam scores correlated to homework completion time for to groups, students using AI and those that did not. There is a slight spike for studens using AI who also maintained extensive homework completion time. As described in post, the number of students falling into this bucket was 20 out of 26,000.
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William Duguid @williamduguid1.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
'We must rage against the cruelty of this kind of journalism, the casual conversion of humiliation into entertainment, the idea that because each blow can be defended in isolation no one bears responsibility for the beating.' Iain Overton, via Byline Times
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Jason Arday: We Must Rage – Rage Against the Journalism of Cruelty
The death of the academic shows the casual conversion of humiliation into entertainment by a media running on monetised hate and cruelty
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 15/08/2026
Zero surprise that these are explicitly designed to cause pain without leaving a mark, not to incapacitate. Yes, we're spending $20M to buy ICE agents torture devices.
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The Painful Truth of Exactly How ICE’s New Shock Gloves Actually Work
ICE is spending millions on shock gloves designed to overpower subjects through intense, localized pain.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 13/08/2026
> TESCREALs have done entryism into Critical AI, for example, Future of Life Institute is trying to mingle with labor organizations. The same Institute also funds YouTubers to make TESCREAL slop disguised as videos about the risks and harms of AI. Anthropic hijacked the Catholic Church. 2/n
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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Read 20,000+ Golden Age Comic Books Free Online: Superheroes, Westerns, Romance, Horror, and More
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Read 20,000+ Golden Age Comic Books Free Online: Superheroes, Westerns, Romance, Horror, and More
For generations of kids in the twentieth century, few pleasures were as intoxicating as a trip to the comic-book shop with the week's allowance fresh in hand.
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Paul Allen 🌐🇨🇦 @paulallen.ca · 12/08/2026
Circle jerks. Owee.
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Jonty Wareing @jonty.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
I always suspected a UK government would eventually reverse course on "coding in public". So I've been backing up all government code. For six years. Today I finally generated a report on what has been deleted. Its much worse than I realised. github.com/uk-gov-mirro...
Deleted UK Government code repositories

Total deleted repositories: 1526
Organisations affected: 56

See RECENTLY_DELETED.md for the most recently deleted repositories.

Organisation	Deleted Repos	% Deleted
hmrc	195	9.8%
nhsdigital	169	33.8%
SkillsFundingAgency	154	22.7%
informatics-lab	154	100.0%
UKHomeOffice	101	7.5%
ministryofjustice	74	2.8%
ONSdigital	66	4.3%
moj-analytical-services	65	75.6%
ukwa	47	46.1%
dwp	46	6.7%
UKGovernmentBEIS	43	27.4%
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Fasten your seat belts... @lesjfrie.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
Here's what you need to do, Carney. Declare this a terrorist group, like Trudeau did the Proud Boys and presto! It disappears. www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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'Shell-shocked': Residents of Alberta town shaken by large white supremacist training meetup | CBC News
Second Sons Canada, this country’s predominant white nationalist group, gathered this summer for their annual "nationals" event in a small Alberta town, a CBC News visual investigation has found.
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404 Media @404media.co · 06/08/2026
Rather than get rid of ALPR cameras entirely, many cities and towns are switching to Axon, whose cameras can be mounted to an existing streetlamp, helping them blend into their surroundings.
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Cities Are Ditching Flock, Immediately Replacing It With Axon License Plate Readers
Rather than get rid of ALPR cameras entirely, many cities and towns are switching to Axon, whose cameras can be mounted to an existing streetlamp, helping them blend into their surroundings.
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The Breach @breachmedia.ca · 17/07/2026
Ontario jails are using an AI tool that claims to predict prisoners’ behaviour. And it’s disproportionately placing Black prisoners in maximum security. An investigation by @desmondcole.bsky.social reveals the province knew the tool would discriminate against Black people—and used it anyway.
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Black prisoners are assigned harsher living conditions in Ontario jails—thanks to AI ⋆ The Breach
Ontario jails are using a program that claims it can predict prisoners’ behaviour, disproportionately putting Black prisoners in higher-security facilities
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Paul Allen 🌐🇨🇦 @paulallen.ca · 18/07/2026
@seancarleton.bsky.social
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Jim Clifford @jimclifford.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
An interactive atlas of the British Empire's civil service: ~16,000 Colonial & India Office careers (1820–1966), every move an arc across the map. Rebuilt from the digitized Indian and Colonial Office Lists with a knowledge graph. WIP, feedback welcome: jimclifford.ca/col_matching/
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Walt Spookman @waltshitman.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
I highly recommend @doctorow.pluralistic.net’s two recent non-fiction books to anybody sick of big tech and the AI bubble making the internet increasingly awful and exploitative lately, or curious how it all works. Extremely smart and comprehensive writing from a labor and human rights POV.
The cover of Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It by Cory Doctorow. A poop emoji with its mouth censored by a black bar with symbols on it like it’s swearing against a black background. 
The cover of The Reverse Centaur’s Guide to Life After AI: How to Think About Artificial Intelligence — Before It’s Too Late by Cory Doctorow. A plastic doll with a horse head growing out of the waist of a nude human torso against a white background, which a cracked glass effect centered on the reverse centaur’s feet.
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Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
"Contemporary narratives often frame Open Science and metascience as novel frontiers of transparency and rigor, obscuring their deep roots in feminist methodologies and critical social science traditions." New work by @maddipow.bsky.social
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Recent years have seen growing emphasis on “Open Science,” a movement to enhance research transparency, robustness, and accountability. Prompted by concerns over fraud, questionable research practices, and low reproducibility in psychological research that emerged in the 2010s, Open Science has been framed by some dominant advocates as a new approach to research in psychology and across the social sciences. However, women in social science have long practiced and promoted principles now hailed as innovative, although their contributions are often left out of mainstream narratives. This erasure is troubling, especially as feminist scholars have critiqued the increasingly exclusionary culture of mainstream science reform. This article traces the overlooked contributions of five pioneering women: Mary Whiton Calkins and her replication efforts in the 1890s; Helen Bradford Thompson Woolley, who advocated for analytical precision in the 1910s; Alice Bryan’s 1940s adversarial collaboration; Carolyn Wood Sherif’s metascientific work in the 1960s; and Leonore Tiefer’s promotion of conflict-of-interest declarations of sex research in the 2000s. I document how their contributions laid the intellectual foundations of what is now contemporary Open Science in the social sciences. In doing so, I celebrate a lineage of feminist scientific labor that has always emphasized openness, ethics, and equity.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Mayo Clinic is being sued by its former AI compliance lead, who is alleging the hospital network tried to hide its AI tool’s 67% error rate at patients’ expense. /1 futurism.com/health-medic...
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Lawsuit Claims the Mayo Clinic's Use of AI Is Butchering Patient Care
A former director at the Mayo Clinic claims she was fired in retaliation for reporting the network's horribly inaccurate AI tools.
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The Walrus @thewalrus.ca · 13/07/2026
The Freedom Convoy exposed deep political divisions. It also galvanized Ottawa residents to stand together. Alex Silas, national vice president of the Public Service Alliance of Canada, reflects on resisting extremism and rebuilding common ground: ow.ly/vznR50ZmNbm
On the left: a photo of marching protesters. The people and scenery are in black and white, and the banners they are holding are in colour. The banners are red and read "Community Solidarity March." On the right: text that reads “How I faced off against the Freedom Convoy—and won over its supporters. Some even apologized and broke down in tears.”
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Civic Data Lab @civic-data-lab.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
Wie frei sind wir, wenn digitale Systeme unsere Aufmerksamkeit lenken? Und wer bestimmt, welche Gedanken und Emotionen uns im richtigen Moment erreichen? Lest im neuen Blogbeitrag, warum wir einen Begriff für Eingriffe in unsere mentale Orientierungsfähigkeit brauchen: kognitive Selbstbestimmung.
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Kognitive Selbstbestimmung im KI-Zeitalter
Kognitive Selbstbestimmung – was ist uns mentale Gegenwärtigkeit in der Demokratie wert? Wir brauchen ein neues Recht im KI-Zeitalter.
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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 w/ 🐕 @emma-briant.co.uk · 11/07/2026
NEW ARTICLE: How the AfD's New AI Propaganda Platform Recentralises Control over Grassroots Radicalization www.patreon.com/emmalbriant/...
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How the AfD's New AI Propaganda Platform Recentralises Control over Grassroots Radicalization | Dr. Emma L Briant, Maven of Persuasion
How the AfD's New AI Propaganda Platform Recentralises Control over Grassroots Radicalization by Dr. Emma L Briant, Maven of Persuasion on Patreon. Join Dr. Emma L Briant, Maven of Persuasion's commun...
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Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
New at Can We Still Govern: DOGE failed. The civic tech community DOGE displaced have been having frank conversations about what they did right and wrong, and what should come next. From Merici Vinton, who led the building of Direct File. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-did-c...
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What Did Civic Tech Learn in the Last Decade?
Some Insights About How to Use Tech in Government – and What Comes Next
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
As Farage fights for his political future against an alien in a cape, with a bin on his head, whose key policy revolves around the repositioning of a hand dryer in an Uxbridge pub - I ponder what it all means for @noosphere.app @countbinface.bsky.social www.noosphere.app/use-the-farc...
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Use the Farce, Binface - how Nigel Farage's great political gambit was upturned by an alien with a plastic bin on his head
The 10 years of Brexit Absurdism was destined to end this way
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Julia Métraux @juliametraux.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Scoop: NIH is on a mission to enlist one million Americans to share their genetic data to help with health research through a precision medicine program called “All of Us.” What participants don’t know is that at one research site, Palantir stores the data. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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Palantir has a hand in NIH's most ambitious health initiative
The defense tech firm's work with public health data has largely flown under the radar.
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 07/07/2026
Food retailers throw away, compost or repurpose 87% of food that could be donated to feed hungry Americans. A supply chain scholar explains why, and what's needed to change that.
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Why only 13% of surplus food gets donated by US supermarkets and other retailers to help hungry people – and how food pantries are trying to gather more
Picking up food more frequently from supermarkets doesn’t close the gap between what’s donated and could be donated, a supply chain scholar explains.
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Cédric Vidonne @cvidonne.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Who gets counted? Our new Data Spotlight looks at 25 years of data on refugee children, and asks what happens when millions are invisible in the data. dataviz.unhcr.org/product-gall... #DataViz #Refugees
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Who gets counted
Twenty-five years of data on refugee children
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