Tim Reierson
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Former volunteer for #CrisisTextLine. Terminated for questioning data ethics and monetization. (Still) Seeking change. he/him RYE er sun 🌈 #DataEthics 🌈 #Consent 🌈 #Organize 🌈 #CrisisLineWorkers 🌈reform #988Lifeline reformcrisistextline.com/ref
Toronto-based Thomson Reuters is instrumental to ICE's efforts. Today, 200 Thomson Reuters employees issued a statement condemning their company’s $125M deal with the US government for 'voter fraud' and 'immigration fraud' data.
Thomson Reuters Employees Demand That ICE “Leave Our Cities”
The company is set to sell voter data to ICE in a $125 million deal.
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i have been paid and i have paid my apartment (and i have zero dollars but we are homed for anohter month hell yeah,) but i am happy to update thank you so much everyone for all the donations
dj vulcan barbie@spacedaddy.bsky.social · yesterday*pin* RENT/FOOD FUNDRAISER: hi everyone I need to pay rent. I had a cost of $200 to get my power and now I have no money for rent. I'm asking if you can to donate, share, or help us (conchita drew this) venmo.com/u/nellarosmarino paypal.me/aizykows ░️░️░️░️░️░️░️░️░️░️
feeling .... extremely depressed today how llms are giant plagiarism machines, and how much work on the side of review it takes to point that out.
I ordered my #CherylReeve #TransKidsBelong tshirt. @lynxcoachreeve.bsky.social You can, too. #HumanRightsCampaign @hrc.org shop.hrc.org/products/tra...
Trans Kids Belong T-shirt
Cheryl Reeve, head coach of the WNBA's Minnesota Lynx, wore this t-shirt during her team's matchup against the Indiana Fever to show her long-standing commitment to trans kids, equality, and inclusion...
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A hallway. Reporters. No hedge. Cheryl Reeve said the innuendo about trans women as predators is not what's happening. Four words under her blazer. Eleven thousand officials declined that sentence. https://twp.ai/4huPhO #TransRights #TransKids #QueerNews #WNBA #Pride #Solidarity
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Tim Reierson@holdspacefree.bsky.social · 5d agoA friend is trying to escape an abusive living (bare survival) situation. Needs major crxwd fxnding HELP. This is s.o. who will give back once they can get free, establish self in new place and live free from those keeping stable supports out of reach. linktr.ee/viviennebebe
so i looked up flock safety's ceo house on zillow and...??? fascinating
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Tim Reierson@holdspacefree.bsky.social · 5d agoA friend is trying to escape an abusive living (bare survival) situation. Needs major crxwd fxnding HELP. This is s.o. who will give back once they can get free, establish self in new place and live free from those keeping stable supports out of reach. linktr.ee/viviennebebe
🚨🚨 A company paid to help ICE target immigrants may also provide the interpreters your local hospital, school, or courtroom uses to communicate with them. Here's what to know. 1/8
Sourcewell's Board is made up of elected local officials from MN. They have the power to terminate this contract with 30-60 days' notice, and they deserve to know who they're doing business with. Their email addresses and a message template are available here: docs.google.com/document/d/1... 8/8
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Subject: Concern regarding agreement with SOS International Dear [Board Member Name], I'm writing as [a resident of Sub-Region I/II/III/IV / a member of an organization that participates in Sourcewe...
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Going to do a thread, using some of my own (incl. older) work, to clear up some of these relevant concepts. Hope it helps builds conceptual hygiene and immunity to hyped claims about “AI” capabilities. 1/🧵
Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 5d agoIn my work, as in theoretical computer science, we distinguish between (exact) algorithms, heuristics (no guarantees), and approximation algorithm (approx. guarantees) Clear distinctions is relevant in many contexts, for instance this one in cognitive science link.springer.com/article/10.1...
> How do [criminalisation of organising and the siege of Cuba] impact Black people and what is the history of these scares that are used against Black people? Dr. Charisse Burden Stelly [discusses this and] is the author of "Black Scare/ Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States"
Dr. CBS on Trump's Black/Red Scare
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#GoodThings Portland, OR USA Milagro creates bilingual theatre and cultural arts events with the Latina/o/x and Hispanic community in Portland, Oregon USA since 1985. Go to link for upcoming schedule and tickets. milagro.org
Milagro - Portland's premiere Latino arts and culture center
Milagro creates bilingual theatre and cultural arts events with the Latino and Hispanic community in Portland, Oregon since 1985.
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It's October!? This month marks the 1st anniversary of the release of Objetos de [des]amor and yes, it's available at a discount through November for all of you who find yourself in an introspective space or working through grief. Hit the link at editorial.elinverso.com/objetos
A friend is trying to escape an abusive living (bare survival) situation. Needs major crxwd fxnding HELP. This is s.o. who will give back once they can get free, establish self in new place and live free from those keeping stable supports out of reach. linktr.ee/viviennebebe
A friend is trying to escape an abusive living (bare survival) situation. Needs major crxwd fxnding HELP. This is s.o. who will give back once they can get free, establish self in new place and live free from those keeping stable supports out of reach. linktr.ee/viviennebebe
#SuicideResearch subject matter area - the effect of "AI" "assist", storage and use of #CrisisLines conversations without consent on the attitudes of crisis line callers and those who answer. What reaction do crisis line callers have, once informed, to "AI" infestation as I am warning about?
Tim Reierson@holdspacefree.bsky.social · 4mo ago📣 The "AI" Infestation of 988 Lifeline 1/ Crisis line advocacy white paper against "AI" use. I began writing this back in 2022. I'm not discouraging use of crisis lines. I'm respecting the intelligence of those who call. #CrisisLines #988Lifeline #NoAI reformcrisistextline.com/the-ai-infes...
re: US 'Dump' admin limiting medicaid coverage for therapy Maybe s.o. can correct or provide detail but I'm hearing that in OR USA there's a new limit of 20 therapy sessions being covered annually, after which some kind of review is reqd. a "cap w/o being a cap" targeting LGBTQIA+ and BIPOC persons
Does anyone on this site actually buy content Pretty much all of my buyers come from Reddit I post here so much less than I used to bc I feel like it’s slowed down even more than usual on here this month How come the only site where people sometimes talk to me like a human is so broke 😭
#ambetter customer service doesn't know which doctors are in network or where they are located. suggest calling your provider first. you're welcome but they are consistent. gave me same wrong info one year later. #WealthCare #DismalUSHealthcare
also @404media.co how do i make sure all my information is gone... www.justdeleteaccount.com/view/404-media
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dj vulcan barbie@spacedaddy.bsky.social · 3w ago@404media.co proof you talk about better help in your podcast but don't put in your descriptions....as journalists on tech privacy and surveillance WHY NOT? seems sketchy also is ok by youtube guidelines to not include it in your description? betterhelp(dot)com(slah)404media
If you missed Winifred's recent departure from Bluesky, you can still support her vital work as a Black midwife & writer here for as little as $3, $5, or $25 monthly: ko-fi.com/winifredburt... Even if you cannot contribute, please please please share this post to amplify its reach in her absence!🫂
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Support "Magical Black Girls Burning Shit Down," buy a cup of tea (you know how she gets when she's had too much coffee) for Winifred Burton! Become a "Freddie" and get even better acquainted with the...
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Krystal Kavita Jagoo, MSW (She/Her/Hers) 🇹🇹👊🏽✍️🏾♊️♊️♏️@equitableforall.com · 3mo agoA few folx have been asking about what happened, & I forgot about this Ko-fi post until now, but sharing so you can read how Winifred described her Bluesky departure if you had questions about why: ko-fi.com/post/Today-M...
I collected everything I think about that situation, here: olivia.science/entryism/ — and a thread here: bsky.app/profile/oliv...
Entryism
AI entryism subverts anti AI critique.
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 3w agoSo what to do? First accept that: > just because somebody claims to be anti AI does not mean they are not doing entryism. Sadly, that is (in isolation) entirely consistent with entryism. Yes, these people lie about their beliefs. olivia.science/entryism/
![What can we do?
I have a core take away I must repeat: just because somebody claims to be anti AI does not mean they are not doing entryism. Sadly, that is (in isolation) entirely consistent with entryism. Yes, these people lie about their beliefs.
I repeat this quote from Marx that I put right at the top of our work critiquing this correlationist logic from 2023:
"[A]ll science would be superfluous if the outward appearance and the essence of things directly coincided. (Marx, 1894, p. 592)"
This is the logic of AI, of fascism, of sexism, of racism. That is, because things look a certain way, that therefore they are a certain way. Internal properties are wrongly derived from their superficial appearance. "I see that somebody has long hair, therefore I can conclude they are a woman." Or worse still: "I see the external features consistent with (what I think is) woman, and I conclude she must be stupid" — a fractal wrongness that starts with assuming that what you (naively, unquestioningly, think you) see is what you get when it comes to complex organisms. Further down in the same paper, we warn:
"Just because a model correlates with neural and behavioral data, it is not sufficient for us to infer that the model is performing cognition: correlation does not imply cognition."
Again, the core logics of AI are the same as racism and sexism, which is why these issues pop up again and again in these systems: it involves taking the simple shallow features of things we see, like skin colour, or hair length, or whatever other superficial property, and moving to very flawed conclusions. There is something addictive to this form of sheer intellectual laziness — as well as structurally beneficial to those select few within capitalism, white supremacy and patriarchy — to this simplistic logic. It's easy to just point at people and call them names, I guess.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:vsyj5jtayxcq5dw5mtja4xtb/bafkreiff6diwa2q2csp62ybwazfen2izadwnnwbixmzffh6sccsxfcxbaa)
#RootsUp action to give input to US Act S.3171 to protect people with disabilities and psychiatric histories in the system. via #ActionNetwork info and letter writing option actionnetwork.org/letters/4a65... ALT: "We can protect healthcare workers AND people with psychiatric and other disabilities"
Take Action on S.3171 to Protect People w/Psychiatric Histories
People who stand to be most negatively impacted by S.3171, An Act requiring health care employers to develop and implement programs to prevent workplace violence, have largely been left out of the con...
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cw: report on suicide focused on transgender persons
Williams Institute@williamsinstitute.bsky.social · 3w agoOur new study of the 2022 USTS finds that 85% of youth respondents who participated in a conversion therapy program reported considering suicide. Read the full report: tinyurl.com/Trans-Suicide
always RT propublica guild!! management really truly wants to replace them with LLMs! we need the propublica that deserves the public trust!
ProPublica Guild@propublicaguild.org · 3w agoClimate reporter Katie Worth wants to see fair wages in our contract, especially for our development team. “I think it’s only fair for a small portion of [ProPublica’s increased revenue] to go toward wage increases that at least keep up with inflation.”
We knocked on over 500 doors this weekend in Newton, Franklin, and Rehoboth! Met a tuxedo cat named Cici and a sunflower-yeilding bear. Sound fun? Sign up for our next canvassing event at poulos.house/canvass.
#NDDL #DoubleDutch #GoodThings National Double Dutch League New York USA - Free Event - General Admission Thursday, July 16, 2026 at 5:00 pm The Dance Floor at Josie Robertson Plaza 10 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023 www.lincolncenter.org/series/summe...
Double Dutch Fusion Freestyle & Open Jump · Lincoln Center
Join the National Double Dutch League (NDDL) for an electrifying event that celebrates the history and cutting edge of Double Dutch! Cheer along and be amazed by dazzling…
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Art & creative human works are some of the strongest acts of resistance to unwanted "AI", surveillance, digitalization of human experience, evacuation of meaning. In this "un-line" art exhibit Chloé S. Georas expresses love of humanity. scroll down for photos www.equalityproject.ca/resources/un...
unLine Exhibition – Equality Project
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