Shannon Mora
@smora.bsky.social
PhD researcher, MPhil, MPH, CPH exploring intersection of #mourningrituals #digitalmourning #technology #publichealth #SDOH #digitalhumanities #rip.ie @tcddublin@bsky.social Mom. Wife. Lover of cats. Infectious laugh. American in Ireland.
In ‘terrible but also funny’ news, the state of Florida is currently beefing with… An Coimisiún Le Rincí Gaelacha, aka the world’s largest and oldest governing body for Irish Dance because the NA championships are being held in Orlando and CLRG refuses to ban trans girls from competing as girls
"nudity today, political speech tomorrow" In five words, @signal.org has given a more trenchant critique of government surveillance tech than 99% of UK legislators, pundits, and NGOs.
Private prison company GEO Group, which runs Delaney Hall, gave $1M+ to Trump's Super PAC in 2024 and his inauguration in 2025. Not only has Trump since rewarded GEO with billions in ICE contracts, but a top former GEO executive has now been named acting ICE director. Cashing in on cruelty.
If an inaccuracy has made its way into your doctor's notes because they were using an AI scribe, please email me at brittany.trang@statnews.com! I am a health AI reporter and would love to talk to you about this problem!
Matthew Cortland (they)@matthewcort.land · 2mo ago....my sense is many (most?) clinicians are not actually reviewing their notes for accuracy in the way one needs to in order to safeguard against LLM hallucination. So now patients have to audit each clinical note.... www.patreon.com/posts/159785...
We all deserve the ability to go about our daily lives without being tracked or surveilled by the government. That's why lawmakers need to act now and pass common-sense protections to defend our privacy.
Oklahoma City residents raise privacy concerns over license plate reader cameras
Oklahoma City residents gathered at a town hall to discuss privacy concerns about automated license plate reader cameras, while police defended their use for public safety and investigations.
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Since Google revealed its plans for an AI search overhaul, visits to our "No AI" search page have tripled…and they’re still rising! Want to make it your default on Chrome or Firefox? Grab our No-AI extensions and banish AI-assisted answers, chat, and AI images. (1/3)
I've already seen people trying to predict how little impact the encyclical will have. lol. It depends on what you mean by "impact!" When the pope speaks, Catholics listen. Initiatives begin. Catholic universities hold events. Catholic service organizations respond. Books are written.
THIS IS HUGE MORAL MOMENT… Pope Leo’s first encyclical, Magnifica Humanitas, is focused on AI ethics and regulation. And the Vatican chose to partner with Anthropic, currently in a major legal fight w/the Trump admin over AI safety and military use of its technology.
BREAKING: Federal judge dismisses criminal charges against Kilmar Abrego Garcia storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Warrants are supposed to prevent the police from unconstitutionally searching and seizing our belongings — not open us up to pervasive government spying. That's why we're fighting in the courts, Congress, and state legislatures to stop law enforcement from using overbroad digital warrants.
How ACLU Cases Are Limiting Overbroad Digital Search Warrants
New legal standards are restricting law enforcement’s access to cell phone and social media data
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Join me 22 & 29 May from 10-11am in the Trinity Long Room Hub for a discussion on The Circle which offers a chillingly relevant look at how our obsession with connectivity, information acquisition, & profit can slowly morph into a surveillance state. @tcddublin.bsky.social @tlrhub.bsky.social
Reading Group: The Circle by Dave Eggers
Sponsored by Trinity’s Centre for Digital Humanities, Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute.
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BREAKING: The judge in the $1.7B slush fund suit has dismissed the case, but she says THERE IS NO SETTLEMENT OF RECORD. As I said earlier, the media must stop reporting that this slush fund is a settlement. It's just plain THEFT. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
Sir, another graduation ceremony in which the students booed AI has dropped. "College graduates were pissed after their school used AI to announce graduates’ names and missed hundreds of names" (via @/FearedBuck on Twitter)
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt was booed throughout this commencement speech at the University of Arizona for his praise of AI. This comes just a week after another commencement speaker who mentioned AI was booed at a school in Florida. Read more: www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...
They had contracts for prison labor at these camps?? Before they even bought them? www.projectsaltbox.com/p/contracts-...
Contracts Show ICE Planned Detainee Labor at Warehouse Sites Slated as Short-Term Facilities
Contracts signed before the government owned either warehouse described years of detention operations, and a program to put detainees to work
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Kudos to Harvard Prof. Joseph Allen for publicly expressing his concern w/ CDC & WHO, which say the Andes hantavirus can only spread with “close & prolonged contact,” when the literature indicates the virus is aerosolized & can spread more easily. (This confirms how I’ve been reading the lit, too.)
Gregg Levine@greggjlevine.bsky.social · 3mo agoHere we go again: WHO prioritizes not spooking the markets over public health. Muddy message when there’s evidence of airborne Andes hantavirus transmission. Only recommending isolation when symptomatic, even tho ppl are infectious prior to showing symptoms & incubation can be up to 8 weeks. 🧵👇
🤯 I spent the afternoon reading the CDC & WHO guidance and all the documentation (linked above) about the earlier Andes hantavirus outbreak, and then, this hour, I see a former CDC official go on cable news and contradict large parts of what I read, always erring on the side of LESS precaution. 🤯
🚨🎯 Earlier today, @catinthehat.bsky.social posted the most comprehensive 🧵 I've seen about what is known so far about the 2026 Andes Hantavirus situation... threadreaderapp.com/thread/20530...
Thread by @_CatintheHat on Thread Reader App
@_CatintheHat: HANTAVIRUS OUTBREAK 🧵 Following the WHO press briefing, I wanted to compile a thread with the key points. 1/ ISOLATION OF PASSENGERS Concerningly, it seems the WHO are NOT recommending ...
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After 15 years of reporting on infectious disease outbreaks, what continues to fascinate me about them is the challenge of making high-stakes decisions under uncertainty. The hantavirus outbreak on the MV Hondius is a perfect example My story in @science.org is here (and a thread to come): 🧪 #IDsky
What to do with the passengers on the cruise ship hit by hantavirus?
Past studies of Andes virus offer scant evidence on transmission risks, and have sparked debate
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A Dutch woman has been admitted to a hospital in Amsterdam after showing possible symptoms of a hantavirus infection, the Dutch health has ministry said.
Dutch woman in hospital with suspected hantavirus
A Dutch woman has been admitted to a hospital in Amsterdam after showing possible symptoms of a hantavirus infection, the Dutch health has ministry said.
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1/ Update on what we know about the evolving hantavirus situation, strap in. A Swiss man linked to the ship has now tested positive after developing symptoms after disembarking. He received an exposure alert, sought care, and tested positive. This means there are 3 deaths and 5 suspected.
Update on #Hantavirus cluster linked to cruise ship travel: Based on the current information, including how hantavirus spreads, WHO assesses the risk to the global population from this event as low. More information bit.ly/42Tc4J7
Bluesky nerds! Can you help me get in touch with someone who works on East Indian languages, specifically in the 18th century?
