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Eileen Clancy 🧿 @clancyny.bsky.social · 1h

c.w. torture

Torture device manufacturers in the U.S. stay innovating.

ICE has chosen the "Wrap" a full-body restraint device, to use for removals of people to 3rd countries. (Not being taken to home countries, other countries.)

@apnews.com: one man says ICE kept him in the Wrap for 16 hours.

[So disturbing. I'll do my best to describe.]

Video still:

This appears to be a video created by the company to demonstate the product, not a real prisoner. The whole lower body of a man is placed in almost a blanket that is strapped around him. There are multiple straps the size of large seatbelts with big buckles. There are straps that go over his shoulders. He is also back-cuffed. This video is a still from the moment when a helmet the size of a motorcycle helmet is being placed on his head and strapped on under his chin. he is also wearing a pale blue lightweight surgical mask.

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1 of 5 | US Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers have been using a full-body restraint device called the WRAP during deportations. That continued despite concerns about safety from a watchdog division of its parent agency, the US Dept. of Homeland Security. (AP Video/Allen G. Breed)

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Kate Clancy @kateclancy.bsky.social · 3h

I am being asked to tell my department which pieces of lab equipment should be supported with backup power because they expect rolling blackouts and brownouts in 2026 due to increased energy demands from AI. In case you're wondering how my day is going.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 1h

“What’s happening here is a very specialized industry that’s enabling some of the world’s worst dictators and despots to undermine the foundational pillars of liberal democracy.”

The surveillance empire that tracked world leaders, a Vatican enemy, and maybe you

We uncovered a massive data trove. It revealed the hidden world of First Wap, whose untraceable tech has targeted politicians, journalists, celebrities, and activists around the globe.

www.motherjones.com

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UQAM | Université du Québec à Montréal @uqam.ca · 4h

🎨 La Galerie de l’UQAM et la Galerie UQO reçoivent le Prix d’excellence 2025 de la SMQ pour le projet Faux plis par hypothèses.
🔬 Ce cycle d’expositions explore les liens entre art et science, en valorisant le décloisonnement disciplinaire.
#UQAM #Arts #Muséologie #RechercheCréation

La Société des musées du Québec honore la Galerie de l’UQAM et la Galerie UQO | UQAM

Les deux galeries universitaires reçoivent le Prix d’excellence 2025 de la SMQ pour le projet Faux plis par hypothèses.

actualites.uqam.ca

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Marilou 🐺 @mariloupage.bsky.social · 4h

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 22d

“Our focus is really on what we can do to pull the doctor out of the visit…” www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/22/1...

Imagine this: You’ve been feeling unwell, so you call up your doctor’s office to make an appointment. To your surprise, they schedule you in for the next day. At the appointment, you aren’t rushed through describing your health concerns; instead, you have a full half hour to share your symptoms and worries and the exhaustive details of your health history with someone who listens attentively and asks thoughtful follow-up questions. You leave with a diagnosis, a treatment plan, and the sense that, for once, you’ve been able to discuss your health with the care that it merits.

The catch? You might not have spoken to a doctor, or other licensed medical practitioner, at all.

This is the new reality for patients at a small number of clinics in Southern California that are run by the medical startup Akido Labs. These patients—some of whom are on Medicaid—can access specialist appointments on short notice, a privilege typically only afforded to the wealthy few who patronize concierge clinics.

The key difference is that Akido patients spend relatively little time, or even no time at all, with their doctors. Instead, they see a medical assistant, who can lend a sympathetic ear but has limited clinical training. The job of formulating diagnoses and concocting a treatment plan is done by a proprietary, LLM-based system called ScopeAI that transcribes and analyzes the dialogue between patient and assistant. A doctor then approves, or corrects, the AI system’s recommendations.

“Our focus is really on what we can do to pull the doctor out of the visit,” says Jared Goodner, Akido’s CTO

Marilou 🐺 @mariloupage.bsky.social · 5h

healthjournalism.org/blog/2024/12...

Dangers of AI tops health tech hazards list for 2025

The use of AI models in health care settings without proper oversight is the most significant health technology hazard for 2025, says ECRI.

healthjournalism.org

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Marilou 🐺 @mariloupage.bsky.social · 5h

www.npr.org/sections/sho...

Research suggests doctors might quickly become dependent on AI

A study in Poland found that doctors appeared less likely to detect abnormalities during colonoscopies on their own after they'd grown used to help from an AI tool.

www.npr.org

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Marilou 🐺 @mariloupage.bsky.social · 5h

C’est déjà prouvé que les médecins qui utilisent l’IA font plus d’erreurs grave. C’est aussi prouvé que l’IA dans le monde de la médecine a des immenses biais sexistes et racistes. En plus de n’avoir aucune fiabilité scientifique. C’est de la pure 💩

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Cult MTL @cultmtl.com · 2d

“Weaponizing calls to emergency services based on race is a documented issue. When overt or even subconscious racism is involved, any pretext will do for people to feel threatened by those who look suspicious to them just because they exist as non-white bodies in this world.” @mtltoula.bsky.social

The killing of Nooran Rezayi by Longueuil police is part of a series of completely avoidable tragedies

The killing of 15-year-old Montreal boy Nooran Rezayi by Longueuil police on Sept. 21 was part of a series of completely avoidable tragedies.

cultmtl.com

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Marilou 🐺 @mariloupage.bsky.social · 5h

C’est ridicule. Il aurait pu empêcher des milliers de morts en se décidant il y a des mois. Il veut juste faire plaisir à ses amis saoudiens qui lui donnent des immenses cadeaux. Ses « analyses » sont gênantes.

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Torch Antifa Network @torchantifa.bsky.social · 16h

rt if you are the founder of antifa

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Marilou 🐺 @mariloupage.bsky.social · 15h

Moi je dis mercredi, il va essayer de résister, mais va flancher. 🤭

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Marilou 🐺 @mariloupage.bsky.social · 16h

On devrait se partir un pool

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Marilou 🐺 @mariloupage.bsky.social · 16h

Je serais sincèrement impressionnée s’il venait le faire sur Bluesky

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Marilou 🐺 @mariloupage.bsky.social · 18h

J’imagine que ça va dépendre s’il continue à faire des commentaires racistes; sinon, l’histoire de Kim Thuy sera vite oubliée. On va voir si la sortie de Labeaume va lui faire une éruption d’ulcère.

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Marilou 🐺 @mariloupage.bsky.social · 18h

Les médias mainstream ne parlent pas vraiment de ses sorties ouvertement racistes ou ses passages à des podcasts d’extrême droite. J’ai l’impression que beaucoup de gens ne sont simplement pas au courant. Ses critiques sont surtout sur les réseaux sociaux.

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Marilou 🐺 @mariloupage.bsky.social · 18h

C’est tellement bizarre, j’ai le même âge et j’étais tellement ailleurs. J’allais au cégep à Montréal et j’ai tellement aimé mon expérience, une découverte du monde et des possibilités. Si je l’avais entendu parler comme ça à l’époque je lui aurais rit en pleine face.

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Marilou 🐺 @mariloupage.bsky.social · 18h

Juste à entrer son nom dans banq, ça commence en 1998.

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Marilou 🐺 @mariloupage.bsky.social · 18h

Oui et dans Le Devoir aussi. J’ai pas tout lu parce que 🤢, mais il passait déjà pour un petit facho. Il se faisait déjà dénoncer. Clairement, il voulait avoir de l’attention et il l’a eu.

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Marilou 🐺 @mariloupage.bsky.social · 19h

Il semble y avoir eu une déferlante de lettres qui ont suivi = ça fait vendre des journaux.

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Marilou 🐺 @mariloupage.bsky.social · 19h

Texte de bébé MBC, fidèle à lui-même et semble-t-il, insupportable depuis toujours

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Marilou 🐺 @mariloupage.bsky.social · 1d

C’est franchement dégoûtant et ça me rappelle comment les « critiques d’art » sont à mon sens les plus inutiles personnes issues de l’histoire de l’art. Cette opinion colonialiste et violente est franchement choquante provenant du Guardian.

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Marilou 🐺 @mariloupage.bsky.social · 1d

Un homme blanc anglais démolit une artiste autochtone Sami et son œuvre parce qu’elle n’exprime pas la destruction de l’environnement et de la vie traditionnelle de la façon dont il l’aurait fait.
Il dit même qu’elle ne comprend pas l’honneur qu’elle a reçu de pouvoir installer dans la Tate Modern

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Máret Ánne Sara’s Turbine Hall review – did no one think to ask her for a little bit more?

The Sámi artist may use reindeer skulls and bones, but her spiralling wooden fences are so slight they fail to impose themselves on the venue’s vast space – or the imagination

www.theguardian.com

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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 1d

Here's the thing: nobody has built a gigawatt data center. They do not exist. Nobody has an open date on a 1GW data center. Even Elon Musk cannot afford to just *build* a 1GW data center and needs a weird SPV with NVIDIA. Nobody has the power for a 1GW data center. it's all bullshit!

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Marilou 🐺 @mariloupage.bsky.social · 1d

C’est l’équivalent de l’astrologie

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