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Tim Reierson

@holdspacefree.bsky.social

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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

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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · Mar 4

Interested in #CrisisLines and reforms? Helping one another during our crisis moments, following people's experiences with crisis lines here on bsky? #feeds #BlueSkyFeeds:
bsky.app/profile/hold...

Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · Nov 8

#CrisisLineWorkers let's #organize to stop exploitation and use of our words, so very sensitive, without our consent. Contact me.
#CrisisTextLine #988Lifeline #TheTrevorProject
reformcrisistextline.com/some-people-...

Some People Want Our Words - Reform Crisis Text Line

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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 6h

I got THERE from my primary search, it turning up an archived newsletter that had an article about her. don't know why search of 'crisis text line tim reierson' - academia gave this, but this is the old internet. thank you

digitalcollections.willamette.edu/server/api/c...

digitalcollections.willamette.edu

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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 6h

ohhhh this is like the old internet, i tested by searching for my website - that was a fail - but I ended up on an article about Lucy Lippard, clicking down the category searches on the side (hyperallergic.com/969843/lucy-...)

Lucy Lippard’s Life on the Frontlines of Art

In a rare recorded interview, the feminist writer, critic, and activist tells us what took her from seeing 30 shows a week in New York City to small-town New Mexico.

hyperallergic.com

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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 7h

Whatever your sources of strength, protect, nourish and bring them to mind. Any way you can.

Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 7h

The eyeball in the graphic fits because to me this is a surveillance initiative. Reads like "we have 'AI' and we must get govt contracts to use it". It doesn't take "AI" to build social housing, to change policies & politics that gutted NHS or to know that 240 years is too long to wait for therapy.

Open Data Institute @odihq.bsky.social · 12h

Local governments in the UK are responsible for all kinds of public services, and collect a multitude of data in providing them. This new report with Nortal uses our framework for AI-ready data to provide a structured evidence base to help build data that is ready for AI.
#Data #AI

Insights from UK councils on standards, readiness and reform to modernise public data for AI

Learn more about public sector modernisation with AI-ready data for search, machine learning and generative AI.

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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 20h

Thought I was done being shocked but this notice from US agency USDA website containing scientific reference materials--It's shocking
www.nrcs.usda.gov/state-office...
page has been saved to @archive.org

Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 2d

it helps me for you to say so! ty I think they owe us FULL exposé on Teladoc & EVERYTHING they're doing with the therapy session data, plus labor concerns, plus data security concerns. and remove all the past embedded podcast ads. & share the advertising contract publicly. & apologize.Then I'll stop

Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 2d

right on cue #404Media just sent me another BetterHelp ad.
unreal, the disconnect. the harm to mental health advocacy, data protections, authenticity in care. harming resistance to #WealthCare #datafication of human anguish. Ive better things to do than pointing this out to experts but not stopping

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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 4d

3. #CrisisTextLine
still haven't honestly come clean or changed anything of substance, still keeping millions of conversations in a data hoard. Deceptive. Very little transparency. My goal is a values change to respect your callers and volunteers. Conversations should be deleted as the default.

Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 4d

2. #404Media @404media.co it's been 1 year & 1 mo since i first politely asked they stop endorsing #BetterHelp by #Teladoc Listen carefully & you'll hear the sound of your therapy session data being sucked. calibrating "AI" models. disappointed. expected much better, these are actual journalists

Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 4d

people waiting for me to die rather than answer me: #SAMHSA, #404Media #CrisisTextLine

1. #SAMHSA 2 yrs of silence since being informed my 2nd appeal on records request wld be reviewed by another agency because of my concerns about their nonsense. no word.

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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 4d

got the #substack blues? two alternatives
#GetDisneyed

rom comrade @savasavasava.myatproto.social · 28d

I don't personally use newsletter platforms, but here are two posts from prominent folks who made the switch to two alternatives, in case that's useful :)

1. disconnect.blog/ghosting-sub...
2. buttondown.com/theswordandt...

Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 4d

Allowing for a bittersweet celebration of the reach, and the hope-filled vital advocacy from #StopOxevision #StopLIO #Oxevision #LIO bittersweet because the surveillance is so oppressive, disrespectful, and backed by so much power all while they'll be telling you it's for your own good,so efficient

Stop Oxevision @stopoxevision.bsky.social · 4d

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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 4d

was looking for @hannahkrieg.bsky.social 's website to fulfill overdue promise to subscribe. The inshitternet only gave "independent" "journalists" shoveling propaganda of a portland "war zone" Then i remembered the name of course #TheBurner.
Subscribe! real #Seattle news www.theburnerseattle.com

News | The Burner Seattle

Join The Burner waitlist for Seattle news, live from the groupchat.

www.theburnerseattle.com

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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 5d

#CrisisLines #988Lifeline #Vibrant #CrisisTextLine #TheTrevorProject etc

Terms of Service, read as
"Service on Our Terms in Exchange for Your Data and Autonomy"
but that gets long so maybe
Terms of Data Extraction

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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 6d

5 statements / frames with related questions for structuring conversations about technology decisions

time-and-space-studios.ghost.io/draft-techno...

DRAFT - Technology in Context Praxis - Thinking

Draft For Feedback Welcome to the first in a series of posts describing the praxis - the working method - behind Time & Space Studios :) This one's about thinking. The next is about doing. The five ...

time-and-space-studios.ghost.io

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Boycott Citizens Bank @boycottcitizens.bsky.social · 6d

More than 900 law enforcement agencies around the country now have formal partnerships to conduct immigration enforcement duties through ICE's 287(g) program.

Search here to see if your local agencies are among them.

287(g) Agreements | Created with Datawrapper

As of Oct. 8., 2025

www.datawrapper.de

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MEAT COMPUTER - The American Nightmare @siberv.bsky.social · 6d

I now have a mission to post the worst most unmarketable art to train this AI on

James Dreben @jdreben.omg.lol · Jul 3

What’s up with this… Is 1) The Hive really being used, and 2) using images here for generative AI? Pretty bad look if true

To anyone thinking about joining BlueSky, especially artists: everything you post is used to train generative Al models.
BlueSky uses Al to label content for moderation, and to do that they use a company called https://t hehive.ai/. If you look through their privacy policy, you will see that they all content sent to them to train models for all their services, which include generative Al for both text and images.
It's a built in «feature" and cannot be turned off.

Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 7d

#SocialWork ers from my view, one of the most oppressed groups in our #WealthCare system. At same time some are deputized or forced or coerced into doing the oppressing. But these are the good ones! This is liberatory social work. So good to know this social work can even exist. How wonderful
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vee.soy @vashetc.bsky.social · 7d

APSW will be hosting our first author roundtable on October 16th. The event will have ASL and zoom-captioning.

Register here bit.ly/APSWRoundtable

Read the special issue here apsw-ojs-uh.tdl.org

A person is standing in a field waving a Palestinian flag with a Keffiyeh wrapped around them. the text on top of the image says ABOLITIONIST PERSPECTIVES IN
SOCIAL WORK THINKING & PRACTIGING
ABOLITION THROUGH
PALESTINE
AUTHOR ROUNDTABLE THURSDAY OCTOBER 16
3PM PT / 6PM ET
REGISTER: bit.lylAPSWRoundtable

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joanne mcneil @jomc.bsky.social · 7d

My latest in @filmmakermagazine.com.web.brid.gy: a profile of T.A.P.E. (Teach. Archive. Preserve. Exhibit.) and their incredible efforts in bringing museum-quality archival processes to the public.

filmmakermagazine.com/131808-analo...

Joanne McNeil on Digitizing VHS

Joanne McNeil on how Los Angeles’s Whammy! is helping to preserve people’s VHS archives.

filmmakermagazine.com

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††‡† †нэ$†øиэd$pîdэя ††‡† @stonedspider.bsky.social · 7d

NATIONAL INDIGENOUS DAY Setting aside a day just for the ppl that have been #oppressed is a form of #oppression. if the #genocide didn't happen there would be no need for a special day for anybody. Special days are only set aside for those that have nothing left. Its a pity gift. #landback

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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 7d

Article giving history & discussing restoration work on the river known as Wuda Ogwa to the Shoshone people within the USA. #Indigenous

www.asce.org/publications... article image alt: is a photograph of a river taken near water level with low rock outcrops on the banks, forested land and blue sky.

Mixing native knowledge, modern technology to reclaim Bear River

The Shoshone people, victims of a massacre in 1863, have reclaimed the land in Idaho and aim to return it to its previous state, including trees and wildlife.

www.asce.org

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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 7d

2025 October 13, 1pm-9pm local time
#NDNCollective @ndncollective.bsky.social will be hosting an Indigenous Peoples’ Day March and FREE Concert in Mni Luzahan, or downtown Rapid City, South Dakota US. Article image alt: "Powered by NDN Indigenous Peoples' Day 2025"
ndncollective.org/event/indige...

Indigenous Peoples Day 2025 - NDN COLLECTIVE

NDN Collective will be hosting an Indigenous Peoples’ Day March and FREE Concert in Mni Luzahan, or downtown Rapid City,...

ndncollective.org

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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 7d

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 7d

> I completely agree that skill loss — and in fact very deep deskilling — is what is at stake and is already happening. Moreover, I would also urge fellow academics to embrace ungrading, to leave numerical grades behind, and even to turn to ways of caring for students by involving them...

Kim Crawley (she/her) 😷🍉 @stopgenai.com · 8d

The latest interview in our Anti Gen AI Heroes series is out!
@olivia.science
Anti Gen AI Heroes: Dr. Olivia Guest’s Dire Warning to Academia
stopgenai.com/anti-gen-ai-...

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 7d

> To flip the question on its head, I would say sometimes the critique of technology, of the mind-machine parallel, of computationalism, lacks bite or even connection to realities on the ground, when it comes from non-experts in computational cognitive science.

Kim Crawley (she/her) 😷🍉 @stopgenai.com · 8d

The latest interview in our Anti Gen AI Heroes series is out!
@olivia.science
Anti Gen AI Heroes: Dr. Olivia Guest’s Dire Warning to Academia
stopgenai.com/anti-gen-ai-...

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Tim Reierson @holdspacefree.bsky.social · 7d

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 7d

> I would start by explaining that distinctions between so-called “generative AI” and other types of statistical models are not actually useful, and in fact play into the technology industry’s false frames and harmful word games. The phrase does not pick out overhyped or harmful models...

Kim Crawley (she/her) 😷🍉 @stopgenai.com · 8d

The latest interview in our Anti Gen AI Heroes series is out!
@olivia.science
Anti Gen AI Heroes: Dr. Olivia Guest’s Dire Warning to Academia
stopgenai.com/anti-gen-ai-...

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