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Tamara Dixon
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Former university lecturer | NYU alum | Civil rights advocate exposing unlawful surveillance and private contractor abuse. Defending civil rights & advancing accountability. . On Signal: tamaradixon.28
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Tamara Dixon @tamaradixon.bsky.social · 23h
When They Pivot: The Silent Arsenal and What Comes Next After Detection. Podcast is live: open.substack.com/pub/drtamara...?
When They Pivot: The Silent Arsenal and What Comes Next After Detection
I wasn’t supposed to write this.
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Tamara Dixon @tamaradixon.bsky.social · 1d
Outside the Limits Part 1: Why Outdoor Chemicals Fail and What Would Have to Change. Podcast is live: open.substack.com/pub/drtamara...?
Outside the Limits Part 1: Why Outdoor Chemicals Fail and What Would Have to Change
How dispersion physics, wind, and sunlight erase most chemical agents before they ever reach you and why anything that doesn’t fade might not be ordinary at all.
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Tamara Dixon @tamaradixon.bsky.social · 1d
The Power of Patterns: Why Intelligence Lives in Structure. Podcast is live:
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The Power of Patterns: Why Intelligence Lives in Structure
This is the first in a multi-part series on pattern recognition not as a technical trick, but as a foundational method of thinking.
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Tamara Dixon @tamaradixon.bsky.social · 1d
Invisible Control: The Evolution of Chemical and Psychological Suppression in Modern Counterinsurgency, Section 1: Naming the Unseen
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Invisible Control: The Evolution of Chemical and Psychological Suppression in Modern Counterinsurgency, Section 1: Naming the Unseen
In every generation, systems of control adapt to the technologies and anxieties of their age.
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Tamara Dixon @tamaradixon.bsky.social · 1d
Quick Update for Everyone Who Read My Previous Post on Assay Technologies: I’ve Found a Better and Cheaper Source for VOC Testing Kits
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Quick Update for Everyone Who Read My Previous Post on Assay Technologies: I’ve Found a Better and Cheaper Source for VOC Testing Kits
🎧 Audio version coming soon
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Tamara Dixon @tamaradixon.bsky.social · 1d
Pattern Recognition Primer II.1 — The Grammar of Behavior
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Pattern Recognition Primer II.1 — The Grammar of Behavior
The Anatomy of a Pattern — Section 1
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Tamara Dixon @tamaradixon.bsky.social · 5d
Expanding Oversight: Filing with Senator Gary Peters’s Office
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Expanding Oversight: Filing with Senator Gary Peters’s Office
Today I submitted a formal casework request to Senator Gary Peters, Chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which oversees federal agencies including the Department o...
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Tamara Dixon @tamaradixon.bsky.social · 5d
Expanding Oversight: Filing with Senator Gary Peters’s Office
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Expanding Oversight: Filing with Senator Gary Peters’s Office
Today I submitted a formal casework request to Senator Gary Peters, Chair of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee, which oversees federal agencies including the Department o...
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Tamara Dixon @tamaradixon.bsky.social · 5d
Opening a Dialogue with Senator Wyden’s Office on Oversight and Reform
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Opening a Dialogue with Senator Wyden’s Office on Oversight and Reform
Many people have asked what steps I am taking to seek accountability.
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Tamara Dixon @tamaradixon.bsky.social · 6d
To the Victims and the Survivors
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To the Victims and the Survivors
You are the victim of a crime.
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Tamara Dixon @tamaradixon.bsky.social · 6d
Reporting from the Blast Radius: Weaponized Incompetence Meets Scientific Literacy
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Reporting from the Blast Radius: Weaponized Incompetence Meets Scientific Literacy
For the past several weeks, I’ve been writing about architectural ingress: how shared wall cavities, light switches, electrical outlets, and ceiling fixtures can serve as direct vectors for chemical i...
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Tamara Dixon @tamaradixon.bsky.social · 7d
Reporting from the Blast Radius: Weaponized Incompetence Meets Scientific Literacy
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Reporting from the Blast Radius: Weaponized Incompetence Meets Scientific Literacy
For the past several weeks, I’ve been writing about architectural ingress: how shared wall cavities, light switches, electrical outlets, and ceiling fixtures can serve as direct vectors for chemical i...
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Tamara Dixon @tamaradixon.bsky.social · 7d
Outside the Limits Part 4 Section 1: Odor and Sensory Reliability: How Perception Fails, and Physics Doesn’t
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Outside the Limits Part 4 Section 1: Odor and Sensory Reliability: How Perception Fails, and Physics Doesn’t
Odor and Sensory Reliability
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Tamara Dixon @tamaradixon.bsky.social · 7d
The Pattern Is the Proof - Follow-up to “The Conversation That Shook Me”
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The Pattern Is the Proof - Follow-up to “The Conversation That Shook Me”
This second meeting was drastically different from our first conversation, which had been professional and encouraging.
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Tamara Dixon @tamaradixon.bsky.social · 7d
Why Geneva Still Matters
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Why Geneva Still Matters
There has been a lot of debate about whether filing in Geneva is worth it.
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Tamara Dixon @tamaradixon.bsky.social · 7d
Field Note: Rain Resistant Exposure Reinforces Persistence Hypothesis
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Field Note: Rain Resistant Exposure Confirms Persistence Hypothesis
Today’s observation was critical.
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Tamara Dixon @tamaradixon.bsky.social · 8d
To the Victims and the Survivors
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To the Victims and the Survivors
You are the victim of a crime.
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Tamara Dixon @tamaradixon.bsky.social · 9d
When They Pivot: The Silent Arsenal and What Comes Next After Detection
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When They Pivot: The Silent Arsenal and What Comes Next After Detection
I wasn’t supposed to write this.
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Tamara Dixon @tamaradixon.bsky.social · 11d
Outside the Limits Part 1: Why Outdoor Chemicals Fail and What Would Have to Change
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Outside the Limits Part 1: Why Outdoor Chemicals Fail and What Would Have to Change
Subtitle: How dispersion physics, wind, and sunlight erase most chemical agents before they ever reach you and why anything that doesn’t fade might not be ordinary at all.
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Tamara Dixon @tamaradixon.bsky.social · 11d
Part 2: Particle Physics and the Architecture of Control
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Part 2: Particle Physics and the Architecture of Control
If something hangs in the air long enough to reach you, it didn’t get there by luck.
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Tamara Dixon @tamaradixon.bsky.social · 11d
Outside the Limits Part 3 Known Compounds, Ruled Out One by One
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Outside the Limits Part 3 Known Compounds, Ruled Out One by One
If a person believed that a substance released from a handheld device, a vape‑like tube, or a vehicle could “wait” in the air until someone arrived, that belief would rest on a very demanding set of a...
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Tamara Dixon @tamaradixon.bsky.social · 12d
The Devices That Don’t Look Like Devices
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The Devices That Don’t Look Like Devices
What I witnessed at Powell’s Café in Portland, Oregon and why we should pay closer attention to the ordinary
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Tamara Dixon @tamaradixon.bsky.social · 12d
The Architecture of Exposure: How Buildings Become Delivery Systems for Airborne Substances
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The Architecture of Exposure: How Buildings Become Delivery Systems for Airborne Substances
Architecture as a Vector — The Concept of Structural Ingress
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Tamara Dixon @tamaradixon.bsky.social · 13d
The Power of Patterns: Why Intelligence Lives in Structure
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#PatternRecognition
The Power of Patterns: Why Intelligence Lives in Structure
This is the first in a multi-part series on pattern recognition not as a technical trick, but as a foundational method of thinking.
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Tamara Dixon @tamaradixon.bsky.social · 14d
The Conversation That Shook Me: A Former Military Intelligence Officer and What He Told Me
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The Conversation That Shook Me: A Former Military Intelligence Officer and What He Told Me
I called him about one matter, something routine, but our conversation quickly went in a very different direction.
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