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Doctor AI for the poor. Truly dystopian.
🔊Co-authored a new op-ed w/ Leah Goodridge about a California clinic using AI to generate diagnoses for unhoused & low-income patients, with the goal of "pulling the doctor out of the visit."

This is a two-tier care system, and communities should decide if, how, and when AI enters their care.
We must not let AI ‘pull the doctor out of the visit’ for low-income patients | Leah Goodridge and Oni Blackstock
Generative AI is being pushed into healthcare – and diagnostic risks may deepen the class divide
www.theguardian.com
January 29, 2026 at 7:25 PM
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JD Vance Places Candle Outside Hooters Where ICE Agents Were Heckled
January 27, 2026 at 5:30 PM
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The biggest risk in this moment is something sociologists call “symbolic compliance.”

That’s when an institution that is violating civil rights gives the public just enough symbolic victories that accountability efforts lose steam before there has been any meaningful change.
January 26, 2026 at 11:35 PM
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Take a closer look at Barnard 68, a remarkable molecular cloud that looks like a cosmic “hole” cut into a field of stars.

Inside, it is astonishingly cold: about 16 K (−257 °C / −431 °F). This makes Barnard 68 one of the coldest known places in space!

(Credit: ESO)
January 26, 2026 at 6:45 PM
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Painting by French artist
Céline Marcoz.
January 25, 2026 at 3:38 AM
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open letters are always so terse. they're never like "hey how have you been"
January 24, 2026 at 12:43 AM
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Hey all! I hate to ask but I could really use some help with bills and climbing out of this financial hole I’m stuck in, so if you’ve got $5 or $5,000 burning a hole in your wallet I’d really appreciate anything you can send me! <3

Venmo/Cashapp: claymationary
January 22, 2026 at 6:23 PM
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Rosette Pyxie Cup Lichen (Cladonia pocillum). NWT, Canada.
#lichen #fungi #fungifriends
January 20, 2026 at 1:36 PM
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In the 2010s, the Icelandic tv station Channel 2 accidentally added subtitles from a gritty crime drama to an episode of Teletubbies.

I have translated some of the highlights
January 20, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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If you live in the Cities, an easy way to help immigrant families in hiding is: laundry! Laundromats are ICE magnets, so people without washers need help.

The People’s Laundry will drop off laundry to your door to wash and dry and pick up a few days later:

thepeopleslaundrympls.com/volunteer/
January 18, 2026 at 11:46 PM
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My story:
January 20, 2026 at 12:46 AM
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In This Dystopia You Can't Vote Against Wars But You Can Gamble On When They'll Start

www.caitlinjohnst.one/p/in-this-dy...
In This Dystopia You Can't Vote Against Wars But You Can Gamble On When They'll Start
Reading by Tim Foley:
www.caitlinjohnst.one
January 20, 2026 at 1:22 AM
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This is the kind of shit that would make you completely outside the bounds of any ancient society, the gods bestow generational curses for violating hospitality
A few days ago, Fox News was whining about ICE agents getting heckled at a Mexican restaurant in Minneapolis.

Meanwhile, in the town of Willmar, ICE agents had lunch at a Mexican restaurant, waited until it closed, then confronted and arrested three workers as they left.
ICE agents ate at a Minnesota Mexican restaurant before arresting staff
Immigration law enforcement agents reportedly followed employees out of the restaurant after they closed for the evening
www.independent.co.uk
January 18, 2026 at 2:14 AM
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I don’t think people quite understand that the occupation by ICE in the Twin Cities has more or less erased non-white people from public life. They cannot safely exist in any space accessible to the public and moving between private places leaves folks vulnerable to kidnapping by armed masked goons.
January 16, 2026 at 10:15 PM
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i found some great places to donate using the list put together by @ziibiing.com

don't give your money to consultants for some vague promise, give it to people who will go out right now, today, and buy a car full of groceries for a family that's too afraid to leave their home.
Stand With Minnesota
A directory of places to give to as Minnesota defends itself from ICE occupation
www.standwithminnesota.com
January 17, 2026 at 6:48 PM
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I'm at the point now where, going into year 7 of this, airborne mitigations are second nature, like brushing my teeth or wearing sunglasses. That's why it's odd when someone says these habits are pathological. Do we say that about handwashing or flossing?
January 17, 2026 at 8:33 PM
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"We've lost you to a cult"

Happy to be a member of the clean air cult. I'm also a member of the seat belt cult, hard hat cult, parachute cult and pasteurizing raw milk cult ✋🏼
January 16, 2026 at 4:38 PM
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"To a lawyer trained in occupational safety regulation or human rights litigation, this is not an academic disagreement. It is a warning that existing standards may now be legally indefensible"

www.businessupturn.com/trade-policy...
Why the WHO respirator revolt could reshape global health governance - Business Upturn Trade & Policy
When a group of senior clinicians and public health scientists formally urged the World Health Organization in January 2026 to...
www.businessupturn.com
January 16, 2026 at 3:14 AM
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As ICE operations begin in Maine, local organizers are raising money for rapid response via the Solidarity Fund. Donations urgently needed, starting to hear of arrests as of last night www.mainesolidarity.org
Maine Solidarity Fund
www.mainesolidarity.org
January 16, 2026 at 11:26 AM
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Blue buttons jellies float at the oceans surface, like little animal flowers, living between sea and sky. There are millions of them out there right now, and most will live their whole lives without even being seen by a human.

Despite the hard things, the world is still wondrous.
January 15, 2026 at 10:58 PM
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Look at this absolute queen
January 16, 2026 at 12:22 PM
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Koh: Trump has now spent $30 billion from the last bill for 10,000 more I.C.E. Agents that are going to be on the streets. That $30 billion would cover all the ACA subsidies for a year. It would eliminate all co-pays for prescription drugs for people from a year, and eliminate all medical debt.
January 15, 2026 at 3:08 AM
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ICE agents only do this because they are extremely well-trained and experienced with the situations they are creating
ICE agents fled from the crowd and left behind their CONOPS battle plan for Minneapolis, including agent's names, hotel rooms, phone numbers, boxes of license plates, and tac radio frequencies.
January 15, 2026 at 7:48 AM
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Ghost plates / patch swapping / mission-specific identities = covert ops / secret police
Another vehicle opened. Back was full of license plates, gear, various fed patches.
January 15, 2026 at 5:07 AM
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ICE's "presence is terrifying medical staff and raising concerns about patient care, according to five nurses at HCMC hospital in Minneapolis who asked to remain anonymous for fear of losing their jobs."

Via reporter @ericazurek.bsky.social www.mprnews.org/story/2026/0...
ICE agents appear at Twin Cities hospitals, alarming health care workers
Health care workers in the Twin Cities report that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents are entering hospitals with detained individuals, leaving some medical staff terrified and concerned ...
www.mprnews.org
January 14, 2026 at 3:22 PM