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The software-journalism project tracing the infodemic going ViRaL. Local and international. Reposts are not endorsements. By programmer-journalist A.J. Fish. Bylines @EastBayExpress @muckrack. TracingVRL.substack.com
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For my project TracingCOVID, now called TracingVRL, my original worst-case-scenario is coming true. www.sun-sentinel.com/2025/06/16/r... #publichealth #antivaxx #antivaxxattack

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We’re announcing new legislation — the No Secret Police Act (SB 627) — to ban local/state/federal law enforcement, w/ some exceptions, from covering their faces when interacting w/ the public & require them to wear identifying info. The secret police behavior we’re seeing destroys trust & must end🧵

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In a direct protest against the @iea.org's plea to use the custom chatbot to explore this report, I am going to read the entire thing (all 304 pages) using my actual brain, and this thread will be where I dump reactions, thoughts, notes etc as I go through it www.iea.org/reports/ener...

submitted 58 days ago • 19 comments

RFK Jr. says a lot of crazy things. This isn't one of them. #COVID #publichealth www.npr.org/sections/sho...

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Musk, Vance, Trump, & the Daily Sceptic perpetuated the Haitian pet-eating narrative I covered in Oct 2024: tracingvrl.substack.com/i/150083084/... . Politifact called the Haitian peteating conspiracy "lie of the year" and J.D. Vance said on record he'd continue lying abt it

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The tech king and the government king both get a "no" #tech

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

#RFKJr losing the tween demographic

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My sons and their cousin are aged 17-21. The two who were of age voted for Kamala, but they did not like her. TikTok had convinced them she was a gibbering fool. But they hated Trump. I've never heard them speak with excitement about a single Democratic contender. Until this week. They dig Gavin.

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#nokings #savannah And here’s a lady getting arrested for wearing a medical mask

submitted 3 days ago • 1206 comments

What font is the most fascist-looking? My graphic designer wants your opinion ... #fonts #graphicdesign Art Decco, Brutalist, or folksy?

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Excess masking dehumanizes us and divides us. If you have to mask for COVID, hold your breath and lift your mask from time to time to establish a friendly connection.

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if there's a sense in which a society is a sort of "organic whole" or "organism"--(granted, the metaphor is a stretch)--the presence of persons like RFK Jr., T***p, & cohorts represent infections or malignant growths that began individually but have now metastasized beyond healing.

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Who is this? Wow

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

We need bigger rectangles. I'll expand on this later, but I'm certain of it.

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The antivaxx farce, the comedy-drama "Eureka Day" which portrays an ultraliberal school in Berkeley California managing the vaxx and antivaxx factions with utter inclusiveness during a mumps outbreak ... just won the Tony for best revival!! #Tony #Tonies #antivaxx www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrIu...

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