Lise M. Dyckman
@lisedyckman.bsky.social
Librarian (teaching health information literacy / critical thinking); country dance caller & choreographer; gardens & politics & housing & social history, oh my...
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Lise M. Dyckman
@lisedyckman.bsky.social
· Oct 21
Find your local California Rapid Response hotline | CCIJ
Find your local California Rapid Response Network and hotline to report immigration enforcement activity and keep our communities safe!
www.ccijustice.org
California peeps, here’s where to find local community ICE-defense organizations, including finding local phone numbers to report sightings of ICE presence / activity:
www.ccijustice.org/carrn
www.ccijustice.org/carrn
DHS has not paid for healthcare in any of its detention facilities since October 2025. There’s no intention to pay for it until April 2026 at the earliest.
(Btw, that’s active tuberculosis cases, not the dormant phase.)
Now measles at Dilley camp for families w/ kids.
(Btw, that’s active tuberculosis cases, not the dormant phase.)
Now measles at Dilley camp for families w/ kids.
One way concentration camps become zones where law doesn't apply is by neglecting policies & standards that would protect health & provide healthcare. You deny laws & norms & dehumanize your victim.
Read "Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin’s Gulag" by Alexopoulos
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
Read "Illness and Inhumanity in Stalin’s Gulag" by Alexopoulos
www.texastribune.org/2026/02/07/i...
Two tuberculosis cases detected at Camp East Montana ICE facility
Eighteen cases of COVID-19 were also identified. U.S. Rep. Veronica Escobar on Friday visited the 5,000-bed tent facility on the Fort Bliss Army base and said she saw many "chronic issues."
www.texastribune.org
February 9, 2026 at 7:16 PM
DHS has not paid for healthcare in any of its detention facilities since October 2025. There’s no intention to pay for it until April 2026 at the earliest.
(Btw, that’s active tuberculosis cases, not the dormant phase.)
Now measles at Dilley camp for families w/ kids.
(Btw, that’s active tuberculosis cases, not the dormant phase.)
Now measles at Dilley camp for families w/ kids.
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K-Pop Superbowl Halftime next year. Let's keep the assholes angry.
February 9, 2026 at 6:23 PM
K-Pop Superbowl Halftime next year. Let's keep the assholes angry.
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Crucially, many local governments are furious with ICE over these purchases, because they were not consulted or even told. Because they are federal property now, it's taking a commercial property off the tax rolls while likely imposing dramatic additional infrastructure costs.
February 9, 2026 at 6:11 PM
Crucially, many local governments are furious with ICE over these purchases, because they were not consulted or even told. Because they are federal property now, it's taking a commercial property off the tax rolls while likely imposing dramatic additional infrastructure costs.
The “little real oversight” - I.e., none - is the point.
Private, for-profit prisons operated by grifters like “it’s not a bribe if you can’t show a clear quid-pro-quo” Homan, puppy-killer Noem, Nosferatu Miller, & cruelty-is-the-point Lewandowski. What could go wrong?
Private, for-profit prisons operated by grifters like “it’s not a bribe if you can’t show a clear quid-pro-quo” Homan, puppy-killer Noem, Nosferatu Miller, & cruelty-is-the-point Lewandowski. What could go wrong?
ICE has now spent over half a BILLION dollars just on purchasing warehouses around the country to convert into detention camps.
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
If these mega-camps are utilized to the full capacity ICE intends, they'll be the largest prisons in the country, with little real oversight. www.ajc.com/politics/202...
ICE to begin detaining immigrants inside Social Circle warehouse in April
Homeland Security plans to build warehouse detention facilities in other cities being met with opposition.
www.ajc.com
February 9, 2026 at 7:07 PM
The “little real oversight” - I.e., none - is the point.
Private, for-profit prisons operated by grifters like “it’s not a bribe if you can’t show a clear quid-pro-quo” Homan, puppy-killer Noem, Nosferatu Miller, & cruelty-is-the-point Lewandowski. What could go wrong?
Private, for-profit prisons operated by grifters like “it’s not a bribe if you can’t show a clear quid-pro-quo” Homan, puppy-killer Noem, Nosferatu Miller, & cruelty-is-the-point Lewandowski. What could go wrong?
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Amongst other things, this again highlights the core point about due process. It’s bad enough to be in a “show me your papers” situation, but your precious citizen/non-citizen, “legal”/“illegal” distinctions are meaningless when you can’t prove anything to authorities because they don’t give a shit.
And here is my story: ‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
www.irishtimes.com/world/us/202...
‘Absolute hell’: Irishman with valid US work permit held by Ice since September
Seamus Culleton has been in a detention facility in Texas for nearly five months despite having no criminal record
www.irishtimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:59 PM
Amongst other things, this again highlights the core point about due process. It’s bad enough to be in a “show me your papers” situation, but your precious citizen/non-citizen, “legal”/“illegal” distinctions are meaningless when you can’t prove anything to authorities because they don’t give a shit.
February 9, 2026 at 6:28 PM
Most LLM promotion is just MLM / Ponzi schemes.
Y’all, WE HAVE GOT TO STOP USING “AI”. That umbrella is so wide that it’s meaningless.
CALL TECH WHAT IT IS.
How else can we tell the difference between chatGPT-written books & more successful mammograms enhanced with pattern matching algorithms?
Y’all, WE HAVE GOT TO STOP USING “AI”. That umbrella is so wide that it’s meaningless.
CALL TECH WHAT IT IS.
How else can we tell the difference between chatGPT-written books & more successful mammograms enhanced with pattern matching algorithms?
To be very clear, that lady in the NYT article is not making any money with her hundreds of AI slop books.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
She makes money by *convincing people* she makes money that way and getting them to pay her to teach them how to do it.
It's an evolved MLM, and the NYT is helping market it.
February 9, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Most LLM promotion is just MLM / Ponzi schemes.
Y’all, WE HAVE GOT TO STOP USING “AI”. That umbrella is so wide that it’s meaningless.
CALL TECH WHAT IT IS.
How else can we tell the difference between chatGPT-written books & more successful mammograms enhanced with pattern matching algorithms?
Y’all, WE HAVE GOT TO STOP USING “AI”. That umbrella is so wide that it’s meaningless.
CALL TECH WHAT IT IS.
How else can we tell the difference between chatGPT-written books & more successful mammograms enhanced with pattern matching algorithms?
This world would be so very ill-served if the only works that survive electronically are Euro-Anglo-American (& the bits haphazardly kept in colonialist collections).
It’s a quiet race against climate change & human disasters.
It’s a quiet race against climate change & human disasters.
1/ The Endangered Archives Programme out of British Library provides guidelines that contain "hints, advice and experiences from people who have completed projects everywhere around the globe from Latin America to Africa to Asia."
www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.116...
Remote Capture: Digitising Documentary Heritage in Challenging Locations
This is a must-read how-to guide if you are planning to embark on a scholarly digitisation project. Tailored to the specifications of the British Library’s EAP (Endangered Archives Programme) projects...
www.openbookpublishers.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:06 PM
This world would be so very ill-served if the only works that survive electronically are Euro-Anglo-American (& the bits haphazardly kept in colonialist collections).
It’s a quiet race against climate change & human disasters.
It’s a quiet race against climate change & human disasters.
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1. Trump has launched a torrent of bigoted invective against Somali migrants, calling them "garbage" and demanding they be kicked out of the country
Now, the Trump administration is rigging the immigration courts against them
We've uncovered the details of the scheme
Now, the Trump administration is rigging the immigration courts against them
We've uncovered the details of the scheme
How Trump is rigging immigration courts against Somali migrants
During a December 2 cabinet meeting, President Trump unleashed a torrent of bigoted invective against Somali migrants.
popular.info
February 9, 2026 at 2:17 PM
1. Trump has launched a torrent of bigoted invective against Somali migrants, calling them "garbage" and demanding they be kicked out of the country
Now, the Trump administration is rigging the immigration courts against them
We've uncovered the details of the scheme
Now, the Trump administration is rigging the immigration courts against them
We've uncovered the details of the scheme
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Their goal is to remove every Spanish speaker they possibly can
ICE sacked some tiny Idaho town and deported ~4 percent of the population at a stroke, it's liable to collapse the local economy www.nytimes.com/2026/02/09/u...
A Raid in a Small Town Brings Trump’s Deportations to Deep-Red Idaho
www.nytimes.com
February 9, 2026 at 2:54 PM
Their goal is to remove every Spanish speaker they possibly can
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the Miller/Trump/ICE “mass deportations” aim to change this. They want every Spanish speaker out of the country.
So there are 65 million people in the US who identify as Hispanic or Latino. 45 million people speak Spanish at home. We have the second largest Spanish-speaking population in the world. Bad Bunny has sold over 123 million albums and LA CANCIÓN has 2.4 billion streams. He is bigger than Fox News.
lol stay mad
February 9, 2026 at 1:43 PM
the Miller/Trump/ICE “mass deportations” aim to change this. They want every Spanish speaker out of the country.
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100% this. This is a brilliant metaphor.
I'm convinced AI is our generation's radium - a discovery with genuinely useful applications in specific, controlled circumstances that we stupidly put in everything from kid's toys to toothpaste until we realised the harm far too late where future generations will ask if we were out of our minds.
VC, founder, dumbass
February 9, 2026 at 2:50 PM
100% this. This is a brilliant metaphor.
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Ten years ago today, #SCOTUS issued five unsigned and unexplained 5-4 rulings granting emergency applications to block President Obama’s Clean Power Plan—a completely unprecedented move that helped to usher in the Court’s modern … (mis)adventures … with its shadow docket.
Me in today’s “One First”:
Me in today’s “One First”:
209. The Modern Emergency Docket Turns Ten
The February 2016 rulings blocking the Clean Power Plan were unprecedented; in retrospect, they were harbingers of a paradigm shift in the Supreme Court's role.
www.stevevladeck.com
February 9, 2026 at 12:33 PM
Ten years ago today, #SCOTUS issued five unsigned and unexplained 5-4 rulings granting emergency applications to block President Obama’s Clean Power Plan—a completely unprecedented move that helped to usher in the Court’s modern … (mis)adventures … with its shadow docket.
Me in today’s “One First”:
Me in today’s “One First”:
Ok, 2 caveats:
- “a pediatric ER doctor my wife follows on Instagram” isn’t necessarily a sign of truth (could be, can’t tell).
- print on most medicine bottles is what, 3-pt type? Gotta take a photo & enlarge it to read.
It’s understandable, but terrifying, that anyone credits chatGPT *that* much.
- “a pediatric ER doctor my wife follows on Instagram” isn’t necessarily a sign of truth (could be, can’t tell).
- print on most medicine bottles is what, 3-pt type? Gotta take a photo & enlarge it to read.
It’s understandable, but terrifying, that anyone credits chatGPT *that* much.
according to a pediatric ER doctor my wife follows on Instagram they have started to see children coming in sick because their parents are asking ChatGPT what the correct dosage is on over the counter medication instead of just looking at the instructions on the bottle
One of the easiest ways to shoot down the idea that "AI" is an expert is to show how it deals with something people know about.
Younger readers may not get this as most appliances come pre-wired, but anyone 35+ can see these are chaotic fire hazards.
From Mastodon, AI asked how to wire a plug:
Younger readers may not get this as most appliances come pre-wired, but anyone 35+ can see these are chaotic fire hazards.
From Mastodon, AI asked how to wire a plug:
February 9, 2026 at 5:09 PM
Ok, 2 caveats:
- “a pediatric ER doctor my wife follows on Instagram” isn’t necessarily a sign of truth (could be, can’t tell).
- print on most medicine bottles is what, 3-pt type? Gotta take a photo & enlarge it to read.
It’s understandable, but terrifying, that anyone credits chatGPT *that* much.
- “a pediatric ER doctor my wife follows on Instagram” isn’t necessarily a sign of truth (could be, can’t tell).
- print on most medicine bottles is what, 3-pt type? Gotta take a photo & enlarge it to read.
It’s understandable, but terrifying, that anyone credits chatGPT *that* much.
Plus, how many other stars would share their moment under the big spotlight with not only other stars, but *long-established* stars
Sunny beat me to the very next statement I was going to make.
The whole performance wasn’t about the triumph of the individual, but the collective effort and joy that that elevates all of us out of oppression.
They literally danced their way through and out of the history of colonialism TOGETHER.
The whole performance wasn’t about the triumph of the individual, but the collective effort and joy that that elevates all of us out of oppression.
They literally danced their way through and out of the history of colonialism TOGETHER.
Okay so a thing I LOVED about that is how, whereas so many halftime shows kind of elevate the star above the other dancers/extras—often literally—that was like the exact opposite, he was *with and among* the people around him
February 9, 2026 at 4:42 PM
Plus, how many other stars would share their moment under the big spotlight with not only other stars, but *long-established* stars
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Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance required 9,852 theatrical pyrotechnics, nearly 400 costumed extras, and a lot of ingenuity.
And yes, that was a real couple featured in the wedding.
www.wired.com/story/bad-bu...
And yes, that was a real couple featured in the wedding.
www.wired.com/story/bad-bu...
February 9, 2026 at 3:12 AM
Bad Bunny’s Super Bowl performance required 9,852 theatrical pyrotechnics, nearly 400 costumed extras, and a lot of ingenuity.
And yes, that was a real couple featured in the wedding.
www.wired.com/story/bad-bu...
And yes, that was a real couple featured in the wedding.
www.wired.com/story/bad-bu...
Public history for the win!
Bad Bunny has a consulting historian. news.wisc.edu/pop-star-bad...
Pop star Bad Bunny needed a Puerto Rican history scholar. UW–Madison had just the one.
Bad Bunny collaborated with UW–Madison history professor Jorell Meléndez-Badillo on Puerto Rican narratives that accompany the new album “DeBÍ TiRAR MáS FOToS.”
news.wisc.edu
February 9, 2026 at 7:20 AM
Public history for the win!
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It absolutely tracks that these people would be the ones to bring in measles
D.C. health officials are contacting people possibly exposed to measles at the March for Life in January, as confirmed cases rise nationwide. n.pr/4r5Njny
March for Life attendees may have been exposed to measles, DC Health warns
D.C. health officials are contacting people possibly exposed to measles at the March for Life in January, as confirmed cases rise nationwide.
n.pr
February 9, 2026 at 3:26 AM
It absolutely tracks that these people would be the ones to bring in measles
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If there’s one thing we don’t tolerate in America it’s Spanish words. To do that in San Francisco California…well it makes me angry, and I’ll say that all the way from Los Angeles to Bonita Springs Florida
February 9, 2026 at 2:50 AM
If there’s one thing we don’t tolerate in America it’s Spanish words. To do that in San Francisco California…well it makes me angry, and I’ll say that all the way from Los Angeles to Bonita Springs Florida
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This is joyous
#BadBunny's performers continued to dance and party outside the stadium after the #SuperBowl #HalftimeShow
February 9, 2026 at 3:52 AM
This is joyous
Cheering for Bad Bunny after today’s generous performance? There are good reasons for that — but maybe use that energy to help out our folks innPuerto Rico, too.
Your periodic reminder that almost 9 years after Hurricane Maria, Puerto Rico still doesn't have a functioning power grid.
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...
Puerto Rico faced a massive power outage. Why does this keep happening?
Puerto Rico's hurricane-battered power grid has suffered compounding crises including hurricanes and financial problems.
www.usatoday.com
February 9, 2026 at 6:10 AM
Cheering for Bad Bunny after today’s generous performance? There are good reasons for that — but maybe use that energy to help out our folks innPuerto Rico, too.
There’s an idea. Could MN hire those federal prosecutors who resigned because they can not bear to work for the fascists in order bolster immigrant defense - to work for abused, captured, kidnapped, terrorized people of MN?
bsky.app/profile/lase...
bsky.app/profile/lase...
Walz really needs to flip the script.
State agencies coordinating with ICE is absurd.
ICE should be coordinating with state agencies to assist in addressing their habeas corpus backlog.
Walz should hire all the Federal prosecutors who resigned to help do pro bono work for exfiltrated Minnesotans
State agencies coordinating with ICE is absurd.
ICE should be coordinating with state agencies to assist in addressing their habeas corpus backlog.
Walz should hire all the Federal prosecutors who resigned to help do pro bono work for exfiltrated Minnesotans
February 8, 2026 at 9:07 PM
There’s an idea. Could MN hire those federal prosecutors who resigned because they can not bear to work for the fascists in order bolster immigrant defense - to work for abused, captured, kidnapped, terrorized people of MN?
bsky.app/profile/lase...
bsky.app/profile/lase...
Ballet dancers with footballs!
(Boston Ballet accepted the challenge - videos in thread at bsky.app/profile/leth... )
Can confirm that some of the Oakland As danced with Oakland Ballet, long ago. I talked my youngest bro to take a couple classes when he was playing soccer.
(Boston Ballet accepted the challenge - videos in thread at bsky.app/profile/leth... )
Can confirm that some of the Oakland As danced with Oakland Ballet, long ago. I talked my youngest bro to take a couple classes when he was playing soccer.
Need a mood boost?
Watch the Pacific Northwest Ballet celebrate the Seattle Seahawks being in the Super Bowl
Watch the Pacific Northwest Ballet celebrate the Seattle Seahawks being in the Super Bowl
February 8, 2026 at 4:59 PM
Ballet dancers with footballs!
(Boston Ballet accepted the challenge - videos in thread at bsky.app/profile/leth... )
Can confirm that some of the Oakland As danced with Oakland Ballet, long ago. I talked my youngest bro to take a couple classes when he was playing soccer.
(Boston Ballet accepted the challenge - videos in thread at bsky.app/profile/leth... )
Can confirm that some of the Oakland As danced with Oakland Ballet, long ago. I talked my youngest bro to take a couple classes when he was playing soccer.
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Scum lords
Leading American companies — including Palantir, Deloitte, and private prison giant GEO Group — raked in over $22B from ICE and CBP contracts last year.
Do not forget who is profiting from cruelty and human suffering.
https://www.ft.com/content/c74170d3-237d-459c-8642-bfd71530897d
Do not forget who is profiting from cruelty and human suffering.
https://www.ft.com/content/c74170d3-237d-459c-8642-bfd71530897d
Companies reap $22bn from Trump’s immigration crackdown
Palantir and Deloitte among beneficiaries of spending by government agencies
www.ft.com
February 8, 2026 at 9:19 AM
Scum lords
We should be asking not “do you use this thing?” but “how do you use this thing?” or “how do you accomplish that end result?”
It’s easy to search texts for nouns; hard to search for process.
All too often systemic reviews miss that point - so are essentially worthless for evidence-based medicine.
It’s easy to search texts for nouns; hard to search for process.
All too often systemic reviews miss that point - so are essentially worthless for evidence-based medicine.
Short thread on our new paper. We use face mask efficacy research as a “stress test” for systematic review methods. We analysed 66 systematic reviews of face mask efficacy; they reached widely different conclusions (~half said they work, half said that evidence of efficacy was lacking). 1/
Our new paper:
Synthesis challenges in complex evidence: A critical analysis of systematic reviews of face mask efficacy
#episky #healthpolicy #medsky
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Synthesis challenges in complex evidence: A critical analysis of systematic reviews of face mask efficacy
#episky #healthpolicy #medsky
www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
February 8, 2026 at 3:08 PM
We should be asking not “do you use this thing?” but “how do you use this thing?” or “how do you accomplish that end result?”
It’s easy to search texts for nouns; hard to search for process.
All too often systemic reviews miss that point - so are essentially worthless for evidence-based medicine.
It’s easy to search texts for nouns; hard to search for process.
All too often systemic reviews miss that point - so are essentially worthless for evidence-based medicine.