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Laura Sikstrom
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Scientist @CAMH and @KCNI and Medical Anthropologist @UToronto.

Ethnography, AI, health equity and mental health.

https://predictivecarecollab.com/
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@meganysta.bsky.social knows a lot about this!
April 5, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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How is this not slavery?

www.propublica.org/article/geo-...
An ICE Contractor Is Worth Billions. It’s Still Fighting to Pay Detainees as Little as $1 a Day to Work.
GEO Group, whose stock is valued at $4 billion, says that state minimum wage laws don’t apply to the cleaning services that it’s asked detained migrants to perform at facilities where they’re kept.
www.propublica.org
March 20, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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One of my core takeaways from Land of Open Graves was how much money detention/deportation makes for investors. Pretty reprehensible. We should write our banks to find out if our pensions, cpp, rrsps etc are invested in any of these efforts.
March 20, 2025 at 1:25 AM