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David H. Price

@dhprice.bsky.social

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Anthropologist, FOIA scholar, & sometimes historian of anthropology. I mostly write about FBI, CIA, and DoD efforts to undermine democratic movements at home and abroad. Every billionaire is a policy failure.

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David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · Dec 27

The situation, according to Kilgore Trout, presents “a problem whose queasy horrors will eventually be made world-wide by this sophistication of machines. The problem is this: How to love people who have no use?”

Kurt Vonnegut Warned Us About the Dangers of Automation

Kurt Vonnegut’s 1952 novel, "Player Piano," portrays a dystopia following a Third World War where automation makes most work unnecessary.

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Rebecca R Helm @rebeccarhelm.bsky.social · 14d

I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

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David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · 13d

Salmon running the Deschutes River a few blocks from my home.

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David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · Sep 8

Sights I saw in Washington DC today.

National Guard at the National Museum of the American Indian.

David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · Sep 2

America’s Far Right and the Further Right: the Klan and a Coup in 1920s Lumber Country - CounterPunch.org share.google/rlEwz3zIKDJx...

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David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · Aug 17

Camping along the Yakima River.

David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · Aug 11

"In some ways, Palantir can be seen as an amplifier of people’s intentions and biases. . . .'It's a really powerful tool,' says one former Palantir employee. 'And when it's in the wrong hands, it can be really dangerous. And I think people should be really scared about it.'”

What Does Palantir Actually Do?

Palantir is often called a data broker, a data miner, or a giant database of personal information. In reality, it’s none of these—but even former employees struggle to explain it.

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David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · Jul 31

Meanwhile, we're now one step closer to living in a Marvel superhero movie...

Highly radioactive wasp nest found at site of former nuclear facility

The nest was sprayed in order to kill the wasps, and was then bagged as radiological waste.

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David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · Jul 29

I hope that some of you can help donate to a legal fund for this family under threat of separation by Trump. The person stepping up to organize this effort to help them is one of my oldest dear friends, Lisa Queen.

Anything you can give helps gofund.me/5d7d6821

Donate to Help a family about to be separated by deportation, organized by Lisa Queen

Ines, a parent at my school with 3 US-born children under the age of 10,… Lisa Queen needs your support for Help a family about to be separated by deportation

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David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · Jul 27

What could possibly go wrong with this plan?

Trump’s Anti-Bias AI Order Is Just More Bias

The Trump administration says it wants AI models free from ideological bias, as it pressures their developers to reflect the president’s worldview.

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David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · Jul 10

American Idiocracy brought to you by Citizens United, Fox News, Coast to Coast AM, and American capitalism's refusal to acknowledge what it's doing to the planet.

Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · Jul 10

An “anti-government militia” is “targeting Oklahoma weather radars, days after a man vandalized News 9’s weather radar

Meteorologists are trying to explain that weather radars do not control the weather

'Anti-government militia' says it’s targeting Oklahoma weather radars

An “anti-government militia” called ‘Veterans on Patrol’ told News 9 on Tuesday that it is “targeting” Oklahoma weather radars, days after an individual vandalized News 9’s weather radar.

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David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · Jun 20

John L. Young, 89, Dies; Pioneered Posting Classified Documents Online

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David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · Jun 16

Nulli reges sint!

David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · Jun 7

No surprise here. Pentagon has used UFO buffs for years to divert attention from weapons programs at Area 51 and elsewhere.

The Pentagon Disinformation That Fueled America’s UFO Mythology

U.S. military fabricated evidence of alien technology and allowed rumors to fester to cover up real secret-weapons programs

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David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · May 26

Feeding the National Parks' Memory Hole.

Public Urged To Report National Park Placards That Disparage Americans Or Detracts From Scenic Grandeur

Interior Secretary Doug Burgum hopes to enlist the public in identifying interpretive materials in the National Park System that disparage Americans past or living or which contain content that detrac...

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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · May 25

Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. nyer.cm/u405qvQ

“I’ve studied McCarthyism’s impact on higher education for 50 years. What’s happening now is worse.” -Ellen Schrecker, historian

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David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · May 20

Taking the ferry south from Tromsø.

David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · May 15

Rule Number 8: Anyone not marching or not looking at their phone is suspicious.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · Apr 30

Opinion | I was addicted to heroin for 20 years. Here's why I am eliminating federal funding for Narcan so that an extra 10,000 people can die each year from opiate overdoses.

by RFK Jr.

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David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · Apr 30

“This is what we were always scared of,” said Kevin Bankston. . . a senior adviser on A.I. . . “The infrastructure for turnkey totalitarianism is there for an administration willing to break the law.”

Infrastructure built with policies of Bush, Obama, Trump v1.0 & Biden.

Opinion | Elon Musk’s Legacy: DOGE’s Construction of a Surveillance State

DOGE is rapidly assembling a sprawling monitoring system, the foundation of many authoritarian regimes.

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Democracy Now! @democracynow.org · Apr 22

This week marks the 70th anniversary of the historic anti-colonial 1955 Bandung Conference, when 29 nations from Asia and Africa gathered in Indonesia.

“They all gathered together because they understood their unity was very important,” says @vijayprashad.bsky.social.

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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · Apr 19

Jesus’s parents were unwed and undocumented. So he got what he deserved.

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David H. Price @dhprice.bsky.social · Apr 18

This Spy Talk podcast episode has one the best takes on the JFK record release I've heard. Wirth listening to.

CIA Opened Oswald’s Mail!

Podcast Episode · SpyTalk · 04/03/2025 · 43m

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