r/TheDreyDossier

You guys are building the coolest things, and I don’t want them trapped in my inbox anymore.

Every day, people send me GitHubs, Claude artifacts, spreadsheets, dashboards, prompts, scrapers, bots, FOIA helpers, agency trackers, public official trackers, court trackers, alert systems, etc. Basically all these little accountability machines you’re making to keep up with what’s going on.

I am obsessed with them and don't think they should live in my inbox.

This thread is for anything you’ve built that helps people track power, organize information, monitor institutions, file requests, follow public data, or understand systems that are usually annoying or impossible to follow.

Whatever you are building doesn't need to be perfect or even finished. If it helps you track something, explain something, request something, organize something, or stay up to date on something, please post it here.

THE FUN PART: at the beginning of my live each week, before we get into the topic of the day, I will go through what people have built and linked here. We’ll click through what people are building, talk about what it does, what problem it solves, how others might use it, and how it might inspire someone else to build their own version.

A lot of what I have been building out lately have been private trackers and daily alert systems on GitHub that I can’t fully open up (for obvious reasons), but I can talk through the concept, the structure, and the kinds of things I’m trying to monitor. The point is we should be inspiring each other by using tech to hold tech accountable.

ONLY RULE: Do not post anything that exposes private info, endangers sources, or gives bad actors a roadmap.

If you post something, include the link, what it does, what it tracks, and whether you want feedback, collaborators, testers, or just want to show people what you made.

Bring me your beautiful tracking machines, and let’s build the Drey Dossier toolbox together.

In the US we're taught that individuals need only to take care of themselves. The whole "self made boot strap" messaging that actually makes it so much harder to thrive. All the most of us get is to survive. Many can't even get that much. We see it everyday on the streets of the richest country on earth.

Throughout history families worked together to take care of the family members who can't take care of themselves. Children, the elderly and the infirm. Children were raised seeing that dynamic played out as a natural order of life.

The more isolated the individual is from familial support and responsibility, the more wealth (lifetime value) can be extracted from them to the system.

The system props up supports that lure the population to believe said system has us all covered. Over promising and under delivering to the point it all eventually collapses.

Then all the sources of support one once gave and received as a matter of familial belonging have become a subscription.

We pay for childcare and eldercare that are no substitute for the love of family. We live with less and less love in our lives. We suffer for it and then become blind to the suffering right in front of us.

Introduce a target to blame for our suffering that strategically points anywhere other than the system responsible for it. The immigrant, the queer, the impoverished, the mentally and physically infirm, the bipoc folks. Just never never never, the billionaire class.

Everything is removed, remote and reversed. Compassion becomes enabling. Cruelty becomes justice. Greed is good, ethics are inconvenient. Conservation kills. Exploitation gives the dream life we're promised if we "work hard enough".

I'm exhausted by the cognitive distortions presented to the masses on a daily basis. It screams in our faces everywhere we look. Not just in the media. At school, at work, at traffic lights, at the grocery store, at the park. Anywhere there is concrete and people, there it is.

Yesterday I spent a peaceful day so far into the middle of nowhere I had a line through the signal bars on my cellphone. I could hear nothing but wind in the trees, water falling over rocks and bird song.

The relief was so profound I cried.

I am grateful that I am "woke" enough to see the nightmare being sold as the American dream. I don't care if I get labeled a "libtard" or whatever ridiculous thing the zombies want to call me and people like me.

We are all getting the same end of the stick.

I'd rather know when I am being violated and not wake up later wondering what the hell happened. Bottom line is we're all getting f***ed.

Papers, please.