[the president posting about the Pixar movie Cars] Thank you for you attention to this Mater!
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[the president posting about the Pixar movie Cars] Thank you for you attention to this Mater!
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Once you realize how much female influencer content of a certain age is set in a car, you realize that maybe you did know the school bus thing was a problem.
I hope someone does this - my kid is in college now, but the combination of intensity competition (to parent The Most, which includes protecting against the most fears), lack of infrastructure, & compensatory bureaucratic flair in the white parent world is WILD (& influential, which is scary)
can't help but notice the acronym - nice 😉
all of the events are odd, but then the "business partner and medical provider" bit strikes me especially - is the provider not a physician? wouldn't you have said "doctor" or "physician" if they were? & business partner? why? what is even going on
very much the same feelings here!
honestly, I feel like frequent flyer perks started all of this
can I just say, gag me with a mouse-shaped spoon? “Disney is an analytics company that happens to do movies and parks,” Mr. Testa said. www.nytimes.com/2025/08/28/o...
This is worth sharing far and wide. Federal Employees and contractors oral history project. Im not involved in this. Just got the link, idea seems to be to create a record of the assault on the American Repuvlic after Jan 2025. www.fecohp.org
I hate this Jackpot
This is amazing. I love crop art
Thanks @jamellebouie.net: "The banners & the troops...are a secondhand reproduction of the strongman aesthetic of other strongman states. It is as if the administration is building a simulacra of authoritarianism, albeit one meant to bring the real thing into being." www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/o...
in Soviet Russia, banana shops for you
sponge... black... and white... ??!? yikes
I've got no brief either for or against Burning Man - I've never been & my friends seemed to enjoy it more before tech adopted it - but these people's midlife crises are gonna arrive early & really be *something* sfstandard.com/2025/08/30/b...
![Gupta, who has become a poster child of AI boom’s grindcore culture, summarized the current mood among young tech workers in San Francisco as incompatible with the Burner sensibility: “The current vibe is no drinking, no drugs, 996 [work from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m., 6 days a week], lift heavy, run far, marry early, track sleep, eat steak and eggs.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hzm4j2lo6gxsiixgxnptia3j/bafkreigwlw73azzvejbkceigeoeianuke5lmnhwzob7xc7pnzbds64wdfe@jpeg "Click to view full size")
In addition to the obvious impacts, this will also severely hamper American citizens who will be stuck trying to prove citizenship & find documents when they should be focused on recovery. Adding more burden when people have lost all their belongings ⁉️ www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2025...
to be clear, IANAL! but I did work for the CA Judicial Council for 4 years - it was extremely eye opening coming from the base outlined above
I say this based on a typical American learning a tiny bit about 2 types of court process in school: 1. the US Supreme Court & its role in constitutional questions 2. criminal trials & due process (again, a little) leaving most of our complicated legal system totally opaque
your civics education probably included very little about courts - this is a super useful article about systems you're most likely unfamiliar with!
fwiw this is my routine - public transit, public bathrooms, always - & because of that, I have a mask on me so if I find myself somewhere extra crowded I can pop it on it's low stress
I see what you did there
man, is this ever rampant in tech (recommendation letters aren't the vector, but...)
pretty sure I had a shirt (or one of those weird trench-coat shirts?) in this pattern in high school
💯 who remembers sponge painting?
these folks are planning to deliver 10,000 rubber ducks to Congress to help get the quack RFK Jr out - good spectacle tbh, I am in for 3 bucks (& see below for how they're thinking of reuse & possibly offering purchase of protest-used ducks later)
interesting story & also my first visual on reading the headline was very 80s
The NYC subway system is installing new emergency gates (to exit platforms) that are "delayed egress." There's a 15-second (!) delay to open the gate. This seems nutz to me. The main problem I forsee is people panicking and piling up at the door during a smoke condition, fire, or flooding.
possibly nothing! maybe something very significant. everyone's on edge. IT'S WEIRD
this is one of the weirdest vibes I've ever experienced on social media
Our solarpunk present is shaping up to be a weird mix of thermopunk, electropunk, and cyberpunk (derogatory).
folks,,
Oh thank goodness, everyone always picked up the warning before!
oh my god? read the thread but lmao
YOU NEED A MARGARET (ahem, sorry sorry, I just happen to love Margaret, especially as portrayed in the movie)
which could, of course, be handled by a well designed web form 🤷♀️
People are often surprised to learn that Lee was an officer who never made it past colonel. The purported promotion to general was awarded by a treasonous cabal calling itself the "confederate states of america" which was put down by force by the Union army, which also had superior generals.
I've been tempted to say several times that AI has its uses (when treated properly as a kind of software & not a religion), but I've been through 3 rounds of chatbot hype in my career & I've never seen them do any good so good morning 🌶️
In the wake of numerous reports of interactions with AI chatbots that resulted in deadly consequences, the Center for Democracy & Technology's Dr. Michal Luria says AI firms should stop designing products that pretend to be human.
to expand on this point, there are various reasons why it's good to have people come from around the world to study in your universities. and there are limited cases where a country may with some rationale limit interchange with certain rivals. but big picture it's a way great powers basically ...
...although I wrote it when things were much more optimistic for the field. also consider joining @civictechallies.bsky.social or Technologists for the Public Good, attending the Code for America Summit or a For the People conference, depending on your focus
lots of state & local government work, but of course by its nature that depends on where you are! there are also consultancies like Ad Hoc & Nava that are really interesting places to onboard to civic tech, & some explicitly civic tech companies. all have pros & cons - my book goes into detail...
the thing about pointing out that americabydesign.gov is silly or not competent is that america by design is, itself, a kind of parody of usds/18f/civic tech (what naomi klein calls pipikism). part of the point of americabydesign is to make the idea of sincere and careful public work ridiculous
ok yeah cool flexes but hold up - how'd I never find out that the author of Bread and Jam for Frances wrote science fiction????
🦊 I wrote about the administration’s “national design studio,” and how its shoddy construction isn’t a mistake. It’s a clear signal of priorities, and ones we need to actively, urgently rebuke. ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/a-noti...
bananas.
Never Let Me Go is also very much a (lyrical af) warning, not a manual
say it with me. cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual
"experts question"
good thread & good points (read up)... & we all need to keep reading Borges - Tlön especially
I was the executive director of U.S. Open Data, a non-profit that I created at the behest of the Obama White House. I worked as one of the nation's leading experts in open data. Putting open data on the blockchain is a profoundly stupid idea that fails nearly every test of good open data.
UGH
after saying wtf for 30 seconds straight, I looked up the company they recommended & hidy-ho is that some scam-culture opportunism. I'm not going to link it because 🤢 but the name is in the screenshot 1000% ROI, y'all
new late-stage capitalist risk-shift just dropped! apparently we can all pay extra for "order insurance" when we have something shipped from a merchant, since neither they nor the delivery service will stand behind it getting there
I want to file all memories big and small. It's part of a project I'm working on for Fort Mason to commemorate the institution's founding, which is fascinating and unexpected.
Put that do- wait, hold on.... HOLD ON lol
i mean "tech" is a metonym for "information technology" eclipsing all other technologies, and "information technology" is a metonym for "computer bullshit", occluding several millennia worth of information technologies that have nothing to do with computers
letting networked software, the specific thing whose authoritarian tendencies cyberpunk warns us about, take over the term tech or technology does cause issues
I, a USian, am sitting here completely boggled to find out that corporate manslaughter is a thing in other countries.
No-Bill for Assault With a Deli Weapon->A D.C. grand jury reportedly declined to indict the fired DOJ paralegal Sean Dunn who hurled a sandwich at a federal officer during protests against President Trump’s hyper-federalization of the nation’s capital. talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo...
I used to love that emoji, le sigh
Re-reading the report of the Social Security whistleblower, it is striking how many times good people within SSA tried to keep DOGE from committing crimes. Here's my understanding of the timeline 🧵
NEW RESULT: Democrats have flipped a state Senate in Iowa. This was a seat Trump carried by 11%, but Democratic nominee Catherine Drey has just won it by 10.4%. This is the second legislative flip by Dems in Iowa this year. It also means the GOP loses its supermajority in Iowa’s senate.
whoever did this, I would be absolutely thrilled to buy you a drink. seriously - dm or find me, I'm the only Cyd Harrell on the internet. I'm good for an excellent beverage & a civic tech rage session. americabydesign.fail
Bloom County & Calvin & Hobbes right next to each other in the Sunday comics usually…
I just.
jfc jfc jfc
"The same circumstances that made the soil fertile enough for agriculture to thrive also left behind the clay that became the medium for rcdg the 🍎 of that soil. I find this really moving—that the landscape made this leap in human innovation possible, that ingenuity worked in tandem w/ geology..."
who's hating on North Dakota? I'm hating on Notre Dame
and I submit that this one is also absolute ass ndstudio.gov
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thank you, Ms. Cook - guess I'll be calling my senators to support her in any way they can, tomorrow
since traffic doesn't do them any good, I feel ok telling you to scroll all the way through www.americabydesign.gov & see it in all its infuriating glory
so many friends of mine worked on USWDS, not to mention deeper usability of so many government services
ok who had 288 in the pool? (joking aside, thank you for doing this @annaecook.bsky.social!)
oh yah really
let's just say the feelings are rampant
oh my god, wtf is that rollover? gaaaahhh
argh!! (works created by the federal government have no copyright)
"Website design is my passion." americabydesign.gov
the annual SF Chinese New Year one is legendary - all this at night with firecrackers going off & a parade of dragons & general celebration atmosphere sftreasurehunts.com/chinese-ny/
Still waiting for someone of prominence to admit it was not about eggs.
Reposting one more time this weekend to catch people who’ve been busy, this just came together a few days ago. We will post reminders into September, mail is slow these days, so shoot for a 9/22 delivery date but it will be more of a wave of love than a bomb! #UglyDogs
pretty cool full thread of today's civic scavenger hunt in New York!
even more 🙄 I think it says Apple Store lol - I wonder how Apple feels about that
Ethan knows.
"the hospitality design for our nation"
need an owl?
*really* good nostalgic font work too
Remembering today when pro-GOP media erupted with outrage over Kamala Harris' warning that Trump had plans to militarize the national guard and deploy them on the streets of US cities. Indeed, he had such plans. And now he's implementing them.
they do oppose the CA midcycle redistricting (& they also opposed the Texas one) - which is consistent if not very awake to the fascist threat. members should probably tell the org what they think! but it's really good that they're not part of the mailer action
Art of the Day - Bus to BART! 🚌🚃 I'll be at the BART anime festival on September 6! www.bart.gov/news/article...
I looked at some of those pentagon offers to go work for ICE/CBP. They’re quite bleak. You will basically be assigned to a single detention facility for six months and you’ll help run that pop up jail for ICE. They’re slotted as “logistics” but it’s just running the place.
hey Californians, if you got a mailer (already!) against the fall special election to counter Texas gerrymandering, the League of Women Voters wants you to know that the mailer was lying about them - screenshotting with alt text here:
there are a lot of people who think that thinking about the trolley problem makes you tough & clear-eyed & serious - they ignore exactly what's in this piece.
This is an extraordinary article and frankly about damn time. Everyone who wants a little hope should read it.
This feels like a spot of good news www.sciencedaily.com/releases/202...
"Algo" is short for "Al Gore" who invented the algorithm