Jack
@technotion.bsky.social
UMich Urban Technology ℅ 2027, Founder of 2NU Productions, Technical Theater Enthusiast, Urbanist, E-biker | 🏳️🌈🇺🇲 - ENTP
Interested in: Urban Tech, Civic Tech, Digital Policy, Housing, Degrowth, Electronics, OpenStreetMap, other turbo nerd things...
Interested in: Urban Tech, Civic Tech, Digital Policy, Housing, Degrowth, Electronics, OpenStreetMap, other turbo nerd things...
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Remember. When SNAP Benefits don't get distributed Friday grocery stores won't make sales. That's 12% of all sales and up to 60% for some stores. Stores will compensate by raising prices. Halting SNAP benefits won't just endanger our most vulnerable citizens, it'll affect us all. Stop the madness!
October 27, 2025 at 6:27 PM
Remember. When SNAP Benefits don't get distributed Friday grocery stores won't make sales. That's 12% of all sales and up to 60% for some stores. Stores will compensate by raising prices. Halting SNAP benefits won't just endanger our most vulnerable citizens, it'll affect us all. Stop the madness!
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Specifically, Trump dumps shit on No Kings protesters in this AI slop video, while wearing a crown.
But Hillary said "deplorables" once nine years ago, so let's keep talking about that for another couple of decades.
But Hillary said "deplorables" once nine years ago, so let's keep talking about that for another couple of decades.
Trump posts AI video showing him literally dumping shit on America
October 19, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Specifically, Trump dumps shit on No Kings protesters in this AI slop video, while wearing a crown.
But Hillary said "deplorables" once nine years ago, so let's keep talking about that for another couple of decades.
But Hillary said "deplorables" once nine years ago, so let's keep talking about that for another couple of decades.
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The slowdown in tech means that SF has seen the largest job losses of any metro area in the US, with employment dropping by 11.6k over the last year and down 3.8% since COVID
Nearby San Jose MSA has also suffered, though not quite as harshly, losing 2k jobs over the last year
Nearby San Jose MSA has also suffered, though not quite as harshly, losing 2k jobs over the last year
October 19, 2025 at 5:31 PM
The slowdown in tech means that SF has seen the largest job losses of any metro area in the US, with employment dropping by 11.6k over the last year and down 3.8% since COVID
Nearby San Jose MSA has also suffered, though not quite as harshly, losing 2k jobs over the last year
Nearby San Jose MSA has also suffered, though not quite as harshly, losing 2k jobs over the last year
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This is a direct assault on the US norms around civil military relations. It is a direct message that the military leadership either has to join a personalist regime or leave.
Hegseth: "If the words I'm speaking today are making your heart sink, they you should do the honorable thing and resign."
September 30, 2025 at 4:57 PM
This is a direct assault on the US norms around civil military relations. It is a direct message that the military leadership either has to join a personalist regime or leave.
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This appears to be the full video of the Chicago delivery worker. It actually appears that an agent tries to assault him after he curses the Dear Leader Kim il Trump to their faces.
September 29, 2025 at 5:20 PM
This appears to be the full video of the Chicago delivery worker. It actually appears that an agent tries to assault him after he curses the Dear Leader Kim il Trump to their faces.
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Leavitt on Michigan shooting: "As the president rightfully put in his Truth Social yesterday, this appears to be yet another targeted attack on Christians. And the Trump administration is fully committed to not only investigating these crimes but prosecuting them to the fullest extent of the law."
September 29, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Leavitt on Michigan shooting: "As the president rightfully put in his Truth Social yesterday, this appears to be yet another targeted attack on Christians. And the Trump administration is fully committed to not only investigating these crimes but prosecuting them to the fullest extent of the law."
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In this politics issue, we wanted you to see what we saw: Tech leaders got what they wanted—a seat at the table with a would-be king, and a chance to haggle over the rules that govern their businesses.
But remember: It’s your future that they just might gamble away.
🧵 of stories so far:
But remember: It’s your future that they just might gamble away.
🧵 of stories so far:
September 25, 2025 at 2:01 PM
In this politics issue, we wanted you to see what we saw: Tech leaders got what they wanted—a seat at the table with a would-be king, and a chance to haggle over the rules that govern their businesses.
But remember: It’s your future that they just might gamble away.
🧵 of stories so far:
But remember: It’s your future that they just might gamble away.
🧵 of stories so far:
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BREAKING: Elon Musk's xAI has signed a deal with the federal government to allow the integration of its Grok AI with federal agencies.
September 25, 2025 at 2:29 PM
BREAKING: Elon Musk's xAI has signed a deal with the federal government to allow the integration of its Grok AI with federal agencies.
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Meet the Press put together a clip of Trump vowing in January to "bring back free speech to America," followed by him saying last Friday that negative coverage of him is "no longer free speech"
September 21, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Meet the Press put together a clip of Trump vowing in January to "bring back free speech to America," followed by him saying last Friday that negative coverage of him is "no longer free speech"
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When you lay it all out like that...
September 21, 2025 at 4:35 AM
When you lay it all out like that...
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Btw, this was JD Vance just a few months ago back in February of this year🙃
September 19, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Btw, this was JD Vance just a few months ago back in February of this year🙃
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NABI 60 BRT (greatest bus ever made)
June 1, 2025 at 6:51 PM
NABI 60 BRT (greatest bus ever made)
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This is my complete map for where SB 79 will apply in LA County for July 2026.
Let me know if you want to see an area zoomed in!
Let me know if you want to see an area zoomed in!
September 15, 2025 at 7:03 AM
This is my complete map for where SB 79 will apply in LA County for July 2026.
Let me know if you want to see an area zoomed in!
Let me know if you want to see an area zoomed in!
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“Roughly 20% of FBI agents — 2,840 out of around 13,800 — have been diverted to work on immigration enforcement, according to data obtained by the libertarian-oriented Cato Institute. That represents a significantly larger shift in FBI priorities than what happened after the 9/11 terrorism attacks”
Our pedophile president who praises white supremacists is dismantling the FBI’s work combating domestic terrorists and child predators.
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
www.msnbc.com/msnbc/news/t...
President Trump's deportations are diverting FBI agents off child predator cases
Officials warn that President Donald Trump's immigration crackdown is leaving domestic terrorists, including online extremists who prey on children, unpoliced.
www.msnbc.com
September 17, 2025 at 12:38 AM
“Roughly 20% of FBI agents — 2,840 out of around 13,800 — have been diverted to work on immigration enforcement, according to data obtained by the libertarian-oriented Cato Institute. That represents a significantly larger shift in FBI priorities than what happened after the 9/11 terrorism attacks”
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AI "disrupt[s] our apprehension of epoch + dislodge[s] thought from embodiment. If evrythng is everybody’s or nobody’s, [if] all humanities are treated as jumbled masses of info w/o regard for autonomy or ⌛, [we betray] the very idea of archives as repositories of human experience + layered memory"
Patricia J. Williams: “When AI Speaks for the Dead”
Patricia J. Williams on the shape-shifting nature of generative AI and its troubling commodification of the dead—in the courtroom and beyond
yalereview.org
September 17, 2025 at 2:52 AM
AI "disrupt[s] our apprehension of epoch + dislodge[s] thought from embodiment. If evrythng is everybody’s or nobody’s, [if] all humanities are treated as jumbled masses of info w/o regard for autonomy or ⌛, [we betray] the very idea of archives as repositories of human experience + layered memory"
Week 4 of the fall semester at the University of Michigan and I've already fallen victim to sickness. Call me a speedrunner as that is the FASTEST I've gotten sick in my 3 years here.
Both of our 2 home football games so far have been #COVID superspreaders, so I'm hoping it's just frat cough!
Both of our 2 home football games so far have been #COVID superspreaders, so I'm hoping it's just frat cough!
September 17, 2025 at 2:59 AM
Week 4 of the fall semester at the University of Michigan and I've already fallen victim to sickness. Call me a speedrunner as that is the FASTEST I've gotten sick in my 3 years here.
Both of our 2 home football games so far have been #COVID superspreaders, so I'm hoping it's just frat cough!
Both of our 2 home football games so far have been #COVID superspreaders, so I'm hoping it's just frat cough!
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September 17, 2025 at 12:50 AM
Another fantastically nuanced, relevant and context aware piece from @davidzipper.bsky.social on the coming proliferation of autonomous vehicles on American streets.
This is our one chance to take proactive steps to redefine the automotive's relationship with the built environment.
#urbantech
This is our one chance to take proactive steps to redefine the automotive's relationship with the built environment.
#urbantech
As autonomous vehicles spread across the US, they could turn urban streets into a congested, chaotic mess. But it’s not inevitable.
In @vox.com, I proposed specific ways cities can future-proof themselves for self-driving cars.
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In @vox.com, I proposed specific ways cities can future-proof themselves for self-driving cars.
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A self-driving car traffic jam is coming for US cities
A century ago, cars remade America. Autonomous vehicles could do it again.
www.vox.com
September 15, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Another fantastically nuanced, relevant and context aware piece from @davidzipper.bsky.social on the coming proliferation of autonomous vehicles on American streets.
This is our one chance to take proactive steps to redefine the automotive's relationship with the built environment.
#urbantech
This is our one chance to take proactive steps to redefine the automotive's relationship with the built environment.
#urbantech
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Insightful piece from Solitaire Carrol of the @niskanencenter.bsky.social outlining how government agencies can successfully implement the product model with "capability-based funding" instead of the mess that occurs today
#civictech #govtech #techpolicy
www.niskanencenter.org/federal-it-b...
#civictech #govtech #techpolicy
www.niskanencenter.org/federal-it-b...
Why federal IT fails — And how budgeting by capability can fix it - Niskanen Center
Federal IT teams are smart and capable. The real challenge is how funding flows and how tightly it’s bound to the work.
www.niskanencenter.org
September 9, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Insightful piece from Solitaire Carrol of the @niskanencenter.bsky.social outlining how government agencies can successfully implement the product model with "capability-based funding" instead of the mess that occurs today
#civictech #govtech #techpolicy
www.niskanencenter.org/federal-it-b...
#civictech #govtech #techpolicy
www.niskanencenter.org/federal-it-b...
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The Supremes have agreed to hear the Trump Administration's appeal of the ruling -- since affirmed by a federal appeals court -- that most of the Trump tariffs are unconstitutional. Likely early November.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/09/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/09/09/p...
Supreme Court to hear arguments over Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs | CNN Politics
The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to hear arguments over President Donald Trump’s sweeping global tariffs, taking up a fast-moving appeal that deals with the centerpiece of the administration’s…
www.cnn.com
September 9, 2025 at 8:38 PM
The Supremes have agreed to hear the Trump Administration's appeal of the ruling -- since affirmed by a federal appeals court -- that most of the Trump tariffs are unconstitutional. Likely early November.
www.cnn.com/2025/09/09/p...
www.cnn.com/2025/09/09/p...
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This trajectory has been in place for a long time. We wrote about how technology fuels it and how law could help, but it’s all pretty scary.
www.techpolicy.press/proptechs-di...
www.techpolicy.press/proptechs-di...
July 25, 2025 at 10:53 AM
This trajectory has been in place for a long time. We wrote about how technology fuels it and how law could help, but it’s all pretty scary.
www.techpolicy.press/proptechs-di...
www.techpolicy.press/proptechs-di...
Since Trump's designation of social media as the "public square" I've called out that the space is far from "public," but this states my position in ways I never could, and introduces many other great ideas. This may be the best piece on free speech I've read.
www.techpolicy.press/rethinking-s...
www.techpolicy.press/rethinking-s...
Rethinking Speech Rights in the Era of Corporate Information Control | TechPolicy.Press
We need to return to an essentially democratic, political conception of the constitutional right to free speech, David McNeill writes.
www.techpolicy.press
July 27, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Since Trump's designation of social media as the "public square" I've called out that the space is far from "public," but this states my position in ways I never could, and introduces many other great ideas. This may be the best piece on free speech I've read.
www.techpolicy.press/rethinking-s...
www.techpolicy.press/rethinking-s...
"Trump and his team are effectively acting like property developers who cut down a redwood grove and said, “Sue me if you think what I did was illegal.” Whatever the eventual outcome of any litigation, the trees are gone and there is no bringing them back."
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
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Trump’s reckless assault on the federal workforce affects every aspect of our lives
The Texas tragedy is at the front edge of harm facing the country as Trump dismantles the government.
open.substack.com
July 26, 2025 at 9:39 PM
"Trump and his team are effectively acting like property developers who cut down a redwood grove and said, “Sue me if you think what I did was illegal.” Whatever the eventual outcome of any litigation, the trees are gone and there is no bringing them back."
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...
open.substack.com/pub/contrari...