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For more on software collaboratives, see this report I cowrote about them a few years ago, “Sharing Government
Software: How Agencies are Cooperatively Building Mission-Critical Software.” beeckcenter.georgetown.edu/wp-content/u...
Software: How Agencies are Cooperatively Building Mission-Critical Software.” beeckcenter.georgetown.edu/wp-content/u...
beeckcenter.georgetown.edu
December 14, 2025 at 10:25 PM
For more on software collaboratives, see this report I cowrote about them a few years ago, “Sharing Government
Software: How Agencies are Cooperatively Building Mission-Critical Software.” beeckcenter.georgetown.edu/wp-content/u...
Software: How Agencies are Cooperatively Building Mission-Critical Software.” beeckcenter.georgetown.edu/wp-content/u...
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🚨ACTION NEEDED BY DECEMBER 1🚨
Find out how to advocate for an important work permit protection on our blog.
Find out how to advocate for an important work permit protection on our blog.
Protect automatic work permit extensions!
Standing publicly in solidarity with families and communities resisting detention and deportation in order to stay together.
www.newsanctuarynsc.org
November 30, 2025 at 7:32 PM
🚨ACTION NEEDED BY DECEMBER 1🚨
Find out how to advocate for an important work permit protection on our blog.
Find out how to advocate for an important work permit protection on our blog.
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Last night, I hit the doors, taking nothing for granted. I’m proud of the campaign we’ve run, the coalition we’ve built, and the vision for our city that we’ve created together. Vote by 8 pm today by dropping your ballot in a dropbox.
Find the dropbox nearest you at the link in bio. #thisisyourcity
Find the dropbox nearest you at the link in bio. #thisisyourcity
November 4, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Last night, I hit the doors, taking nothing for granted. I’m proud of the campaign we’ve run, the coalition we’ve built, and the vision for our city that we’ve created together. Vote by 8 pm today by dropping your ballot in a dropbox.
Find the dropbox nearest you at the link in bio. #thisisyourcity
Find the dropbox nearest you at the link in bio. #thisisyourcity
"The state Legislature never specified measurable outcomes, which hampered any evaluation. Loosely, the tax breaks were aimed at increasing “quality” employment and research spending. But lawmakers left those targets undefined."
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November 2, 2025 at 10:18 PM
"The state Legislature never specified measurable outcomes, which hampered any evaluation. Loosely, the tax breaks were aimed at increasing “quality” employment and research spending. But lawmakers left those targets undefined."
archive.ph/jgebJ
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AI is all about making people's lives better, that's why it should be invested at the expense of all other national priorities, and then hoarded by one nation
October 30, 2025 at 12:47 AM
AI is all about making people's lives better, that's why it should be invested at the expense of all other national priorities, and then hoarded by one nation
PSA: We've got some really not smart Senators
September 17, 2025 at 3:14 PM
PSA: We've got some really not smart Senators
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70 years ago, on this date, Emmett Till was kidnapped and brutally murdered by white men.
His family, including his cousin who was with him at the time, is repeating the train ride he took from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955 to mark the anniversary
His family, including his cousin who was with him at the time, is repeating the train ride he took from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955 to mark the anniversary
August 28, 2025 at 1:14 PM
70 years ago, on this date, Emmett Till was kidnapped and brutally murdered by white men.
His family, including his cousin who was with him at the time, is repeating the train ride he took from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955 to mark the anniversary
His family, including his cousin who was with him at the time, is repeating the train ride he took from Chicago to Mississippi in 1955 to mark the anniversary
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This is what you voted for⁉️
Detainees treated like violent criminals. Moved from cage to cage at 3 a.m. and sleep-deprived. Only 3 minutes to eat. Bathrooms three times a week. No towel to dry off after a shower and growing fungus on their bodies.
Listen to this once. Then listen to it again.
Detainees treated like violent criminals. Moved from cage to cage at 3 a.m. and sleep-deprived. Only 3 minutes to eat. Bathrooms three times a week. No towel to dry off after a shower and growing fungus on their bodies.
Listen to this once. Then listen to it again.
July 25, 2025 at 2:06 AM
This is what you voted for⁉️
Detainees treated like violent criminals. Moved from cage to cage at 3 a.m. and sleep-deprived. Only 3 minutes to eat. Bathrooms three times a week. No towel to dry off after a shower and growing fungus on their bodies.
Listen to this once. Then listen to it again.
Detainees treated like violent criminals. Moved from cage to cage at 3 a.m. and sleep-deprived. Only 3 minutes to eat. Bathrooms three times a week. No towel to dry off after a shower and growing fungus on their bodies.
Listen to this once. Then listen to it again.
A bunch of students and @lupefiasco.bsky.social have created what I see as one of the top 5 uses of machine learning in the era of the LLM. Amazing how when you have care and focus, you can make a more beneficial and enduring product than those selling the boiled ocean...
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TextFX
TextFX
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July 23, 2025 at 5:21 PM
A bunch of students and @lupefiasco.bsky.social have created what I see as one of the top 5 uses of machine learning in the era of the LLM. Amazing how when you have care and focus, you can make a more beneficial and enduring product than those selling the boiled ocean...
textfx.withgoogle.com
textfx.withgoogle.com
Couldn't have had a better "top of the morning!"
July 11, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Couldn't have had a better "top of the morning!"
When did the paper of record start to suck so bad?
June 27, 2025 at 2:38 PM
When did the paper of record start to suck so bad?
Perhaps people are distracted by antisemitism meant to be hurtful and angering jabs, and missing the fact that the Trump, Netanyahu administrations, and others that perpetrate a deeper more insidious form of antisemitism.
June 4, 2025 at 2:37 PM
Perhaps people are distracted by antisemitism meant to be hurtful and angering jabs, and missing the fact that the Trump, Netanyahu administrations, and others that perpetrate a deeper more insidious form of antisemitism.
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In a Utah first, a lawyer was punished last week by the state Court of Appeals for filing a brief with “fake precedence” created by artificial intelligence.
‘Fake precedent’: Lawyer punished for filing brief with case made up by artificial intelligence
In a Utah first, a lawyer was punished last week by the state Court of Appeals for filing a brief with “fake precedence” created by artificial intelligence.
www.sltrib.com
May 29, 2025 at 8:25 PM
In a Utah first, a lawyer was punished last week by the state Court of Appeals for filing a brief with “fake precedence” created by artificial intelligence.
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I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few:
1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
May 21, 2025 at 2:03 AM
I said it would get worse very quickly. By tomorrow we will have completed the most dangerous & frightening 24 hours thus far of Trump 2.0. Just to name a few:
1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
1. Defiance of a court order by sending migrants to Sudan without due process (despite clear DP decision SCOTUS) & Dist. CT. order.
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this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 AM
this is a letter to the editor from a high school track runner who came in second to a trans girl in a race. her state house rep in maine started talking about it. so she wrote this: www.pressherald.com/2025/05/14/r...
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A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here
April 29, 2025 at 3:17 PM
A horrible story but god bless this woman so accurately reading the ICE goons for filth here
Wondering where are the right wing sleuths asking the "tough questions" on why the administration is appealing to the Supreme Court to avoid returning someone the admin mistakenly deported to a labor camp in El Salvador are? What are they hiding? What does he know? or some shit
April 7, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Wondering where are the right wing sleuths asking the "tough questions" on why the administration is appealing to the Supreme Court to avoid returning someone the admin mistakenly deported to a labor camp in El Salvador are? What are they hiding? What does he know? or some shit
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Really struggling with the evil erupting. And this is just background noise for so many. Will it even appear on news shows tomorrow? (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/world/middleeast/gaza-israel-aid-workers-deaths-video.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share)
April 5, 2025 at 2:33 AM
Really struggling with the evil erupting. And this is just background noise for so many. Will it even appear on news shows tomorrow? (https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/world/middleeast/gaza-israel-aid-workers-deaths-video.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share)
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I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
March 21, 2025 at 10:41 PM
I helped build a government AI system. DOGE fired me, rolled the AI out to the whole agency, and implied the AI can do my job and the jobs of the others they've fired.
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
It can't. But, what DOGE accidentally revealed about themselves in the process is fascinating. 🧵
@nytimes.com @michaelbarbaro.bsky.social maybe have the covid lockdown political scientists talk about Project 2025 measures. Maybe they can use their analytical methods to express how harmful the current measures are for the economy and the public....
March 21, 2025 at 12:55 AM
@nytimes.com @michaelbarbaro.bsky.social maybe have the covid lockdown political scientists talk about Project 2025 measures. Maybe they can use their analytical methods to express how harmful the current measures are for the economy and the public....
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Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.
Elon Musk’s Starlink Expands Across White House Complex
Trump administration officials said the company donated the internet service, saying the gift had been vetted by the lawyer overseeing ethics issues in the White House Counsel’s Office.
www.nytimes.com
March 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Hi, I'm the guy who used to oversee the federal government's agency IT telecommunications contracts. This is extremely bad. There is absolutely no need for this. Not only is it a huge security exposure, but the simplest explanation for this is that it is meant to be a security exposure.
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I can't make myself read another AGI nonsense from Kevin Roose. They are one of the biggest vectors of disinformation when it comes to AI.
New York Times Tech Journalism: Writing press releases masquerading as journalism ™️
New York Times Tech Journalism: Writing press releases masquerading as journalism ™️
March 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
I can't make myself read another AGI nonsense from Kevin Roose. They are one of the biggest vectors of disinformation when it comes to AI.
New York Times Tech Journalism: Writing press releases masquerading as journalism ™️
New York Times Tech Journalism: Writing press releases masquerading as journalism ™️
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The Silicon Valley Consensus: a persistent but fragile pattern for overbuilding, overvaluing, and overinvesting in tech to enrich networks of capitalists & advance their (reactionary) political projects. 1st iteration focuses on AI capex, first half today. thetechbubble.substack.com/p/the-silico...
The Silicon Valley Consensus & AI Capex (Part 1)
On overbuilding AI infrastructure and its energy supply
thetechbubble.substack.com
March 3, 2025 at 10:00 PM
The Silicon Valley Consensus: a persistent but fragile pattern for overbuilding, overvaluing, and overinvesting in tech to enrich networks of capitalists & advance their (reactionary) political projects. 1st iteration focuses on AI capex, first half today. thetechbubble.substack.com/p/the-silico...
It seems the NYTimes is completely alright with giving the public the idea that they are completely on board with the AI-hype industry 1/6
March 14, 2025 at 10:20 PM
It seems the NYTimes is completely alright with giving the public the idea that they are completely on board with the AI-hype industry 1/6
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Re the many claims that "30 day shutdown = automatic RIF (permanent layoffs)".
No, OPM's own guidance quite explicitly says differently.
No, OPM's own guidance quite explicitly says differently.
From OPM: "Note: RIF furlough regulations...are not applicable to emergency shutdown furloughs because the ultimate duration of an emergency shutdown furlough is unknown at the outset and is dependent entirely on Congressional action, rather than agency action."
tinyurl.com/ycyw5z9n
tinyurl.com/ycyw5z9n
www.opm.gov
March 14, 2025 at 12:47 AM
Re the many claims that "30 day shutdown = automatic RIF (permanent layoffs)".
No, OPM's own guidance quite explicitly says differently.
No, OPM's own guidance quite explicitly says differently.