Amanda Bee
@amanda.an.errant.cloud.ap.brid.gy
Passionate about emojis, public records, apricots, mountains. You should also follow @muckrock @documentcloud
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I am delighted to report that after my first round of complaints was ignored I may have finally gotten the TLC to address my insane cab ride from last September. Took a yellow cab from a cab stand at JFK. Dude told me the credit card machine was broken and I had to pay on Square. Passed him my […]
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an.errant.cloud
October 30, 2025 at 9:08 AM
I am delighted to report that after my first round of complaints was ignored I may have finally gotten the TLC to address my insane cab ride from last September. Took a yellow cab from a cab stand at JFK. Dude told me the credit card machine was broken and I had to pay on Square. Passed him my […]
AI is going great.
August 19, 2025 at 11:03 PM
AI is going great.
What does it mean that so very many people have absolutely no idea what sarcasm is?
August 12, 2025 at 6:34 PM
What does it mean that so very many people have absolutely no idea what sarcasm is?
Teenager: can you pick me up tonight?
Parent: can you be a little more specific?
Teenager: ugh!!No!
Parent: can you be a little more specific?
Teenager: ugh!!No!
August 12, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Teenager: can you pick me up tonight?
Parent: can you be a little more specific?
Teenager: ugh!!No!
Parent: can you be a little more specific?
Teenager: ugh!!No!
I'm going to lose my mind over here. Teen needs an ID. The CA DMV cannot provide a list of documents. There's an interactive check lost I can walk through and a YouTube video I can watch. But no freaking list […]
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July 15, 2025 at 4:56 PM
I'm going to lose my mind over here. Teen needs an ID. The CA DMV cannot provide a list of documents. There's an interactive check lost I can walk through and a YouTube video I can watch. But no freaking list […]
I'm pretty diligent about not accepting new AI apps that Android wants to offer me. And I guarantee I have not knowingly enabled a service to transcribe private conversations.
May 26, 2025 at 12:26 AM
I'm pretty diligent about not accepting new AI apps that Android wants to offer me. And I guarantee I have not knowingly enabled a service to transcribe private conversations.
I met someone this weekend who was trying to decide whether businesses that offer to write your Wikipedia entry for you are a scam. It was a wild conversation.
May 20, 2025 at 6:31 AM
I met someone this weekend who was trying to decide whether businesses that offer to write your Wikipedia entry for you are a scam. It was a wild conversation.
Today I learned that thalidomide is why we have the FDA. https://www.propublica.org/article/revlimid-price-cancer-celgene-drugs-fda-multiple-myeloma?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
The Price of Remission
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked even me.
www.propublica.org
May 8, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Today I learned that thalidomide is why we have the FDA. https://www.propublica.org/article/revlimid-price-cancer-celgene-drugs-fda-multiple-myeloma?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post
Having a whole conversation with @eugeneerickim about whether or not Threads tells you when someone on a federated server mentions you.
Eugene Eric Kim (@eugeneerickim) • Threads, Say more
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May 6, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Having a whole conversation with @eugeneerickim about whether or not Threads tells you when someone on a federated server mentions you.
The goal has never been to deport every immigrant laborer, it is to scare everyone who is left so their labor is easier to abuse.
https://union.place/@ufwupdates/114440919296938665
https://union.place/@ufwupdates/114440919296938665
UFW (@ufwupdates@union.place)
Attached: 1 image BUFFALO, NY: We are mobilizing to protest the arrest and detention of a group of UFW farm worker leaders we believe are being held at the Batavia ICE detention center. We believe targeting known union supporters in the name of immigration “enforcement” is an outrage. These workers must be released.
union.place
May 3, 2025 at 2:36 PM
The goal has never been to deport every immigrant laborer, it is to scare everyone who is left so their labor is easier to abuse.
https://union.place/@ufwupdates/114440919296938665
https://union.place/@ufwupdates/114440919296938665
Love the call to show your work at #logansymposium2025 -- if I may, I recommend looking into DocumentCloud if you need help facilitating that.
May 2, 2025 at 8:58 PM
Love the call to show your work at #logansymposium2025 -- if I may, I recommend looking into DocumentCloud if you need help facilitating that.
Trying to wrap my head around the #logansymposium2025 speaker who really doesn't seem to understand that the reason no one sees his tweets anymore is because the rest of his audience has left Twitter by now.
May 2, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Trying to wrap my head around the #logansymposium2025 speaker who really doesn't seem to understand that the reason no one sees his tweets anymore is because the rest of his audience has left Twitter by now.
You can have a foolproof paywall. Or you can ask wistfully why your stories don't reach enough people. But if you're going to do both, maybe consider whether you already know the answer. #logansymposium2025
May 2, 2025 at 8:36 PM
You can have a foolproof paywall. Or you can ask wistfully why your stories don't reach enough people. But if you're going to do both, maybe consider whether you already know the answer. #logansymposium2025
I feel like there should be a resource where you can take a screenshot of an email you just got and find out if it is a scam or not. I'm mostly interested in bill phishing (which might have another name?) because someone I know fell for it. She realized in time to change her account information […]
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an.errant.cloud
April 14, 2025 at 7:44 PM
I feel like there should be a resource where you can take a screenshot of an email you just got and find out if it is a scam or not. I'm mostly interested in bill phishing (which might have another name?) because someone I know fell for it. She realized in time to change her account information […]
We have one artichoke plant that grows pretty normal artichokes. They're purple this year, which I don't recall from last year. And then we have two from a neighbor, that are gorgeous plants but the artichokes look crazy. Like pineapple or something. Very curious whether they're edible.
April 14, 2025 at 12:11 AM
We have one artichoke plant that grows pretty normal artichokes. They're purple this year, which I don't recall from last year. And then we have two from a neighbor, that are gorgeous plants but the artichokes look crazy. Like pineapple or something. Very curious whether they're edible.
This is such a good account of how incredibly hard it is to get addiction treatment. And when you are seeing tent cities full of people who look like zombies, doubled over on fentanyl, remember that we ask them to jump through flaming hoops to get help […]
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March 6, 2025 at 8:20 PM
This is such a good account of how incredibly hard it is to get addiction treatment. And when you are seeing tent cities full of people who look like zombies, doubled over on fentanyl, remember that we ask them to jump through flaming hoops to get help […]
It's good that costco/deere/apple shareholders rejected the "Request to Cease DEI Efforts" proposals. But it matters that every shareholder meeting has a handful of proposals from shareholders that the board does not endorse and those proposals never pass. You can see the external proposals to […]
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February 26, 2025 at 11:22 PM
It's good that costco/deere/apple shareholders rejected the "Request to Cease DEI Efforts" proposals. But it matters that every shareholder meeting has a handful of proposals from shareholders that the board does not endorse and those proposals never pass. You can see the external proposals to […]
I really need you to understand that there were four items of business in the most recent Apple shareholders meeting that the board recommended voting against:
https://s2.q4cdn.com/470004039/files/doc_financials/2025/Proxy_Statement_2025.pdf (Page 13) There was also a proposal to require a […]
https://s2.q4cdn.com/470004039/files/doc_financials/2025/Proxy_Statement_2025.pdf (Page 13) There was also a proposal to require a […]
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February 26, 2025 at 11:20 PM
I really need you to understand that there were four items of business in the most recent Apple shareholders meeting that the board recommended voting against:
https://s2.q4cdn.com/470004039/files/doc_financials/2025/Proxy_Statement_2025.pdf (Page 13) There was also a proposal to require a […]
https://s2.q4cdn.com/470004039/files/doc_financials/2025/Proxy_Statement_2025.pdf (Page 13) There was also a proposal to require a […]
If I'm being honest I thought that most of the IPFS/Filecoin use case was more theoretical. But I'm less confident that we won't have a need for censorship resistant file storage protocols. There's a good primer at […]
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February 7, 2025 at 6:48 PM
If I'm being honest I thought that most of the IPFS/Filecoin use case was more theoretical. But I'm less confident that we won't have a need for censorship resistant file storage protocols. There's a good primer at […]
Is it too much to ask that news reports on the DEI orders explain what DEI actually is? There was a whole segment on morning edition today about how DEI is not well understood but at no point did they say "so when we talk about DEI policies what we're talking about is ..."
February 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Is it too much to ask that news reports on the DEI orders explain what DEI actually is? There was a whole segment on morning edition today about how DEI is not well understood but at no point did they say "so when we talk about DEI policies what we're talking about is ..."
I don't run, really, but I know that if you try to keep a sprint pace for a whole ass marathon you will not make it.
February 3, 2025 at 11:50 PM
I don't run, really, but I know that if you try to keep a sprint pace for a whole ass marathon you will not make it.
If you're concerned about disappearing data and records keep an eye on IPUMS https://www.ipums.org/ which has been aggregating massive volumes of population, health and agricultural data for decades and the End of Term Archive https://eotarchive.org/ which has captured snapshots of federal […]
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February 3, 2025 at 10:24 PM
If you're concerned about disappearing data and records keep an eye on IPUMS https://www.ipums.org/ which has been aggregating massive volumes of population, health and agricultural data for decades and the End of Term Archive https://eotarchive.org/ which has captured snapshots of federal […]
Via @karaswisher Reuters on the Sovereign Wealth Fund with some oft-missing context (Can he do this? Not really, no.) https://www.reuters.com/markets/wealth/trump-signs-executive-order-create-sovereign-wealth-fund-2025-02-03/
February 3, 2025 at 9:40 PM
Via @karaswisher Reuters on the Sovereign Wealth Fund with some oft-missing context (Can he do this? Not really, no.) https://www.reuters.com/markets/wealth/trump-signs-executive-order-create-sovereign-wealth-fund-2025-02-03/
It would be really nice if articles like this one included some indication of whether he can just do that, and what recourse there may be. I'm not an expert in federal executive powers, but I'm pretty sure that some of these employees have rights, some of this spending was explicitly approved […]
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February 3, 2025 at 2:52 PM
It would be really nice if articles like this one included some indication of whether he can just do that, and what recourse there may be. I'm not an expert in federal executive powers, but I'm pretty sure that some of these employees have rights, some of this spending was explicitly approved […]
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As per request, here's a screen grab from that email from my Dem senator, Patty Murray, telling federal employees to not trust the Fork in the Road email.
#uspol
#uspol
![Friend,
| wanted to reach out with some information about the Trump administration’s “Fork in the Road” offer, which claims to give federal workers the option of a “deferred resignation” that would allegedly allow workers to “retain all pay and benefits regardless of your daily workload and be exempted from all applicable in-person work requirements until September 30.”
First, there is no guarantee workers who accept this offer will get paid through September 30 as promised. Not only is there no funding for that time frame right now, but | personally am deeply skeptical of any offer from a President like Donald Trump who has so consistently shown he will try to stiff workers if it furthers his personal goals and ambitions.
Being given only 9 days decide is a short amount of time to consider all of the financial impacts of potentially accepting the offer—including if and where you’d be able to find a new job, how this would impact benefits like Thrift Savings Plans, and more. And we know scammers often pressure people to act immediately.
Additionally, the information being provided includes a lot of caveats. It claims you can rescind your resignation if you change your mind—but that your job may no longer exist. It claims that you aren’t expected to work if you accept the offer—expect in rare cases determined by each individual agency. It claims that you can stay in your current role—but there’s no guarantee your position will be needed.
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February 2, 2025 at 10:32 PM
As per request, here's a screen grab from that email from my Dem senator, Patty Murray, telling federal employees to not trust the Fork in the Road email.
#uspol
#uspol