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Amanda Aizuss
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fan of chickpeas, women's soccer, and walking fast (and far). software eng at gusto
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This is a good idea!
anildash.com Anil Dash @anildash.com · Mar 1
The thing that everyone thinks is nuts, but I absolutely think would work: a presentation that looked like an Apple keynote product launch, but for all the cool shit that the government makes for people. Cancer treatments, national parks, space discoveries, free tax filing, cool new airports.
aoc.bsky.social Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @aoc.bsky.social · Feb 28
If you were in Congress, what would you do for the State of the Union? What do you think Dems should do?
March 1, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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I have written a short statement responding to mass firings today of #NOAA / National Weather Service (#NWS) staff (which were concentrated among recent hires as well as highly experienced staff who had recently been promoted). Please see below screenshot & below for full text.
Statement begins: The mass firing of both new hires and recently promoted senior staff within NOAA, including mission-critical and life-saving roles at the National Weather Service (NWS), is profoundly alarming. It appears that NOAA staff fired today include meteorologists, data and computer scientists responsible for maintaining and upgrading weather predictive models, and technicians responsible for maintaining the nation’s weather instrumentation network (among many others). Housed within NOAA, the U.S. NWS is a truly world-class meteorological predictive service, perhaps singularly so. Its cost of operation is only ~$3-4/yr per taxpayer—equivalent to a single cup of coffee—and yields a truly remarkable return on investment (at least 10 to 1, and perhaps 100 to 1, depending on methods of estimation). NOAA and the NWS collectively offer tens to hundreds of billions of dollars each year in net economic benefit through a combination of averted losses and efficiencies gained....
February 27, 2025 at 11:17 PM
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This is Toby. His hobbies include pawing at my computer, pawing at my phone, and pawing at my hands
November 20, 2024 at 7:44 PM
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Photos from my walk this evening
Cool tree and some apartment buildings from the sidewalk Gradient reflection on a building's windows at the coast Ocean with subtle sunset
November 20, 2024 at 7:44 PM