Ambrose Treacy
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Ambrose Treacy
@ambrosetreacy.bsky.social
Husband and father…. 3 powerful women…
From Ireland to Seattle…. Tractors to server farms for Microsoft.
Keeps me out of trouble.
But I think those in the streets of Los Angeles don’t feel they have the same recourse to those democratic mechanisms that that you might feel you have.

I was born (month)after, but I’ve read enough about it .
This feels like the summer of 69 in Belfast.
The army will win this battle, but the war….
June 8, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Welcome to Belfast summer of 1969….
June 8, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Don’t underestimate that point about ranked choice voting. The Australian Constitution trusts its people.
May 5, 2025 at 12:49 PM
Perception/perceive ability bias is a hard problem. Worse, it’s hard to detect in a poll sample.

favorite example …

5.3 million people in Ireland.
8 million in the state of Washington
14.2 million living in Tokyo

The Irish are way over perceived in western culture 🤪
January 30, 2025 at 4:13 PM
I guess we figured out what the Great Filter answer to the Fermi Paradox is:

“The ability to put the whole species before any parochial interest”

We don’t have it .
January 12, 2025 at 8:29 PM
He’s already a lame duck…. Folks are starting to realize on Saturday January 20th 2029 someone else will be sworn in as president.
December 7, 2024 at 8:48 PM