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Traditionally, showing up at a town meeting has been a cornerstone of participatory democracy. Today, in person engagement isn’t always convenient or realistic.
But California is showing that when people have the right tools, they are ready to have civil, thoughtful, and productive conversations.
But California is showing that when people have the right tools, they are ready to have civil, thoughtful, and productive conversations.
![Purple background with white and yellow text displaying a quote from Jeffery Marino, Director of California Office of Digital Innovation. The quote reads: "We shouldn't have to wait for an election cycle or depend on only the traditional avenues of interacting with our government leaders. [Engaged California is] not seeking to replace any of those, but rather add a new avenue so we can engage with Californians on what's impacting them in their day-to-day lives." A decorative isometric illustration of stacked platform layers appears in the bottom right corner in light purple tones.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:hheutzl4mxedshsz4yqek5tt/bafkreibwjtxbpxffcv23us56h6b3o2zvzudwc7hzwmzuelqsxt7w2pooaq@jpeg)
I would love to see this model of "partcipative democracry" come to Canada & get adopted -- first & foremost -- by Canadian Citizens, and also receive support from *all* levels of government in Canada!
For the public sector & governments, where projects will produce software code that may last decades, using Rust should be the default option: Rust is the cheaper, more environmentally-responsible, and likely the most stable option for software that will run continuously for a next 25+ years ..
“We adopted #rustlang for its security and are seeing a 1000x reduction in memory safety vulnerability density ... with Rust changes having a 4x lower rollback rate and spending 25% less time in code review, the safer path is now also the faster one.”
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Rust in Android: move fast and fix things
Posted by Jeff Vander Stoep, Android Last year, we wrote about why a memory safety strategy that focuses on vulnerability prevention in ...
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November 13, 2025 at 7:59 PM
For the public sector & governments, where projects will produce software code that may last decades, using Rust should be the default option: Rust is the cheaper, more environmentally-responsible, and likely the most stable option for software that will run continuously for a next 25+ years ..
I would love to see this model of "partcipative democracry" come to Canada & get adopted -- first & foremost -- by Canadian Citizens, and also receive support from *all* levels of government in Canada!
Traditionally, showing up at a town meeting has been a cornerstone of participatory democracy. Today, in person engagement isn’t always convenient or realistic.
But California is showing that when people have the right tools, they are ready to have civil, thoughtful, and productive conversations.
But California is showing that when people have the right tools, they are ready to have civil, thoughtful, and productive conversations.
October 24, 2025 at 10:24 PM
I would love to see this model of "partcipative democracry" come to Canada & get adopted -- first & foremost -- by Canadian Citizens, and also receive support from *all* levels of government in Canada!
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This week in #rust 621 https://this-week-in-rust.org/blog/2025/10/15/this-week-in-rust-621/ #rustlang
October 16, 2025 at 2:45 AM
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“Like with open source, open social is a compounding effort. Every mildly successful open social app lifts all open social apps. Every piece of shared infrastructure can benefit somebody else. At some point, open is bound to win.”
i wrote about atproto and why it matters
Open Social — overreacted
The protocol is the API.
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September 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM
“Like with open source, open social is a compounding effort. Every mildly successful open social app lifts all open social apps. Every piece of shared infrastructure can benefit somebody else. At some point, open is bound to win.”
Reposted by The Real Bunbury
Reposted by The Real Bunbury
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Permissions updated so it is unlocked. Sorry I thought it was open! Now we're good to go!
Permissions updated so it is unlocked. Sorry I thought it was open! Now we're good to go!
fixed_spreadsheet
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March 8, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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Permissions updated so it is unlocked. Sorry I thought it was open! Now we're good to go!
Permissions updated so it is unlocked. Sorry I thought it was open! Now we're good to go!
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Email list for all DOGE employees
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March 7, 2025 at 1:40 AM
Email list for all DOGE employees
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