I write call scripts for voters to call their reps on Bluesky. Former elected, Dad, Husband. Amateur photographer. Retro gamer
He/Him
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I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.
Lula winning is great for the planet, great for Brazil, and great for people who aren't revanchist assholes everywhere in the world, but let's not forget that it's also going to make some of the worst people on Earth extremely sad and mad. We should enjoy that, as a little treat.
Darin LaHood admitted he wants to end Social Security for future generations. We should strengthen it instead by lifting the payroll tax cap for those making $250K and above. Since 1935, Social Security has lifted millions out of poverty. We must protect it for generations to come.
POWERFUL! Houston dad Dorian Ojemen became the first father in Texas to use a wearable incubator to hold his premature baby skin-to-skin. This is what scientific innovation can do — give a father the precious opportunity to bond with his babies, even in the NICU!
Women trying to succeed in Silicon Valley AI and effective altruist spaces are reporting feeling serious social pressure to attend sex parties - where people have reported being sexually assaulted, like below.
Events like Aella’s “Slutcon,” which is happening again this weekend.
This is a systemic issue with chat gpt. Every model regularly ignores explicit instructions and routinely fabricates data even when the requested outputs are in its dataset.
ChatGPT-maker OpenAI canceled the planned launch of a new artificial intelligence model after it was found to take actions beyond the instructions it received and not accurately communicate to human users what it did.
I recently built an emulator appliance in linux to emulate all the machines of my childhood. The custom launcher might be my favorite part.
#retrogaming#startrek
What's your "origin" video game?
Most gamers have a lot of favorite games, sure, but there's always one that basically 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 you.
I'm talking about the game that flipped that little switch in your brain and made into a life-long gamer.
So, which game is 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨?
What's your "origin" video game?
Most gamers have a lot of favorite games, sure, but there's always one that basically 𝘥𝘦𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘴 you.
I'm talking about the game that flipped that little switch in your brain and made into a life-long gamer.
So, which game is 𝙮𝙤𝙪𝙧𝙨?
Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) said he will vote tonight in the Senate for the first since he suffered a fall in June.
“I will do my best to be present for tough votes when our Conference needs me,” he said in a statement.
25 years ago, I worked a block away from Fr. Mychal Judge‘s home church, known for running “the best breadline in the city.“ Extraordinary man. What a loss.
i am incredibly excited to share our research about how paying people’s rent through mutual aid made an impact on minnesota this year
we accidentally collected more data than anyone ever has for an effort like this, and can very seriously say we prevented an eviction bubble that everyone expected
Program's up!
30+ teams share evidence abt impacts on health, educ, & econ + community response. Great folks @ziibiing.com@ottergoose.net@aaronrosenthal.bsky.social@chrisuggen.bsky.social@casemcnich.bsky.social@ngraetz.bsky.social@craigstetter.bsky.socialdocs.google.com/document/u/1...
So many, but recently I built an emulation box, to run all the PCs of my childhood (Apple II+, Atari800, Dos6.22, Win95, Win98), but the best part is the Star Trek LCARs themed launcher. (System runs Debian on a 7th gen core i7 I found for $200 and a classic eMachines CRT.)
3 things about Dem politicians who dabble in transphobia:
1. It's wrong, they're wrong, on a moral basis they're being evil
2. It's stupid, they're stupid, they'll never get any credit from the fascists for it
3. It's proof you're not capable of reading or rising to this, and therefore any, moment
I want Kristen Welker to solemnly read one of the "my man" threads to Jamie Raskin and ask him to denounce them one by one.
"Regarding presidential aide Stephen Miller, do you agree that, and I quote, 'my man looks like Mr. Potato Head in a cancer ward'? Yes or no, sir?"
This girl I used to waitress with in Austin, we moved to New York together in 2003 on a literal Greyhound bus. Shared a fifth floor walk-up studio that, when it rained, had more leaks in the ceiling than we had pots and pans. We used to get drunk and smoke off the fire escape and do “sad-offs.”
Naively failed to consider the potential ramifications of the Chicago Bears playing in a state run by guys like this.
Geographically close, moral compass couldn’t be farther from ours. No thank you.
“We don’t take venture capital, we don’t use AI, we don’t sell ads, and we don’t sell your data” – Mastodon 4.7 release blog post
blog.joinmastodon.org/2026/08/mast...
(Lots of problems in the Fediverse, but these choices stand out, IMO)
NEW: Teen boys are using smart glasses — mainly Meta's AI Glasses — to film themselves harassing classmates at school, following girls around and "rizzing" them or "ragebaiting" them w/ insults.
In several videos we reviewed, girls plead w/ the poster to stop filming.
futurism.com/artificial-i...
(Preseason football matters! But in the context of looking at individual performances and plays. The stats are mostly fake. Thank you for coming to my ted talk)