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Hi Bluesky! Glad to be here.
is the goal merit or is the goal segregation?
Pete Hegseth's DOD has decided to recruit at an NRA event rather than a Black Engineering event.
www.military.com/daily-news/2...
Doug Mills is one of the greatest to ever do it.
This is America, 2025
In one weekend (!!), one New York Times photographer, Doug Mills, travels from Gitmo to the Super Bowl to take two unforgettable images of where we're at as a nation
Tell me you're redlining without telling me you're redlining
The US DOT says it's planning to prioritize areas with high marriage & high birth rates for funding.
Our new analysis @urbaninstitute.bsky.social shows this would disproportionately fund:
—Communities with a higher white resident share
—Low-density areas
—High-income areas
—Car-dependent areas
This frog looks like he’s gonna grant you a wish 🐸
Earth pregnant
I referenced this the other day at an event and got the sense that most people had never heard of it, but looking to be ahead of its time!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=0aUt...
The AMA has a YouTube page where you can catch up on all the fun, ongoing TB & bird flu outbreaks, since the CDC is no longer allowed to do that: youtube.com/watch?v=HlPB...
It was fun to see two of my Shark Tank companies featured in @google Gemini ads !
youtu.be/_bLo3hIzbYg?...
Thank you Meta for finally addressing my biggest problem with your apps (they protect my privacy too much)
A memo at Meta states privacy teams will have less authority to delay products and previous privacy decisions will be reviewed, as some are overly "risk-averse" (Kalley Huang/The Information)
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The official #Superman Krypto shirts are available on DC shop now!
Modeling by Jen, Stevie, and me.
shop.dc.com
If they don't start talking like this again they're going to keep floundering until there's nothing left
Democrats need leaders who remember that the most electorally successful president of all time was *despised* by big business
Talking with about how we have to feed the middle class.
On Threads, I started to become convinced I was shadowbanned given how little engagement my posts were getting.
Here, I pretty often think “ok, this one is a little *too* popular, how do I turn it off??”
At at time when the very idea of content moderation is under assault, I wrote about an effort that gives me hope: a $27 million project to transform trust and safety with open-source tools in the same way that open source transformed cybersecurity www.platformer.news/roost-open-s...
OK, why not, transit wonk thread.
In a huge metro area like Chicagoland, transit exists (and lots of it is great!) but for the suburbs, it really only caters to an old kind of commuting.
Even if people are willing to transfer from Metra to the L to get elsewhere downtown - that's still downtown.
And even in my case, where I'm leasing an office of my own accord, the kind of office I want would, if it were close to the train station downtown, would be ridiculously expensive.
So my car expenses actually save me some money. This is a problem.
SCOTUSblog cofounder Tom Goldstein was rearrested today after prosecutors alleged that he secretly received over $8 million in cryptocurrency and paid out $6 million in recent days. Prosecutors argued that he presented "an urgent risk of flight." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
The Shadow Over Cyberspace: With your meatspace mind unraveling, time is running out -- barter with gods, embrace the deathless aeons, or go offline permanently in this modempunk horror story.
fictionfactorygames.itch.io/the-shadow-o...
So today I noticed that Adobe Illustrator has a dedicated setting for …the color of the Share button in the title bar and I just can’t stop imagining possible scenarios that led to this being added to the product. 🥲
Yes, we've got a code of conduct for #ATmosphereConf, and those that have bought tickets have agreed to it.
It's got a lineage from , !!con, and 's Community Participation Guidelines.
And yes, this applies to digital spaces, too!
atprotocol.dev/code-of-cond...
Happy Monday nerds. Here’s a new Penny Arcade:
www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2025/0...