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Bret Mogilefsky

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#civictech #agile #product and #tech wrangler Recently in the #WhiteHouse #CEQ and now speeding up #Permitting ... while still in the #US #GSA […] 🌉 bridged from hachyderm.io/@mogul on the fediverse by fed.brid.gy

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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
6/ Concise, accurate:
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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 08/10/2026
Like I said... www.reuters.com/business/environmen…
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Mark Mullen @mmm.mastodon.sdf.org.ap.brid.gy · 08/10/2026
Margaret Hamilton, probably the person most responsible for putting a man on the #moon has died at 90. #legend
Margaret Hamilton next to a giant stack of computer code on paper.
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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 07/10/2026
@coreysnipes I started my federal service in 18F!
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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 07/10/2026
And heading off the drive-bys: Yes, I absolutely know and understand the arguments against using AI. The work I'm doing is to mitigate the side-effects of an aggressive and haphazard rollout of AI capabilities into federal agencies, which is already happening. This is harm-reduction work that I […]
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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 07/10/2026
I rarely break cover to talk about work stuff here, but: I did a presentation on the project a colleague and I have been hurling ourselves into so that our federal agency (and others!) can integrate the power of agentic coding tools in federal delivery while mitigating the risks. It's likely […]
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 07/10/2026
If they are denied the right to dominate & oppress you, then you have gained liberty and they have lost it. It's zero sum.
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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 07/10/2026
Humans are the fucking worst. bird.makeup/users/amazlngnature/sta…
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bird.makeup - Post
Indonesia’s wildfires put Bornean orangutans at greater risk as flames spread through their shrinking forest habitat Rescuers are finding orangutans suffering from burns, dehydration and smoke exposure, adding further pressure to the already endangered species
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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 07/10/2026
We need this in the US, for ICE.
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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 07/10/2026
I find these terms acceptable.
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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 06/10/2026
Also, here's the drum and theremin set you didn't know you were looking for music.youtube.com/watch?v=MG5ONmx_y…
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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 06/10/2026
There's this French band that I really like, L'imperatrice, and I always thought they were mostly doing everything in post-production, but no, here they are playing live on the same instruments me and my fellow junior bandmasters play. It's hard to comprehend the sheer variety made possible […]
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Aram Sinnreich @aram.aoir.social.ap.brid.gy · 06/10/2026
Every news article about business leaders and/or social strife should mention that a cabal of billionaires and their trillionaire buddy are currently and explicitly trying to accelerate social collapse so they can be neofeudal kings in digital paradise forever. I dunno, seems like important […]
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
Holy shit.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 05/10/2026
He can just do his cute, cozy, artsy thing, secure in the knowledge that he's not at risk of being wiped out by a single health problem or economic downturn. He's got a fulfilling life without constantly scrabbling to grow & get bigger. Imagine having nice things. 🥲
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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 05/10/2026
> “Traumatizing the federal work force,” Lewis explains, was more than a cruel, pointless and self-defeating exercise. It was also a challenge to what makes America great […]
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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 05/10/2026
(I have been doing calisthenics lately and cannot do even one part of what the robot did.)
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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 05/10/2026
I'm happy for a whole lot of you! And even more sure I'm overdue to resume therapy. 😓
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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 05/10/2026
The older I get, the more attractive the idea of transplanting myself into a robot body becomes. youtube.com/shorts/UoHfGhLHRkg?is=V…
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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 04/10/2026
🧵
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 04/10/2026
"Absent policy steering, AI’s modeled effects increase the carbon intensity of the global economy and reinforce fossil fuel incumbency—outcomes that current analytical and governance frameworks do not fully capture."
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AI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model - npj Climate Action
npj Climate Action - AI-driven productivity gains enable more CO₂ emissions than they avoid in a global energy–economy model
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Humor Satire Memes @funnysnarkyjoke.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
@Kadi

Empires have fallen before, but I'm not sure I've ever seen one jump off a cliff.

US Democratic Socialists
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Henrik Schönemann @lavaeolus.fedihum.org.ap.brid.gy · 03/10/2026
RE: chaosfem.tw/@ellieraejaye/117375856… "To everyone reading this, take care of yourselves. Trans people matter. Trans kids matter. It does not need to be so awful. The world can be a better place, and I’ll never stop fighting for the future we all deserve." […]
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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 03/10/2026
+83.7% on my insurance premiums, to go with my 0% pay increase. Great to be a Fed. 🙄😩
Screenshot of a tool showing that the poster's health care premiums will rise 86.7% this year. (This is just one year after leaving a previous option that also increased by 80%.)
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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 03/10/2026
36 hours. ⏳ THIRTY-SIX HOURS.⏳⏳⏳ Get the word out people! ⏰⏰⏰
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 30/09/2026
New: Through a series of complex agreements with cities, the White House built a massive license plate camera database accessible to the feds. The program aggregates data across license plate companies (Flock, Axon, more) & is searchable by many agencies […]
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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 30/09/2026
RE: masto.ai/@Nonilex/117360286153901859 MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
Photo from 2003 of President George W Bush giving a thumbs-up on an aircraft carrier under a giant USA-flag-themed banner that says "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED".
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
CBS News: [Bigoted] "Trump administration on Monday asked the SCOTUS to revive for now a Bureau of Prisons policy cutting off medical interventions and social accommodations for transgender inmates." #LGBTQ
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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 28/09/2026
@secularrabbi.bsky.social okay boomer
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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 28/09/2026
@secularrabbi.bsky.social I thought we were past the era when people needed to provide paywall-free links because everyone already knows how to do that themselves!? […]
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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 28/09/2026
This is the way. www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/202…
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Katelyn Burns @katelynburns.com · 28/09/2026
Called it again
Eric Daugherty @EricLDaugh • 6h
€ UPDATE: A migrant caravan just RUSHED into Mexico and is now full steam ahead to the
U.S. Southern Border
This is NOT a freaking game! THEY ARE WAITING FOR DEMOCRATS TO TAKE POWER
VOTE RED!!
You see these people? Each one is a future Democrat voter if Dems take Congress then win in 2028.
Punish RINOs in primary season, SAVE OUR REPUBLIC IN NOVEMBER
We can kiss any hope of the SAVE America Act and ICE funding GOODBYE if Democrats take power ever again e
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Dan Hon @danhon.com · 27/09/2026
this jackpot is going great etc etc bsky.app/profile/cnn....
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
🤦🏻‍♀️ "US & Russian diplomats...removed provisions to safeguard use of AI in weapons..stripped..requiring syst's to operate in “predictable” & “reliable” manner..removed clause mandating ethical considrt'ns..when using AI weaponry..+requiring humans review milit targets developed by AI before strike"
washingtonpost.com
U.S., Russia stripped human oversight from global AI weapons pact
The two nations weakened a range of safeguards in a landmark U.N. effort to try to regulate the use of lethal autonomous weaponry. The global negotiations earlier this month marked the furthest progre...
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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 26/09/2026
This is the only logical response to finding you're dependent on tech companies beholden to a government that doesn't respect international laws. itsfoss.com/news/netherlands-dawo-i…
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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 26/09/2026
RE: cosocial.ca/@deborahh/1173380572609… Incredibly damning.
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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 26/09/2026
Peter Thiel is another one of those guys who we are told is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth he proves to be an idiot
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`Da Elf @elfin.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/09/2026
Flock thinks it's cameras have a legal right to privacy in public. 😂
Flock Safety has issued a legal demand seeking the removal of a public map showing the locations of approximately 300.000 of it's surveillance devices across the United States.
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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 26/09/2026
RE: fediscience.org/@ZLabe/117333805306… We're in trouble, fam.
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 26/09/2026
Class solidarity.
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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)
YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing "political" content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.
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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 26/09/2026
@gottalaff.bsky.social According to who, Zuck!?
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Katiesaurus @katiesaurusseven.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
"The current El Niño is likely to be the largest in at least 1,000 years and will pile extra heat into an atmosphere in which temperatures are already rising rapidly due to human-caused global heating...2027 is expected to 'blow apart' previous records and become the hottest year ever recorded."
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‘Jaw-dropping’ El Niño bursts through temperature record months before peak
‘Godzilla-level’ phenomenon is supercharging the climate crisis and will have a huge impact on communities across the world
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
“You were created to take dominion” - Praxis founder Dryden Brown (It’s in the thread.)
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Jess👾 @jesstheunstill.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
Trans people and trans kids getting equal rights IS the moderate position. If you want the progressive position, you're going to need to give trans people free healthcare and college and housing and basic income. And cis and non-binary people can have that too.
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Chuck Darwin @cdarwin.c.im.ap.brid.gy · 24/09/2026
If Republicans want to cut our earned benefits, the American people deserve for them to tell us that to our faces, rather than weaseling around the job they were elected to do, and for which they earn a handsome salary. This Monday, House Republicans held a hearing focused on creating a […]
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 24/09/2026
Oooh, Copper has released the 2.0 version of Charlie, its electric induction range. It now can plug into a normal 120V outlet! Bigger battery, more power. NYC is gonna buy a bunch of these for public housing, help bring the cost down.
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Charlie - battery-equipped induction range
Meet Charlie, a powerful battery-equipped induction range that plugs into 120v and 240v outlets. Ranges are built in the U.S. and installed across the country.
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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 24/09/2026
Pitch perfect! bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/pro… (David does not and did not work in oil and gas BTW; he's making an incredibly serious point by making fun of the AI alarmism.)
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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 21/09/2026
@Nonilex For when the time comes: You can have it done at home, in your lap, rather than in the scary vet's office. We did this for our beloved Hugo and I think I'll only ever do it this peaceful, comfortable way for all of our pets from now on.
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@GottaLaff @gottalaff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is some thread. 👇🏼
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Bret Mogilefsky @bret.mogilefsky.me · 19/09/2026
This would dramatically improve my quality of life, which has been trashed by pregabalin. I'm grateful to live in an age where medical breakthroughs like this happen so frequently! […]
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