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Forest Gregg

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 9h
The real-world political economists who post through these vicious divides are members of an elite squad known as the Double Consciousness Dealers. These are their posts.
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Forest Gregg @bunkum.us · 9h
one thing i like about abdul el-sayed is the representation he is giving to the weak-bearded.
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Forest Gregg @bunkum.us · 9h
been listening to gen z country, and it's good.
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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 16h
Several civic technologists, civil servants, and concerned citizens signed on to an open letter to GSA leadership and members of congress asking them to protect USWDS as a piece of critical digital infrastructure. I'm proud to be one of them. fedscoop.com/websites-jeo...
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Websites ‘in jeopardy’ amid U.S. Web Design System takeover, coalition tells GSA
The letter comes after administration officials changed leadership for the system, implemented new AI tooling, and shut out members of an open-source community.
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Forest Gregg @bunkum.us · 12h
maybe i need a faster computer
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Princeton University @princeton.edu · 13h
Princeton professors Ellora Derenoncourt and Elizabeth Ellis have been awarded 2026 MacArthur Fellowships: bit.ly/4hg0dgs Princeton graduate alum Kaiyu Guan *13, now professor at the University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign, has also been named a 2026 #MacFellow.
The words: "Princeton professors Ellora Derenoncourt and Elizabeth Ellis awarded MacArthur ‘genius’ grants" with photos of Ellora and Elizabeth
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Forest Gregg @bunkum.us · 14h
"The problem is not that the industry is immune to strikes, but rather that the way tech workers can strike effectively has yet to be discovered."
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Derek Eder @derekeder.com · 15h
A great weekend for meeting with residents and collecting petition signatures to get on the ballot for April 6! I've collected 635 signatures, meeting the minimum required to get on the ballot. I'll keep going and turn in the maximum allowed. Thank you to all my petition gathering volunteers!
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Forest Gregg @bunkum.us · 17h
memo time!
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Forest Gregg @bunkum.us · 29/09/2026
is this a2j?
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Rebecca Williams @rebeccawilliams.info · 26/08/2026
tech reducing the friction of everything will show us that collective rights matter and we have an obligation to each other
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Forest Gregg @bunkum.us · 28/09/2026
as the parent of older children, it actually takes a lot of strength of will to not ask to hold the newborn babies of distant acquaintances, and i should be getting some form of recognition for that self control.
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Lake Michigan! Live! @lake-michigan.live · 28/09/2026
Current* conditions near Muskegon, MI:
Northern view from the Muskegon South Pierhead Lighthouse of the channel breakwall in Lake Michigan. // Image captured at (local time): 2026-09-28 07:32:01 EDT (about 5 min. prior to this post) // Image sourced from: glerl.noaa.gov/metdata/mkg/ // Current Temp in Muskegon: 49 F | 10 C // Precip: clear sky // Wind: N at 0 mph | 0 kph // Humidity: 96%
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Forest Gregg @bunkum.us · 27/09/2026
diffusion models are a real natural for entity reconciliation problems.
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Carol Thompson @carol-thompson.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
My family is in a worse financial position since @usatoday.com bought @detroitnews.com because of drastically increased health insurance costs. We are back at the bargaining table today. Time for USAT to show they value journalism - not just shareholders - by agreeing to a fair contract.
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Forest Gregg @bunkum.us · 24/09/2026
i want a terrible burrito.
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Forest Gregg @bunkum.us · 24/09/2026
using @nber.org's natality files, i was able to push this back to the 1960s and 1970s
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Chicago Births, 1968-2023
Chicago births 1968–2023 — totals and by race/ethnicity and total fertility rates
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Forest Gregg @bunkum.us · 23/09/2026
writing takes a long time. has anybody noticed this?
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Forest Gregg @bunkum.us · 23/09/2026
i've spent the past few days thinking about how to get a reasonable estimate for a number that i know an organization could get with a pretty simple sql query.
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Forest Gregg @bunkum.us · 23/09/2026
you can do a lot with arithmetic.
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Forest Gregg @bunkum.us · 23/09/2026
under michigan's property tax regime, a homeowner's property tax will, at most, only increase at the rate of inflation,* and yet rising property taxes remain a highly salient political issue. if politicians are still going to run on taxes, we might as well have a more functional tax system.
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Forest Gregg @bunkum.us · 22/09/2026
hank williams jr voice: it's time to do the dishes
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Forest Gregg @bunkum.us · 21/09/2026
i need to set up some more book clubs
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Thomas Kole @thomaskole.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
It's live! My Interactive 3D viewer of Tenochtitlan is available online. Please give it a try and let me know what you think! retratodetenochtitlan.mx #tenochtitlan #cdmx #b3d #threejs
retratodetenochtitlan.mx
Tenochtitlan 3D viewer | retrato de Tenochtitlan
interactive 3D viewer of Tenochtitlan
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Forest Gregg @bunkum.us · 21/09/2026
learning that stoicism is also an internet subculture. what a world.
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Forest Gregg @bunkum.us · 21/09/2026
man, the internet is haunted.
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Forest Gregg @bunkum.us · 21/09/2026
what do academic philosophers make of the popularity of philosophy-based psychological treatments like CBT, which has foundations in stoicism?
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
They finally fucking did it, what a show of solidarity
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Beccas can't be choosers @beccanical.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
no, comrade, it is *our*tism
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Forest Gregg @bunkum.us · 20/09/2026
the ncaa ruling that western michigan was indeed the rightful winners, but alas, there is nothing to be done, is very 2026.
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Ben Klemens @b-k.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Hi everybody, I'll be giving a talk on AI and copyright on Friday 9 October @ 11AM Eastern (16:00 UTC), based on my paper "The Art Critics Won't Save You from the Robots." It will help you to understand why U.S. copyright law feels wrong to everybody. Logistics at ben.klemens.org/talk_announc... .
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Dave Kamper @dskamper.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Solidarity to a comrade. May her friends and family remember the fond things, and draw inspiration from her commitment to those around her.
Snippet from piece: “Rose Friedman was an editor to the end. She said she wanted the second line of her obituary to acknowledge her role as a shop steward for SAG-AFTRA, the union that represents NPR's editorial workers. She wanted the line to say that her "proudest achievement" was helping convince NPR to increase its paid parental leave.”
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Forest Gregg @bunkum.us · 18/09/2026
and yet, for michigan voters, the chicago tribune editorial board is the true "some rando"
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Forest Gregg @bunkum.us · 18/09/2026
solidarity.tech has some really nice ideas for organizing tools. here i highlight that it demands much less data entry from organizers.
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The Good Ideas of Solidarity Tech
A couple of gems.
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Noise Rock Dad @noiserockdad.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Give me all the big LLMs. I'll turn them into a Scout troop and teach em good values
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Forest Gregg @bunkum.us · 18/09/2026
if you know/have a source of lots of addresses that have a lot of variation in form, but where we can know with pretty high confidence that they are trying to represent the same address, please send them my way. i am training an address-matching embedding model, and i think it's going to be nice.
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Forest Gregg @bunkum.us · 17/09/2026
it's good to have ideas, but at what cost?
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bianca wylie @biancawylie.com · 17/09/2026
lesscomputer.ca
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Jonah Newman @jonahshai.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Some personal news, as they used to say at the old site: I'm thrilled to share that I'll be joining @themarshallproject.org next month as senior editor for local investigations and engagement, working with the talented journalists in the St. Louis, Cleveland, and Jackson bureaus!
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Forest Gregg @bunkum.us · 16/09/2026
the greeks would be disappointed how little wine there is at a typical symposium these days. smh.
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Molly Kleinman @mollyak.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Anti-safety advocates tried to stop the city from putting in this sidewalk on a route to 3 schools. They fought it at every step, driving in from across town to pack public meetings and the neighborhood walk-through. It’s exhausting having to battle for every foot of sidewalk. But we won! #a2council
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eli neiburger @eli.aadl.org · 16/09/2026
SUNDAY SUNDAY SUNDAY please join us at AADL's AALF at 265 PARKLAND PLAZA for the GREAT LIBRARY BRAWL! Very few people on earth can say they witnessed pro wrestling in a library archives facility. DON'T MISS YOUR CHANCE TO JOIN THIS ELITE CADRE! 4 PM Sunday. Free Admission! aadl.org/node/668772
Promo image for the Great Library Brawl made by Pure Pro Wrestling. Various Wrestlers looking tough or in action in front of a synthetic backdrop of library books.
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Forest Gregg @bunkum.us · 16/09/2026
thinking of getting a canoe trailer for the bike as i continue my blossoming into a certain kind of middle-age
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Forest Gregg @bunkum.us · 15/09/2026
hannah park seeems like the least-loved, official ann arbor park. sorry, hannahs.
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UAW @uaw.org · 15/09/2026
"The LaborLab Union-Busting Cost Calculator helps workers estimate how much their employers are spending on union-avoidance consultants, instead of investing that money in their workplaces." 📰 ow.ly/ZVSr50ZNuAs
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Employers spend over $1.5 billion on union busters: New LaborLab tools help shed light on union-avoidance industry
When workers seek to form a union, employers often respond by hiring union-avoidance consultants to dissuade workers from their organizing efforts. A recent EPI and LaborLab report estimates that employers spend over $1.5 billion each year on union avoidance. Last week, our partners at LaborLab released new tools that shed light on the highly secretive…
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Forest Gregg @bunkum.us · 15/09/2026
hbd
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Forest Gregg @bunkum.us · 15/09/2026
it's easy if you try.
a tab showing that i have 6,666 unread emails in gmail
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Bill Morris @vtcraghead.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
It's me. I'm the sicko. Here's prime fed contracts for Vermont over the past two decades, and it sure looks like a rollercoaster. Just a wild guess that the $1.2 billion in 2025 was related to the border. labordata.bunkum.us/usaspending/...
Federal grant values by year for Vermont, showing a huge spike to $1.2B in 2025.
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Forest Gregg @bunkum.us · 15/09/2026
if you, a sicko, ever wanted to write sql against the 93 million contracts in usaspending, then here you go. labordata.bunkum.us/usaspending
labordata.bunkum.us
usaspending
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Forest Gregg @bunkum.us · 14/09/2026
i made a roman alfredo sauce tonight, it's literally just buttered pasta with cheese. wonderful stuff.
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