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He continues to serve as pastor of Covenant United Methodist Church in Plainfield, NJ.

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He later served as assistant and deputy commissioner of the New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, advancing key statewide development programs.

This bio deserves to be in text. Dr. Caldwell, a dedicated education advocate, has served 26 years on the New Brunswick Board of Education and led the Educational Services Commission of New Jersey for 21 years.

Bruce Esrig @cayugan.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

Is it possible to update the NJ page with the name of the candidate for Lieutenant Governor, Dale Caldwell?

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Bruce Esrig @cayugan.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

@jay.bsky.team I'm seeing a need for (i) an identity-sharing protocol to enable group migration, especially when the migrating group needs to establish new identities on the new platform and (ii) a place to migrate to where group chat is well supported. For (ii), is that here? Is (i) unsolved?

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Bruce Esrig @cayugan.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

I spoke with a homeless person in Philadelphia who said that the way he became homeless was that he was making ends meet as a food delivery driver ... when his car broke down, he was out of options. He was looking forward to getting housing after a year on the street. And he was very civil.

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Mikie Sherrill @mikiesherrill.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

We've got an authoritarian in the Oval Office, Republican legislators leaving our most vulnerable communities out to dry, and Jack’s all for it.

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Mark Cuban @mcuban.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Not true. We have a growing number of brand meds. The only reason we don’t have all brand meds is because the big PBMs threaten to reduce sales of the brand’s meds if they work with us. They know we will do to brand pricing what we did to generics.

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Bruce Esrig @cayugan.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

Page images are available from the Hathi Trust. babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc...

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Bruce Esrig @cayugan.bsky.social · 07/06/2025

There is a great summary here of the 5 ways to organize information ... it ends with something tantalizing. What if there are many ways? I posted a link to it to a chat group at Canonical's Open Documentation Academy as an answer to the question: "How do you organize the topics?"

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Bruce Esrig @cayugan.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Here's a paper from that era laying out (likely-crippling) problems with SDI. The academics who opposed it were viewed as rogues. A publicity campaign that ignored the issues went to publications with no relevant expertise like the J of the Am Medical Association! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

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Problems with the ‘Strategic Defense Initiative’

The Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) announced by President Ronald Reagan is neither practical nor desirable. None of the numerous ‘Star Wars’ technologies often discussed in connection ...

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Bruce Esrig @cayugan.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

In contrast with sense 1: 3. Expenditures through private entities in amounts well beyond what is required to deliver a public good.

Bruce Esrig @cayugan.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Government spending, n. 1. Expenditures that pay for public goods that are not naturally provided by the free market. 2. Tax cuts.

Bruce Esrig @cayugan.bsky.social · 14/05/2025

Protect, vt. 1. Shield from harm; prevent reduction of value or fitness 2. Extract value from, disregarding certain harms.

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Bruce Esrig @cayugan.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I've been apologetic about concept modeling, but those models are flexible.

Bruce Esrig @cayugan.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

I'm not accustomed to such discipline and musicianship from a singer. WKCR in New York has traditionally run a 24-hour Louis Armstrong festival on both his birthdays: July 4th and August 4th. It's wonderful, well worth streaming.

Bruce Esrig @cayugan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Give hazards a chance to kill. Might as well tear up sidewalks and have people walk in the streets.

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Bruce Esrig @cayugan.bsky.social · 29/04/2025

Thanks for explaining how to get past celebrating ignorance: cultivate humility, develop curiosity, and bring back the experts. Like FDR getting past the Dust Bowl era by admitting ignorance, looking for the cause, finding the cause, reducing the cause, and guiding the landscape through recovery.

Bruce Esrig @cayugan.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

Are the town halls first-come first-seated, or are folks intended to sign up ahead of time?

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Bruce Esrig @cayugan.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Has it been 40 years? I participated in a brainstorming exercise to choose functions for a simplified remote at RCA Labs in 1985. The challenge was to control component audio plus a TV. I think we decided to include on/off, digits, play/pause/stop, directional arrows, and volume and channel up/down.

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Bruce Esrig @cayugan.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Great work on designing remotes, and very accessible explanation of the process. "Align".

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Birder K @birderk.bsky.social · 17/04/2025

Several nights of higher migration are queuing up, starting tonight. Tell friends, family, coworkers, etc about this amazing phenomenon and how they can help these birds with a simple flip of a switch! www.audubon.org/news/bird-sa... #LightsOutForBirds #birds #spring #migration

BirdCast’s three day forecast showing moderate to high bird migration across much of the central and eastern parts of the states, plus’s along the west coast over the next three nights.

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Bruce Esrig @cayugan.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Numerically, the "rank 5" movement makes sense. If NYC voters rank only 2, then there will be fewer viable candidates in later rounds. In that case, the candidate with the most votes could easily be a candidate that the disqualified voters (whose candidates are no longer in the race) would not want.

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Bruce Esrig @cayugan.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

It's important to remember that after a false premise, you can say anything. Nothing that follows the false premise can be assumed to be true in reality. "By the authority vested in me as President ...". Uh, could you tell us *which* authority gives force to your conclusions?

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Bruce Esrig @cayugan.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

Madison Dems heard 1500 in Morristown, which matches a headline from a local paper. Apparently, the mayor of Morristown said 2000.