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Keith Ivey

@kcivey.bsky.social
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computer/politics geek, on steering committee of DC for Democracy, former cohost of DC Drinking Liberally. #DCPolitics #DCElections

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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 4h
Hopefully you at least missed most of the news today so you were spared some pain.
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Musicology Duck @musicologyduck.bsky.social · 6h
I am so frustrated with the refuse fascism people showing up at protests and trying to overshadow the actual organizers on camera with their branded stuff
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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 5h
The first part was good, but there was no need to speak positively of CBP, which has done as much heinous stuff as ICE.
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Matt’ Johnson @tracktwentynine.bsky.social · 7h
Guys. We don’t have to use AI for everything.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 6h
Curtis Yarvin praising Hitler, Peter Thiel ranting nonstop about the Antichrist…and no one asks JD Vance about his deranged gurus? I’m old enough to remember when we had to talk about Obama’s pastor for a year or so. www.rawstory.com/jd-vance-cur...
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JD Vance catches heat after his favorite pseudointellectual praises Hitler again
A right-wing influencer praised by Vice President JD Vance got called out for praising Adolf Hitler – and it's not the first time.The vice president has openly acknowledged neo-reactionary political t...
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Greg Greene (he/him/his) @greene.haus · 6h
I didn't expect today to make this post, put up just four hours ago, age so immediately well.
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 7h
This afternoon in Marble Hill, a New Yorker was shot by an ICE agent in a residential neighborhood. Early reports indicate agents surrounded him and a 5-year-old child in his car before firing multiple rounds. We believe the child was physically unharmed.

This is an unconscionable and incredibly serious situation. I have called the President; when we speak I will demand that he ends all ICE enforcement actions in our city. I will not stand by while ICE agents terrorize our communities.

Our thoughts are with the injured New Yorker and his family tonight. We are praying for his recovery.

Get ICE out of our neighborhoods. Get ICE out of our hospitals. Get ICE off our streets. Get ICE away from our children.

Abolish ICE.
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Rob Pegoraro @robpegoraro.com · 7h
Q: How can we make the giant Trump mug-shot banners on the DOJ building look even more egregious? A: Have a spotlight aimed at them at night.
One of the tall banners hanging on the Pennsylvania Avenue side of the Department of Justice building, featuring Trump's face and "Make America Safe Again" in all caps. A spotlight also illuminates the columns behind it.
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The Rude Pundit @rudepundit.bsky.social · 7h
The best podcast of all time is the season of In the Dark about this case. The prosecutorial abuse Flowers suffered should have led to arrests of several officials.
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 7h
This is petty and least important aspect of this but: I reported on this years ago and the trump campaign falsely denied the reporting, and now via Hegseth they’re just doing it. Monstrous
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 7h
Someone who is a fraudster is by definition not a “enemy combatant.” What the hell are we talking about?
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Ian @ianlivingston.bsky.social · 7h
Don’t underestimate the regime’s interest in apocalyptic religious war
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 8h
I think people should listen to what the administration trying to bring back spectacle lynchings, race riots, and middle passage-esque deportation voyages are trying to tell you about themselves. bsky.app/profile/bren...
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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 8h
Presumably on their own site. My question is whether they'll sell ads.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 9h
This is so dangerous! President Trump is deliberately inciting race hatred against an ethnic minority, calling on the people of Minnesota to "fight back" against "Somali immigrants." This must be a terrifying moment for the Somali community (who are overwhelmingly US citizens).
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 10h
How can Latino, Cuban-American Marco Rubio be so into this fascist racial purity stuff, even to the point of lecturing Europeans that their main security threat isn’t Russia, it’s the population becoming less white? Apparently because he’s not a son of Cubans, he’s a great grandson of Spaniards.
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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 9h
He keeps turning the racism dial, but he stopped looking at the audience a long time ago.
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Lora Kolodny @lorak.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
9-reporter story at Reuters saying Tesla successfully pressured automotive safety regulators and evaluators in the Netherlands to approve their FSD (Supervised) systems - partially automated driving systems - for use in customers' cars in EU. www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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Tesla is browbeating the EU to approve its ‘Full Self-Driving’ tech. The pressure is working.
Elon Musk’s EV company is running a social-media campaign blaming European traffic deaths on red tape. Its safety claims don’t hold up, experts say, but regulators are starting to buckle.
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John Carpenter’s Halloran @profhalloran.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
And we still can take this shit seriously! In fact, we *must* still take this shit seriously! If we don’t grind this kind of conduct into a fine powder and fire it into the depths of space then it is going to continue.
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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
This reminds me of this piece by Bruce Schneier, "Living in Code Yellow", about the damage it does to people to live with the idea that they're always in danger, and how so many Americans voluntarily live that way even when they're actually in very safe environments. www.schneier.com/essays/archi...
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Living in Code Yellow - Schneier on Security
In 1989, handgun expert Jeff Cooper invented something called the Color Code to describe what he called the ‘combat mind-set.’ Here is his summary: In White you are unprepared and unready to take leth...
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Texas Observer @texasobserver.org · 07/10/2026
In books: Workaday encounters with fellow citizens, such as eating at a restaurant or filling up on gas, become freighted with mortal peril. In one darkly comic scene, an instructor demonstrates how he keeps his gun at the ready while sitting on a public toilet.
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Why Texans Live and Die by the Gun
At the firearms training center, fear becomes the foundation of the state's violent obsession.
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David Waldman @kagrox.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
“Warren and Blumenthal said when they asked the AWDC if the gift was a bribe to Trump, they were told it was a gift to the American people, not the president.” The giant diamond “T” on the side obviously stands for “The United States of America.”
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Melissa Gira Grant @melissagiragrant.com · 07/10/2026
reading this, recalling how quickly the killing of Minnesota Rep. Melissa Hortman slipped out of the news
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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs
Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing.
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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 07/10/2026
who knows if jackson can win this thing but i am glad that he is making clear that susan collins's whole scam is to do everything she can to make life worse for mainers and then take credit for mitigating it in the slightest way possible
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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Bessent got in a fight with Musk, so too many people though "How bad can he be?"
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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
So why am I getting "Rate Limit Exceeded" when I try to log in on the Android app? I mean, it's a change from earlier when it didn't recognize my login, but it's still not working.
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Vittoria Elliott @telliotter.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
SCOOP: Last week the National Design Studio announced a new AI website, America.gov. Turns out some NDS workers are on loan to the government and are actually employed by a newly formed nonprofit, founded by the general counsel of SpaceXAI who is himself a DOGE alum. www.wired.com/story/myster...
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A Mysterious Nonprofit Run by SpaceXAI’s Top Lawyer Is Paying the Salaries of Government Workers
The National Design Studio has been something of a successor agency to DOGE. A WIRED investigation finds some of its members are on loan from a nonprofit run by SpaceXAI’s general counsel.
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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
How else are you going to season your roadkill?
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Anna Merlan @annamerlan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
As a society, we have forgotten that the phone still works when you hold it up to your ear
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 06/10/2026
BREAKING: For the first time in 10 months, the U.S. admitted a refugee who is not a white South African. In September, the U.S. admitted 3,386 white South Africans and two Afghans (in D.C.) In FY 2026, the U.S. has admitted a total of 16,287 white South Africans, five Afghans, and nobody else.
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DrLostCauses @acpacek.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
I and others have made the observation that if you are not a current or former DC resident it's difficult to fathom the emotional toll the physical destruction of our city has been going through. And the ever present thought that even worse is to come.
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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
If she wants to do it as a way of dealing with her grief, that's one thing, but introducing it into court is something else entirely. I don't understand how the judge and the defense could possibly have thought it was acceptable.
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Jeff Sharlet @jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"Sorry about your dead kid. Hey, you want to see my fancy party room? Look at that gold! Lotta gold. I got a new helicopter, too! Do you feel better now about sacrificing your child on my altar? Worth it, right? Look at that gold."
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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
They spent who knows how much on getting these banners printed and hiring a crane to put them up, but they didn't proofread.
Banner on side of apartment building reading "Cleaveland [sic] Park's most social community"
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Dr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
These facts are VERY similar to the case of Mohamed Jama in MN. They were looking for a 5'5" guy and snatched Jama, who is 6'5" (his lawyer did a big Perry Mason moment to have him stand in the court room). These rulings may help the victims sue.
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Zach Israel @zachisrael.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
As DC voters begin automatically receiving their official mail-in ballots this week, a friendly reminder that all 55 official mail-in ballot drop boxes become open and available beginning at *11am on Friday, October 9*! They’ll be accessible 24/7 through 8pm, Tuesday, November 3:
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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
They are on the streets in DC, and there's definitely a lot of opposition to them.
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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
"The idea dates back to the time of Wikipedia"
AI Overview

The saying "feed a cold, starve a fever" is an old wives' tale and medically incorrect; you should eat and drink plenty of fluids for both conditions.

The Truth About the Adage

• Outdated origins: The idea dates back to the time of Wikipedia when people believed a fever was a disease that needed to be starved out.
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jess m. ☕🍂 @jametc.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Something AI is responsible for that doesn't get enough talk: How, when it scrapes a website to illegally steal everything on it, it uses up a ton of its bandwidth allotment, crashing it or racking up massive fees for site owners.
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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
What a lie. Some of these people are being imprisoned indefinitely in squalid condition in African prisons. Others report being beaten and arbitrarily deported in violation of international law back to their home countries, where they face persecution or torture.
The indefinite nature of their confinement has taken a severe toll. In October 2025, a Cuban man who was on the July flight went on a hunger strike for a month-until he started showing signs of organ failure —to protest the conditions of his detention, including his ongoing confinement and lack of access to legal counsel.
Terrified of being imprisoned in Eswatini forever, another man repeatedly told his attorney that the prison there never lets people go. One man told his attorney that he feels like a caged animal with no end in sight. The prison does not have air conditioning, making the hot, humid summer months especially uncomfortable for the men.
Food is insufficient, medication is scarce, and requests often go unmet or are belatedly met.
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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
They wouldn't have worn a zip fleece under a suit jacket either.
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Charlie Stross @cstross.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
Oh my: LibreOffice just made "no AI" one of their official features: blog.documentfoundation.org/blog/2026/09...
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Yes, no AI is now a feature - TDF Community Blog
One of the comments on the announcement of LibreOffice 26.8 was a simple question: “So, no AI is now a feature?” LibreOffice does not reject artificial intelligence out of hand, but an office suite us...
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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
I guess we should be happy the AI minister is not an AI.
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gamera obscura october edition @ohrobin.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
This is an incredibly rich, impressive bit of reporting, plus I learned that if I hated children I could personally open an anything-goes, unregulated school in 10 states.
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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
I couldn't figure it out. Thought it must have something to do with the roof spoiler. But you must be right, or why have the license plate there.
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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
You should be able to track your ballot and make sure they have your contact information here (linked from the BOE front page). votedc.ballottrax.net/voter
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BallotTrax
BallotTrax is a service that enables voters in participating states and counties to receive notifications by email, SMS, or voice about the status of their mail ballots.
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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
The election calendar linked here has a tentative date of Sep 28 for starting to mail ballots, so maybe it was a few days after that. People were getting text and email notices on Thursday. dcboe.org/elections/20...
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2026 Elections | District of Columbia Board of Elections
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Keith Ivey @kcivey.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Weren't they only mailed Thursday? That's when I got the text saying mine had been sent.
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