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Along the lines of Substack feature parity — I think yes to Bluesky Communities, assuming that can turn into something like the Subscriber chat that most Substack pubs have enabled, where the pub authors set the rules and moderate the community around their pub.

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Didn’t mean to troll, and yes my tone was unnecessarily sarcastic, I apologize for that.

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Microsoft, Starbucks, and biz leaders demand 100-day Seattle ‘public safety action plan’ as budget fight looms

The proposal I was referring to asks for new foot and bike patrols, lower response times, both of Which would seem to be hard to achieve without more officers; and it notes the low officer ratio compared to other major cities www.capitolhillseattle.com/2026/09/micr...

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A coalition of 38 regional business leaders delivered a letter Thursday urging Mayor Katie Wilson and Seattle City Council president and District 3 representative Joy Hollingsworth to adopt an imme…

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I read and responded to the linked story when you first posted it. I have some familiarity with these topics and an a regular reader, but with this type of reaction I’ll refrain from replies. bsky.app/profile/mike...

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I did, and also pointed out numbers that still need a correction bsky.app/profile/mike...

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

“Other cities have divested“ from NNSC you say, meaning that Baltimore is not contracting with them in 2026 even though they did in 2014 and in the 1990’s. So any city that *was* a client of NNSC in the past but not now has thusly “divested” from them?

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Greatest trick AI leaders have pulled is convincing many people—especially influential people in govt, media, and business—that their software is intelligent, independent, yet never culpable. Humans build it, humans deploy it, but no one bears responsibility for the things that happen when they do.

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Mike Clarke @mikeclarke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🙋‍♂️ two kids, in first and sixth grade

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Mike Clarke @mikeclarke.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

That is one of the most pleasing combination of words I’ve come across in recent memory.

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Brian Finucane @bcfinucane.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Could be some good reasons the U.S. Constitution doesn’t authorize one person to take the country to war based on their erratic whims and the last person they spoke with.

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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

He is not wrong. "There are reasonable grounds to believe that the reported 68 attacks that killed 223 people constituted crimes against humanity of murder under customary international law" - United Nations Special Rapporteur on U.S. Killing “Narco-Terrorists” at Sea www.ohchr.org/sites/defaul...

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Mike Clarke @mikeclarke.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

What insight would you draw from that?

Mike Clarke @mikeclarke.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

What I missed the first time was the guy who got stiff armed (Singleton) got back up and delivered the late hit at the end of the run 🤣 seems he didn’t like being treated like a child

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Mike Clarke @mikeclarke.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Those areas of the street divided off by posts look like they’re intended for something like bikeshare parking. As someone often pushing a wheelchair: definitely don’t park it on the sidewalk (which looks 4’ wide). If the app makes you, take the photo to end the ride then move it onto the street.

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Your numbers don't match the KC published data either; 120 firearm homicides is for 2020-2024 (5 years) not 2012-2024 (which is 13 years). You could say the rate went down if you compare 2012 vs 2024 in isolation, but no two years have confidence intervals that don't overlap, so I'd say it's flat.

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I agree there is politicized grandstanding going on here, and idk why Rivera is trying to force this down the mayor‘s throat, but spending $500k on NNSC is likely a much better investment than increasing police staffing with he same amount of funds, which is what others are demanding.

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A Framework for Addressing Violence and Serious Crime

Many of the fundamental tactics and frameworks used by UPenn and everyone else were developed by Kennedy at NNSC. Braga (now at UPenn) and Kennedy have worked and published together. www.cambridge.org/core/element...

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Cambridge Core - Criminology - A Framework for Addressing Violence and Serious Crime

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Project Salt Box @projectsaltbox.com · 10/09/2026

I find this a bit tendentious. The ED of UPenn said the third try worked b/c of how the city implemented focused deterrence (politically & administratively). I.e. they needed help in properly executing focused deterrence b/c the city government’s ops were too broken and its politics too short-term.

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Today, we filed a FOIA request with DHS concerning an AI-generated image the @DHSgov X account posted this morning. The image depicts a Transformer facing a South Asian man, over a caption telling "Mr. Singh" to self-deport and get off American roads. We want the prompt.

First page of a Project Salt Box FOIA request to the DHS Privacy Office, dated September 9, 2026, addressed to the Office of Public Affairs. It seeks records about the use of generative AI to produce public-facing imagery published by DHS, and describes the image posted to the @DHSgov account that morning.

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Mike Clarke @mikeclarke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

“Journeyman QB slightly better than Trent Dilfer” before he became the only QB besides Brady to have back to back 14-win seasons - except me did it with two different teams, and got his SB ring with the seedin second. I do see a future for Maye as a journeyman if he keeps closing out with 3 picks.

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Mike Clarke @mikeclarke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

And then Spoon wags his finger in his face!

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Mike Clarke @mikeclarke.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Seriously. Gonzo lined up against him but ignored him after the snap. He’s the most dangerous player on the field.

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Community Violence Intervention | Center for Gun Violence Solutions

I understand, but if I were to try to interpret that part of the Times article charitably, I'd say it's referring to working alongside police on implementation. The Hopkins page talks about GVI, but only that they do research on it and advocate for it. NNSC/John Jay does the actual hands-on work.

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Quote from “The First Step Is Figuring Out What Police Are For - The Atlantic”

Our council: "Police executives & government leaders engage in a recurrent pattern of reacting to immediate perceived crises and public panics with quick fixes guided by guesses and intuitions, many of which are found to be erroneous at best and counterproductive at worst." arc.net/l/quote/sjbf...

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They are tactical and applied, whereas the John Hopkins group is research and policy advocacy (including for NNSC's GVI programs). It's not an either-or; could be both. However, I agree that gun violence in Seattle looks flat on a per-capita basis, and is low relative to many other major cities.

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Operation Ceasefire - Wikipedia

I do know something about them, and they're not that type of consultant. NNSC Director David Kennedy pioneered what is now referred to as Gun Violence Intervention (GVI) with Operation Ceasefire in Boston in the 90's, later replicated in other cities. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operati...

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Yes and… deliberately “testing” a partner is not a healthy relationship practice IMO.

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Their commitment to SS/“FilmStack“ is despite the context of an ideal of NonDe (growing a new indie film ecosystem that is ”non-dependent” on current systems & Hollywood); ideologically aligned with Atmo even if they haven’t been properly initiated to it (yet): www.hopeforfilm.com/p/what-is-no...

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My Short History Of FilmStack

I‘m advocating this because I’d stack it on my own platform for indie filmmakers - looking at adding a social layer w/ ATProto. Unfortunately some part of the community (led in part by Ted Hope) has really dug into SS as core infra, calling it “FilmStack” www.hopeforfilm.com/p/my-short-h...

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and yeah, I am sorry that my bias is blatant, but...

Mike Clarke @mikeclarke.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

@schlage.town monetization yes, but syndication IS discovery… expanding from a bounded ATproto sphere (10M MAU) to internectIng Substack’s (20M MAU, guessing largely non-overlapping) increases writers’ reach, provides an off-ramp from SS as enshitt continues, and grows the Atmosphere for all!

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More here: www.seattleschools.org/departments/... They seem to be following the DoE on this, which in the Trump era is a mistake… I haven’t noticed calls for parent engagement on developing these policies either.

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) – Seattle Public Schools

SPS Commitment to Ethical AI in Education Seattle Public Schools (SPS) is committed to enhancing the educational landscape through the responsible use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) aligning with our...

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Mike Clarke @mikeclarke.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

catching up on this issue w/ strike looming; had to dig far into Reddit before learning this context: the SEA President is a SpEd teacher who was on admin leave when elected, for allegation of abusing a student, & investigation determined “more likely than not” true www.kuow.org/education/20...

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Demands for Seattle teachers union president to resign intensify amid student abuse allegations

A Seattle Public Schools investigation of Ibijoke “Ibi” Idowu concluded she “more likely than not” grabbed a third grader with autism hard enough to cause bruising.

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Mike Clarke @mikeclarke.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

But if that wasn’t part of their original comprehensive proposal, then it would be regressive. He seems to allege SEA waited until they got teacher comp increase, then made an entirely new SpEd demand - now claiming the impasse isn’t about their salaries (now that SPS already made that concession).

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Mike Clarke @mikeclarke.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

Honest question: was SEA’s counteroffer regressive, as Shuldiner claims, asking for millions more than SEA’s original proposal? That’s a factual allegation, so should have a clear answer.

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Mike Clarke @mikeclarke.bsky.social · 01/09/2026

What exactly are you viewing as unprofessional? His allegation is that SEA was negotiating in bad faith (regressive offer) hence needed to call in the mediators. If that’s the case, it seems appropriate to put SPS’s position forth to those of us affected. All I’m seeing is “that man bad” posts.

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Mike Clarke @mikeclarke.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Me neither. Unless he is lying (and I have no way of knowing either way), the union is negotiating in bad faith. Is there anyone representing the union who is denying that they made a regressive offer?

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Mike Clarke @mikeclarke.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

True feature parity (for the important stuff) will likely take years, so in the meantime I think you gotta make it easy for folks... POSSE has never been made easy! So do POLSSE: Post On Leaflet, Syndicating to Substack is Easy That should be the motto IMO :)

Mike Clarke @mikeclarke.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

In the vein of "adversarial internecting" -- if Leaflet facilitated syndication to Substack (w/ Leaflet mentioned as author's preferred alt for readers to switch their subs to) it would help users make Leaflet their primary w/o losing Substack's discoverability + ad revenue bsky.app/profile/mike...