Reposted by Sage MitchellMcKenzie Funk @mckenziefunk.com · 01/04/2025THREAD: Last year, ProPublica started receiving tips from an unusual kind of source: flight attendants. They said they'd worked on deportation flights for ICE, and they could tell us what it was really like on board. 1/ 8949282000
Reposted by Sage MitchellAmerican Library Association @amlibraryassoc.bsky.social · 02/04/2025With 80% of Institute of Museum and Library Services staff now on administrative leave, ALA President Cindy Hohl spoke with PBS NewsHour’s Jeffrey Brown about the agency’s vital role and the importance of federal library funding—especially for small and rural libraries. www.pbs.org/video/defund... 📚pbs.orgPBS News Hour | Library and museum support agency faces massive cuts | Season 2025Library and museum support agency faces massive cuts after Trump order 212268
Sage Mitchell @mx00s.com · 02/04/2025source: c-span.org/program/us-s... at 16:11:42 Jump back to ~16:00:30 for more context.c-span.orgSenate SessionAfter the Senate voted in favor of limiting debate on Matthew Whitaker's nomination to be U.S. ambassador to NATO, Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) delivered the longest ever Senate floor speech, protesting... 010
Sage Mitchell @mx00s.com · 02/04/2025"Let the president know that if he does ever do that there will be a rising up of people's voices, a rising up of 'good trouble' as John Lewis would say. To say, 'not in my country. This is unacceptable!'" 100
Sage Mitchell @mx00s.com · 02/04/2025🧵 @booker.senate.gov on Trump's threat of invoking the Insurrection Act of 1807 as early as April 20th, effectively declaring martial law: "But why wait for April 20th? Raise your voice now. Stand up now. Cause some good trouble now." 130
Sage Mitchell @mx00s.com · 02/04/2025Thank you, @booker.senate.gov, for speaking truth to power, lifting up more voices, and publicly acknowledging the limitations of the legislative branch to get us out of this mess. "Change does not come from Washington. It comes to Washington by the people who demand it." 020
Sage Mitchell @mx00s.com · 28/02/2025There can't be an effective revolution if we can't even agree what's happening. 010
Sage Mitchell @mx00s.com · 20/02/2025"How are we persuaded to participate in our own destruction by maintaining our silences?" -Audre Lorde in "Apartheid U.S.A." Available at archive.org/details/iamy...archive.orgI am your sister : collected and unpublished writings of Audre Lorde : Lorde, Audre : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archivexv, 280 pages ; 24 cm 051
Sage Mitchell @mx00s.com · 17/01/2025Certainly, and thanks for writing it! I'm having a lot of fun with it. 010
Sage Mitchell @mx00s.com · 15/01/2025While adding support for shadows, and trying to fix some expected 'acne', I rendered this bizarre image. Not sure yet, but I think it has to do with the precision of the epsilon value I use for floating point number comparisons. 000
Sage Mitchell @mx00s.com · 14/01/2025Recently started @jamisbuck.bsky.social's Ray Tracer Challenge (pragprog.com/titles/jbtra...). It's fun seeing a ray tracer I'm programming from scratch come to life. Here's one of the earliest renderings that actually looks 3d. 240
Reposted by Sage MitchellMina Markham @minamarkh.am · 13/11/2024I made a Black women in tech starter pack because I couldn’t find one and it annoyed me. go.bsky.app/5upv7SQ 28967831891
Reposted by Sage MitchellMike Sakasegawa @sakeriver.com · 10/11/2024This is a photograph of my great uncle, Jim Ida, in 1942. The photograph was taken by Dorothea Lange as part of her documentation of the Japanese American incarceration. He is sitting with his family’s bags, waiting to be taken to an internment camp. (Tanforan, I believe.) He was 17. 15652481333
Sage Mitchell @mx00s.com · 10/11/2024Totally! I enjoyed the thread. I'll keep banging this drum with you too. 010
Sage Mitchell @mx00s.com · 10/11/2024Investing in a single company that does what you warn about seems similar to the lottery ticket. 100
Sage Mitchell @mx00s.com · 10/11/2024I empahtically agree with your thesis, but I don't quite follow the distinction you're making here. Leverage is when debt is used to magnify gains/losses. Would diversified investments, e.g. broad market funds, align with your point? 100
Reposted by Sage MitchellErin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 09/11/2024Folks please don’t forget to ALT your images! The more new folks show up here the lower the adoption of ALT is and that’s a bummer cause it means not all Bluesky users can enjoy your images! Here’s how to turn on prompts to remind you to ALT: 12936291935
Reposted by Sage MitchellJoshua J. Friedman @joshuajfriedman.com · 07/11/2024Did you know that @nytguildtech.bsky.social created a few strike-related games that you can play guilt-free while respecting the picket line? For example, you can play Strikle! Or you can help Scabby cross 8th Avenue to the picket line guild-build.netlify.app 231082513
Reposted by Sage MitchellProPublica @propublica.org · 06/11/2024Are you a current or former government employee? Sign up to be a source for our reporters. We may contact you with questions related to your area of experience. Your insights will be incredibly important to our work post-election.propublica.orgDo You Work For the Federal Government? ProPublica Wants To Hear From You.We’re doubling down on our coverage of government agencies and federal policy. With your help, we can dig deeper. 8701414
Sage Mitchell @mx00s.com · 06/11/2024I don't think my fears are unfounded, though. Much of my thinking on this is shaped by reading "IBM and the Holocaust" (ibmandtheholocaust.com) and "Normal Life" (www.deanspade.net/books/normal...). Fear also has a cost even when it buys a sense of safety. I support whatever decisions you make. 🏳️⚧️deanspade.netNormal Life: Administrative Violence, Critical Trans Politics and the Limits of Law – Dean Spade 030
Sage Mitchell @mx00s.com · 06/11/2024... despite having the option to legally update my name and gender, I still refuse to out of fear that it paints a legal and unrevocable target on my back. Yes, this means I have to periodically dead name and misgender myself, and it sucks. 130
Sage Mitchell @mx00s.com · 06/11/2024It's wise to to have a fresh passport. Regarding gender markers, everyone should do what they feel is best for them! That said ... 141
Reposted by Sage Mitchellmcc @dryad.technology · 06/11/2024I'd like to give you three pieces of advice. One. Start using Signal. Start now. Set it up with your personal and professional contacts. Do this when you don't need it, so it is set up *if* you need it. Two. Find out who the activists in your local communities are. I don't mean the political party 10628258
Sage Mitchell @mx00s.com · 04/11/2024It's beautiful how quickly this image conveys the intuition. I was scratching my head until I saw it. 110
Reposted by Sage MitchellElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 04/11/2024Mobile IDs promise convenience, but before you download your state’s app, there’s a few questions worth asking yourself. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...eff.orgShould I Use My State’s Digital Driver’s License?A mobile driver’s license (often called an mDL) is a version of your ID that you keep on your phone instead of in your pocket. In theory, it would work wherever your regular ID works—TSA, liquor store... 58431
Sage Mitchell @mx00s.com · 22/10/2024Oh same. It's unfortunate. In case you haven't already seen it, this post changed how I think about git worktrees: matklad.github.io/2024/07/25/g... I used to have one worktree per local branch, but I've since moved toward something closer to this approach.matklad.github.ioHow I Use Git WorktreesThere are a bunch of posts on the internet about using git worktree command. As far as I can tell, most of them are primarily about using worktrees as a replacement of, or a supplement to git branches... 020
Sage Mitchell @mx00s.com · 22/10/2024A shared, coherent cache could also help with this, but I've been bit by incoherency enough times that I prefer not to trust it when space is plentiful. 110
Sage Mitchell @mx00s.com · 22/10/2024It's so good! Helps a lot with any repos that have long build times and generate incremental artifacts. 120
Reposted by Sage MitchellHannah Overbye-Thompson @overbye.bsky.social · 20/10/2024Four books you should read if you want to know more about algorithm bias a 🧵 (See comments) tldr; Unmasking AI by @poetofcode.bsky.social Algorithms of Oppression by @safiyanoble.bsky.social Automating Inequality by Virginia Eubanks Weapons of Math Destruction Cathy O'Neil 🧪 65315
Reposted by Sage MitchellAdam Chalmers @adamchalmers.com · 19/10/2024It doesn't look like much. But for a year I've been trying to create a helical gear in our startup's software. Last night I finally designed and printed it. It's fully parametric (height, pitch, number of teeth etc). This is only the beginning for our new CAD kernel, UI and programming language. 4592
Sage Mitchell @mx00s.com · 19/10/2024I haven't installed it yet, but I just read through @steveklabnik.com's tutorial: steveklabnik.github.io/jujutsu-tuto.... Good stuff!steveklabnik.github.ioIntroduction - Steve's Jujutsu Tutorial 010
Sage Mitchell @mx00s.com · 19/10/2024Recently learned about the #jujutsu (jj) version control system. It cleverly build on top of a #git backend for now, so it works with repos hosted on services like #GitHub. 120
Sage Mitchell @mx00s.com · 17/10/2024I like that the last two cases could be combined (y::ys instead of case analysis on y), but the reasons it works for each case are different. Fun problem. Thanks for making me think. 010
Sage Mitchell @mx00s.com · 17/10/2024Base case: S([], []) Concat(S(xs, ys), []) = S(xs, ys) Concat(S(xs, ys), '0'::zs) = Concat(S(xs, ys+"0"), zs) Concat(S(xs, []), '1'::zs) = Concat(S(xs+"1", []), zs) Concat(S(xs, '0'::ys), '1'::zs) = Concat(S(xs+"0", ys+"1"), zs) Concat(S(xs, '1'::ys), '1'::zs) = Concat(S(xs+"1", ys+"1"), zs) 110
