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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/09/2026

One last note about yesterday's Supreme Court decision on vote-by-mail. Much online attention is focused on the outrageousness of Alito/Thomas' dissent (and it's indeed outrageously off the mark). But nothing about their dissent is particularly surprising. They ALWAYS do this lately, siding with […]

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Heidi Li Feldman @heidilifeldman.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

Ok, take a deep breath everyone. I’m going to try to explain what is going on in California v. Trump/League of Women Voters v. Trump, the combined cases being heard by Judge Indira Talwani in the Massachusetts District Court, challenging Trump and USPS efforts to take over vote-from-home and […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 03/09/2026

RE: mastodon.social/@heidilifeldman/117… Great (as usual) thread by @heidilifeldman on the current status of the various cases challenging the administration's executive order on vote-by-mail. Note that how / whether the exec order will affect mail voting in the midterms […]

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 25/08/2026

A lot of the doomer comments I'm getting basically boil down to "WHAT IF VOTING DOESN'T MATTER ANY MORE???!!". Well, it better matter, because it's all you've got. And convincing you that it doesn't is exactly what the fascists would love nothing more to do. (And you can be damn sure THEY'LL be […]

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

Can we just not? I need us to decenter Silicon Valley techbros. Reminds me of a quote from an article the other day where a guy actually said: If you want privacy, you should not leave your house. The Overton Window of normalizing being a fucking creep has moved too far.

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Apple's Camera-Equipped AirPods Confirmed: See Them in Action

Apple is working on camera-equipped AirPods that appear to be nearly ready to launch, based on a video MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate. In a short demo, a man holds a book up...

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Wishing a belated 1 year anniversary to this evergreen post.

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/08/2026

Videos from all the talks at the Voting Village at #DEFCON34 are now up! A YouTube playlist can be found here: www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLUdU… Big thanks to all our speakers for their contributions to a terrific program this year, and a special shoutout to George Balbona […]

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

«It’s FINE! It’s FINE! WHATEVER!»

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 10/06/2026

Only talk I’ve done for ages. I came in a wheelchair just to do this talk and then go home because I really wasn’t well enough. That’s how annoyed I was. Don’t underestimate Spite as a driving force.

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Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真) @lizthegrey.com · 04/06/2026

It's 100% raiding everyone's 401(k)s.

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

The valuation of SpaceX is based on this page in their filing*. Estimated future market: 28.5 trillion Of that Grok/AI is: 26.5 trillion 93% of the SpaceX valuation is Grok NINTY THREE PERCENT OF THE SPACEX VALUATION IS GROK!!!! * www.sec.gov/Archives/edg...

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

1/ I can understand how countries that weren’t occupied during WWII, that don’t have the history of the holocaust carved into their streets, can be extremely naive when it comes to data privacy. 🧵

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Patricia Aas 🐢🏳️‍🌈 @patigallardo.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

From experience there is no way to talk MBAs out of something they heard on a podcast

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Bjørn Sætrevik @satrevik.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 04/05/2026

@patigallardo.bsky.social That's very close to the @pluralistic quote: "AI can't do your job, but an AI salesman can convince your boss to fire you and replace you with AI." doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralist…

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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/11/2024

You think you’re safe because you’re white? He’s talked about leftist, queer folks, journalists, activists. They will grab anyone they want. They will steal from everyone they can get away with. You’ll have neighbors informing on neighbors to snap up their property on the cheap. Y’all are […]

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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 02/11/2024

All anyone will have to say is that they saw you with a banned book or they suspect you of being antifa. Fascists and their collaborators don’t need an ideological reason. They are driven by greed and lust for power just like regular folks.

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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 18/11/2024

Them: “why didn’t you warn us?” Everyone: “we did” Them: “why didn’t you warn us louder?” Everyone: “WE DID” Them: “Well you should’ve warned us in a way that got through to us. This is definitely on you”

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Matt Blaze @mattblaze.federate.social.ap.brid.gy · 18/09/2025

It would be disturbing enough if Kimmel's show had been pulled (at the FCC's behest, no less) for speaking ill of Charlie Kirk. But the monologue wasn't even about Kirk. It was about the hypocrisy and opportunism of those using Kirk's murder to advance a right-wing narrative. Comedy can be a […]

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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

21/ Y’all should study this protest. Bring in some social scientists and break it down to its parts.

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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

20/ Relative to population size the 1970 Earth Day protest seems to be the largest US protest ever? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_prote…

The other top 3 are George Floyd at 26 million on the high end of a multi day protest, but the US population was much larger in 2020.

No kings comes in at 6 million.

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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

19/ That was 10% of the entire population, including babies, children, the elderly etc. Well done ✊

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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

18/ But boy does the internet and the book center Hero Politicians. Wouldn’t want the pesky populace to think a general strike might hurt the elites.

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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

17/ ROFL Turns out it was regular people protesting that pushed politicians to change policy. «April 22, 1970, an estimated 20 million people gathered around the country in one of the largest demonstrations in U.S. history to celebrate the first Earth Day and demand action be taken on a variety […]

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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

16/ How can we create an empathetic society if we keep villainizing our fellow citizens? This seems massively useful to the powerful: make them fight eachother so they don’t fight us.

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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

15/ The Evil Selfish Homeowner trope has given way to The Hapless Idealistic Politician. I’m sorry, but why is the regular person just trying to get by, being blamed for bad policy, but the political class gets the credit for good policy? This is annoying. Summary so far: The Evil Selfish […]

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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

14/ Sorry, got distracted by a knitting 🧶 emergency and had to undo stitch by stitch which English speaking knitters call «tink»* (the word «knit» in reverse, because these folks have humor). As opposed to «frog» when you just rip it until the right place and pick up the stitches again. I […]

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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

@tedmielczarek yeah, brought up Zoom requiring people to come in «to build trust» etc etc I feel that this part is a bit forced. I don’t think you have to scream «but innovation!» to say «I think people should afford to live where they work.

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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

13/ I also think we might in some cases be too generous and take people at their word. They might say «to protect my property value» and actually the reason might be more «I don’t want black folks in my neighborhood».

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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

@maco I suspect it’s just an excuse for most people who use it. To shield what is really the reason. But again it depends on the purpose of the ownership. If you own a home to live in and not to sell, it’s «exchange value» is mostly theoretical. Also if you want to continue to live in the same […]

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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

@maco not yet, but they cite a paper about causes of homelessness which I should probably dig up. Basic conclusion from their summary: lack of housing leads to more homelessness.

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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

@billseitz I’m more of a «read the book myself» kind of person

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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

12/ I feel they might be attributing to malice things that probably are not, at least not for the vast majority of people. I really don’t think all home owners have pushed for stricter and stricter regulations to suppress the building of new homes to maximize profit on their own «property […]

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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

11/ Also, as in programmering, what seems like a bad idea today was often a good idea at the time. But things change.

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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

10/ I can see how liberals/Democrats/leftists are getting very defensive about this book. There is an underlying assumption in any political theory that «my way will give better outcomes». But I think we’re doing ourselves a disservice by framing everything as a binary. Wanting zoning reform […]

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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

9/ Ok. When you put it like that it is quite damning. California has 12% of the US population 30% of the homeless population 50% of the unsheltered homeless population

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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

7/ Huh, they’re forming a strange argument, I don’t have all of it yet. But for now they seem to make the following assertions/assumptions: 1. The best workers live in cities 2. Innovation therefore happens there 3. Maximum performance requires in-office presence (so no remote) 4. It is easier […]

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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

6/ Started on chapter 1 «Grow» and I think it is about «productivity» which I have struggled with before. I was also reminded of this video I saw a few months ago, which surprisingly explained to me why in American movies and shows everyone lives in apartments on a corridor like in a hotel. And […]

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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

Unrelated, the Team Topology agile coaches are still hilariously defensive over on LinkedIn. When you get that in your feelings in defense of a software development methodology, you need to touch all the grass. Also a small amount of introspection is probably in order.

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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 10/09/2025

5/ Done with the introduction. It seems like what they want to achieve is mostly around affordable housing. They are very critical of liberal/Democrat states, because of a logic that goes something like: «if we can’t make it there, we can’t make it anywhere». They also seem to put this into a […]

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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2025

4/ This reminds me of this interview with Professor Lina Khan (former FTC chair) I listened to earlier today. Where she in part argues that allowing monopolies to buy up their competition through mergers and acquisitions (M&As) actually stifles innovation. Fundamentally because the value of an […]

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Patricia Aas @patricia.social.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 09/09/2025

Argument so far in the introduction: 1. They describe a future utopia, where technology is used for the good of mankind. For me it gives a Star Trek Future light. 2. They argue that what got us here is the belief that either the unrestricted free market or the highly regulated free market can […]

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