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Parker Seaman

@strongthany.bsky.social
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cyber security PhD candidate, biking, transit, obscure music, and open source. Community manager for openvoiceos.com, cofounder of bsidestc.org, board member for streets.mn & producer for the podcast there.

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BSides Twin Cities @bsidestc.org · 6h
We are excited to announce the speakers for this years #BSidesTC ! Ticket's are available on Humanatix here: events.humanitix.com/bsidestc-2026 If there's to be any changes to the lineup, check our site for updates! bsidestc.org/2026-talks/
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 23h
When the “censorship industrial complex” myth was just getting started, in Fall 2022, I got a public records request from the AG’s office of Missouri looking for all my emails related to my team’s election rumor research. The Missouri AG at that time? Eric Schmitt. What a tool.
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Iruka @iruka-abolition.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Chicago's "surge" supposedly ended over a year ago. It's still happening and the police are still complicit. That's still happening in Minnesota - we just don't have the volunteers to go "hey look at what they're doing" at the moment. Please get involved again.
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Streets.mn @streets.mn · 16h
Week Without Driving: a Hassle or a Newfound Freedom?: streets.mn/2026/09/30/week-without-… Week Without Driving starts on Thursday, October 1 — helping participants learn to navigate a car-centric society without a car.
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Coyle "Barricade Material" Boron @fack.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
wtaf
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Katie Jones @katiejonesmpls.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Correction: he’s preserved over *** $7 billion*** for Minnesotans, which the Trump govt tried to deny us. That’s roughly equivalent to 10% of our state budget.
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Alex Ip 葉清霖 @alexip718.com · 28/09/2026
One of the most upsetting videos I've watched this campaign cycle. I genuinely cannot tell whether this interview @sfstandard.com had with California Democratic gubernatorial nominee Xavier Becerra on what companies he would refuse to accept campaign donations from is satire or not
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Streets.mn @streets.mn · 28/09/2026
The Transit System the Twin Cities Deserve: streets.mn/2026/09/28/the-transit-s… Emmett and Evan from The House of Transit lay out an ambitious expansion concept for the Minneapolis-St Paul METRO system!
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Ian Coldwater 🧊🚫 @lookitup.baby · 27/09/2026
Seward Cafe is the oldest cooperatively run restaurant in the United States, and they’re still about 12k short of the funds they need to stay open. It’s such a special place, and that’s honestly not that high a number! Let’s all pitch in to save the community center!
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Buy Seward Cafe a Coffee
Become a supporter of Seward Cafe today!
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taylr @taylordahlin.com · 27/09/2026
technofascism community panel on the rise of mass surveillance and AI in the twin cities on october 19 in st paul, co-hosted by st paul city council member hwajeong kim and minneapolis city council robin wonsley and featuring state rep athena hollins, and other local experts
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morbius @jazzpomegranate.com · 27/09/2026
all i heard was a german guy screaming
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clumsy_machinist @clumsy-machinist.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I love when random transit YouTube channels do videos on transit in the Twin Cities youtu.be/5THWx7_QJSk?...
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The Transit System the Twin Cities Deserve | Minneapolis METRO Expansion Concept
YouTube video by The House of Transit
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Andy Lettuce @andy.hopepunk.club · 26/09/2026
MN voters: amending the state constitution requires a majority of voters to vote yes - abstaining from the school funding question on your ballot this year is effectively a no-vote. Please take a sec to get informed before you submit your ballot! www.lwvmn.org/2026-constit...
A portion of the MN official ballot that reads

Constitutional Amendments
Failure to vote on a constitutional amendment will have the same effect as voting no on the amendment.
To vote for a proposed constitutional amendment, fill in the box next to the word "Yes" on that question. To vote against a proposed constitutional amendment, fill in the box next to the word "No" on that question.
Increasing funding to school districts
Shall the Minnesota Constitution be amended to increase the funding going to all school districts from the permanent school fund, which is a fund that supports school districts without raising individual income or property taxes, effective July 1, 2027?

(This is a photo of my ballot where I have selected yes)
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MaryMM @marymm.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Good government is a good thing. I-94 destroying economic and social success in Saint Paul is not. That bridge supports a rebuilt freeway and should not have been conducted until a new plan for the freeway corridor was created.
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Coyle "Barricade Material" Boron @fack.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
blue owl getting force majeured on this rn www.ft.com/content/a96b...
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Oracle on the hook to pay data centre investors even if site has no electricity
The tech group is responsible for ‘Project Jupiter’ payments despite force majeure notice on New Mexico project
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R.T. Ester @shoutoutmapes.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Congressional Black Caucus links up with Palantir to honor Shirley Chisolm's legacy
A digital banner inside the Walter E. Washington Convention Center shows Palantir and their brand logo listed among the Congressional Black Caucus
Annual Legislative Conference's "top
supporters."Palantir Named A Top
Supporter' At CBC
Foundation's Annual
Conference
The controversial data and Al firm
which has millions of dollars of
contracts with ICE, has been trying to
curry favor with Democratic-aligned
groups.
By Brianna Tucker
Sep 23, 2026, 06:53 PM EDT
Updated 21 hours agoOn one digital banner that led to the
vendor hall expo, the firm was listed
among the conference's "top
supporters." The background
featured a faded portrait of Shirley
Chisholm, the first Black woman
elected to Congress, whose
campaign motto "unbought and
unbossed" symbolized resistance to
corporate influence
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Erik Noonan @eriknoonan.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
If you bike in Minnesota, help flood the MnDOT comments to showcase the near-insatiable demand for better bike funding in Minnesota.
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Elle Ess @viamarsala18.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
This Waymo turned right on red on 8th in Marcy Holmes as a bus was proceeding legally through a green light. I believe these are still driver-operated and they still FUCKING SUCK. I do not want Waymos here!
An ugly fuck ass blue boxy stupid Waymo turning right onto 10th from Como and taking up two lanes because it is stupid. License plate reads DG76270 from Michigan
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Es el Mes de la Herencia Hispana. Celebramos las contribuciones que los latinos han hecho al tejido de los Estados Unidos. Los campesinos que nos alimentan merecen ser reconocidos y protegidos.
Un gráfico colorido con el texto “Celebra el Mes de la Herencia Hispana”, donde se ve a un trabajador agrícola arrodillado en primer plano, de color rojo, un campo detrás con dos trabajadores y el logotipo del águila negra de la UFW.
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Metro Transit (Official) @metrotransitmn.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Join us Sept. 26, 10 a.m.–1 p.m. at Louisiana Avenue Station in St. Louis Park as we announce the 2027 opening day for the METRO Green Line extension and celebrate progress on this new community asset. Details: metrotransit.org/green-line-opening-date
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NY Times Pitchbot @nytpitchbot.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Minnesota is a shit hole that I’m embarrassed to live in. Here’s why Minnesotans should make me their next senator. by Michele Tafoya
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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 23/09/2026
Council Member Aisha Chughtai says, in terms of safety, autonomous vehicles do not solve what is fundamentally a street infrastructure problem.
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Moth @walkingminnesota.com · 23/09/2026
Who could have predicted this pivot www.startribune.com/timberwolves...
REAL ESTATE
New Wolves, Lynx owners to seek public assistance for new arena
CEO Matt Caldwell said at the Minnesota Star Tribune's North Star Summit that the professional basketball franchises would like to stay in downtown Minneapolis.
By Katie Galioto
The Minnesota Star Tribune
SEPTEMBER 22, 2026 AT 3:25PM
NORTH +
STAR
SUMMIT 2026
NOSTART
SUMMIT 30
SUMMIT
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Bill Lindeke @blindeke.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
bad for anyone trying to learn news
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Corey Atad @coreyatad.com · 22/09/2026
“If you are staring at an example of social disorder or social inefficiency, and the left refuses to explain either why it has happened or how they will fix it, then the right gets to point at someone in the immediate area and say, ‘That’s who did it.’” crazy how much Mamdani speaks my language
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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 22/09/2026
Elliot started riding the bus for groceries in high school and has agreed to share more than a decade's worth of grocery shopping and bus riding wisdom with us as part of our special series where I go grocery shopping with strangers without a car. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QkO...
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Rainy Bus Trip to Trader Joe's (w/ Elliot Newhouse)
Elliot Newhouse started riding the bus for groceries in high school and has agreed to share more than a decade's worth of grocery shopping wisdom with us as part of our special series where John goes…
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floating in lotus position @gallantdimwit.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Agreed
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Deviant Ollam ツ @deviantollam.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
My latest video about medical supplies — which features absolutely no firearms and contains no links to any firearms and doesn't even mention firearms — has been removed from YouTube for violating their firearms policy.
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Spending on data centers and other AI hardware now exceeds housing investment in the United States. According to the federal Bureau of Economic Analysis, private housing investment was $748 billion in the second quarter, while spending onAI equipment and data centers rose to $752 billion.
fortune.com
U.S. economy hits pivotal milestone: Spending on data centers and other information-processing hardware now exceeds housing investment | Fortune
"We’re seeing a pivotal shift in the US economy: investment is shifting away from residential investment and towards computers."
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Erik Noonan @eriknoonan.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
At this time, there is zero reason to believe any trees are being impacted by the creation of the off-street shared-use path. This is per city staff. Just like Summit, the tree impacts are from utilities and roadway maintenance. Plus some of the trees being diseased.
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ActivistChecklist.org @activistchecklist.org · 19/09/2026
Read this before upgrading to iOS 27 if you have an iPhone 15 or newer that supports "Apple Intelligence." New AI features might send your data (like Signal messages) off your device to Apple's servers It's absurd that we have to work so hard for our privacy :(
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How to Limit What Apple’s New Siri AI Can Access in iOS 27
Apple’s new operating system is here, and along with it comes a new version of Siri, dubbed with two very familiar letters: AI. As the name suggests, this Siri power-up resembles an AI chatbot more th...
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Jake Williams @malwarejake.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Gemini consistently hallucinates command line arguments that don't exist. I'm not buying this.
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Ajuna Soerjadi 🌸 @ethicsofai.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
For real!! Comedian Micky Overman says it like it is. Generally the only people even entertaining the thought of evil AGI are men. Women are too busy fixing the ACTUAL problems of AI, like idk, the way it automates, reproduces and exacerbates misogyny and makes all our lives worse...
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
OpenAI and Microsoft admitted LLMs are predatory tech built on “an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions,” and the “largest theft of labor in human history.” An internal Microsoft document said AI has created a “doom loop” that is killing “the entire web.” www.404media.co/doom-loop-op...
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‘Doom Loop’: OpenAI and Microsoft Admits LLMs Are Destroying the Web and Built on Theft
"Millions of people around the world will soon consider large models ‘hoovering up’ all their work to be an astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions."
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Streets.mn @streets.mn · 17/09/2026
To Solve Saint Paul’s Fiscal Problems, We Need More Density: streets.mn/2026/09/17/saint-pauls-f… Saint Paul needs to dramatically expand its property tax base to become a financially resilient city — updating its zoning rules to enable “dense” buildings is an ...
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max nesterak @maxnesterak.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
“We are not going to roll out the red carpet for Big Tech companies to essentially raid our economy and displace our workers,” said Minneapolis City Council Member Robin Wonsley. minnesotareformer.com/2026/09/17/m...
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Minneapolis weighs ban on driverless robotaxis to protect rideshare drivers • Minnesota Reformer
The Minneapolis City Council is considering a proposal to effectively ban driverless robotaxis, as several council members push to protect the jobs of more than 10,000 rideshare drivers in the state. ...
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Anyone can upload AI slop music to anyone's Spotify page. We tested it, and it's trivial to do: www.404media.co/spotify-ai-m...
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I Hijacked a Real Artist's Spotify with AI Music. It Was Disturbingly Easy
A glaring loophole in digital music distribution makes it very easy to piggyback on the talent of real artists with AI generated music.
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ashley fairbanks @ziibiing.com · 15/09/2026
minnesota: we’re the first in the nation to early vote, let’s show the rest of the country that this is another way we show up and stop the onslaught of violence against our neighbors. let’s get these fascists out of power. join people this friday, 10AM at the hennepin county government center.
THEY TAKE OUR NEIGHBORS, WE TAKE THEIR POWER.
Rally+Vote 10AM
Friday the 18th
Hennepin County
Government Center
I
Voted
Minnesota is the first state to early vote. Let's show up in record numbers make the fascists afraid.
We protect our neighbors.
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amanda moore 🐢 @noturtlesoup17.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I took a video of Mitch McConnell leaving his house about half an hour before this vote today.
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Micah Lee @micahflee.com · 16/09/2026
HaJ3FgupAm8RrDJW3MHgT9X7Ft27eVaD What is that? That's a hard-coded API token that Flock cameras use to identify themselves and get OAuth credentials, which can then be used to talk to Flock's production servers. Like, anyone on the internet can probably do this right now.
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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 15/09/2026
Council Member Chughtai waited 15 seconds to see if anyone from MPD or the Office of Community Safety was at today's meeting to answer questions about the $20 million in overspending. MPD and OCS had both been there to speak to the prior agenda items, so the absence was a choice.
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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 15/09/2026
NEW EPISODE: "Biking home with a 36 pk of Diet Dr. Pepper from Costco Wholesale" with guest shopper Parker Seaman. www.youtube.com/watch?v=Li8S...
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Biking home with a 36 pk of Diet Dr. Pepper from Costco Wholesale
Parker Seaman shows me how to shop at Costco without a car, offering tips on how to bring a 36 pack of Diet Dr. Pepper home to Minneapolis from St. Louis Park on your bicycle's front rack. We discuss…
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Marta Peirano @minipetite.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
DA IGUAL lo que digan Darío Amodei, Sam Altman y Elmo. La decisión de no comercializar productos peligrosos no está en sus manos. Para eso hay leyes de protección del consumidor, competencia y responsabilidad. Mi columna sobre este oportunista malentendido elpais.com/tecnologia/2...
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No hace falta un acuerdo para controlar la IA
La decisión de no comercializar productos peligrosos no está en manos de los magnates de la IA. Para eso está la ley
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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 14/09/2026
You probably recognize the first three names as mayoral best friends. But you may not know Catherine Shreves. She was co-chair of Charter for Change in 2021, the PAC funded entirely by the chamber of commerce and devoted to changing our government structure so Frey could be a strong mayor.
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Will Jones @willpjones.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
“Despite a long history of harm from past transportation investments, our communities have come to the table with project partners in a spirit of collaboration to find solutions. It’s time for policymakers to do the same to ensure the Blue Line extension moves forward.”
startribune.com
Opinion | We’ve come too far to let the Blue Line extension fall apart now
Hennepin County and the Met Council need to stop pointing fingers and find a way to close this $224 million funding gap, the authors write.
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Two of the 18 US service members killed in the Iran war were Iowans: Sgt. Declan Coady and Maj. Jeffrey O'Brien. Iowans among the injured as well. And Iowa of all places feels the rises of fertilizer and diesel prices due to the war. Plus, you know, there's caring about the country and the world.
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BikeMN @bikemn.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We're One Month Out from the Twin Cities Bike Tour and those foliage maps are looking like we'll be at peak for the fall colors! Don't miss out on the biggest celebration of the best bike-metro in America! Register today at bikemn.org/tcbt
Photo of a family biking on a perfect fall day. 

Text reads: "One month out! Twin Cities Bike Tour. Register today! bikemn.org/tcbt"
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Parker Seaman @strongthany.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
He sure is, we talked about that and more when he came on @streets.mn podcast for our book club streets.mn/2026/03/02/b...
streets.mn
Book Club: The Lost Cause
New York Times best selling author Cory Doctorow joins us to discuss his 2023 solarpunk novel The Lost Cause!
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onion person @junlper.beer · 09/09/2026
never forget except for donald trump, he can forget
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babski @babski.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
RATBOYS TINY DESK
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