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cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual she/her. dayjob & usual location: City & County of San Francisco (this is a personal account) ex-18F; on the board @publicgood.tech ; wrote a small book about doing this: https://cydharrell.com/book/

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taco truck on every corner, drag queen story hour every single day

06.12.2025 02:57 β€” πŸ‘ 80    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 0

these racist shitheads

06.12.2025 02:55 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 3    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
a riddle in the style of elf on a shelf. The image shows a large white land animal that lives in cold regions and there's a star visible. Credit/source in the next comment

a riddle in the style of elf on a shelf. The image shows a large white land animal that lives in cold regions and there's a star visible. Credit/source in the next comment

You've heard of elf on a shelf. Now get ready for...
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06.12.2025 00:03 β€” πŸ‘ 489    πŸ” 131    πŸ’¬ 16    πŸ“Œ 9
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Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machineβ€”powered by your private data The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.

the rare article that ties our current political danger back to the Bush era www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

05.12.2025 16:12 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This kind of dataset is a clear indicator that propaganda plays a big role in people's political positions and acting like people are unshiftable is just completely detached from reality

05.12.2025 16:00 β€” πŸ‘ 779    πŸ” 237    πŸ’¬ 8    πŸ“Œ 8

There is a "fix" for that, but it's the long struggle of building an actually democratic society in which learning is valued more than knowledge and knowledge is more valued than certification. Any number of experimental colleges & programs work toward this.

05.12.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 86    πŸ” 16    πŸ’¬ 6    πŸ“Œ 0

The Lottery in Babylon is a warning, not a manual

05.12.2025 15:49 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Over a pint in Oxford, we may have stumbled upon the holy grail of agriculture | George Monbiot I knew that a revolution in our understanding of soil could change the world. Then came a eureka moment – and the birth of the Earth Rover Program, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

1. Some good news at last. This week’s column is about the amazing thing a couple of us stumbled into three years ago, which we’ve now developed into a global research programme. It doesn’t change everything, of course, but it could help change quite a lot. + 🧡 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

05.12.2025 06:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1574    πŸ” 600    πŸ’¬ 74    πŸ“Œ 110

cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual

05.12.2025 05:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
Meta Weighs Cuts to Its Metaverse Unit

Meta Weighs Cuts to Its Metaverse Unit

They renamed the entire company around this.

05.12.2025 05:10 β€” πŸ‘ 104    πŸ” 7    πŸ’¬ 4    πŸ“Œ 1

cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual

05.12.2025 05:20 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Agree with this thread. Worth reading in full.

25 years ago John Roberts, Brett Kavanaugh, and AC Barrett all worked on GWBush's 2000 Florida recount team. What they're doing now is, if anything, more nakedly partisan.

Fire-breathing dissent by Kagan, with Sotomayor and Jackson.

04.12.2025 23:57 β€” πŸ‘ 2374    πŸ” 760    πŸ’¬ 39    πŸ“Œ 29

nighthawk’s solstice! the earliest sunset of the year!

i didn’t know that

05.12.2025 02:40 β€” πŸ‘ 16    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

did not know, & do not love 😬

03.12.2025 15:37 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

thread worth your time

03.12.2025 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 6    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"instead of your dark lord, you would have a QUEEN"

03.12.2025 15:32 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

eat it!!

03.12.2025 06:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

for me it's the robust institutions that keep advanced tech managed for the benefit of all

02.12.2025 17:05 β€” πŸ‘ 9    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

a more personal thread about why TPG matters to me & why I've asked for your support bsky.app/profile/cydh...

02.12.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

a more personal thread about why TPG matters to me & why I've asked for your support bsky.app/profile/cydh...

02.12.2025 15:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'll also repost my thread from last week about this, but if you'd like to see non-DOGE-style technologists doing good work in governments across the country, & crucially, see them supported & thriving, TPG would love your support!

02.12.2025 15:53 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
White background, red ribbon. Text says β€œWorld AIDS Day”.

White background, red ribbon. Text says β€œWorld AIDS Day”.

My wife has been HIV+ for 34 years. She’s alive today b/c work of activists who destigmatized the virus, pushed medical science to adapt & find ways to treat it, & advocated for gov health programs that helped fund her care. The current U.S. regime may want to go back in time, but we won’t let them.

02.12.2025 01:27 β€” πŸ‘ 5530    πŸ” 828    πŸ’¬ 35    πŸ“Œ 18
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100 Notable Small Press Books of 2025 The idea ofΒ 100 Notable Small Press Books was born November 2024,Β afterΒ The New York Times’s annual 100 Notable Books list featured eighty-two books from the Big Five publishing houses (Pengu…

#100smallpress is out on LitHub! This is a list of 100 books curated by a team of enthusiastic readers from among many small presses across the US. I picked three books for it from science fiction and fantasy. lithub.com/100-notable-...

01.12.2025 15:51 β€” πŸ‘ 11    πŸ” 4    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I hope this email finds you worthy of love.

01.12.2025 15:35 β€” πŸ‘ 13    πŸ” 8    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

once gave a talk called "metaphor is more important than data" - maybe I ought to haul those slides out...

01.12.2025 06:27 β€” πŸ‘ 17    πŸ” 5    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

ha! when I finally figured out that my husband is neither Gilbert Blythe nor Mr. Darcy, but actually Christopher Heron...

01.12.2025 06:19 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

(sorry, that was a gender assumption with no basis. but it's a wonderful book!)

01.12.2025 05:58 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

oh, and how could I forget - it is 70s, but The Perilous Gard is the best manual ever for smart girls in the world - Tudor era fantasy retelling of the Ballad of Tam Lin. cult fav for kindred spirits.

01.12.2025 05:57 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

more in the slightly goofy/cozy vein, Malka Older's Mossa and Pleiti stuff, or Lois McMaster Bujold's Penric & Desdemona series (lower stakes than Curse of Chalion)

01.12.2025 05:53 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

- there's also a marvelously weird, genre-bending little book called Light From Uncommon Stars that is loved by a huge age range of friends
- & The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar is a beautiful, weird little book (her This is How You Lose the Time War is beyond brilliant, but maybe a bit older)

01.12.2025 05:49 β€” πŸ‘ 5    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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