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Sure:
Light rail, high speed rail, ocean wave generation, solar power generation, wind generation, heat pump tech, geothermal heat pump tech, last mile on-demand transit solutions, better wheelchairs, better wheel chair lifts, better flexible seating on public transit, maker spaces, tool libraries.

We don't know about it bc we don't have one.
Lending is covered under the right of first sale (17 USC §109).

I'm agnostic as to which system is better. I like that PLR gets authors paid, but it imposes admin costs, which we love to semi-privatize in US. Can you imagine CCC administering?

In that area: Nice Time Market at 38th St & 24th ave. Teeny tiny grocery store with a nice deli, some great local products, and they've been doing a "we'll give you a bag of food" option for neighbors in need since the SNAP cuts started.

The craft-oriented storefront (of three Ingebretsen's currently occupies) was (is?) used for collecting mutual aid donations.

This is one of the "AI"-related labor issues that North Americans somehow hardly ever want to engage with.

The tech industry used to make things before they ran out of ideas and decided to invent stuff no one had ever seen before like fraud and serfdom

The reason the private sector tends to fuck up public contracts is that it means they can steal public money and not worry about going to jail.

Age verification and social media bans are explicitly ways to isolate queer, neurodivergent, and abused kids.

Gung Roulé Mubarak

(Also, for anyone concerned about MN voting technicalities, right, no, we don't have poll observers in MN. We have party-affiliated "poll challengers". (I'm DFL.) The first many years I did this, there was never a GOP challenger, but that has evolved.)

That's how I registered when we first moved here, my next door neighbor vouched for me. And then yes I vouched for my son when he turned 18 and had no utilities in his name.

Discovered today that Instagram had turned on (without my opt-in) automatic AUDIO translation of any reel that shows up in my feed not in English USING AI TO MIMIC THE SPEAKER’S VOICE and WOW it was creepy and upsetting.

You can turn it off in “Language & Translations” in Settings. 🙅🏻‍♀️

Most frequent uses of vouched registration IME?

- Couple who has just moved; one on the utility bill vouches for the other.
- Parent or sibling hauling in a reluctant (often just up from a nap) 18y.o.
- Resident vouching in the friend who is sleeping on their couch.

Make voting easy, it's good.

I've done election observing in Minnesota for over a decade. We have same-day registration, including by vouching.
That is, another voter registered in the same precinct can swear (under oath, same standard as in court!) that you live there.
It is -magical-. (1/2)

Treating this nonsense more seriously than it deserves:
(1) Anonymous police behaving unaccountably is an actual problem; voter fraud is not.
(2) Cops showing their faces & IDs has been the norm for all of our 250 year history; needing a passport to vote has not

(Conclusion: mostly or entirely organic fibers!)

A piece of white fabric held in my hand, above a steel kitchen sink. One corner of the fabric is charred black and has crumbled away leaving a few loose blackened threads.

Testing mystery fabric.

Even after - an older cousin was an endocrinologist and she went on some trips to the USSR under perestroika/glasnost. Kids who'd have been 100% treatable in the US were not there, bc they didn't consistently have the home refrigeration or disposable syringes we did.

Gang.

GANG.

LLM DETECTORS ARE ALSO LLMs AND PRONE TO THE EXACT SAME ERRORS.

STOP USING THEM.

It's worth remembering that "hype," by definition, is bullshit: less true or untrue than INDIFFERENT to truth (and thus, plural and internally inconsistent). There isn't one "AI hype," there's a whole fucking *splatter* of many different claims that are not collectively provable or falsifiable.

this is fine

https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116080909947754833

> So I started looking through Claude commits on GitHub, there’s over 2m of them and it’s about 5% of all open source code this month.

> I saw the same class of vulns being introduced over, and over, again - several a minute.

Grape Nuts are occasionally really good!

Me too!

I know Saint Paul is one of the greatest places on earth because everytime we do patrol at our neighborhood mosque we are fed and brought tea and we all hug each other and it’s too wholesome to bear. This is how we win

Also, the cover-up tattoo is the sort of thing that on its own, could be okay, but looks a bit sus covering -that-. (Plus the original peeks out under the edges? It's a very weird cover up.)

Menacing Loon for Minneapolis!
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Bad news about what some of those folks do to kids younger than three, such that they think it's normal that 3 year olds don't ask questions.

Economic Response Fund Grant Guidelines Small businesses in Minnesota that have experienced operational disruptions in recent weeks may now apply for emergency financial support through the Economic Response Fund.

I'm going to promote the heck out of this:

The Minneapolis Foundation has $4 million in grants available to small businesses for everything from rent and payroll costs to legal help and temporary relocation.

More details and the application here: www.minneapolisfoundation.org/stories/comm...

What’s so weird about men in power is how when they face scandal and should step down the world acts like no one else can do their jobs. Bottstein, Wasserman, these aren’t irreplaceable men! Stop with this delusion.

I have very little idea what you're doing, but I'm fascinated.