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He was legally observing
He was helping other legal observers
He was helping other potential victims
He was not brandishing a gun
May Alex Pretti’s memory be a blessing

I actually don’t even know how to respond got this. Ok?

?? I have a husband. Again, best of luck in life.

It’s a yes or no question.

So are you saying you think corporations (or billionaires) should be able to donate hundreds of thousands of dollars (or millions) to get someone elected?

Look, assuming you're engaging in good faith, my position is simple: politicians cannot serve their constituents if they are beholden to corporations.

Ah yeah. You're a corporate dem. Not going to argue with you. Best of luck in life!

Who is “we”? And why are you arguing against getting corporate money out of elections?

get it while you can! It's amazing, but I do get a little stressed trying hit my usage limits each week :D

It’s -9 degrees. Downtown Minneapolis is packed for the anti-ICE rally and the crowd keeps growing

Yes! Be the change and all that. I recognize that if I want to have meaningful/interesting conversations on a decentralized platform, I might need to actually contribute to those conversations, or even start them. 😅 I don’t interact much on x, just learn from people doing cool stuff.

I’m one of the people who recently joined! Just got tired of being fed propaganda / supporting a platform that actively seeks to suppress truth, even if the content for my particular field is very good over there.

Been thinking someone needs to re-do the “don’t tread on me” to make it “don’t tread on us.”

Fair enough, there are trolls abound whether you are, it seems.

At the airport.

Yes, thanks for being out there.

Looks like @statuscoupnews.bsky.social is out today!

Everyone I’ve interacted with on here feels refreshingly kind.

Thank you!! Trying to learn my way around bluesky and stay off of “x”.

Is anyone on bluesky covering the Minnesota general strike today? Anyone on the ground? Would love to give you a follow!

Thank you! I think time-synced annotations/citations are an under-utilized resource and it’s very possible to do that now. I’ll share a link soon to the demo and will take a look at Seams!

Thank you! I will take a look at ATProto to better understand what you’re saying 😅 and I’ll share a link to the site soon. It’s mostly ready, really. I’m glad you find it interesting!

Thank you for that info. I’ll take a look!

Well you know a lot more than I do, so in due time, you could take a look at the tool I’m building and let me know your thoughts. I don’t know much about REE, but I do know that much of what’s happening right now relates to a desperate/dangerous need for the US to play catch up.

Agree, that’s a really cool idea! I miss being an avid note-taker.

It counts and your comment on those screenshots made me chuckle 😅 have you done anything with knowledge/ would you like to??

I should have a demo ready within the next few days! I’m not sure what direction I’ll take with it; depends on how the hackathon goes. One issue is that I need to get podcasters approval to use their material (if I wanted to turn it into a product). Will consider open sourcing, though!

Thank you!! I built a rag model to store all of the papers I could collect from semantic scholar, transcribed the podcast episode, used Gemini to identify claims that were made, then had Gemini access the papers to give the more context to the claim.

It doesn’t look like the video I shared has audio, but I have connected the claims he makes in the podcast with the science behind them, so you can bookmark as you listen or dive deeper with knowledge graphs, evidence threads, and even generate mini podcasts based on a given claim.

I’m building a knowledge layer for podcasts! @drmichaellevin.bsky.social’s research is deeply fascinating to me, and I wanted to be able to connect his research to his podcast appearances. This is a project for a hackathon; haven’t shared it on x, just here! Podcast nerds: what do you think?