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Rational Actor in a Broken Machine That Turns People into Blood. // pic by @iamprikle // building tools for digital communities at https://getloom.org // all statements are my own

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The Denver Gazette is owned by local conservative shithead billionaire Phillip Anschutz, so them either being shit at their job or just parroting the cops isn't too far a stretch.

22.10.2025 21:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Very excited to finally be talking publicly about a project I've put a lot of time and effort into since 2020 lol

03.10.2025 01:23 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I've been slowly working my way through DCC on the recommendation of a friend. The UI descriptions at the start a bit of a slog, but once you get past the tutorial it picks up pace.

I'm looking forward to the galactic level politics I was promised in later books.

23.09.2025 22:06 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Amazon delivery truck, license plate CQO-I93, parked in the bike lane on Blake street in Denver, just West of Broadway. There are silly little lumps on the street that "physically separate" the bike lane from the traffic lane. There used to be vertical bollards here to provide the separation. Now these little lumps are easy for delivery drivers (and any other car driver) to drive over, so they provide no protection.

Amazon delivery truck, license plate CQO-I93, parked in the bike lane on Blake street in Denver, just West of Broadway. There are silly little lumps on the street that "physically separate" the bike lane from the traffic lane. There used to be vertical bollards here to provide the separation. Now these little lumps are easy for delivery drivers (and any other car driver) to drive over, so they provide no protection.

8/22/25: Amazon delivery truck driver parked blocking the bike lane on Blake West of Broadway. The city recently removed bollards from this street which may have dissuaded this driver from behaving this way. [reported]

22.08.2025 20:26 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Two bridges in β€˜fair’ condition near Burnham Yard made Denver’s bond package. But others are worse off. β€œI do think there’s a potential that we’re discussing Eighth (Avenue) being closed in the not-too-distant future if you don’t make this investment now,” a city official said of its bond allocation.…

β€œMore than 50 of Denver’s bridges for vehicle traffic are in worse condition than two viaducts chosen for sizable investment under the city’s proposed bond package”

It’s tough not to believe that these bridges are nothing less than a gift to the Broncos.
www.denverpost.com/2025/08/04/d...

04.08.2025 14:39 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm a big fan of my Melly and the way they run their business. Now I'm even more a fan after learning they're on track to be employee owned too!

29.07.2025 22:13 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If riding bikes is political violence, wait till they see a critical mass ride. DHS is going to flip.

Let’s be real, the type of transportation that is used for violence is cars.

10.07.2025 22:55 πŸ‘ 15 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Common Wealth | Substack We design ownership models for a democratic and sustainable economy. Click to read Common Wealth, a Substack publication with thousands of subscribers.

Just listened to @tommills.bsky.social & Dan Hind from Common-Wealth talk about a model for mutual ownership of public media. They were discussing it through the lens of the BBC, but it made me start wondering if the model could be applied to CPR.

www.common-wealth.org/publications...

24.06.2025 17:18 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Chatbots β€” LLMs β€” do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re β€œright” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

19.06.2025 11:21 πŸ‘ 36849 πŸ” 11356 πŸ’¬ 633 πŸ“Œ 962

Daylight violation of the Posse Comitatus Act: the military is forbidden from domestic law enforcement or political repression

13.06.2025 22:11 πŸ‘ 225 πŸ” 43 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Trump, Elon Musk and the dangers of β€˜god mode’ tech powers in government DOGE is attempting to undermine a congressional check on presidential power. It is rewriting the Constitution.

Just published in Americaβ€”why we need a politics that resists the aspirations of "god mode" sysadmins: www.americamagazine.org/politics-soc...

14.05.2025 22:08 πŸ‘ 8 πŸ” 5 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0