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Brad Greenlee

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Building things at Medium. Seattle-ish. I don't mind the rain, really.

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I Want You to Understand Chicago

From my friend Kyle. This is essential reading for all Americans. aphyr.com/posts/397-i-...

08.11.2025 19:47 πŸ‘ 42 πŸ” 37 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 1
Announcement: TK - A new writing app from Medium.
Announcement: TK - A new writing app from Medium. YouTube video by Medium

Teaser for the project I'm working on at Medium:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gPnc...

We've got a bit of work to do before it's ready for the masses, but you can join the waitlist: medium.com/tk

19.09.2025 19:16 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 2

I'm sorry to hear that. Take care of yourself. Hit me up if you ever want to chat.

14.09.2025 20:56 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I thought about hosting my own mail, but it's a hassle. And I'm lazy. I've moved most of my domains to Fastmail. There's still a per-user charge, but you can add as many domains as you want. Referral code if you're interested: join.fastmail.com/44b3c18c

01.08.2025 23:20 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Screenshot of the Merlin Bird ID app showing ids of Dark-eyed Junco, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Brown Creeper, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Anna’s Hummingbird, and Golden-crowned Kinglet.

Screenshot of the Merlin Bird ID app showing ids of Dark-eyed Junco, Red-breasted Nuthatch, Brown Creeper, Chestnut-backed Chickadee, Anna’s Hummingbird, and Golden-crowned Kinglet.

The β€œMerlin Challenge”: step outside, open up the Merlin app, and record for a minute. Post your results.

01.08.2025 13:59 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

I'm sorry, I don't understand the mental overhead. Do they have so many different kinds of baklava that it's hard to choose?

23.07.2025 01:27 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
An excerpt, "Automating the creation of art is like automating life, so you can make it to the finish line faster," accompanied by a drawing of a baby in a crib and a coffin, with two paths between them, A and B. Path A is long and squiggly. Path B is direct.

An excerpt, "Automating the creation of art is like automating life, so you can make it to the finish line faster," accompanied by a drawing of a baby in a crib and a coffin, with two paths between them, A and B. Path A is long and squiggly. Path B is direct.

A lovely visual essay by Christoph Niemann: www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

26.06.2025 14:07 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This is incredibly beautiful storytelling.

21.06.2025 17:23 πŸ‘ 7285 πŸ” 3507 πŸ’¬ 140 πŸ“Œ 366
https://complexity.simplecast.com/episodes <!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <meta name="robo...

The latest season of the Complexity podcast, Nature of Intelligence, with Melanie Mitchell, was great. complexity.simplecast.com/episodes

02.06.2025 01:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

English: You should avoid using double negatives.

Statistics: "A type II error, or a false negative, is the erroneous failure in bringing about appropriate rejection of a false null hypothesis."

25.04.2025 21:45 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If there's one good thing that will come of all this, it is learning just how many r's and how many f's there are in tariffs.

05.04.2025 13:14 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Man, how does Booker do it. He's texted me three times since finishing his speech. Go to sleep, man!

02.04.2025 18:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Just checked my Signal to make sure I hadn’t missed any messages from the White House.

24.03.2025 19:39 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Screensaver Spelunking Β· footle

I finally got around to writing up a side quest I went on a few months ago to see descriptions for the aerial screensavers on the Mac: footle.org/2025/03/21/s...

21.03.2025 19:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Theoretically, but I don't think we're ready to expand our scope yet.

19.03.2025 17:05 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

Want to help us roll this huge boulder up the hill? Reach out! We need folks to help with all sorts of things.

Making a thing feels at least slightly better than screaming into the void!

14.03.2025 23:26 πŸ‘ 6 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0

You can submit a receipt for a member of congress at this link (and take credit for it if you like):

primary.every.democrat/submit-receipt

14.03.2025 23:26 πŸ‘ 4 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Let's Primary Chuck Schumer :: Primary Every Democrat! Get notified when you can vote in your next local primary election.

The collective memory of BlueSky, etc is much shorter than an election cycle. So in addition to notifying people when they can vote to replace cowards like @chuckschumer.com, we are trying to keep track of why we need to do this.

Scroll down to the "receipts" section here:

14.03.2025 23:26 πŸ‘ 233 πŸ” 103 πŸ’¬ 7 πŸ“Œ 10
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Submit a Receipt Got something you think your Democratic Congressperson is getting wrong (or right!)? Let us know!

primary.every.democrat/submit-receipt

14.03.2025 18:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Submit a Receipt Got something you think your Democratic Congressperson is getting wrong (or right!)? Let us know!

primary.every.democrat/submit-receipt

14.03.2025 18:55 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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Let's Primary Tom Suozzi :: Primary Every Democrat! Get notified when you can vote in your next local primary election.

We are collecting receipts, but could definitely use some help: primary.every.democrat/specifically...

14.03.2025 01:18 πŸ‘ 5 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0
Succinct data structures An overview of a class of data structures I didn't know about!

Interesting article on succinct data structures, which were new to me. Neat! blog.startifact.com/posts/succin...

11.03.2025 14:30 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Hey you can follow us here: @primary.every.democrat

Here's a page where we'll keep receipts for @tomsuozzi.bsky.social

More to come!

10.03.2025 18:54 πŸ‘ 10 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Primary Every Democrat! Get notified when you can vote in your next local primary election.

I snapped after seeing Gerry Connolly fumble one too many times and made a site* that will tell you when you can vote against Democratic incumbents:

primary.every.democrat

*with @footle.org and @capwatkins.com

03.03.2025 15:16 πŸ‘ 70 πŸ” 52 πŸ’¬ 5 πŸ“Œ 10

Π­Ρ‚ΠΎ ΠΎΡ‡Π΅Ρ€Π΅Π΄ΡŒ Π·Π° Ρ…Π»Π΅Π±ΠΎΠΌ?

01.03.2025 15:24 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Well, I guess we should start learning Russian.

01.03.2025 03:42 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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The real test of whether you're a bot is if you can click one of the links in the reCAPTCHA badge.

01.03.2025 02:50 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

The proposal was rejected. Good job, folks.

25.02.2025 16:22 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Apple's shareholder meeting is today (8a PST) and one of the proposals on the docket is "Request to Cease DEI Efforts". If you're an Apple shareholder, you can join the meeting and vote. Your brokerage should have sent you a link and a control number you'll need to sign in.

25.02.2025 15:04 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 2 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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My wife’s favorite coffee mug is slightly too small for our Aeropress, and my coffee-drinking kid’s favorite mug is a little too big. So I designed and printed an adapter. #JustifyingMy3DPrinter

07.02.2025 18:06 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 0