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Brent Anderson

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Working to build a better world, sometimes with software. 🐘 https://hachyderm.io/@bja

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The Jejune Institute

For being a digital scavenger hunt marketing campaign, it actually reminds me a lot of nonchalance.com/jejune.html and some of the other public scavenger hunts like that. I think there's potential for IRL stuff like that.

03.03.2026 15:52 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Might I suggest giving ARM
Ubuntu a spin? It’s quite good. 2025+ has been the year of the Linux desktop for me and I’m finding it works really well.

02.03.2026 17:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

REAL ID or driver's license? Not proof for the SAVE act. Birth cert or passports, in-person registration only. Who do you know who loses their right to vote?

SAVE excludes valid votes, incl. married women who changed names. It takes just a minute to tell your senators NO: 5calls.org/issue/save-a...

23.02.2026 19:17 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Keep Minnesota Housed!
Much of the medΓ­a has left, but ICE is still in Minnesota and hundreds of families need help with rent in order to avoid eviction.
Visit keepMNhoused.com to adopt a rent or donate to rent funds!
#keepMNhoused

Keep Minnesota Housed! Much of the medΓ­a has left, but ICE is still in Minnesota and hundreds of families need help with rent in order to avoid eviction. Visit keepMNhoused.com to adopt a rent or donate to rent funds! #keepMNhoused

Today we are launching a new intitative of Stand With Minnesotaβ€”KeepMNHoused.com, a rent-relief campaign backed with a $1.5 matching fund from the Wilson Foundation.

Thousands of MN families are at risk of eviction because of the ICE occupation’s lasting impacts. We can keep them housed.

19.02.2026 15:32 πŸ‘ 1632 πŸ” 1171 πŸ’¬ 21 πŸ“Œ 50

Things are very much not over here.

19.02.2026 16:15 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

If we had VPN tunnels between participants like a Tailscale network then we can make different guarantees about leaky metadata. But if the data is going to live on public channels, I don’t know how you anonymize further without using a different protocol altogether. Like mixing blocks Tor style.

18.02.2026 23:05 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Solving for leaky metadata requires delegating trust to the medium. ATProto is public so a reasonable trade off. Signal gets trust because they seemingly prove that the metadata and data aren’t traceable to an account. They can’t spill secrets beyond a few bytes.

18.02.2026 23:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 1 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0
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70:17 Bookmark 70:17 - page 70 of a book entitled .cllta.fijpzhr,jizsjx from volume 27g5l50b3p6yww60kg6omkktfd2pcha7xty6dt6...-w4-s2-v05 of the Library of Babel.

It’s somewhere in the library of babel. This hint is sufficient explanation: libraryofbabel.info/bookmark.cgi...

17.02.2026 22:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

$argon2id$v=19$m=512,t=256,p=1$PV2NkjIVdDdanICOCyP/Gg$9MbvJCkWqcn1Ud+6ZawPFpTMvUiIg27IArlOx5DDpXM

17.02.2026 16:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

trying to wrap my head around how we are going to raise $15-28 million dollars for the expected rent need in Minnesota in March when the news cycle has now passed us.

13.02.2026 17:13 πŸ‘ 235 πŸ” 92 πŸ’¬ 6 πŸ“Œ 9

Particularly when CBP agents have already been caught wearing Meta glasses to immigration raids even without facial recogntion www.404media.co/a-cbp-agent-...

13.02.2026 16:36 πŸ‘ 369 πŸ” 122 πŸ’¬ 8 πŸ“Œ 5
12.02.2026 12:58 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This part. The underlying economic need is, if anything, greater than it was two weeks ago.

11.02.2026 13:36 πŸ‘ 94 πŸ” 39 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 2

Curious if you used godot-ink or something else to power TR-49?

11.02.2026 13:48 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

@ralexanderson.com yet another!

09.02.2026 20:03 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

There's a lot going on in Minnesota, including an effort to allow mining operations next to Voyageurs National Park aka the Boundary Waters. This wilderness is pristine and untouched. It won't be if we don't preserve it.

Ask your senators to vote NO: www.rei.com/action/netwo...

09.02.2026 19:20 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Such timing: bsky.app/profile/land...

Also, Tangled, Codeberg.org, or Gitlab. Self-host floss.social/@forgejo.

09.02.2026 19:14 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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DFOS Dark Forest Operating System

Have you seen dfos.com/ ? They have a pre-release instance running that may be interesting to you.

09.02.2026 16:35 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Definitely the best one for me to finally understand Cynefin, which I'd read about years before but didn't understand until this piece nailed the language around it.

09.02.2026 15:50 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Strategy in four worlds Different environments require different survival strategies

Not the first or perhaps not the best, but @gordon.bsky.social on Cynefin crossed my mind when you brought up your 2x2 matrix. newsletter.squishy.computer/p/strategy-i...

09.02.2026 15:49 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

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05.02.2026 02:11 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Immigrants’ Recent Effects on Government Budgets: 1994–2023 Our analysis in this paper shows that immigrants generated a fiscal surplus of about $14.5 trillion from 1994 to 2023, that the average immigrant is much less costly than the average US-born American,...

www.cato.org/white-paper/...

30 years of data shows that all immigrants (documented and otherwise) are massively net-positive to the US economy.

04.02.2026 16:54 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

> "Stopped by legal & ethical limits"

Chesterton's fence would like a word.

If product-led companies "fail" because "They followed their legal and ethical limits", isn't that a good thing? Wouldn't we all be better off if companies slowed down and asked "Is this actually good for humans?"

04.02.2026 15:34 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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β€˜We have to keep showing up for each other’: In Minnesota, caregiving is a form of resistance School pickups, diaper runs and mutual aid funds are central to how many Minnesotans are challenging the militarization of their state.

I am usually a very behind the scenes person but I stepped outside of my comfort zone because I hope reading this will inspire other people just to step up and do the thing.

You never know what your impact can be.

03.02.2026 13:40 πŸ‘ 658 πŸ” 206 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 11
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The number of detainees getting put on ICE flights at MSP has been relatively low the last few days.

I believe this is not on account of ICE pulling back - they still outnumber local police in many towns - but on account of vulnerable people staying home, observer pressure, and lawyer organization.

03.02.2026 05:07 πŸ‘ 1107 πŸ” 296 πŸ’¬ 14 πŸ“Œ 14

Greetings from inside the economic blockade zones of Minneapolis and St Paul! Don’t look away, please. We need you. It’s been a month and they’re trying to destroy us.

02.02.2026 12:25 πŸ‘ 657 πŸ” 256 πŸ’¬ 11 πŸ“Œ 13

Look for the helpers.

30.01.2026 20:24 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1
Charlie Chaplin : The Final Speech from The Great Dictator

Credit to Charlie Chaplin: www.charliechaplin.com/en/articles/...

28.01.2026 18:03 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

"The misery that is now upon us is but the passing of greed - the bitterness of men who fear the way of human progress. The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. So long as men die, liberty will never perish."

28.01.2026 18:02 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0