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Aaron Salmon

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A jovial lad, UX leader, Coffee/bike shop owner, Dad, gamer, Lover, horror fan, pool player in Eau Claire, Wi. (forever Chicagoan) Alumni: Defense Digital Service @ DoD, Northwestern KnightLab, Public Good, Obama‘12 HQ, TechStars, ORDCamp. aaronsalmon.com

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Yes! I’ve wanted the city to try and pay to move the red flint operation and reclaim that whole site for recreation and event grounds.

22.02.2026 14:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Alysa Liu wins the Olympic gold medal for the United States
Alysa Liu wins the Olympic gold medal for the United States YouTube video by Olympics

I urge you to stop what you're doing and watch Alysa Liu's free skate from yesterday. I have never seen anything like this. I understand why sports writers are born now. I have never seen anyone as free from the burdens of this world as this pierced Oakland girl spinning to Donna Summers.

20.02.2026 16:52 👍 5455 🔁 1382 💬 152 📌 324
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AI is accidentally making documentation more accessible Writing documentation for AI retrieval improves accessibility for humans too.

We’ve been testing how machine-readable our design system documentation is. Turns out, AI agents and humans benefit from exactly the same qualities:
gerireid.com/blog/ai-is-a...

15.02.2026 11:11 👍 83 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 8

That joystick was amazing.

07.01.2026 22:36 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Can't wait for this new Extraction Looter game. Like Arc Raiders but you're one of 30 beavers dropped into an out-of-balance wilderness. Dam up streams, collect resources, fight for survival, heal nature.

06.01.2026 16:01 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

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01.01.2026 15:40 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

My friend had this game on C64 and it was a big reason I lobbied my dad for a PC! Great game.

13.11.2025 16:15 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Love that beret helmet. I usually gravitate towards orangish outfits.

14.10.2025 22:59 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Looking for the "It's been '0' days since last bent wheel" sign.

09.10.2025 15:33 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Honestly i cant believe this hasn't been improved in any meaningful way in the past 30 years.

18.06.2025 15:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

That was Myspace Tom if i remember correctly.

02.05.2025 17:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@dansinker.com Is that one entire town in NW Canada still for sale?

03.04.2025 16:02 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

We call it a long john in Wisconsin! My desert island donut.

27.03.2025 19:04 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

The next one I buy I'm going to treat like a restored Ferrari and bring it inside for the winter in a temperature controlled comfy nest with the DREAM that I'll get 4 years out of it. My latest lasted 2 if I'm honest... the 3rd year watered the ground beneath it more than anything else.

27.03.2025 15:12 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

My new thing is running the text of executive orders through AI with the prompt "Assume a bad actor wrote this, how could it be used nefariously?"

10.03.2025 20:32 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Thought this was Iron Maiden's 'Somewhere in Time' art at first glance!

10.03.2025 18:47 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

It can still be Standard Time if Mike Pence has the courage to do the right thing.

10.03.2025 11:49 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Oh ya. “are you hungry buddy?” is like a cheat code.

27.02.2025 14:20 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

* found a desk to work from
* bought crypto
* hodled crypto
* watched CPAC
* bought chainsaw and sunglasses

22.02.2025 22:47 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

I don't know what I miss more - Pixel fonts, or the top notch eyesight I had back when we used those lil doods everywhere.

21.02.2025 15:48 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

🔥 Wow, is this a one-off or part of a book or collection at all?

18.02.2025 16:48 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

"Ah...welcome to the Frequently Used emoji tray ole' fingers crossed🤞. First time here? Well, hope you're making yourself at home."

18.02.2025 16:42 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Firing all employees with less than a year of experience in their current role is typical of a mindset that just cares about maximizing a metric of loss and that assumes someone will pick up the slack and keep things going. For business, that’s often been government. For government, that’s nobody

15.02.2025 16:53 👍 186 🔁 37 💬 4 📌 3
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Government Gen AI Product & Delivery Technologist in Residence at U.S. Digital Response About U.S. Digital Response U.S. Digital Response (USDR) is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to helping governments and civic institutions respond quickly and efficiently to support the...

Thanks to the support of the Knight Foundation, USDR is hiring a unique role —we are seeking someone *who has recently exited the Federal government* to lead our Generative AI portfolio. us-digital-response.breezy.hr/p/2c75788aae...

13.02.2025 00:31 👍 5 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Not gonna lie, the Super Bowl outcome and halftime has given me a bit of renewed hope today. It was like a glimpse into another timeline. The one we deserve.

Today I fight.

10.02.2025 13:16 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Yup that was me crying in the Dog Man movie theater with my boys today. Great message that hit v close to home during these tough times.

10.02.2025 01:00 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Wholeheartedly support this. I usually go with “You are failing at life.”

07.02.2025 15:26 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Trouble Sleep Yanga Wake Am My Morning Jacket, Merrill Garbus, Brittany Howard · Red Hot + Fela · Song · 2013

I love when music that doesn’t feel like you’re listening to music, rather you’ve turned the dial to your own internal soundtrack or you’re wading in a stream of beautiful humanity. This is That. open.spotify.com/track/3K2O5q... During these insane times it’s key to find these moments. Love ya’ll.

07.02.2025 12:39 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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Direct File shows how civic tech can work for good Good evening from Washington, where the news cycles are moving faster than rats on a hot tin roof. Thanks to all of the news subscribers over the weekend and everyone whose become a member since soft...

The IRS’ direct file service opened for 25 states today. It’s a historic example of how civic technology can work for good. civic-texts.ghost.io/direct-file-...

28.01.2025 02:35 👍 229 🔁 67 💬 7 📌 5

A sight for sore eyes.... I used that exact one for years. I can feel the Q2 rocket jump now. My thumb kinda aches thinking about it actually.

27.01.2025 15:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0