New thing! The @carefultrouble.bsky.social Careful Consequence Check is now live and free to use. Based on research with the Bristol Digital Futures Institute, this practical tool will help you answer the question "is my AI product creepy and weird" www.careful.industries/consequences

Why isn’t the video of our current president saying that a shutdown is the President’s fault ALL OVER THE NEWS AND INTERNET ALL THE EFFING TIME?

When in the nation’s capital… 😆🇨🇦 shoutout to @acroll.bsky.social and @harper.lol ❤️ #FWD50

#FWD50 number nine (!!) is underway in Ottawa! @acroll.bsky.social on stage convincing us to optimize for One Metric That Matters. Excited to see so many #civictech folks here for the next couple of days. Hope we get to catch up, y’all.

Kid better be getting one hell of a bonus! Truly wild year for Yesavage. 💪

I regret to inform everyone that my pedantic brain couldn’t let me live until I knew whether or not dodger blue and blue jays blue are the same blue. They are ONE PANTONE NUMBER APART.

The Jays are coming back to Toronto! 💙🩵❤️ (And general admission tickets - no assigned seats- are only $1800!) 🤣

Bottom of the 11th inning! This is what you want from championship games. But come on Jays, let’s hold em and then wrap this up!! 🤣💙🩵❤️

This is crazy. And crazy-making. www.usda.gov

I suppose it’s time to download my archive and actually delete my account, or at least all of its content. I refuse to log in and use X, but I haven’t yet deleted my presence there…

Gavin Newsom: “All this anti-woke stuff is just anti-Black, period, full stop.”

These are screenshots from the ACTUAL WHITE HOUSE PAGE on the timeline of the East Wing. You may not believe what you re seeing. Go and check for yourself. This...I don't even know what to say about this.

As a matter of law, there is no such thing as "federal immunity." Trump has broad immunity, but public employees enjoy only qualified immunity that does not extend if a "reasonable person" would understand their actions to be illegal. Stephen Miller is not a reasonable person.

I'm still obsessing over the demolition of the East Wing. It just makes everything since Jan 20 plain as day. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

HAPPY 25 TO A PERFECT RECORD

This physical manifestation of all the crazy is really getting to me for some reason.

Please follow @thenerve.news! Were a new female-founded publication that launched yesterday…& it was a huge team effort to get a website up & this investigation over the line. We’re all exhausted but we want to do journalism that matters & we need your support. Thank you!!🙏 www.thenerve.news

What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own. Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week. Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊

Excited to see this female-founded new media title launch on Tuesday! www.thenerve.news

Today’s Executive Order creating a *nationwide* military “quick reaction force” and setting up an online portal to permit random fascist vigilantes to join soldiers is one of the scariest things I’ve seen in U.S. politics in my adult life. Why is it not getting more attention?

@cityplanto.bsky.social Biidaasige Park is amazing! And…it desperately needs shady spots. It’ll be lovely in a decade if the trees stay healthy, but in the meantime you need to put some covers over some of the park benches and picnic tables.

Great interview with @emilytav.bsky.social and @kathypham.bsky.social on “civic tech.” Love the comment that civic tech = civic duty + technology.

Maurene Comey's goodbye note to SDNY colleagues:

SCOOP: DOGE moved to kill Direct File, the IRS's popular free tax filing tool, days after meeting with private tax filing software lobbyists. www.wired.com/story/doge-d...

If you’re with a state agency or legislature who needs help figuring out how you’re going to modify your benefits systems to deal with federally mandated changes (e.g. employment verification), contact us at @usdigitalresponse.org. We can help for free, thanks to grant funding. There’s no catch.

Anyone still using Swarm? The latest update makes me think the only people using it are in their 40s & 50s. 👀 🤣 (bigger fonts for old eyes)

Nvidia’s market cap passed 4 TRILLION. Someone tell me why we need companies worth trillions of dollars. Similar to billionaires…..I think the answer is: We don’t.

“This will be one of Elon Musk’s legacies, and the most consequential one for human life. A man who talks about saving our species condemned millions to death because he could not discern reality from a paranoid fantasy.”— @donmoyn.bsky.social donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-death-...

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We’re putting on a conference! Join us at Civic Spark 💥 August 16-17, 2025 civic-spark.com Maybe you’ve felt the gap — between the problems we face and the systems meant to solve them. Maybe you’ve seen how those closest to the issues are pushed aside. Help change that. 🧵

If you live in the United States, you are in greater jeopardy today than you were 6 months ago. So is your family. So are your friends & neighbors. Virtually all the important parts of the U.S. government created to protect us are being shut down, gutted, or marginalized. — @djrothkopf.bsky.social

Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. It's already happening. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to evade it.

When the public sees a US Senator tackled and cuffed at a press briefing, of course this shit is going to happen. 😭 www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06...

So, this takes Elon’s tweets about how Trump would have lost without him a little beyond just messing with X’s algos. open.substack.com/pub/thiswill...

FWIW, I still think this; but two weeks later and now we’ve got Elon claiming he’s with the 80% that are in the centre. So, can’t tell if this is aging well or not. 😆

Today in the @missouriindependent.com I shared how new Medicaid red tape imposed by Republicans will kick over 10 million people off their healthcare, including more than 180,000 people in Missouri ‼️ missouriindependent.com/2025/06/06/r...

Hot take: it’s time for the Democrats to go hard to the center. They’ll lose the most left-leaning but they might just save the U.S. from fascism.

Proud of this team! 💪🫡🥹

The entire modern internet has been built on platforms that don’t believe in asking for consent. What if we started demanding a culture of consent online? www.anildash.com//2025/05/27/...

We’re international students at Harvard. We’re afraid to write this. But we have to speak up. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Again, they told us what they were gonna do. But the electorate is ignorant and doesn’t care to dig deeper than what they hear in rallies. 😩

New, from me: The DOGE project was sold as tech disruptors who would revolutionize government. To try to understand why DOGE has failed, I point to lessons that other technologists who worked in government learned, but DOGE ignored. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-doge-...

@maddow.msnbc.com & @juliaangwin.com Thank you for covering this topic so masterfully. We joined government to deliver human-centered programs and services while protecting the privacy of everyone in our country. The DOGE data grab is extremely concerning. youtu.be/-vtJRpu4XUw?...

Today is election day in Canada. Regardless of the outcome, I hope the folks who have been proposing ideas for Canada will stay *invested* in simpler, faster, better government. One path forward: public entrepreneurship. hillary.medium.com/whats-needed...

We're nearing 100 days of this administration, are we great again? democracy-papers.ghost.io/the-democrac...

The best part of this article... after the argument with Treasury Secretary Bessent, "Musk unfollowed Bessent on X, his social media platform." LOLOLOL wapo.st/3EA072J (gift link)

I got lots of advice, some very specific. But one thing I heard again and again: America, you are running out of time. Here is what I learned: www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

Over the past several months, I’ve spent many hours in conversations with people who have experienced firsthand a flip from democracy to dictatorship.🧵

I missed this when it first dropped, but damn @jonathannight.bsky.social @shappy.bsky.social this is 🔥❤️‍🔥 www.rawsignal.ca/newsletter-a...