Mike Sarasti
@sarasti.bsky.social
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Musician / Technologist / Long history in local government. Half of RAKER -
@rakermusic.bsky.social
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Quick Intro: Miami-based musician / technologist with long history working in local gov. Things I expect to post about here: Music, creative expression, future of cities, knowledge systems, gov innovation, & technology that keeps humans top of mind. Occasionally preach about more empathy.
over 1 year ago
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Adeptly assembled take here from
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11 days ago
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jamelle
15 days ago
once my son woke me up to ask what a three dimensional hexagon was called. yes, please. ask me about the gay instead.
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Eric Michael Garcia
about 1 month ago
From his parents: "I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting."
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Lupita Nihongo
about 1 month ago
Andor was cooking so unbelievably hard good grief
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Benn Jordan
about 1 month ago
Grok is so much worse than you think.
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Ernie Smith
about 1 month ago
Someone made a 2007 YouTube video and released it in 2026.
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i said a word a day for an entire year.
YouTube video by Henry Brown
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqmGWgk4vok
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"Renee lived by an overarching belief: there is kindness in the world and we need to do everything we can to find it where it resides and nurture it where it needs to grow." -- Becca Good, wife of Renee.
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about 2 months ago
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Elizabeth Linos
about 2 months ago
100pct correct. Empirically, we are as close to a consensus on this as we are likely to see on any topic. It's wild how pervasive the stigma and rhetoric remain.
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This escalation of Risk-coded “hemispheric dominance” lines up with where elements of our culture - specifically business / venture capital culture - has been headed. It’s “blitzscaling” applied to geopolitics. (Which of course comes from the word “blitzkrieg”)
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about 2 months ago
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Eh… we’ll just place the poly market bet instead…
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about 2 months ago
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Danny Rivero
about 2 months ago
This is correct. Regardless of how you feel about the attack/ taking Maduro, there is already a legitimately elected government that is not Maduro. But because of today's actions, a future election could have a different outcome. So that's a no-go. Concretely, this is not about democracy.
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Great line in this article: “My phone is my toy and my toil, the first object I touch upon waking, the spackle to my spare minutes, the inanimate partner in our shared lie, which is that it works for me and not the other way around.”
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2 months ago
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KD Lang tonight.
youtu.be/IZ4ANwlDb58?...
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k.d. lang - Constant Craving (MTV Unplugged)
YouTube video by Nonesuch Records
https://youtu.be/IZ4ANwlDb58?si=b9Bz0FZHFYioitJ_
3 months ago
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“I work on government innovation” “Oh… so you’re like DOGE?” 🙄
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3 months ago
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John Skiles Skinner
3 months ago
As a society we must better explain why "eliminating information silos" is such a dangerous goal at the fed level. Some data sharing is good! But only in a privacy-preserving way, with individual consent. A significant engineering challenge that SV billionaires don't want to see completed.
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Stopping Waste, Fraud, and Abuse by Eliminating Information Silos
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:Section 1. Purpose.
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/stopping-waste-fraud-and-abuse-by-eliminating-information-silos/
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Seth Cotlar
3 months ago
The way I try to de-AI-ify my classes is that I emphasize at the beginning and throughout the semester that all we're doing is reading some interesting shit other humans have produced, talking about that shit, and writing about it. Humans have been benefitting from that process for centuries w/o AI.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
3 months ago
New York City helped my mother become the artist she is today. The next generation deserves a City Hall that lifts up tomorrow's artists as well.
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Fantastic piece “digesting” a fantastic album. Weaves reflections on our collective consumption of slop and our consumption of god.
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3 months ago
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Elizabeth Linos
3 months ago
Who said people don't want to work in government anymore.... This will be exciting to follow/study!
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Haute Hubris
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3 months ago
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slate
4 months ago
every generation loves Rumours. it’s fucking Rumours
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JA Westenberg
4 months ago
There's a whole generation that learned irony before sincerity and now they're trapped. Can't be earnest without a layer of self-deprecation. Can't be enthusiastic without signaling awareness of how cringe enthusiasm is. The price of never being vulnerable is never connecting.
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I forgot to mention this on here a couple of weeks ago, but I had an amazing time at iiiPoints Music festival - Paco y Ca7riel, Turnstile, Oklou, Bicep, MkGee… but best encore was laying my head down to sleep on Sat night… and I had super vivid dream
@ekkoastral.bsky.social
playing 🔥 closing set.
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4 months ago
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Fiona Apple Bot
4 months ago
After all, look around: it's happening, it's happening, it's happening now
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You can also catch
@catherinebracy.com
being interviewed by
@mmasnick.bsky.social
on latest episode of
@techdirt.com
podcast -
www.techdirt.com/edition/podc...
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4 months ago
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So cool to see
@catherinebracy.com
on
@thedailyshow.com
. Very much enjoying her book “World Eaters” discussing how current state of venture capital shapes entrepreneurship / incentives very specific outcomes in society. Hard hitting, but nuanced takes.
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Catherine Bracy - TechEquity & Venture Capital “World Eaters” | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
https://youtu.be/gD-4p1etrF0?si=XtGtrFVHKMYFqdn9
4 months ago
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Something peaceful in this
@wired.com
piece by
@ftrain.bsky.social
about what happens after AI bubble bursts. Nerds nerding out again in messiness of the aftermath. Reminder that the time after the dot com bust felt better in many ways than the fever dreams before it.
www.wired.com/story/ai-nor...
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The Argument for Letting AI Burn It All Down
When the AI bubble bursts, the nerds will do their best work.
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-normal-after-ai-plateaus/
4 months ago
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Learned today that my friend
@hectormujicafl.bsky.social
launched his campaign for US Senate. A wonderful human - smart, kjnd, tech savvy and a long track record of service. Proud of him for stepping up. (And welcome to Bluesky)
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4 months ago
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Joyce Park
4 months ago
If Garbage can't really afford to tour any more, and are warning that smaller bands REALLY can't... Where is the music industry gonna go?
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"This is how plutocracy uses fascism: as a pressure valve that redirects working-class rage away from economic structures and toward cultural and ethnic scapegoats. As long as people are angry at immigrants rather than billionaires, the extraction can continue." Good, clear read at link below👇
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5 months ago
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Alfred Soto
5 months ago
Openly or closeted gay teens in the last three years have seen our governor make it clear that exposure to novels w/gay characters will infect straight readers w/the gay plague; now imagine a college-aged adult spots an Instagram reel in which state employees destroy crosswalks.
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‘This feels like an attack on the gay community right now’
A reminder that Ron DeSantis majored in cruelty when Joe Biden was president.
https://humanizingthevacuum.wordpress.com/2025/10/06/this-feels-like-an-attack-on-the-gay-community-right-now/
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Political mailers are generally bottom-feeding business… but holy fuck, Faschy… Pay attention, peeps. We’re fully in the brazen era.
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5 months ago
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This album is doing weird shit to my brain. Impeccable production juxtaposed against some feral composition. Both retro and most definitely of the times.
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5 months ago
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Lilith Fair doc on Hulu was so good. Time capsule nostalgia but also relevant to the moment.
5 months ago
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Loved the article. Adding the book to the queue. Relevant reflections as we think about current tech affecting musicians… “These examples illustrate not only how programmed beats can be complementary to traditional percussion, but how technology can grow rather than shrink the music industry.”
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5 months ago
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Miami New Times
5 months ago
A year in, Coffee and Beats celebrated in Wynwood, redefining how people come together through music.
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Coffee and Beats Marks One Year in Miami with Sold-Out Daytime Show
A year in, Coffee and Beats celebrated in Wynwood, redefining how people come together through music.
https://www.miaminewtimes.com/music/coffee-and-beats-marks-one-year-in-miami-with-sold-out-daytime-show-24054944
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Kara Swisher
5 months ago
Exactly this
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Writers Guild of America East
5 months ago
The following is a statement from the WGA on ABC’s decision to pull ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’
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Marisa Kabas
5 months ago
co-sign.
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Post a perfect album from the 90’s that isn’t Nirvana, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden or Alice In Chains Rest in power Shannon Hoon
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6 months ago
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jamelle
6 months ago
if i had the opportunity to ask a question of anyone in the administration, given this "war in chicago" messaging, i would ask them how many americans the president intends to kill in his war
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I was introduced to
@ekkoastral.bsky.social
when they opened up for
@idlesband.bsky.social
in Ft Laud. 🤯 show all around. I bought this record and you should too. For my local gov / civic-minded peeps. Lead vocalist
@jael.bsky.social
is also an incredibly dedicated climate journalist. Hard follow.
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6 months ago
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Rob Sheridan
6 months ago
Our 3yo had like a hundred fuckin questions about the rules & logistics & moral implications of how mogwais become gremlins, but ZERO questions about "sometimes people change from girl to boy" or "sometimes boys marry other boys" or whatever, kids dgaf, the problem has ALWAYS been bigot ass parents
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Team of Al Jazeera journalists killed in targeted attack.
www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Anas al-Sharif: Four Al Jazeera journalists killed in Israeli strike near Al-Shifa hospital
Al Jazeera had condemned a "campaign of incitement" by the IDF against its reporters, but the military claims one of the journalists was part of Hamas.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ceqyyrp3yq9o
7 months ago
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The promise of this site has always been algorithmic control — better ability to manage feeds. Curious if anyone’s working on way to make this prompt driven. Would be great to show up here & dynamically shift feed w/ plain language.
@bsky.app
even wired for that possibility?
@mmasnick.bsky.social
7 months ago
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Benn Jordan
7 months ago
If there's one absolutely plausible use for large AI models, it'd be finding options for equitable redistricting boundaries. But at least we can generate animated videos out our photos we took with our phones that also record video when we want.
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Zohran Kwame Mamdani
7 months ago
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CRobertBuchanan
7 months ago
I worked at a non-profit that delivers medically tailored food to people with chronic illness and there were two chefs working there on loan from Matt and Trey (and paid by them) because they wanted to keep paying their staff while they worked all that permit stuff out. Pretty generous.
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The municipal government wonk in me can’t wait to watch the documentary about Matt and Trey buying the real casa Bonita and dealing with shit ton of permitting issues.
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