labordata.bunkum.us should be easier to query and much, much faster.

one thing that you learn from spending time with young children is how often an interest in justice is about finding a a cover to indulge in sadism. (this is also why in action movies, the family of the hero is often killed at the beginning of the movie)

i'll say this for atproto, the community is developing a lot of data standards (lexicons) and it don't seem to be pure hell that developing data standards usually entails. any ideas about why not, @omg.jacky.wtf

Cloudflare silently added opt-in support for respecting the Vary header! Welcome to 1997 internet, Cloudflare! developers.cloudflare.com/changelog/po... Hoping this simplifies a lot of caching rules (and some funky worker deployments too)!

We won a delay! I spoke alongside many community members and leaders in my County, opposing Oracle's proposal for a 50% tax abatement on their AI data center. Mlive shared some of my testimony 👇 The vote is now set for July 14, so we keep the pressure on. www.mlive.com/news/ann-arb...

the @scientistsorg.bsky.social offers a strange publication that offers itself as a ten-year retrospective on government digital services, which offers diagnoses without ever being clear about problems.

I just want more of the people doing cool shit to get the funding to do cool shit.

assuming that google doesn't bend, and i bet they don't, the cost of influence campaigns is going to get a lot cheaper.

it is a bit orwellian that "civic tech" now almost exclusively means government tech.

revisiting this wonderful problem (how to order states in a table) by @bschmidt.bsky.social

lisa misoski and southland books really helped me and so many other little weirdos make it through our teenage years in maryville

i don't know if school is good for kids.

i truly love our freshwater inland seas, but it is shocking when you go to the ocean and it is teaming with life. the great lakes are not like that now, i wonder if they were a couple hundred years ago.

Hundreds of thousands without power after storms sweep across Michigan

not a lot of electricity left in southeast michigan right now. slownews.bunkum.us/2025/04/01/d...

a good meditation on knowledge work and how it must change.

the people who pretend they can't tell something is written by ai simply are not trustworthy. that is a pattern that deserves to be named.

looking forward to reading about the deal that anthropic made with trump-world in five / twenty years

i really wonder what the future of muzak is going to be when gen-z comes of age. what do will the oldies be for generations that didn't meaningfully have a top 40.

getting older in america in 2026 means one becomes more and more a cyborg.

this app could have a been a s3 bucket

8 years ago, laid-off journalists launched @blockclubchi.bsky.social. Since then, we've told 31,000 stories. We’ve grown from 8 to 42 full-time staffers. Our reporting has changed laws, led to criminal charges + uplifted. And we outlived our billionaire-owned predecessor. Thank you, Chicago. 🙏

currently reading.

winner's curse? no, he never had the privilege.

neighborhood based, peer-to-peer lending libraries by @samfirke.a2mi.social.ap.brid.gy

does any one know why OSHA investigation data has been missing from the DOL data portal for a the past few days? cc @aaronsojourner.org

family road trip from ann arbor to cape cod next week, where should we stop?

michigan farmers are projected to only harvest 40 million tons of cherries this year, not the typical 230.

listening. learning.

django-cte should be taken into core django. that's my opinion.

the latest airbender

Messaged Kapnick about cherries... they said they lost their entire crop of tart cherries this year :-(. Some sweet cherries maybe starting next week.

otoh, the university is the middle of a massive housing development which would not be legal under the city's zoning. 2,300 units to come on line this fall, with another around 4,600 units in phase 2.

cracks beer. time for some revisionist history of the thirty years war.

yo if you qualify, get InnoCaption. it’s a transcription app for phone calls and it’s been a fucking game changer for me. i can actually do phone calls again.

the backyard meadow.

An exceptionally low lake level in the lake Michigan-Huron basin ∼1650–1690C.E #GreatLakes 🧪 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

A political skeet. #a2council

UAW President Shawn Fain has issued a statement alleging that federal monitor Neil Barofsky “is playing political games and abusing his power” ahead of a union election. Barofsky is accused of going at Fain after the union voted to call for a ceasefire in Gaza.

complete this sequence: 1. tragedy 2. farce 3. ________ 4. ________ 5. ________

jack skellington ass charger

here's a perfect website.

It never ceases to drive me up the wall that the courts themselves are not following the law! I first wrote about this two years ago, discussing how the Administrative Office of the Illinois Courts had dragged its feet on mandatory data collection. There is still so much data we don't have!

“It’s really important for ProPublica that we have reporters who aren’t just parachuting in … but who actually live in the communities,” says reporter Jennifer Smith Richards. “The problem is that … we’re not paid the same.” Help ProPublica’s workers fight for fair pay: www.propublicaguild.org

thought about this and had to write it, the gist is that it's weird and bad for people to use llms to try and get people to care about them or their projects and the mean take that unfortunately i believe is that most people are cowards when it comes to writing and art macwright.com/2026/06/24/a...

May is a big tax deadline month for nonprofit orgs, so we just posted 163k new 990 filings to Nonprofit Explorer. Have at it, nerds (complimentary)! projects.propublica.org/nonprofits/

what are some websites that do fun, dynamic things with favicons and social cards?

this waitress sounds like delilah after dark, and that *will* be reflected in her tip