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2024-01-05 15:18:12 UTC

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If someone asked, "Which Midwest city do you think experienced the strongest economic growth over the past 3 years?" how many of you would have said Indianapolis?
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/704/002/859/294/761/original/8e35b2fc1b5d2f26.jpg

2024-01-05 15:11:01 UTC

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@npub17gl…ruxk I think that waiting 30 years for a global existential catastrophe to kick in is a bad political strategy.

2024-01-05 03:17:14 UTC

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@npub17gl…ruxk When do you expect the mass climate migration to happen? The opposite migration patterns are currently happening.

2024-01-05 00:27:24 UTC

The inconvenient truth for those of us who pursue a broadly Left worldview is that over the next decade, demographic and economic shifts will drive places like Texas and Florida and Tennessee to gain significant political power while places like California and Illinois and New York are on track to lose significant political power. So you can either anxiously post things like "that place is Handmaid's Tale" as that power slips or you can get off your ass and organize and work to claim that power.

2024-01-04 22:54:13 UTC

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"Dallas metro area, despite being less than 1/3 the size of the New York metro, has contributed more to nationwide economic growth over the last three years than any other. Miami alone has contributed more to nationwide growth than the four largest midwestern metros combined, and Austin was likewise the fastest grower among America’s 100 largest metros. Those areas roundly beat out some of the 'superstar cities' that led growth throughout the 2010s"

2024-01-04 22:49:17 UTC

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"Florida permitted 9.5 new units per thousand residents and Texas permitted 8.8—while the equivalent figures were 2.1 in New York and 3.1 in California. The gap is so large that each of the Dallas, Houston, and Austin MSAs permitted more new units than the entirety of New York State last year, with Dallas alone beating NY by 80%."

2024-01-04 22:43:08 UTC

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“In fact, job growth in Florida and Texas has been so large that one in three new jobs in America come from those two states, and more than one in five come from Texas alone. This was in large part thanks to a white-collar boom —In the Lone Star state, more than 300k new jobs came from professional & business services and another 100k came from financial services”
… these are wild numbers.
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2024-01-04 17:34:03 UTC

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well well well what do we have hear
https://github.blog/changelog/2020-07-06-github-actions-manual-triggers-with-workflow_dispatch/

2024-01-04 17:26:04 UTC

It would be immensely cool if I could trigger a GitHub action via a form hosted within GitHub that took user inputs and passed those to the workflow.

2024-01-03 22:06:48 UTC

💻🇺🇸 Community Tech Alliance is hiring a VP/Head of Engineering #PoliticalTech
https://cta.recruitee.com/o/vp-eng

2024-01-01 17:24:46 UTC

Mickey Mouse shoots Winnie The Pooh after a lavish party on West Egg

2023-12-29 00:00:43 UTC

Seems significant.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/12/28/maine-trump-primary-ballot/

2023-12-28 14:16:28 UTC

a venn diagram of “scraping is not a crime” and “LLMs infringe copyright” and “paywalled, here’s the archive.is”

2023-12-10 16:27:18 UTC

I do get a chuckle at, "it's not real intelligence!" when "artificial" is right there in the name.

2023-12-10 16:23:45 UTC

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@npub1w7a…tpn3 @npub1xzm…eykm I think it's historically incorrect to say that, "technically calling it AI is buying into the marketing". Yes, marketing is capitalizing on it! But the nomenclature matches my CS education from the late 2000s and it matches 70 years of how "AI" is used in research and literature. The recent obsession with asserting "theory of mind" or "intentions" or "originality" or "real intelligence" seems, well, recent.

2023-12-10 16:13:16 UTC

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@npub1w7a…tpn3 @npub1xzm…eykm Not too long ago — in fact, roughly a year or two ago — "Artificial Intelligence" was a term used to describe computer systems which could perform tasks that historically required human cognition. Few people were offended that Chess or Go-playing systems were considered "AI" and "real intelligence" was never a requirement. But, as we see time and time again, "AI is whatever hasn't been done yet."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_effect

2023-12-08 21:16:57 UTC

💻🇺🇸 The Movement Cooperative is hiring a CTO #PoliticalTech
https://boards.greenhouse.io/tmc/jobs/7057764002

2023-12-07 03:11:30 UTC

Stop turning good normal bars into bad pop-up bars.

2023-11-15 15:57:08 UTC

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@npub1e7v…flg9 Yeah, I think you're right on all points. Add in Colab (and equivalents). It's much less friction than Cloud infra, but much less versatile.

2023-11-08 02:51:05 UTC

#Virginia Democrat Danica Roem wins, becoming the commonwealth's first openly transgender State Senator

2023-11-08 02:15:29 UTC

Democrats retain control of the #Virginia Senate. Youngkin and Virginia Republicans campaigned hard on taking the chamber to pass an #abortion ban. They have been stopped.

2023-11-08 01:26:15 UTC

Cherelle Parker (D) wins #Philadelphia mayor — the city's first Black woman mayor

2023-10-17 19:29:40 UTC

One year ago today Bloomberg published the "100% chance of recession within year" forecast that never happened
https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/111/252/007/563/376/316/original/240bde6d388e6fed.jpg

2023-10-05 23:11:12 UTC

I get that everyone mourns at their own pace when an online community is lost, but the fact that we're now hitting the one-year mark and people are still writing articles titled The Moral Case for Quitting Twitter really does showcase the traumatic dependency these platforms create

2023-09-22 16:13:58 UTC

"Indeed, compared to June the FOMC has raised their economic projections broadly—they now see higher GDP growth (in excess of 2% this year and at 1.5% next year) and for the unemployment rate to hold steady this year and only experience a 'minor' (0.3%) increase next year [...] So not only are the Fed's projections increasingly consistent with a soft landing, but they feel less worried about the risks to that soft landing."
https://www.apricitas.io/p/the-fed-sees-a-softer-higher-landing

2023-09-05 00:14:11 UTC

lol this one sure does hit close to home — both thematically and geographically
https://www.theonion.com/parents-don-t-understand-how-son-could-spend-so-much-mo-1850775128

2023-08-30 22:41:24 UTC

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@npub1efv…4jx2 I mean,
https://www.msnbc.com/all-in/watch/cybersecurity-adviser-rudy-giuliani-locks-himself-out-of-iphone-72545861847

2023-08-24 19:36:25 UTC

It’s actually kindof interesting that only one senator (Tim Scott) is running for the #GOP nomination. For like 70 years it was “conventional wisdom” that governors become presidents, and then that kinda switched to senators over the past 20 years as the center of political gravity became much more national. Not sure what to make of the governor-heavy field other than, maybe all the senators (rightly) think this is all futile in the shadow of Trump.

2023-08-21 13:58:28 UTC

PSA: Federal #StudentLoans pause ends August 31 — payments resume in October! If you're on income-driven repayment you should go read about the new SAVE¹ plan; it may lower your payments substantially! But SAVE isn't the right choice for everyone. My family's financial situation and PSLF² goals made the PAYE³ plan better. The loan simulator⁴ helps you pick. Do it before the end of the month!
¹ https://studentaid.gov/announcements-events/save-plan
² https://studentaid.gov/manage-loans/forgiveness-cancellation/public-service
³ https://studentaid.gov/help-center/answers/article/paye-plan
⁴ https://studentaid.gov/loan-simulator/

2023-08-18 19:19:51 UTC

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@npub1efv…4jx2 it’s dozens of records that are referenced less than once per day.

2023-08-18 19:16:55 UTC

Two years ago I inherited a legacy app that used Google Firestore. I promptly replaced that with a TOML file. Today I replaced that TOML file with a Google Sheet.

2023-08-17 00:19:04 UTC

Today I enabled a sweeping, indefinite, filter on a broad set of covid keywords. I've found that the information flow, even here on Mastodon, is counter-productive and often constructed to maximize engagement and spoke argument. And I just don't want to keep feeling the urge to argue with strangers on the internet about it. Minimizing and maximizing. I'll continue a varied information diet — both in-person & online — but I can't consume the social media version of this conversation for a while.

2023-08-09 16:16:46 UTC

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@npub1ddp…2tax @npub10uh…p7v5 In 2020 I had a 50-something voter from Dayton, Ohio — who votes in every election — sincerely ask me whether Joe Biden was the Democrat or the Republican. And she votes every election! Voters are so weird!

2023-08-09 16:13:31 UTC

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@npub1ddp…2tax @npub10uh…p7v5 If you're trying to rationalize the minds of the electorate — in any state — you're in for a bad time. Voters are weird! A not-insignificant number of the voting-eligible population things Democrats ended Roe. These needles are very hard to thread. Sometimes name recognition wins out, despite the logic of ideology.

2023-08-09 15:26:27 UTC

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@npub1ddp…2tax Mike DeWine achieved some fairly astounding persuasion wins with left-of-center Ohio voters during the peak of Covid. Many suburban Democrats spoke openly about "Wine with DeWine" over the past couple of years ... a ritual of drinking wine and watching DeWine hold press conferences about managing Covid protocols. It was weird! Voters are weird!

2023-08-09 14:19:48 UTC

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I can't stop looking at the #OhioIssue1 map. This is the kind of map Democrats haven't seen in #Ohio since 2012. Just look at the 2022 #OHGov race by comparison! Republicans have really gone all-in on a losing issue.
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2023-08-09 13:29:41 UTC

Last night was such an immense gift to Sherrod Brown. #Ohio Dems will now have precinct-level data on winnable voters on a winnable issue. Just a staggering self-own by OHGOP. Frank LaRose devastated. #OhioIssue1

2023-08-09 13:19:36 UTC

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@npub1nxt…055a That was Issue 1 in 2018, and it passed handily. Not as robust as many would like, but robust enough to force Ohio re-draw its maps dozens of times last year after repeated rejections.
https://ballotpedia.org/Ohio_Issue_1,_Congressional_Redistricting_Procedures_Amendment_(May_2018)

2023-08-08 23:37:58 UTC

#Ohio might be looking at a turnout around ~3 million which would be VERY HIGH for an off-year ballot initiative #OhioIssue1

2023-08-06 18:16:40 UTC

Imagine, if you will, a social network completely devoid of screenshots of Dilbert Guy’s posts.

2023-08-05 21:24:54 UTC

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@npub1dl0…49nf The size of the court is set by Congress, and we don’t have control of one of its houses. Turning this into an unpopular money-burning performative issue around the presidency — that we already hold — is not a great strategy for power-building, in my opinion.

2023-08-04 13:10:23 UTC

💻🇺🇸 The Biden campaign is hiring Data Scientists,¹ Data Engineers,² and Data Analysts.³ #PoliticalTech #PoliticalData
¹ https://jobs.lever.co/BFPCC/cca4cbd8-9c8b-4713-beee-c1f726299e8c
² https://jobs.lever.co/BFPCC/0dff4e67-5546-4e98-98d9-d25991015fbc
³ https://jobs.lever.co/BFPCC/6d3e7c5f-b1e0-408f-9f5a-f5dd61f843c9

2023-07-21 13:17:24 UTC

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@npub1efv…4jx2 Very effective. Very Altruistic.

2023-07-05 13:36:12 UTC

Seems bad. https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-66104822

2023-07-04 15:13:12 UTC

so tired of talking about the platforms; just wanna post and read posts

2023-03-24 21:30:10 UTC

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#[0] I noticed the link to the WolframAlpha plugin json in that thread. Is that always necessarily public? I see OpenAI supports auth, but it isn't clear to me whether that's only for API calls.