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just setting up my twttr

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In the Irish potato famine there was enough food but the land owners exported the wheat and let the population try and survive on blighted potatos. Plowing under crops when food shelters are overwhelmed is immoral.

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WATCH: As California farmers make the hard decision to plow through crops no one is buying, analysts say the drop in food supply will be felt in a few months by consumers eager to buy produce at grocery stores

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If you want to understand what happened with Shadow and the failure of the Iowa Caucus app you have to understand how electoral campaign tech work is done and funded. Let me tell you a story to make sense of it.

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Twitter is important, but it's always been vulnerable as a company. When Twitter does something which upsets the community of users, it is often due to this vulnerability. Let me tell you a little known story about an earlier time a billionaire tried a hostile takeover of twitter

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The thing that pisses me off is the board and Parag were doing the “right” thing by selling for maximized shareholder value that then destroyed everything they’d built. How is this ok? The twitter shareholders got a payday but employees, users, and society all lose.

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"A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It's where the rich use public transportation." @petrogustavo Mayor of Bogota

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17 years ago we started twitter. Today I’m with @jack and a community of hackers at #nostrica reinventing it all again.

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just setting up my twttr

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The caucus app is firebase / react app built by one senior engineer who’s not done mobile apps and a bunch of folks who were very recent code academy graduates who as of a couple months ago worked as a prep cook for Starbucks and receptionist at Regus.

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There is no way they could succeed. The problem is structural, the way we’re funding campaign tech is wrong. We need it to be based on open source technology, we need a community of companies, parties, and third party groups funding it. It needs to have funding between cycles.

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The company has always been more important to its users and society than it has been a cash cow. Today it's profitable, but that's almost an accident. Twitter is a 'public good' sustained by a private company with stock that anybody can buy.

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That's why twitter bought TweetDeck and then didn't do anything with it. The whole point was to take TweetDeck away from Bill Gross, prevent it from being used as a weapon against twitter.

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What should have been done? The app shouldn’t have been built. This didn’t require an app. There are lots of ways to submit and verify vote counts without needing a custom app. At least they kept the paper backup. The sexy desire to have an app is something we should avoid.

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The presidents of Argentina, Brazil, and Chile today vs in the 70's. We've made real progress! http://t.co/Ud3hoQLtdd

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@sighborgs Gee I was five when I was shamed in to not wearing dresses at kindergarten. Oh wait. Maybe we should start believing kids and their own understanding of their gender and sexuality. Cute story, and come back line by the dad anyway.

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The fundamental problem is we’ve got a very broken way we fund campaign tech on the democratic side of the isle in the US. There is tons of money in politics but it doesn’t get used in the way which builds anything sustainable. Here are some reasons why.

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I love this map of the world’s countries.

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Folks like @mattblaze and @EdFelten , and many others have documented why digital voting systems are a broken concept. There is is no way to do it securely. Use paper, use people, verify, audit, make it transparent to all the campaigns. Force the media to wait for results.

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Twitter thought the open ecosystem was going to be captured, so they shut down the ecosystem to save the company. I wish they'd partnered with app developers, be honest about the attack on the company, and made partners out of developers. But i'd long since left by then.

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We’re treating our campaign tech teams like we treat the field organizers, and it’s not working. It doesn't work for the field teams either, that's why they unionized.

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If we want to prevent disasters like the Iowa caucus app or the failure to do effective social media campaigning in 2016, we need to change the way we fund, build, and employ the campaign workers, techies included.

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In normal tech circles we’d have a bunch of free software libraries and tools we build on together, but the campaign tech space doesn’t have this because decision makers fear our tools will be taken and used by the other side.

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Instagram is claiming that the Black Panthers Party never setup breakfast programs, medical clinics, and schools. Bad AI has an effect of inaccurate fact checking.

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Twitter is important. It matters, and we care about it in ways that are very different from most companies, or even most tech platforms.

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@ChiefResch You know 40% of your own police force are abusers who commit domestic violence. That’s why shelters have to be kept secret from the police. If you care about domestic violence start with the force.

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Focus on the problem, not the solution of an app which sounds cool. The Iowa Democratic Party shouldn’t have asked for an app. The media shouldn’t have hailed it as futuristic, we shouldn’t demand immediate electoral results, and shadow shouldn’t have tried to build it.

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oh, cool, twitter has a triple send bug! triple send bug! triple send bug!

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@PortlandPolice We didn’t have the shields two months ago. But after getting repeatedly attacked by you and the feds we decided we needed protection in order to exercise our first amendment rights.

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Until 2015 all the innovation on twitter came from the users and developers. It was a powerful model. Under @dickc the board decided to take a poison pill to prevent any take over of the platform by third parties.

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It might feel like a lot, but it really isn’t given how much this stuff costs to build. It’s why the app wasn’t well tested or scaled well. The team was a few enthusiastic recent code school grads and one experienced engineer. This was their side project they built to get funding

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Throwing dildos over the power lines has become a thing in portland. #keeportlandweird They're all over town. http://t.co/FIc1COao27

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They limited third party clients to 100k registered users. They said you could have more, but the reality is they never approved apps for viewing / posting tweets as a full client with more. Furthermore, they weren't honest or open about the process, it upset a lot of people.

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When @jack came back on board, he got the dev and product organizations sorted to be able to launch things again. He also worked with @paraga to create a model to how to prevent a takeover again. By opening up and becoming the utility protocol @jack always dreamed about.

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Back in 2015 Bill Gross at Idealab tried to take over twitter. He did it by creating a billion dollar fund to buy up twitter clients. If he got enough clients, he could make them post to his own twitter like microblogging site in addition to twitter.

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The space is dominated by decision makers who are stuck on a very short term decision making cycle. Structurally there is no space for long term investment, despite everybody stating that this would be good.

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After that, twitter stagnated. There was no space for third party developers and users to innovate on the platform. The company employees weren't told that twitter's magic was adopting the innovative practices of the users. Only once @jack came back on board did that get fixed.

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They messed up, but here’s the thing, shadow is a company which came out of of the collapse of another electoral tech company, Groundbase () which has some well known folks in the campaign tech space.

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The decision makers refuse to use free software, alienating the progcoders/ragtag communities. They also refuse to fund projects between cycles to build reusable platforms.

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Twitter was nearly captured by wealth interests. The company was never structured to prevent a takeover the way Snap, Facebook, Instagram, and others were with super voting shares held by founders.

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You could have done a system with google docs and having multiple people send in pictures of the tallies at each polling place. Or any number of other solutions which requires less software. There’s a whole field of lean startups dedicated to solving the problem with less code.

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Campaigns have a few primary motivators. First is getting votes, you want to win elections, if you’d don’t win, you don’t get to keep playing. To win, you need money, and you need to stay compliant with FEC rules. Break the rules, people don’t vote for you, unless you’re Trump.,

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Google's blocking @element_hq from google play appstore... preventing French, German, UK and US governments plus thousands of companies and universities because somebody said something in a chat room that they run on their own servers. THIS IS INSANE!

Element suspended on Google Play Store: now resolved.

Hi all, At 2021-01-29 at 21:35 UTC Google suspended Element from the Play Store without warning or notification. We submitted an appeal asking for clarification at 23:18, and at 05:31 received a...

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And he was actively buying up clients. Eventually he got to buying TweetDeck, and the creators of TweetDeck told twitter and decided to get bought by the mother company instead.

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What shadow, groundbase before it, and many of the rest of us like affinity and groundwork (similar name I know) all want to do is solve the problems which come up in progressive campaigns. We’re trying to create tools for the organizers.

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After the initial infusion, there was no more money to be had. These projects all failed when they ran out of money. There was no budget to fund development between cycles. The decision makers know nothing about how technology, or its development works.

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American right wing commentators keep saying that New Zealand is a hellhole. That the isolation and quarantine upon arrival is cruel authoritarianism. In response kiwis are posting pictures with #NZHellhole . Here mine, from inside the quarantine facility. Clearly I’m suffering.

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I know about this space because I tried to do my own project, , in a similar space, and through that work got involved standards process to make data sync between various systems.

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This #PrideMonth remember that @xychelsea has been in jail now for over 80 days because she refuses to testify in a grand jury against whistleblowers and journalists who exposed the truth about the American wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.

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DAY 80 (June 1, 2019) of @xychelsea 's incarceration. Chelsea has written an exciting mini-history of grand juries (seriously! you will love it 😍: Chelsea & her legal team filed a motion & released this statement yesterday:

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This was a quick tool which was put together without sufficient funding. See, building tech is expensive. We can see from the budgets that the Iowa Democratic Party only paid $60k to shadow, and the Nevada party paid $58k.

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It’s tech around money / accounting is great, it’s tech around walk lists and mobilizations is ok, it’s tech around movement building is terrible. Some org’s like ActBlue focus on the one very lucrative part of the stack, collecting small dollar payments with compliance.

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In a state with 150,000 empty hotel rooms they're painting squares in parking lots so the homeless can sleep with social distancing.

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Nevada, a state in one of the richest countries in the world, has painted social-distancing boxes on a concrete parking lot for the homeless to sleep in.

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So, we have tons of money, and money for campaign tech, but it’s very focused on raisin money, keeping track of money, and legal compliance. NGP/Van is very very good at meeting these needs, they’re the centralized company which most democratic politicians use for their campaigns

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There needs to be much more money in order to sustain things. The Obama and Clinton campaigns spent tens (maybe hundreds) of millions of dollars on tech but it was building tech which was mostly thrown away.

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New study published in Science finds that misinformation in political news shared on social media is a problem that exists in conservative but not liberal media.

Asymmetric ideological segregation in exposure to political news on Facebook

Does Facebook enable ideological segregation in political news consumption? We analyzed exposure to news during the US 2020 election using aggregated data for 208 million US Facebook users. We...

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Our concept of a neutral social media platform promotes trolling & abuse. These systems deserve significant credit for Trump's election.

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Most of us gave up on building campaign tech. Thousands of other dedicated technologists who are organized through and are struggling but unsustainable.

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Shadow made some tools which look useful, their messaging app is similar to hustle and . Their lightrail app is something people really need.

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Eventually he could cut off posting to twitter and only have people use his new site. If you get the celebs and popular tweeters then everybody else would follow.

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Federal police pepper spray a 75 year old vet posing no threat because.... actually it’s not at all clear why he got sprayed. Definitely not posing danger to anyone.

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Unfortunately they funded it using a startup / incubator model. Giving startup funds to many projects in a cohort and helping them get to an MVP and pitch founders for more money.

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ActBlue does that one thing really really well, it’s transformed political campaigns, but doesn’t provide a funding channel for all the other tools we need.

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Think of it as a Yahoo Pipes/Zapier but for the specific api’s that we use in progressive campaigning from NGP/VAN, ActionKit, and ActionNetwork.

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Things I’ve noticed about how Portland prepares for the coronavirus covid-19 social distancing quarantine is that the marijuana dispensary is packed and the pharmacy is running out of lube.

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I myself am now building @planetaryinc , @slaby is at @harmonylabs , @harper is bouncing around the world being his fabulous self having left the Obama campaign to do a payments startup. @elipariser is doing @civic_signals to fix social media platforms.

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@jasonrantz @770KTTH @Mynorthwest And here I thought opposing fascism and communism was as American as apple pie. You say it’s a fringe belief.

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Even if Trump loses and is forced out of office, the coalition he built will persist. Rightwing authoritarian populism has become the ideology of the GOP. Anti-Trump republicans have no base of popular support. This is the real long term problem.

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Run out of money and your campaign is done. Just look at the reason given for most democratic presidential candidates dropping out this cycle. They quit when they can’t raise more money.

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A couple days after Obama was re-elected the political staffers walked in to the tech floor of the Obama campaign HQ and wondered where everyone was. They’d all be laid off, @harper had found them jobs in industry & everybody faded back in to tech companies.

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Non-candidate groups often use ActionKit if they’re bigger or ActionNetwork if they’re smaller, or even NationBuilder. The latter became persona-non-grata after working to get Trump elected. MoveOn funded the creation of ActionKit, and the AFL-CIO did it for ActionNetwork.

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Lightrail is solving the problem that most people on campaign tech teams have. Mostly the job is wiring up various services, moving the data in to the right spot so the digital and filed teams can be effective.

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Wondering how to protest while doing social distancing during a pandemic? In car blockades and caravans to block builds and roads is a long standing tactic and it's now being used against ICE in Chicago.

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About 2 dozen vehicles are driving around the ICE building in Chicago, blaring their horns, and signs decorating their cars demanding the release of those in detaiment amid COVID-19 pandemic #Chicago #Covid_19

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To understand why shadow exists and how they failed to provide the tools the Iowa Democratic Party needed we need to know how this space works.

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The videos I see of Paris are amazing because when I was last there, 5 years ago, the idea of biking was terrifying. Every city can make this change and we’ll all be better off.

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The most important thing about this amazing Paris transformation is how fast it happened — how fast people on bikes “appeared” — once streets were transformed. You can’t write this off as “Paris was always this way,” because it wasn’t. It took leadership.

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So what do projects like and shadow do when they want to keep the lights on? They take one off campaign jobs. Affinity built tools for the Yes on 1631 carbon tax campaign in Washington, and Shadow built a caucus tool for state democrats.

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@oppie67 @ErickFernandez @DrewFromTV Proud to have a rapist and racist in the whitehouse but ashamed that the us national team refuses to subject themselves to his abuse?

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Nostr continues to see tremendous growth.

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Turned 43 today, got up, took the dog for a walk, got coffee, came home, made pancakes for the kids who were having a sleepover in the living room. Didn't eat pancakes because carbs. Now catching up on work in my happy reading chair. I'm definitely an adult.

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@sampullara Yes, and that would be a much better lean solution, so would simply having each paper vote tally photographed by several caucus goers and all posted the same address or hell hashtag.

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Stayed up to late last night playing Civ 3. Ugh.

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Went to the @TimbersFC ’s match last night. Stood in the @timbersarmy , flew the antifascist action flag, danced when we scored, and sang #BellaCiao Fought hate and had fun.

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From a staff of hundreds, a handful went to work at the White House or OFA, but for the most part that knowledge was all lost.

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This is terrible news, the Stanford Internet Observatory is being shutdown. They’re the research and policy group which has done the best work in researching speech and regulation online. Republican p...

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The public sphere won't exist without people who fight to defend it. Our digital spaces need to be supported and defended. What we have is a commons, where nobody should be able to own it. Twitter has been an amazing steward of the twittersphere, but they can't do it alone.

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This is despite the fact that ‘they’ use totally different standards, tech, and structure of work. Ours works better than theirs, but it’s not saying much.

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The school system in the United States was created to transform immigrants in to workers. They teach kids some knowledge but the primary skill is rule following and tolerance for boredom. They also are free childcare so parents can work longer hours.

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@PortlandPolice My kids go to Laurelhurst school. This is my neighborhood you’re disrupting and I’m proud to be out here protesting for black lives, to defund the police, and against racism.

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@PortlandPolice The only violent people here are the police.

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What if the pro-life movement applied their values to men instead of just women. http://t.co/5Te2l0MUVY

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This evening Kevin Peterson Jr was killed by police outside of Vancouver, Washington. Asking police to treat people with humanity and not murder them is not an extreme demand.

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I took this photo of KP a couple years ago at his parents wedding that I was lucky enough to photograph. I thought I’d share. Rest in paradise @_splashkp 🕊

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In the wake of the 2016 election there was a lot of energy around funding better tools. We had folks like @raffi go over to work at the DNC. We had Higher Ground Labs promise money in to the space, they funded Shadow, and many other projects.

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Thousands of groups use ActionNetwork, but it’s barely viable as a sustainable entity despite providing a very important service. ActionKit was recently rolled in to NGP/VAN because it wasn’t sustainable as an independent entity.

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@PortlandPolice To those employees of the @PortlandPolice who are peaceful, there are violent and criminal elements on your force. Resign now so that you won’t be implicated in the crimes of others.

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"Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. " Steve Jobs

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What does this new space need to survive? It's a digital commons. We can look to Nobel Laureate Elinor Ostrom's 8 principles of a well managed commons:

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Campaign networks like indivisible, sister district, swing left, all use extensive tech but don’t have budgets to fund its development.

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The solution to our current social networking / media problems is not replacing one company with another, but rather get back to what makes an effective commons and then build technology for people to create and participate in that commons.

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Many years ago, before @moxie created Signal, he was hired by Twitter to create end-to-end encrypted DM's. Twitter's management was dysfunctional and Moxie quit in frustration, took the ideas and open source code, and made Signal.

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On Feb 19th, 1942 a 110,000 americans were legally put in concentration camps for their ancestry #DayofRemeberance

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Doyaringu ドヤリング is the japanese verb for "using your macbook air in a starbucks" according to @miyagawa . Crazy.

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I think the community of people building alternatives are the best defense against a hostile takeover. That's why I've been working to help @arcalinea and @bluesky . It's also why I've built my own open source, decentralized social media app, @planetaryinc .

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The @realsaltlake MLS soccer team is for sale. Anybody wants to put together a DAO to buy it? On chain voting for the GM and investment decisions around player acquisition budgets?

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