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I am an American, and most of the other folks on the project were as well. I did go through an interview with Customs officers when I returned to the US, but it didn't affect my ab…

This change https://github.com/eggert/tz/commit/baea52df7ac9c4b53857556f... was a huge pain in my ass in 2013. I was working in Libya on voter registration tools with the UN and th…

Thank you, I’m never letting the domain go.

I did something similar for my wedding website back in 2013. We used a mail-in service that produced a decent TTF, and then I converted it to a WOFF. Still online at https://ruthan…

A modest proposal to turn Alameda's former naval station into an AI and robotics hub. "All it would take" is - Exercising the Endangered Species Act 7(j) exemption to reactivate th…

Aaron Swartz, cofounder of Reddit and inventor of RSS and Markdown, was hounded to death by an overzealous prosecutor for downloading articles from JSTOR, with the intent to learn …

I used to work at a company that used Sentinel-2 data and a large scale AI model to detect changes in land use and land cover anywhere in the world. They provide free global data a…

This seems like it goes against most standard development practices.

Phrenology 2.0!

You can tell that this author knows their shit because the blog post is entirely illustrated with furry memes.

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I did a project at the MIT Center for Future Civic Media on building a hyper-local radio platform, and we'd always use Car Talk as an example of the kind of interactions we wanted …

This was an informal thing for a long time, but I didn't know that there's now an actual certificate. I may have to go back and request mine retroactively.

Believe it or not, George isn't at home Please leave a message, at the beep I must be out, or I'd pick up the phone Where could I be? Believe it or not, I'm not home! https://www.y…

I had a niche in voter registration, and wrote frontend code and server processes that helped tens of millions of people register to vote in the US. Worked on tools for Rock the Vo…

I think this is a very cool usage of the internet for good, and using massive audiences to reach people that traditional activism often misses. Looks like they take crypto. Any of …

I rented a Tesla on Turo a few years ago, it was a blast to drive. It is so choice. If you have the means, I highly recommend renting one.

When are people going to stop rebuilding high tech phrenology?

This is intentionally done by one political party that does not care about democracy. They push policies that restrict individual voting rights, gerrymander districts for minority …

"By using fax and email APIs, VoteAmerica is building out a system that allows voters to request a vote-by-mail application just by taking a photo of their signature. VoteAmerica’s…

Thanks for the review, Kristo. We are the real deal, and we'll have all our code on GitHub in a week or two. Just deciding on licenses now.