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🧵 on Lincoln

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New blog post! 💻💰📉 “18F’s profound legacy of procurement reform” sboots.ca/2025/05/30/1... With quotes and links from @waldo.net @danhon.com and many others, and gratitude to everyone at @alt18f.bsky.social @altusds.altgov.info and beyond who was part of this work.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

A ray of sunshine in this world.

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(I would appreciate it if you shared this because it feels weird to write something like this and then have no one read it)

submitted 1 day ago • 21 comments

is anyone ever experiencing lower than normal call volumes?

submitted 2 days ago • 3 comments

got a "reminder" email in a pretty peevish tone to provide feedback (on an 11 point likert scale, thx) that they have already requested on my most recent experience of paying my business credit card bill (all emphases theirs) & like...this is not the way

submitted 3 days ago • 2 comments

government doing obscure but important functions 👇

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I started publishing a daily digest of links at icymilaw.org on Tuesday. They're sourced from what @icymilaw.org sees of the legal discourse here on Bluesky. Curious? Go ahead, thumb through this week's links. There's some good stuff there. They drop @ 6:30am. Might be a good way to start the day. ☕

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

having worked on digital access to justice in the civil court system for 4 years - this would be a disaster. Legal Aid doesn't come close to covering all the need out there; court-provided self-help systems exist as well - but without LSC regular people's options will be extremely limited

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Lately, I've been reminding myself that 75 million voters chose Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. We didn't defeat Trumpism at the ballot box. But remembering that 75 million US adults rejected hatred and fear helps me stay encouraged during these difficult days, weeks, and months.

submitted 4 days ago • 97 comments

oh hello, it is the wholesome internet - would any of my friends like to draw a catfrog for a preschooler?

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

This is so good

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

you can tell a lot about new technology by whether the default is opt in or opt out. you can tell even more when there is no option to opt out.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

we could have had taco trucks on every corner

submitted 5 days ago • 231 comments

I found these pages to be really succinct and useful summaries of what's happening right now. I appreciate the effort of compiling all this.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

We have been hearing a lot about random scattered cuts, super duper thanks to folks who worked on making this make sense

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Order up: Just posted new explainers on the state of Medical Research Funding, Food Safety, and USPS as they experience various attacks from the Trump administration. unbreaking.org

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helping my kid find a summer sublet & got a chatbot response from an inquiry: - yes, your two-month dates are available (cool) - we don't offer short term lease terms (the website advertises them loudly) - but we do offer terms of 13 or 15 months (nobody does that, lol) rock on

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual (deceptive calls from AI programs set up to sound like government officials: definitely cyberpunk)

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

IRS’s Direct File wasn't open source while it was being developed. But somebody just made it public!

submitted 6 days ago • 54 comments

cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

I personally don't care whether they faked this with an LLM or au naturel - it is bad bad bad bad bad that this is becoming common

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Editors, please assign a deep dive piece on the grave damage musk & doge have done to the United States, rather than how he’s feeling about it.

submitted 6 days ago • 56 comments

cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual (it being impossible to escape networked software & surveillance is a key theme of cyberpunk)

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

imagine being the person who wrote "Log back in to your account to continue your Oral-B brushing experience."

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

Every year, senior citizens (amongst others) can receive a small amount of money ($25 or so) in USDA issued vouchers to be used at farmers markets. Extra access to fresh produce + supporting farmers = double win. Today it was announced that the voucher distribution has been postponed indefinitely.

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

I must yet again remind everybody that the time limits for SGEs are not real! The law allows the utmost flexibility. Musk could have remained an SGE indefinitely.

submitted 6 days ago • 9 comments

wait a sec, what the hell is even happening

submitted 6 days ago • 6 comments

I'll believe it when I see it, & if true, I honestly have NO IDEA what happens next with DOGE, federal civic tech, or whatever data escaped during this whole episode. I hope to FSM it's better!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

speaking of...good for you, friends! 🙏

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

one morning I was on a subway that got stuck behind a train with a medical emergency, & the driver wrote everybody excuse notes for being late to work

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

this blog post is exhausting tbh. I'm glad he shared, but learning a few basic civic tech lessons (yes, there are real software development projects & smart people in gov) ...but from a starting point of "okay, I'm here to help fire people" & then declaring it's too hard after 3 months is...yeah.

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

What a surprise. Recent polling showing that most Republican voters in Texas oppose moves to squash the state’s booming renewable energy sector. Texas’s combined wind and solar power output is nearly double that of its closest rival, California. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

submitted 7 days ago • 10 comments

& when I say tech needs civic tech at this particular moment, that's because we can be & often are a consensual, non-extractive model. it's really important that there are folks like @anildash.com showing that tech for fun & profit can also be consensual & non-extractive

🧵 on Lincoln

New blog post! 💻💰📉 “18F’s profound legacy of procurement reform” sboots.ca/2025/05/30/1... With quotes and links from @waldo.net @danhon.com and many others, and gratitude to everyone at @alt18f.bsky.social @altusds.altgov.info and beyond who was part of this work.

A ray of sunshine in this world.

(I would appreciate it if you shared this because it feels weird to write something like this and then have no one read it)

is anyone ever experiencing lower than normal call volumes?

got a "reminder" email in a pretty peevish tone to provide feedback (on an 11 point likert scale, thx) that they have already requested on my most recent experience of paying my business credit card bill (all emphases theirs) & like...this is not the way

government doing obscure but important functions 👇

having worked on digital access to justice in the civil court system for 4 years - this would be a disaster. Legal Aid doesn't come close to covering all the need out there; court-provided self-help systems exist as well - but without LSC regular people's options will be extremely limited

Lately, I've been reminding myself that 75 million voters chose Kamala Harris and Tim Walz. We didn't defeat Trumpism at the ballot box. But remembering that 75 million US adults rejected hatred and fear helps me stay encouraged during these difficult days, weeks, and months.

oh hello, it is the wholesome internet - would any of my friends like to draw a catfrog for a preschooler?

This is so good

you can tell a lot about new technology by whether the default is opt in or opt out. you can tell even more when there is no option to opt out.

we could have had taco trucks on every corner

I found these pages to be really succinct and useful summaries of what's happening right now. I appreciate the effort of compiling all this.

We have been hearing a lot about random scattered cuts, super duper thanks to folks who worked on making this make sense

Order up: Just posted new explainers on the state of Medical Research Funding, Food Safety, and USPS as they experience various attacks from the Trump administration. unbreaking.org

helping my kid find a summer sublet & got a chatbot response from an inquiry: - yes, your two-month dates are available (cool) - we don't offer short term lease terms (the website advertises them loudly) - but we do offer terms of 13 or 15 months (nobody does that, lol) rock on

cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual (deceptive calls from AI programs set up to sound like government officials: definitely cyberpunk)

IRS’s Direct File wasn't open source while it was being developed. But somebody just made it public!

cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual

I personally don't care whether they faked this with an LLM or au naturel - it is bad bad bad bad bad that this is becoming common

Editors, please assign a deep dive piece on the grave damage musk & doge have done to the United States, rather than how he’s feeling about it.

cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual (it being impossible to escape networked software & surveillance is a key theme of cyberpunk)

imagine being the person who wrote "Log back in to your account to continue your Oral-B brushing experience."

Every year, senior citizens (amongst others) can receive a small amount of money ($25 or so) in USDA issued vouchers to be used at farmers markets. Extra access to fresh produce + supporting farmers = double win. Today it was announced that the voucher distribution has been postponed indefinitely.

I must yet again remind everybody that the time limits for SGEs are not real! The law allows the utmost flexibility. Musk could have remained an SGE indefinitely.

wait a sec, what the hell is even happening

I'll believe it when I see it, & if true, I honestly have NO IDEA what happens next with DOGE, federal civic tech, or whatever data escaped during this whole episode. I hope to FSM it's better!

speaking of...good for you, friends! 🙏

one morning I was on a subway that got stuck behind a train with a medical emergency, & the driver wrote everybody excuse notes for being late to work

this blog post is exhausting tbh. I'm glad he shared, but learning a few basic civic tech lessons (yes, there are real software development projects & smart people in gov) ...but from a starting point of "okay, I'm here to help fire people" & then declaring it's too hard after 3 months is...yeah.

What a surprise. Recent polling showing that most Republican voters in Texas oppose moves to squash the state’s booming renewable energy sector. Texas’s combined wind and solar power output is nearly double that of its closest rival, California. www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...

& when I say tech needs civic tech at this particular moment, that's because we can be & often are a consensual, non-extractive model. it's really important that there are folks like @anildash.com showing that tech for fun & profit can also be consensual & non-extractive

every last word of this.

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