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a while ago i created OpenStates.org. now I teach. i think we can make a better world. https://jpt.sh https://unnamed.computer
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submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

I'm working with a few people hoping to put together a small cohort of (paid) civic/public interest fellowships this summer. If you work with an org that could use the help, or might be interested in mentoring, please take a few minutes to fill out this form: forms.gle/VcVbNULxaAgk... #civictech

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

idea for a sticker: this machine serves fascists potential uses I would never officially endorse: - put it on a Tesla - put it on surveillance tech - put it on your computer probably, it depends who you are, let’s have a conversation

submitted 78 days ago • 3 comments

I just finished teaching a course for the third year. I am trying something new & putting my Python course notes out under a CC license for anyone that might find them useful: www.jpt.sh/posts/map-py... These focus on using Python to work with real-world data, with a splash of general CS topics

submitted 89 days ago • 2 comments

I've been thinking a lot about what this moment means for civic tech and put some thoughts together here: www.jpt.sh/posts/third-... tl;dr is that I'd really like to start having conversations with others that are thinking about what needs to be build and how we're going to pay for it

submitted 110 days ago • 4 comments

Reminder that ipums.org has all the acs, census, CPS, NHIS, MEPS, and so much more. Bonus that it’s cleaned and harmonized in ways that make these data really easy to use in practice.

submitted 122 days ago • 5 comments

having succeeded in purchasing positions of influence inside the White House, the billionaires and tech VCs have now set their sights back on Wikipedia

submitted 136 days ago • 246 comments

Republicans on the NC Supreme Court just blocked certification of a Democratic justice's election win. Her GOP opponent is trying to throw out 60,000 ballots cast in November, citing debunked far-right legal theories. This assault on democracy should be a national scandal.

submitted 148 days ago • 170 comments

I've decided to try being more intentional about sharing my course notes for the #python course I'm teaching this quarter. A few people had told me they'd found the older version that they found on GitHub useful, so I figured I'd mention it.

submitted 151 days ago • 1 comment

hi

submitted 151 days ago • 40 comments

if you want to go on a ride, look at the four pictures on this product listing www.amazon.com/gp/product/B...

submitted 152 days ago • 1 comment

AD-ROCK: Yo Ebenezer you gotta show re- BEASTIES: MORSE AD-ROCK: Redemption is not a mere matter of Beasties: COURSE MIKE D: We’ll show you Bob Cratchit’s not a lazy BEASTIES: MOOCHER MCA: We’re Christmas Past MIKE D: Christmas Present BEASTIES: AND CHRISTMAS FUTURE

submitted 152 days ago • 53 comments

Ann Telnaes, who has worked at The Washington Post as an editorial cartoonist since 2008, says her cartoon criticizing billions currying favor with Trump was spiked — and now she has quit the paper

submitted 154 days ago • 91 comments

Doing my annual check in on the state of the new years glasses industry and things are looking rough out there

submitted 158 days ago • 145 comments

Joe Biden lost the election almost two months ago but he’s still calling himself President and living in the White House … and no one even complains! I guess Americans are fine with living under the iron fist of “Dictator Joe” 🤷‍♂️

submitted 165 days ago • 14 comments

“everybody is being fucked with constantly in tiny little ways by most apps and services, and I believe that billions of people being fucked with at once in all of these ways has profound psychological and social consequences that we’re not meaningfully discussing”

submitted 171 days ago • 17 comments

I shouldn’t be working today. I should be at home FORCING my daughter to watch the California Raisins. UNDERSTAND THESE RAISINS. AND WHAT THEY MEANT TO YOUR FATHER. That’s Christmas

submitted 171 days ago • 1 comment

i wrote about luigi mangione, and how hopeless and dark things can get very quickly when you try to get treatment from providers or your health insurance for a back injury causing chronic, debilitating pain www.shesabeast.co/back-injury-...

submitted 177 days ago • 27 comments

This story is uh, insane www.cbsnews.com/news/police-...

submitted 184 days ago • 400 comments

I was just in the redwoods for the first time— in case someone sees these posts here’s a bit of that.

submitted 187 days ago • 0 comments

Just insane that the left treated the tech industry with increasing hostility just because they undermined organized labor, flouted the regulatory state, and bragged that they were going to get rid of everybody's jobs for a decade straight.

submitted 189 days ago • 398 comments

hmm

submitted 188 days ago • 0 comments