Happy 4/20 to all who celebrate!
Today we celebrate hard-won victories, and also recognize that the work is not done.
Massachusetts is facing a ballot measure re-criminalizing pot. Our gardeners can’t export. Our dispensaries still can’t use regular banking.
It’s time for Congress to step up.
A campaign is basically a small, short-term startup. Part of that rapidly building a team & getting work done that needs to be done.
I sometimes hire consultants to cover specific jobs none of our staff are doing. In this case, Break Blue provided some finance functions.
Banning NDAs around these projects is such an obvious win.
Unfortunately, most members of Congress spend their time talking to CEOs instead of their neighbors.
We shouldn’t be secretly subsidizing dangerous, destructive technologies.
It won’t even matter that robots can’t do the jobs.
As long as CEOs believe they can, we will see mass layoffs anyway.
This is what Democratic consultants and establishment donors want us to ignore.
The only way to elect people who will side with us instead of the robot-owners is with grassroots funding: bethfordemocracy.com
bethfordemocracy.com
We can’t expect companies accountable only to investors to police themselves.
The politicians they bankroll won’t do it either.
As a software engineer, I know we are responsible for what we build. That’s why I’m going up against Palantir’s money & running for Congress myself.
Our foreign policy should create peace.
Right now it creates death, genocide, and profits for defense contractors.
It is time for a Congress willing to do its job.
As a software engineer running for Congress & knocking on a ton of doors, I can confirm: it is incredibly necessary and wildly popular.
🎊Thanks to Rep. Pressley’s leadership, the House has stood up for Haitian immigrants. 🎊
When I worked at the Boston Medical Center refugee clinic, I saw how important stability and hospitality are to those who had to flee their homes.
America should remain America, not slam the door behind us.
There’s an axolotl on the pink stairs
Is the axolotl supposed to be there?
If you ask an axolotl
If they’ll be back tomorrow
A penguin waddles in and then the axolotl’s gone
I agree. Fuck that noise.
I’m not going begging at Palantir and OpenAI like my opponent. I am organizing so we can regulate AI and make it work for all of us.
If that brings money in against me, oh well 🤷
We deserve a Democratic Party worth voting for.
bethfordemocracy.com
Politics doesn’t have to be about yelling on cable news.
It can be about what we build together.
When we focus on the job, Seth Moulton’s District Director and a trans socialist software engineer can come together behind a @sunrisemvmt.bsky.social champion bringing new voices to Beacon Hill.
Pictures of Rick Jakious and Bethany Andres-Beck side by side announcing “MA 06 CANDIDATES ENDORSE CONNOR MURRAY: STATE REPRESENTATIVE 18th ESSEX DISTRICT”
I am proud to endorse @murray4ma.bsky.social alongside one of my fellow candidates, @rickjakious.bsky.social!
We don’t agree on everything, but we certainly agree local elections matter and that Connor Murray will bring dedication, energy and clarity to the state house 🗳️
There should be consequences for bribery and corruption.
There will be, when we build them.
You can help us reboot consequences at: bethfordemocracy.com
Did you consider looking at gas prices in particular?
I noticed that sentiment diverged from confidence right when RTO started, which drove gas prices up and made commutes significantly worse.
Since commutes aren’t paid, that pay cut doesn’t show up in statistics.
AI models were created by all of us.
My writing, your writing, all of our written knowledge. It is all in there.
The technology should work for us, not just investors & their corporations.
Middleton has an awesome Earth Day festival every year!
It is hosted by our amazing Stream Team, and highlights how our community cares for the land we live on. This year it is on May 3rd at noon: www.middletonma.gov/858/Earth-Da...
Artemis shows how much we can do when we dream together.
I want more of that.
It is time to reboot America.
We know these things happen.
The choice is how we respond.
I was 19 years old when I first reported sexual harassment.
I was at a summer program about quantum- & bio-computing. An RA targeted my roommate, a high school senior. I found out when she was packing her things to leave.
The adults were going to let it go. I found the Women’s Center on a map.
Our party is bigger than any one person. There is no reason to settle for people who have abused their power.
There are many useful jobs besides “politician” that they can do instead.
Absolutely. That is why it matters so much who is in the room.
We deserve representatives who won’t just go along when the establishment tries to pull shit like this.
Laws can protect all of us.
Laws can give us more privacy, instead of less.
I am running for Congress to make it happen.
bethfordemocracy.com
I am a tech worker, not a tech CEO.
I care about user experience, not short-term corporate profits.
Our laws should protect us from the bosses. Age verification protects the bosses from us.
What is bad for tech giants?
Laws that would protect our privacy.
It isn’t a big deal for tech giants. They may lose a few users. But advertisers love when users have to show ids. This gives them an excuse to make more money from us.
But for a startup? Age verification laws are a giant mote.
And for us? It sacrifices our privacy in exchange for nothing.
To be fair, humans are also pretty bad at guessing how old someone is. Expecting computers to be good at something humans are bad at is silly.
Whatever the goal is, the result of these laws is that adults are shut out of websites they have every right to participate in.
A computer guessing if you are a human at all is a much easier problem than guessing how old a human is. And we don’t know how to reliably do that either.
Why are the “age verification” laws bad?
Have you ever tried to use a website and been stumped by a captcha?
Maybe it asked you to pick every square with a bicycle, but you aren’t sure if that tiny bit of tire counts.
Then you have to read numbers: is that a 7 or a 1?
At some point, you give up.