Image of a LinkedIn profile with a black cat as the avatar picture and the name Wiskers Da Cat.
I love playing the LinkedIn games with my son. Except when he takes advantage of having my phone and turns me into a cat. 🐈⬛
Two pictures side by side of a blue budgie on a stick. The image is a suggestion from Meta and reads Make it look classical with Meta AI. The “classical” version is largely the same except my hand is noticeable older and I’m wearing a large golden bracelet.
Why does Meta AI think I want to change this picture of a bird to age my hand and wear a gold bangle?
No wonder Google had to get rid of Bard
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huh - a quirk of Monaco's electoral system:
"In case of a tie, the eldest candidate is declared elected."
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We won a major award! This morning the Thurston County Auditor's Office won a National Clearinghouse Award from the Elections Assistance Commission for Communications. We did a video series called "Your Neighbors, Your Elections," which profiles election workers and why they do their jobs. This […]
Big news—we just won a 2024 Clearie Award from the U.S. Election Assistance Commission! 🏆
This honor means so much to our team and reflects our passion for making elections more accessible, secure, and empowering for every voter.
Thank you for believing in our work! 💙🗳️
There are 41 counties in Georgia having Special Elections today. The polls will be open from 7am-7pm. Please give a hearty thank you to the poll workers & elections officials who have been working for months to bring your community smooth, fair elections…every election.
Picture of homemade bagels on a tray on top of an oven.
I’ve wanted to make bagels for a long time, and finally got around to it this weekend. Just pulled these out of the oven and I’m super pumped about this first attempt!
If I was reporting the weather, I would absolutely say things like “I don’t know about you, but it’s feeling 22,” and the occasional, “Nobody likes it when it’s 23”
I loved seeing this article in today’s @electionline.bsky.social! Leanne is the best of the best, and it’s so great to see all of her hard work as an election official detailed in her hometown paper. ❤️ 🗳️
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When election results are released, no one is “ahead.” It’s just Schrödinger's box in the process of being opened.
Spider-Man pointing meme with the text Christmas and Hanukkah
Merry Hanukkah and Happy Christmas! 🎄 🕎
Your local library also has a good place to work with fast internet, and you don’t have to buy a coffee
We’re pretty good at picking weeds, but adding things that are helpful (official info, context, outside perspectives) are really hard to do. Traditional platforms make these decisions on their own, but those can be hit or miss. But I’m really curious if Bluesky can help solve this problem.
To really stretch the metaphor, think about Bluesky’s butterfly. The users of the app are like the butterfly, pollinating the seeds of content across the social internet. To keep things from going out of control, someone needs to both pick weeds and add nutrients.
This is sort of the opposite of content moderation, but both things need to happen. There’s harmful content that naturally spreads if unchecked and helpful content that doesn’t unless it’s helped along. Basically, is there a way to make the social internet a curated garden?
I’ve wanted something like a Whitepages (☎️ 👴) for the internet. Could something like this happen on decentralized platforms? Could official info be its own layer, so it’s there when people need it?
But that doesn’t solve the distribution problem. I wonder if there’s a way for Bluesky’s architecture to help boost content that comes from official sources, but without doing so in a way that stifles free speech or artificially boosts propaganda
I think a lot about how to get good information to people who don’t know they need it. One way I’ve been thinking about relates to AI - rather than watermarking AI, we should be authenticating official information (or maybe both) 2/
I just listened to a great podcast episode with @katieharbath.bsky.social and @aaron.bsky.team talking about how Bluesky approaches trust and safety, and what makes Bluesky different from other platforms.
I’m curious if Bluesky can solve a particular problem with official content on the internet 1/
34. North Dakota – Yes (North Dakota) 35. Ohio – No 36. Oklahoma – No 37. Oregon – Yes (Oregon) 38. Pennsylvania – Yes (Pennsylvaniar)
It does! And yet it appears to not exist. Although Pennsylvaniar (Pirate Pennsylvania? 🏴☠️) does in this universe:
I did appreciate that it highlighted exactly where the R is in South Dakorta 😆
I just tested this and came up with a slightly more accurate list, but still not perfect. Although, South Dakorta did make me laugh 😆
Virtually attended the great Bipartisan Policy Center event today where my @electionsvoting.bsky.social colleagues & friends @pgronke.bsky.social & @paulonabike.bsky.social presented prelim results of EVIC's 2024 Local Election Official Survey. Watch and stay tuned: www.youtube.com/live/SeNCcoU...
From our perspective at the end of a major election year, I’d say the Australian ballot certainly qualifies as iconic
![Because Poe was found on the day of an election, it was suggested as early as 1872[42] that he was the victim of cooping.[43] This was a ballot-box-stuffing scam in which victims were abducted off the street by local "election gangs", imprisoned in a small room called "the coop", drugged or forced with alcohol or beatings to get them to comply. The cooping victims were then used as pawns to vote for a political party at multiple locations. Often their clothing would be changed and/or they would be given disguises such as wigs, fake beards, or mustaches to fool voting officials and vote multiple times.[36] Cooping, which would also explain the dirty and disheveled clothes and shoes that he was wearing when he was found, had become the standard explanation for Poe's death in most of his biographies for several decades,[44] though his status in Baltimore may have made him too recognizable for this scam to have worked.[45]](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:r2y3br46tuz3om6n4rhjzk2e/bafkreiaosupz4vuwf74qcn2yvgcdmkmgxfphdkbppm27gollndukxmtmfm)
Because Poe was found on the day of an election, it was suggested as early as 1872[42] that he was the victim of cooping.[43] This was a ballot-box-stuffing scam in which victims were abducted off the street by local "election gangs", imprisoned in a small room called "the coop", drugged or forced with alcohol or beatings to get them to comply. The cooping victims were then used as pawns to vote for a political party at multiple locations. Often their clothing would be changed and/or they would be given disguises such as wigs, fake beards, or mustaches to fool voting officials and vote multiple times.[36] Cooping, which would also explain the dirty and disheveled clothes and shoes that he was wearing when he was found, had become the standard explanation for Poe's death in most of his biographies for several decades,[44] though his status in Baltimore may have made him too recognizable for this scam to have worked.[45]
The lack of a secret ballot may have also led to the death of Edgar Allen Poe - from the Wikipedia page on the Death of Edgar Allen Poe:
Before the adoption of the secret ballot in the U.S., ballots were printed and distributed by political parties. The ballots were printed on different color paper, which led to overt voter intimidation. Imagine being the only person in line with a yellow ballot when everyone else has green.
The Australian ballot is a secret ballot that is printed and distributed by an official government office. It was first used in the 1850s in Australia (thus the name), but it’s the foundation of democratic governments across the globe.
