This is what users have come to expect, Noel. Instant answers in a friendly, confident tone. So we have to meet them where they are. #humancentered #design #innovationing

Noel instead of being so negative shouldnt you just focus on the positives, like all of the ways this technology can be #good for government and society

shit future innit

Earthseder.

Is this anything?

Given the horrors, I find it increasingly difficult to engage with Hebrew material and Jewish thinking at all (especially in mixed company, which these Seders always are – a mix of Jews and goyim, mostly anti-zionists but not all).

So I'm increasingly wondering how an all-Earthseed Seder might go.

been MC'ing Liberation Seders for a decade, reimagining the Passover ritual to be about freedom for all people, and to include all kinds of resistances, rebellions, and diasporas. Some of the most rewarding readings have been passages from Parables of the Sower/Talents.

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Biologist Paul Ehrlich speaking at the University of San Diego circa 1972

1/ Paul Ehrlich died this week at 93.

The takes split into hagiography and dismissal. But the interesting question isn't whether he got it right, he didn't, it's why he got it wrong, and who was asking the right questions instead 🧵

‘Nazi heaven’: Inside Miami campus Republicans’ racist group chat The chat is the subject of a Florida International University police investigation.

The secretary of Miami-Dade County’s GOP started a group chat for conservative students — and within 3 weeks, it was filled with over 400 instances of the N-word, Nazi rhetoric and writings of "dozens of ways of violently killing Black people"

It is the only clear proposal i’ve ever seen for how we could get all the way through and past this mess. I wish more people talked about it!

(tbh i think it would make for a great prestige tv show. georgetown squaring off against anacostia!)

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One would think that this would merit an emergency convening of all Blue state governors, Attorneys generals and Congressional representatives. It's a declaration of war on one state which means they'll do it to others too.

omg was that Homeland Hugh

this is good; i’d be morbidly curious to subscribe to a list of em

It’s boring PR

this is uh, fucking crazy

i still have the book somewhere

“Late 2020s” is a phrase with a real ominous vibe.

I am prepared to accept the possibility that there is no documentation for the governance model of the Scumdogs of the Universe in existence on the internet

i still want to know about Gwar’s governance model

meanwhile: no, actually that’s not even close to the answer i was looking for.

i really miss when google worked.

New paper: the Value of Declaring Your Values A few years ago, shortly after I’d published “Averting Tragedy of the Resource Directory Anti-Commons” in The Cambridge Handbook on Commons Research Innovations, Angie Raymond asked if I woul…

I just shared an advance copy of my newest paper, "The Value of Having Values," pending publication in a book next year about Environmental Knowledge Commons: gregbloom.org/2025/12/02/n...

RIYL governance, fairness, etc

There's a lot more I want to unpack here; stay tuned!

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Great to see this 'bill of rights' for property insurance policyholders from @consumerreports.org – not sure what the path to wins would be here at this point but any one would begin with articulating where we want to go. This is a good start. Sign on! action.consumerreports.org/nb-20251003-...

Not just political establishment but healthcare, civic tech, and the nonprofit industrial complex more broadly. This new reality has major strategic ramifications for any organization working on something like "health equity" or "civil society" but ... nobody wants to talk about it.

this was at churchill’s, it’s miraculously reopened, i’m watching kids about this age in a show next door at sweat records, nature is healing 🙏✨🤘

The docs on WHAM and Milli Vanilli are both actually great – novelistic stories.

I also really enjoyed Roberta, and Still Bill; didn't see them mentioned here, and they're really worth checking out :)

*bee wings! 🤦🏼‍♂️

First prize!

The pic does not convey the full glory of the flapping butterfly wings.

I am here in person and it is fantastic

just an absolutely terrible time to be a rational person who is capable of critical thinking and cares about other people

Screenshot of asofterworld.com on November 29, 2004

asofterworld.com on November 29, 2004
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