Cyd Harrell
@cydharrell.bsky.social
cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual she/her. dayjob & usual location: City & County of San Francisco (this is a personal account) ex-18F; on the board @publicgood.tech ; wrote a small book about doing this: https://cydharrell.com/book/
Absolutely unbelievable how solar power has taken off worldwide during the Hormuz oil crisis. You don't have to hand it to him, but Trump may have done more to finally kick off a global civilization of effete librul solar users than anyone else in the West
amazing time for a CityCamp!!!
BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York@beta.nyc · 3d agoSpend a Saturday exchanging civic ideas with New Yorkers who want the city to work better for everyone. CityCamp NYC returns Sept. 19 at Hunter College. The $40 early-bird rate ends Aug. 17. Get your ticket: www.citycamp.nyc
what's going on in eastern Washington today is terrifying; the fire seasons that we've created are so awful www.npr.org/2026/08/02/g...
Thousands of people under evacuation order from wildfires in Spokane, Wash.
There are at least three fires in and around the city. Large parts of Spokane are under Level 3 evacuation orders, which read: "Leave NOW! This may be your only notice."
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The current name - “Civil War” - “is a result of decades of lobbying by Confederate heritage groups and white Southerners committed to rejuvenating the South’s image and ignoring its treason and slaveholding.” www.nytimes.com/2026/08/02/o...
Opinion | The ‘Civil War’ Is a Lie. Let’s Call It the ‘Slaveholders’ Rebellion’ Again.
To face our own history, we must be honest about it.
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#uglydogs Sledblobs!
Melissa Mendelson@flightriskmushing.bsky.social · 4d agoAfter 18 hours of stage 2 labor and a trip to the e-vet for oxytocin and monitoring, Loaf had 8 beautiful puppies yesterday. She is doing an excellent job as a first time mom and all babies have gained weight on their day-old weigh in.
Culture is a form of data. History is a form of data. Identity is a form of data. That is enough to highlight that folks who don't have to assert themselves due to them being mainlined in society are ambivalent to the data protection of everyone else (it's the French Revolution all over again).
Jacky!@omg.jacky.wtf · 5d agoPeople do care about their data; they happen to not use the same language that tech folks use when they're talking about. And frankly, we as tech folks fucked up by fighting for React and JavaScript everywhere (dev happiness) over privacy and safety (user integrity). It's our fault.
I've wondered *so much* about how the obsession with these specific AI interfaces relates to computerization forcing men to do their own typing & (sometimes) accept women as technical/business colleagues rather than helpmeets
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 4d agoI like this notetaking example. it is a good case of how gender works. Notetaking has never been about producing a transcript. It is a bureaucratic skill in the 20th c. organixarion because it is SENSEMAKING. Those women socialized to take notes? They have been doing men’s metacognition for them
People potentially subject to the nyc pied-à-terre tax are being treated with 1% of the administrative hostility of SNAP and Medicaid applicants, and they’re throwing 100x the fit
Senna needs a new home! 🐕 She's an energetic Australian Cattle Dog that would thrive in a home where she can get the love and attention she needs. Posting for my neighbor. Located in Long Beach, CA 90808. www.adoptapet.com/pet/48876241...
hey SF, the 2026-27 Community Challenge Grants program is live, accepting applications for neighborhood projects until October 2 sf.gov/ccg
Community Challenge Grants Program | SF.gov
We provide grants and technical assistance for community-led, neighborhood improvement projects.
sf.gov
Zohran Mamdani is undoing deceptive UX patterns Be still my heart
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 7d agoUber Eats and DoorDash hid tip buttons and set default tips below 10%. As a result, tips for delivery workers fell 79%. In January, we made these corporations change their apps — and in the past six months, we've put $104 million back in delivery workers' pockets. This is only the beginning.
Virginia’s new pay transparency law requires employers to include salary ranges in job postings and prohibits them from asking applicants about their pay history. via @virginiamercury.com
Virginia’s new pay transparency law changes the rules for job postings
Virginia job seekers now have a right to know what a position pays before applying online under a new state law aimed at giving workers more leverage in hiring and salary negotiations.
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Meanwhile, the administration is SO bad at protecting the data it already has: ICE shared Medicaid records with Palantir, hackers breached Homeland Security twice in three months, and the NLRB deleted records of DOGE system access. It’s all in our timeline. 5/5 unbreaking.org/issues/data-...
Data Security — Unbreaking
Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.
unbreaking.org
Back in May 2025, Russell Vought canceled CFPB rules that would have protected credit data from sale to data brokers. @404media.co has a new interactive explainer of the consequences, showing exactly how your address gets into ICE’s hands. Thanks, we hate it. 4/5 www.404media.co/you-opened-a...
You Opened a Credit Card. ICE Now Knows Where You Live
Here's how your personal address travels from your credit card provider, through middlemen companies, and ends up with ICE.
404media.co
As judges continue to block DOJ efforts to take the states’ voter data, the administration is looking to pay commercial brokers for information to fuel ICE’s hunt for “fraud” in voting and immigration. 3/5 www.404media.co/ice-to-pay-t...
ICE to Pay Thomson Reuters $125 Million to Find ‘Voter Fraud’
A new procurement record says ICE wants access to personal data, including names, Social Security numbers, and ethnicity, to investigate in part what the agency calls “voters fraud.” It also plans to ...
404media.co
In other voting news, Trump’s prime-time claims that voter rolls are riddled with “noncitizens and dead people” were immediately refuted by state officials and election experts. 2/5 www.cbsnews.com/news/fact-ch...
Fact-checking Trump's speech on election security
President Trump delivered a speech on election security Thursday night at the White House. Here are the facts behind some of his claims.
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Have you heard about the DOJ’s uninterrupted cascade of failures to get any court to rule that they can seize unredacted state voter rolls? This week’s Data Security update adds losses in Connecticut, Virginia, New Mexico, West Virginia, and New York to our tally. 1/5 unbreaking.org/issues/data-...
Data Security — Unbreaking
Documenting damage and resistance. Unflooding the zone.
unbreaking.org
stg, there's an absolutely money platform to be had, running against data centers, Flock cameras, & scam texts
wow yes, everyone should read this. it does not have to be this way
Tressie McMillan Cottom@tressiemcphd.bsky.social · last wk.As good as many of you said. I really appreciate the unambiguous point that this primarily a racist moral panic before unpacking the nuanced second-order explanations. dannykatch.substack.com/p/we-used-to...
The SF marathoners are marathoning down Haight Street. 📸 @cydhayes.bsky.social
i've outrun more than a few wildfires in my time and i thought of typing up some advice on doing that but honestly what can i even say because. this many wildfires in regions that do not normally get wildfires like this is a direct result of bad policies and failure to act on climate change.
yes, I am absolutely the prototypical Warren voter, but I truly admire how the woman does not quit. she loses, she gets back up. whatever is available to work with, she works. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/25/u...
How a Housing Bill Trump Spurned Became Law
Despite partisan differences, intraparty feuds and the president’s lack of interest, Congress delivered the first major housing bill in a generation.
nytimes.com
Not the main point of this week's edition of @monteiro.bsky.social's newsletter, but a good and thing to keep in mind.
Monteiro@monteiro.bsky.social · 2w agoHere’s your Saturday morning read: “We’re all familiar with the Mister Rogers ‘look for the helpers’ talk. But it’s worth remembering that Mister Rogers was talking to children when he said that. And we’re no longer children.” buttondown.com/monteiro/arc...
should be fun to see what the parents who clone their kids' every text do with this 😬
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 2w agoDefinitionally, these are not “friends.”