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David Brauer

@dbrauer.net

Former journalist, long-time Minneapolitan, curator of Uptown’s borders and chief rememberer, Halloween Blizzard of 1991. Amplifier & participant in the Minnesota Resistance.

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taylr@taylordahlin.com · 2h ago

new PAC in hennepin county attorney race: safe and just hennepin registered on friday and will be working to elect anders folk. due to timing, only large pre-election contributions are being reported. majority are coming from california haven't seen a launch yet taylordahlin.com/f/who-is-fun...

Who is funding Safe and Just Hennepin PAC to elect Anders Folk?

A new PAC has been registered called Safe and Just Hennepin to elect Anders Folk for Hennepin County Attorney. Due to the timing, having registered on July 31, there are only large pre-election contri...

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David Brauer@dbrauer.net · 3h ago

[Today’s poster’s madness includes “Riff on Kendal“ Day] This is why I call Almanac, the Strib editorial page, the old-guard Senior Caucus “The Lagging Indicators” - despite the fact that we can learn from the past, status quo forces will always tumble for a circumscribed nostalgia

Kendal Killian@kedrickillian.bsky.social · 3h ago

Name a Minnesota political pundit and I will tell you which election they lost to move them from being relevant to being a pundit. Why are losers seen as credible? When you lose it means the voters are rejecting your point of view. Yet on the Almanac couch your rejected perspective lives forever.

Alex Schieferdecker@alexschief.bsky.social · 3h ago

Minneapolis Public Schools is looking for bicycle mechanics (or even just enthusiastic volunteers) to help tune up the district's fleet so that they are ready for 4th/5th grade bike education this fall! Drop-in sessions are open from August 10-19, basically all day. Sign up here: bit.ly/mpsbike

2026 Summer Bike Maintenance Sign-Up

Help us get MPS bike fleets ready for next school year! Please indicate your availability below and MPS will be in touch with more directions. Thank you! Where? Northeast Minneapolis- precise direct...

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David Brauer@dbrauer.net · 3h ago

This part finally connected the usefulness I feel when I dabble with AI and the dread I feel when confronting it writ large

From Doctorow’s piece: The other question Suresh implicitly raises is: "How can you reconcile the failure of Al in the enterprise with the individual claims of skilled technologists who insist that Al is helping them do great work?" The answer is that these Al users are "centaurs" - experienced workers who are assisted by automation on terms that they set for themselves. Thanks to their skill and experience, these workers possess discernment, the ability to tell good code from bad, and (more importantly) good uses of code-generation tools from bad. They demonstrate the adage that worker-driven automation improves quality, while capital-driven automation improves throughput. An automation technique that requires close supervision by skilled and experienced workers isn't going to be a raw productivity powerhouse. You don't "100x" your code this way, at least, not in the sense of firing 99 of your coders and having the remaining programmer pick up all their work. Rather, an automation tool that requires the continuous and conscientious exercise of discernment will let individual practitioners improve their work in extremely satisfying and useful ways. It's a way to spend more on operations in order to produce better outputs. It's not a way to cut your workforce, realise a gigantic saving, and still produce comparable goods and services at a far lower cost. That is why some individual coders report such delight with their Al tools. They engage with those tools on their own terms, to improve their work in the ways that they, in their expert judgment, consider beneficial. No one ranks them on a "token-maximisation" scoreboard. No one tells them they can't do a project if it isn't "sufficiently AI". When they set out to do a project, no one makes them prove that it couldn't be "done by AI"
Mike Spangenberg@mikespangenberg.bsky.social · 3h ago

I’m presdisposed to Doctorow’s position here, but this really resonates: “It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs” www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...

David Brauer@dbrauer.net · 4h ago

Guess I’ll be part of the Kaohly Her whisper campaign but a St. Paul knower confides maybe the police aren’t making shit up, they’re just the only department with the political cover to go public. Ask your St. Paul government friends if Her’s treatment of colleagues and underlings goes beyond SPPD.

David Brauer@dbrauer.net · 4h ago

Nothing Kendal says is wrong, but a lot of this is on politicians. Republicans won’t even do town halls; Amy Klobuchar won’t be caught dead campaigning in a room that might contain lefties. So moderate Dems and most Republicans limit these “bipartisan” gatherings to the safest, whitest spaces.

Kendal Killian@kedrickillian.bsky.social · 4h ago

Farmfest is ridiculously over covered by the Minnesota political news media. The traditional Minnesota campaign calendar centers rural, white folks in a state that increasingly not. Rural areas less and less white, and the state is less and less rural. Yet for two days nothing else matters.

David Brauer@dbrauer.net · 4h ago

I know El-Sayed won college towns, but Michiganders are gonna have school me on why folks say he will lose non-metro-Detroit so badly when he seems to have won the UP and several other counties …

Michigan map showing what the skeet says
Mark Wasson@reportermark.bsky.social · 4h ago

A camp defender tells me this guy was walking around on one the camp’s flanks threatening to arrest people, which is a weird thing to tell people when you aren’t a cop. His shirts says he’s with the St. Paul Fire Inspector.

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David Brauer@dbrauer.net · 4h ago

Strib’s Rochelle Olson gives a full-throated defense of Kaohly Her, based on Olson’s suspicion of the St. Paul PD’s motivations. There’s some there there, but I wouldn’t term the Her allegations a “whisper campaign,” since a lot of the evidence is out in the open. www.startribune.com/st-paul-mayo...

Olson: Why I’m suspicious of the Kaohly Her allegations ― and you should be, too

"We’re supposed to believe that it was Her, not the nature of the weekly gathering itself, that sexualized the otherwise serious tone of 'Weiner Wednesday'?" columnist Rochelle Olson asks.

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David Brauer@dbrauer.net · 7h ago

Almost all Polymarket bettors had El Sayed winning by 15 points plus yesterday, so the crowds weren’t wiser than (some) polls. Pretty much the same on Kalshi.

Chart showing almost all polymarket bettors picking El-Sayed. Kalshi chart with orange line (El Sayed 15 points plus victory) by far the most popular option before polls closed.
David Brauer@dbrauer.net · 7h ago

Hopefully Dems unite in Michigan but I suspect a lot of moderates are gonna have to work through the “but he didn’t cover the spread” cope first.

David Brauer@dbrauer.net · 16h ago

“I will vote for Julie Le, who took a principled stance during Metro Surge, when she was serving as Assistant Chief Counsel at the Department of Homeland Security.” (In case you forgot: www.startribune.com/federal-lawy...)

Federal lawyer tells judge ‘job sucks’ amid overload of immigration cases, court violations

Attorney Julie Le joked to a federal judge that she wanted to be held in contempt of court so she could get a "full 24 hours of sleep."

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Walter Mondale’s Ghost 🇺🇸🇩🇪🇺🇦🇨🇦☦️@ghostofmondale.bsky.social · 17h ago

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David Brauer@dbrauer.net · yesterday

Facebook copaholics are whinging that Mary Moriarty set public safety back “a generation” and I wanna say “didn’t sending innocent black men to prison, allowing flagged cops to testify in court cases & blind-eying decades of law enforcement abuses do that?”