Matthew Chapman

@fawfulfan.bsky.social

Game programmer, reporter at @rawstory.com, author, elections nerd, devoted husband. Proudly on the spectrum. All opinions are my own.

For years now, Emmett Till's name has been misspelled on a Pokémon GO stop on the South Side of Chicago. Tonight I finally managed to submit a correction through the app while passing under it on a Red Line train.

Funny thing after September 11: I kept getting stopped at the airport b/c somehow the government confused me with a blind, Irish terrorist. And even after they confirmed that I was not in fact, a blind Irish terrorist, I kept getting upgraded to first class to sit next to the U.S. Marshal.

Kevin Collins@kwcollins.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Birthdate and name matches are causing US Citizens to get arrested in error by ICE as they board airplanes. This is the same level of rigor they're bringing to claims of fraudulent voting, and is obvious as an error-prone method to anyone who has taken an introductory stats class.