Applying for Minnedemo is simple: 1️⃣ Tell us about you/your team 2️⃣ Brag about what you built 3️⃣ Break down your tech stack 4️⃣ Record a quick video (unedited, under 5 minutes) 5️⃣ Click submit! That’s it. If you have MN-made tech, take ~20 minutes to apply by Sun, Aug 23! minnestar.org/minnedemo-apply/

My latest in @minnesotareformer.com, suggesting a sensible resolution of the dispute between Oak Grove and Anoka County over electronic voter rosters. minnesotareformer.com/2026/08/20/p...

Paper vs. electronic voter rosters: Who gets to decide? • Minnesota Reformer

Electronic rosters facilitate absentee-voting coordination and the updating of records.

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“I was asked not to mention the Times at all. I’m choosing not to honor that norm, b/c silence abt how accountability journalism gets suppressed is itself a form of suppression.” Read the back story of how @nytimes.com and @thebulwark.com killed @adambonica.bsky.social’s piece. What a mf badass.

With Fear and Favor

Institutions don’t have courage. They have incentives.

data4democracy.substack.com

"This isn’t just meant to stop liberals from engaging in anti-ICE activism. It’s meant to destroy trust among activists, who must now constantly worry about whether HSI has infiltrated them. It’s meant to drive out of public life anyone the administration disfavors." — @snipy.bsky.social

DHS's abuse of power in Minnesota was even worse than we knew

It's the stuff of East Germany.

publicnotice.co

Sometimes dystopias look like the collapse of civilizations. Sometimes they're a rule about finding a spouse before you turn into an animal. @mbyrd.bsky.social and @leahschnelbach.bsky.social on dystopian films that rely on a single premise:

8 Dystopian Movie Worlds Built on One Weird Rule - Reactor

Welcome to the world of "single-premise dystopias," where one bizarre rule governs everything

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today i'm playing POWDER. what follows is a live play with design thoughts.

This new study from @adambonica.bsky.social on how Democratic spam PACs “hook and squeeze” vulnerable elderly donors is so disturbing—starting with the opening disclaimer that both the NYT & Bulwark declined to publish it after a year of legal review.

Hook and Squeeze

How Democratic consultants, committees, and party leaders built a fundraising spam pipeline that funnels money from a captive pool of elderly donors into their own operations.

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Some squiggly guys (can you guess the rule?)

I don’t know why everyone is ragging on this. Saying you’re embarrassed to be from Minnesota and can’t wait to leave is a fantastic political campaign strategy and she should definitely do more of it

@wdavisx3.bsky.social · 5d ago

Reminder that Michele Tafoya doesn’t even want to be in Minnesota

What have I been up to lately? Oh, not much, just a little thing called...gender-bent Richard III generation novella! Okay actually we call it THAT FATAL DISCONTENT and it's coming to you NEXT SUMMER FROM UNION SQUARE!

Ardyce Alspach@ardyce.bsky.social · 6d ago

Shakespeare and Sci-Fi and disability justice LFG! Welcome to the UNSQ family @marissalingen.bsky.social!

MN, please vote for Peggy Flanagan today or tomorrow! Angie Craig who voted to thank ICE is trying to buy this race, and we have done way too much to protect our neighbors to let her win

Last night I saw a massive scooter gang riding through the streets of Minneapolis, lights on in the dark, laughing and whooping, and it was glorious, and I felt so lucky to be in my city. I had seen the video from the person who was afraid, and it didn't look scary, but: even less scary in person.

The possibility of unauthorized blank ballots is having one of its periodic flare-ups as a topic of concern. So let me repost what I wrote four years ago. minnesotareformer.com/2022/07/11/e...

🦒 Fun fact: this is the actual giraffe sequenced! His name is Fenn and he lives at the Cincinnati Zoo. Photo credit: Lisa Hubbard. More Fenn info: cincinnatizoo.org/happy-world-...

every three months, somewhere in the world, an indie game maker accidentally recreates quaker silent worship while trying to come up with a new 1-page TTRPG.

YES! It is my author copies of A DUBIOUS CLAMOR! Dreadfully hot humid day but WHO CARES I HAVE MY BOOK

In CoralScript, text is encoded as plant-like arrangements of hexagonal tiles codeberg.org/lipwig/coral...

senator hoffman has released a new statement regarding angie craig’s actions towards him, released via EMQ’s Facebook: she is so cooked

They did kill another person. And hurt dozens more. And we are collectively harmed by his choices. But we're still here, and he isn't.

daviss@daviss.org · 4w ago

"You’ve got 3,000 law enforcement agents that are fixin’ to lock this city down,” We’re going to pacify this place, we’re going to roll ‘em up." "They’re going to kill someone else,” a prosecutor on the call said later. Others agreed." removepaywalls.com/5/https://ww...

I’ve had a great couple days teaching at Alpha Young Writer’s Workshop. The students have stunning voices, great (and wicked) senses of humor, bracing eagerness and intellectual curiosity. We have a lot to look forward to.

Early in my career I was called on to figure out what the hell was wrong with a FORTRAN program which had worked just fine for years, but when a contractor updated some formulas, it stopped working.

SMD@anothersmd.bsky.social · last yr.

what are some absurd work situations you can share? once i got called into a meeting i had nothing to do with because the consultant brought an engineer and no one in the room could understand him, so they asked me to translate. he was scouse. i translated from english to english.

Niele Toroni, Imprints of a No. 50 Paintbrush Repeated at Regular Intervals of 30 cm, 1971 https://botfrens.com/collections/14377/contents/1137352

We are within two months of my book launch, which means it's time to.....invite my ice cream lady to the launch party! I mean, if you decide it's ALSO time to preorder, great, here's the link: hornedlarkpress.com/product/a-du... But Barb has fueled SO MANY WORDS of mine over the years, so. Party.

Actually, things were at their best during the last year of my life when I had no responsibilities. COMIC ◆ www.smbc-comics.com/comic/poof PATREON ◆ www.patreon.com/ZachWeinersm... STORE ◆ smbc-store.myshopify.com

This is one dystopian-ass future we are cooking up in which our tools will not allow us to look for bugs.

Liz Fong-Jones (方禮真)@lizthegrey.com · last mo.

so no, it won't help write new fuzzers, even for the blue team, but it is happy to do fixes.

The smoke is really intense out there Did not realize it would get this bad today when I rode my bike to happy hour.

Moth@walkingminnesota.com · last mo.

Smoke at the Stone Arch Minneapolis, MN 7/15/26

I will start taking solar-powered data centers in space seriously once the ones here on earth come with solar power installed on-site.

Reuters@reuters.com · last mo.

Elon Musk's xAI has installed more than double the number of gas turbines than it has publicly acknowledged to power its Colossus 2 data center project, without federal permits, and the pollution is hitting predominantly Black neighborhoods the hardest reut.rs/4bIghEm

if your response to “users aren’t dumb, they have their own motivations and incentives and it’s good to try to understand those when you make software you want people to use” is “well actually, users are dumb” I’m sorry, but you are part of the problem

Good morning! Did you have good dreams? Here's my new story about a practical dreamer in a world not too far away from ours, in this morning's @morningtransport.bsky.social ! www.sundaymorningtransport.com/p/the-seed-o...

The Seed of a New Dream

Every July, we bring you four great, free, Sunday Morning short stories!

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