Tim Dooley
@tdooley.bsky.social
Now: public safety policy for Oregon Counties Then: policing manager & data nerd, firefighter / EMT MPA & MCJ from UCCS
The skirmish on the banks of the Willamette River is another reminder that our cities have become the stepchildren of a state government that continues to claim the lion’s share of revenues from economic growth, columnist Tim Nesbitt writes. buff.ly/RLj32tg
Skirmish on banks of the Willamette reminds us Oregon cities face challenging fiscal future • Oregon Capital Chronicle
Oregon's state government claims most revenues from economic growth, leaving localities to cope with civic needs of growing populations.
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Without saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20?
Gandalf: The Great Battle of Our Time
ALT: Gandalf: The Great Battle of Our Time
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B. A. Friedman@bafriedman.bsky.social · 2w agoWithout saying your age, what is your favorite movie that came out when you were 20?
I don’t think there’s really even a colorable argument that this isn’t mass murder. theintercept.com/2026/09/02/m...
The U.S. Has Killed 227 Civilians in Boat Strikes During “A Year of Murders”
“The boat strikes are, perhaps, the most stark testament to the lawlessness of the Trump administration.”
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Recovery from disasters takes years & often loses focus from those in power as new problems crop up. People understand the response phase. Recovery is different beast. In Oregon we created state Individual and Public Assistance programs, but we’ve yet to fund them. That’s what I’m working on now.
Andrew Rumbach@andrewrumbach.bsky.social · 2w agoDisaster relief is often concentrated in the early days after disasters, but the financial stress can last for months or years. In our newest research article, we share findings from in-depth interviews with 20 families impacted by Hurricane Helene: www.urban.org/research/pub...
On Sunday, parents across the five boroughs got a night to themselves while NY's Cutest enjoyed free activities with NYC Parks staff at select recreation centers. Free & accessible child care doesn’t just make our city more affordable — it gives parents time to rest, recharge, or enjoy a night out.
The Cut@thecut.com · 4w agoThis past weekend, New York City launched its first Parents’ Night Out, a new initiative by Mayor Zohran Mamdani to give families four hours of free babysitting. It was a hit.
Admittedly a risk I hadn’t considered. Naively I assumed that our contractual rights to our data would suffice. But if the vendor just goes belly up and takes your data offline, what’s the remedy? Especially worrisome in the era of digital evidence that is stored in a vendor-owned cloud.
Waldo Jaquith@waldo.net · last mo.A St. Louis PBS station stored their 50 TB station archives at an Iron Mountain facility, via a subcontractor, which probably gave them lots of security and redundancy. But the subcontractor went under, and now they have lost access to their archives. It turns out their contract had no redundancy.
When Portland renumbered the city in the 1930’s the city paid for everyone to get new address tiles to mount to your house. It’s an iconic “old Portland” thing. Several companies sell replacements and even new construction homes sometimes put the “old tiles” on. everetthomesnw.com/construction...
Construction Monday - Tile House Numbers - Everett Custom Homes
When you’re out and about in Portland’s neighborhoods, have you ever noticed the white tile house numbers seen on homes all over town? There’s a great story behind those ceramic...Read more
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Marcin Wichary@aresluna.org · last mo.I was hoping for your help with something. (Please RT for reach.) Is there a particular font that’s instantly recognizable to someone who lives where you do, and appreciated/recognized/hated there, but completely unknown elsewhere? Road signs, street names, transit, infrastructure, stuff like that?
“…this life is too damn short to headbang so infrequently.” What a great and true sentiment 🤘 (Also agreed that it’s been a while since a great album has come out. Still think it’s 1) Master of Puppets 2) Black Album 3) Garage Inc (I know, I know, I just really like it ok?))
Leah Sottile@leahsottile.bsky.social · last mo.About ten years ago, I started experimenting with the idea of writing letters as a storytelling form. This year at Pickathon, I read two letters I've written to Metallica (and never sent) that are about a lot more than just their music. Weird, I know. leahsottile.substack.com/p/74-letters...
We’re going to lose an entire city to wildfire in the PNW at some point sooner rather than later and we are not prepared for what that looks like.
This is wildly unethical. It’s just experimenting on kids to line the pockets of grifters. I cannot conceive of my child’s school doing this and would be livid that they’d outsourced screening for a learning disability on reading to a machine.
Stephen Owens@stephenjowens.bsky.social · 2mo agoJust found out the state of Georgia has contracted with an AI chat bot to screen for dyslexia K-3. Asked my daughter about it and she said “oh yeah I have talked to her a lot.”
If the “Big One” — the anticipated massive Cascadia Subduction Zone earthquake — hit today, Oregonians west of the Cascades would be luckiest to find themselves at the recently-retrofitted state Capitol in Salem or on the roof of the new terminal at the Portland International Airport
Regional earthquake experts say more coordination, investment needed to prepare for ‘Big One’ • Oregon Capital Chronicle
Critical transportation, water and fuels corridor plans ahead of devastating region-wide earthquake need more urgent attention, experts said.
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Chicago, Toronto, and East Coast having the orange wildfire sky of doom. West Coast & Mountain West:
First Time Meme: Man with Noose
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I will die on the hill that govtech sucks because of a lack of state capacity and an IT environment captured by vendors. This is doubly true at the state and municipal level. If Mamdani can build 18F at a city level, we should all be watching and thinking about how to do this in our states.
Don Moynihan@donmoyn.bsky.social · 2mo agoNew w @pamherd.bsky.social: Mamdani just announced PIT Crew — an NYC tech unit that will build digital public products. Takeaway: Mamdani is reclaiming a vision of tech in govt for progressives, one not driven by consultants and which solves real problems. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/mamdani-in...
So, I hope this isn’t the conclusion we get to with AI. (Nothing against Dr. Hess, I just hope he’s wrong). Asynchronous online courses are the only way I was able to do grad school and work full time. If we give up on that modality, we’re eliminating a ton of students from higher ed.
Andrew Heiss@andrew.heiss.phd · 2mo agowoof ≈80% of assignments this summer term have essentially been just raw chatgpt/claude output, including assignments that required designing stuff in illustrator/affinity/canva. The battle is lost for asynchronous online courses.
ICYMI - Noteworthy move by the city of Salem.
City of Salem sues FEMA, DHS, citing federal overreach in disaster relief funding - Salem Reporter
In a lawsuit filed Tuesday, the city of Salem said conditions within federal grants providing critical money to repair damages from the 2025 winter flood include unlawful terms limiting local diversit...
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Two things can be simultaneously true: local govt needs to continue to find technological innovations as resources shrink - and we do not usually have sufficient internal capacity to evaluate technology before investment. Also, we’re not always great at red teaming our own ideas and seeing risks.
Matthew Guariglia@mguariglia.bsky.social · 3mo agoThis is the side of the story you don't hear because it's not often in police press releases or glossy local news stories about police "innovation." The truth is, a lot of the tech they roll out with fanfare ends up getting scrapped because it's not that useful to anyone.
I’ve wondered why this was this way for years. As in so many things, the explanation is the silliest possible reason. Thank you @adrianna.bsky.social for sharing and resolving this nerd history problem in my brain.
Adrianna McIntyre@adrianna.bsky.social · 3mo agoOne of my favorite bits of health policy apocrypha is why we call it CMS instead of CMMS theincidentaleconomist.com/wordpress/wh...
The "hydration break" really is a perfect American capitalist innovation: a nakedly commercial play to insert more ad revenue into a game that doesn't have ads anywhere else in the world, all under the guise of some humanitarian interest in the players' wellbeing.
WELCOME TO WASHINGTON, SOCCER FANS. Get acquainted with our state via this highly accurate and mostly-to-scale map.
"Fossil fuels are now intermittent and uncertain... Renewables, thanks to batteries, have become actually pretty constant given the sun rises every morning." www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/i...
How the Strait of Hormuz standoff flipped the energy security debate
Iran's influence over the strategically vital Strait of Hormuz has inadvertently transformed the energy security debate.
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I see we’ve come full circle
Roger Parloff@rparloff.bsky.social · 4mo agoBad-ass Pope Leo XIV bitch-slaps Pete Hegseth, while inviting @anthropic.com co-founder @colah.bsky.social to his press conference: "[I]t is not permissible to entrust lethal or otherwise irreversible decisions to artificial systems." www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
Voting by mail is basically the best. I sit down with my ballot at home, make choices, drop it off, and then I get fun text messages about its journey along the way. Sadly no stickers this way. Plus side, getting to talk my kindergartner through how voting works and letting her ask questions!
Ian Adams (and friends) coming off the top rope for AI police report writing. As usual, he reads my mind and then says it in a smarter way.
Andrew Guthrie Ferguson@profferguson.bsky.social · 4mo agoInteresting study on AI assisted police reports. www.crimrxiv.com/pub/u7azgqzd...