Designing a High-Stakes Scavenger Hunt Without Collecting a Single Byte of PII For the 2025 National Sports Card Convention, we partnered with eBay and Edelman to design and build a large-scale interactive booth…

I wrote this nerdy article on designing security systems for a event scavenger hunt 🤓 medium.com/@cognitionin...

The American president is more insulated from accountability than a British royal.

Our political system provides the elite with immunity. It has to change.

I already wrote “You can’t erase us” when they took the “T” from the stonewall monument. Now they’re taking the pride flag as well. Donate to our music video campaign today: alana.sh/gofundme

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You Can’t Erase Us by Alana Balagot feat. The Trans Chorus of Los Angeles - single release March 31. Look for our music video crowdfunding campaign on Feb 3!

Without accountability ICE is a state sponsored killing squad. Congress DO SOMETHING.

two images of an arrest, one digitally altered by the White House to make it look like the arrestee is crying

This is the first example I’ve seen of an American government using AI to meaningfully misrepresent actual events with the intent to deceive the public. We are at Stalinesque levels of propaganda.
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Tonight, the President of the United States has launched an unconstitutional war of aggression, dooming another generation to spill their blood for oil, and lay waste to a sovereign nation.

I demand that Congress exercise its power, halt this conflict, and impeach this war criminal president.

Rental car companies: what if we all merge and have 5 different desks and one employee for all of them?

IOS 26. In non-editable text, where did “Select All” go? It’s driving me crazy

I don’t need a microwave or fridge in my hotel, what I really need is an ironing board and a bible

My kingdom for software that lets me move the save window on mac

LADWP: We changed your name back to your deadname because that's what experian has.
Experian: To change your name, send a copy of your utility bill with your new name.
OK BUT...

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just an utter joke of a court.

Hot take: Wicked is a clever thought experiment and retelling that when fully realized, probably shouldn’t have been a novel, musical and movie.
“The people need someone wicked.” Really?

Happy trans awareness week! I’m not sure if you knew this, but I’m trans. Idiot

Websockets are totally unreliable on ipad. I have code that works on mac, windows, ios. On ipadOS, eventually the websockets start failing. I've tried ping/pong, resetting the connection, acknowledge messages, but they are just unreliable. Even worse in a PWA. Never again

I called a Waymo and didn’t cancel it and now I have a car terminator chasing me until the end of time

Hey @cedars-sinai.bsky.social sex assigned at birth and sex on ID can be two different things. In the CS connect app

Supreme Court Live Updates: Justices Seem Set to Rule Against Colorado’s Ban on Conversion Therapy

Torture is free speech, right? www.nytimes.com/live/2025/10...

Nexstar and Sinclair are too powerful. Break them up.

Trump says he’d consider banning LGBTQ+ Pride flags in alarming Oval Office exchange The president was responding to a question by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's boyfriend, Brian Glenn, who said many people were “threatened” by the inclusive banner.

Saying pride flags are symbols of domestic terrorism sounds outrageous until it’s repeated enough that it’s not. Don’t let that happen. www.yahoo.com/news/article...

AirPods’ Conversation Awareness turns down music and noise canceling when it hears you talking. It’s a neat feature but it makes you realize how much you talk to yourself

you know what? fuck it. theremin mode. github.com/samhenrigold...

Did you know your MacBook has a sensor that knows the exact angle of the screen hinge?

It’s not exposed as a public API, but I figured out a way to read it and make it sound like an old wooden door.

I don’t get some of these @duolingoverde.bsky.social chess puzzles. I’m supposed to sacrifice my queen and rook for a rook and a check?

Fried eggs should be runny unless you’re putting them on a sandwich, in which case, why did you do that, I need a tarp, a change of clothes, 30 minutes and a pair of rubber gloves to clean this up

Ai progress has been stunning, it only took 2 years to get AI Hitler!