Frank W. Lewis

NO NO NO YOU DON’T

GUYS LET ME PLEASE SPREAD THE GOSPEL OF FREE TAX USA

federal is free, state is $16, handles even my chaotic freelancer taxes just fine, same step-by-step “designed for normies” kind of interface as TurboTax but NOT EVIL

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Same thing they did when George W. Bush showed a photo of himself looking for Iraq’s WMD behind the curtains in the Oval Office — laugh.

Who is searching Cleveland’s license plate reader photos? Police from across Northeast Ohio and as far away as Texas searched the database of license plate reader images in January.

While we haggled over that, police prepared a similar report for City Council and that’s clearly a public record. It’s not everything I sought, but we’ll keep chipping away at the city’s intention to reveal as little as possible about its surveillance tech. signalcleveland.org/cleveland-po...

A few months ago, I asked the City of Cleveland for logs showing who is accessing its #Flock license plate reader images and why. They rejected the request on the grounds that state law exempts the images from public records requests. But I wasn’t asking for images …

If Paul dies I may never recover

A photo showing some sort of camera attached to a traffic signal in Cleveland.

What kind of camera is this? I know that Cleveland has #Flock license plate readers but I can’t find other photos of this model online.

I’m genuinely baffled by the idea that reporting and writing are completely separate pursuits and the latter can be automated

Hear me out: Weird Al, with surprise appearances by some of the artists whose songs he parodied.

Professor Tolkien as well

They’re not all in for next season, and I’m OK with that. Howie’s planning for ’27.

I watched from my home in Ohio and drove out for the parade with my oldest son. One of the best weeks of my life.

What police surveillance technology looks like in Cleveland Video cameras and license plate readers are just some of the surveillance tools Cleveland police are using across the city.

Everything I learn about Cleveland police use of surveillance tech raises more questions. My latest for Signal Cleveland but certainly not the last on this topic. (Bonus: an anecdote about Cleveland’s role in popularizing surveillance nearly 70 years ago.) signalcleveland.org/what-police-...

Tanisha's Law to change Cleveland mental health crisis response The law creates a new role in the Division of Emergency Medical Services to oversee response to calls about people in mental health crisis.

So many people are deeply cynical about politics and government, and with good reason, so it’s important to talk about the wins. A lot of people worked hard for several years to achieve this goal. They succeeded because they simply refused to give up. signalcleveland.org/cleveland-ci...

The difference between Republicans and Democrats In Iowa, a former congressman sums up the core — and stark — difference.

Former GOP congressman JC Watt said one of the most eye-opening things I’ve ever read about American politics: Republicans believe people are fundamentally bad.
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I don’t understand why he doesn’t just tweak the ACA, call it Trumpcare and insist that it’s completely different and better. Would congressional Republicans really reject that?

Or read Tolkien and came away thinking Morgoth and Sauron raised valid points.

A Boston terrier wearing a gray hoodie on a white and pink blanket.

This guy is ready to lead an army of fellow Boston terrors to bite the ankles of fascists accompanied by Dropkick Murphys music.

That’s fair, but I think it’s a worthy companion to the original that expands on the story in ways I never saw coming.

It’s a sequel but also provides info about the first mission from the aliens’ point of view. It’s crushing and beautiful.

The Sparrow and Children of God by @mdoriarussell.bsky.social . I’ll need about $1b but it’ll be one of the best sci-fi series ever made.

Can personal AI accounts be hacked and mimicked? Because it seems like that would be an especially effective way to influence certain people without them ever knowing.

Reading court filings for a story and came across this at the end of an affidavit: “FURTHER AFFIANT SAYETH NAUGHT.” I love legalese.

In the Name of The Father of The Bride

I can't think of two songs that capture the current moment better than "Life During Wartime" and "Nothing But Flowers"

David Byrne saw the future

It's amazing how so many billionaires - who have WAY more money than they could possibly need in 500 lifetimes - REALLY want to avoid paying small slivers of tax money to benefit a common good like social safety services for less fortunate countrymen within the society that made them billionaires.

Eagles fan here, I want to be mad at this but I can’t, just an embarrassing loss

Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out A new Gmail update may allow Google to use your private messages and attachments for AI training. Here's how to turn it off.

Check those Gmail settings!

i think if you want to have those disgusting LED headlights on your car, you should have to do a test where they blast you point blank with your own headlights and then you have 15 seconds to successfully complete some sort of vision-based task, and if you can't do it they push your car off a cliff

I’m an Eagles fan who lives in Cleveland and I don’t know how to explain to my Browns fan friends why so many of us constantly agonize over winning