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Jason Martens

@bitmaker_me

Trying to figure out how to live, or just trying to live. Not sure which yet. https://teapawt.net/t.co/nQJjXwbNrh 🐘https://teapawt.net/t.co/9ofdP7JFNb

 Berkeley, CA
Joined August 2007
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Steven Portnoy (@stevenportnoy) profile pictureSteven Portnoy
@stevenportnoy8 Dec 2022
BREAKING: Brittney Griner, the WNBA star who was sentenced to prison in Russia, has been freed in a prisoner-swap and is now in US custody, a US official tells @CBSNews.
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Ben Recht (@beenwrekt) profile pictureBen Recht@beenwrekt4 Dec 2022
It's deeply depressing that the killer app of contemporary machine learning is bullshit generation.
Nobel Peace Prize winner @mariaressa says social media has “come in and used free speech to stifle free speech.” #Colbert
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Massimo
@Rainmaker197327 Nov 2022
Retweet if you were part of one of those tiny first 4 bars. [source: buff.ly/3jWsfiC]
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Some photos to send you on your way.
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Thanks @tweetbot for making this place so much better.
I’m @bitmaker@mastadon.social. I learned a lot on here, thanks everyone for making this a special place.
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Alex Cohen
@anothercohen18 Nov 2022
I was laid off from Twitter this afternoon. I was in charge of managing badge access to Twitter offices. Elon just called me and asked if I could come back to help them regain access to HQ as they shut off all badges and accidentally locked themselves out.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This is a joke, as evidenced by the author's responses: twitter.com/anothercohen/s… twitter.com/anothercohen/s…
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zeynep tufekci
@zeynep17 Nov 2022
This is terrible. There is a day left for the world leaders at #COP27 to do the right thing and make sure he is on a plane to the UK now. I have all the leverage they need. iIt’s a choice.
Mona Seif (@Monasosh) profile pictureMona Seif@Monasosh17 Nov 2022
News from the visit are unsettling, @alaa deteriorated severely in the past 2 weeks, but atleast they got to see him, and he needed to see the family so much The family will share the full details later today, please bear with us #SaveAlaa #FreeAlaa
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Yes! Thank you @TaplinTerry for this and @benbartlett for down payment reparations. Let’s do this!
Terry Taplin🚰🏳️‍🌈🥑🌹🚲🚍✍️🏾 (@TaplinTerry) profile pictureTerry Taplin🚰🏳️‍🌈🥑🌹🚲🚍✍️🏾@TaplinTerry17 Nov 2022
To break cycles of poverty & combat recidivism, we must create economic opportunity for formerly incarcerated individuals. Public safety means investing in public wellness. berkeleyside.org/2022/11/16/… Thank you, @berkeleyside!
Opinion: Public safety means investing in public wellness

Opinion: Public safety means investing in public wellness

I am hopeful that my proposal for the newly-established Office of Racial Equity to develop employment services for the recently incarcerated and a Guaranteed Basic Income pilot program can reduce gun...

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This holiday season Twitter fires 4K workers, Amazon fires 10K workers, & Facebook fires 11K workers—all while US Billionaire pandemic wealth increased an absurd $1.7T.😳 A reminder that billionaires don’t create jobs—they exploit workers. Tax billionaires. Unionize workers.
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I would like to work for this person.
Bill Higgins (@BillHiggins) profile pictureBill Higgins@BillHiggins15 Nov 2022
🧵 I’ve been unpleasantly surprised that some people seem to condone the public criticism of employees and/or the public firing of an employee for responding to this criticism. Here are my thoughts on these topics, which I hope would be obvious to any decent leader. (1/22)
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If anyone is looking for GraphQL expertise, you will wait a long time to have this level of skill available again.
sasha solomon (@sachee) profile picturesasha solomon@sachee15 Nov 2022
lol just got fired for shitposting i said it before and i'll say it again kiss my ass elon 💋
PRESS RELEASE - Statment Regarding New Allegations of Serious Berkeley Police Department Misconduct
STATEMENT FROM VICE-CHAIR MIZELL* OF THE BERKELEY POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY BOARD* CALLING ON THE BERKELEY CITY COUNCIL TO DELAY THE CONFIRMATION OF INTERIM CHIEF LOUIS UNTIL A FULL INVESTIGATION OF ALLEGATIONS OF SEVERE BERKELEY POLICE MISCONDUCT Berkeley, CA: I have become aware of allegations of severe misconduct within the Berkeley Police Department. These allegations come from a former BPD officer. Currently, Interim Chief Jennifer Louis, who served as a Captain during the period of the alleged misconduct, is scheduled to be confirmed as the Permanent Chief of Police at a Berkeley City Council meeting tomorrow at 6 PM. The alleged misconduct includes text messages from Downtown Task Force/Bike Unit group chats with racist and anti-homeless statements and texts describing patterns of unlawful police practices. These include the establishment of arrest quotas, profiling, and rewards/punishments for arrest numbers.

ALT STATEMENT FROM VICE-CHAIR MIZELL* OF THE BERKELEY POLICE ACCOUNTABILITY BOARD* CALLING ON THE BERKELEY CITY COUNCIL TO DELAY THE CONFIRMATION OF INTERIM CHIEF LOUIS UNTIL A FULL INVESTIGATION OF ALLEGATIONS OF SEVERE BERKELEY POLICE MISCONDUCT Berkeley, CA: I have become aware of allegations of severe misconduct within the Berkeley Police Department. These allegations come from a former BPD officer. Currently, Interim Chief Jennifer Louis, who served as a Captain during the period of the alleged misconduct, is scheduled to be confirmed as the Permanent Chief of Police at a Berkeley City Council meeting tomorrow at 6 PM. The alleged misconduct includes text messages from Downtown Task Force/Bike Unit group chats with racist and anti-homeless statements and texts describing patterns of unlawful police practices. These include the establishment of arrest quotas, profiling, and rewards/punishments for arrest numbers.

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a friend's post about mastodon is really resonating w/ me this morning and is a good reason why I don't think the service is likely to gain a broad base of support: the decision to use it isn't based on UX, but rather, ideology cohost.org/tef/post/298638-s…
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Nathan 🔎
@NathanpmYoung13 Nov 2022
It was bond-villain-level arrogance to allow the author of the Big Short to follow you around while you did major financial crimes. teapawt.net/janicemin/status/15918…
Janice Min (@janicemin) profile pictureJanice Min@janicemin13 Nov 2022
Michael Lewis' next book is about Sam Bankman-Fried. Email from CAA confirms he has been embedded with him for last 6 months; note below was first sent to potential buyers for filmed rights. Scoop @TheAnkler theankler.com/p/hwood-ftx-fr…
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Elon Musk seems very determined to teach people that billionaires aren't any smarter than anyone else, that concentrations of wealth are bad for society and democracy, and that if millions of people band together we can kick billionaires' asses.
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it is demoralizing to know that you are a website's product but really energizing to know that you can be a really terrible product
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Another US election, another "Land doesn't vote, people do" style map showing the election results.
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Dave Itzkoff@ditzkoff9 Nov 2022
But they were, all of them, deceived, for another Check Mark was made. In the land of Mordor, in the fires of Mount Doom, a master Check Mark was forged in secret to control all others. And into this Check Mark he poured his cruelty, his malice and his will to dominate all life.
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