Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈

Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈

@dataandpolitics.net

Data and Politics. Engineer, then academic, now engineer again. Daytime is AI/ML research. I care a lot about the open Internet and security. Wikipedia administrator. Very San Francisco with an ATLien heart. A widow who misses their husband. 🏳️‍🌈

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Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈
@dataandpolitics.net

Three years after my husband died, I’m still trying to prove our life together was worth losing his family. What I live with isn’t forgetting — it’s the blurring of memory. On the third anniversary, I wrote about grief, memory, and continuing without answers. www.dataandpolitics.net/the-blurring/

dataandpolitics.netThe BlurringWhat I live with isn't forgetting, it's the blurring. A meditation on grief, memory, and continuing without answers three years after loss.
Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈
@dataandpolitics.net

!!!!

Greg Bluestein@bluestein.bsky.social

Sen. Jon Ossoff leads Republican Rep. Mike Collins 48-40 in the new @ajc.com poll, with 12% undecided. He’s crushing the Republican among independent and moderate voters, and he’s done a better job of consolidating his base voters than Collins has. #gapol www.ajc.com/politics/202...

ajc.comAJC poll: Jon Ossoff leads Mike Collins in Georgia’s U.S. Senate raceDemocratic incumbent Jon Ossoff leads among women, Black voters and younger Georgians, according to a new AJC poll of the state's U.S. Senate race.

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William B. Fuckley
@opinionhaver.bsky.social

which message will resonate with voters: let's talk better mileage, or my opponent deserved her childhood sexual abuse, which she is also lying about.

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Jane Coaston
@janecoaston.bsky.social

Very curious as to who paid for this ad as I think they might be the single worst person to ever live. tiffinohio.net/posts/acton-...

tiffinohio.netAmy Acton’s mother defended husband accused of raping her daughter at 12. Now she’s in a pro-Ramaswamy attack ad.Acton’s brother is speaking out after their estranged mother appeared in a political attack accusing his sister of lying about her childhood. He says their mother remained married to the man who sexua...
Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈
@dataandpolitics.net

Canadians returning from living overseas are ineligible for provincial healthcare plans and have to pay 100% out of pocket, including emergency care.

Sky Marchini@sky.skymarchini.net

also, and I know this is not the point, but knowing a few canadians IRL: their healthcare system kinda sucks. it's not transferable between provinces without a 3 month waiting period (and for short trips, for quebec), it doesn't cover most drugs, and then there's the "you should kill yourself" thing

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Schooley
@schooley.bsky.social
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

Trump on Jon Husted: "I don't do this with men very often. I started examining his body, because I didn't know he was a great athlete ... I looked at his ass"

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Luis Villa
@lu.is

Replying to @lu.is

good news: doing the homework on this is easier than ever: I put together 20 years of my writing on this, and surveyed a bunch of new references, into a research agenda better news: implementing those ideas has never been easier bad news: breaking through the noise to build usage and community 👀

Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈
@dataandpolitics.net

Since he passed, one of the things that has surprised me the most is how often people assume talking about him is painful to me. I love talking about him and sharing about him. But he comes up so rarely these days. I wish people knew it’s okay to talk about the dead.

Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈
@dataandpolitics.net

These last few weeks have been some of the craziest in my life. I’ve been averaging two hours of sleep a night. Some days working two days back. But god damn it I built something real.

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Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈
@dataandpolitics.net

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Also: could anyone recommend any California-based probate lawyers who are kind and caring? My previous lawyer is too busy to help. I need help expensing to these institutions what a California spousal property petition is. CC: @joshchafetz.bsky.social

Data Bear 🏳️‍🌈
@dataandpolitics.net

A few things: I hope it doesn’t happen to you, but at some point you’re going to have to deal with a financial institutions team dedicated to handling progresses related to dead people. They are going to be the most bored, soulless humans on earth. It is going to make you feel so deeply sad.

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James Ball
@jamesrball.com

Exit, pursued by a fucking bear

Mark Wallace@wallaceme.bsky.social

Ok don’t let’s get carried away but I found something genuinely good on Threads.

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Rochelle
@uberwensch.bsky.social

Replying to @t8erboi.bsky.social

idk if I'm overreacting, but Tinder implementing "astrology mode" really freaks me out actually