Phildini, since young times

California has spent over $400 million in settlements for Law Enforcement misconduct since 2010. I know because I built a site to track it: captainacab.com We're updating every week, and slowly expanding across the country. (boosts welcome)

The Sunday update for captainacab.com is live. Tracking: $509,186,964.85 in law enforcement misconduct settlements in CA $552,148,956.19 nationwide.

72 hours post top surgery feeling

I know some folks here follow me from #alamtg / #alameda life. ARPD has decided it's a good time to host an 18+ Harry Potter Night, this November. You can tell them why this is a bad idea: arpd@alamedaca.gov While you're at it, Alameda's last paper of record: editor@alamedapost.com (boosts = 🙇‍♂️)

This moment in time feels right to share the story of how I once spent _days_ trying to figure out where my personal homepage was hosted before eventually figuring out I shoved the whole thing into a custom 404 response in my CDN config. Over a decade strong and never needed a patch.

web developer: oh hey you guys are back early infra: four's haunted web developer: what? infra: *loading a pistol and getting back on the computer* four's haunted

You might have heard of the security vulnerability that came out today. I'm pleased to announce the CivicBand has updated all our services with the released fixes. Additionally, users of our packages should update to the latest, patched versions: pypi.org/project/clerk-fetche...

Titane (2021)

I attempted to post captainacab.com to Reddit and got auto-rejected. What do we think Reddit objects to? Law Enforcement? Misconduct? ACAB?

I continue to believe that one of the very simplest and cheapest ways to radically improve America would be to make Police Departments pay for their own misconduct settlements instead of making cities and states pay it

Aella is basically Ghislaine Maxwell for silicon valley and I hope we get ahead of that before one of her clients fills the US government with co-conspirators

I hate when things call themselves "Faith" and actually mean "Christian" 😑

Hey, does anyone here consider themselves Good™ at #Grafana and wants to spend like half an hour on a call with me helping me be Good™ for the sake of @civic.band ? I'm trying the @glyph.im suggestion of "bug your friends instead of asking AI"

I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.

After a whirlwind tour of what #AI is doing in health tech, I’m looking for my next role. If you need an empathetic engineering leader with deep experience in #python and broad experience in surprising disciplines, reach out!

Lists are the single biggest source of targeted harassment and dogpiling on your platform. It's the only reason the vast majority of those lists exist. And most of them are targeting Black & Jewish folks for doing nothing other than pushing back against the bigotry this platform seems to endorse.

🎵 if you're happy and you know it / what the fuck 🎶 👏👏

Once again Democrats are getting blamed for Bernie Sanders & his bs. Why don’t a lot of y’all know Bernard blocked USPS Board members from being appointed by Obama & that left the orange demon the ability to do what he did in his 1st term & now? www.lipstickalley.com/threads/bern...

Hey uh… I think @begaysolvecrimes.bsky.social might have set their parameters such that they are in line to do the first, but not the second, Tomb Raider film.

Saying these affirmations every day makes you stronger. Believing them makes you smarter.

Alameda and Oakland have dozens of #Flock cameras in use. #alamtg #oakmtg www.wired.com/story/flock-...

There are dozens of ALPR cameras, mostly operated by Flock, in Alameda and Oakland. #alamtg #oakmtg www.404media.co/i-saw-a-shin...

Today is my birthday. Today is also when I crossed 1200 municipalities tracked on @civic.band The best gift you could give me today is to sponsor a municipality by going to opencollective.com/civicband and making a recurring tax-deductible donation of $10/month. 🙇

#Alameda has over a dozen Flock cameras installed. #Oakland has many more. #alamtg #oakmtg newbedfordlight.org/new-bedford-...

It continues to surprise me that more #OpenData #Journalism folks for #LACounty don't use what we're building at @civic.band. This is our coverage map for the basin, and we're nowhere near done.

If your entire website is bilingual except the code of conduct, that says something about your community that you probably don't want.

@civic.band @phildini.net if one were interested in helping to revive data for San Francisco how can they best direct their attention and efforts?

I've been working with Prime Radiant building a new tool for running small eval suites against models, harnesses, and prompts - it's called "smevals", you can try it with "uvx smevals docs", and I wrote about it here: primeradiant.com/blog/2026/sm...

Good code is DRY - Don't Repeat Yourself. LLM Code is RYE - Repeat Yourself Everywhere. #llm #ai

Given the number of changes Leo is making this week, this is starting to feel like that scene in the Godfather where Michael Corleone has coordinated retributive killing blow hits against the other families while he peacefully attends the baptism of his godchild.

witnessing the birth of a new all timer post is such a beautiful thing

Behold the meritocracy!

I built a thing. It's a link feed for the #fediverse and #atmosphere, ranked by interactions with a transparent algorithm you can read. Open source, and I'm looking for beta testers! https://linkgno.me

Hey, @rosemary.world is playing with #TheLightingSection right now at www.twitch.tv/thecomplexsf/ Can't catch them now? That's cool, hit up thelightingsection.bandcamp.com

i'm like 80% sure you can see my band play live on twitch tonight around 7 twitch.tv/thecomplexsf/

I was digging around on wikipedia today and happened to come across this very good painting of Fancy Men Bamboozled By Egg

They are breaking for a "hydration break" in the rain. The loopiness of these hydration breaks never ceases.

SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.