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Written by it's B! Cavello 🐝 on 2025-02-02 at 06:43

Q for #Deaf and #HardOfHearing folks who cannot listen to music or podcasts:

What are your methods for helping you to fall asleep? Are there other senses or activities you engage in order to prevent your mind from being busy?

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Written by it's B! Cavello 🐝 on 2025-01-31 at 05:40

Local politics is not glamorous. It is not shiny. It's often thankless.

I feel this, too, to be clear. It's hard for me to imagine running for local office, for example. It feels like all the bad of being a politician but less power.. but is that even true? I feel like there's something to explore and unpack about the memes of power and what is worth doing.

Because the local IS powerful.

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Written by it's B! Cavello 🐝 on 2025-01-31 at 05:36

Thinking about the democratic party's seeming fascination with the "charismatic megafauna" of political races, while the republican party is packing local school boards with people who don't want trans people to be allowed around kids.

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Written by it's B! Cavello 🐝 on 2025-01-31 at 05:30

I feel like orange cats have squintier eyes. Is this true?

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Written by it's B! Cavello 🐝 on 2025-01-31 at 04:11

This is also fun

https://jorts.horse/@blursedtexts/113708700010624241

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Written by it's B! Cavello 🐝 on 2025-01-31 at 02:45

I love wrestling! I love the #HarlemGlobetrotters! I love people having fun with the performance of sport. Why not!

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Written by it's B! Cavello 🐝 on 2025-01-29 at 01:45

I feel like the labor market is in for a real spin this year :/

Who knows if it's coordinated, but it feels like a massive turn toward devaluing labor.

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Written by it's B! Cavello 🐝 on 2025-01-28 at 15:23

Open weight models like #DeepSeek are POWERFUL for expanding access to AI capabilities, but access is not enough!

We need #PublicAI: an approach that prioritizes public goals with accountability and sustainably maintains public goods in addition to providing access.

https://publicai.network/whitepaper/

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Written by it's B! Cavello 🐝 on 2025-01-26 at 14:47

It is DONE! One year ago, I set out to pull together my reflections and answers to the question “how do I get into #AI #policy?” This week, I finished the final installment.

The series has five parts:

🧠 Mindset

👁️ Be perceived

💬 Be the reply guy you want to see in the world

⏳ Don’t wait to do the work

🏆 Pay it forward (don’t skip this!)

I’m so grateful to everyone who came on this journey with me. Thank you. 💖 #IHopeWeAllMakeIt

https://posts.bcavello.com/how-to-get-into-ai-policy-part-5/

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Written by it's B! Cavello 🐝 on 2025-01-26 at 06:57

Recently came back to this old essay I wrote (I needed a writing sample for a job application and didn’t have one, so I just wrote an essay, lol) and while the #AI research landscape has DEFINITELY changed a lot over the last 5-6 years, I think this still pretty accurately represents my feelings on it all.

https://posts.bcavello.com/before-we-have-the-technology/

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Written by it's B! Cavello 🐝 on 2025-01-25 at 21:21

Any #insurance wonks out here? I'm wondering why insurance companies work with public adjusters. Is it a legal requirement? It seems like they wouldn't want to.

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Written by it's B! Cavello 🐝 on 2025-01-25 at 18:01

one book I was recommended on another platform: https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262640305/electrifying-america/

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Written by it's B! Cavello 🐝 on 2025-01-25 at 17:20

Any #HistoryOfTechnology folks out there?

I’m trying to learn more about the history of electrification (aka the widespread adoption of electricity or construction of infrastructure outside of, like, funky inventors-in-labs types of things).

In my mind, the early demonstrations of public usefulness were for electric lighting, but I am learning that the telegraph may have even earlier driven infrastructure investments.

Do you know more? Or have recommendations on where to look? I’d love to learn!

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Written by it's B! Cavello 🐝 on 2025-01-25 at 15:43

Logging out of social media I don’t want to spend much time on has been such an effective practice! I also like browser extensions like #LeechBlock which can introduce a delay so I still can visit sites if I need them for work, but serve as a moment of “do I really want this?” for myself.

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Written by it's B! Cavello 🐝 on 2025-01-25 at 15:31

[#]MoonYou continues to be one of my fave comics of all time.

https://www.webtoons.com/en/sf/moonyou/list?title_no=1340 #WEBTOON

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Written by it's B! Cavello 🐝 on 2025-01-24 at 23:00

Why doesn’t jury duty pay minimum wage?

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Written by it's B! Cavello 🐝 on 2025-01-24 at 00:54

Asking for a friend:

What’s a good way for a regular person to contribute to archival efforts? I know when I was living in SF, the @internetarchive had #volunteer slots for scanning media, but any ideas that would be good for someone in Florida or Texas?

Thanks!! 🙏

[#]Archives #DigitalPreservation #PhysicalPreservation

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Written by it's B! Cavello 🐝 on 2025-01-20 at 03:02

Can you #help me?

I feel like I've seen a post a few times #OnHere that's a link to a blogpost or site that's a manifesto on why you should have a personal site/blog outside of social media.

But I can't remember what it was called or the URL!!

UPDATE: incredibly, @stefan identified the one I was thinking of, almost immediately! https://nora.zone/manifesto.html

Thank you thank you (and thanks @nora for writing it)

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Written by it's B! Cavello 🐝 on 2025-01-19 at 14:32

Continually SO inspired by this effort. Absolutely beautiful. #TemplateHouse and #SecondLifeCommunity spaces are so important.

https://supernuclear.substack.com/p/case-study-template-house

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Written by it's B! Cavello 🐝 on 2025-01-13 at 20:39

Womp, instead we just sat on the tarmac for an hour and half, just burning fuel I guess??

They came on and were like “we’re getting close to the fuel number we need” 🫠

Absolutely wild.

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