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Adrian Segar
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I design & facilitate conferences that ➠ what folks want/need
🔸 Author of 3 meeting design books
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🔸 Recovering academic
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🔸 Marlboro, VT, USA; Work globally
🔸 Everything about me: conferencesthatwork.com
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Adrian Segar @segar.com · 2d
🔸 16 years of 900+ posts on #MeetingDesign #facilitation #consulting #LifeLessons #FacilitatingChange, being trapped in an elevator with a Nobel Prize winner & other #stories at conferencesthatwork.com
🔸 #Nonprofit board member junkie
🔸 Recovering #academic

#Introduction 2 of 2
Participant-Driven Conference Design & Facilitation | Adrian Segar
Expert conference design and facilitation by Adrian Segar — creator of participant-driven events that foster real connection and results.
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“Today is a defining moment for our country,” Michael Osterholm, a public health expert at the University of Minnesota, said. “We can no longer trust federal health authorities when it comes to vaccines.”

[guest link] www.nytimes.com/2025/12/05/h...

#CDC #vaccines #RFK #JunkScience #health
Panel Votes to End Recommendation for Hepatitis B Shots for All Newborns
www.nytimes.com
December 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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Here's a facilitation tip to improve breakout gallery walks — simply add this small step before they start.

www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/ti...

#facilitation #GalleryWalk #PairShare #tip
Photograph of women at a gallery walk, illustrating how to improve breakout gallery walks
December 5, 2025 at 6:31 PM
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kenwhite.bsky.social
Bingo Bongo Betrays Business Blueprint: Bullshit, Bamboozle Bumpkins, Bag Bucks.
thedailybeast.bsky.social The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 6h
FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino has publicly distanced himself from his own conspiracy rhetoric, offering a striking walk-back of claims he made before joining the agency’s leadership.
Bongino Makes Jaw-Dropping Admission About His Unhinged Conspiracies
“I was paid in the past for my opinions,” former podcaster explained on Fox News.
trib.al
December 5, 2025 at 5:15 PM
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jamellebouie.net
cool that the official position of the administration appears to be that black people don’t really count as americans
mattortega.com Matt Ortega @mattortega.com · 14h
"The Donald Trump administration has changed which holidays qualify for free entrance to national parks, removing two holidays celebrating Black people and adding the president’s birthday."
National parks change prioritizes Trump birthday over days honoring Black people
Free entrance days at national parks no longer include MLK Day and Juneteenth.
www.sfgate.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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levernews.com
🚨 NEW: A majority of Americans now support Medicare for All even if it ends private insurance and raises taxes. The tipping point is here because the ACA is failing to keep health care affordable. New polling shows a 50-point shift in just six years.
December 3, 2025 at 10:46 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
SCOTUS is allowing Texas to redistrict early.

Remember that California responded by passing Prop 50 last month.

Other states must also counteract Trump's attempt to steal the 2026 midterms.

This isn’t a race to the bottom. It’s a means of avoiding the bottom.
Why I'm Voting YES On Prop 50
Robert Reich
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December 5, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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AI comment spam is increasingly slipping past filters. LLMs are creating a new spam problem—and the arms race is just beginning.

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#AI #LLM #Spam #ContentModeration #WebSpam #Enshittification #Blogging #post
Screenshot of an AI comment spam, posted to my article "How to fix Apple Watch heart rate monitor not working". Comment: Great tips! I’ve been struggling with my Apple Watch heart rate monitor not working properly, and these troubleshooting steps are really helpful. I’ll definitely try the resets and check my settings. Thanks for sharing!
December 5, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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How can you live blog a public conference session without going crazy? By crowdsourcing your event recording!

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#LiveBlogging #tip #crowdsourcing #meetings #events #eventprofs
live blog a public conference: photograph of a conference participant blogging on their computer. Photo attribution: Flickr user catspyjamasnz
December 5, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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When things don't go according to plan at your events, the improv and gratitude practice of "seeing the gifts" can transform your response.

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#meetings #EventDesign #SeeingTheGifts #improv #ImprovWisdom #Naikan #eventprofs
Seeing the Gifts. Image: detail from the cover of Improv Wisdom, 2005 edition
December 5, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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rbreich.bsky.social
A startup backed by Donald Trump Jr.'s venture capital firm just got a $620M loan from the DoD, months after the Pentagon gave a major drone contract to ANOTHER Trump Jr.-backed company.

This is what kleptocracy looks like. https://popular.info/p/update-trump-jr-backed-startup-receives
UPDATE: Trump Jr.-backed startup receives $620 million Pentagon loan
In October, Popular Information reported that the Pentagon awarded a contract to Unusual Machines, an obscure drone comp
popular.info
December 5, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Pretty notable, in my view, that Kagan points out the Supreme Court's pro-gerrymandering decision in Texas is a step-by-step instruction manual for states to draw discriminatory maps while ducking judicial review, and the majority has...nothing to say in response www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/25p...
Texas is not on “the eve of an election,” as was true in the case the majority cites. Republican National Committee v. Democratic National Committee, 589 U. S. 423, 424 (2020) (per curiam); see ante, at 2. The election there was five days after the injunction. Similarly, the election in Purcell was “just weeks” away. 549 U. S., at 4. Here, Election Day is eleven months from now. Even the primary election (which Texas could change) is in March. The District Court care- fully listed the various “election preparations” underway to switch to the 2025 map. App. 144. On the other hand, the court noted how the 2021 map—which the injunction rein- stated—was, in a real sense, the status quo. See id., at 145. Officials, candidates, and voters are all familiar with it from the last two election cycles. Until late last summer, every- one expected that map to govern 2026 too. And indeed, it will be used in a special runoff election in the State’s largest county on January 31, 2026. So, the District Court properly concluded, “[a]n injunction in this case would not cause sig- nificant disruption.” Id., at 144. Except to the extent all of us live in election season all the time, the 2026 congres- sional election is not well underway. 16 ABBOTT v. LEAGUE OF UNITED LATIN AMERICAN CITIZENS KAGAN, J., dissenting And even supposing it is now the ninth or tenth hour, whose choice was that? It was of course the Texas legisla- ture that decided to change its map six months before a March primary. The plaintiffs could not have moved any faster: They requested an injunction before the new law was even signed. And to try to speed the litigation, they de- clined discovery. (That decision, by the way, probably ac- counted for their failure to submit an alternative map, which to be probative must be based on the State’s particu- lar districting criteria. See supra, at 13 n.) The District Court moved expeditiously too, issuing its 160-page opinion (on November 18) just a month after post-hearing briefing concluded. No one dilly-dallied in this case. The District Court ruled as “late” as it did because the legislature en- acted a new map less than three months before. If Purcell prevents such a ruling, it gives every State the opportunity to hold an unlawful election. The District Court, once again aptly, made the point: Were judicial re- view so broadly foreclosed, then to implement even a “bla- tantly unconstitutional map,” the “Legislature would need only to pass” it on a schedule like this one. App. 154–155. That cannot be the law—except of course that today it is. According to the majority, Texas had a free pass to redis- trict in August 2025 for the 2026 House elections. See ante, at 2. All that the plaintiffs can hope for is better luck in 2028.
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
The bottom 90% lost a collective $79 trillion in wages over the past 50 years.

Why? Because the top 1% ate up an increasingly larger share of the national income — so that $79 trillion flowed to them instead of the working class.

The greatest trick of all is trickle-down economics.
December 5, 2025 at 1:01 AM
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anthonymkreis.bsky.social
Shipwrecked and not using any communications equipment.

This is a crime against humanity. Everyone involved should be prosecuted for murdering stranded civilians in cold blood.

www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
Exclusive: Survivors clinging to capsized boat didn’t radio for backup, admiral overseeing double-tap strike tells lawmakers | CNN Politics
The two men killed as they floated holding onto their capsized boat in a secondary strike against a suspected drug vessel in early September did not appear to have radio or other communications device...
www.cnn.com
December 5, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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rbreich.bsky.social
Stoke fear. Exploit desperation. Suspend the rule of law. Fan brutality.

Every time the stronger brutalize the weak, it’s fundamentally the same playbook.

Our duty is to stand up to brutality.

Our moral obligation is to protect the vulnerable and hold the powerful accountable.
December 5, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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chrislhayes.bsky.social
They’re killing people as a twitter joke. It’s depraved. Can’t let yourself lose the capacity to be appalled and disgusted and outraged by this.
yasharali.bsky.social Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 17h
Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth announces another boat strike in response to a request/wish from Turning Point USA’s Andrew Kolvet.
Pete Hegseth * G @PeteHegseth X.com Your wish is our command, Andrew. Just sunk another narco boat. Andrew Kolvet • @AndrewKolvet • 3h Every new attack aimed at Pete Hegseth makes me want another narco drug boat blown up and sent to the bottom of the ocean. x.com/SenSchumer/sta...
December 5, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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joshtpm.bsky.social
just to drive home the point. Texas created this map in August. the lower court rendered its decision November. So three months later, a year before the election in question.
joshtpm.bsky.social Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 19h
The word "eve" is doing a lot of work here in the Court's 'decision'
December 4, 2025 at 11:39 PM
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lawrencehurley.bsky.social
What does "majority non-European" mean?
December 5, 2025 at 4:14 AM
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It’s all transparently bullshit and immune to rationality, but if struggling to stabilize half a burning boat to avoid drowning is “getting back in the fight,” what they’re really saying is there’s nothing the survivors could have done to avoid being killed. And that definitely isn’t the law.
marisakabas.bsky.social Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 15h
there is no more shared reality. www.cnn.com/2025/12/04/p...
Interpretations of the video differed wildly: Cotton said he “saw two survivors trying to flip a boat, loaded with drugs bound for the United States, back over so they could stay in the fight.” House Intelligence Committee Chairman Jim Himes, Democrat of Connecticut, called it “one of the most troubling things” he has seen as a lawmaker.
December 5, 2025 at 4:05 AM
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“Yes, yes, we can see all your ‘facts’ and all the adorable little ‘evidence,’ but you failed to consider that none of that matters if we all close our eyes and pretend the Texas GOP actually had pure motives here, you stupid little rubes.”
chrislhayes.bsky.social Chris Hayes @chrislhayes.bsky.social · 19h
The dripping contempt the right wing SCOTUS majority holds for district judges is truly a sight to behold every time. When they deign to give actual reasons for their shadow docket holdings, it’s “look at the absolute idiots who keep getting everything wrong!”
December 5, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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Prison rape is wrong.

Jokes about prison rape are wrong.

Eliminating protections against prison rape is wrong.

If another country sentenced a criminal to be raped, we'd consider it a crime against humanity.

BUT

A large segment of Americans regard prison rape as a de facto part of the sentence.
prismreports.org Prism @prismreports.org · 19h
BREAKING: Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans & intersex people, memo says. A DOJ memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) do not align with Trump’s Jan. 20 anti-trans executive order, @byadamrhodes.bsky.social reports.
Trump administration plans to end prison rape protections for trans and intersex people
A Department of Justice memo says certain standards under the Prison Rape Elimination Act do not align with Trump’s executive order
prismreports.org
December 5, 2025 at 1:28 AM
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#GVerse #Veterans
US Citizen detained by ICE: Clearly it didn't matter that I was a citizen, a veteran, or identified who I was. They ignored everything I said. They just broke my window and dragged me out. I let them know I was a veteran, I wasn't doing anything wrong, just trying to get to work.
December 5, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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It's good—very good, and very important—that district courts keep issuing these 100-page rulings upholding the law. It must be incredibly dispiriting to see them overturned in a two-page, lawless, unsigned order, but please, keep them coming. They expose SCOTUS' corruption like nothing else.
December 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
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Quite breathtaking story - military grade drones at Dublin airport which flew on the path Zelensky's plane took. The drones reached the flight path of his plane exactly the time it should have been there, but just missed it because Zelensky arrived ahead of schedule:
Four unidentified military-style drones breached no-fly zone to target Zelenskyy's arrival in Dublin
Gardaí are investigating whether the drones took off from land in Dublin or from an undetected ship.
www.thejournal.ie
December 4, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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Here's a worthy initiative to create standards for safer events: The Public Health Event Badging Standard. Sign the Public Health Pledge!

www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/ev...

#meetings #PublicHealth #safety #inclusion #eventprofs #assnchat
Illustration of The Public Health Pledge, creating standards for safer events
December 5, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Clients who generously give me client feedback have a special place in my heart. Here's what I learned from one client's feedback.

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#EventDesign #feedback #eventprofs #assnchat
Photograph of participants at a Peace and Security Funders Group meeting from the organization's website
December 5, 2025 at 12:30 AM