Scott Trudeau
@sstrudeau.bsky.social
Ann Arbor. AADL Board of Trustees. CTO Listings Project. Lorcana dad. Bollard fan. he/him
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doom creator id software just became the latest microsoft studio to unionize. though the neutrality agreement that has allowed CWA to organize so many studios recently lapsed, id devs told me that only applies to activision blizzard for now
aftermath.site/id-software-union-doom-microsoft-cwa
aftermath.site/id-software-union-doom-microsoft-cwa
December 12, 2025 at 2:02 PM
doom creator id software just became the latest microsoft studio to unionize. though the neutrality agreement that has allowed CWA to organize so many studios recently lapsed, id devs told me that only applies to activision blizzard for now
aftermath.site/id-software-union-doom-microsoft-cwa
aftermath.site/id-software-union-doom-microsoft-cwa
🧵 The embarrassing umich drama this week is reminding me that our leadership is so abysmal in great part because our system of selecting Regents is terrible.
December 12, 2025 at 3:05 PM
🧵 The embarrassing umich drama this week is reminding me that our leadership is so abysmal in great part because our system of selecting Regents is terrible.
#A2Council yet another car-wrecking crash at Summit & N Main this morning. It's mildly traumatizing to see regular car-disabling wrecks next to and on the sidewalks you use every day. The drivers usually walk away, but people on our own neighborhood streets don't have airbags inside a cage.
December 12, 2025 at 1:21 PM
#A2Council yet another car-wrecking crash at Summit & N Main this morning. It's mildly traumatizing to see regular car-disabling wrecks next to and on the sidewalks you use every day. The drivers usually walk away, but people on our own neighborhood streets don't have airbags inside a cage.
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This is like paying the guys that robbed your house to also burn it down.
Disney is making a $1 billion investment in OpenAI and will let the AI platform use its characters to make social-media videos.
Disney to Invest $1 Billion in OpenAI, License Characters for Use in ChatGPT, Sora
The three-year licensing deal will let users generate videos of more than 200 Disney, Marvel, Star Wars and Pixar characters.
on.wsj.com
December 11, 2025 at 5:14 PM
This is like paying the guys that robbed your house to also burn it down.
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I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
I guess it's fitting that it's a reimagined, worse version of someone else's artwork
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I'm not interested in Sherrone Moore's "side of the story" when the story is stepping out on your wife and three young children with a subordinate at work. Fuck his story.
"What we haven't heard yet is Sherrone Moore's side of this. And he gets his say in this particular situation as well. I do know he felt like people had it in for him for an awful long time."
- Adam Schefter on the firing of Sherrone Moore
- Adam Schefter on the firing of Sherrone Moore
December 11, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I'm not interested in Sherrone Moore's "side of the story" when the story is stepping out on your wife and three young children with a subordinate at work. Fuck his story.
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Ryan Coogler explains why he declined the invitation to join the Academy www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/m...
December 10, 2025 at 6:19 PM
Ryan Coogler explains why he declined the invitation to join the Academy www.nytimes.com/2025/12/10/m...
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Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
December 11, 2025 at 5:00 PM
Well now, would you look at that? A massive, 4-YEAR-LONG study of NEARLY 30 MILLION people in France found that individuals who received a COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had a 74% LOWER risk of death from severe COVID-19 compared to unvaccinated individuals and ZERO increased risk of all-cause mortality.
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It's crazy that many cities are getting automated taxis before they get automated trains.
Trains are technically much easier to automate. But the standards for safe driving are so, so much lower.
Trains are technically much easier to automate. But the standards for safe driving are so, so much lower.
December 11, 2025 at 4:42 PM
It's crazy that many cities are getting automated taxis before they get automated trains.
Trains are technically much easier to automate. But the standards for safe driving are so, so much lower.
Trains are technically much easier to automate. But the standards for safe driving are so, so much lower.
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Super appealing job for the right engineering leader.
I'm hiring a Director of Product Engineering for our product team at @propublica.org. If you're an engineering leader in the US who wants to truly make a difference, we're a nonprofit newsroom investigating abuses of trust in the public interest. Please consider joining us. #amhiring
Director, Product Engineering
New York City, United States; Remote, United States
job-boards.greenhouse.io
December 11, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Super appealing job for the right engineering leader.
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well, would you look at that! thebucketproblem.beehiiv.com/p/the-footba...
December 10, 2025 at 10:24 PM
well, would you look at that! thebucketproblem.beehiiv.com/p/the-footba...
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Thank you, @maom.bsky.social, for surfacing the issue and to Chief Anderson for acting so quickly. We are an inclusive community that is committed to safety practices rooted in trust rather than suspicion. These signs communicate the opposite and it’s long past time for them to go. #a2council
In 2020, I started to run every street in Ann Arbor and noticed the Neighborhood Watch signs around town. I was curious and learned that they came out of the 1994 Crime Bill effort for "community policing", and are part of a deeply racist tradition that aims to exclude people that "don't belong".
Neighborhood Watch: Invading the Community, Evading Constitutional Limits
By Adeoye Johnson, Published on 01/01/16
scholarship.law.upenn.edu
December 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Thank you, @maom.bsky.social, for surfacing the issue and to Chief Anderson for acting so quickly. We are an inclusive community that is committed to safety practices rooted in trust rather than suspicion. These signs communicate the opposite and it’s long past time for them to go. #a2council
Debt fueled college tuition makes steers a lot of people away from valuable, undercompensated work.
Law school cost me $190,000.
I have paid $206,000 since graduation.
I now owe $223,000.
I pay $830 per month, and next year it will be more.
I genuinely believe law school student loans are designed to make pro bono representation impossible.
I have paid $206,000 since graduation.
I now owe $223,000.
I pay $830 per month, and next year it will be more.
I genuinely believe law school student loans are designed to make pro bono representation impossible.
December 9, 2025 at 3:35 AM
Debt fueled college tuition makes steers a lot of people away from valuable, undercompensated work.
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mister rogers agrees and says it is all of our duty to go beast mode right now
October 12, 2025 at 10:31 PM
mister rogers agrees and says it is all of our duty to go beast mode right now
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Think much of the over-parenting we despise stems from the early on fear of the driver.
If parents weren't terrified of our streets kids would have so much more freedom and independence which might get them comfortable with their children's ability to navigate the world without them.
If parents weren't terrified of our streets kids would have so much more freedom and independence which might get them comfortable with their children's ability to navigate the world without them.
December 5, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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In defense of Pantone, if they had picked any other color it would have been illegal DEI.
Pantone’s 2026 color of the year is technically not a color at all — meet Cloud Dancer, the first-ever white shade to receive the designation from the world’s color authority.
Pantone makes a surprising choice for its 2026 color of the year
We did not see that coming.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 4:52 PM
In defense of Pantone, if they had picked any other color it would have been illegal DEI.
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U.S. reinstates all canceled library grants after court order www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...
U.S. reinstates all canceled library grants after court order
A court ruled that Trump’s effort to dismantle the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the only federal agency dedicated to funding libraries, was unlawful.
www.washingtonpost.com
December 4, 2025 at 12:34 PM
U.S. reinstates all canceled library grants after court order www.washingtonpost.com/style/2025/1...
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I’ve been writing about kei cars and minicars for years, and I’d be thrilled to see them legalized in the US. But I suspect this story/White House announcement is less than meets the eye.
Legalizing minicars is a heavy regulatory/political lift, not a “flip the switch” kind of change.
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Legalizing minicars is a heavy regulatory/political lift, not a “flip the switch” kind of change.
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Trump Wants Asia’s ‘Cute’ Kei Cars to be Made and Sold in US
President Donald Trump, apparently enamored by the pint-size kei cars he saw during his recent trip to Japan, has paved the way for them to be made and sold in the US, despite concerns they’re too sma...
www.bloomberg.com
December 4, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I’ve been writing about kei cars and minicars for years, and I’d be thrilled to see them legalized in the US. But I suspect this story/White House announcement is less than meets the eye.
Legalizing minicars is a heavy regulatory/political lift, not a “flip the switch” kind of change.
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Legalizing minicars is a heavy regulatory/political lift, not a “flip the switch” kind of change.
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Pew's main findings:
- Newer multifamily is safer than older multifamily
- Newer multifamily is safer than newer single-family
- Single-stair multifamily buildings are as safe as buildings with two stairwells
www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/12/03/1...
- Newer multifamily is safer than older multifamily
- Newer multifamily is safer than newer single-family
- Single-stair multifamily buildings are as safe as buildings with two stairwells
www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/12/03/1...
Episode 103: Fire Safety in Multifamily Housing with Alex Horowitz (Incentives Series pt. 6)
Explore why multifamily homes are often safer from fires than single-family housing, as Alex Horowitz shares research on building age, fire risk, and single-stair safety in our Incentives Series.
www.lewis.ucla.edu
December 3, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Pew's main findings:
- Newer multifamily is safer than older multifamily
- Newer multifamily is safer than newer single-family
- Single-stair multifamily buildings are as safe as buildings with two stairwells
www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/12/03/1...
- Newer multifamily is safer than older multifamily
- Newer multifamily is safer than newer single-family
- Single-stair multifamily buildings are as safe as buildings with two stairwells
www.lewis.ucla.edu/2025/12/03/1...
The most obscure of inside jokes
December 4, 2025 at 12:54 AM
The most obscure of inside jokes
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“Maybe we’re onto something.”
“How can we tell? We’ve only done this 187,623 times with the same success every single time. Could be a fluke.”
“How can we tell? We’ve only done this 187,623 times with the same success every single time. Could be a fluke.”
An Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees a staggering reduction in homelessness. The program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years, and at the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
Oregon pilot program giving cash to homeless youths sees staggering reduction in homelessness
The state program gave participants $1,000 cash payments each month for two years. At the end of the project's first phase, 91% of participants reported being in stable housing.
www.streetroots.org
December 3, 2025 at 6:17 AM
“Maybe we’re onto something.”
“How can we tell? We’ve only done this 187,623 times with the same success every single time. Could be a fluke.”
“How can we tell? We’ve only done this 187,623 times with the same success every single time. Could be a fluke.”
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City: We unanimously declare a climate emergency! We must make change no matter what the cost, humanity's survival depends on it!
Community: Can we put in a protected bike lane to get more people cycling.
City: No, we'll lose parking spots.
Community: Can we put in a protected bike lane to get more people cycling.
City: No, we'll lose parking spots.
December 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
City: We unanimously declare a climate emergency! We must make change no matter what the cost, humanity's survival depends on it!
Community: Can we put in a protected bike lane to get more people cycling.
City: No, we'll lose parking spots.
Community: Can we put in a protected bike lane to get more people cycling.
City: No, we'll lose parking spots.
Real algorithmic whiplash this morning. I generally like YouTube Music's algo. It kicked off the morning with the energizing banger Sabotage, followed by a mix of faves and deep cuts ... and then tried to play Creed (quick 👎🏻!) ... and two songs later Linkin Park 🙅🏻♂️...
December 3, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Real algorithmic whiplash this morning. I generally like YouTube Music's algo. It kicked off the morning with the energizing banger Sabotage, followed by a mix of faves and deep cuts ... and then tried to play Creed (quick 👎🏻!) ... and two songs later Linkin Park 🙅🏻♂️...
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this is great and definitely applies to "technical" (staff+) leadership as well as management
TL;DR
Middle management is hard. Caring is required, but the kind of care you provide matters.
Middle management is hard. Caring is required, but the kind of care you provide matters.
Ashley Willis
The other day I texted my group chat with other leaders outside my organization. The ones I go to when the leadership stuff gets messy and I need perspective fr...
ashley.dev
December 2, 2025 at 10:52 PM
this is great and definitely applies to "technical" (staff+) leadership as well as management