Ben Creasy
@jcrben.bsky.social
Interests: public policy, business, Wikipedia, and software development
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i think this is how i finally learn how to make music
August 28, 2025 at 7:53 AM
i think this is how i finally learn how to make music
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And the album release brings me to the arrangement I'd like to discuss today: "Guts' Theme" from the original Berserk series! This is a melancholic composition by Susumu Hirasawa, and it has risen to a sort of meme status.
Listen for yourself: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il2-...
#berserk, #anime
Listen for yourself: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il2-...
#berserk, #anime
January 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
And the album release brings me to the arrangement I'd like to discuss today: "Guts' Theme" from the original Berserk series! This is a melancholic composition by Susumu Hirasawa, and it has risen to a sort of meme status.
Listen for yourself: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il2-...
#berserk, #anime
Listen for yourself: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Il2-...
#berserk, #anime
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Everyone sooner or later cames to the same realization: deep risk in the global hegemon cannot be hedged
July 27, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Everyone sooner or later cames to the same realization: deep risk in the global hegemon cannot be hedged
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If you, a business, are reliant on an open source project to function it is YOUR responsibility to assess and ensure the health of that project by either contributing to it yourself or by using an alternative if project health cannot be guaranteed.
June 22, 2025 at 10:11 PM
If you, a business, are reliant on an open source project to function it is YOUR responsibility to assess and ensure the health of that project by either contributing to it yourself or by using an alternative if project health cannot be guaranteed.
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That's not the only solution. Approval voting would also solve the problem - and doesn't even need ranking.
Ranked-choice voting is viewed with suspicion among some voters, so something simpler could work. Easy to implement.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approva...
Ranked-choice voting is viewed with suspicion among some voters, so something simpler could work. Easy to implement.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approva...
Approval voting - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
June 4, 2025 at 10:15 PM
That's not the only solution. Approval voting would also solve the problem - and doesn't even need ranking.
Ranked-choice voting is viewed with suspicion among some voters, so something simpler could work. Easy to implement.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approva...
Ranked-choice voting is viewed with suspicion among some voters, so something simpler could work. Easy to implement.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Approva...
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If you are going to #CFASummit this week, come to our session Thursday “You can carry on where 18F left off!”
18F wasn’t just a box on an org chart. There were a lot of good people and we had a way of working that led to real results.
summit-widget.codeforamerica.org/agenda/sessi...
18F wasn’t just a box on an org chart. There were a lot of good people and we had a way of working that led to real results.
summit-widget.codeforamerica.org/agenda/sessi...
Code for America Summit 2025
Code for America’s annual Summit brings the entire civic tech ecosystem together to work through our toughest challenges and celebrate the biggest wins in digital government. It’s an in-person immersi...
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May 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
If you are going to #CFASummit this week, come to our session Thursday “You can carry on where 18F left off!”
18F wasn’t just a box on an org chart. There were a lot of good people and we had a way of working that led to real results.
summit-widget.codeforamerica.org/agenda/sessi...
18F wasn’t just a box on an org chart. There were a lot of good people and we had a way of working that led to real results.
summit-widget.codeforamerica.org/agenda/sessi...
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the performative and obvious lie that he “hadn’t heard about” a grotesque abuse of power
TAPPER: I have a hard time thinking that if a D president held a dinner for investors in his cryptocurrency, you wouldn't be outraged
MIKE JOHNSON: Look, I don't know anything about the dinner. I was a little busy this past week, so I'm not going to comment on something I haven't even heard about
MIKE JOHNSON: Look, I don't know anything about the dinner. I was a little busy this past week, so I'm not going to comment on something I haven't even heard about
May 25, 2025 at 2:20 PM
the performative and obvious lie that he “hadn’t heard about” a grotesque abuse of power
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arguing against birthright citizenship in front of the supreme court while at the same time pitching a netflix show where immigrants compete for citizenship is such a perfect microcosm of america right now that it feels fake
May 16, 2025 at 2:51 AM
arguing against birthright citizenship in front of the supreme court while at the same time pitching a netflix show where immigrants compete for citizenship is such a perfect microcosm of america right now that it feels fake
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“.. reminiscent of portraits of leaders hanging from public buildings, often seen in dictatorships, monarchies, and in descriptions in George Orwell’s 1984 of ‘Big Brother.’”
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May 15, 2025 at 11:22 PM
“.. reminiscent of portraits of leaders hanging from public buildings, often seen in dictatorships, monarchies, and in descriptions in George Orwell’s 1984 of ‘Big Brother.’”
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Even *if* you accept Stephen Miller’s (textually, historically, and morally indefensible) claim that undocumented immigrants are not entitled to due process, you’d *still* need due process to ensure that the individuals at issue are, in fact, undocumented.
His argument fails even on its own terms.
His argument fails even on its own terms.
May 5, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Even *if* you accept Stephen Miller’s (textually, historically, and morally indefensible) claim that undocumented immigrants are not entitled to due process, you’d *still* need due process to ensure that the individuals at issue are, in fact, undocumented.
His argument fails even on its own terms.
His argument fails even on its own terms.
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May 2, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Heritage has had Wikipedia in their sights for a while now. As have many conservative groups. Even niche ones like ACPeds have consultants on the issue, and right-wing firms have been hiring out Wikipedia editors for hire in flagrant violation of Wiki's terms of service.
U.S. attorney for D.C. accuses Wikipedia of ‘propaganda,’ threatens nonprofit status
Ed Martin sent a letter to the Wikimedia Foundation accusing it of spreading propaganda
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April 26, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Heritage has had Wikipedia in their sights for a while now. As have many conservative groups. Even niche ones like ACPeds have consultants on the issue, and right-wing firms have been hiring out Wikipedia editors for hire in flagrant violation of Wiki's terms of service.
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This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story.
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April 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story.
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www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...
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We are truly in a new and uncharted land of frauds.
NEW: A federal prosecutor in Los Angeles was fired Friday at the behest of the White House, after lawyers for a fast-food executive he was prosecuting pushed officials in Washington to drop all charges against him
Golden age for corruption
www.latimes.com/california/s...
Golden age for corruption
www.latimes.com/california/s...
White House ordered firing of L.A. federal prosecutor on ex-Fatburger CEO case, sources say
Adam Schleifer, a longtime financial fraud prosecutor, was dismissed from the U.S. Attorney's office in L.A. on Friday. He was pursuing charges against the former CEO of Fatburger, a Trump supporter, ...
www.latimes.com
March 30, 2025 at 3:14 AM
We are truly in a new and uncharted land of frauds.
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There it is: Trump announces the US will not be enforcing its new shell company registry, which is the single-best tool to counter kleptocracy.
March 3, 2025 at 11:15 AM
There it is: Trump announces the US will not be enforcing its new shell company registry, which is the single-best tool to counter kleptocracy.
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I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
We're not done yet | 18F
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March 1, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I got laid off today, with the rest of 18F.
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
18F was an elite federal software shop. We made gov't websites work better, more efficiently for the American people. We saved taxpayers from getting screwed over by contractors. And were fired for it.
We made this website to tell our story:
18f.org
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So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.
February 22, 2025 at 2:30 AM
So the President not only fired the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. He also fired the top JAGs at the Army, Navy and Air Force. Those are the lead people who determine what is a legal order and what is not. So if you're planning to do things that are illegal they're the most obvious obstacle.
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And there it is: Doors are open for kleptocracy in America
February 6, 2025 at 8:27 PM
And there it is: Doors are open for kleptocracy in America
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Naming employees is not, in fact, doxxing, and if you think it is you’re absolutely a moron.
February 6, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Naming employees is not, in fact, doxxing, and if you think it is you’re absolutely a moron.