He can open doors 😭 the reason the microwave works is a combination of ours being under-cabinet (hard to reach) and the press-a-button-then-pull-the-door complexity 😅

at this point in my life it's worth having a microwave even just to keep the cat from stealing my food

A coffee shop in downtown Oakland used to have the best Turkish delight I've ever had, SO fresh and chewy, and it went away last spring but I currently live in daily hope that it was seasonal and will be back any time now.

Times are hard right now in so many ways, but everyone has something they can do to make life just a little bit easier for somebody else. Let's do those things together. ❤️

Members of our privacy commission just resigned because they didn't feel heard, and burnout is real. We all have a responsibility, even if we can't devote our entire lives to fixing these problems, to tag in when we can and make sure our skills are available to keep the whole community's needs met.

The presence of city and county officials in conversation with local tech leaders this week is a sign that local leaders are willing and ready to pursue those options.

We have to keep the pressure on, though.

Last night at the Kapor Center, Phil Sanders of @newmediaventures.bsky.social spoke to ways entrepreneurs and nonprofits in our community choose privacy and invest in community protection. My key takeaway this week so far is that we have the resources to pursue that on the city and county scales.

I'm hopeful that the disagreements we're seeing here are not a values gap; we all agree that we want our neighbors unharmed. We have an information disparity: some people think there's a trade-off, and the community will be harmed by individuals if we choose resilience to this institutional harm.

People arguing against Flock, however, are arguing against both the clear and present harms as well as potential for future harms caused by Flock's data sharing practices and trash-tier security posture. Many of these people know about alternatives, but Flock promoters often don't.

Something that jumped out to me in these discussions is that people supporting Flock aren't actually arguing for *Flock*; they're arguing for ALPR systems generally, for aggressive police follow-up on tips, and for our community to recognize the interconnected nature of many local crimes.

Today, instead of going to an official event, I took my morning to go to the @cityofoakland.bsky.social Rules & Legislation committee meeting, where it had been rumored there would be an attempt to revive the proposal to expand our city's Flock contract (which died in committee earlier this week).

Thank you! Just downloaded it and checked the route this post about about—it recommends my preferred travel path! We have a winner! 🎉

Thank you so much, Richard!

(but really) I'm honored to be a part of this community and hope to continue participating in it for a long time to come ✨

Oh absolutely! And because the talks tend to be more broad-principles-and-practices-based rather than focused on very specific things like a new language feature, they stay useful for years to come! Part of my post-event processing is usually focused on how similar talks have shifted across years.

Ohhhhhh okay, well, the whole entire thing is worth watching for sure. Thanks for the clarification!