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Waldo Jaquith
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Thought follower. Public servant. Male software developer. Alumnus of 18F, the Obama White House, Georgetown's Beeck Center, U.S. Digital Response, the Biden-Harris Transition Team, and the Biden administration. He/him. Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Aaand I’m muting
November 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
I am seeing bad-faith replies to this from people telling me why data centers are bad. Yes, I am extremely well versed on this topic. I am saying that the level of anger from people exceeds what I would expect.
November 26, 2025 at 6:40 PM
D’oh, thanks
November 26, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Correction: Senate Minority Leader, of course, not House.
November 26, 2025 at 6:32 PM
On matters of local planning, we do have a long history of directing anger at the entirely wrong groups.
November 26, 2025 at 5:44 PM
B something I don’t see represented on Bluesky is how much people despise data centers being built near them, or even being proposed. It’s a level of anger that I can’t really grasp. And it’s happening all over the country. Will people extend that anger to e.g. ChatGPT? 🤷🏼‍♂️
November 26, 2025 at 2:32 PM
That URL loads fine for me.
November 26, 2025 at 12:54 AM
It is confusing to know when to call people what they wanted to be called, if their preference was established under oppressive patriarchy.
November 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Huh, so maybe my phone sometimes decides to ignore that setting. It's funny how fast I can tell—I've got enough facial asymmetry that my face looks absolutely wrong to me in photos, so when I look at a photo and think "ah, yes, that's my face as I know it," that's how I know it is *not* correct. :)
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Ah-ha, I got took by a cropped photo.

I wish I understood why my iPhone selfies are sometimes mirror-reversed, and sometimes not. I've never found any logic to that.
November 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
I really need to adopt the phrase "small language models" in my vocabulary.
November 25, 2025 at 8:32 PM