Evan Genest

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Artificial Intelligence, Programming, Digital Technology, Robotics, Cybersecurity...

#til #security #javascript #linux

https://www.cityofmadison.com/dpced/planning/documents/MadisonMadness_Flyer_English_Spanish.pdf

#madisonwi #bracket

Mark Leibovitz, Why Do Democrats Hate Winning, March 2026 The Atlantic

“My attempt to assess how the Democrats had managed to so thoroughly marginalize themselves.

“No matter how eager they were to resist Trump, they kept living up to their worst image as an overly sensitive, out-of-touch, and terminally online band of myopic and overindulged factions.”
#democrats #authoritarianism

“Let's go to David's question. In the call with Erica Chinnweth in January, Ezra said that Indivisible is internally preparing for a lot of threats to the election infrastructure for these midterms. Wow, you quoted me directly.
What is the status of those preparations?”

From What's The Plan? with Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin: What does No Kings III have to do with Iran?, Mar 13, 2026
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“it is the current position of the Democrats in Congress that they would welcome a bill to fund TSA, to fund the non-ICE, non-CBP portions of this DHS funding bill if Republicans would allow them to.
It is the Republicans who refuse to allow that kind of funding bill to even get a vote. So if you are worried about TSA agents not getting a check, you should be worried. That should piss you off.
And it's not the Democrats who are causing it. It is the Republicans who are holding hostage that funding because they want to fund a secret police force that murders Americans and terrorize communities.”

From What's The Plan? with Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin: What does No Kings III have to do with Iran?, Mar 13, 2026
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#dhs #shutdown #indivisible #resist

“Doppelgänger is at the wheel now”

“It created a tremendous space in which power could be built sort of in private with different rules. And then I feel like it exploded into dominance after the election.”

Naomi Klein on Trumpism and Our Age of ‘Unlikely Bedfellows’, Mar 20, 2026
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id1548604447?i=1000756300530&r=1330
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#naomiklein #resist

Learning a lot about cookies and consent managers today in Matomocamp 2022!

https://video.matomocamp.org/w/55yLTdxSPh4ntJZRr5Gf1Q

Johan Westin from whitespace.se agency.

#matomo #martech #gdpr #privacy #javascript #browser

New secret spot at 2352 S Park Street!

1. Real Jamaican Blu Mountain beans, at Rasta Barista
2. At 3 pm the barista closes and the Wine Bar + Cupcakes opens next door

#madisonwi #wine

“Google should just open up their search index and that is one of the US DoJ proposals now.”

“otherwise, if that doesn't happen, basically the expectation for any new search startup would be to rebuild the entire index of the web.
Which is a monumental task and super hard to do. So hard that Microsoft tried doing that for the last 20 years and spent 100 billion and still got nowhere. Like the quality is still pretty bad.”

“And I really think that that one would solve a lot of problems as well as proliferate a very healthy search landscape. Because if that happened, then anyone could basically bootstrap a search engine. And you would have a search engine for a small town that somebody would build just optimizing for that small town or a small niche, like cats.”

“it's almost impossible for a startup to do that. But it would be akin to asking a, someone before they put a train on the tracks to rebuild the entire track”

From Timetable: Episode 137: Vladimir Prelovac, May 29, 2025
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/timetable/id1072855651?i=1000710461091&r=1361
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#bigtech #antitrust #ftc #consumer #monopoly

https://github.com/kagisearch/smallweb

“Downranking sites that have lots of ads and trackers, and raising the ranking of sites that don't, including the Small Web, probably describes the 90% of Kagi algorithm.

From Timetable: Episode 137: Vladimir Prelovac, May 29, 2025
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/timetable/id1072855651?i=1000710461091&r=1107
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#kagi #search #privacy #bigtech #smallweb #blogs

“Oh as an ex staffer I think it's perfectly valid and appropriate to call senators and representatives repeatedly on the same issue. That call is going to go in, you know, as most likely as one person, depending on how they track it. It may be up to the staffer whether they're actually recording each time that you call on the same issue.
And also, we're going for overall volume a lot of times with this,”

From What's The Plan? with Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin: What does No Kings III have to do with Iran?, Mar 13, 2026
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We see you, shittifiers.
This is the part which says if I buy your automobile, I cannot paint a stripe on it, drive it to a store you don’t own, or even add seat coverings.

But maybe a stronger analogy, because the software is addictive and extractive, would be to say I agree to have sex with this person and never use a condom.

First heard this principal from Cory Doctorow of EFF in the Ezra Klein interview last month.
#privacy #bigtech #enshitification

For that hard to buy for person. (You?)

https://shop.minimuseum.com/

#gifts #partner #birthday

The four emotional types.
1. The Analytical: Precision!
2. The Driver: Results!
3. The Amiable: Harmony!
4. The Expressive: Innovation!

Robin Hills is a solid, calm explainer of how to apply these four types in the real world. He's on Udemy but may be cheaper elsewhere. My work paid for the course.

#types #emotions #enneagram #astrology #gtd #udemy

How today started
#madisonwi

Posted by Jake, One album for every year he has been alive, 1980 to now.

https://record.club/jake4480/lists/one-album-for-every-year-ive-been-alive

#blackflag #punk #beck #theroots #illadelphia

“well-being economy government's movement.
It's Scotland and Iceland and Canada, New Zealand and Wales and, you know, sort of a growing, a small but growing movement. And so, I wanted to understand, well, okay, well, what does work look like in a well-being economy? And more specifically, what does care, what, you know, gender equality, what does that look like when you put human and well-being at the center of your equation?
And so, it was fascinating. What I found was that there was this recognition early on of how critical and important care is, paid and unpaid care. And care work, paid care work, you know, it's a poverty job.
You know, you've got child care workers in the United States who earn less than a parking lot attendant. You know, you've got home care workers who work seven days a week and are so poor that they qualify for Medicaid and, you know, public benefits and, you know, food nutrition. So they're poverty wage jobs.
They're carerable jobs. And it's such important work. And so that was one of the first things that Svetlana did is commit to making care jobs, good jobs.”

From New Books in Public Policy: Brigid Schulte, "Over Work: Transforming the Daily Grind in the Quest for a Better Life" (Henry Holt, 2024), Jan 20, 2025
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/new-books-in-public-policy/id425700062?i=1000684668602&r=3168
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I can't stop thinking about the time I saw Julius Caesar, here in Madison, with an all youth cast, and the role of Caesar himself played by a twelve year old local youth.

Could we not hire that same young fellow, reading PotUS's State of the Union speech, in real time, next time The Donald gives a live speech? The pint-sized actor would live read from a script that would be extremely factual real things from the actual real state of the real union.

#stateoftheunion #iran #shakespeare #youngshakespeareplayers #madisonwi