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  I appreciate that the work is very hard, but can anyone tell me why weather.gov continues to be a terrible product? The answer isn’t “because there are commercial sites where people can get the same information.” The home page has three “here’s how not to die” product features—this is public health education stuff that needs to be taught—and all of them are in tiny text on mobile. Who is working to fix this? Do they need any support?

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  @Kleen I suspect they are drastically overestimating the cost of a rebuild. By a factor of 10 or more.

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  @MattHodges @waldoj this reminds me of the social dynamic on Wikipedia a bit. “Hey, we got norms around here, newcomer. Silly, stupid norms that make this place worse, and you WILL respect them!”

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  What’s a digital tool or product that everyone but you seems to use? My answer: Venmo

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  In an attempt to use all social media less, I recently deleted my Mastodon app from my phone and I won't be here as often for a while. Maybe a week, maybe a year. Dunno.

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  "INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY!" You say that. But have you read the indictment? The suggestion that Menendez resign isn't simply about the possibility that he committed a crime. It's about the (very, very strong!) possibility that HE'S A FOREIGN AGENT WHILE CHAIRING THE SENATE FOREIGN RELATIONS COMMITTEE.

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  Well, so much for that idea. On to some other last ditch effort to save the republic.

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  I’m soliciting volunteers for an anti-fascist project. The goal is to beat the bastards. The needed skills are: * Social media APIs * Social media data engineering and analysis * Cloud engineering * AI engineering, including model training, text generation, image generation and video generation Are you great at any of these things? Are you fed up with the dipshit fascists running your country, but you don’t know what to do about it? Reply with your Signal ID. Plz RT