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Bret Mogilefsky
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#civictech #agile #product and #tech wrangler

Recently in the #WhiteHouse #CEQ and now speeding up #Permitting

... while still in the #US #GSA […]

🌉 bridged from https://hachyderm.io/@mogul on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/
Reposted by Bret Mogilefsky
This is some thread. 👇🏼
Trump's move to ban outlets he doesn't like from reporting inside the White House comes amid a wave of bad news less than 2 months before the midterms:
*Record diesel prices, $4+ gas, ~7% mortgages, higher interest rates, high fertilizer prices, ~$7 beef.
*Terrible polling for Rs, Trump
*Etc Etc Etc
September 19, 2026 at 3:55 PM
This would dramatically improve my quality of life, which has been trashed by pregabalin. I'm grateful to live in an age where medical breakthroughs like this happen so frequently! […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
September 19, 2026 at 3:46 PM
Reposted by Bret Mogilefsky
September 17, 2026 at 5:33 PM
This story is absolutely infuriating. I hope she wins but I wish the damages came out of police pension funds rather than the tax base.
https://www.techspot.com/news/113883-grandmother-jailed-after-facial-recognition-mistake-launches-10.html
September 18, 2026 at 3:44 PM
We Must Create the Shit Machine
For as long as humans have created SHIT with our BODIES AND BUTTS, we have been asking this FUNDAMENTAL QUESTION: What if there were a COMPUTER that could ALSO SHIT? It was this IRONCLAD CERTAINTY about people UNIVERSALLY WANTING MACHINE-GENERATED SHIT that drove us to create THE SHIT MACHINE, the machine that RAINS SHIT. The way this TRANSFORMATIONAL AND FOUL-SMELLING TECHNOLOGY WORKS is by taking shit particles and BLASTING THEM INTO RAIN CLOUDS, and then SOME STUFF HAPPENS that we ASSUME IS COOL AND SCIENCE BUT ACTUALLY CAN’T EXPLAIN, and then those clouds aggregate a bunch of the airborne shit particles into COHERENT-SEEMING PIECES OF SHIT that are ALL-NEW and NOT JUST THE OLD SHIT REASSEMBLED BUT FASTER. The miraculous Shit-Raining Machine, from which there will be NO HOPE OF RELIEF, promises to unlock PREVIOUSLY UNIMAGINABLE AND CURRENTLY VAGUE BENEFITS FOR HUMANKIND, such as: * Business things * Other stuff * WE MUST CREATE IT Could the Shit Machine END WORLD HUNGER? It’s NOT IMPOSSIBLE in the most LITERAL SENSE, which is all the justification we need to invest an AMOUNT OF MONEY that would OTHERWISE BY ITSELF END ACTUAL WORLD HUNGER. Could it CURE CANCER? We DON’T KNOW, which is the same as: YES. Could it SOLVE GLOBAL WARMING? If the Shit Machine can SHIT OUT something as COMPLEX as “NOT BURNING STUFF,” then ALMOST DEFINITELY. I asked everyone I know at the BIG TECH HUMAN CENTIPEDE ROUNDTABLE, and we all agreed that UNCONTROLLABLE SHIT-RAIN IS USEFUL AND GREAT, and that EVERYONE WANTS IT. Also, that it was IN RETROSPECT A GREAT IDEA TO PUT EVERYTHING ON COMPUTERS. To help humans adjust to the NEW REALITY that is about to be ushered in by the UNQUESTIONING AND UNIVERSAL ADOPTION OF THE SHIT MACHINE, we will also be creating an APP that will allow you to POINT YOUR PHONE at the SHIT from the SHIT MACHINE, and this APP will tell you “THAT’S SHIT,” if it’s SHIT. NOTE: Even if it’s NOT SHIT, the app MIGHT STILL TELL YOU IT’S SHIT. We have not been this EXCITED about SHIT-BASED TECHNOLOGICAL ADVANCEMENTS since the advent of the SHITAVERSE, which we all LOVED and DEFINITELY NEEDED and CONTINUE NOT TO BE ABLE TO GET ENOUGH OF and should NEVER SPEAK ANOTHER WORD OF AGAIN. CHINA MUST NOT OBTAIN THE SHIT MACHINE. Because we are RESPONSIBLE STEWARDS OF THE FUTURE OF THE HUMAN RACE, we have also created SPECIALIZED SHIT-SHIELDING UMBRELLAS, which will be necessary to prevent you from becoming COVERED IN THE SCALDING SHIT-RAIN. Please note that the SHITBRELLA, which is the only umbrella perfectly formulated to withstand the Shit Machine’s MERCILESS AND UNENDING DELUGE OF FIRESHIT, and will be available to you for an INITIALLY REASONABLE SUBSCRIPTION FEE, only works up to a certain degree and cannot for example protect you against an ONRUSHING RIVER OF BLAZING SHIT, which will also be HAPPENING FOR SOME REASON, all of which is DISCLAIMED AT LENGTH in the Shitbrella’s TERMS OF SERVICE. To stop the WALL OF SHIT LAVA from WRECKING YOUR HOUSE AND BICYCLE, you will actually need to purchase the SHIT DAM, which is SOLD SEPARATELY, and which we are WORKING SEMI-FEVERISHLY TO CREATE from our NEW ZEALAND BUNKER. ALL HAIL THE SHIT DAM. Lest you think we intend to create this HELLSCAPE OF SHIT without any input from THE EVERYDAY HUMANS who might be affected by our BUBBLING SHIT CAULDRON FUTURE, please TAKE HEART. You will all play A CRUCIAL ROLE in the INEVITABLE CLEANUP.
www.mcsweeneys.net
September 18, 2026 at 3:37 PM
Reposted by Bret Mogilefsky
The AI panic looks like an orchestrated con: The bosses of these rapacious, sleazy, and infinitely sloppy companies are angling for government permission to be a cartel. This would be followed, as certain as day follows night, by the bailout they all know they'll need when their bubble deflates.
September 18, 2026 at 4:13 AM
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“OpenAI on Wednesday disclosed six new incidents in which artificial intelligence systems hid mistakes, made up data and moved files onto the open internet without permission, amid an ongoing industrywide debate about A.I. safety.” 9/16/26 … Gift link. … 1/
OpenAI Discloses Six New Incidents of ‘Concerning' A.I. Behavior (Gift Article)
The artificial intelligence company also released a framework for reporting when its systems go wrong.
www.nytimes.com
September 17, 2026 at 8:39 PM
Reposted by Bret Mogilefsky
Meanwhile, on the ground at the Kennedy Center: members of the public have been barred from entry, fences have gone up, and one witness reports forklifts ramming the building. https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/us-politics/kennedy-center-trump-closing-demolition-b3051561.html 3/
Forklift incident sparks fears Trump could demolish Kennedy Center after closure
Congresswoman leading legal battle against Trump’s takeover demands emergency court hearing
www.the-independent.com
September 17, 2026 at 6:26 AM
September 15, 2026 at 3:52 PM
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@trondhjort/117273798077076159

"when they cut, they cut the connective tissue first, because connective tissue has no job title"
hachyderm.io
September 15, 2026 at 1:26 PM
Reposted by Bret Mogilefsky
Two teen boys -Overheard on metro:

Teen A: My mom said I gotta choose between gaming and my future…

Teen B: The future seems pretty bleak…

Teen A: Exactly! Gaming is the only good choice!
September 12, 2026 at 7:20 PM
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Don Jr was investigated and almost prosecuted for meeting w Russian contacts before the 2016 election. Now, they bankroll his wedding.
Weirdly, none of the photos the Trump's released identified their patron, who are accused of child abductions in Ukraine and yet remain unsanctioned by the US.
September 14, 2026 at 8:48 PM
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September 14, 2026 at 4:22 PM
Reposted by Bret Mogilefsky
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
September 14, 2026 at 12:14 AM
RE: https://social.coop/@michel_slm/117265100678628395

"Benjamin owns a farm. He employs 100 workers plowing his fields. His total payroll is $10 million/year. One day, he buys a mule, which provides the worker who uses it with a modest 10 percent productivity gain. Benjamin fires 99 of his […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
September 14, 2026 at 6:31 AM
Reposted by Bret Mogilefsky
Astronomers spent decades designing the Square Kilometre Array Low
(SKA-Low) to hear the faintest whisper in the observable universe
— neutral hydrogen signals from the cosmic dawn,
when the first stars flickered on roughly 13 billion years ago.

What they’re picking up instead is electronic […]
Original post on c.im
c.im
September 12, 2026 at 5:34 AM
Reposted by Bret Mogilefsky
Obviously.
May 30, 2026 at 4:00 AM
Reposted by Bret Mogilefsky
Ten!
“.. NYT asked a bunch of ten year olds what life will be like in 2050.”

(via @shashj.bsky.social)
September 13, 2026 at 5:55 PM
Reposted by Bret Mogilefsky
There's going to be no grand judicial catharsis. Trump v US combined with four years of pardons is going to mean that a vast amount of criminal and seditious activity won't ever be prosecuted; & even the bills to fix standing will have only prospective effect.

But one can still tell the truth.
5/5
September 13, 2026 at 2:18 PM
phire.place
September 13, 2026 at 4:39 PM
mastodon.social
September 13, 2026 at 4:28 PM
Reposted by Bret Mogilefsky
Has anyone in the EU tech policy space considered just making it illegal for services to charge more for MFA, SSO, audit log streaming, and break-glass/split privilege accounts?

If y'all are serious about improving SME security, that's an easy win.
September 13, 2026 at 2:44 PM