Patrick Atwater

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“*We know that there is no help for us but from one another, that no hand will save us if we do not reach out our hand. All you have is what you are, and what you give.*“ ~ Ursula LeGuin

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Is this POA on sora or...? Bit confused

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@edgecity did you guys or anyone at Esmeralda put together an edge fc starter pack by chance

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Grad school application a decade ago... never change young PAtwater! "I have become convinced, however, that those zany 90’s cybervisions were not wrong so much as premature and that the deep application of these tools to public problems will change, well, everything."

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Has paragraph been having email issues? I don't really pay that close attention with my subscribers https://blog.epr.net/im-sorry

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Is there a good ai tool to search for the gist of a specific cast from a specific user? Like please pull up every thing that VGR has said on AI and crypto being evil twins or something like that

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AI strengths: integration, insight from large data piles, quick iteration and smart enough AI weaknesses: actual 0-1 style innovation I have been mulling how crypto offers an evil twin to AI and a ledger to record various little new things

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Excellent and apropos wise words in this spirit: "The secretary said, ``Of course I can't help him; I don't get his mail. He won't give me the stuff to log in; I don't know where he puts it on the floor. Of course I can't help him.'' So I went to him and said, ``Look, if you adopt the present method and do what you can do single-handedly, you can go just that far and no farther than you can do single-handedly. If you will learn to work with the system, you can go as far as the system will support you.'' And, he never went any further. He had his personality defect of wanting total control and was not willing to recognize that you need the support of the system." https://www.cs.virginia.edu/~robins/YouAndYourResearch.html

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Sometimes I get emails in my dayjob that are so delightfully reminiscent of MacroData Refinement I can't help but smile. A younger, more brash version of myself would get angry at the inanity of multiple requests for the same simple information that HR already has access to. Now I see it as an opportunity to understand the system and how it might work better. Every problem is the seed of a solution

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Nice list of great datasets that are under threat. One example that's symbolically near and dear to my heart: "NOAA’s ARGO fleet of drifting buoys: Innovators in the autonomous shipping industry depend on NOAA data such as that collected by the Argo Fleet of drifting buoys – an international collaboration that measures global ocean conditions. These detailed data train AI algorithms to find the safest and most fuel-efficient ocean routes." https://essentialdata.us/getinvolved.html

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How quaint... "The Congress shall have Power... To declare War, grant Letters of Marque and Reprisal, and make Rules concerning Captures on Land and Water; To raise and support Armies, but no Appropriation of Money to that Use shall be for a longer Term than two Years; To provide and maintain a Navy"

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One super simple improvement that would be very useful is showing the dates that scheduled posts are set to go out on in a clean way. Right now it's not clear and a bit of a tax on one's memory

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What's the best aka easiest and laziest way to start vibe coding a working mini app?

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The Eaton Fire killed over 18 people, devasted over 10k homes, and destroyed the fabric of our civic soul. Watching as our elected leaders pointed fingers while blazes still burned, it's never been more clear that no one is coming to save us. Here's towards planting powerful seeds of change to pioneer digitally native practices and public institutions resilient enough to survive the coming storm.

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We need Wi-Fi to set up my air fryer on my smart oven. This is a parody.

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How far away is public works folks being Amazon-ed below the API? A lot of fixing potholes and utility work is routing and logistics and then a lot of SOPs. Not as simple as dropping off a package though some of the principles would translate.

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A New Kind of School for a New Kind of Crisis What if instead of another degree program with a fancy acronym, we built something different? Not a school in the traditional sense, but a protocol-native training initiative—adjacent to universities but unbound by their bureaucratic inertia. A place where learning happens by doing. Where simulations aren’t classroom exercises but full-scale rehearsals for reality. Imagine a wildfire crawling over Eaton Canyon. You’re not just reading about it in case studies. You’re responding to it in real time—running coordination protocols, navigating permitting pathways, deploying citizen UX flows that get information and aid where it needs to go. The fire is real in its simulation. The learning is real in its consequence. This isn’t fantasy. It’s rooted in precedent. A century ago, the Bureau of Municipal Research pioneered pragmatic reform from New York to Toronto. Their successors are out there now—latent, perhaps—but ready.

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BEHOLD THE POWER OF SOLAR PHOTOVOLTAICS

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This OG montrose peace vigil website is awesome: https://montrosepeacevigil.proboards.com/thread/788/guide-montrose-peace-vigil-online I went there for the first time tonight to keep up the momentum from the no kings movement.

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1/ The Edge is alive — and it’s happening now. In pop-up cities like Esmeralda, where climate futurists, civic hackers, and parents with toddlers gather to prototype new ways of living. But the real opportunity? Bringing that same spirit to anytown USA. 🧵

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