Evan Genest

it’s up to us to organize and act:
we tax the rich so our families, not their fortunes, come first,
No ICE. No war. No private army serving authoritarian power.
Expand democracy.
Hands off our vote.

#mayday #resist #strike #boycott

“ You are not giving up, and neither am I. The fact that we cannot save everything does not mean we cannot save anything and everything we can save is worth saving.”
-Rebecca Solnit

#Solnit #resist #nokings

My three dudes. Eating mostly.
#cats

Barriques, near the capitol
#madisonwi #soap #sink #bathroom

“So I think the earliest lesson I had in Australia was the cultural elements of how Australians win.
In Australia, they are very, about everyone succeeding, that no one should achieve more than the rest.
And so they actually have a phrase called the tall poppy syndrome.
If a poppy gets too tall, the other poppies strangle it to pull it down because they don't want it to create shade over the other poppies.
They want all of the poppies of the field to rise at the same time.”

From Women in Customer Success Podcast: 142 - You're Never Too Senior to Be a Rep: Leadership Lessons with Cynthia Taylor, Sep 3, 2025
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/women-in-customer-success-podcast/id1511055925?i=1000724693433&r=636

#csm #saas #sales #australia

The
Real
Facebook
Oversight
Board

“ Mark Zuckerberg had recently announced the creation of Facebook's
"Supreme Court" an oversight board designed to take content moderation to an independent court-style setup. That board addressed the wrong issue: content, which had never really been the problem. The first problem was the company's distribution model: an oversight board on content could never match the speed of the dissemination of information online.”

HOW TO STAND UP TO A
DICTATOR
THE FIGHT FOR OUR FUTURE
MARIA RESSA

#meta #facebook #polarization #democracy #resist #nokings

Hello from Madison, Wisco

#fascism #antifascism #holiday #love #voces #immigrants #mayday

“ If there's a way to turn the mobilizations that we see in No King's Day or around May Day into some kind of ongoing democratic organization, we'll be on the way to what we need, building power democratically.

“Everybody should go out and Google a book called Out Now by Fred Halstead. And if you want to see how an internal, democratically run movement made decisions at a mass level to plan mass protests. He wasn't right about everything and there were limits to that tactic of single day mass mobilizations.
But to get a sense of what a truly participatory, mass democratic movement with different political currents fighting with each other, but also then creating common cause. You can't do better than start with that book by Fred Halstead called Out Now.”

From Bread & Roses Too: Challenges of Beating Trumpism * Working Class Resistance to ICE & Building May Day Strong, Apr 7, 2026
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/bread-roses-too/id1875448478?i=1000760136857&r=1968

#union #organizing #resist #indivisible

https://djshadow.bandcamp.com/album/our-pathetic-age
#dj #beats #drumming #90s

“We called ourself a Do-a racy: if somebody has an idea about what should happen, that's great. Are you willing to do it?

“Because anybody can have an idea. I have a thousand ideas a day.
But if you actually connect with your community, you're willing to set up the meeting, reserve the room, get the pizza, do the recruitment, run the agenda, do the follow-up, that’s what it looks like to actually build power”

From What's The Plan? with Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin: How to Stop American Concentration Camps, Apr 24, 2026
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whats-the-plan-with-leah-greenberg-and-ezra-levin/id1869456664?i=1000763446194&r=2600

#adhd #gtd #resist #organizing #fascism #nokings #mayday

Structure for soliciting:

* Light, non-threatening intro
* Anchor question (creates doubt)
* What it actually is (business-focused, not tool-focused)
* What they get (clarity, decision support)
* Effort reassurance (you do the work)
* Soft ask

#canvassing #email #organizing

“The Wisconsin State Journal reports that in April, the state experienced more tornadoes than it sees in a typical year. An average of 23 tornadoes are identified in Wisconsin annually, but between April 13th and 18th, there were 24 confirmed tornadoes across the state, and the month isn't even over yet. As part of the storm system that crossed the state last week, Milwaukee received more than five inches of rain, making it the rainiest April on record for the city, based on data going back to 1871.”

From WORT Local News: Multicultural fashion show embraces radical self-expression, Apr 21, 2026
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/wort-local-news/id1522071681?i=1000762977130&r=128
This material may be protected by copyright.
#wisconsin #milwaukee #climate #tornado #flood

Now Playing on #wortfm

Make You Feel My Love
Bob Dylan covering Adele!
Love Songs 2014

CORRECTION: So it turns out it's written by Dylan and Adele was the 200th person to cover it. All good. Great song. Love to folks still building pop culture as old people.

#madisonwi #radio #covers

Great set.
Radio France flips to Jazz after dinner.
https://www.radiofrance.fr/francemusique

Nicolas Gardel
Monk mezcla
Arthur Guyard (Piano), Thibaud Soulas (Contrebasse), Julien Garin (Batterie), Thelonious Monk (compositeur)
Album: Mano figa (2025)

Dave Adewumi (compositeur)
The vine
Joel Ross (Vibraphone), Linda May Han Oh (Contrebasse), Marcus Gilmore (Batterie)
Album: The flame beneath the silence (2026)

Dave Adewumi (compositeur)
Infinite loop
Joel Ross (Vibraphone), Linda May Han Oh (Contrebasse), Marcus Gilmore (Batterie)
Album: The flame beneath the silence (2026)
Label: Giant Step Arts

Nicole Johänntgen
Henry
Jon Ramm (Trombone), Steven Glenn (Sousaphone), Paul Thibodeaux (Batterie)
Album: Henry (2016)
Label: NICOLE JOHANNTGEN

#jazz #france #radio #working #focus

“We're saying if you knew your model was particularly risky, you have to take action on that. This includes providing third-party audits: you can put up whatever standard you want, you can assert that you're going to follow it, but someone else should check your work, not the government, but just a different party should come in the same way we have financial audits, the same way we have SOC 2 security audits, that another party needs to look at and say, yes, you are following this.”

From The Ezra Klein Show: Why Are Palantir and OpenAI Scared of Alex Bores?, Apr 21, 2026
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-ezra-klein-show/id1548604447?i=1000762591811&r=1571
This material may be protected by copyright.

Up to 40% of individuals with schizophrenia develop diabetes, likely due to antipsychotic treatment and lifestyle factors.

First-episode schizophrenia typically occurs between ages 18-25 for males and 25-35 for females.

Global prevalence of schizophrenia is approximately 0.7% of the population, affecting ~24 million people worldwide.

https://worldmetrics.org/schizophrenia-statistics/

#schizophrenia #mentalillness #health

Been liking the youth channel, esp the bilingual morning show, on Austria 4 lately. Playing Calvin Harris right now.

"Getting up with someone who cares. Dein unterhaltsamer Start in den Tag mit Gästen, Spielen, Comedy, aktuellen Themen und News in Englisch und Deutsch."

https://fm4.orf.at/player

#language #songs #german #germanLanguage

https://www.monumental-moment.com/

“we're all on, again, the platforms are actually watching What Makes You Mad so that they can feed that to more people to make them mad. So think about how you opt out of that cycle of feeding the things that most aggravate you personally, because there's a lot of people who are currently making money off of that endless dooming cycle, and you can interrupt that with your own eyeballs.”

From What's The Plan? with Leah Greenberg and Ezra Levin: How to Stop American Concentration Camps, Apr 24, 2026
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/whats-the-plan-with-leah-greenberg-and-ezra-levin/id1869456664?i=1000763446194&r=2575
This material may be protected by copyright.

NY Times photo, circa 2010

https://www.albertanativenews.com/everyone-has-a-dream-indigenous-youth-gather-in-celebration-and-culture-at-2025-teepee-summit/
#canada #youth

“Representative Joe Morelli, a fellow New Yorker and close ally of House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, who is the top ranking Democrat on the House Administration Committee, will lead the task force along with Kevin Mullen of California, Delia C. Ramirez of Illinois, and Nikkima Williams of Georgia.
Also on the task force are the top ranking Democrat on House Oversight and Reform Committee, Robert Garcia of California, and the top ranking Democrat on the Judiciary Committee, Jamie Raskin of Maryland, as well as Congressional Progressive Caucus members, Greg Kassar of Texas, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez of New York, and the head of the moderate New Democrat Coalition, Brad Schneider of Illinois. They will be looking into self-dealing like Trump's current negotiations with the Internal Revenue Service to settle the $10 billion lawsuit he filed against it after an IRS contractor during his first term leaked some of his tax information, along with that of more than 400,000 other taxpayers, to two news outlets during Trump's first term.”

From Letters from an American: Crises in the Wings, Apr 18, 2026
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/letters-from-an-american/id1730358737?i=1000762166818&r=297

#corruption #grift #maga #taxes #taxpayer #deficit

"McCraven and his collaborators (Jeff Parker on guitar, Marquis Hill on trumpet, longtime associate Junius Paul on bass) are more intent on an immersive experience. Fuzzy and amorphous, genres, generations, machines, masters and new kids all intertwine. Utilizing his mastery of the studio, McCraven applies a mysterious technique that gives nothing away, yet brings all this remarkable music into the light." - reviewed on KUTX FM by -Jeff McCord

Listen
https://intlanthem.bandcamp.com/album/universal-beings

Tons of text content, on KUTX
https://kutx.org/author/jmccord/

Much cleaner output from AI if you add this qualifier to the prompt:

Ingest this meeting transcript.
Produce a list of things we know about how this customer uses analytics.
THE LISTS SHOULD STAY IN A SINGLE LEVEL OF INDENTATION: NO SUBLISTS.

#adhd #prompt

Speaking calmly in public:

“First, I take some deep belly breaths. The breath out should take twice as long as the breath in. You only need to do 3 or 4 of these."

"Second, I do my best to interact with somebody to have a conversation. It gets me focused. If it's somebody who's part of the audience, even better because I realize these are normal human beings who want to learn something from me, rather than judges who are there to evaluate."

"And then I say tongue twisters. to warm up my voice, and you can't say a tongue twister right and not be in the present moment."

"I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit."

From Masters of Scale: How to think faster and talk smarter, with Matt Abrahams, Apr 2, 2026
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/masters-of-scale/id1227971746?i=1000758815134&r=508
This material may be protected by copyright.
#teaching #leaders #focus #management

I said this to my LLM but I think I would do well to say similar things to real people: "compared to how I treat you, how would you like to be treated"?

Listening Mistakes Costing You Trust, Deals and Influence | R. Mullender on Episode 69 of Thriving Minds with Alberto Zandi
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoOsP7CmUo0

#listening #negotiating #facilitation

I
love
Matomo
Crash Analytics feature
because YOU CAN SEGMENT
the errors table
here we see
Android
vs iOS

https://matomo.org/faq/reports/crash-analytics-for-matomo-cloud/
#matomo #errors #web #analytics #posthog #sdk #Ios

Ira N. Brophy's study, "The Luxury of Anti-Negro Prejudice', Public Opinion Quarterly, Vol. 9, Issue 4 (1945).

As cited in the 2019 book
Humankind: A Hopeful History
by Rutger Bregman

#justice #white #black #yimby #housing #cars #segregation

“Even though birds do rely on acoustics and hearing quite strongly, your typical bird hears about half as well as we do.”

From BirdNote Daily podcast: How Noise Pollution Affects Birds, May 7, 2026

#birds

In 2007, people spoke an average of 16,000 words a day. Now people aged 10 to 90 average around 12,700 words a day, according to psychologists at the University of Arizona

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/17456916261425131

#future #facebook #social

https://z.org/timeline

For a letter grade, I would say my workplace has an okay Slack culture: B-

I wish I could get paid to take care of it and improve it. That, seriously, might be my dream job.

Ideas to try:
1. Use Beyond Compare to look at pairs of channels and who belongs to them
2. Find a few healthy users* and do a screenshare interview, edit it down brutally to 40 seconds each and show three of them at the next all hands meeting.

#todo #slack #workplace #communication

How to search in your own Mastodon feed for a word in a post: e.g. find posts with "emotional" in the site @mistergenest@c.im

emotional from:mistergenest

⚠️ Caveat: Mastodon search only works on posts your instance already knows about (local + federated context)
#search #fediverse

“At Cloudflare we are hiring over 1,111 interns. why? We're pairing each of the interns with a more senior member of our team, because usually the mentorship goes from senior to junior. We think it's going to be completely different this year.”

(1.1.1.1)

From Masters of Scale: The internet is breaking. So what’s next? with Cloudflare’s Matthew Prince, Mar 31, 2026
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/masters-of-scale/id1227971746?i=1000758390561&r=1031
This material may be protected by copyright.
#unemployment #jobs #ai #cloudflare

Check the occupation, the implied gender, and the final line of verse 2 in "Island Girl". Not what you expected? Violent and subversive story of a sex worker from Elton John who took it to Number 1 pop hit from 1975. Concept extended later by the Ramones in "53rd and 3rd".

https://www.songfacts.com/lyrics/elton-john/island-girl

"You feel her nail scratch your back just like a rake, oh oh
He one more gone, he one more john who make the mistake"

#sexworker #gender #eltonjohn

Integrating Matomo Cloud MCP with Mistral AI in less than 10 seconds

#AI #mcp #matomo #googleanalytics #marketing #data

What a great set. I love fip.fr

Prince - Cream (1981)
Denise Lasalle- I'm so hot(1980)
Malka Family- Papaya
Ike- Clay (2026)
Olu Dara- Young mama (1998)
Grand Funk Railroad- Feeling alright (1971)
Malted Milk- It's alright (2026)

#fip #radiofrance #prince #paris

Good color for signs.
Get paper, white waterproof paint or tempera and fixer

1. Don't look into Pandora's box (learned that from a children's encyclopedia in 1973)
2. Before judging, remember you never know other people's troubles (learned that from a Plato bumpersticker in 2002)
3. Don't lie. (learned that in Buddhism class in 2005)

#threegoodthings

"The very structures of knowledge production (conferences, panels, theoretical frameworks, the categories of analysis) were reproducing the hierarchies they claimed to oppose."

Tara Tarakiyee explaining part of the Audre Lord, 1979 speech which gives us *tools of the master cannot dismantle the master's house* quote.

https://tarakiyee.com/on-the-enshittification-of-audre-lorde-the-masters-tools-in-tech-discourse/

#nonprofit #blindspot #conundrum #madison