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Patrick McDougle

@pmcdougl.bsky.social

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Minnesotan, Software Engineer, Aspiring Aviator, City Nerd. He/Him/His. Opinions are my own and not official statements of any organization I am a member or employee of.

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Patrick McDougle @pmcdougl.bsky.social · 17h

❤️ Not trying to mansplain. Just trying to help since you seemed to be wrestling with your third choice and wanted to make sure you knew there was the blank option. You can also use blanks for protest. For example I vote blank, blank, Palmisano as my protest vote since she is running unopposed.

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Patrick McDougle @pmcdougl.bsky.social · 18h

If you have reservations I want to remind you you can just not have a 3rd choice. The ballot will be counted without that bubble being filled.

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Patrick McDougle @pmcdougl.bsky.social · 19h

Indoctrinating his children with elephants and "the right" 🧐

Patrick McDougle @pmcdougl.bsky.social · 20h

Fake cereal box with the name "Oops! All Bad Apples"

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Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 2d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Patrick McDougle @pmcdougl.bsky.social · 1d

The ranked choice strategy their electorate is aligned on is we prefer any of these 3 over the incumbent. There's a huge diversity in the order people will rank them because of how different they are.

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Wedge LIVE!™ @wedge.live · 2d

I've ranked Frey in prior elections bc I was dubious about rounding out my ballot with a crank. Won't surprise anyone that I haven't included him this year. I've seen too much. Even if you can't "not rank Frey" I hope you examine your options and drop him as low as you feel comfortable.

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Patrick McDougle @pmcdougl.bsky.social · 1d

We need more of this messaging, especially down in my neck of the woods (ward 13)

Patrick McDougle @pmcdougl.bsky.social · 1d

Were we this helpless when we were learning? This feels egregious. We're so busy teaching this generation knowledge, we forget to teach thinking.

Patrick McDougle @pmcdougl.bsky.social · 1d

Evil snow people?

a snowman wearing a top hat and glasses is holding a broom

Alt: Snow people melting in a similar style to the Nazis being melted in Raiders of the Lost Ark

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Patrick McDougle @pmcdougl.bsky.social · 2d

And get fired to take on these ghouls.

Patrick McDougle @pmcdougl.bsky.social · 2d

Certainly could have wished for a bigger fine, but now we have court testamony that this ghoul lives in Wayzata and shouldn't be meddling in our city's conventions.

Patrick McDougle @pmcdougl.bsky.social · 2d

Homeowner achievement unlocked: fixed my leaking toilet. Pray for no drips for the next few days.

Patrick McDougle @pmcdougl.bsky.social · 2d

Same. But I did light the pilot on my fireplace.

Patrick McDougle @pmcdougl.bsky.social · 2d

Won't comply with moving or the responsibility of being a door opener in case of an emergency? One of those feels much more severe than the other.

Patrick McDougle @pmcdougl.bsky.social · 2d

Apt that this uses a bubble chart.

Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 3d

NVIDIA and OpenAi:

Concerns that their “increasingly complex and interconnected web of business transactions is artificially propping up the trillion-dollar AI boom.“

@bloomberg.com $NVDA 👀
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Patrick McDougle @pmcdougl.bsky.social · 2d

It's clearly one of their fond memories.

Patrick McDougle @pmcdougl.bsky.social · 2d

"Candidates" + geolocation of Minneapolis are likely targeting criteria for those ads.

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Esther Schindler @estherschindler.bsky.social · 4d

I just saw someone use the abbreviation “AI;DR” and I’ll be laughing for a while.

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Patrick McDougle @pmcdougl.bsky.social · 4d

Also, congrats on your win. Blob Rushmore is pretty good. Though Roosevelt needs his glasses.

Patrick McDougle @pmcdougl.bsky.social · 4d

what game is this?

Patrick McDougle @pmcdougl.bsky.social · 4d

And if you rush over to southwest high school afterwards you can push back on copaganda in person.

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Hank Green @hankgreen.bsky.social · 5d

Really, truly amazing that OpenAI wants us to believe that they are worth a trillion dollars but also they are so desperate for revenue that they created an infinite SlopTok app that opens them up to a billion lawsuits just so that they can maybe someday make it even worse by filling it with ads.

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Patrick McDougle @pmcdougl.bsky.social · 5d

How long did you look for a 1000 question test?

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Patrick McDougle @pmcdougl.bsky.social · 5d

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