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Matt Henry 🥄
@matthenry.fyi
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Tech, law, philosophy, and abolition. I do design systems engineering for the government. I’m a proud fed, but this is (obviously?) a personal account. he/him
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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · Nov 17
Ok, quick intro post:

Hi 👋. I'm a technologist working to improve the public's experience of US government digital services. Before that, I used to be a public defender and worked in criminal justice reform.

I like using tech for good and dislike tech that promotes inequality and immiseration.
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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 5h
Since this post found new attention today, I should cite to @inbedwiththeright.bsky.social’s indispensable (if grim) Project 1933 series, chronicling what was going on month to month in Germany in 1933.
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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 11h
I’d be all over this if I was a devops person.
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Suffolk LIT Lab @suffolklitlab.org · 14h
🚨 Cool Job Alert! 🚨 Are you a DevOps engineer? We're looking¹ for someone to help scale our open-source access to justice work.² Not a DevOps engineer? I bet you can repost this to someone who is.

¹ jobs.jobvite.com/suffolkunive... job listing
² www.youtube.com/watch?v=AECH... sample of what we do
Suffolk University is looking for DevOps Engineer, Legal Innovation and Technology Lab – Clinical Fellow (Remote).
Suffolk University is looking for DevOps Engineer, Legal Innovation and Technology Lab – Clinical Fellow (Remote). Learn more or Jobvite a friend.
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Suffolk LIT Lab @suffolklitlab.org · 14h
🚨 Cool Job Alert! 🚨 Are you a DevOps engineer? We're looking¹ for someone to help scale our open-source access to justice work.² Not a DevOps engineer? I bet you can repost this to someone who is.

¹ jobs.jobvite.com/suffolkunive... job listing
² www.youtube.com/watch?v=AECH... sample of what we do
Suffolk University is looking for DevOps Engineer, Legal Innovation and Technology Lab – Clinical Fellow (Remote).
Suffolk University is looking for DevOps Engineer, Legal Innovation and Technology Lab – Clinical Fellow (Remote). Learn more or Jobvite a friend.
jobs.jobvite.com
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Asawin Suebsaeng @swin24.bsky.social · 12h
there is a government shutdown with no end in sight and it’s not even really the lead story rn because the president can’t stop invading American cities for no reason other than spite
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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 13h
Rachel News is never gonna let this one go
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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 13h
This example isn’t from a blue state, but it’s not far-fetched to imagine this happening in one—especially at the county/sheriff level bsky.app/profile/matt...
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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 18d
When the nazis were coming into power, there was a lag before local law enforcement was fully on board. People were able to get police protection from nazi-aligned paramilitaries. Here, today, police look at rising fascism and say “Finally. We’ve been waiting for this.” www.notus.org/democrats/me...
Democrats' New Fear: They Can’t Rely on Local Law Enforcement for Protection
“They called the local sheriff; they showed up and were going to arrest me,” said Rep. Steven Horsford.
www.notus.org
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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 2d
Day 4 of furlough: watching the new V/H/S at 11AM. Extremely normal stuff.
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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 4d
🫡🫡🫡
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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 5d
Day 3 of furlough:

“I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.” -Hitchhiker's Guide
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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 5d
“Proper” political messaging: partisan banners on federal government websites blaming dems for the shutdown
Improper “political” messaging: a rainbow flag
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 5d
Kash Patel fired an FBI agent in training for displaying a gay pride flag on his desk while appointed to a field office in California last year. The trainee,who previously worked as an FBI support specialist in Los Angeles, received a letter claiming he had displayed an improper “political” message.
Kash Patel fires FBI agent trainee for displaying gay pride flag
The FBI employee was fired on the first day of the government shutdown as President Trump threatened more terminations.
www.msnbc.com
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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 6d
Day 2
an orange circle with a smiley face in the middle
Alt: an orange circle with a smiley face in the middle, vibrating with anxiety :comfy-nervous:
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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 7d
Day 1 of furlough
Ben Wyatt (from Parks & Rec) shrugs, looking disheveled in his iconic Letters to Cleo t-shirt
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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 8d
They absolutely rip live. Cameron solo is also great
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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 8d
Remember when it was outrageous partisan overreach to use a government website to say that voting is good and to tell people how to do it? www.politico.com/news/2024/06...
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 8d
a government run by internet trolls, for internet trolls.
message on the hud.gov homepage right now: "The Radical Left are going to shut down the government and inflict massive pain on the American people unless they get their $1.5 trillion wish list of demands. The Trump administration wants to keep the government open for the American people."
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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 8d
I agree that it is probably not a Hatch Act problem. One could argue however that it is lobbying with appropriated funds www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/...
18 U.S. Code § 1913 - Lobbying with appropriated moneys
www.law.cornell.edu
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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · Feb 19
what a time to be alive (derogatory)
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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 9d
“Am I watching flickering shadows upon a cave wall that are different from the true nature of The Forms?”
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 10d
I have been haunted by this statement all day www.kgw.com/article/news...
Local News Trump seems to back off Portland military plan: 'Am I watching things on television that are different from what's happening?'
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David Gilbert @davidgilbert.bsky.social · 13d
NEW

WIRED led the way in reporting on Elon Musk's efforts to dismantle the US government. My colleagues and I spoke to 100s of employees at dozens of agencies to understand what happened.

This is the definitive story of DOGE as told by those who experienced it

www.wired.com/story/oral-h...
The Story of DOGE, as Told by Federal Workers
WIRED spoke with more than 200 federal workers in dozens of agencies to learn what happened as the Department of Government Efficiency tore through their offices.
www.wired.com
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Corinne Blalock @corinneblalock.bsky.social · 15d
surprising no one, this is excellent

www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 17d
Me: I play video games for the story
Me playing a story-driven game: idk what’s happening but the quest marker says I gotta go that way
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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 18d
When the nazis were coming into power, there was a lag before local law enforcement was fully on board. People were able to get police protection from nazi-aligned paramilitaries. Here, today, police look at rising fascism and say “Finally. We’ve been waiting for this.” www.notus.org/democrats/me...
Democrats' New Fear: They Can’t Rely on Local Law Enforcement for Protection
“They called the local sheriff; they showed up and were going to arrest me,” said Rep. Steven Horsford.
www.notus.org
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Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com · 19d
🦊

I’ve decided it’s past time I start describing “artificial intelligence” as a failed technology, and I’d like you to join me.

ethanmarcotte.com/wrote/agains...
Against the protection of stocking frames. — ethanmarcotte.com
“Artificial intelligence” is a failed technology. It’s time we described it that way.
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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 19d
Karl Rove of all people told us it’s the French theorists’ world we’re all living in
The aide said that guys like me were 'in what we call the reality-based community,' which he defined as people who 'believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality.' [...] 'That's not the way the world really works anymore,' he continued. 'We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors...and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do'.
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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 19d
It’s wild how if you take away the obscurantism and goofy neologisms, so much of Baudrillard could just be a nearly journalistic description of this moment in history.
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Matt Henry 🥄 @matthenry.fyi · 20d
Thanks so much, Ethan. There are a million tragedies large and small unfolding all the time here, but I'll definitely always be grateful I got to do this work *and* to call you a colleague and friend 💜
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