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Mike Stringer
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People, data science, and design. Critical friend of technology. Chicagoan.

Currently: dad, fractional leader, nerd
Previously: IDEO partner, Datascope cofounder, physicist, nerd
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What is Bríngitǒnic?
November 28, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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Related: www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTFa...
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November 28, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Who are the Stuck Temple Violets?
June 6, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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My kids read *a lot* of ebooks that we currently check out using Libby. Also, we love the public library and don’t want to fleece it. Is there a way we can do it differently as patrons that doesn’t fleece the library?
January 30, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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Same! This prompted me to check www.mediacloud.org, which I think is meant to help with questions like this. It looks like about 1 out of 6 stories about the fires mention climate change (if I'm using it correctly...)
two charts showing the counts of news articles that mention "fires AND los angeles" and "climate change AND los angeles". There is a big jump up on Jan 7, when the fires started. The percentage of news stories mentioning "fires and LA" is about 3%, and the percentage of news stories mentioning "climate change AND LA" is about 0.5%.
January 12, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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I jotted down these notes a few weeks ago when I was trying to decide if I want to be on here. Sharing in case they're helpful.

It's OK (but not great) at what I put down as my #1 reason, but feels like it's maybe improving.
Why would I want be on bluesky? Some thoughts: - #1 reason is as a source for links + finding people who make interesting things. I think of it like a high-volume RSS feed of a link-blog that that’s collectively generated by those I choose to follow. I don't feel the need to comprehensively read it: I can dip into it. If I follow someone, it's not necessarily an "endorsement", just that I get an impression that somebody might add something that I find interesting in the moment to that collective, or is part of an interesting community of people. Be intentional about follows, the choice of who to follow is the main way of influencing this part of my information diet. - A sense of the zeitgeist: overall, and in different communities or different topics (vibe-o-meter). - I really like following funny/weird bots, e.g. "Why can't I hold all these?" on mastodon, Youtube glitch. Anything by Kate Compton or Darius Kazemi. FrontPagesBot. - Sharing things I make/write. I made it, might as well share it. I am bad at this and think I'd like to improve. When I do this, it feels good to get a few likes/reposts. Even when I'm writing primarily to myself, putting a link "out there" feels like a sense of closure. - "Tiny acts of goodness”. I share what I personally think is good/valuable/beautiful/true/funny/thoughtful. Some things I consider it a "public service" to amplify: try to include a highlight or some reason why I think it's worth sharing — but really I'm sharing because I'd love for others to read whatever I'm linking to! - I don't engage in all that much dialog, and it hasn't been very common for people to engage with me in dialog about the stuff I share, so this more overtly "social" part of social media isn't very important to me! I have pretty much all notifications off, and don't like to / am not good at being fast with replies (even to text messages... sorry friends). I'm open to changing that, though. - To tinker with the data. I'm interested in information network
December 23, 2024 at 4:54 AM
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And I didn't realize sharing links has been penalized. I wonder if that's an intentional choice, or something learned through less engagement?
December 22, 2024 at 8:40 PM