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willmuldoon @willmuldoon.bsky.social · 3h

5070ti 16gb! I'm stoked. Last card I bought was 2gb.

Using it for developing local secure ai.

But also gaming. I wanna get flight sim going in the VR headset with juiced settings and see wtf is up. Maybe get a hotas and stick.

willmuldoon @willmuldoon.bsky.social · 4h

Friday just got delivered for me!

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willmuldoon @willmuldoon.bsky.social · 7h

I'm waiting for a delivery of a computer right now that'll host an AI trained specifically on all CBJ boards and commissions and public meetings.

Still love and believe in Juneau, just couldn't afford a pivot on short notice.

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willmuldoon @willmuldoon.bsky.social · 10h

We're up on Chena Ridge.

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willmuldoon @willmuldoon.bsky.social · 10h

We haven't been out and about much.

Fred Meyer and Home Depot after 5pm are usually good spots to catch us rn. We will be more social once we wrap some nesting and projects.

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willmuldoon @willmuldoon.bsky.social · 19h

Bookmarked this for a fun look.

My gut: overall and per capita is probably not.

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willmuldoon @willmuldoon.bsky.social · 20h

"It's a dry cold".

- people who wholly accept spending a lifetime of grabbing the cart basket first because it's so cold they installed a bay door for quick cart drops.

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willmuldoon @willmuldoon.bsky.social · 20h

First week in Fairbanks:

• I'm a jungle curry extra hot from lemon grass man.

• I like hiding in the woods with the gang.

• This whole ass town puts their shopping carts in the wrong direction in the bay, and everyone acts like it's some social contract. I found my niche and my angle.

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willmuldoon @willmuldoon.bsky.social · 22h

*Suzanne has a journalism background, so emdashes aren't immediately the robot...but they're the usual telltale. Humans don't use them informally.

But she also has a verifiable corpus of hundreds of thousands of words spanning years of articles, which makes it extremely easy to check her work...

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willmuldoon @willmuldoon.bsky.social · 22h

Multiple emdashes*

"It's not X, it's Y"

Logic and syntactical weighting (1st/last sentence/paragraph balance)

Extremely tight persuasive with no deviation for anecdote or name-calling.

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willmuldoon @willmuldoon.bsky.social · 4d

What do you notice about this article?

suzannedowning.com/downing-the-...

Downing: The 'shutdown' that is actually another paid vacation for Washington’s bureaucrats - Suzanne Downing

Suzanne Downing is a respected journalist, editor, and commentator who has shaped Alaska’s media and political conversation for years. She previously served as editor of the Juneau Empire and as a speechwriter for Governor Sean Parnell, where her ability to communicate with clarity and purpose helped inform Alaskans on key issues.

suzannedowning.com

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Eph @emonet.bsky.social · 1d

SECOND “HEY JUNEAU” OF THE DAY: GO VOTE. PLEASE. AND VOTE AGAINST BALLOT MEASURE 1!!!!

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willmuldoon @willmuldoon.bsky.social · 4d

What do you notice about this article?

suzannedowning.com/downing-the-...

Downing: The 'shutdown' that is actually another paid vacation for Washington’s bureaucrats - Suzanne Downing

Suzanne Downing is a respected journalist, editor, and commentator who has shaped Alaska’s media and political conversation for years. She previously served as editor of the Juneau Empire and as a speechwriter for Governor Sean Parnell, where her ability to communicate with clarity and purpose helped inform Alaskans on key issues.

suzannedowning.com

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willmuldoon @willmuldoon.bsky.social · 4d

Maybe not intentionally...

willmuldoon @willmuldoon.bsky.social · 4d

👀🤷‍♂️

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willmuldoon @willmuldoon.bsky.social · 5d

Here's a graph looking at what the Legislature appropriated to Comm Assistance...

Probably means nothing.

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willmuldoon @willmuldoon.bsky.social · 7d

Here's my op-ed on it from nine years ago on that issue:

www.juneauempire.com/letters/lett...

Letter: If you support sex offenders, vote Muñoz | Juneau Empire

I am writing this letter in support of Rep. Cathy Muñoz. I feel that with Cathy as our representative, we are getting outstanding representation for our

www.juneauempire.com

willmuldoon @willmuldoon.bsky.social · 7d

Rep. Munoz did write a letter to the courts asking for leniency of a sexual predator on legislative letterhead several years ago.

Jerry Anderson was administrator back then and was helpful on answering procedurals but barred from really engaging with me on a back and forth.

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willmuldoon @willmuldoon.bsky.social · 8d

lmao. The assembly should sell the gondola and just parade around in a clown car at this point.

This your tax dollars and your neighbors btw.

www.juneauindependent.com/post/assembl...

Assembly delays Telephone Hill evictions until Nov. 1 due to lack of proper tenant notice

Property management company failed to properly document eviction notices sent to residents that were set to take effect Oct. 1, mayor says.

www.juneauindependent.com

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willmuldoon @willmuldoon.bsky.social · 8d

You can search them here:

www.akleg.gov/search/ethics/

Some relevant strings to search:

07-02
07-04
08-03

(They're all Advisory opinions on conflict of interest – using state resources, which is also a good search string)

Ethics Opinion Search

www.akleg.gov

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willmuldoon @willmuldoon.bsky.social · 8d

Here's the relevant text from #akleg Advisory Opinion 08-04

I'm curious as to the legislative purpose Rep. Vance's letter falls under.

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willmuldoon @willmuldoon.bsky.social · 8d

But no one other than the cmte in a hearing can answer these questions...we can guess and they can advise but that's it.

But citizens have a route to apply direct pressure here. As do fellow elected officials.

im not holding my breath. Maybe I'll inquire after I unpack.

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willmuldoon @willmuldoon.bsky.social · 8d

If it isn't merely a complaint of a citizen and indeed the stance of the office... What are those implications?

All that said: even when Muñoz sent Anderson her letter void of letterhead, and he was later informed, he didn't belive it to be a misuse.

Conversely: it's the cmte's jurisdiction.

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willmuldoon @willmuldoon.bsky.social · 8d

I'd offer that is more likely to be unethical if it is merely a complaint of a citizen, and that complaint is solely delivered using state resources.

Why is state resources necessary for delivery of the message?

Then there is the context itself: She implies a boycott and reputational harm.

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willmuldoon @willmuldoon.bsky.social · 9d

ethics.akleg.gov/committee.php

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willmuldoon @willmuldoon.bsky.social · 9d

Oh shit.

Fun fact:

Alaska State Legislature's select committee on Ethics is one of the few arenas citizens actually are able to directly ask questions to the chair and the administrator.

I got nowhere when Munoz was letterhead loose, but YMMV? 🤷‍♂️

#akleg

Jake Dye @jakecdye.bsky.social · 9d

So much for working a final two weeks in good faith, we’ve all already been locked out of our email accounts.

Jake attempts to log into his work email but an error message reads “Your password was changed less than an hour ago”

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