📑Read: Japan’s Team Mirai Is Rewriting What Tech in Politics Can Be
A political party using tech to strengthen democracy? Team Mirai is doing exactly that.
🇯🇵 They built AI tools that help voters understand issues, challenge assumptions, and get involved. 📈 They won 11 seats after garnering ~4M votes; massive for a new party. 🤖 Their apps drive 100k+ volunteer actions per day. 🧠 Policy ideas are crowdsourced from tens of thousands of citizen questions. 🔍 They open‑sourced tools for legislative transparency that even the ruling LDP party is adopting.
🤔Could it work elsewhere? Or are we doomed to be serfs of a techautocracy?
↩️reply: https://crowdersoup.com/blog/post/photo-1773681880/
Also mind you, there’s a high degree of regionalism too– $2000 rent in LA or NYC is a lucky find; in Macon, GA this would be a luxury apartment. The great equalizer is proving to be utility rates now. In the cheaper areas, they aren’t as regulated and fluctuate wildly; in the metro areas, the dips and humps are smoothed out by subsidies.
My damn-near-daily “I tried to tell y’all” posting series continues:
These could be “the good ol' days” we keep in our memories as we are descending into this nonsense…
He knows he’s too damn big for that chair but he still manages to sleep there somehow. #doggo
Q: “How does it feel to live in America after being in Japan for so long?”
A:
Really wish there was a Season 7 coming… Re-watched: The Expanse Season 6 🍿
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RIParadise Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa. He totally made Mortal Kombat a rewatchable bit of camp from my teen years.
AI dubs are almost as comically bad as AI slop videos.
We. Aren’t. There. Yet.
And putting this stuff out there in its not-ready-for-primetime form just makes it clear that that AI driven tech bubble will burst that much sooner. It’s a solution in search of a problem with this sort of thing.
Reminder, boycott in effect for those who celebrate. Support your local community based businesses and establishments as much as possible if you must spend. Remember the goal is to make them know that without us 99%, the 1% go broke.
#economicblackout #nokings
There’s new feature on the bird app that can tell where an account is based in and connects from, but VPNs and using the web app is a thing, so be careful out there. (I’m never putting X on my phone and always use VPN so my info will always look like this but it ain’t me you gotta wonder about 😉)
Cat-in-the-box every time. 🐈 ➡️ 📦
Belated #caturday
This is why we were fighting. This is what you can expect. This is why you must vote correctly and carefully.
I protested Saturday. I rested Sunday, I am voting on Monday
Every election, no matter how small or whatever the issue, I always vote.
#cantcomplainifyoudidntvote
From my little corner of Atlanta, we don’t like fascist criminal dictators.
We are MLK, John Lewis, Hosea Williams, Joseph Lowery and Andrew Young.
We remind you that this country started out of protest 249 years ago; marching in defiance is as patriotic as it gets. 🇺🇸
#NoKings
my heart goes out to all the Tokyo commuters finding their way without the Denentoshi Line.
田園都市線なしで道を見つけるの東京の通勤者たちのために祈ります。🙏🏾
バス停行列長い！
…and I am finished for the night. Thank goodness I’m off work tomorrow! 🛌😴
Back at it again… I’ll probably need to abandon this configuration and start over from scratch if I can’t unravel what I did to break it this time… #NixOS #tinkering #breakandfix
Finally managed to figure out my firmware update daemon entries for my nixOS configuration flake so now this is happening.
