Sharing this from Forever Indivisible in #BoulderCO.

There will be a visibility event in front of NOAA in #Boulder this Sat 11am-1pm to protest the announced closing of NCAR. (Yes, doing it at NCAR would be better, but NCAR gets much less traffic than Broadway in front of NOAA).

Sat, 12/20 11am-1pm
Broadway and Rayleigh

PLEASE BOOST. PLEASE SHARE WIDELY. IF YOU ARE IN THE BOULDER AREA, PLEASE COME JOIN US.
#COwx #broomfield #denver #arvada #thornton #LouisvilleCO #SuperiorCO #westminsterco

Hey #Boulder, #LouisvilleCO, #LafayetteCO, #SuperiorCO, #Nederland, #Erie, #Broomfield cats. We're having a #SchoolBoard candidate meetup tomorrow from 4-6:30 in Louisville. Meet four candidates for #BVSD, bring friends, ask questions, drink beer. Sounds like a great after-work event to me!

https://www.evite.com/event/0257TXW543SYJQYCSEPOLVYZCG4H2A

This is DIstrict D, the seat that I'm running for on the #BVSD #schoolboard. It's massive, stretching to encompass most of East #Boulder, and parts of #LouisvilleCO and #LafayetteCO, plus #SuperiorCO

All registered voters who reside within the boundaries of any BVSD district get to vote on candidates for each district. There are four seats that will be contested in the November #election so there will be four opportunities for Boulder County voters to choose a board member on their ballots.

Hi folks. I wanted to share a bit of news about something outside of the world of #infosec that I'm getting involved in: I'm officially a candidate running for school board in the town where I live, Boulder, Colorado. The election is this November!

I won't be posting about education policy topics on this account; I've set up a separate Mastodon account on the server used by many locals in #Boulder: @andrewbrandt and using that account as the main one for my campaign. I hope you will follow me there if you care about compassionate, supportive schools that are not hostile to the #LGBTQ community.

I've also set up a campaign website where I'll be trying to reach #Boulder county voters at https://brandtforbvsd.co/

This is a bit of a reach for me. I haven't ever run for...well, anything, before. I am looking for people who can help me run my campaign, including folks who might know a thing or two about the #VAN system for reaching registered voters. I'd also welcome references to people who can help me craft visuals for the website and for things like campaign yard signs.

I've been extremely humbled by the support I've already received from many current and former #BVSD board members, and hope to continue the challenging (and unpaid) work of helping to manage a wonderful and well run school district with a nationally-renowned superintendent.

Most importantly, I believe that, as a hacker, I have a unique opportunity to help guide the local public school system as it faces unprecedented challenges in the form of emerging technologies like #ChatGPT and other large language models and #AI platforms, as well as trying to navigate the tricky waters of internet safety and data privacy for school-age kids.

If you believe, as I do, that we need to do a better job as a society at helping the next generation deal with these thorny issues, I hope you'll support my campaign and follow me on this journey. Thanks for reading! Please boost for reach.

#schoolboard #Boulder #LouisvilleCO #LafayetteCO #SuperiorCO #elections

Good news: the cities did the best they could and went beyond.

The bad news: carcinogens were still present in Superior/Louisville’s water after they turned the water back on and lifted boil order. #MarshallFire #Boulder #SuperiorCo #LouisvilleCo

https://boulderreportinglab.org/2023/02/01/new-study-confirms-marshall-fire-contaminated-drinking-water-but-the-response-prevented-a-crisis/