Bret Mogilefsky

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#CivicTech #Govvie #agile #product wrangler currently working in the #US #GSA #TechnologyTransformationServices, overseeing #platforms and #compliance for the Office that works on grants and regulations.

Previously founded #clouddotgov at #18F and worked on #datadotgov...

...right after surviving 16 years of the #ConsoleWars at #PlayStation

...right after 5 years of #GameDev as the lead programmer and co-designer of #GrimFandango at #LucasArts

(he/him)

Twitterhttps://twitter.com/bmogilefsky
GitHubhttps://github.com/mogul
LinkedInhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/bretmogilefsky

MI GOP Rep Tim Walberg, on Gaza:
β€œWe shouldn’t be spending a dime on humanitarian aid. It should be like Nagasaki & Hiroshima. Get it over quick.”

MI Rep Rashid Tlaib was censured for saying "From the river to the sea." As Walberg calls for nuclear genocide of 2M Palestinians I await the censure resolution against him ASAP.
https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2024/03/30/michigan-congressman-tim-walberg-suggests-nuking-gaza-ending-humanitarian-aid-nagasaki-hiroshima/73156051007/

Michigan Republican congressman suggests nuking Gaza, ending humanitarian aid

β€œIt should be like Nagasaki and Hiroshima. Get it over quick," U.S. Rep. Tim Walberg said of how the U.S. should treat Gaza.

The Detroit News
Mildly interesting: these two trucks have the same bed length.
Today I briefly emerge from the undergrowth to inform you that there exists the optimal life form and it is a type of sea slug known as a "leaf sheep" which indirectly harnesses photosynthesis through the chloroplasts of the algae it munches on. Either that, or at the very least, the most adorable.

New!! Observations of our Event Horizon Telescope (#EHT) collaboration have uncovered strong & organized magnetic fields spiraling around the edge of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). Images in polarized light of the #blackhole in the Milky Way center reveal structures similar to those in M87*, suggesting that strong magnetic fields may be common to all black holes. This also hints toward a hidden jet in Sgr A*!
#astronomy #astrodon #scicomm #physics

https://www.ru.nl/en/about-us/news/astronomers-unveil-strong-magnetic-fields-spiraling-at-the-edge-of-milky-ways-central-black-hole

@sophieschmieg I quite like the idiom I've seen in a couple of projects of having two modes: Secure and FIPS. It leads to all sorts of fun conversations about why you can't deploy in Secure mode.
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Law

Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Law

Here's how to make green #transit even greener. Put the tram tracks on a carpet of grass or sedum. 2 kms of track creates 1.5 football fields' worth of green space, reducing air pollution and urban heat island effect.

A tram-on-the-lawn thread: πŸš‹πŸŒ±πŸ§΅

1/ Milan #Milano

MAGAs are labeling DEI as "Didn't Earn It," which is wild because in reality, generating historic wealth through 2 billion acres of stolen land from Native Americans, enslaving Black people for 300 years, banning Asian immigration until 1965, & banning women from financial access til 1974 β€” all without paying a single red cent in reparations or restitution β€” is the living breathing example not earning it.
If you were wondering if organizing a union would be worth it:
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/union-households-tend-over-100-175801469.html
Union households tend to have over $100,000 more in wealth than nonunion families, Federal Reserve data shows

Union households hold just over $330,000 in median wealth, but the vast majority of US workers aren't in a union.

Yahoo Finance

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Edit:
Link to the paper https://arxiv.org/html/2403.07183v1
Link to video source https://vm.tiktok.com/ZGeaeuxR5/