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Trey Gordner

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Hawaii policy wonk. 2 great kids. Reading as fast as I can. Abundance Democrat + tax the rich Urban planner/GIS/data sci. Fmr USDC Fellow, HI Zoning Atlas, civic tech entrepreneur. All views my own.

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Glad this report includes Hawaii. Many studies leave us out. (Probably so we didn't throw off their model, we're such an outlier.)

2025 Hawaii Housing Factbook coming soon from UHERO!
uhero.hawaii.edu

04.05.2025 03:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 4 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Does anyone else remember when camera resolution was bad

To get evidence like this 20 years ago, you had to wait for Gil to yell "enhance!"

01.05.2025 20:23 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Sawdust Bread
Sawdust Bread YouTube video by vlogbrothers

Don't forget chaff and sawdust
youtu.be/vjZarG7DOpc?... @hankgreen.bsky.social

01.05.2025 20:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
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Here it is. A timetable of 100 days of corruption.

Breathtaking. Heartbreaking.

We cannot let this stand.

01.05.2025 10:45 ๐Ÿ‘ 14402 ๐Ÿ” 6775 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 582 ๐Ÿ“Œ 372

No, I'm just pointing out that we have to assume something about their politics before we can draw conclusions about election outcomes.

29.04.2025 19:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

"Population shift to red states means a red shift for House & Electoral College."

Does it? These %s are so large that if these people vote blue from their new home they might swing the districts they move into.

(We should still build housing in blue states regardless! Just asking.)

29.04.2025 00:03 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Results about you Protect your info. Get notified if your personal info appears on Search, and ask Google to remove results youโ€™d rather keep private.

Encourage your family and friends to remove as much of their online information as they can with a tool like this. AI makes sophisticated scamming as easy as robo-calls:

myactivity.google.com/results-abou...

28.04.2025 20:57 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Former federal employee here. My 2 years working for the Chief Data Officer of HHS were mainly spent figuring out how to share data legally and responsibly between agencies to advance medical research and respond capably to a future pandemic.

Everything described here is flagrantly illegal.

28.04.2025 00:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Former federal employee here. My 2 years working for the Chief Data Officer of HHS were mainly spent figuring out how to share data legally and responsibly between agencies to advance medical research and respond capably to a future pandemic.

Everything described here is flagrantly illegal.

28.04.2025 00:14 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
"Jesus I've seen what you've done for others" meme, but Montana

"Jesus I've seen what you've done for others" meme, but Montana

27.04.2025 07:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Can't remember the source, but when will I ever get to use this quote again:

"Culture is to make a bowl from a man's skull. Civilization is to go to prison for that."

27.04.2025 07:02 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Ka Pewa Episode 4: UHERO
Ka Pewa Episode 4: UHERO YouTube video by Ka Pewa

Mahalo to @hawaiicommunityfdn.bsky.social for having me on Ka Pewa to talk about UHERO and our latest research on the Maui wildfire recovery:
youtu.be/fY3Ddzziigc?...

27.04.2025 04:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

So much hand-wringing about Democratic messaging...
"Trump is a bad man with bad ideas that are making us poorer, sicker, and less safe."

What is so hard about that?

25.04.2025 23:20 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

- I'm bringing my own data

- Every line

- Yes

I agree. I think I'm as scared as you are of people substituting output for thought. It's so hard to vet research assistants these days, for instance! But I still see a way to use them responsibly and get more done. That's all I came to say.

24.04.2025 18:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Thanks for sharing. I'd be much more cautious about a complex app in production. But for prototyping or for building and running small programs locally, it's working for me

24.04.2025 17:11 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Maybe this is where a lot of professional resistance comes from. There are good applications and bad ones, but management usually tries the bad ones.

24.04.2025 17:07 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0
Preview
Authors Guild, Inc. v. Google, Inc. - Wikipedia

Not a lawyer, but I think they have a very good fair use argument. Reminds me of the Google Books case, which was a big deal back when I worked in libraries.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Authors....

24.04.2025 17:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Maybe. Or LLMs are good at certain jobs in ways that you're not fully aware of ๐Ÿคท

24.04.2025 16:58 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

It takes a while to configure it, learn what it can and can't do, which models to use for what, what context to add, how to prompt, etc. But for EDA it works great.

The hallucinations were definitely there in earlier models, but 4o with Search usually cites properly.

24.04.2025 16:52 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 1 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

I analyze data for a living. I vibe code thousands of lines a month and am getting 3x as much done as before. For me, it's transformational.

Really thought mine was a more common experience than what I'm seeing in these replies... ๐Ÿค”

24.04.2025 08:43 ๐Ÿ‘ 25 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 5 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Winning the lottery would be a big win too, but what are the odds

22.04.2025 20:05 ๐Ÿ‘ 5 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

High time for Dem haymaking:
- "they knew"
- so why did Trump nominate him
- and why did Republicans confirm him
- are there other chats
- is the WH using Signal
- are other appointees

"flight risk", "reckless endangerment", "sacred trust", "right to know", etc etc

22.04.2025 18:39 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

High time for Dem haymaking:
- "they knew"
- so why did Trump nominate him
- and why did Republicans confirm him
- are there other chats
- is the WH using Signal
- are other appointees

"flight risk", "reckless endangerment", "sacred trust", "right to know", etc etc

22.04.2025 18:38 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

High time for Dem haymaking:
- "they knew"
- so why did Trump nominate him
- and why did Republicans confirm him
- who was in these chats
- are there other chats
- doubts about other appointees

"Broken trust", "right to know", "national security", "reckless", etc etc

22.04.2025 18:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 0 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Is the code online somewhere? Interested in tinkering with it in Honolulu.

21.04.2025 03:44 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Any news coverage yet? We're in charter review in Honolulu as well and I'm looking for ideas.

21.04.2025 03:40 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 2 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

Policy leaders are opinion leaders. There will be a lag between what they say and what people come to believe, which means it's important to stake ground ahead of public sentiment. This looks like a good place to stake.

18.04.2025 23:37 ๐Ÿ‘ 1 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

When you pen over a million words that's still a lot of cooking ๐Ÿ˜†

18.04.2025 23:31 ๐Ÿ‘ 2 ๐Ÿ” 1 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

You can avoid participating but you cannot avoid the consequences of not participating

18.04.2025 23:30 ๐Ÿ‘ 3 ๐Ÿ” 0 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 0 ๐Ÿ“Œ 0

One more rant before I go walk the dogs. ๐Ÿงต

There is a certain Type of Guy (person, I guess technically, but almost always a guy).

You ask this type of guy about politics & they'll tell you they're independent, an iconoclast, & that "both sides" are silly & blinkered & don't see the big picture.

18.04.2025 20:29 ๐Ÿ‘ 804 ๐Ÿ” 127 ๐Ÿ’ฌ 48 ๐Ÿ“Œ 23