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Action request: New Yorkers, please call your reps and ask them to shut down Hochul’s plan to ban masks

Last night on CNN, New York Governor Kathy Hochul said she was looking into a ban on masks. She's pitching this as a public safety measure. But we're still in…

Greg June 13, 2024

Politics

Friends of the Dallas Public Library: Vote Yes on Prop D!

If you're a Dallas voter and want to support the public libraries, Friends of the Dallas Public Library is suggesting you vote YES on Prop D! Click here for more…

Greg April 21, 2024

Politics

NYC: Call your city councilperson and tell them to kill the “A.I.” bot that’s providing false information

This morning, The Markup published a report saying that an "A.I." powered chatbot provided by New York City is providing false answers to legal questions about "housing policy, worker rights,…

Greg March 29, 2024

Politics

Check out Asian Americans for Democracy – raising money to help get out the APA vote against Trump!

I'm thrilled to share the website for Asian Americans for Democracy, a group that's aiming to raise $2 million to help local Asian Pacific American groups in swing states get…

Greg March 23, 2024

Helping Hands Politics

Friends in NYC! Use these handy forms to tell the mayor not to cut library budgets!

Friends in New York City, the mayor is talking about cutting library budgets again. But our amazing public libraries aren't going down without a fight. They've put up forms through…

Greg March 12, 2024

Helping Hands

Today is the last day to get free COVID tests via the USPS

Apparently today, March 8, is the last day to get free COVID tests from the government via the United States Post Office. I'm not sure of the exact time they'll…

Greg March 8, 2024

Tech

The WordPress/Jetpack/Tumblr/Automattic “A.I.” feed and Firehose situation and how I’ve tried to opt out as best as I think I can at this point

3/4/2024: BIG UPDATE! I just heard back from Brandon Kraft, who describes himself on Mastodon as "Director of Engineering with Automattic working on the Jetpack plugin for #Wordpress." Kraft had…

Greg March 3, 2024

Helping Hands

Three Good Things: This Camera, Asking Scary Questions, and Celery

In the wake of 9/11 over 20 years ago, I started a blog called Three Good Things in which each post was — you guessed it — a list of…

Greg February 24, 2024

Politics Three Good Things

Three Good Things: Rhiannon Giddens’ “American Tune,” Kimchi, and Sometimes We Win

1. Rhiannon Giddens' cover of "American Tune" [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67pyIglP79U?si=dfG--X_vTlSJNHuH&w=560&h=315] I found myself humming Paul Simon's "American Tune" today, and I realized I was really thinking of Rhiannon Giddens' cover of…

Greg February 2, 2024

Three Good Things

Three Good Things: Anyone/Everyone Comics, “People Get Ready,” and This Particular Stew

In the wake of 9/11 over 20 years ago, I started a blog called Three Good Things in which each post was — you guessed it — a list of…

Greg January 26, 2024

Action request: New Yorkers, please call your reps and ask them to shut down Hochul’s plan to ban masks

Friends of the Dallas Public Library: Vote Yes on Prop D!

NYC: Call your city councilperson and tell them to kill the “A.I.” bot that’s providing false information

Check out Asian Americans for Democracy – raising money to help get out the APA vote against Trump!

Friends in NYC! Use these handy forms to tell the mayor not to cut library budgets!

Today is the last day to get free COVID tests via the USPS

The WordPress/Jetpack/Tumblr/Automattic “A.I.” feed and Firehose situation and how I’ve tried to opt out as best as I think I can at this point

Three Good Things: This Camera, Asking Scary Questions, and Celery

Three Good Things: Rhiannon Giddens’ “American Tune,” Kimchi, and Sometimes We Win

Three Good Things: Anyone/Everyone Comics, “People Get Ready,” and This Particular Stew

ZINE: What If You See ICE at the Polls?

2026-10-15 – No Kings Comic-Con – online and free!

2026-09-24 – Movement Voter PAC fundraiser in Brooklyn!

Democratize Yale Zine