@polexa

photo-taking, queer, extremely internet. also languages, cities, coffee, & (pop)culture. Comms @sovtechagency | https://xitter.cf/t.co/DF9PL0MdPt

 Mostly Berlin
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Find me over on 🟦🌤️ bsky.app/profile/powen.net or on Mastodon/the Fediverse ⤵️ Still figuring out what to do with my enormous tweet archive here.
Powen Shiah @[email protected]@polexa18 Nov 2022
Kicking the tires over in the #fediverse… waited a while because I couldn't decide which server to go with, but for now I've landed here: tech.lgbt/@polexa (having intermittent access errors but hopefully more regularly active)
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2024 Travel and Photo Updates powen.net/2024-travel-and-ph…

2024 Travel and Photo Updates

I had the brilliant idea to try and recap 2024 somehow, maybe on a month-by-month basis, only to discover that I’d already had the same basic idea a year ago. Last January I put together a travel...

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UPDATE: The Department of Elections must still process and count approximately 157,000 ballots for the November 5 Election. This estimate includes: 137,000 vote-by-mail ballots received the day before and on Election Day by mail, at drop boxes, and at polling places; and, 20,000 provisional ballots cast at polling places and the City Hall Voting Center.
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And here we go again.
Sesame Street
@sesamestreet4 Nov 2024
We all face moments when things feel overwhelming, and that’s okay. Remember, you are not alone.
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We all face moments when things feel overwhelming, and that’s okay. Remember, you are not alone.
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Names are powerful things, and what do you do when one like #SovereignTechFund already means a lot to people around the world? When it symbolizes what government and societies can do when they take the #OpenSource building blocks of our digital world seriously? 1/
Sovereign Tech Agency@sovtechagency4 Nov 2024
Hello, World! We’re now the Sovereign Tech Agency 🎉 It’s been two years since the Sovereign Tech Fund began investing in open technologies in the public interest, and our mission has grown to be more than the “fund” in our name. The new Sovereign Tech Agency 1/2
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We're keeping Sovereign Tech Fund, but building the Sovereign Tech Agency around it, and programs like #SovereignTechFellowship and #SovereignTechResilience (formerly known as #BugResilience) next to it. 2/
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Taken all together, it's a new kind of public institution that looks out for critical digital infrastructure and supports software digital commons, among other important tasks. After all, we're just getting started! 3/
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Today, I have the solemn responsibility to be the first president to formally apologize to Native peoples – Native American, Native Hawaiian, and Native Alaskan – for what happened during the Indian Boarding School era. It's long overdue.
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This is the Ke Huy Quan action movie I’ve been waiting for. 🔥🔥🔥
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Today's the last day to apply for the fellowship for maintainers, our new program that will pay #FOSS maintainers for a year for their work on keeping critical software infrastructure running. Reposts much appreciated! 🔁 Details: sovereigntechfund.de/news/ap…
a now hiring sign in front of a building

ALT a now hiring sign in front of a building

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There should be a German remake of Ocean's 11, but instead of the gang robbing a casino, they break into the Ausländerbehörde to make an appointment.
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NEW AD >> Yesterday, Donald Trump trashed Detroit, while in Detroit. Today, we’re making sure Detroiters see EXACTLY what Trump thinks of them.
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EFF
@EFF7 Oct 2024
The German government is trying to push through Parliament, at record speed, a "security package" that would increase biometric surveillance at an unprecedented scale. The proposed measures contravene the government’s own coalition and undermine European law and the German constitution. EFF stands with the opponents of these proposals. We must defend fundamental rights more decidedly than ever.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/ge…

Germany Rushes to Expand Biometric Surveillance

Germany is a leader in privacy and data protection, with many Germans being particularly sensitive to the processing of their personal data – owing to the country’s totalitarian history and the role

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OH at German doctor’s office: “Fax…? Fax, Fax. Kein Email, Fax!”
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Not going to lie, City of Boise's first TikTok is pretty good
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Wondering if this guy near me on the U-Bahn platform in Munich is being paid to listen to podcast ads on speakerphone. Capitalism is always inventing new horrors.
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Removing urban freeways will be one of the great projects of the 21st century. They truly stand as one of this country's greatest mistakes.
City Aesthetics ⛩
@cityaestheticss24 Sep 2024
A lot of our problems in our cities can be traced back to this
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44 days. That’s all the time we have left until Election Day. @KamalaHarris has the vision, strength, and compassion to lead this country forward. Make your voice heard—make a plan to vote early, vote by mail, or head to the polls. go.kamalaharris.com
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