Sumana Harihareswara @brainwane@mastodon.social

@gaditb I am so deeply grateful for your inventive, kind, liberatory presence. One of the best things about 17776 fandom is that it led me to you. I hope you are doing great.

blast from the past: governor-elect of Connecticut Ned Lamont starred in this 2006 ad when he ran for the Senate. It breaks causality (as he is filming the ad, volunteers who "saw the commercial" come in to his living room and tell him how eager they are to get him elected) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hE7VV_ePzfo

boosting Roan Kattouw, @catrope@twitter.com
Nov 3

If you live in California, you can register and vote same-day! You can also vote early on Monday, and in SF you can vote on the weekend too.

As a non-citizen, I can't vote, but here's how I would vote if I could: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1KgIF0YhaL3R5D7DdRv4ZNCtSucgR4ZxsbZSgoDixJPQ/

Whatever you do, please VOTE!

Me, yesterday & tomorrow: door-to-door canvassing with Swing Left https://swingleft.org/ . Today: phonebanking. My button says: "It starts with the House".

It's cold, but we have leftover Halloween candy, and each other.

It's #TheLastWeekend. https://thelastweekend.org/

My new MetaFilter post about a strange edge case in the San Francisco school board election next week: what does it mean to you for a candidate to actually withdraw? http://mefi.us/w/177427

She got heavy criticism for her past statements, and says she's withdrawn. But her name's still on the ballot and her supporters are still campaigning for her. What if she wins anyway?

Thanks, Googlers.

boosting Google Walkout For Real Change, @GoogleWalkout@twitter.com

We, Google employees and contractors, will walkout on November 1 at 11:10am to demand these five real changes. #googlewalkout https://twitter.com/GoogleWalkout/status/1057804203895283712

boosting Keenan Szulik, @kmszu@twitter.com

I'm super excited for RubyConf http://rubyconf.org/ next month, but couldn't get a ticket in time! Looking for 1 if anyone has extra 🙂

@zwol About 15-20 minutes into your talk, in the list of providers, you mentioned one who was doing something involving a (claimed?) US location that seemed scary and not economically rational. I didn't catch the specifics - is this in the paper?

@conservancy Hey, Karen Sandler's PyGotham keynote recording is now up at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iIDZNz22uxI

New blog post https://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2018/10/29/0 about miscellaneous reading, listening, watching, volunteering, Python packaging, Git, mourning, and so on

Activist communities, large companies, hobby groups -- if you've ever heard folks say "I wish it were easier to get the word out/find out about events", consider whether you should have a Calagator. http://calagator.org/about It aggregates existing calendar feeds AND lets individuals add one-off events.

We can crowdfund work to make it easier to run, improve security, and get more momentum: http://lifeofaudrey.com/2018/10/24/calagator.html

AW YEAHHH. The New York State Assembly is looking at improving voting access, including early voting & no-excuse absentee ballots. https://nyassembly.gov/write/upload/publichearing/20181026b.pdf

new blog post: In Memoriam https://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2018/10/25/1 rest in peace, Chris Msando and James M. Hinds. (content note: murder)

New blog post: https://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2018/10/25/0 "The Concision-Nuance Tradeoff In One-To-Many Documents" with examples from news stories, job descriptions, and the ballot proposals info in the NYC voter guide

signal-boosting Gretchening https://twitter.com/gretchening/status/1042117636681854976

"FYI if you want to make the switch from Amazon‘s Audible to a nearly identical service that plays well with indie bookstores, try http://Libro.fm ! They have a gr8 membership program. Here’s a referral link that signs you up through me/my bookstore https://libro.fm/referral?rf_code=lfm56373 "
I add: https://www.astoriabookshop.com/?q=p.audiobooks if you want to use Libro.fm and listen to audiobooks while benefiting Astoria Bookshop, my local indie bookstore in western Queens

signal-boosting SecureDrop & Freedom of the Press Foundation:

We're looking for a Senior Software Engineer to join the SecureDrop team! Want to work for a nonprofit & write open source code that's used by 60+ news organizations to communicate with whistleblowers? Here's your chance: https://freedom.press/jobs/job-opening-senior-software-engineer-securedrop/