Waldo Jaquith
Thought follower. Public servant. Male software developer. Alumnus of 18F, the Obama White House, Georgetown's Beeck Center, U.S. Digital Response, the Biden-Harris Transition Team, and the Biden administration. He/him. Charlottesville, VA, USA.
- IME, it’s becoming increasingly common for otherwise-respectable iOS apps to deliver spam as notifications, with no option to disable them. Here, Samsung’s app wants me to watch…well, I don’t even know what.
- At GSA, we surveyed employees in 2021–22 asking about job satisfaction and remote work. A small minority hated it, most liked it, and women liked it the most. IIRC, we didn’t ask about race or parenthood, but anecdotally, mothers of color found remote work life-changing.
- Reposted by Waldo JaquithFunny the way the "bigger tent" always needs to include right wing grifters and not abolitionists and socialists.
- Reposted by Waldo JaquithAmong other things, Trump's eventual successor won't have a plane, and it will be a humiliating scandal for them as they have to go beg Congress to appropriate a huge sum of money to procure one that will cripple their first years in office.
- Reposted by Waldo Jaquith“FDA Commissioner Marty Makary is sending signals that FDA will likely not authorize a COVID-19 booster vaccine this year for children, and perhaps not for the general population as a whole, saying he “cannot, in good faith” recommend booster vaccination for children.”
- This is flatly unconstitutional, but the SCOTUS says presidents are immune from prosecution so here we are.
- For pretty much any government agency you can think of, if their software doesn't work, the agency doesn't work. DOGE fucked up the FAA's software, and people are going to die because of it.
- Reposted by Waldo JaquithUnder the guise of saving taxpayer money, Kari Lake is using free content from the conspiracy-laden, oft-sued OAN network to substitute for actual journalism from VOA reporters. Via @davidfolkenflik.bsky.social www.npr.org/2025/05/07/n...
- EARS UP
- Reposted by Waldo JaquithGood news: fossil fuels provided less than half of US electric power in March for the first time ever oilprice.com/Energy/Energ...
