photo-taking, queer, extremely internet. also languages, cities, coffee, & (pop)culture. Comms @sovtechagency | tech.lgbt/@polexa
Joined February 2008
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15 Nov 2024
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.
18 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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Powen Shiah @polexa@tech.lgbt retweeted
6 Nov 2024
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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6 Nov 2024
And here we go again.
4 Nov 2024
We all face moments when things feel overwhelming, and that’s okay. Remember, you are not alone.
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Powen Shiah @polexa@tech.lgbt retweeted
4 Nov 2024
We all face moments when things feel overwhelming, and that’s okay. Remember, you are not alone.
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4 Nov 2024
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/
4 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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4 Nov 2024
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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4 Nov 2024
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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Powen Shiah @polexa@tech.lgbt retweeted
25 Oct 2024
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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Powen Shiah @polexa@tech.lgbt retweeted
23 Oct 2024
This is the Ke Huy Quan action movie I’ve been waiting for. 🔥🔥🔥
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Powen Shiah @polexa@tech.lgbt retweeted
20 Oct 2024
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…
ALT a now hiring sign in front of a building
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Powen Shiah @polexa@tech.lgbt retweeted
18 Oct 2024
2024 (und eigentlich jedes Jahr) als queere Person:
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Powen Shiah @polexa@tech.lgbt retweeted
18 Oct 2024
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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Powen Shiah @polexa@tech.lgbt retweeted
11 Oct 2024
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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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…
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7 Oct 2024
OH at German doctor’s office:
“Fax…? Fax, Fax. Kein Email, Fax!”
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Powen Shiah @polexa@tech.lgbt retweeted
2 Oct 2024
Not going to lie, City of Boise's first TikTok is pretty good
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28 Sep 2024
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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Powen Shiah @polexa@tech.lgbt retweeted
25 Sep 2024
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.
24 Sep 2024
A lot of our problems in our cities can be traced back to this
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