Josh Berezin

@levelsio @ziggydakid My impression is most cities intend to make fixes like repairing potholes whenever possible, within their budget! They just don’t know where they all are, so citizen reporting helps them do their job.

@ziggydakid I am surprised too but it's a right wing local council so I think they're pretty okay and not commies like the other councils

✨ I used Claude Code to one-shot a 💁‍♀️ Karen Bot When we walk or drive around we come across a lot of things here that could be improved in terms of public infrastructure Roads near us have lots of potholes, there's municipal waste bins here that someone put on fire 6 months ago, and they're all melted away and still not replaced, and the roadside mirror at a dangerous crossing suddenly disappeared so now when you wanna turn in there you might get because so many blindspots When we emailed the city council about the holes in the road, they were actually fixed 3 days later (very fast!), so it does work to contact them, they just need to know what to fix and I don't think many other people report stuff here It's annoying to keep emailing them, so I made a page that me and gf can use to describe the problem, attach a photo, set a point on the map where it is, from our phones or laptop Then ChatGPT writes a letter in formal Portuguese, adds the Google Maps link with GPS coordinates, reverse looks up the address and adds it, attaches the photo of the problem and sends it to the local city council Just a little one-shotted app to make our lives easier

@milansingh03 @jon_m_rob Using survey experiments to test messages is a good approach for this type of research question! (See what we do at growprogress.ai for instance)

Setting aside anything about the content, these questions are very much ***NOT*** good at eliciting what people want out of them. Fortunately, there are better methods for doing so, but this isn't it.

@ORStateParks Is the state parks site down? I haven’t been able to get to any part of it all day.

@umru_ I was there last week and wow! I fell into a research rabbit hole and I learned it was originally built for Pan Am’s fleet of flying boats en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_31…

did everyone know about this terminal at laguardia

@MarkovMagnifico “The Seven Day Circle” by Eviatar Zerubavel is a must-read if you’re interested in this! It goes into lots of other weeks that various cultures have employed over history, too. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book…

the 7 day week has to be one of the most powerful human cultural inventions of all time completely arbitrary division of time. prime number. never questioned it’s perfect

Police illegally sell restricted weapons supplying crime cbsn.ws/4geKdrF

@Jlrube Or run a survey experiment to measure opinion change! 😁 growprogress.ai/products/rapid…

If I was drafting the survey, and had to ask this, I'd have probably directly asked excitement when you learned Taylor endorsed on a 0-10 or Likert style. Or perhaps a multi-select of feelings on learning about the endorsement depending on my client goals. 6/6

Okay, let me tell you why I hate this kind of question (even though clients still want it sometimes). People are REALLY bad at telling you how they changed, because this is a hard question. To answer this the way its intended you need to know a bunch of things: 1/x

@PBOTactive @PBOTinfo !!! Can we have this?

@PDX_311 What's the best way to request that bike racks be installed at Portland Parks? I often find that when visiting a park by bike, there's nowhere to securely lock and park.

@Jonathan_Maus @OregonDOT You went very easy on them in your post — it sounds like they’re just saying whatever they want, independent of what the public says. What is the point of these town halls?

yes i will be watching every tour stop closely to see if what's said by people in public testimony actually reflects what @OregonDOT claims to have heard. narratives matter folks!

@Jonathan_Maus @OregonDOT 🤮

wild how there are $63 million @OregonDOT interchange projects to "address capacity for years to come" that just happen w/o much of a peep. $63 M is a lot of 💵💵💵!! How's bus service in your n'hood? What abt crossing those ODOT arterials? oregon.gov/odot/projects/…

@XtadiumVR @MetaQuestVR @utahjazz @dallasmavs Are these archived for replay? I haven’t been able to find recordings after the fact.

Hop in Xtadium on your @MetaQuestVR headset to sit courstide tonight at 8:30pm EST. You'll be able to watch the @utahjazz take on the @dallasmavs from the best seat in the house! 🏀🏀🏀

@Jonathan_Maus @PDXParksandRec twitter.com/mikekatu/statu…

Route advisory FYI: Reader just shared a closure on the Esplanade. Anyone know what's going on? cc @PDXParksandRec

@IbrProgram @SecretaryPete 🤮

Come with us as @SecretaryPete tours the Interstate Bridge. 🎥 🌉 youtube.com/watch?v=vN48EI…

@Jonathan_Maus @ripcityremix I’m in!

yes! Just heard that BikePortland "Remix Ride" is a go. Will be working with @ripcityremix (Trail Blazers NBA development league team) to finalize date & details. Stay tuned... Basketbikers unite! 🤣 🚲❤️🏀 (or is it bikesketballers?)

@verge Hazards of using AI this way, though: their demo video gives incorrect (hallucinated?) information about the April eclipse!

Humane officially launches the AI Pin, its OpenAI-powered wearable trib.al/bVeYpey

Grow Progress is #hiring a Senior Director of Sales! We're looking for a senior sales account executive who is motivated to apply their professional skills to help a progressive social impact company to continue its trajectory of growth. 🧵

@Acrobat Hi, can you tell me anything about the shirt Hasan Minhaj is wearing? It’s really cool. Thank you.

@trimet During a 2019 maintenance closure, you ran an airport shuttle from the Kenton MAX station. It seems like something like that would help a lot of people access the airport during this closure. Consider it?

⚠️ Reminder ⚠️ MAX Red Line trains will be disrupted between Gateway Transit Center and Portland International Airport from June 18–October 21. Shuttle buses will be running about every 15 minutes. Some trips may take longer than usual. More: trimet.org/improvements