AustiNighty
@AustiNighty
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Native Austinite. Decent (but Dedicated) Wife. Better Dog Mom. Awesome Auntie. Freedom Lover. ✨
Austin, TX
Joined September 2023
Attacks on VPNs are attacks on digital privacy and digital freedom. And that battle is being fought by people who clearly have no idea how any of this technology actually works.
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It's unfortunately no longer enough to force websites to check your government-issued ID before you can access certain content, because politicians have now discovered that people are using Virtual
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Serious question: why is the City of Austin subsidizing for-profit businesses?
Austin's The Hideout, Balance Dance Studios win $711K in city economic incentives
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This starkly illustrates the Tragedy of the Commons—a concept whose counterintuitive nature prevents it from gaining the widespread understanding it demands.
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When someone commits a crime, they should be punished. But after? Let them work! Yet thousands of state laws make that hard by BANNING ex-cons from many professions... even beauty care:
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This is an important question posed by a candidate for Chair of the Travis County Democratic Party. Do we want the candidates or political party to run Central Texas? Let's add one more option: Shouldn't the people - the residents, the workers, the voters - run Central Texas?
" “We have to ask, do we want (candidate) campaigns running Central Texas” or do we want the party doing it? “This is about who’s in control and who gets people elected statewide,” "
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We think we know the story of Thanksgiving: the pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, faced a harsh winter, famine, and disease, and then, only with the help of friendly natives, learned how to survive. It’s nice for bedtime stories and feel-good paintings, but it ignores the most
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The high cost of City of Austin fire regulations from 2025 just starting to filter in. Tons of new homes will have fire driveway requirements, landscaping plans and 5+ more inspections. Estimated cost impact of $10k per home or more. Will increase sprawl big time.
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In LA they're lamenting the replacement of the convention center that they just finished paying off, plus decades of new debt. In Austin, we just tore down a convention center that won't be paid off until 2029. We're still paying for the old one, while also funding a new one.
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🚨 WARNING: Over 80,000 files with passwords and keys from governments, banks, and tech firms were found online — all pasted into public code tools like JSONFormatter and CodeBeautify. Hackers are already scraping and using the data. And yes — it’s still live. Details here →
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AUSTIN MAN who sold fentanyl during outbreak that killed 9 people is back dealing at the same corner. Kanady Rimijo was recently caught at a N Lamar shopping center that banned him for a year. He'd been gambling and dealing drugs from the same North Park Shopping Center, which
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Austin should take a page out of this book.
Millions visit this beautiful park every year. Yet it doesn't cost taxpayers a penny. How is that possible? Because it’s NOT run by government:
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I asked Microsoft Copilot to audit its own privacy boundary. It just admitted to a massive compliance gap. If you are rolling out Copilot at work, you need to see this. 1. I asked Copilot if the data sent to Bing (for "Web Grounding") is covered by the Enterprise Data
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There has been almost no difference in Austin hotel tax collection this year vs last even though the convention center has been closed in recent months... Its almost like the economic impact of the convention center has been greatly exaggerated
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AUSTIN MAN slices open a gated Westlake community overnight with 42-inch bolt cutters, breaks into six cluster mailboxes, and steals residents’ mail — including credit cards and paychecks — before driving 8 miles to an apartment complex and prying open its mail room next. 
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🚨ALL GMAIL USERS …OPT OUT if you don’t want them accessing private emails & attachments to train AI 👇
IMPORTANT message for everyone using Gmail. You have been automatically OPTED IN to allow Gmail to access all your private messages & attachments to train AI models. You have to manually turn off Smart Features in the Setting menu in TWO locations. Retweet so every is aware.
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We are grateful for honest testimony by @MrScottHendrix & @Bowen4Mayor regarding Austin Budget & how Austin City Council has lost Austin Residents trust.
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"Translation: they refused to obey state law until they could steal the property at a bargain, remediate it with taxpayer dollars... This isn’t eminent domain for public necessity. This is a taxpayer-funded land grab hidden from the public to dodge accountability"
@JenRobichaux Today Travis County Commissioners used the consent agenda and years of closed-door meetings to condemn land they never owned, land they spent half a century poisoning. Their own County Attorney admitted on recording: ‘The unspoken term is they are unwilling to spend money on
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A man was found dead in North Austin and the shooter is still at large, police said.
fox7austin.com
A man was found dead in North Austin and the shooter is still at large, police said.
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Austin - Where the term 'Jack in the Box' ain't about fast food. @johnnyk20001
Officers responded to a call of a deceased person at 4107 Victory Drive around 5:22 p.m. on Nov. 13. They found Robert Wentworth, 63, "with trauma" inside a large cardboard box behind a bus stop. FULL STORY: https://t.co/rMYvsq8bu2
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City councilmembers to host Q&A on revised budget. Mayor Pro Tem Vanessa Fuentes, Dist 3 Councilmember José Velásquez & Dist 7 Councilmember Mike Siegel will co-host the session at 6 pm at the Texas AFL-CIO Headquarters located at 1106 Lavaca St, Suite 200
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Austin city council members said they’ll host a community listening session Monday night to receive feedback on the city’s revised budget after voters overwhelmingly said no to a proper…
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