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Tarik Moody

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Milwaukee's 2027 proposed budget: $2.26 billion, 650+ pages of PDF.

I built a way to ask it questions in plain English.

It's free: https://www.mkebudget.app

Every fall the Mayor proposes a budget, and the Common Council votes on it in November. That vote sets your garbage fee and your property tax, and it decides which streets get fixed.

It's all public. It's also spread across two PDFs I'd guess few of us have opened.

What you can do with it:

→ Type your address and get a receipt: what the city would charge your home in 2027 vs. 2026

→ Ask "What's the Police Department's proposed budget?" and get the answer with the page it came from

→ See where the $2.26 billion goes, department by department

→ Check a number from the news against what the budget prints

→ Find the Council's budget hearings and add them to your calendar

The AI only writes the sentences. Every number comes from the city's documents and links to its page. If you spot something wrong, tell me and I'll fix it.

This is my personal project. It explains what's in the Mayor's proposal without taking sides, and the Council can still change it.

What would you want to know about where your city money goes?

Try it out now.

#Milwaukee #CivicTech taken in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by @tarikmoody

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25 days ago

Thank you for the honor, The Bartolotta Restaurants to share the wall in your new restaurant High Stakes with amazing Milwaukeeans.
I'm humbled.

Plus, what unique and creative way make a space special.

You definitely put smile on my face, when I needed it. And I love the design of the interiors especially the lighting.

Well done. taken in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by @tarikmoody

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a month ago

I’ve been building a little Milwaukee you can explore in your browser built with OpenAI Codex & Three.js.

What started as a 3D city map has grown into an interactive experience with a lot of Milwaukee personality:

🚁 Take a drone-style tour of detailed landmarks, from the Milwaukee Art Museum and Hoan Bridge to theaters, stadiums, and downtown towers.

🚶 Drop to street level and walk around buildings, paths, and landscaped spaces.

🚋 Follow The Hop along its M-Line and L-Line routes. I modeled the streetcars and animated them using a bundled timetable similar to the real service. It’s a scheduled preview, not live tracking.

🎡 Watch Summerfest’s Skyglider chairs travel along the grounds and loop through the terminals.

🌭 Drive a 3D Oscar Mayer Wienermobile—or take a guided scenic drive along the lakefront, through downtown, or around the Historic Third Ward.

🌅 Switch between day, sunset, and night to see illuminated buildings, theater signs, streetlights, and the Hoan Bridge.

🛣️ Explore the highway network, including elevated roads, connecting ramps, and interchanges.

You can search for destinations, adjust tour speeds, follow streetcars from different camera angles, and explore on your phone or laptop.

The city starts w/ real map data for streets, building footprints, parks, water, and terrain. Three.js draws everything in your browser. Codex helped me write and revise the code, build the interactions, and turn architectural references into simplified landmark models.

And this took a lot of iteration.

Compare the model with a photo. Spot the wrong proportions. Fix a window, a road connection, or a building floating above the sidewalk. Try again. Passing a code test didn’t mean something actually looked right.

The highways were a challenge of their own,especially the Marquette Interchange. Roads that cross on a flat map aren’t necessarily connected. Getting ramps to meet, rise, curve, & pass over one another required repeated checks against aerial views.

Driving has been especially difficult, too, and it’s still far from perfect. But cruising Milwaukee in a Wienermobile was too fun an idea to leave out.

Explore it h taken in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by @tarikmoody

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a month ago

Another hackathon prize under my belt!!!!

Just found out my project, Split Decision took home two prizes at the Global AI Hackathon Series with Qwen Cloud: the Blog Post Award and a Top 10 Honorable Mention. Close to 9,000 people registered and 729 projects were submitted!

If you missed the earlier posts: Split Decision is an AI Supreme Court. Nine AI agentic judges, each committed to a different judicial philosophy. One only cares about the text of the statute. One cares about real-world consequences. One thinks everything comes down to precedent.

They argue real Supreme Court cases and try to flip each other's votes. Every judge casts a secret ballot before anyone speaks, and each one has a written rule for when it's allowed to change its mind, because AI agents in a group start agreeing with each other fast.

Every deliberation becomes a podcast hosted by two AI journalists, plus a pixel-art courtroom replay where you can watch the vote board flip in real time.

The honorable mention was for the project. The Blog Post Award was for the build journal, which is mostly a record of me being wrong. My first benchmark run said debate cost ten points of accuracy. The honest rescore said it changed almost nothing. I published the correction right next to the number it corrected.

For the people on my feed who don't know the name: Qwen is Alibaba Cloud's family of AI models, and in open-source AI it's a giant. Their open models are some of the most downloaded and built-upon in the world. The entire nine-judge panel runs on them.

Each award came with $500 in cash and $500 in cloud credits, so the panel gets to keep arguing on Qwen's dime. But the better prize is still pending: three predictions on cases the Supreme Court hasn't decided yet, sitting on the public scoreboard, waiting for reality to grade them. by @tarikmoody

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2 months ago

I went down the rabbit hole to understand the Milwaukee budget and I learned a lot. I created a deck for people to understand, but I wanted to take deck and create explainer video with Claude Code and Higgsfield AI. It looks pretty good except for small spelling errors in the video, but it gets its point across. taken in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by @tarikmoody

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3 months ago

Upcoming book release!!! by @tarikmoody

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3 months ago

Your August 11 ballot will have names on it you’ve never heard of. Mine did too. So I built BadgerBrief, a nonpartisan guide to the whole Wisconsin primary.

Every race, everyone running, and where they actually stand, with a source link behind every claim.

Ask it a real question, like when registration closes, and it answers in plain language with citations you can check. See who’s paying for the political ads reaching you.

Pick the issues you care about and see how the candidates compare. It will never tell you who to vote for. No endorsements, ever. Just the facts and the sources.

I build and host it myself. No ads, no party money, free for anyone in Wisconsin. badgerbrief.org — know your ballot before you fill it in. taken in Milwaukee, Wisconsin by @tarikmoody

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3 months ago

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3 months ago

Yesterday was my birthday, and for @rhythmlabradio, we put together a special episode of 'parent records.'

A B-side cut in Nassau in 1971. The men who made it had no idea what it would become.

Twenty-one years later, it's the loop under "They Reminisce Over You."

That's the whole show. Parent records: the songs underneath the songs you already love.

Roy Ayers producing a Cincinnati band called RAMP in 1977, and A Tribe Called Quest building "Bonita Applebum" on top of that loop.

"Right On For The Darkness," off Curtis Mayfield's Back to the World, sampled more than forty times since 1973.

One Fred Wesley synth stab that turned into a hundred records.

Hand drums out of Havana, drum machines out of Düsseldorf. Two records that met in the Bronx and became "Planet Rock."

Sister Nancy's "Bam Bam" is one of the most licensed reggae records ever made, and she saw almost none of that money for decades. Circulation isn't payment. That one stays complicated.

Then the last two records, and here's where the whole thing turns.

Everything before them is a parent. A source. Something that got taken from.

Prince and DJ Quik are the children, and they inherited it two completely different ways.

Prince absorbed it. He took all that funk and soul into his body and played every instrument himself. No sampler, no loop, one man metabolizing an entire lineage and coming out the other side sounding like nobody else. And "She's Always In My Hair" is a B-side, which tells you exactly where the good stuff hides.

DJ Quik took the other route. Compton, a sampler, somebody else's break chopped into something that belongs to him now.

One kid swallowed his parents whole. The other one sampled them. Same inheritance, two different ways of carrying it.

That's the point of the whole two hours. You spend the night with the ancestors, and you close with the descendants, because that's how it actually works.

#RhythmLabRadio #ParentRecords #CrateDigging #SampleCulture #TROY #PeteRock #RoyAyers #CurtisMayfield #SisterNancy #FredWesley #PlanetRock #Prince #DJQuik #VinylCommunity
#RadioMilwaukee #DiggingInTheCrates by @tarikmoody

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