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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social Privacy, decentralization, freedom, the odd crypto post.
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ATProto is weird and I love it.
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Marco Forlin @mforlin.bsky.social DSP and ML expert, currently AI Lead. I believe in pausing the AI superintelligence race. I worry about the metacrisis. I am interested in political metamodernism, regenerative economy, societal collapse, ancient history. I also love music.
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net I post long threads. Writer (sf novels, etc); blogger (pluralistic.net); activist (eff.org). Latest book: "The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI" Buy my books (DRM-free!) at craphound.com/shop.
Benjamin Life @omniharmonic.bsky.social I seem to be a verb. //// Co-Founder OpenCivics //// All-Win Civic Innovation #deciv #opensource #publicgoods #web3 #regen #solarpunk #designscience 🌱🌞
bert @somethingdoneright.net it is now safe to turn off your computer
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Christian @christian.bsky.social Action research. Research design. Cybersystemic org dev. Complex adaptive systems. Indirect action. Information architect at heart. Hopeful.
📍 Seattle or Maine
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💼 @strategytheory.com & @opsops.com
Marko Bajlovic @marko.tech pragmatic, progressive, multidisciplinary creative, data scientist & full stack dev. occasional avid beach goer. always learning.
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Laurens @laurenshof.online I care about an ethical internet.
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sōm ⁂ @hyl.st another weekend warrior trying to save the world
shaping reality, one myth at a time
be free, curious and kind
DominikWyss @wyss.bsky.social E-Partizipationsforschung, Full-Stack Dev und Datenanalyse
[Apps4Science, USB, Année Politique Suisse]
AI is exciting, but have you ever heard of ATProto?
Sovereign Tech Agency @sovereign.tech Strengthening digital infrastructure & open source ecosystems in the public interest. Home of the Sovereign Tech Fund, Sovereign Tech Resilience, Sovereign Tech Fellowship, & other programs supporting critical FOSS technologies.
https://www.sovereign.tech
Blaine @blaine.bsky.social Sociotechnologist, activist. First employee @ Twitter, built that and pioneered social decentralization, created OAuth. Shy cloud-observer, mostly. Building Roundabout for local communities at @newpublic.org.
Atmosphere Community @atmosphere.community atproto ecosystem. AT Community Fund, Tech Talks, and other social & community events content.
Previous handle @atprotocol.dev, now actually dev focused!
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Theo Beutel @theobtl.eurosky.social Academic Secretariat @ethereum.foundation | Research coordination, programme management, open source advocacy | Researching DAOs at the Centre for Democracy Studies, University of Zurich
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Luigi Ray-Montañez @luigi.land A world class expert in all domains. My intellectual firepower, scope of knowledge, incisive thought process, and level of erudition are on par with the smartest people in the world.
Don Moynihan @donmoyn.bsky.social Policy Professor, Ford School, University of Michigan.
Irish immigrant. Administrative burdens guy.
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Tim O'Reilly @timoreilly.bsky.social Founder & CEO, O'Reilly Media. Doing my best to help good futures happen.
Ethan Marcotte @ethanmarcotte.com designer, writer, roommate to two kittens. here’s my website: https://ethanmarcotte.com/
I think you deserve a union, and I wrote a book about that: https://youdeserveatechunion.com/
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Waldo Jaquith @waldo.net 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, Biden administration, GSA, and Treasury. He/him. Charlottesville, VA, USA.
Pam Herd @pamherd.bsky.social Personal Account. Carol Kakalec Kohn Professor of Social Policy. University of Michigan-Ann Arbor. I ❤️ surveys. I 😖Administrative Burden. My views do not represent the views of my lovely employer!
DJ Patil @djpatil.bsky.social Former U.S. Chief Data Scientist
GP Great Point Ventures
Devoted Health, RelateIQ, LinkedIn
I build things 
Dan Hon @danhon.com Hi, it's me, I'm the problem etc etc
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Jennifer Pahlka @pahlkadot.bsky.social Author: Recoding America, Founder: Code for America, Co-founder: USDS and USDR.
Jacob Harris @jacobharr.is Former Twitter user, but I left when it became a Nazi bar. Made the nytimes Twitter bot, worked for the NYT before moving into civic technology. Living in Takoma Park, MD and fighting for a hopeful and humane future. (He/him) More info at jacobharr.is
Hunter Owens @hunterowens.net los angeles-area resident, your friendly state transportation policy bureaucrat, architecture, tacos. 
EmilyTav @emilytav.bsky.social Policy + design + tech. Angry optimist.
Executive Director, Home Screen.
Co-Curator of an oral history of the origins of the U.S. Digital Service.
carlmalamud @yeswescan.org Practitioner of edicts of government at Public.Resource.Org. 
Center on Budget and Policy Priorities @centeronbudget.bsky.social A nonpartisan research and policy institute that advances federal and state policies to help build a nation where everyone has the resources they need to thrive and share in the nation’s prosperity.
Natalie Alms @almsnatalie.bsky.social journalist who covers how the government works—or doesn't—at NOTUS. Previously at NextgovFCW. NC native, DC resident.
tips - signal at nalms.41 and nataliealms@notus.com
Dan Munz @danmunz.bsky.social Homophone. Portmanteau. Iamb. Synecdoche.
Dave Guarino @allafarce.bsky.social Software and complex (not complicated) systems. Pursuing the public good, sometimes with technology.
mx cordelia yu @thebestsophist.bsky.social Design director @ Office of Regulatory & Oversight Systems / TTS.
Aaron Snow @aaronsnow.net Led 18F/TTS and the Canadian Digital Service. Presidential Innovation Fellow, Georgetown's Beeck Center, VoProPartners. 216 for life, unlikely to shut up about the Cavs. The dadjokes don't stop just b/c they've grown & gone. https://aaronsnow.net/hi
Will Slack @wslack.bsky.social
Decatur GA native, prev USDS/18F & hospital tech around the US. Opinions mine; RTs/likes/follows ≠ endorsements. 🆇: @wslack 🐘: wslack@infosec.exchange
Christopher Whitaker @civicwhitaker.com Civic Technologist | Executive Director, Alliance of Civic Technologists | Army Veteran | Alumni of Code for America, Defense Digital Service and USDS #civictech #chicago #illinois
Really doesn’t like bullies
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Harlan Weber @whereshj.bsky.social Design, product, org building for the public interest. Director of Design, Nava PBC. Founder, Code for Boston. Former MA state gov @ MA Digital and MBTA. #twindad. Likes pushing boulders uphill.
Danny Mintz @dannymintz.bsky.social Safety-net policy, New Orleans stuff, etc.
Views are my own.
Eric Giannella @giannella.bsky.social Associate Research Professor at Georgetown Better Gov Lab & Massive Data Institute: 1) Evidence-based implementation for safety net programs 2) Open source tools for data sharing in public services. Founded and led Data Science team at Code for America.
Ryan Koch @ryanakoch.com Host of Civic Tech Chat https://civictech.chat
Nerdy for all things tech, political science, and public policy
Alliance of Civic Technologists @civictechallies.bsky.social A community dedicated to connecting and supporting all #volunteer #civictech efforts across the nation!
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Joshua Tauberer @joshdata.me Civic technologist and engineering manager. Founder @govtrack.us. More active at https://mastodon.joshdata.me/@josh.
Carter Baxter @another.rodeo Endorsed for banter and dolphin facts. Has worn many hats, and was never told there would be so many rodeos. Don't blame my employer for the dumb things I say, and never assume anything I say here is correct.
Mark Headd @mheadd.bsky.social Author of "The SpecOps Method: A New Approach to Legacy System Modernization." https://spec-ops.ai/book.html #CivicTech #AI #SpecOps #OpenData
Jae Yeon Kim @jaeyeonkim.bsky.social assistant professor of public policy @UNC Chapel Hill | ex-data scientist @codeforamerica | Data for Good Roundtables co-founder
https://jaeyk.github.io
Daniel Schuman @americalabs.org Progressive institutionalist with an interest in modernizing Congress and strengthening our democracy. Bluesky is my penance for working at an org that once encouraged Congress to tweet.
Like what you see? More at https://firstbranchforecast.substack.com/
werkstatte @werkstatte.bsky.social In short, life goes on, and life is known to be very difficult and very complicated, and as we say in Vienna, many roads lead to the Central Cemetery.
Laurel Eckhouse @eckhouse.bsky.social Recovering academic, current data scientist. Current enthusiasms: e bikes, botanical printing, backpacking, talking to insurance companies on the phone. 
Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social cyberpunk is a warning, not a manual
she/her. dayjob & usual location: City & County of San Francisco (this is a personal account)
ex-18F; on the board @publicgood.tech ; wrote a small book about doing this: https://cydharrell.com/book/
jpmarindiaz @jpmarindiaz.bsky.social #smalldata #rstats #dataviz #ai #policy #duckdb
Founder @datasketch.bsky.social
Jenna Jordan @jennajordan.me Data engineer in practice, data librarian at heart.
Knitter, dog momma, board gamer, and consumer of sci-fi/fantasy of all mediums.
Civic tech, data for good, peace/conflict data, and philosophizing thru data modeling
https://jennajordan.me
Chris Kuang @chriskuang.com Empowering the next generation of civic technologists @ U.S. Digital Corps. Boston sports, good reads, and more. Views mine.
Breaking into civic tech guide: chriskuang.com/civictech
Anne Petersen @apetersen.bsky.social Hello (including you, trolls 👋). Lead and sole full-time staff @ U.S. Web Design System (USWDS) [government / civic]; past 18F, UIC. People first. Not for you. Views mine. None of this is endorsement. South side Chicagoan. Singular (th).
Michelle Thong @michellethong.bsky.social Civic technologist, urbanist, feminist, cynical optimist. VP of Product at Nava. Canadian + Californian, living in New England. 
Vyki Englert @vykster.bsky.social LA / 台北
shayna @shaynacummings.bsky.social she/her | computers, social justice, finding the edge cases
Sawyer @coughsonwombats.bsky.social Kinda hoping Twitter rallies, but just in case...
Richard Pope @richardpope.org I wrote a book on public services:
https://londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/platformland-an-anatomy-of-next-generation-public-services/
It’s time to share the benefits of digital with the public properly.
@shashashasha.bsky.social @shashashasha.bsky.social 
Jessi Murray @jessimurray.bsky.social I’m a Chief Product Officer in civic tech with a focus on equity and meeting people where they are. I have cute corgi and too many hobbies. Former progressive challenger. Personal account
MA > WA > MA again
Caroline Jarrett @cjforms.bsky.social Forms and survey specialist.
Always keen to try to answer your questions about making better forms (and if you must, maybe even those about surveys).
Effortmark.co.uk
Matt Bernius @mattbernius.bsky.social Qualitative Researcher at Code for America, former Measures For Justice. Accidental union organizer, trauma responsive thinker, participatory action research facilitator, civic design/tech, martial arts (BJJ, FMA, CMA), and more.
He/they.
Rebecca Piazza @rdpiazza.bsky.social Service delivery / Product / Public benefits / Civic tech. Strongly held opinions about DC statehood and Midwest casseroles.
James Hupp @jameshupp.bsky.social Feel like dancin' on my own, to a record that I do not own, in a place I've never seen before
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Lane Becker @lanebecker.bsky.social Prestidigitation, double shuffling, honey-fugling, hornswaggling, & skullduggery. @ Wikimedia/Wikipedia. Previously @ IFTF, 18F, Code for America.
Lou Downe @loudowne.bsky.social Founder of @theschoolofgood
Chief bean-wrangler @brodbox
Ex-Design Director of the UK Gov.
Proudly dyslexic & non-binary 🌈 they/he
Xena @msknee.bsky.social Designer, civic technologist + time traveling artist. Building teams + tech for the left at trestle.us. See my art at madebyxena.com!
Steve "Spike" Spiker @spikeone.bsky.social Chief Impact Officer w @First5Alameda, personal account.
Anti-racist, Christian, dad+husband.
By day, team building & #civictech
By night, #girldad, social justice and hip-hop.
Side hustle stealingbeautyphotography.com 
Civic Tech Field Guide @civictechguide.bsky.social Your place to find and be found
https://civictech.guide/
BetaNYC, a partner project of the Fund for the City of New York @beta.nyc We help New Yorkers access information & use technology. We want New York’s governments to work for the people, by the people, for the digital era. #civictech #opendata #pitech
beta.nyc/links
Eddie A Tejeda @eddietejeda.com VP of Engineering at Mode Analytics #civictech eddietejeda.com- E Elizabeth Ayer @elizayer.bsky.social Tacoma, WA, USA
Civil servant, independent product and organizational consultant
Powered by problematic levels of curiosity
Primary lens on life: we’re in this together
#ProductLeadership #Leadership #SystemsThinking #TeamTopologies
Fureigh @fureigh.bsky.social Punk guitarist and songwriter, civic technologist (formerly @18F, @codeforamerica & more).
Make stuff that makes a difference.
tsky @thadk.bsky.social 
Mateo @mateooo.bsky.social Civic technologist, musician & aspiring adobero. NM | TX . Here for 🌎 climate action, 🏛️ public interest tech, 🧱 earthen building + architecture, ⚽ fútbol y más.
Ariel Kennan @arielmai.bsky.social Building the Digital Benefits Network at the Beeck Center at Georgetown University
Ask me about service design, public benefits, product, digital identity, Rules as Code, and civic tech / gov tech.
📍NYC, and often DC
Digital Benefits Network @digitalbenefits.bsky.social The Digital Benefits Network supports government in delivering public benefits services and technology that are accessible, effective, and equitable in order to ultimately increase economic opportunity.
Part of the Beeck Center at Georgetown University