mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06Hi! I do civic tech, product, and org design. Will be teaching #CivicTech at UW, starting Fall, '26.
My happy place is down a rabbithole, occasionally ejecting content as a proof of life. Posts usually about software, with some politics, history and philosophy thrown in, but secretly still about software.
Based in #Tacoma, superfan of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge and #infrastructure in general.
Pronouns: she/her
Countries: UK/US
I feel the saying should be: do something you love, and you'll never *rest* a day in your life.
RE: @emilymbender@dair-community.social
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I get actual chills at the incisiveness of this.
From a forthcoming encyclopedia entry.
I am absolutely baffled how so many books and articles about AI don't disclose how AI was used in the creation of the work.
It might be time to start journaling.
We are going to have a *lot* of explaining to do to future generations.
I adore this talk from @chrisjrn@social.coop
It takes you on a journey from programming as an objective mathy exercise to its real interpretive nature in a messy human world.
It shines a light on practices that many teams follow out of rote and explains what they are *really* for.
And I especially appreciate how it challenges us to understand what is being lost as so-called friction is removed!
Very good stuff.
I think in gov tech we're now long past the whole, "it's not a sprint, it's a marathon" thing.
It's clearly chessboxing.
Oof.
It's not every day that my team and I get called a "roster of ineffectual, empty vessels whose ambition one would forgive if there were any genuine belief structure lurking within."
😂
(Obviously not linking to the source, because it's on X and the rest is worse)
RE: @globalmuseum@mastodon.online
Huh, I'd always assumed that was a bigoted assumption about people who lived in hot climates.
But nope, just a bigoted assumption about people of the past!
RE: @steltenpower@social.edu.nl
You had me at the title!
It's talking wayyy left, all the way to standards development.
In fact, it's a nice little infomercial for the paper "Making technical standards work for humanity: New pathways for incorporating international human rights into standards development for
digital technologies"
