Dr. Annie Feighery
@afeighery.bsky.social
Behavioral health scientist specializing in tech & infrastructure in international dev/aid. CEO of mWater & Solstice, the world's largest platform for managing water, sanitation, & health. mwater.co solsticeinstitute.com Mom of 3, partner of @jfeighery
Tagging in @roguenoaa.altgov.info and @roguefema.altgov.info / @rebelfema.altgov.info for any additional insights. Apps clearly have a role in wildfire situational awareness / preparedness, but a NOAA Weather Radio is an indispensable tool for all hazards. www.weather.gov/abq/Emergenc...
Emergency Preparedness: NOAA Weather Radio
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All Protocol Observed Welcome to Issue 247 of The Continent Be aware of your sharing permissions. We got the spreadsheet for how Rwanda pays influencers to craft its shiny image. bit.ly/247_TC
After several rounds of edits on a draft in which Fable and I disagreed about my use of the term, passive tense, Fable took to not arguing with me anymore, but still passive aggressively thinking about it in front of me.
I wrote about the Nolan Odyssey for the LRB. I'll summarize some of my main points below, in case you don't feel like reading all that. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Emily Wilson · An Uncomplicated Man
As they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
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looks like this might be the strongest El Niño in history, and not by a small margin youtu.be/aErvUF2PHew?...
Latest Data : El Niño is here and it has SMASHED all records!
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Cathy Engelbert announces the WNBA is launching a “fully centralized” replay center beginning with the 2027 season. Meant to help with “Efficiency and transparency” in officiating process.
This is utterly terrifying. Black Mirror is now reality. www.reuters.com/graphics/UKR...
Inside Ukraine’s Kill Zone
Drones now dominate the war in Ukraine. Fly through the front line’s deadly “kill zone” and discover how surveillance, kamikaze drones and new tactics are reshaping modern warfare. An immersive Reuter...
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this very long thread wins the internet this week:
Becky Tyler@beckytylerart.bsky.social · 2w agoWhat song did the Sirens sing in The Odyssey? Wrong answers only.
After the earthquakes in Venezuela, citizens used AI to build websites and apps to help locate missing persons and coordinate relief efforts amid a slow government response https://restofworld.org/2026/venezuela-ai-citizen-disaster-response/?utm_campaign=row-social
AI powers citizen-led disaster relief from afar for Venezuela
After the earthquakes, developers and citizens used AI to build websites and apps to help locate missing persons and coordinate relief efforts amid a slow government response.
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I’m a little wary of how this is framed but I do think we’re going to see more people using LLM produced code to do things. Still, if corporate products are being used to fill in the gaps left by institutional failures, we ought to be ever more aware of the decisions the systems displace.
Rest of World@restofworld.org · 2w agoAfter the earthquakes in Venezuela, citizens used AI to build websites and apps to help locate missing persons and coordinate relief efforts amid a slow government response https://restofworld.org/2026/venezuela-ai-citizen-disaster-response/?utm_campaign=row-social
oh, vibe coding is now being called agentic engineering hahah 🤡 www.ibm.com/think/topics...
What is Agentic Engineering? | IBM
Agentic engineering, coined by OpenAI cofounder Andrej Karpathy, emphasizes agentic programming as a tool rather than the force building the entire codebase end-to-end. In this article, we will explor...
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I'm so looking forward to the sad Jagger memes tomorrow. #worldcup
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Lots of Data and AI people joining Bluesky, I am afraid I will have to split the starter pack as it is already crowded with 150 people go.bsky.app/7D4NApV #rstats #ai #datascience #bayesian
Only 2.69% of Americans share my exact profile on this 7-question quiz www.atvbt.com/youre-weirde...
You're Weirder Than You Think
I say this with love
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"This isn't a goal, it's poetry. Prettiest goal of the Cup, prettiest play of the Cup, most perfect sequence of passes of the Cup. Hands down." x.com/leonardodias...
Some of you are still posting about politics and I need you to understand that Bluesky is now a Cabo Verde stan platform thank you for your attention
Happy Pride Day, New Mexico. Today we celebrate the LGBTQ+ community and reaffirm a simple truth: everyone deserves the freedom to live authentically, love openly and build a future where they feel safe, valued and respected every day of the year.
as a lifelong southerner, i am categorically pro-air conditioning. and with plug-in solar and batteries making it effectively clean, there is no excuse
Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
You can buy any book FROM YOUR FAVORITE BOOKSTORE through BookShop.org, and they'll ship directly from the store to you, just like Amazon (but without the ick!)
Bookshop.org@bookshop.org · last mo.Anti-Prime Day starts…NOW! 🥳 Today through 6/26, enjoy free standard shipping site-wide, all while supporting local, independent bookstores.
Happy Solstice, world! To celebrate, we released Horizon, our newest Digital Public Good. Horizon is a global riverine flood alert app that uses GloFAS satellite data to provide every country with a 10-day flood forecast. Horizonapp.org youtu.be/LHklsPOkvPs
Introducing Horizon: free river-flood risk from global satellite data
YouTube video by mWater
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do NOT open this if you have visual sensory concerns, or any history of seizures, please please. It's basically a visual evoked potential seeded by your system clock, and just a visual curiosity. Not at all useful.
Cellular
Time-seeded cellular automaton. The grid evolves into readable patterns.
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Hey, @nba.com, put your damned clips up on here, not just on X.
