Backstage getting mic’d up for #FWD50 2026. Great speaker lineup this year - excited to be in Montreal!

700,000 mi trip and this feels like the hardest part of the mission so far. 😆 Don't envy those divers trying to fight the current and the waves to get the collar set up.

Are you in southern California or Baja? Let the USGS know if you felt the sonic boom from the Artemis re-entry! DYFI link: earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/...

USA TODAY@usatoday.com · 4mo ago

The thunderous vibration will likely take place between 5 p.m. and 5:15 p.m. Pacific Time, the USGS said.

THEY DID IT!!!!!

I can't wait for the hi-res photos but LOOK AT THE PHOTO FROM THEIR IPHONE! #artemisii

This is new to me (but evidently not new to the internet). Loooove. go18furself.com

This was fun. Ready to be replaced. ;) replacebyclawd.com?url=https://...

It seems like the Navigation System would be something they test on a plane prior to bringing it to the gate…not something they test right before boarding. 😭

Imagine if American public media also had a #digitalequity & #pitech lens. Looking forward to reading this.

Sameer Padania@sdp.bsky.social · 5mo ago

And the full report by me, @hannahperry.bsky.social & @pollycurtis.bsky.social is here - including a fuller explanation of why the BBC is our most crucial public interest technology organisation and anchor of our digital sovereignty: demos.co.uk/research/our...

Footholds in here for those thinking about: - Digital Public Infrastructure - Public interest AI - National security - Information warfare - Epistemic security / fracture or cognitive resilience - Creative industries - Democracy 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾

Sameer Padania@sdp.bsky.social · 5mo ago

And the full report by me, @hannahperry.bsky.social & @pollycurtis.bsky.social is here - including a fuller explanation of why the BBC is our most crucial public interest technology organisation and anchor of our digital sovereignty: demos.co.uk/research/our...

Important (and depressing) read from @carolecadwalla.bsky.social — TW re Epstein files content open.substack.com/pub/broligar...

We all live in Jeffrey Epstein's world

The most disturbing revelation so far

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This week we kicked off a great new event series at @1rg.space called Wayfinding, exploring the tensions of technology in modern life, with a wonderful conversation about privacy. Next up: don't miss @hillaryh.bsky.social and Bianca Wylie talking about civics on Feb 11th! luma.com/wayfinding2

Wayfinding: Civics · Luma

Wayfinding: conversations about navigating the tensions of tech in modern life. We live in a moment where our trust in tech companies to protect our privacy…

luma.com

Wayfinding will be back on Feb 11th with Bianca Wylie and Hillary Hartley in conversation about civics. luma.com/wayfinding2

Wayfinding: Civics · Luma

Wayfinding: conversations about navigating the tensions of tech in modern life. We live in a moment where our trust in tech companies to protect our privacy…

luma.com

I love that this man knows how to communicate a civics lesson. 😍

Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani@mayor.nyc.gov · 6mo ago

The City’s Budget is our future. And you deserve to know how it works.

English translation here: www.backgroundbriefing.org/2025/05/13/e...

Scott Horton@robertscotthorton.bsky.social · last yr.

ZDF is now broadcasting the documentary I prepared with Johannes Hano and David Frum concerning the Russian influence operation targeting Musk, Thiel and other Silicon Valley South Africans, which was personally overseen and run by Vladimir Putin and was deemed hugely successful by the Russians.

New thing! The @carefultrouble.bsky.social Careful Consequence Check is now live and free to use. Based on research with the Bristol Digital Futures Institute, this practical tool will help you answer the question "is my AI product creepy and weird" www.careful.industries/consequences

Why isn’t the video of our current president saying that a shutdown is the President’s fault ALL OVER THE NEWS AND INTERNET ALL THE EFFING TIME?

When in the nation’s capital… 😆🇨🇦 shoutout to @acroll.bsky.social and @harper.lol ❤️ #FWD50

#FWD50 number nine (!!) is underway in Ottawa! @acroll.bsky.social on stage convincing us to optimize for One Metric That Matters. Excited to see so many #civictech folks here for the next couple of days. Hope we get to catch up, y’all.

Kid better be getting one hell of a bonus! Truly wild year for Yesavage. 💪

Velodus✨@velodus.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Blake Snell, the Dodgers' game 5 starter, has a 2025 salary of $28,436,867. Trey Yesavage, with one of the greatest rookie pitching performances in World Series history, has a 2025 salary of $57,204. www.spotrac.com/mlb/player/e...

I regret to inform everyone that my pedantic brain couldn’t let me live until I knew whether or not dodger blue and blue jays blue are the same blue. They are ONE PANTONE NUMBER APART.

The Jays are coming back to Toronto! 💙🩵❤️ (And general admission tickets - no assigned seats- are only $1800!) 🤣

Bottom of the 11th inning! This is what you want from championship games. But come on Jays, let’s hold em and then wrap this up!! 🤣💙🩵❤️

This is crazy. And crazy-making. www.usda.gov

I suppose it’s time to download my archive and actually delete my account, or at least all of its content. I refuse to log in and use X, but I haven’t yet deleted my presence there…

Eileen Clancy 🧿@clancyny.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Musk: X will delete all heuristics from its recommendation system within six weeks. ...the familiar logic of likes, replies, and reposts that shaped Twitter for years is about to disappear. In its place, Grok, the platform's in-house Al model, will read and watch more than one hundred million posts.

Gavin Newsom: “All this anti-woke stuff is just anti-Black, period, full stop.”

These are screenshots from the ACTUAL WHITE HOUSE PAGE on the timeline of the East Wing. You may not believe what you re seeing. Go and check for yourself. This...I don't even know what to say about this.

As a matter of law, there is no such thing as "federal immunity." Trump has broad immunity, but public employees enjoy only qualified immunity that does not extend if a "reasonable person" would understand their actions to be illegal. Stephen Miller is not a reasonable person.

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 10mo ago

Stephen Miller on Fox threatens to arrest JB Pritzker for "seditious conspiracy" and says, "to all ICE officers: you have federal immunity in the conduct of your duties. And anybody who lays a hand on you or tries to stop or obstruct you is committing a felony."

I'm still obsessing over the demolition of the East Wing. It just makes everything since Jan 20 plain as day. www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...

Column | Why the demolition of the East Wing is so shocking

By Thursday, the White House’s East Wing was gone. The speed of destruction, and the projection of power, are part of the strongman playbook.

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So they didn’t like the ad. Let’s just post Reagan’s 5 min speech against tariffs as it appears on YouTube. Over and over. On all platforms (some of y’all are still on X). *1981 Sherrilyn horrified by 2025 Sherrilyn saying “let’s post Reagan’s speech.” youtu.be/5t5QK03KXPc

President Reagan's Radio Address on Free and Fair Trade on April 25, 1987

YouTube video by Reagan Library

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