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Executive Director of @spritely (but this is a personal account). I'm here to fix the Internet.
ActivityPub co-author, co-host of @[email protected]. Lisp sourceress, decentralized network architect, occasional Blender artist. she/they https://dustycloud.org/

Recently moved here from @[email protected]

Lovely banner sketch by @juliaro https://mastodon.art/@juliaro/114489465896761273

My private account. Posts/Opinions are my own. Focused on #Open and TCP/ID, identity ownership in the real and digital world. 3D printer. Can solder and repair. Antifascist. European. Policy hacker. Rambles around at times. He/Him/His $argon2id$v=19$m=512,t=256,p=1$SWmoDffV/hOu+/Vii5Nxsw$zYZ5n+cXxZLKoLnXZJjll1JWcCFyiRVli7xOPqu63GM Blocks threads.net Works at Red Hat.

Currently working on https://permacommons.org/ - a permanent home for useful shared resources maintained with AI assistance.

Social & computer scientist who works alongside communities on science for a safer, fairer, more understanding Internet.

Founder, Citizens and Technology Lab · Visiting Scholar, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia · Assistant Prof at Cornell · Guatemalan-American · Co-founder of @transparenttech

Enjoys taking photos & listening to books/poetry on very long bike rides.

Product Strategy Advisor to Mastodon Core team.
Previously UX Strategy: Apple System 7, Newton, and Apple Human Interface guidelines. UX Director at Symbian, manager Mobile UX at Google, creative director frog design San Francisco. Head of Product for two startups. Returned to Google to lead the Physical Web in Chrome and explore multiple UX research projects in Android. Left 2024, now advising part time.

mastodon.social: 2017-2022

Indian-American gal who likes to make people laugh. #OpenSource entrepreneur, programmer, tech writer and encourager, stand-up comedian, advocate for transparency in government software and data.

New York City #NYC, Changeset Consulting, #RecurseCenter, #WisCon, #MetaFilter, #Python packaging, Geek Feminism, #Dreamwidth, harihareswara.net.

Hope you're having the best possible day.

Teaching and writing media studies at CU Boulder. Helping to build a cooperative fediverse with Social.coop. Fan of democratic experiences and divine mysteries. Co-leading e2c.how, metagov.org, start.coop, wagingnonviolence.org.

governance nerd; open source developer & community manager; novelist; activist; uswnt & washington spirit fangirl

#Teacher, #librarian, #writer, #reader. #Neurodivergent. Former NY State Senate candidate. Advanced degrees in #literature, #education, and #library & information science, but none of them are doctorates so it doesn't count. I teach students to understand and make strong arguments because it's the best I can do now for #democracy and the #climate. I love #journalists, #historians, #scientists, and other truth-seekers. Oh, and I've written two novels and raised two children. She/her

Endurance athlete, heavy-music appreciator, compulsive greeter of cats. My book “Lifehouse: Taking Care of Ourselves in A World on Fire,” is available from Verso; new books forthcoming 2026.

Knowledge ecologist and #mycopunk mapper working and #coop with other #ComplexityWranglers.

Currently building Socialroots, a fractal and #cooperative platform for cross-group communication and coordination to address wicked problems.

Cooperating and coordinating towards better human and planetary health.

Journalist contributing to The Guardian, NYmag, Fast Company, and others.

"Don't explain your philosophy. Embody it." (Epictetus)

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Founding member of @weareopencoop, author/editor of @thoughtshrapnel, and blogger at @openthinkering

Previously: @mozilla / @moodle / consultant / researcher / teacher

🟡 Some capacity for new projects

#OpenBadges #OpenRecognition #VerifiableCredentials #DigitalLiteracies #ProductiveAmbiguity #SystemsThinking

Empathy is a superpower • Senior Architect at Red Hat • Fedora Linux • OpenShift • Apache Kafka • Opinions my own • Serial booster • Computer historian • Author of @deprogrammaticaipsum • Migrant • “Orphan of the Real” (J. Grotstein) • “Borderlander” (J. Bernstein) • Toots in the national languages of 🇦🇷,🇨🇭, & 🇬🇧 • Antifascist • Vaccinated • He / Him

🧪 Research scientist and engineer fed up with the status quo (electrochemical engineering: batteries and electrocatalysis).

⚙️ Into appropriate technology, open-source hardware, co-ops (of all kinds), solidarity economy, and that sort of thing.

🐣 Grew up across the Mississippi River from Cahokia Mounds (St. Louis, Missouri)

📍 Drôme, FR

🏕️ Distance running, bikelife, getting off-grid

🏴 In the lower left of the political compass

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Founding Member @limeleaf | Software Engineer | Go | Rust | C | Hare | Linux | Networking | eBPF | Distributed Systems | Databases

Decentralize and self host as much as you can.

https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9620

Powerlifter/Strongman. 515# squat | 605# deadlift | 300# bench press | 200# shoulder press

Motorcycles, heavy metal, and tattoos

#AuDHD father to an #AuDHD kiddo.

"Be excellent to each other." - Bill S. Preston, Esq.

We are a worker-owned cooperative that helps teams build fast, reliable, maintainable software using Go and Rust.

We're also building ethical, privacy-focused, and open source products for real people and the #Fediverse. We're currently working on https://limecast.net and https://apply.coop

Account maintained by @blainsmith

Co-founder of Limeleaf. Worker co-op enthusiast.