I posted this in 2022 about the trans community. Some things just need to be said. I hope you'll take a moment to read the full message. Share it with someone who needs to hear it.
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Dan Wang: Chinaβs Quest to Engineer the Future
Join us for Dan Wangβs talk about the issues raised in his new book Breakneck: Chinaβs Quest to Engineer the Future, which has been called a riveting, firsthand investigation of Chinaβs seismic progre...
Here's your chance to hear directly from Dan Wang on his breakout book BREAKNECK. It's really changed the way I think about China. Lots of cover from AI, healthcare, & much more! And we want to hear from you! Tickets are going fast! @cwclub.bsky.social www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2025-...
17.09.2025 19:51 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
DJ Patil: AI's Steering Wheel Challenge
Podcast Episode Β· The Road to Accountable AI Β· 09/04/2025 Β· 43m
New podcast episode up thanks to Kevin Werbach on AI + healthcare and much more. Here are a bunch of my lessons learned from building products + getting things done (that work) in gov podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/d...
09.09.2025 16:39 β π 2 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Want to know something? Join us in-person or online to hear Steven Pinker in conversation with @djpatil.bsky.social: "When Everyone Knows That Everyone Knows . . . "
October 8 in Silicon Valley.
Event details & tickets: www.commonwealthclub.org/events/2025-...
07.08.2025 19:06 β π 1 π 1 π¬ 0 π 1
Going to sell out! Hope you can join us!
19.08.2025 22:15 β π 3 π 1 π¬ 1 π 0
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17.08.2025 21:24 β π 8 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
YouTube video by Commonwealth Club World Affairs (CCWA)
General Stanley McChrystal | Choices That Define a Life
So much wisdom that Gen. McChrystal shares in our interview. Lessons he's learned the hard way. What character & patriotism means, being on the front lines as your enemy uses new technology, how that tech is going to impact all of us. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACGa... @cwclub.bsky.social
02.07.2025 17:20 β π 5 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Deep breaths...
26.06.2025 14:35 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Suicide counselors for LGBTQ+ youth removed from hotline by Trump admin
"Suicide prevention is about people, not politics," Trevor Project CEO Jaymes Black said.
It is irresponsible to play politics with the support of suicide counselors. People who are in a mental health crisis need support and we know how to support them www.axios.com/2025/06/18/t...
26.06.2025 14:00 β π 3 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
This is why @djpatil.bsky.social pushed for an agenda of moving purposefully and fixing things.
05.06.2025 14:43 β π 21 π 5 π¬ 0 π 0
For those that made the ultimate sacrifice, we remember and honor them. I think about how soundly my family sleeps at night thanks to them. #MemorialDay
26.05.2025 14:25 β π 3 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Tomorrow!
08.05.2025 00:42 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0
Hey @ucsandiego.bsky.social !!! I'm back on campus on May 8 (next week). Lots of topics to cover that are going to be π₯ πΆοΈ π― . I'll have my pack of stickers and hope to meet you there! warrenminors.ucsd.edu/law-and-soci...
02.05.2025 19:20 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 0 π 1
I grew up in Utah and thanks to fluoride in the water + regular cleaning, Iβve never had a cavity. Thankful for the public health people who made the policy
11.03.2025 01:05 β π 9 π 2 π¬ 0 π 0
Iβm at @carnegiemellon.bsky.social today! Want to meet up or show something off? Meet at Tepper next to the coffee shop at 4pm
10.03.2025 15:18 β π 5 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
We're not done yet | 18F
18F was doing exactly the type of work that DOGE claims to want β yet we were eliminated shortly after midnight. Read our letter to the American people:
18f.org
01.03.2025 23:38 β π 18892 π 6876 π¬ 698 π 448
This Biden official wants to root out waste. She says DOGE is doing it all wrong.
Podcast Episode Β· POLITICO Tech Β· 02/27/2025 Β· 21m
Want to understand whatβs happening on tech in the gov? Opportunities and risks? Listen to @ann-lewis.bsky.social and her experience and advice. Especially how to make it a bipartisan effort podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/p...
27.02.2025 14:16 β π 2 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Nope, itβs from our book on Data Ethics
26.02.2025 20:24 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
How can we use AI to transform Americaβs cities for the better? @goldsmithongov.bsky.social led a conversation with @djpatil.bsky.social & @mattmahansj.bsky.social on how AI can break barriers & enhance government services. "Technology alone is information, but it isnβt insight," Patil cautioned.
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15.02.2025 17:43 β π 4 π 0 π¬ 1 π 0
If you see me, ask me for a sticker!
15.02.2025 17:43 β π 20 π 2 π¬ 2 π 0
Texas measles outbreak doubled, now into 4 counties www.houstonchronicle.com/health/artic...
14.02.2025 17:20 β π 754 π 342 π¬ 65 π 50
DeWitt Higgs Lecture 2025
I'm coming back to @ucsandiego on May 7th to give the DeWitt Higgs Lecture! Hope to see you there!
Sign up here: warrenminors.ucsd.edu/law-and-soci...
12.02.2025 21:43 β π 6 π 1 π¬ 0 π 0
Opinion | The Assault on Diversity
Readers discuss diversity, equity and inclusion in the military, the government and in corporations.
I was in the room. Women serving in combat isn't some kind of DEI. It's well rooted in logic and Ash Carter saw that. Stephanie Carter knows better than anyone and read her take www.nytimes.com/2025/02/08/o...
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Yo-yoer, artist, musician, and host of the Fediverse Files.
San Francisco
DocPop.org
He/Him
Mastodon is still my main account, but you can follow my Masto account here on bsky via here: bsky.app/profile/docpop.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Dad, husband, host @Marketplace. IPAs. Soccer referee, trail runner, mountain biker. Veteran. kryssdal@marketplace.org
Ex NY Times, now author of Substack Paul Krugman. Nobel laureate and, according to Donald Trump, "Deranged BUM"
Tech exec, former TTS Director at GSA, former @moveon.org CTO, @scsatcmu.bsky.social grad, bio/pics: https://annlewis.tech/ (Personal account)
physician-scientist, author, editor
https://www.scripps.edu/faculty/topol/
Ground Truths https://erictopol.substack.com
SUPER AGERS https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Super-Agers/Eric-Topol/9781668067666
Principal Architect @posit.co, GP Composed Ventures, Co-founder Voltron Data. Open source: Apache Arrow, pandas, Ibis. "Python for Data Analysis" book
Founder @ RillData.com, building GenBI. Lover of fast, flexible, beautiful data tools. Lapsed computational biologist.
CCWA is the nation's largest and most active public forum, dedicated to providing space for civil discussions from many viewpoints & improving the general goodβthe common wealth. Nonprofit, nonpartisan.
Lois Lane for the courts and broken tigger
Slate, Amicus, MSNBC, NYT bestseller Lady Justice
Cofounder CEO, Perplexity.ai
Director, @stanforddel.bsky.social
Professor Stanford Institute for Human-centered AI, SIEPR, Stanford department of Economics and GSB
Author https://amazon.com/Second-Machine-Age-Prosperity-Technologies/dp/0393350649
Independent AI researcher, creator of datasette.io and llm.datasette.io, building open source tools for data journalism, writing about a lot of stuff at https://simonwillison.net/
Princeton computer science prof. I write about the societal impact of AI, tech ethics, & social media platforms. https://www.cs.princeton.edu/~arvindn/
BOOK: AI Snake Oil. https://www.aisnakeoil.com/
Stanford Linguistics and Computer Science. Director, Stanford AI Lab. Founder of @stanfordnlp.bsky.social . #NLP https://nlp.stanford.edu/~manning/
Professor at Wharton, studying AI and its implications for education, entrepreneurship, and work. Author of Co-Intelligence.
Book: https://a.co/d/bC2kSj1
Substack: https://www.oneusefulthing.org/
Web: https://mgmt.wharton.upenn.edu/profile/emollick
The future belongs to the connected. Former Chairwoman of the FCC. Always an impatient optimist. Mom, wife, inveterate coffee drinker.
Founder of https://fathom.info, co-founder of https://processing.org, lecturer at https://mit.edu