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August 8, 2026 at 9:25 AM
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If you ever need your faith in the sciences restored after having it so violently compromised by techbros masquerading as technologists, I encourage you to check out the breakthrough after breakthrough ongoing in oncology. 
A cancer vaccine succeeded in a clinical trial in preventing the recurrence of melanoma, a result experts say is a breakthrough for mRNA-based treatments.
Trials for lung cancer, pancreatic cancer and other diseases' vaccines are also underway.
Trials for lung cancer, pancreatic cancer and other diseases' vaccines are also underway.
A melanoma vaccine was hailed as a breakthrough. Which cancers are next?
Trials investigating mRNA vaccines for lung cancer, pancreatic cancer and other diseases are already underway.
www.washingtonpost.com
September 19, 2026 at 8:05 PM
If you ever need your faith in the sciences restored after having it so violently compromised by techbros masquerading as technologists, I encourage you to check out the breakthrough after breakthrough ongoing in oncology. 
I'm optimistic about technology and pessimistic about technologists.
one of the things that sucks about working in tech is… I don’t want to be a techno-pessimist! I really wish I could feel optimistic and happy about the future we’re building
but it’s hard not to look around and feel like all of the money and energy is being poured into making the world worse
but it’s hard not to look around and feel like all of the money and energy is being poured into making the world worse
Not to be melodramatic but generative AI is an open assault on the idea that information can be verifiable or valuable
March 16, 2024 at 6:30 PM
I'm optimistic about technology and pessimistic about technologists.
Some the smartest and most civic minded technologists I’ve ever met were 18F folks
18F, the federal government’s technology shop, was demolished by Musk’s team shortly after midnight. It was a cost-recoverable org, charging agencies for their expertise, using a consulting model. Its cost to government was negligible, its benefits huge. My team there once saved DoD $500 billion.
March 1, 2025 at 9:17 PM
Some the smartest and most civic minded technologists I’ve ever met were 18F folks
Also maybe this is why it’s not an awesome idea to fire all your technologists and cybersecurity professionals.
March 18, 2025 at 2:53 AM
Also maybe this is why it’s not an awesome idea to fire all your technologists and cybersecurity professionals.
DOGE technologists Edward Coristine—the 19-year-old known online as “Big Balls”—and Kyle Schutt are now listed as staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
DOGE Now Has Access to the Top US Cybersecurity Agency
DOGE technologists Edward Coristine—the 19-year-old known online as “Big Balls”—and Kyle Schutt are now listed as staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
www.wired.com
February 22, 2025 at 4:07 PM
DOGE technologists Edward Coristine—the 19-year-old known online as “Big Balls”—and Kyle Schutt are now listed as staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
NEW: DOGE technologists Edward Coristine—the 19-year-old known online as “Big Balls”—and Kyle Schutt are now listed as staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
DOGE Now Has Access to the Top US Cybersecurity Agency
DOGE technologists Edward Coristine—the 19-year-old known online as “Big Balls”—and Kyle Schutt are now listed as staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
wrd.cm
February 20, 2025 at 2:01 AM
NEW: DOGE technologists Edward Coristine—the 19-year-old known online as “Big Balls”—and Kyle Schutt are now listed as staff at the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency.
I would vociferously dispute this.
No, you don't need to take 4000 level courses.
But it is important to understand technology, and more important *technologists.*
No, you don't need to take 4000 level courses.
But it is important to understand technology, and more important *technologists.*
There are lots of ways to answer this and one of them is that studying history makes you a better citizen and our public universities have an obligation to produce good citizens. History education is essential to a republican model of government. Engineering is not.
Am I missing something here?
In what universe would an engineering student ever study history?!
Do many history students study engineering?!
I *enjoyed* history at school, and I was *good* at it. But no way would I ever have studied it at university.
In what universe would an engineering student ever study history?!
Do many history students study engineering?!
I *enjoyed* history at school, and I was *good* at it. But no way would I ever have studied it at university.
September 27, 2026 at 3:03 PM
I would vociferously dispute this.
No, you don't need to take 4000 level courses.
But it is important to understand technology, and more important *technologists.*
No, you don't need to take 4000 level courses.
But it is important to understand technology, and more important *technologists.*
technologists: wysiwyg
plato: NOW HOLD ON A MINUTE
plato: NOW HOLD ON A MINUTE
April 15, 2026 at 5:31 PM
technologists: wysiwyg
plato: NOW HOLD ON A MINUTE
plato: NOW HOLD ON A MINUTE
At a time that technologists are dreaming and investing in immortality, the reality is this
June 16, 2025 at 1:25 PM
At a time that technologists are dreaming and investing in immortality, the reality is this
Technologists understand what you are building challenge
September 13, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Technologists understand what you are building challenge
When technologists talk about how we should just use markdown for everything, or just use git for everything, or just go back to RSS, it just tells me that they're not being especially thoughtful or sensitive to all the ways that those technologies don't work for people who aren't technologists.
March 8, 2026 at 12:40 AM
When technologists talk about how we should just use markdown for everything, or just use git for everything, or just go back to RSS, it just tells me that they're not being especially thoughtful or sensitive to all the ways that those technologies don't work for people who aren't technologists.
Here is a continued list:
11. Pharmacists
12. Dentists
13. Physical Therapists
14. Occupational Therapists
15. Speech-Language Pathologists:
16. Respiratory Therapists
17. Radiologic Technologists
18. Clinical Laboratory Technologists
19. Diagnostic Medical Sonographers
20. Mental Health Providers
11. Pharmacists
12. Dentists
13. Physical Therapists
14. Occupational Therapists
15. Speech-Language Pathologists:
16. Respiratory Therapists
17. Radiologic Technologists
18. Clinical Laboratory Technologists
19. Diagnostic Medical Sonographers
20. Mental Health Providers
November 26, 2024 at 3:43 AM
Here is a continued list:
11. Pharmacists
12. Dentists
13. Physical Therapists
14. Occupational Therapists
15. Speech-Language Pathologists:
16. Respiratory Therapists
17. Radiologic Technologists
18. Clinical Laboratory Technologists
19. Diagnostic Medical Sonographers
20. Mental Health Providers
11. Pharmacists
12. Dentists
13. Physical Therapists
14. Occupational Therapists
15. Speech-Language Pathologists:
16. Respiratory Therapists
17. Radiologic Technologists
18. Clinical Laboratory Technologists
19. Diagnostic Medical Sonographers
20. Mental Health Providers
This is the future conservation technologists want.
November 3, 2024 at 3:32 PM
This is the future conservation technologists want.
Remember those technologists I hired using an authority designed to bring private sector tech talent to gov, legally? They were looking into big tech.
Trump just fired them. All of them.
consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/…
Trump just fired them. All of them.
consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/…
February 14, 2025 at 12:51 AM
Remember those technologists I hired using an authority designed to bring private sector tech talent to gov, legally? They were looking into big tech.
Trump just fired them. All of them.
consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/…
Trump just fired them. All of them.
consumerfinance.gov/about-us/blog/…
👋 EFF's team of activists, lawyers, and technologists regularly take on multiple threats to digital rights and privacy. We've noticed, we're not distracted, and we'll be fighting back.
Zuck taking advantage of every opportunity, I guess. "World's going to shit? Well, I guess EFF will be too busy opposing fascism to notice that we launched surveillance glasses!"
Cool, cool.
Cool, cool.
Facebook plans to put facial recognition in its glasses and they think we’re too stupid to fight back.
Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
Their internal memo: “We will launch during a dynamic political environment where many civil society groups that we would expect to attack us would have their resources focused on other concerns.”
February 13, 2026 at 9:44 PM
👋 EFF's team of activists, lawyers, and technologists regularly take on multiple threats to digital rights and privacy. We've noticed, we're not distracted, and we'll be fighting back.
Technologists for good.
A manual for ICE's immigrant-targeting computer system, Palantir ELITE, was leaked today.
Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
Let's look at it, then step back to evaluate how far we've come along a dangerous road and where that road might take us. 🧵
Here is the User Guide for ELITE, the Tool Palantir Made for ICE
404 Media is publishing a version of the user guide for ELITE, which lets ICE bring up dossiers on individual people and provides a “confidence score” of their address.
www.404media.co
January 31, 2026 at 5:10 PM
Technologists for good.
Hey, creative technologists, this is cool.
May 21, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Hey, creative technologists, this is cool.
Stepping in here to defend Ann’s statement, which I’ve now seen framed this way by several technologists.
Ann is an author.
Her context is about usability, not technical capacity. On the merits of her context, she is correct.
Technical specificity does not change her conclusions.
Ann is an author.
Her context is about usability, not technical capacity. On the merits of her context, she is correct.
Technical specificity does not change her conclusions.
This is one of the most-shared posts on Bluesky in the past day and it's just completely false. You might think ChatGPT is a *bad* search engine, or prefer another search engine. But it has had integrated web search since last year.
May 1, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Stepping in here to defend Ann’s statement, which I’ve now seen framed this way by several technologists.
Ann is an author.
Her context is about usability, not technical capacity. On the merits of her context, she is correct.
Technical specificity does not change her conclusions.
Ann is an author.
Her context is about usability, not technical capacity. On the merits of her context, she is correct.
Technical specificity does not change her conclusions.
People are replying to this with “this is more an idiot problem than a tech problem.”
Counterpoint: technologists KNOW that many humans are idiots, and are thus *morally obligated* to design technological systems in ways that attempt to mitigate this universal problem.
Counterpoint: technologists KNOW that many humans are idiots, and are thus *morally obligated* to design technological systems in ways that attempt to mitigate this universal problem.
AI does appear to be rapidly accelerating human selection of the fittest….
except it’s doing it by straight-up killing people who rely on ChatGPT to plan dangerous trips, not by improving human cognition like the techbros want us to believe:
except it’s doing it by straight-up killing people who rely on ChatGPT to plan dangerous trips, not by improving human cognition like the techbros want us to believe:
Why Are the Italian Alps So Deadly This Summer?
On average, three hikers have died every day throughout the summer in Italy’s high peaks. Experts explain why.
www.outsideonline.com
August 21, 2025 at 8:38 PM
People are replying to this with “this is more an idiot problem than a tech problem.”
Counterpoint: technologists KNOW that many humans are idiots, and are thus *morally obligated* to design technological systems in ways that attempt to mitigate this universal problem.
Counterpoint: technologists KNOW that many humans are idiots, and are thus *morally obligated* to design technological systems in ways that attempt to mitigate this universal problem.
negative polarization against technologists, mostly
May 5, 2025 at 7:34 AM
negative polarization against technologists, mostly
There's a name for this movement: it's called "Public Interest Technology" and the people who work in it are called "public interest technologists."
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There's a name for this movement: it's called "Public Interest Technology" and the people who work in it are called "public interest technologists."
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#ACTUALNEWS President Biden Honors Nation’s Leading Scientists, Technologists, and Innovators
January 3, 2025 at 11:26 PM
#ACTUALNEWS President Biden Honors Nation’s Leading Scientists, Technologists, and Innovators
One for my fellow technologists :-)
March 23, 2025 at 8:25 AM
One for my fellow technologists :-)
In the same way that people can identify their problems but not necessarily know good solutions for them, technologists can see the future issues their technologies pose but are not obviously suited to addressing them
September 25, 2026 at 12:55 PM
In the same way that people can identify their problems but not necessarily know good solutions for them, technologists can see the future issues their technologies pose but are not obviously suited to addressing them