@ryegan.bsky.social btw what's your angle/entry into pol.is as your focus? :) or do you have identities in other platforms (like GitHub) that I could follow?

However, on our website, in “Demands” you can take this poll: pol.is/2hzna7ntca We encourage people to take this poll so we know what people are willing to strike for. If you don’t see your cause, then add it, so others can vote.

Hey @rude1.blacksky.team @zariajalan.bsky.social if you'd like me to load the data into this perspective map tool, so you & the community can explore together & make sense of things, just lemme know. Happy to help with offline version, to see what's in there first ❤️ patcon.github.io/polislike-hu...

Swipe to read insights from the preliminary data. Record your voice on the platform here: pol.is/8r58ukcjps @dridhata.bsky.social @hpanday.bsky.social

Still making a thing! My new prototype showing potential of animating opinion spaces, exploring data from tools like pol.is! Video: youtube.com/shorts/9lr_-... Interactive: main--68c53b7909ee2fb48f1979dd.chromatic.com/iframe.html?... #democracy #deliberation #delibwave #collectiveintelligence

ICYMI: 🌟 Noel Hidalgo and Jazzy Smith shared BetaNYC’s story on @roadtripnation’s Tech for Us! Tech is people-first—it’s about how everyone can make an impact, no matter your background. ❤️ Catch the episode here: bit.ly/3GKzt8c

Yay new prototypes! patcon.github.io/polislike-hu...

@stackwild.bsky.social Ohai! Nice to meet you. Big fan of games + collective intelligence, and so I'm glad to be in the same corner of bsky :)

Oo I absolutely adore the term "barnyard understanding [of engineering]", explained by Chaim Gingold, creator of the game Spore and author of the Sim City book ❤️ What might a barnyard understanding of data science be? h/t @michaelgarfield.bsky.social's podcast open.spotify.com/episode/09cK...

hey @rude1.blacksky.team, been rooting for y'all from afar, re: the Polis experiment. I don't suppose thingys like these prototypes would support the community to make sense of itself? ugly v1: patcon.github.io/polislike-op... wip v2: main--68c53b7909ee2fb48f1979dd.chromatic.com/iframe.html?...

Current status: prototyping Google Maps for human perspective landscapes built from simple agree/disagree data: (some features still stuck in my earlier prototype) main--68c53b7909ee2fb48f1979dd.chromatic.com?path=/story/... #democracy #collectiveintelligence #deliberation #delibwave #complexity

Sometimes I feel like I live in a deep pit at the top of the world. Chipping away at #democracy things that feel deeply & spiritually important, not far from those who I truly feel will affect the trajectory of it all. But every once in awhile, bottoming out & stealing groceries

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Ohai, I wrote a thing reimagining how #polislike tools extending the core concepts of @UsePolis might be used for in-person events. nodescription.substack.com/p/beyond-roo... #polislike

Hello Bluesky! We're CrownShy! We won the 2025 Civtech challenge 10.7 to partner with @scotgov and we're developing a platform to scale quality public participation, integrating open source tools into our 'Comhairle' platform. Find out about our journey here crown-shy.com/blog/our-civ...

So here's the event idea: What if someone ran an event where the 2nd rule was "NO INTRODUCTIONS", but only because the 1st rule was "you must arrive having fully memorized ONLY everyone's name and face". Beyond the strange entry requirement, what would such an event feel like?

I have an idea for a quirky event experimenting with the "minimum possible feeling of #community", but need to explain some context first. Bear with me...

It would cost @blackskyweb.xyz $160K annually to do automated video and image moderation for every post in the Blacksky feed. This is a huge barrier to new apps being built on @atproto.com. I talk about all this + more with @alixdunn.com for Computer Says Maybe. My #Nodestar episode drops tomorrow.

we reach upward like addicts for altitude, city towers, childish arms, billowing chemtrails to the stars addicted to outward, to anywhere but here, wanting to be all places but where we are every dimension stretched out, flailing for some new deeper or further perimeter, to be past yet still lost

We're joining forces with ConnexUs, a global network of peacebuilders and changemakers! Huge thanks to the team at Search For Common Ground for making this happen!

As I'm working on #collectiveintelligence and deliberative tooling, I'm coming to realize: we need less consensus-building, ut rather difference-stabilising. #delibwave

🚨 Speaker Spotlight: @phirephoenix.com Joining us as one of our panel moderators—Jenny is a writer, software developer, and secret optimist. She is the founder of Show Up Toronto, which makes it easier for Torontonians to get involved in community organizing and mutual aid. 🎟️ civic-spark.com

🚨 Speaker Spotlight: @civicwhitaker.com Christopher is the Executive Director of the Alliance of Civic Technologists and has spent years growing the civic tech community. Don’t miss Christopher and a lineup of civic innovators who impact how we serve the public. 🎟️ civic-spark.com

Still time to grab a ticket to this #civictech event this weekend in Toronto...! If you like the vibe of the weekly @civictechto.bsky.social hacknights, this will be a diff format to have those same sorts of "hope junkie" conversations and schemes :) civic-spark.com

@radxchange.bsky.social and ⿻ communities around the world are organizing watch parties for this can't-miss debate on September 4. If you'd like to host one in your city or town, email us at [email protected] 🖖

Had a thought about storytelling and ant pheromones while listening to @MelanieEMoses's episode on @profschrepel.bsky.social's Scaling Theory podcast: open.spotify.com/episode/0te7... #complexsystems #complexity

Free & open societies are under pressure.🗜️ Polarization is picking at the seams.⛏️ Pro-social media can pause the unravelling.⏸️ Broad listening can rebuild the democratic dream.🗽 Watch my #TaiwanPlus talk & let’s #FreeTheFuture🖖 — together! ▶️ shorturl.at/Sb79b

Congratulations to #TeamMirai for securing their first seat in the Japanese national election! #plurality 🎉🎉🎉 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2025_Ja... www.reddit.com/r/japan/comm...

For a long while I've been settling into the belief that there is no one way, no single mental framework or worldview from which to look inward & know forward from backward. But it recently occurred to me that I should also accept that there is no one universal justice. Just interlocking justices.

If I watched you read an essay, and took special note of what words/phrases surprised you or otherwise provoked curiosity, how well could i predict what new information would surprise you specifically? Now what if I watched you read a thousand essays? #LLMs

Thinking about maps & territories. About the assembled written knowledge of a culture (books & poems, pamphlets & signage) and the spoken word of it. How do they differ? How do they relate and mutually inform? Which incubates in the other? Which is the map and which the territory? #LLM

A stellar English introduction to what's happening in Japanese politics, coming out of the Tokyo #plurality community, with the #TeamMirai political party <3 kazuneiwasa.medium.com/the-startup-... #democracy

My favourite homegrown icebreaker question for abaolute strangers: how are you problematic to people who love you? So much whiplash in one sentence.

Ever wanted to pan through the latent🌌 space of TikTok videos? Made using the amazing toponymy and datamapplot from @lelandmcinnes.bsky.social and data from mine and @jurgenpfeffer.bsky.social 's first complete TikTok slice. link below

Looking at my family tree in some genealogy records Christopher Connolly collected a decade ago. Thinking about how I work, where I thrive and where I don't. (Hi there, capitalism.) [1/n]

Biology as collective, lower dimensional storytelling of the germ line. Linear peptides as linear narratives. Biology as culture.

A few weeks ago, @sycamore-collective.org - supported by @camri.bsky.social - brought some tech and tech-adjacent folks together for a Chatham House discussion about pro-democracy tech in the time of DOGE. We shared the read-out with attendees today

I'm just trying to stay alive long enough to hear a good story and tell it a little louder

#Democracy is perhaps supposed to work less as a power-bestowing system than as an immune system. In America, the immune system has failed.

Something I've been trying on presentations lately, when discussing @UsePolis & #PolisLike #democracy #delibwave tools: It's about seeing boundaries. Every BOUNDARY we struggle to see together is a CONVERSATION we will struggle to have together.

Current status: thinking up names for a mashup of "Black Mirror" and "Curb Your Enthusiasm" 🤔 Throttle Your Enthusiasm? Curb Your Dataclysm? something else?

@samerp2p.bsky.social heads up that you've got a spam account on Twitter with a bunch of fake followers, and it's also DM'ing ppl "hey! How's it going?" When ppl follow: x.com/samerp2p_

Hot take: if you prefer raw data and disdain narrative exposition, you have anti-#democracy tendencies Narrative is the wings, without which data cannot travel through enough of the bell curve of minds. Being anti-story is being anti-democratic, and being anti-democratic is toward authoritarianism.

Thanks @pq.org 🙏🏻 No thanks, @liberalca.bsky.social I understand the arguments, but I don't want "move fast & break things" sensibilities in our infra projects. Make the case across #indigenous cultural divides, or you haven't earned the right to do it. www.thecanadianpressnews.ca/politics/fed...

Christiane Amanpour, "The people of Iran have been demonised and dehumanised, always associated with their leadership" "The people of Gaza have been dehumanised and delegitimised" "It's not fair to have collective punishment"

US scrambles to bring back VOA’s Persian service amid Iran-Israel conflict. Staggering incompetence by the Trump Admin that just keeps breaking things on purpose only to later realize those things might be needed. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

Also sending love to my Persian and Iranian friends tonight. 🫂

It's exciting when you're working on a complex thing, and you're seeing how (even if it's maybe not there yet) the story will get easier and easier to share. That means something. That's perhaps the simplicity on the other side of #complexity.