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Celeste Côté (she/her)
@celestecote.bsky.social
Product design lead and 🇨🇦 public servant by day. Musician, foodie and budding wine connoisseur by night. Would love to do more civic tech volunteer stuff in spare time. ✌🏻 *We’re rebooting @yowcivictech.bsky.social !
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I'm a believer in smart policy, but all the finger-pointing in the LA firestorm about hydrant flows and LAFD budgets seems like arguing about the adequacy of Hiroshima's 1945 building code standards. It's a way to evade the big questions.
January 10, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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January 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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If you haven’t made time for @aaron.bsky.team’s conversation with @katieharbath.bsky.social about how he’s approaching @safety.bsky.app, I recommend it.

There’s a transcript if you want to read.

Composable moderation & what #BlackSky is doing is fascinating.

So is @bsky.app calls vs ATProtocol.
Bluesky's Approach to Trust and Safety
Aaron Rodericks talks through the tradeoffs the decentralized platform is facing with rapid growth
anchorchange.substack.com
December 12, 2024 at 11:57 PM
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Wrote down the process to build your own custom feeds for Bluesky programmatically in Python and run it 100% free

Uses @skyfeed.app + @github.com actions to do periodic filtering and re-ranking and @cloudflare.social static pages to provide data to @bsky.app
Zero-Cost Custom Feeds on Bluesky
A simple stack for generating custom feeds for Bluesky programmatically without a backend server
amitness.com
December 1, 2024 at 2:43 PM
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Nicely done @jay.bsky.team .
Jay on Bluesky: We've been scaling up. There's been about a million people joining a day for the past week
November 20, 2024 at 5:27 AM
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Looking forward to hosting the open data and analytics team from the City of Ottawa at our next meetup!

November 20
6:00 PM
Senate Tavern on Bank
RSVP 👉 meetu.ps/e/ND397/jmMdM/i

#CivicTech #Ottawa
Ottawa Civic Tech #134 - Open Ottawa through open data, maps, and dashboards, Wed, Nov 20, 2024, 6:00 PM | Meetup
## Details Join us for a community meetup and to learn about different ways the City of Ottawa is making data about our city and municipal programs open for exploration an
meetu.ps
November 18, 2024 at 9:45 PM
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October 26, 2024 at 4:18 AM
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4) Learn to live with social complexity. If you write off the possibility of persuading your fellow citizens, fascists win by default. In practice fascist ideologues are few, but people think they can ride that tiger for their own purpose. Read Sarah Ahmed’s organization of hate. Weaponize love.
November 15, 2024 at 2:44 AM
@shanetobin.shakedown.social.ap.brid.gy I was just looking to see if the Guggenheim was on here (digging the new visual identity!) and your profile came up. Funny enough, I played a couple of local gigs through So Far last year. Anyway, looks like I’m your first follower now. Cheers!
November 14, 2024 at 10:08 PM
My partner texted me this news story this morning and it made my day.

I wonder if there’ll be an educational angle to it. 🤔

I also read somewhere that most teens are regularly exposed to #misinformation and conspiracy theories via social media but aren’t receiving any training in media literacy…
November 14, 2024 at 9:46 PM
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Cool system!!!!!!
November 5, 2024 at 8:25 PM
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New favourite example of structural ambiguity
August 3, 2024 at 3:35 AM
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I'm going to start with this:

"Sometimes we are blessed with being able to choose the time, and the arena, and the manner of our revolution, but more usually we must do battle where we are standing."

- Audre Lorde, "Sister Outsider and Other Essays"
July 18, 2024 at 11:42 PM
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Posting this again because a lot of people said they found it helpful! Guide to ALT text: www.perkins.org/resource/how...
April 19, 2024 at 8:18 PM
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January 6, 2024 at 1:13 AM