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Mar 9 • 7 tweets • 7 min read
A million Americans have died from #COVID19
wsj.com/articles/one-m…
@POTUS45 knew #SARSCoV2 was airborne & deadly, & lied to us:
washingtonpost.com/politics/bob-w…
@WHNSC45 said it threatened national security.
He disarmed

& politicized masks
digiphile.info/2020/07/06/pol… ImageImageImageImage
“The sheer scale of the tragedy strains the moral imagination”—@edyong209
theatlantic.com/health/archive…
More Americans died last week than on 9/11 or Hurricane Katrina.
~9 million of us lost a parent, child, sibling, spouse, or grandparent.
~149,000 children lost a parent or caregiver Image
Why did the CDC issue new guidelines allowing the end of indoor masking after 1000+ people died of COVID daily for 6 months?
If the US faced daily hurricanes that each killed 1,000 Americans for half a year, would we stop building levees, pumping water, & providing aid & shelter? Image
“As tragedy becomes routine, excess deaths feel less excessive. Levels of suffering that once felt like thunderclaps now resemble a metronome’s clicks—the background noise against which everyday life plays.”-@edyong209 theatlantic.com/health/archive… Beware normalizing preventable death. Image
"As with similar epidemics and disasters that disproportionately strike vulnerable populations, the #Covid19 pandemic has witnessed a multilayered process of erasure that cloaks its victims in invisibility."–@RichardCKeller somatosphere.net/2022/memoriali…
“Older, sicker, poorer, Blacker or browner,…people killed by COVID were treated as marginally in death as they were in life. Accepting their losses comes easily to “a society that places a hierarchy on the value of human life, which is…what America is built on”-@DrDebFurrHolden Image
2 administrations framed the pandemic as a matter of personal choice, focusing on vaccines, failing to make rapid tests, better masks, antibody cocktails, & vaccines accessible to the poorest Americans until 2022 theatlantic.com/health/archive…
Better plans ahead:
twitter.com/digiphile/time… Image

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Jan 24
Watching @jgrantindc open today's conference on identity & security Zoom instead of being in person at the 2022 #IDPolicyForum .

As he (& @CISAgov!) say, identity is a national critical function in 2022.

The pandemic made the capacity to verify identity online a critical need.
When I first logged on in 1993, no one knew if I was a dog: newyorker.com/video/watch/th…

In 2011, the @ObamaWhiteHouse invested in verifying identity online:
radar.oreilly.com/2011/05/nstic-…

In 2022, federal, state & city agencies are all figuring out how verify identity for aid & services. Image
@ObamaWhiteHouse 2015 was not the year that the US government got online identity right: finance.yahoo.com/news/s/2015-mi…
But this pandemic has been a forcing function for states that needed to verify identity online. Dozens chose @IDme. Now the IRS is doing so, too:
bloomberg.com/news/features/… #IDPolicyForum
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Dec 1, 2021
Yesterday, the @WhiteHouse hosted its first public meeting on open government in the Biden-Harris administration. There still has been no official administration response to the #opengov coalition letter we sent in February: governing.digital/letters/letter…
I bumped it to @PressSec today.
@WhiteHouse @PressSec 2 weeks ahead of the global @opengovpart Summit, the @WhiteHouse has still not brought back whitehouse.gov/open

Many /open pages across the US government still link to it, as you can see at FCC.gov/open, but it’s a 404.

#OpenGov "lives" at open.usa.gov
@WhiteHouse @PressSec @opengovpart This @WhiteHouse has begun disclosing visitor logs online again, posting them as open data at open.whitehouse.gov

But it has refused to disclosed logs of the virtual meetings it has held since January which replaced in-person meetings in the pandemic: politico.com/news/2021/03/0…
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Nov 30, 2021
Today's meeting virtual public Meeting for the US Open Government National Action Plan has begun. @philipashlock kicked off. He notes is the first #OpenGov meeting in many years. (True!) Justin Vail says @WhiteHouse is excited to re-engage on @opengovpart & #opengov more broadly ImageImage
"Open government is a priority of the Biden-Harris administration," says Justin Vail, who says the work to rebuild an opengov community in US government is underway & continuing, & that a "year of action" will follow the #SummitForDemocracy & #OGPSummit, including 5th NAP for OGP
Vail acknowledges that it's been "years" since a @WhiteHouse met with US civil society groups around @opengovpart.

That's true – as is the fact that the Biden-Harris administration has neglected re-engagement in 2021 until weeks before the #OGPSummit. e-pluribusunum.org/2021/11/04/the… Image
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Nov 30, 2021
"This @Policy is not applicable to media featuring public figures or individuals when media & accompanying Tweet text are shared in the public interest or add value to public discourse."

Who decides who "media" are, @Twitter?
Or if photos taken of people in public "add value?"
While well-intentioned & responsive to networked abuse, I bet the new @Policy will cause @Twitter brutal headaches, particularly if it does not vastly increase @TwitterSupport human capacity. Narrowly targeting revenge-porn & photos w/high risk of offline harms would be wiser.
Twitter claimed @Policy "will help curb the misuse of media to harass, intimidate, & reveal the identities of private individuals, which disproportionately impacts women, activists, dissidents, & members of minority communities."
Extremists are abusing it:
washingtonpost.com/technology/202… Image
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Nov 5, 2021
Taiwan is the world's best experiment in participatory democracy, says @piawaugh.

They're changing the approach to encourage people to co-create approaches to wicked problems.

The notion, she says, is that government is *part( of society, not separate from it.

#FWD50
@piawaugh My mistake: @piacandrews.
She's talking now at #FWD50 about a wicked problem for governments everywhere: how to provide trustworthy public services & info, both of which are mission-critical in war, peace, pandemic, & disasters.

High veracity:
veracity.wgtn.ac.nz
"Rather than asking for trust, you need to start being trustworthy"– @PiaCAndrews

One way to do that for digital government services is to use open source code, with audits to ensure algorithmic accessibility & "explainability."
wossat.nz/archive/2021-0…

#FWD50
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Nov 5, 2021
We have to change the incentive structure of social media, says @glichfield at #FWD50:
Think about a different way to give value that's less about short-term gratification.
The "time well spent" movement is one idea.
How you get people to value that?
Maybe by them paying for it.
@glichfield Laws like GDPR end up leaving us flooded us with pop-ups that don't leave us better informed, says @glichfield. (Like a EULA & ToS)
He says we need to move away from ownership & control frame to protecting people from harms when data is misused & redress from those abuses
#FWD50
The explosion of the Internet meant that the scarce thing was no longer content, but attention, says @glichfield. The platforms that emerged were the ones that monetized attention, because that was scarce.
#FWD50.

(Ergo, I value the slices of attention you give me a great deal.)
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