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Charles Worthington

@charwo.bsky.social
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Product designer and software dev working to deliver better services to Veterans. CTO at the VA. Previously co-creator of the U.S. Digital Service. Dad, husband, Minnesotan living in DC. views = mine

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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 25/12/2025
Love all the Christmas traditions like pretending that eating raw broccoli is enjoyable
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sick public transit, gloria @seung.bsky.social · 29/11/2025
the mac n cheese and the apple crumble in the fridge getting ready for a back-to-back performance tonight
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Encyclopaedia Britannica @britannica.com · 17/09/2025
Harriet Tubman was born while John Adams was alive and died when Ronald Reagan was alive. Adams: 1735-1826 Tubman: 1822-1913 Reagan: 1911-2004 When Adams was born, Hydrogen had yet to be identified. When Ronald died, he could’ve been listening to Hoobastank.
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Mature decision.
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 06/09/2025
This year @dcpublicschools.bsky.social implemented a ban on phones and all screened devices. Caught up w a friend that teaches High School who said the change has been transformative and given him more optimism than he’s had in years. This is awesome, I hope schools nationwide follow suit!
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
@aarongleeman.bsky.social you need to teach the Athletic’s AI headline bot about the Pohlads 😂
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 28/07/2025
Do Twins have to eat any of Paddack contract to get this move?
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
AI-assisted software development represents the biggest opportunity to improve government digital services in my time working on the problem so far. We need lots of civic tech teams trying things, and sharing what they’ve learned.
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Looking forward to an epic @aarongleeman.bsky.social rant on this TV broadcast error
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
Remember when every Target in America had an entire photo lab with machines the size of cars and a misfit crew of pirate teens overseeing the photographic output of the whole community?
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Good write up of FlightAware’s implementation of an auth service. Interesting they decided to roll their own in Go, and view that as lower cost than outsourcing. flightaware.engineering/overhauling-...
flightaware.engineering
Overhauling Authentication at FlightAware
As FlightAware moves away from its monolithic Tcl tech stack to a distributed micro service architecture, many core services need to be split out from the monolith to keep the system running.
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
Interesting that Apple has not been able to use AI to stop random iCloud accounts from spamming things like this, while at the same time shipping a broken notification summary feature to tens of millions of people.
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Good point! Is the player perception that they are roughly 50/50 or still a lot of angst on that?
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
This adds to less than $5B. Joe Pompliano reported total MLB revenue of $11.6B in 2023. I wonder if it’s up or down in 24 with the TV situation but either way seems like payroll is less than 50% of revenue. Seems like a salary floor is just as needed as a cap!
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Michael Drake @doctordoctor.bsky.social · 06/01/2025
did you know Marlon Brando didn’t learn his lines for The Godfather, forcing his costars to wear cue cards?
Robert Duvall wearing cue cards for Brando in the GodfatherChild actor wearing cue card for Brando in The Godfather’s death scene Horse head wearing cue card for Brando in The Godfather’s death scene
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 02/01/2025
Struggle with stage fright? Join your local community theater’s production of Anything Goes! www.washingtonpost.com/wellness/202...
washingtonpost.com
Don’t like to exercise? Try this simple, science-backed trick.
‘Fartleks’ are an effective way to add intensity to activities, which a growing body of science indicates can make your workouts more beneficial.
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
We are not planning for AI to ever decide a claim, human always in the loop.
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Yes, exploring it actively
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
You can explore the whole inventory here: department.va.gov/ai/ai-use-ca...
department.va.gov
VA AI Use Case Inventory
The VA AI inventory serves as the record of artificial intelligence systems across our organization. This public inventory showcases our dedication to responsible innovation and transparent governance...
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
🔎 VBA is using AI to detect fraudulent direct deposit account updates, by flagging potentially suspicious transactions to VA investigators for review and remediation if needed.
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
💻 We're piloting (1500 users) an on-network generative AI chat interface approved for use with VA data for tasks like drafting emails, summarizing documents, making meeting notes, etc. More than 70% of users agree or strongly agree that the tool has made them more efficient.
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
🩻 VHA has deployed several FDA-approved devices that use computer vision to enhance clinician performance, which has resulted in significantly improved detection of tumors.
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
Today VA released our 2024 inventory of the 227 Artificial Intelligence use cases VA is using or implementing to improve outcomes for Veterans, staff experience, and operational efficiency. Some highlights in this 🧵
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 16/12/2024
“In the United States … our elite class has basically decided that they don't want to work on any of the problems that matter. They want to make monkey JPEGs. And that's really annoying.” This is a great interview. www.statecraft.pub/p/how-to-reb...
statecraft.pub
How to Rebuild the Arsenal of Democracy
Trae Stephens & Michael Kratsios break it down.
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Sorta scary to think the front office’s #1 priority this offseason is “reduce payroll by $5M, while also making the team better or at least not worse”
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 30/11/2024
🎨🌆⏩
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
Congrats Aaron!
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
how many more years must millennials wait for Vampire Weekend to make a Christmas album??? brutal
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 26/11/2024
I’ll have a zero eggs please
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Dr. Heather Hinam 🍁 🇨🇦 @secondnaturemb.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
This is one of those photos that you can't quite believe really happened. I encountered this grey gray owl (1 of 2) on my way home from town. It was so focussed on hunting, that I could stand to the side and watch. I didn't have my camera set to continuous shutter, so I'm stunned this came out. 🪶🌿
A large great gray owl takes off from its perch atop a small birch snag. Its five-foot wings are spread right out in a down stroke as the owl looks up toward its next perch. A bare tamarack fills the background behind it.
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Have you ever thought about writing a book? I would read it!
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
This is depressing after two Spirit sellouts
Photos of the spirit playing in front of two sell out Audi field crowds
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Would love to see an altitude-inspired resurgence for him!
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
It also relies a lot on the idea the individual services are bad. This was usually true in 2015, and is often still true but less universally. Moving a well-functioning standalone service to common platforms is much less compelling than fixing broken services with this approach.
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Richard Pope @richardpope.org · 23/11/2024
Question for digital government people c 2015. Did you see these at the time? What worked / didn't work about them (conceptually, not graphically)
government as a platform stack diagram (register, trust & consent, common platforms, services)The same diagram from the perspective of a single service (fishing licence) showing who is in charge of each bit
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 23/11/2024
Implementing this idea requires clear changes in funding and acquisition approaches, which is where it gets hard because that is when someone’s dollars (authority) and dollars (profit) move, and those people will team up to try and stop it.
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Throwback to the best skeet of all time
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Icky. Though arguably this is more a “Yankees development success story” than a “Minnesota had bad internal scouting” story?
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Cyd Harrell @cydharrell.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
first draft of a lil civic tech starter pack! focused on practitioners, might do another one on other parts of the ecosystem later. go.bsky.app/Dw5gEA1
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
In some circles there is reflexive skepticism about whatever tech is the focus of the current “hype cycle.” I believe foundation models are different and we should jump in. Huge potential to improve software of all kinds.
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 17/11/2024
I am sorry to report that the only solution to poor government digital services is the hard work of improving them.
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
A high school talent show
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 16/11/2024
Check out Chelsea’s work! www.iamchelsea.com/work/chelsea...
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
It seems like running the business side of the Twins would be a pretty huge job, especially given their apparent deficits on the business side! Do you think a new owner would be more (or less) inclined to keep Falvey in an expanded roll vs his old one focused on baseball?
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
How Did This Get Made
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
I need a “starter pack” starter pack
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
VA went from “GitHub is not allowed” to “VA runs some of the world’s largest publicly developed government services” in less than 10 years github.com/department-o...
A screenshot of the VA GitHub repository, showing lots of activity on several large software projects.
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 11/11/2024
A simpler time
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 10/11/2024
This is a good idea, but it underestimates how hard it would likely be to get an authority to plainly interpret a law or regulation in a way that reduces its burden, scope, or impact.
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Charles Worthington @charwo.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
If anything it makes us less likely to get a FA I think? Unless the buyer is found soon!
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