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Mark Meyer

@markmeyer.bsky.social

Civic tech nerd working in digital software/service delivery. Currently building a government AI platform. I like Code and Bach Fugues. D.C. ⇔ Alaska. 📷 www.photo-mark.com

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Mark Meyer @markmeyer.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I shipped 20 volumes of OED to DC this last trip. According to the residency laws in my head, that means I live here now.

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Mark Meyer @markmeyer.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

An unintended consequence of moving to @kagi.com for search is that it's slowly exfiltrating me from Apple's walled garden. First, Safari -> Orion browser and then Passwords/Keychain -> 3rd party manager. Side effect is that going back and forth between Mac and Linux box is a lot less disruptive.

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Mark Meyer @markmeyer.bsky.social · 24/05/2025

Book 2 of Thucydides's History describes the Peloponnesian sailors leaving their ships and heading across land with only their oars, cushions and (in Richard Crawley's translation) "rowlock thong". Curious for an image, I pop "rowlock thong" into Google and get this AI suggestion:

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Mike Masnick @masnick.com · 01/03/2025

This is tragic. Anyone who was familiar with 18F knows those were some of the real heroes of government, who helped make government tech/digital services better for the public. They were doing real work that DOGE pretends to do, but is too ignorant to know how to do.

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