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Mosh Lee

@mosh.bsky.social
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Software, systems, and society. 💎 @ipfs.tech Fdn Director, Google Forms inventor, velodrome racer, safe streets advocate. Philly + everywhere.

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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 7h
Really nice to see this! When we say "user-owned," most of the time individual users don't actually want to run their own infrastructure. But a group of researchers banding together to run infra BY and FOR users like themselves — maybe that's what user agency meant all along 🫶
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Speaking of yes energy, SEPTA's Accelerate plan is quite good! Ambitious but practical vision of what we could have with more than starvation funding, like 15-minute regional rail and more frequent buses. wwww.septa.org/news/acceler...
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Accelerate: SEPTA Announces Best-in-Class Vision for the Authority & Region – Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
At this point I'm pretty sure Mamdani is an bot programmed to "CHOOSE THE MOST CREATIVE, HUMAN, AND EXPANSIVE RESPONSE TO EVERY MOMENT" Artist fills in missing subway tiles with art. City likes it, then asks artists to fill in missing signage tiles citywide. www.hindustantimes.com/lifestyle/ar...
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NYC artist replaces missing subway tile with chia sprouts art: Here’s how 'mayor Zohran Mamdani’s team responded'
Korean-American artist Eujue turned a missing NYC subway tile into an art intervention, catching mayor Zohran Mamdani's eye — here's what actually happened.
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
I have an Ikea elf in my house. If an unopened Ikea package is lying around, the elf finds it and builds it when he wakes up at 6:30. Why did I wait so long to have kids?
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Great piece from Tayyib Smith on arts funding (applies to dinosaur museums too) thephiladelphiacitizen.org/philadelphia...
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It's Not Arts Funding. It's a Monumental Failure of Imagination
Tayyib Smith contends that not only is our arts funding weak — we produce Black cultural brilliance, export it, and then fail to value it
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Ronen Tamari @ronentk.me · 01/09/2026
Just today I was thinking of my fav fish meme (as one does 😅) and I realized that "organize" has roots in the word "organ", eg organize literally means "To furnish [a body] with organs", "to endow with capacity for the functions of life" en.wiktionary.org/wiki/organize
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
A corollary here is that you need a top-notch internal team to reap the (potentially massive) benefits. Government, in particular, loves to abdicate the highest-level tech planning and system design. That needs to change.
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SaaS Isn’t Dead. Sameness Is.
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Just learned that Dolly Parton has died. What a gem of a storyteller, songwriter, and humanitarian.
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Hazel Weakly @hazelweakly.me · 24/12/2025
The two hardest problems in Computer Science are 1. Human communication 2. Getting people in tech to believe that human communication is important
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
Darth Vader supports Flock cameras. Masterful performance at a San Diego City Council hearing. www.instagram.com/reel/DcTxV-W...
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
These days I'm most excited about ATProto as an open layer for social and discovery. There's massive potential in what this fabric can turbocharge, beyond social media for its own sake.
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T.W. Simpson @simpson.tw · 12/08/2026
There’s some conversation in the Atmosphere right now about how we turn @atproto.com projects into sustainable businesses. One of the biggest opportunities is sitting right in front of us: give publishers back the audience development business they spent the last 20 years outsourcing to platforms.
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Ricardo J. Méndez @ricardo.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
There are two questions you need to answer when building something new: who is this for, and where is the money going to come from? Some longer thoughts on my exchange with @mosh.bsky.social about the ATproto ecosystem, and its needing a business focus. numergent.com/2026-08/Proj...
numergent.com
Project vs. Product, Startup vs. Business
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
The last 10k of today's Tour de France Femmes stage 7 is extremely worth watching. WOW.
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
I listed a cargo bike for sale at the beginning of the summer, thinking the timing would be right for people interested in warm weather adventures. Crickets, then 8 inbounds the past 2 weeks. Turns out everyone is shopping for new school commutes. Bikes are infrastructure.
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Philly volunteers at double the national rate. I wrote about this phenomenon, programs that multiply that impact, and where volunteering falls short. (Started as a Leaflet draft, accepted as a guest commentary in the Citizen, and reposted back on Leaflet 🫶🏽) mosh.leaflet.pub/3ms5pw73kbk2t
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Leveraging Volunteer Love
From public parks to open source software, donated labor needs a professional boost to really thrive.
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
This is wildly irresponsible. Even if there are legit uses (modeling flooding or wildfire devastation, maybe), they could drastically cut down on misinformation abuse by rendering in a lower-res illustration style. Also, watermark the hell out of it and host an image checker service.
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Test post
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
First impressions after 24 hours with the @blackskyweb.xyz Android app: 1. Visual design is pretty straightforward, but they've found ways to show a bit more content and less chrome. It's nice! 2. Loading and switching views is noticeably snappier. 3. A few bugs, likely related to federation.
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Grow a bigger pie, don't fight over the slices.
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Everyone complaining about the new Washington Ave connector has never tried to get a 3 year old across 6 lanes of traffic and it shows.
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
ATProto builders, I've been having some really positive conversations with multiple funders who want to invest in the ecosystem. The tides are shifting, the interest is here. But, we need to talk. 👇
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
This list of data center requirements is actually pretty solid and reasonable. At state or national levels, this would spur much-needed innovation. (w/ municipal it's too easy for a developer to just go next door while still selling to the same audience) arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...
arstechnica.com
Philly suburb: Sure, build that data center—but first meet our 43 demands
The final condition will shock you! (It won’t. It’s taxes.)...
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
This is Philly's 5th Council District. What in the holy hell of gerrymanders?
Map of Philadelphia's 5th Council District
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Are there any Bluesky clients that automatically strip location data + suggest alt text for images?
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
If you're tired of reading AI slop, read Emily Wilson's LRB review of The Odyssey. It is one of the most incisive, distinct pieces of writing I've come across in a long time.
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Hot take of the day: with the ballooning of SUVs and dangerous driving, true cycle paths (even if fewer miles of them) will have a bigger impact than bike lanes. *personal opinion only
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
LeBron to Philly? IT'S ON ZOHRAN.
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
I need to dig 40 post holes for trail network signage this fall. Has anyone trained a dog to dig on command? If it helps, I have the best doggo in the world.
Photo of black dog with white paws.
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Fight for the Future @fightforthefuture.org · 23/07/2026
@wired.com just broke that facial recognition scanners were shut off for the duration of Taylor Swift’s wedding at Madison Square Garden, demonstrating the dynamics of privilege & power when it comes to who gets to opt out of mass surveillance. www.wired.com/story/for-ta...
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Sup friends! (I'm here remotely.)
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Such a good interactive, visual piece! Not unrelated, I'm grateful the Inquirer is owned by a nonprofit.
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
And I'm increasingly convinced that the impact of practice > principle. Maybe even > (gulp) protocol.
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
He's showing his equivalent of the tattoos, too. This is not going to end well. www.cnn.com/2026/07/20/p...
cnn.com
Maine Democrat frontrunner faces scrutiny over alleged anger outbursts | CNN Politics
Troy Jackson’s brash conduct raises alarm bells about his temperament as the nominee for a key Senate race, some critics said.
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
78°F / 25.5°C is a sublime summer evening temperature, I will die on this hill.
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Bright D Limm 임대중 @bdlimm.myatproto.social · 16/07/2026
🛑 The way we were taught to think: "We should provide universal [public good X], but how will we pay for it?" 🟢 The way we must learn to think: "Because [public good X] should be universally provided, we will work to rewrite the rules so that we can always pay for it, no matter what."
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Introduced last month, the Pedestrian Protection Act would direct NHTSA to address the rapid rise in pedestrian fatalities related to increased SUV and pickup truck size. Thank you Congresswoman Scanlon & everyone working to get it passed! scanlon.house.gov/news/documen...
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Scanlon, Thompson, Friedman Introduce Legislation to Prevent Pedestrian Fatalities and Make Streets Safer for All Road Users
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
Ben Franklin Bridge party was an absolute madhouse. The hours were too short to accommodate all the demand. Wall to wall people going across, and a standstill at the exits bottlenecked by food truck lines. We treat walking like a half-day spectacle, and make it terrible the other 364.5.
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Robin Berjon @robin.berjon.com · 09/07/2026
Are you working with civic open data? Or other kinds of cool data? Reach out! There already are some cool projects for geo/sat and astronomy data — making dataset metadata available and searchable in a decentralised yet unified way — and we want to help more of them emerge!
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Spec debt is a kind of technical debt. Really nice to have this one out the door!
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The answer is parks, plazas, and libraries.
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Hey @roomy.space, any plans to make a PWA soon? (Or maybe you already have one and I missed it.) The abilities to find the app easily and keyboard-switch would help so much.
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
I'm stuck in Scandinavia, but found a timely read: "Do not be the least frightened to be called social democrats; it is no shame. Know that socialist means 'society improver' and what can be more beautiful than to make a rotten society better." Happy 4th, America! medium.com/@triciawang/...
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Malmö: A City of Ongoing Experimentation
Preamble: In August 2012, Media Evolution’s, The Conf invited me to Malmö, Sweden, to give a talk on my work in China and how to design for…
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Where do I sign for this, Philly?
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Hej from Copenhagen, where I'm nerding out on the easy interleaving of old + new, forest play + modern art, field + fancy, bikes + streets, and pickled + fish.
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
Hej from Copenhagen, where I'm nerding out on the easy interleaving of old + new, forest play + modern art, field + fancy, bikes + streets, and pickled + fish.
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
You can replace games with any genre, and this post still rings true. Great read from @rpg.actor about how to break through the atmobubble.
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Senator Ron Wyden @wyden.senate.gov · 26/06/2026
Massive win for data privacy this morning
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Mosh Lee @mosh.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This article was originally intended to be a @leaflet.pub post, but I got too excited about it and pitched it to the Citizen instead. Hats off to Leaflet for making it so easy to re-start personal writing. Now I'm still stuck at one post on mosh.leaflet.pub. What should I write about next?
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The People Layer
Musings at the intersection of software, systems, and society.
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