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lukesimcoe @ mstdn . ca @Code4Luke

Doing my best to make government awesome. Former @code4ca. Advisor at @fwd50conf & @McMasterU. This account contains fearless advice, but loyal implementation.

Joined October 2012
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Civic Tech Toronto@CivicTechTO
9 Oct 2023
🏠 Starting tomorrow (Oct. 10), we're kicking off a month of themed hacknights on #housing. 🏠 It's one of the most pressing issues in Toronto, and we're inviting technologists, advocates, journalists and public servants to share their perspectives. meetup.com/civic-tech-toront…

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Civic Tech Field Guide@civictechguide
9 Aug 2023
Does anyone have an example of a government adopting a civic tech project that was started outside of the public sector?
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Dave Guarino
@allafarce
11 Aug 2023
You could write a whole book starting with this screenshot.
alexis@alexiscollado
11 Aug 2023
best UX
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Alex Bozikovic@alexbozikovic
11 Aug 2023
This is impossible. bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
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Code for Canada 🇨🇦@code4ca
8 Aug 2023
📣 @CivicTechTO is hosting a hacknight tomorrow night! Can't make it in-person but want to see how your skills can contribute to social good initiatives? @CivicTechTO's weekly meetups are hybrid with options to participate 100% virtually. 👉 bit.ly/45bPPgI #CivicTech

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Bianca is a national treasure. "If people are so hungry to think about tech moonshots (cringe), imagine the power of organizing government data and information and people around problems rather than ministries and divisions." đź’Ż
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Dave Guarino
@allafarce
3 Aug 2023
lol (What talking about administrative burdens looks like when you pull zero punches.)
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Civic Tech Toronto@CivicTechTO
22 Jul 2023
Our summer of awesome hacknights continues! 🏄🏾 On July 25, co-organizer Alex Olson will share his data analysis of the recent mayoral by-election! Join us to learn what data can tell us about shifting voter attitudes in the city. meetup.com/civic-tech-toront…

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NowThis Impact
@nowthisimpact
13 Jul 2023
SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher slams Hollywood execs: 'They plead poverty, that they’re losing money left and right, when giving hundreds of millions of dollars to their CEOs. It is disgusting — shame on them.'
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I'm at @CivicTechTO's 400th hacknight, brainstorming what we want the city to look like 400 hacknights (8 years) from now. It's been ages since I've been in a room with so many excited conversations happening at once.
A room full of people brainstorming at separate tables. Civic Tech Toronto stickers are on table in the foreground.

ALT A room full of people brainstorming at separate tables. Civic Tech Toronto stickers are on table in the foreground.

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FWD50@fwd50conf
30 Jun 2023
After they shared the stage in 2022, @davidmcraney and @MarinaNitze recorded a podcast on how to fix bureaucracy by hacking its networks of human behavior from the inside bit.ly/hackingbureaucracy

YANSS 261 – How to fix any bureaucracy by hacking its networks of human behavior from the inside

Marina Nitze is a professional fixer of broken systems – a hacker, not of computers and technology, but of the social phenomena that tend to emerge when people get together and form organizations, …

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Rosé Bautista
@DesmondCole
30 Jun 2023
"This right-wing politicization of, and fear-mongering around, the reality of diversity in sex, gender, and sexuality puts the safety of students, faculty, and staff at risk." solidarity with professor and students targeted in violent attack at UWaterloo docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…

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Hi! I hope you'll join us next week to imagine what #civictech and civic engagement in Toronto could (should?) look like in the future.
Civic Tech Toronto@CivicTechTO
30 Jun 2023
Next week's hacknight is a big one: #400! In place of our regular hacknight, we'll be running a one-night only workshop -- in-person and online -- to get participants thinking big about the city we'd hope to live in, in 2031.
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James McLeod@jamespmcleod
27 Jun 2023
I'm hearing reports of riots in Rosedale and Forest Hill.
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Well that's nice.
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Bryce Covert@brycecovert
26 Jun 2023
Just because you qualify for government assistance doesn't mean it's easy to get or keep it. I spent months profiling Code for America's work to make benefits easier to get, a seemingly small problem with huge ramifications: bloomberg.com/news/features/…

How Many People Does It Take for the Government to Send a Text?

Code for America is working to make it easier for welfare recipients to access benefits. The problem: Governments design it to be hard.

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â„łatt (matttomic.bsky.social)@matttomic
23 Jun 2023
The leader of the Conservative Party: "the CBC doesn't provide anything that people can't get from the marketplace" Canada's largest private TV broadcaster (net worth $41-billion): "hey is it cool if we stop doing The News"
CBC SCREENSHOT: In another sit-down interview last July with True North, Poilievre explained that the only justification for having a public broadcaster is to provide content the private market does not. He argued that is not the case for CBC's English services. "Almost everything the CBC does can be done in the marketplace these days because of technology," he told host Andrew Lawton. "I would preserve a small amount for French-language minorities, linguistic minorities, because they, frankly, will not get news services provided by the market." He added he did not think the CBC's English-language services on TV or online "provide anything that people can't get from the marketplace."

ALT CBC SCREENSHOT: In another sit-down interview last July with True North, Poilievre explained that the only justification for having a public broadcaster is to provide content the private market does not. He argued that is not the case for CBC's English services. "Almost everything the CBC does can be done in the marketplace these days because of technology," he told host Andrew Lawton. "I would preserve a small amount for French-language minorities, linguistic minorities, because they, frankly, will not get news services provided by the market." He added he did not think the CBC's English-language services on TV or online "provide anything that people can't get from the marketplace."

@ahbseaborn Bell Media is asking the CRTC to eliminate all local news requirements for CTV “Bell Media has been losing tens of millions alone in the production and delivery of local news.  In the four-year period between 2016 and 2019, the average annual news operating loss was $28.4M"

ALT @ahbseaborn Bell Media is asking the CRTC to eliminate all local news requirements for CTV “Bell Media has been losing tens of millions alone in the production and delivery of local news.  In the four-year period between 2016 and 2019, the average annual news operating loss was $28.4M"

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Lol. Come for the endorsement from a convicted felon, stay for the referring to himself in the third person.
Anthony Furey
@anthonyfurey
22 Jun 2023
Anthony Furey is the only one who can beat Olivia Chow nationalpost.com/opinion/con…
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This tweet aged well...
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