Passionate about making social media a safe place for everyone.
SWE w a BA in Anthro. 

4 decades on social media. (Seriously, I saw someone catfished in chat in 1978.) 

Pan, poly, non-binary 

Former TL for Scaled Human Review at Meta (Integrity, Better Engineering, Metaverse). I swore I’d never work there, but I decided to see if I could make things better. I couldn’t. 

TiVo, Somewhere (web/security), Utopia (web), Wildfire (voice assistant), Alfalfa (email), OSF (UI standards), HP/Apollo (UI/Unix), Sperry Research, Bell Labs, and a bunch of short-lived startups. 

Consulting w my partner (below) on digital security and peace initiatives. 

Partner: 

Dr. Mollie Pepper, researcher and consultant on gender, migration, violence, and authoritarian governments. https://carlsonpepper.com 

Daughters: 

Shadi Fotouhi - Senior SWE at Wayfair.

Shireen Hinckley - Editor and Post Production Supervisor for Beyoncé. Black is King. Renaissance…

Banner Art: ©️Shadi Fotouhi
Avatar: Lensa.

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Alun Jones @[email protected]

Interested in programming, electronics, science, photography, retrocomputing. Bit of a geek, you could say.

This incarnation of me is self-hosted using #GotoSocial

Blogging
www.ty-penguin.org.uk/~auj/blog/

Tweeting
twitter.com/pengfold

Boasting
www.ty-penguin.org.uk/~auj/blog/2013/11/28/tux/

Radio
GW1URF