This is the room you pull together when your staffers want pictures with tech industry AI celebrities. It's not the room you assemble when you want to better understand what AI is, how (and for whom) it functions, and what to do about it.

This is alarming. Noting also that the Saudis are Twitter's second largest investors.

Human Rights Watch

Saudi Arabia: Man Sentenced to Death for Tweets

A Saudi court has sentenced a man to death based solely on his Twitter and YouTube activity.

Great column from @ShiraOvide, looking at differences between private messengers. Note Telegram isn't listed, because Telegram is not a private messenger. And note that Signal is the gold standard, providing the foundation for the rest.❤️ https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/08/22/encryption-imessage-whatsapp-google/