Seeing a lot of criticism of this. I won't comment on that for now, but I think it would be a valuable exercise to create a version of the linked document for the hypothetical organization people would like to see.
Rewiring Mozilla: Doing for AI what we did for the web | The Mozilla Blog
AI isn’t just another tech trend — it’s at the heart of most apps, tools and technology we use today. It enables remarkable things: new w...
Podcast pitch: Last Week Tonight but about the Internet. Same pointed humor, same sense of outrage, same scripted writing, but specifically about the web, the tech industry, underlying power dynamics and egos.
Hey, remember that Chicago apartment building raid where children were zip-tied together? Guess what:
ProPublica
“I Lost Everything”: Venezuelans Were Rounded Up in a Dramatic Midnight Raid but Never Charged With a Crime
Authorities said Tren de Aragua “terrorists” had taken over the building. A ProPublica investigation found little evidence to back up the gover...
The most racist people imaginable have a cunning plan to undermine the most popularly-elected NYC mayor since 1969.
Al Jazeera
Republicans push to strip Zohran Mamdani of US citizenship. Is it possible?
GOP seeks to revoke NYC Mayor-elect Mamdani’s citizenship; experts say they must prove false claims in his application.
It's still so weird to me that the idea of universal healthcare is so political here. It's a given in so many other places, and I miss it. And people don't realize how good it is for innovation. You can take so many more risks when your health and well-being aren't tied to a salaried employer.
I came back to this talk today - and I've got to admit, I think it's a banger. Lots to say about how mission-driven technology can be successful.
Ben Werdmuller
Why the open social web matters now
The needs are real – and you have so much power.
There’s no such thing as neutral technology. Every tool encodes the values of the people who made it — their goals, their blind spots, their priorities. When organizations adopt tools without asking whose values they’re importing, they take on risk they can’t see.
Ben Werdmuller
There's no such thing as neutral technology
Why organizations must evaluate values, not just features
"This bubble is going to pop. Investors will stop setting their money on fire once they realize these models can't replace our labor in the ways they have promised."
Brooklyn
AI Futures
The enduring product of the AI era will be financial collapse.
AI at scale isn't scaling. #AI
Ben Werdmuller
This Is How Much Anthropic and Cursor Spend On Amazon Web Services
AI at scale isn't scaling.
Hear me out, but maybe it's not superb that most of the internet is hosted on three very large providers?