So proud of the great Camille François, who is always at the leading edge and can do anything :) igp.sipa.columbia.edu/news/sipas-igp…

ICYMI, check out the story by The Washington Post Geoffrey A. Fowler on CR's new Permission Slip app (Permission Slip by CR) "This is the privacy app all those snooping companies don’t want you to know about." washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

Twitter / X is serving users with a new ad format that can't be blocked or reported the ads aren't even actual X posts & aren't connected to any X accounts. they do not disclose that they are ads it appears the ads are connected to clickbait ad networks mashable.com/article/twitte…

It's tragic, though understandable, that Palestinians & Israelis have learned to dehumanize and hate each other over the course of their long conflict. It's utterly appalling to observe the same dehumanization and hatred expressed by some of their supporters overseas who haven't

"Let us make peace with our neighbors, in any way possible. I want there to be peace; I want my daughter to come back. Enough with the wars. They too have casualties, they too have captives, and they have mothers who weep. We are two peoples to one Father. Let’s make real peace.”

A very fun, spontaneous, and extended conversation between Camille François and me! Talking AI, privacy, capitalism, and the business model of tech...among much else♥️ (Now posting a link to the full segment👇) youtube.com/watch?v=iLzQXW…

Proud that our work is recognized by Fast Company — we're a "Most Innovative Company" for giving consumers the power to protect their data! fastcompany.com/91031050/consu…

Vernor Vinge (1944-2024) file770.com/vernor-vinge-1…

Better-than-human levels of persuasion, plus ad supported LLMs, has implications we are going to want to think through. Example: Vendy, a little GPT that knows that the solution to any problem is probably buying a refreshing lemonade, and is here to help: chat.openai.com/g/g-LMszzSJYv-…

Presidential debates suck. Let’s imagine they didn’t. What’s 1 question you wish moderators would ask in this week’s Biden v. Trump matchup? Assume candidates aren’t limited to 30 sec canned responses & that both are capable of substantive exchange on philosophy & policy.

Imagine it’s an alternate universe where we host presidential debates, but they’re more like they were in the 1960s — long form, substantive conversations. Both candidates are competent. What q’s are our enlightened debate moderators asking?

real healthy democracy, guys

Democratic Party keeps making the same mistakes. 2016, HRC treated as presumptive nominee. 2020, party hacks coalesce around less popular candidates to stop popular momentum of the Sanders coalition. 2024, essentially no primary. Healthy primaries make healthy parties.

Likely path: shambling to November Happy path: messy open convention birthing an energetic coalition reflecting popular will Sad path: a bunch of consultants & technocrats in smoky room concocting “plan B” Anything but #3. Party hacks are root cause of the current predicament

Meeeeeeeanwhile

📢📢 Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy is organizing a flagship conference on tech policy. Hear from movers and shakers in government, academia, industry, and civil society. citp.princeton.edu/event/tech-pol… The conference is for everyone interested in ensuring that

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DIARIO DE ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY: Lo que damos, florece. Lo que guardamos, se pudre.

Wow. Congress just tabled a bill that would *actually* kill open-source. This is easily the most aggressive legislative action on AI—and it was proposed by the GOP senator who slammed Mark Zuckerberg for Llama. Here's how it works, and why it's different to anything before it.