Rijesh Panicker and Bharath Reddy speak to Mallory Knodel (Internet Exchange), executive director of the Social Web Foundation, looking beyond the AI hype to discuss the impact of AI on society. YouTube: shorturl.at/OklaR Spotify: shorturl.at/qjHSF Apple

The Tech Coup in full effect ↘️

This is what happens when your public square is on private property. nytimes.com/2024/11/05/us/… kate conger

How is artificial intelligence going be deployed? We know historically that when machinery came into production, John Stuart Mill said, machinery should lighten the load of labor, I cannot understand why when machinery is actually employed, it is doubling the load of labor. [1/8]

It’s #ReadPalestine Week! 🇵🇸📚

Spoiler: because he fundamentally misunderstands how Wikipedia is written, edited and maintained (by unquantifiable volunteerism the world over).

I wrote for Tech Policy Press about What Trump’s Return Means For Encryption techpolicy.press/what-trumps-re…

This is an excellent primer on some of the privacy dangers posed by large scale AI, from a cybersecurity perspective. Written in clear language, it's the most accessible rundown I've seen yet on these topics. Thank you, Ted! desfontain.es/blog/privacy-i…

If there's a way to use Bluesky without locking myself to the platform, I will join the party there in a hot second. And if there's a way to join the Bluesky party from the Fediverse, then god*damn* I will party my ass off. 58/

I wrote a post about how AI will get along with end-to-end encryption. TL;DR: maybe not so well! blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2025/01/17/let…

Today, the FTC is sharing a series of resources focused on its ongoing research into the surveillance pricing ecosystem, which uses personal data to target different customers with different prices for the same goods and services: bit.ly/4fXMh6Z /1

Here’s the original eprint.iacr.org/2024/2086

Or TikTok could just make its service more resilient to censorship idk just an idea internet.exchangepoint.tech/censorship-and…

Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 US election was a win for Big Tech, but that doesn’t mean it’s a win for users techpolicy.press/what-trumps-re…

The Decentralization Research Center and Project Liberty Institute present an initial report introducing data cooperatives as a model that could enable individuals and communities to have a voice, choice, and stake in the digital economy: projectliberty.io/news/how-can-d…

AI is moving fast, but implementation? Not so much. In the latest edition of the Internet Exchange newsletter, we feature Sayash Kapoor Mozilla on why the gap between AI breakthroughs and real-world adoption is wider than we think. internet.exchangepoint.tech/ai-is-evolving…