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I kind of miss the early social media where it was just like "here's a random thought." Before we even imagined anyone but our friends would ever see it. Maybe social media could be just a text thread with friends who don't mind oversharing, oh right every Signal group

Community Platform Design Jam · Luma Online-joining details will be provided to registered attendees. Community platforms mostly fail to deliver on the needs of communities in terms of connection,…

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Join us for our first community connection call to hear from Ivan Minutillo from Bonfire & meet others who care about community-driven tech.

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Find out more at folktechnology.org.

We need tech that doesn't see us as "users" and "consumers" and we need that tech to be useful, usable, and not based on the assumptions of extractive and surveillance-driven companies.

Event alert! Folk Tech is a movement among people who want tech for their community without depending on big tech companies, and an alliance of developers making decentralized, p2p, open source, open standard-based tech.

Another issue is the recommendation engine. Been working on a back of a napkin idea for a Fedi solution, if you’re interested!

Along with the principles shared here folktechnology.org the Design Justice principles are a great resource and inspiration designjustice.org/read-the-pri...

Thank you for the question! Indeed, one of the reasons for a folk tech movement is to drive tech development for and by those of us who are doing the work of community cultivation. 💜💜

Feeling crushing FOMO I’m not in Taipei right now 🌏

Is it just me or does this lady look like she is about to eat someone?

Next Q: what are the AI safety implications of an AI model trained in this USA

American Journalism 2025 by @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social

Alex Banks on LinkedIn: Two Harvard students created I-XRAY. It exposes your personal data in… | 175 comments Two Harvard students created I-XRAY. It exposes your personal data in public: AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio connected Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses to a… | 175 comments on LinkedIn

Those crazy Harvard students seem to love accidentally creating surveillance states www.linkedin.com/posts/a-bank...?

Breaking: Trump To Pause Federal Funding, Grants - The NonProfit Times The Trump administration has ordered all federal grants and loans be stopped by 5 p.m. tonight, even if the money was already part of federal legislation which can’t be rescinded by order of the execu...

Administration pausing all funding to nonprofits. Next step: rewrite the criteria for nonprofit status itself? thenonprofittimes.com/npt_articles...

There's this thing where the same people keep saying they have an amazing way that a zillion dollars are about to be made and we need to change all the rules to support it and then weirdly the only thing changing is the percentage of global wealth in their hands?

YouTube video by Sabine Hossenfelder What Everyone Gets Wrong about AI

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Only you can stop an AI apocalypse | Better without AI

You might start by reading this free online book betterwithout.ai/only-you-can...

This week, @bonnittaroy.bsky.social posed a key question- why are zillions of dollars being thrown at AI at this moment? Hint: it's not because of its broad-based usefulness and possible positive impact on our future wellbeing.

TikTok doesn't need America Read to the end for some good vocal fry

*Maybe* 'China' is thinking about selling TikTok to Musk 🫠, but @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social suggests "American users, like our politicians, incorrectly believe that TikTok needs them."

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@tinysubversions.bsky.social hey this is cool, maybe someone built the integration we talked about!

a man with a beard and mustache is sitting in a kitchen looking down . ALT: a man with a beard and mustache is sitting in a kitchen looking down .

Remember when people said a "business case" was a viable strategy to influence companies towards ethical behaviour?

I really don't miss social media actually

Installed @mozilla.ai Orbit. Discovered that, funnily enough, Orbit does not work on Orbit's own Privacy Policy page. 🧐

(yes dude that is a DC reference)

Wait there is a DOG(e) named Krypto and a hilarious british Lex Luthor? Seems like 2025 is going to be on the same metro line we got on this year without looking at the map