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Reading blogs - anywhere but Feedly

I removed Feedly from my Get Blogging resource for people who want to read and write blogs. If you’d like to read blogs, there are some great other feed readers recommended in the list. I start every morning with Reeder and NewsBlur. Molly White has written a great summary

05 Apr 2023

The Problem With Jon Stewart Podcast: Satire in the Age of Murdoch and Trump

A complete pleasure: I've admired Private Eye's Ian Hislop for most of my life, and Jon Stewart for most of my adult life. And here they are talking about the future of media and democracy with intelligence, wit, and humor. I wish I could watch these

03 Apr 2023

Clearview AI scraped 30 billion images from Facebook and other social media sites and gave them to cops: it puts everyone into a 'perpetual police line-up'

“A controversial facial recognition database, used by police departments across the nation, was built in part with 30 billion photos the company scraped from Facebook and other social media users without their permission, the company's CEO recently admitted, creating what critics called a "perpetual police line-up,"

03 Apr 2023

Feedly launches strikebreaking as a service

“In a world of widespread, suspicionless surveillance of protests by law enforcement and other government entities, and of massive corporate union-busting and suppression of worker organizing, Feedly decided they should build a tool for the corporations, cops, and unionbusters.”  #Technology [Link]

03 Apr 2023

Elon Musk seeks to end $258 billion Dogecoin lawsuit

“Elon Musk asked a U.S. judge on Friday to throw out a $258 billion racketeering lawsuit accusing him of running a pyramid scheme to support the cryptocurrency Dogecoin.” Related: Twitter’s logo changed to Doge as soon as this story broke - almost as if Musk wanted to bury

03 Apr 2023

The Costs of Becoming a Writer

“I am aware that focusing on individual responsibility can obscure the reality of broken systems. That neither my parents nor I am to blame for what they were up against. That it was always going to be beyond my capacity to provide and pay for all their care out of

03 Apr 2023

ICE Is Grabbing Data From Schools and Abortion Clinics

“The outlier cases include custom summonses that sought records from a youth soccer league in Texas; surveillance video from a major abortion provider in Illinois; student records from an elementary school in Georgia; health records from a major state university’s student health services; data from three boards of elections

03 Apr 2023

Julie Su prioritized workers long before U.S. Labor Department nomination

“The press called it the great resignation. Many of our low-wage worker members are calling it the great revolution.”  #Labor [Link]

03 Apr 2023

How Important Is Paternity Leave?

“Maternity leave should still be our top policy priority in the U.S. However, paternity leave is an important next step. In the shorter term, for individuals and companies, these results are worth considering. Flexibility for overlapping leave in the short term, and concentrated father time in the first year,

03 Apr 2023

Jackson Heights: The neighbourhood that epitomises New York

I adore New York City. This is why. #Culture [Link]

02 Apr 2023

What if Bill Gates is right about AI?

“So as an exercise, let’s grant his premise for a moment. Let’s treat him as an expert witness on paradigm shifts. What would it mean if he was right that this is a fundamental new paradigm? What can we learn about the shape of AI’s path based

02 Apr 2023

Community Survey 2023

It’s been a long time since I’ve run a survey. If you have 30 seconds, I’d love to know which technology and business topics are interesting to you - and how you’re thinking about tackling them. Every question is optional and anonymous - but if you

01 Apr 2023
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Ben Werdmuller

Ben Werdmuller

Writing at the intersection of technology, journalism, and community.

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