Democracy
The White House has an app now, and Trump wants you to report people to ICE on it
Want to report your friends and neighbors for extrajudicial kidnapping? The new White House app wants you to get in touch.
Ben Werdmuller
Ben Werdmuller helps leaders at newsrooms, non-profits, and mission-driven organizations to navigate their biggest technology challenges.
Notable links
Notable links: March 27, 2026
Progress on the open social web; not so much in the world.
Media
Why Knight Foundation Invested in Bluesky
Newsrooms have been slow to care about the open social web - but one of their most important support organizations is paying attention.
Business
Make Space for Every Voice
"If you want stronger decisions, make space for every voice." This is a simple technique to do this in your meetings that really works.
Technology
Meta and YouTube found negligent in landmark social media addiction case
The implications of this case could include the effective end of Section 230 protections – and a new wave of attacks on places where people learn, share, and connect online.
AI
I built a CLI for Ghost
John O'Nolan built a CLI for his own product - and found himself using it in an entirely new way. The underlying trend here is really exciting.
Climate
Earth being ‘pushed beyond its limits’ as energy imbalance reaches record high
"Our home planet is struggling with a record energy imbalance, which is warming oceans to unprecedented levels, making weather more extreme and threatening health and food supplies." How we react matters.
AI
Histomat of F/OSS: We should reclaim LLMs, not reject them
"The materialist response isn't to reject the new technology. It's to evolve our licenses to encompass it."
Democracy
Ageless Linux
"Software for humans of indeterminate age. We don't know how old you are. We don't want to know. We are legally required to ask. We won't." Open source activism at its finest.
AI
AI is changing the style and substance of human writing, study finds
"Teams from Google and leading universities found that large-language models change the voice, tone and intended meaning of human authors."
Democracy
Democratic Backsliding Reaches Western Democracies, with U.S. Decline “Unprecedented”
"Democratic backsliding is now happening in well-established democracies. Democracy in the USA is deteriorating at unprecedented speed, and media and journalists are increasingly targeted across the world."
Notable links
Notable links: March 20, 2026
Agentic engineering and burnout.