In the same week, the President banned three networks from the White House - and started his own. It's not a coincidence that this happened so close to the midterms.
How the JSK Fellowship is putting me in a more generative culture.
My 1925 Tudor on half an acre in Elkins Park, PA is up for sale. Here's why I loved living in it
Behind the power dynamics in AI and news – and is your TV spying on you?
Publishers are suing AI vendors, accusing them of theft. But are they giving the creators responsible for building their value a fair deal?
In a world where predictive policing is becoming more commonplace, TVs that report on what you're watching, record you using live mics, and scan your network for connected devices are a liability.
Years ago, Facebook's lack of care for global communities made them complicit in a genocide. AI companies risk making the same mistakes.
Chicago Public Media is building a social network for America's third largest city. Forget AI - this is the thing I'm most excited about in news technology.
Chicago Public Media is building a social network for America's third largest city. Forget AI - this is the thing I'm most excited about in news technology.
I'm spending a year at Stanford to explore community platforms in news.
Change is fractal; data ownership can be collective.
"Leaders are leverage. Every leader is a multiplier, if they choose to be."
Democracy
The DOJ is trying to prosecute Sam Tunick for allegedly using a duress passcode. It's a lesson in why your best protection is having nothing to protect.
AI
"Data collectives and cooperatives, which let creators control the collection and distribution of their data, are emerging as preferred alternatives to big tech companies."
Link roundups
America's AI dominance is under threat; AI vendors put us at risk; meanwhile, everyone's staying in their jobs for the health insurance.
AI
There were two big lapses in the Hugging Face / OpenAI hacking story: the lack of security protections on OpenAI's end, and Hugging Face's vulnerable production database. That should worry anyone who uses AI with sensitive data.
Democracy
1 in 4 American workers stay in their jobs because of the healthcare. It suppresses wages and working conditions - and prevents innovators from heading out on their own.
Technology
Apps like Granola make it easy to transcribe conversations without asking for consent. Those transcripts are a subpoena honeypot.
AI
China's open-weights AI strategy is winning: its companies are taking the lead. America's closed-first, locked-down strategy is doomed to failure - and it could take the US economy down with it.
Link roundups
At a time when journalism is increasingly under attack, we need PIT Crews for news.
Media
"Allies, archives and infrastructure in the AI age" - a list of people with the potential to push news forward.
Democracy
Surveillance doesn't improve crime or make anyone safer. It wastes civic dollars and creates new risks for vulnerable communities. The SFPD's leak demonstrates one reason why.
Media
Zohran Mamdani has unveiled a radically collaborative, cross-disciplinary approach to building internal technology capacity. News has a lot to learn from it.
Democracy
"After losing their jobs at NOAA, Rebecca Lindsey, her sister and another colleague teamed up to rebuild a pivotal resource the Trump administration took offline."