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.

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

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

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?

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.

*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." www.garbageday.email/p/tiktok-doe...

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. 🧐

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

#ethics #internet #cybersec #highered #tech #nonprofit

Soil for thought youtu.be/gjy5s2_fyXs?...

Please stop saying things like "there's nothing inherently wrong with technology." It's true, but it centres the wrong thing.

To make ethical technology, we need to collaborate with the people we serve. Story-based interviewing is one method. open.substack.com/pub/changema...

If we had been strategic we would have moved to ban companies from profiting on AI models trained on public data. But how about re-colonising indigenous languages? Or maybe it's white-saving them? blog.papareo.nz/whisper-is-a...