One of many striking statements about AI in Pope Leo XIV’s first encyclical “Magnifica Humanitas” (Latin for “Magnificent Humanity”):“No computational system, however sophisticated, can create a heart that gives itself, or a conscience that discerns good from evil.”

Trump called fallen service members "losers" and "suckers" — according to his chief of staff — he accused soldiers with PTSD of not being "strong," demeaned POWs, and insulted Gold Star parents & a widow. When he pretends to honor service members, don't believe it.

Forget the lame DNC autopsy: The real reason Democrats lost in 2024 open.substack.com/pub/gelliott...

We are excited to support the Digital Opportunity Foundation Act. To see returns on our investments in digital infrastructure & #AI, we need to support a hub for funding, resource sharing & developing best practices around adoption & digital upskilling. www.lujan.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

Passing the Digital Opportunity Foundation Act is critical to closing the #digitaldivide! Congress must enable sustainable investments in digital literacy & adoption if we want Americans to be prepared for emerging technologies like #AI. www.lujan.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

OTI is excited to support the Digital Opportunity Foundation Act. To see returns on our investments in digital infrastructure & #AI, we need to support a hub for funding, resource sharing & developing best practices around adoption & digital upskilling. www.lujan.senate.gov/newsroom/pre...

The #UniversalServiceFund (#USF) is central to closing the #DigitalDivide, but its full potential for the future requires major reforms, according to a new @techanddemocracy.newamerica.org report by OTI’s @jessicadine.bsky.social and @tabularaza.net. Read more: www.newamerica.org/oti/reports/...

The full potential of #UniversalServiceFund (#USF) to close the #DigitalDivide can’t be realized without major reforms, starting with the contribution base! So says OTI's new report by @jessicadine.bsky.social & @tabularaza.net @techanddemocracy.newamerica.org www.newamerica.org/oti/reports/...

By implementing privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), public agencies can enhance security, maintain public trust, and comply with evolving #privacy regulations, according to a new report by @techanddemocracy.newamerica.org’s @sydneysaubestre.bsky.social: www.newamerica.org/oti/reports/...

New #BEAD guidance from @commercegov.bsky.social’s Howard Lutnick will force states to “redo the results of years of planning on a draconian 90-day timeline,” which could lead to consumers paying more for lower quality #broadband, OTI's @jessicadine.bsky.social wrote in @newsweek.com:

In response to the challenges of age verification mandates & a recent #SCOTUS decision, the Open Technology Institute's new brief explores a path toward implementation that protects a person’s #privacy & #data security through zero-knowledge proofs. Learn more:

EXCLUSIVE: Fired DOJ prosecutor Maurene Comey sends message to former colleagues, warning that ‘Fear is the tool of the tyrant.’

Medicaid covers... -40% of births nationwide -50% of kids with special needs -72 million people in total Remember this as Republicans gut the program to finance tax cuts that will overwhelmingly go to the richest 1% of Americans.  "Party of family values."

I'm attending Swing Left's event, “GOOD TROUBLE LIVES ON: Rally · Volunteer organized for John Lewis Actions” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/swingleft/ev...

In @techpolicypress, @lcoral.bsky.social (@newamerica.org) writes that to rebuild public trust in govt. & tech, public interest #technologists must double down on putting communities at the center of how our digital systems are designed & used. www.techpolicy.press/how-to-rebui...

Thanks to AI, higher ed institutions find themselves at a crossroad: Take a leap of faith on innovation or abstain to ensure autonomy/student privacy? The answer, per @sydneysaubestre.bsky.social & Joel Yong: None of the above! 💡 @techanddemocracy.newamerica.org: go.newamerica.org/new-trolley-...

The public’s waning trust in both government and technology companies has deepened. To rebuild it, public interest technologists need to double down on putting communities at the center of how our digital systems are designed and used, Lilian Coral writes.

Hoping @maddow.msnbc.com will tell us why the NYT decided not to cover ~10 M Americans coming out to protest -- I cannot even find a squib (as the WashPo ran as a sidebar to their Trump Glorification stories). This had to be a top-level decision to surrender to Trump @lawrenceodonnell.msnbc.com

"Interest has dramatically picked up in recent days. Sign-ups surpassed 5,000 — the capacity for the plaza where the rally is scheduled — and organizers are working with law enforcement to potentially close roads to ensure the safety of a larger crowd..." www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...

""It's really hard to fathom that the guy making my pizza for 25 years is a gangster and a terrorist, and the person who shows up in an unmarked car wearing a mask and body armor comes to take him away is somehow the good guy," said Simon..." www.wnep.com/article/news...

A 10 year ban on state AI laws will have devastating consequences for workers, consumers, and kids. The consequence of AI on jobs is not getting enough attention in our politics. I make the case against the ban in this interview with the Verge. www.theverge.com/politics/681...

I'm attending No Kings's event, “NO KINGS San Francisco” - sign up now to join me! www.mobilize.us/indivisible/...

Huh? @LindseyGrahamSC is disturbing: Why are ICE arrests "covert"? ICE agents wear masks because to encourage them to be needlessly violent - exactly what Trump wants!

Senate Republicans vote to widen the Homework Gap by repealing FCC Order that allows schools to use E-Rate funds to lend Wi-Fi hotspots to poor kids without home internet. @techanddemocracy.newamerica.org @opentechinst.bsky.social subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2025...

New @SDGBenchmarks data shows that the world’s largest tech giants are still failing to create the guardrails needed to protect the rights of billions online, per the 2025 @rankingrights Index. None scored above 50%. Read more: bit.ly/RDR25 #RDR2025

Check out this new @techpolicypress.bsky.social Q&A! Planetary Politics Senior Fellow Akash Kapur interviews Stefaan Verhulst (@sverhulst.bsky.social), co-founder of @thegovlab.org & @thedatatank.bsky.social. www.techpolicy.press/q-a-with-ste...

DOGE may well cost more than it saves www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

By implementing privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), public agencies can enhance security, maintain public trust, and comply with evolving #privacy regulations, according to a new report by @techanddemocracy.newamerica.org @sydneysaubestre.bsky.social www.newamerica.org/oti/reports/...

Based on the replies l, it looks like there a lot of fed workers on @bsky.app I just wanted to say THANK YOU. I can't imagine the shit you are going through right now Thanks for your service to our country

By implementing privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs), public agencies can enhance security, maintain public trust, and comply with evolving #privacy regulations. See this new report by @techanddemocracy.newamerica.org’s @sydneysaubestre.bsky.social: www.newamerica.org/oti/reports/...

"Managing this moment means balancing the immediate crisis with the important big picture." @educationwork.newamerica.org 's Edward Conroy highlights the importance of staying focused in the midst of public policy chaos for The Thread. 🔗

This #WorldPoetryDay, we celebrate the profound impact of poetry as a form of artistic expression and mirror to our shared human experiences. The Thread highlights New America Fellows and acclaimed poets @kaysarahsera.bsky.social and @clintsmithiii.bsky.social. ✒️

Elon Musk Is Corrupting More Than Just Government www.nytimes.com/2025/03/21/o...

If GOP lawmakers won't talk to voters about DOGE’s Medicaid cuts and Trump’s mass firings, I will. That’s why I’m hosting three Benefits Over Billionaires town halls in California to speak directly with voters betrayed by this administration. RSVP: linktr.ee/ro_khanna_to...

For a good laugh, read this @nytimes.com article - I've never read such tech illiteracy by not 1, but 4 reporters! They seem to think Starlink is a Wi-Fi service - and a cellular service - and then claim it is backhaul for WH fiber network! www.nytimes.com/2025/03/17/u...

Warning from (now former) NTIA official that Lutnick is going at warp speed to shift BEAD money from local builds to SpaceX/StarLink, despite concerns about capacity and quality. www.politico.com/news/2025/03... (Oh yeah, and corruption 'n stuff.)

Donald Trump is ignoring the constitution to go after his political enemies. We’ve been saying it for months. Trump's authoritarianism is a clear and present danger to our democracy.

“The US spent 8 decades building an international system of rules, norms and values that has produced the longest period of great power peace and global prosperity in human history.” Fareed Zakaria on how upending the world order will only weaken America: www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...

Here's the full email. Feinman's term ended and he was not reappointed. The Commerce Dept. is still weighing how it will change BEAD, but its stated preference for a low-cost, "tech neutral" use of funds could mean billions more for satellite operators like Starlink.

Very good read - and hopefully Snyder's 2d scenario isn't the thing about Putin that Trump says only he knows.

There’s a slew of new info on the #Trump admin’s quick & vast executive actions. That’s why @lcoral.bsky.social of @techanddemocracy.newamerica.org is penning a series of articles to make sense of trends impacting #tech policy, starting with these first 30 days: www.newamerica.org/oti/blog/tru...

Great to see 2 fired members of PCLOB suing ... Congress can create agencies like FTC, FCC as "independent" (and has for 90 years!). The President's role is to "faithfully execute the laws", not to re-write them. @opentechinst.bsky.social @newamerica.org www.nytimes.com/2025/02/24/u...

This post by @lcoral.bsky.social of @techanddemocracy.newamerica.org helps make sense of the initial flurry #Trump executive actions re tech . . . first in a series to make sense of trends impacting #tech policy, starting with these first 30 days @newamerica.org www.newamerica.org/oti/blog/tru...

Agree! Awesome news that means the "Laboratory of the States" is the arena for protecting consumers online - not just net neutrality, but affordability, privacy, discrimination and more. @opentechinst.bsky.social @techanddemocracy.newamerica.org

This is indeed brilliant

I cancelled my subscription today. This was the straw that broke my back, though it probably should have months ago.

Some toplines from today’s interview youtu.be/y3FYjfCPZZ8?...

Dear Dems. This is a reminder that Donald Trump rescinded the ethics rules preventing gifts to executive branch employees. Now would be a good time to propose legislation formalizing the prevention into a law Time to do things that make him react to you. apnews.com/article/trum...

There’s a slew of new info about the #Trump administration’s quick & vast executive actions. That’s why @lcoral.bsky.social of @newamerica.org's OTI is penning a series of articles to make sense of trends impacting #tech policy, starting with these first 30 days: www.newamerica.org/oti/blog/tru...