Hi, Here are a few things you might find interesting.
If you could work on one project that would have the most impact on digital rights, what would it be? - Kate Krauss 1. *Jack Dorsey on Revolution.Social podcast* – Rabble (a member of this list) interviews Jack, who talks candidly about Twitter’s sale, why he quit Bluesky, the dangers of centralized social media control (also: see below), and why he's now funding FOSS projects like the Nostr protocol. It's way more interesting than that, though-- Watch here <https://revolution.social/> Question for the group: What effect if any would Nostr, if used widely, have on the tsunami of social media disinformation in the US? Would it just decentralize it? 2. *“Careless People” by Sarah Wynn-Williams* – I could not put down this Facebook memoir. The rationalizations, the moral and intellectual laziness, the creepy power dynamics--it's horrifying, it's funny, and it seems very familiar. Is this just a Facebook thing, is it an American tech company thing, is it the result of thinking you made a web$$ite for college students to meet and ended up making a website that encourages fascism and genocide (like, these people were never going to be up to the job they turned out to have)? Facebook has a gag order against Wynn-Williams discussing the book in the US, but you can still hear her narrate the audiobook and there are a couple amazing interviews with her on YouTube. Here's a Bookshop.org link <https://bookshop.org/p/books/careless-people-a-cautionary-tale-of-power-greed-and-lost-idealism/22213433?ean=9781250391230&next=t&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=coop_macmillan&utm_content=macmillan_dsa&utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=publisher_coop_dsa&utm_term=&utm_content=180612946248&device=c&matchtype=&utm_adgroup=dsa_macmillan&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22224636854&gbraid=0AAAAACfld42W9xJG5e1KlBraSqrlbCFXw&gclid=Cj0KCQjwkILEBhDeARIsAL--pjykSeaEz2kQrxyne_JkVrr2ZdslB8dk8uUnLYhgfJeX5JsXCM-FS_EaAvAwEALw_wcB> for people in the US. PS: The Chinese government cleverly played Zuckerberg for years. More about China: 3. *AI in China* – China requires all non-military AI projects (including DeepSeek, as I recall) to be listed in a public registry. Kaiser Kuo (a member of this list) and China tech policy expert on Kendra Schaefer unpack what’s going on with AI in China in this excellent Sinica episode. Listen here <https://www.sinicapodcast.com/p/seeking-the-next-deepseek-the-chinese>
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