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<p><strong>Jack Dorsey on Revolution.Social podcast</strong> – 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-- <a class="gmail-" rel="noopener" href="https://revolution.social/">Watch here</a><br><br>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?</p></li>
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<p><strong>“Careless People” by Sarah Wynn-Williams</strong> – 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 <a href="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">Bookshop.org link</a> for people in the US. PS: The Chinese government cleverly played Zuckerberg for years. More about China:</p></li>
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<p><strong>AI in China</strong> – 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. <a rel="noopener" class="gmail-" href="https://www.sinicapodcast.com/p/seeking-the-next-deepseek-the-chinese">Listen here</a></p></li></ol><div><br></div>
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