[liberationtech] Jack Dorsey and Rabble, Kaiser Kuo and AI, Careless People

[Kate Krauss]

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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