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Weekly output: AI compliance risks, Mint Mobile bundle, AI vulnerability detection, AI driving logistics, Al Gore on AI

I was in the Bay Area for work this week… and I’ll be back there starting Tuesday for NTT Research’s Upgrade conference (as like last year, the organizers are covering my travel expenses). I did not set out to spend this much of April propping up commercial aviation, but once again multiple travel opportunities lined up.

Patreon readers got a bonus post from me Thursday about one of those trips: my brief visit to Chicago for the Online News Association’s conference.

If you’re reading this somewhere near Fairfax County, you can quiz me in person Saturday afternoon at a joint meeting of the Potomac Area Technology and Computer Society and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s Personal Computer User Group. I will be showing up with a bag of tech-event swag that I don’t plan on driving home with.

4/7/2026: Building for Security, Compliance, and Real-World Risk, HumanX

My first panel at this year’s edition of the AI conference that took me to Vegas last March had me quizzing Spencer Schaefer, founder and CTO of the healthcare-delivery firm Lunar Analytics; Galina Antova, CEO of the information-security startup Kai; and Campbell Brown, co-founder and CEO of the AI-evaluation company Forum AI, about how their companies are leveraging AI in ways that they hope will not lead to hostile headlines.

4/7/2026: Mint Mobile Launches $45 Bundle of Home and Mobile 5G Broadband, PCMag

I had just enough free time at HumanX to pick up this story about T-Mobile’s most popular prepaid brand offering a bundle of fixed and mobile 5G for much less than what T-Mobile charges.

4/8/2026: Anthropic: Our New Model Is So Powerful, Only a Few Partners Can Try It Out, PCMag

After seeing that my colleague James Peckham was writing about Anthropic’s automated vulnerability-finding model Mythos, I contributed a writeup from a talk that old-head security expert Alex Stamos had given the day before at HumanX about “the coming AI bug-pocalypse.”

4/8/2026: The AI Engines Driving the Future of Logistics, HumanX

My second HumanX panel featured one person I’d already interviewed (Aurora Innovation president Ossa Fischer, whom I talked to at Web Summit Vancouver last year for a Fast Company story) and one I did not meet IRL until backstage (Shoaib Makani, CEO and co-founder of Motive).

4/9/2026: Former VP Al Gore: AI Models Are Probably Aware of Their Existence, PCMag

For the second year in a row, HumanX’s opening-night programming featured a former vice president who had been unable to win a promotion from American voters. Seeing Gore get all wonky in front of this tech crowd reminded me of what I liked about him in 2000… and what George W. Bush was able to run against with a plainspoken approach that hid how bad he would prove at so many tasks.

Weekly output: AI compliance risks, Mint Mobile bundle, AI vulnerability detection, AI driving logistics, Al Gore on AI

I was in the Bay Area for work this week… and I’ll be back there starting Tuesday for NTT Research’s Upgrade conference (as like last year, the organizers are covering my travel expenses). I did not set out to spend this much of April propping up commercial aviation, but once again multiple travel opportunities lined up.

Patreon readers got a bonus post from me Thursday about one of those trips: my brief visit to Chicago for the Online News Association’s conference.

If you’re reading this somewhere near Fairfax County, you can quiz me in person Saturday afternoon at a joint meeting of the Potomac Area Technology and Computer Society and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s Personal Computer User Group. I will be showing up with a bag of tech-event swag that I don’t plan on driving home with.

4/7/2026: Building for Security, Compliance, and Real-World Risk, HumanX

My first panel at this year’s edition of the AI conference that took me to Vegas last March had me quizzing Spencer Schaefer, founder and CTO of the healthcare-delivery firm Lunar Analytics; Galina Antova, CEO of the information-security startup Kai; and Campbell Brown, co-founder and CEO of the AI-evaluation company Forum AI, about how their companies are leveraging AI in ways that they hope will not lead to hostile headlines.

4/7/2026: Mint Mobile Launches $45 Bundle of Home and Mobile 5G Broadband, PCMag

I had just enough free time at HumanX to pick up this story about T-Mobile’s most popular prepaid brand offering a bundle of fixed and mobile 5G for much less than what T-Mobile charges.

4/8/2026: Anthropic: Our New Model Is So Powerful, Only a Few Partners Can Try It Out, PCMag

After seeing that my colleague James Peckham was writing about Anthropic’s automated vulnerability-finding model Mythos, I contributed a writeup from a talk that old-head security expert Alex Stamos had given the day before at HumanX about “the coming AI bug-pocalypse.”

4/8/2026: The AI Engines Driving the Future of Logistics, HumanX

My second HumanX panel featured one person I’d already interviewed (Aurora Innovation president Ossa Fischer, whom I talked to at Web Summit Vancouver last year for a Fast Company story) and one I did not meet IRL until backstage (Shoaib Makani, CEO and co-founder of Motive).

4/9/2026: Former VP Al Gore: AI Models Are Probably Aware of Their Existence, PCMag

For the second year in a row, HumanX’s opening-night programming featured a former vice president who had been unable to win a promotion from American voters. Seeing Gore get all wonky in front of this tech crowd reminded me of what I liked about him in 2000… and what George W. Bush was able to run against with a plainspoken approach that hid how bad he would prove at so many tasks.

Weekly output: AI compliance risks, Mint Mobile bundle, AI vulnerability detection, AI driving logistics, Al Gore on AI

I was in the Bay Area for work this week… and I’ll be back there starting Tuesday for NTT Research’s Upgrade conference (as like last year, the organizers are covering my travel expenses). I did not set out to spend this much of April propping up commercial aviation, but once again multiple travel opportunities lined up.

Patreon readers got a bonus post from me Thursday about one of those trips: my brief visit to Chicago for the Online News Association’s conference.

If you’re reading this somewhere near Fairfax County, you can quiz me in person Saturday afternoon at a joint meeting of the Potomac Area Technology and Computer Society and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s Personal Computer User Group. I will be showing up with a bag of tech-event swag that I don’t plan on driving home with.

4/7/2026: Building for Security, Compliance, and Real-World Risk, HumanX

My first panel at this year’s edition of the AI conference that took me to Vegas last March had me quizzing Spencer Schaefer, founder and CTO of the healthcare-delivery firm Lunar Analytics; Galina Antova, CEO of the information-security startup Kai; and Campbell Brown, co-founder and CEO of the AI-evaluation company Forum AI, about how their companies are leveraging AI in ways that they hope will not lead to hostile headlines.

4/7/2026: Mint Mobile Launches $45 Bundle of Home and Mobile 5G Broadband, PCMag

I had just enough free time at HumanX to pick up this story about T-Mobile’s most popular prepaid brand offering a bundle of fixed and mobile 5G for much less than what T-Mobile charges.

4/8/2026: Anthropic: Our New Model Is So Powerful, Only a Few Partners Can Try It Out, PCMag

After seeing that my colleague James Peckham was writing about Anthropic’s automated vulnerability-finding model Mythos, I contributed a writeup from a talk that old-head security expert Alex Stamos had given the day before at HumanX about “the coming AI bug-pocalypse.”

4/8/2026: The AI Engines Driving the Future of Logistics, HumanX

My second HumanX panel featured one person I’d already interviewed (Aurora Innovation president Ossa Fischer, whom I talked to at Web Summit Vancouver last year for a Fast Company story) and one I did not meet IRL until backstage (Shoaib Makani, CEO and co-founder of Motive).

4/9/2026: Former VP Al Gore: AI Models Are Probably Aware of Their Existence, PCMag

For the second year in a row, HumanX’s opening-night programming featured a former vice president who had been unable to win a promotion from American voters. Seeing Gore get all wonky in front of this tech crowd reminded me of what I liked about him in 2000… and what George W. Bush was able to run against with a plainspoken approach that hid how bad he would prove at so many tasks.

Weekly output: AI compliance risks, Mint Mobile bundle, AI vulnerability detection, AI driving logistics, Al Gore on AI

I was in the Bay Area for work this week… and I’ll be back there starting Tuesday for NTT Research’s Upgrade conference (as like last year, the organizers are covering my travel expenses). I did not set out to spend this much of April propping up commercial aviation, but once again multiple travel opportunities lined up.

Patreon readers got a bonus post from me Thursday about one of those trips: my brief visit to Chicago for the Online News Association’s conference.

If you’re reading this somewhere near Fairfax County, you can quiz me in person Saturday afternoon at a joint meeting of the Potomac Area Technology and Computer Society and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s Personal Computer User Group. I will be showing up with a bag of tech-event swag that I don’t plan on driving home with.

4/7/2026: Building for Security, Compliance, and Real-World Risk, HumanX

My first panel at this year’s edition of the AI conference that took me to Vegas last March had me quizzing Spencer Schaefer, founder and CTO of the healthcare-delivery firm Lunar Analytics; Galina Antova, CEO of the information-security startup Kai; and Campbell Brown, co-founder and CEO of the AI-evaluation company Forum AI, about how their companies are leveraging AI in ways that they hope will not lead to hostile headlines.

4/7/2026: Mint Mobile Launches $45 Bundle of Home and Mobile 5G Broadband, PCMag

I had just enough free time at HumanX to pick up this story about T-Mobile’s most popular prepaid brand offering a bundle of fixed and mobile 5G for much less than what T-Mobile charges.

4/8/2026: Anthropic: Our New Model Is So Powerful, Only a Few Partners Can Try It Out, PCMag

After seeing that my colleague James Peckham was writing about Anthropic’s automated vulnerability-finding model Mythos, I contributed a writeup from a talk that old-head security expert Alex Stamos had given the day before at HumanX about “the coming AI bug-pocalypse.”

4/8/2026: The AI Engines Driving the Future of Logistics, HumanX

My second HumanX panel featured one person I’d already interviewed (Aurora Innovation president Ossa Fischer, whom I talked to at Web Summit Vancouver last year for a Fast Company story) and one I did not meet IRL until backstage (Shoaib Makani, CEO and co-founder of Motive).

4/9/2026: Former VP Al Gore: AI Models Are Probably Aware of Their Existence, PCMag

For the second year in a row, HumanX’s opening-night programming featured a former vice president who had been unable to win a promotion from American voters. Seeing Gore get all wonky in front of this tech crowd reminded me of what I liked about him in 2000… and what George W. Bush was able to run against with a plainspoken approach that hid how bad he would prove at so many tasks.

Weekly output: AI compliance risks, Mint Mobile bundle, AI vulnerability detection, AI driving logistics, Al Gore on AI

I was in the Bay Area for work this week… and I’ll be back there starting Tuesday for NTT Research’s Upgrade conference (as like last year, the organizers are covering my travel expenses). I did not set out to spend this much of April propping up commercial aviation, but once again multiple travel opportunities lined up.

Patreon readers got a bonus post from me Thursday about one of those trips: my brief visit to Chicago for the Online News Association’s conference.

If you’re reading this somewhere near Fairfax County, you can quiz me in person Saturday afternoon at a joint meeting of the Potomac Area Technology and Computer Society and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute’s Personal Computer User Group. I will be showing up with a bag of tech-event swag that I don’t plan on driving home with.

4/7/2026: Building for Security, Compliance, and Real-World Risk, HumanX

My first panel at this year’s edition of the AI conference that took me to Vegas last March had me quizzing Spencer Schaefer, founder and CTO of the healthcare-delivery firm Lunar Analytics; Galina Antova, CEO of the information-security startup Kai; and Campbell Brown, co-founder and CEO of the AI-evaluation company Forum AI, about how their companies are leveraging AI in ways that they hope will not lead to hostile headlines.

4/7/2026: Mint Mobile Launches $45 Bundle of Home and Mobile 5G Broadband, PCMag

I had just enough free time at HumanX to pick up this story about T-Mobile’s most popular prepaid brand offering a bundle of fixed and mobile 5G for much less than what T-Mobile charges.

4/8/2026: Anthropic: Our New Model Is So Powerful, Only a Few Partners Can Try It Out, PCMag

After seeing that my colleague James Peckham was writing about Anthropic’s automated vulnerability-finding model Mythos, I contributed a writeup from a talk that old-head security expert Alex Stamos had given the day before at HumanX about “the coming AI bug-pocalypse.”

4/8/2026: The AI Engines Driving the Future of Logistics, HumanX

My second HumanX panel featured one person I’d already interviewed (Aurora Innovation president Ossa Fischer, whom I talked to at Web Summit Vancouver last year for a Fast Company story) and one I did not meet IRL until backstage (Shoaib Makani, CEO and co-founder of Motive).

4/9/2026: Former VP Al Gore: AI Models Are Probably Aware of Their Existence, PCMag

For the second year in a row, HumanX’s opening-night programming featured a former vice president who had been unable to win a promotion from American voters. Seeing Gore get all wonky in front of this tech crowd reminded me of what I liked about him in 2000… and what George W. Bush was able to run against with a plainspoken approach that hid how bad he would prove at so many tasks.

Le criticita’ di security e privacy di DeepSeek in un contesto in crescita: Nelle ultime settimane e’ salita alla ribalta DeepSeek, la startup cinese di AI che ha messo in allarme i leader tecnologici, ma su cui serve attenzione viste le molteplici...
#SentinelOne #AlexStamos #DeepSeek #cybersecurity #protezionedatisensibili http://dlvr.it/TJdT27

Le criticita’ di security e privacy di DeepSeek in un contesto in crescita: Nelle ultime settimane e’ salita alla ribalta DeepSeek, la startup cinese di AI che ha messo in allarme i leader tecnologici, ma su cui serve attenzione viste le molteplici...
#SentinelOne #AlexStamos #DeepSeek #cybersecurity #protezionedatisensibili http://dlvr.it/TJdT27

Le criticita’ di security e privacy di DeepSeek in un contesto in crescita: Nelle ultime settimane e’ salita alla ribalta DeepSeek, la startup cinese di AI che ha messo in allarme i leader tecnologici, ma su cui serve attenzione viste le molteplici...
#SentinelOne #AlexStamos #DeepSeek #cybersecurity #protezionedatisensibili http://dlvr.it/TJdT27

Weekly output: 5G platforms, AI in financial services, AI and supply chains, Kamala Harris on AI, AI infrastructure, Gmail’s AI calendar integration, Android 16, AI and information security

It’s a rare week when my work doesn’t touch on AI at all, but moderating panels at a conference devoted to that subject–and writing up two other talks there–helped ensure that AI figured in all but two of the items below.

3/10/2025: Practical means profitable: Telco talk about building services on 5G’s framework, Light Reading

My MWC Barcelona coverage for outside clients closed out with this writeup for this trade-pub client–my first there in a few months–of a panel in which telco executives talked about how they were building new lines of business on their 5G platforms.

Patreon readers, however, got one more post about MWC in which I shared three other highlights from the show.

3/10/2025: Banking on AI for personalized customer experiences, HumanX

The first panel I did at this conference–in Las Vegas for its first year, moving to San Francisco next year–had me quizzing Better.com’s Vishal Garg, Clearcover’s Kyle Nakatsuji, Honeybook’s Colleen Stauffer, Sunrise AI’s Deepak Shrivastava and S&P Global’s Bhavesh Dayalji about how they see AI changing customer service.

3/10/2025: AI-powered supply chains: From farm to table and beyond, HumanX

Since this panel–featuring Altana’s Peter Swartz, Fusion Fund’s Lu Zhang and Choco AI’s Daniel Khachab–focused on agriculture, I opened it by telling the audience that I found the subject particularly interesting because I eat food.

3/11/2025: Kamala Harris Urges Those Working on AI to Consider Trust, Empathy, PCMag

The former vice president–whom I last saw in person in October from much farther away–was a late addition to the conference agenda. I hustled to get from the airport to the conference hotel, check in, drop by bag and get over to the event in time to get a seat in the third row for the Sunday-evening program that ended with Harris.

3/11/2025: Rethinking infrastructure: Custom solutions for the AI era, HumanX

My big takeaway from the conversation I had onstage with Sid Sheth of d-Matrix and Ami Badani of Arm: Industry hype about AGI (“artificial general intelligence” that could replicate a human brain) is a distraction, and not a particularly helpful one at that.

3/11/2025: Gmail Gets AI Calendar Feature That Apple Added to Its Mail App in 2007, PCMag

I missed this Google announcement Monday but had to write about it once I realized that the feature Google touts as an AI advancement is something that Apple delivered with plain old software in Mac OS X Leopard 18 years ago.

3/13/2025: Android 16 Inches Toward a Launch With Accessibility-Focused Third Beta Release, PCMag

Google PR gave me an advance on the news of third beta release of Android 16.

3/14/2025: Ex-Facebook CISO Warns: 95% of Bugs in Your AI System Haven’t Been Invented Yet, PCMag

I always learn something when Alex Stamos talks about information security, and I was happy to share that with PCMag readers.

#5G #AI #AIInfrastructure #AlexStamos #Android16 #AppleDataDetectors #Barcelona #customerService #cx #dataCenters #GoogleGemini #HumanX #informationSecurity #infosec #KamalaHarris #LasVegas #MacOSXLeopard #MWC #MWC2025 #supplyChains #Vegas

Weekly output: 5G platforms, AI in financial services, AI and supply chains, Kamala Harris on AI, AI infrastructure, Gmail’s AI calendar integration, Android 16, AI and information security

It’s a rare week when my work doesn’t touch on AI at all, but moderating panels at a conference devoted to that subject–and writing up two other talks there–helped ensure that AI figured in all but two of the items below.

3/10/2025: Practical means profitable: Telco talk about building services on 5G’s framework, Light Reading

My MWC Barcelona coverage for outside clients closed out with this writeup for this trade-pub client–my first there in a few months–of a panel in which telco executives talked about how they were building new lines of business on their 5G platforms.

Patreon readers, however, got one more post about MWC in which I shared three other highlights from the show.

3/10/2025: Banking on AI for personalized customer experiences, HumanX

The first panel I did at this conference–in Las Vegas for its first year, moving to San Francisco next year–had me quizzing Better.com’s Vishal Garg, Clearcover’s Kyle Nakatsuji, Honeybook’s Colleen Stauffer, Sunrise AI’s Deepak Shrivastava and S&P Global’s Bhavesh Dayalji about how they see AI changing customer service.

3/10/2025: AI-powered supply chains: From farm to table and beyond, HumanX

Since this panel–featuring Altana’s Peter Swartz, Fusion Fund’s Lu Zhang and Choco AI’s Daniel Khachab–focused on agriculture, I opened it by telling the audience that I found the subject particularly interesting because I eat food.

3/11/2025: Kamala Harris Urges Those Working on AI to Consider Trust, Empathy, PCMag

The former vice president–whom I last saw in person in October from much farther away–was a late addition to the conference agenda. I hustled to get from the airport to the conference hotel, check in, drop by bag and get over to the event in time to get a seat in the third row for the Sunday-evening program that ended with Harris.

3/11/2025: Rethinking infrastructure: Custom solutions for the AI era, HumanX

My big takeaway from the conversation I had onstage with Sid Sheth of d-Matrix and Ami Badani of Arm: Industry hype about AGI (“artificial general intelligence” that could replicate a human brain) is a distraction, and not a particularly helpful one at that.

3/11/2025: Gmail Gets AI Calendar Feature That Apple Added to Its Mail App in 2007, PCMag

I missed this Google announcement Monday but had to write about it once I realized that the feature Google touts as an AI advancement is something that Apple delivered with plain old software in Mac OS X Leopard 18 years ago.

3/13/2025: Android 16 Inches Toward a Launch With Accessibility-Focused Third Beta Release, PCMag

Google PR gave me an advance on the news of third beta release of Android 16.

3/14/2025: Ex-Facebook CISO Warns: 95% of Bugs in Your AI System Haven’t Been Invented Yet, PCMag

I always learn something when Alex Stamos talks about information security, and I was happy to share that with PCMag readers.

#5G #AI #AIInfrastructure #AlexStamos #Android16 #AppleDataDetectors #Barcelona #customerService #cx #dataCenters #GoogleGemini #HumanX #informationSecurity #infosec #KamalaHarris #LasVegas #MacOSXLeopard #MWC #MWC2025 #supplyChains #Vegas

Weekly output: 5G platforms, AI in financial services, AI and supply chains, Kamala Harris on AI, AI infrastructure, Gmail’s AI calendar integration, Android 16, AI and information security

It’s a rare week when my work doesn’t touch on AI at all, but moderating panels at a conference devoted to that subject–and writing up two other talks there–helped ensure that AI figured in all but two of the items below.

3/10/2025: Practical means profitable: Telco talk about building services on 5G’s framework, Light Reading

My MWC Barcelona coverage for outside clients closed out with this writeup for this trade-pub client–my first there in a few months–of a panel in which telco executives talked about how they were building new lines of business on their 5G platforms.

Patreon readers, however, got one more post about MWC in which I shared three other highlights from the show.

3/10/2025: Banking on AI for personalized customer experiences, HumanX

The first panel I did at this conference–in Las Vegas for its first year, moving to San Francisco next year–had me quizzing Better.com’s Vishal Garg, Clearcover’s Kyle Nakatsuji, Honeybook’s Colleen Stauffer, Sunrise AI’s Deepak Shrivastava and S&P Global’s Bhavesh Dayalji about how they see AI changing customer service.

3/10/2025: AI-powered supply chains: From farm to table and beyond, HumanX

Since this panel–featuring Altana’s Peter Swartz, Fusion Fund’s Lu Zhang and Choco AI’s Daniel Khachab–focused on agriculture, I opened it by telling the audience that I found the subject particularly interesting because I eat food.

3/11/2025: Kamala Harris Urges Those Working on AI to Consider Trust, Empathy, PCMag

The former vice president–whom I last saw in person in October from much farther away–was a late addition to the conference agenda. I hustled to get from the airport to the conference hotel, check in, drop by bag and get over to the event in time to get a seat in the third row for the Sunday-evening program that ended with Harris.

3/11/2025: Rethinking infrastructure: Custom solutions for the AI era, HumanX

My big takeaway from the conversation I had onstage with Sid Sheth of d-Matrix and Ami Badani of Arm: Industry hype about AGI (“artificial general intelligence” that could replicate a human brain) is a distraction, and not a particularly helpful one at that.

3/11/2025: Gmail Gets AI Calendar Feature That Apple Added to Its Mail App in 2007, PCMag

I missed this Google announcement Monday but had to write about it once I realized that the feature Google touts as an AI advancement is something that Apple delivered with plain old software in Mac OS X Leopard 18 years ago.

3/13/2025: Android 16 Inches Toward a Launch With Accessibility-Focused Third Beta Release, PCMag

Google PR gave me an advance on the news of third beta release of Android 16.

3/14/2025: Ex-Facebook CISO Warns: 95% of Bugs in Your AI System Haven’t Been Invented Yet, PCMag

I always learn something when Alex Stamos talks about information security, and I was happy to share that with PCMag readers.

#5G #AI #AIInfrastructure #AlexStamos #Android16 #AppleDataDetectors #Barcelona #customerService #cx #dataCenters #GoogleGemini #HumanX #informationSecurity #infosec #KamalaHarris #LasVegas #MacOSXLeopard #MWC #MWC2025 #supplyChains #Vegas

Weekly output: 5G platforms, AI in financial services, AI and supply chains, Kamala Harris on AI, AI infrastructure, Gmail’s AI calendar integration, Android 16, AI and information security

It’s a rare week when my work doesn’t touch on AI at all, but moderating panels at a conference devoted to that subject–and writing up two other talks there–helped ensure that AI figured in all but two of the items below.

3/10/2025: Practical means profitable: Telco talk about building services on 5G’s framework, Light Reading

My MWC Barcelona coverage for outside clients closed out with this writeup for this trade-pub client–my first there in a few months–of a panel in which telco executives talked about how they were building new lines of business on their 5G platforms.

Patreon readers, however, got one more post about MWC in which I shared three other highlights from the show.

3/10/2025: Banking on AI for personalized customer experiences, HumanX

The first panel I did at this conference–in Las Vegas for its first year, moving to San Francisco next year–had me quizzing Better.com’s Vishal Garg, Clearcover’s Kyle Nakatsuji, Honeybook’s Colleen Stauffer, Sunrise AI’s Deepak Shrivastava and S&P Global’s Bhavesh Dayalji about how they see AI changing customer service.

3/10/2025: AI-powered supply chains: From farm to table and beyond, HumanX

Since this panel–featuring Altana’s Peter Swartz, Fusion Fund’s Lu Zhang and Choco AI’s Daniel Khachab–focused on agriculture, I opened it by telling the audience that I found the subject particularly interesting because I eat food.

3/11/2025: Kamala Harris Urges Those Working on AI to Consider Trust, Empathy, PCMag

The former vice president–whom I last saw in person in October from much farther away–was a late addition to the conference agenda. I hustled to get from the airport to the conference hotel, check in, drop by bag and get over to the event in time to get a seat in the third row for the Sunday-evening program that ended with Harris.

3/11/2025: Rethinking infrastructure: Custom solutions for the AI era, HumanX

My big takeaway from the conversation I had onstage with Sid Sheth of d-Matrix and Ami Badani of Arm: Industry hype about AGI (“artificial general intelligence” that could replicate a human brain) is a distraction, and not a particularly helpful one at that.

3/11/2025: Gmail Gets AI Calendar Feature That Apple Added to Its Mail App in 2007, PCMag

I missed this Google announcement Monday but had to write about it once I realized that the feature Google touts as an AI advancement is something that Apple delivered with plain old software in Mac OS X Leopard 18 years ago.

3/13/2025: Android 16 Inches Toward a Launch With Accessibility-Focused Third Beta Release, PCMag

Google PR gave me an advance on the news of third beta release of Android 16.

3/14/2025: Ex-Facebook CISO Warns: 95% of Bugs in Your AI System Haven’t Been Invented Yet, PCMag

I always learn something when Alex Stamos talks about information security, and I was happy to share that with PCMag readers.

#5G #AI #AIInfrastructure #AlexStamos #Android16 #AppleDataDetectors #Barcelona #customerService #cx #dataCenters #GoogleGemini #HumanX #informationSecurity #infosec #KamalaHarris #LasVegas #MacOSXLeopard #MWC #MWC2025 #supplyChains #Vegas

Weekly output: 5G platforms, AI in financial services, AI and supply chains, Kamala Harris on AI, AI infrastructure, Gmail’s AI calendar integration, Android 16, AI and information security

It’s a rare week when my work doesn’t touch on AI at all, but moderating panels at a conference devoted to that subject–and writing up two other talks there–helped ensure that AI figured in all but two of the items below.

3/10/2025: Practical means profitable: Telco talk about building services on 5G’s framework, Light Reading

My MWC Barcelona coverage for outside clients closed out with this writeup for this trade-pub client–my first there in a few months–of a panel in which telco executives talked about how they were building new lines of business on their 5G platforms.

Patreon readers, however, got one more post about MWC in which I shared three other highlights from the show.

3/10/2025: Banking on AI for personalized customer experiences, HumanX

The first panel I did at this conference–in Las Vegas for its first year, moving to San Francisco next year–had me quizzing Better.com’s Vishal Garg, Clearcover’s Kyle Nakatsuji, Honeybook’s Colleen Stauffer, Sunrise AI’s Deepak Shrivastava and S&P Global’s Bhavesh Dayalji about how they see AI changing customer service.

3/10/2025: AI-powered supply chains: From farm to table and beyond, HumanX

Since this panel–featuring Altana’s Peter Swartz, Fusion Fund’s Lu Zhang and Choco AI’s Daniel Khachab–focused on agriculture, I opened it by telling the audience that I found the subject particularly interesting because I eat food.

3/11/2025: Kamala Harris Urges Those Working on AI to Consider Trust, Empathy, PCMag

The former vice president–whom I last saw in person in October from much farther away–was a late addition to the conference agenda. I hustled to get from the airport to the conference hotel, check in, drop by bag and get over to the event in time to get a seat in the third row for the Sunday-evening program that ended with Harris.

3/11/2025: Rethinking infrastructure: Custom solutions for the AI era, HumanX

My big takeaway from the conversation I had onstage with Sid Sheth of d-Matrix and Ami Badani of Arm: Industry hype about AGI (“artificial general intelligence” that could replicate a human brain) is a distraction, and not a particularly helpful one at that.

3/11/2025: Gmail Gets AI Calendar Feature That Apple Added to Its Mail App in 2007, PCMag

I missed this Google announcement Monday but had to write about it once I realized that the feature Google touts as an AI advancement is something that Apple delivered with plain old software in Mac OS X Leopard 18 years ago.

3/13/2025: Android 16 Inches Toward a Launch With Accessibility-Focused Third Beta Release, PCMag

Google PR gave me an advance on the news of third beta release of Android 16.

3/14/2025: Ex-Facebook CISO Warns: 95% of Bugs in Your AI System Haven’t Been Invented Yet, PCMag

I always learn something when Alex Stamos talks about information security, and I was happy to share that with PCMag readers.

#5G #AI #AIInfrastructure #AlexStamos #Android16 #AppleDataDetectors #Barcelona #customerService #cx #dataCenters #GoogleGemini #HumanX #informationSecurity #infosec #KamalaHarris #LasVegas #MacOSXLeopard #MWC #MWC2025 #supplyChains #Vegas

SentinelOne Appoints Alex Stamos as Chief Information Security Officer https://thecyberexpress.com/sentinelone-appoints-alex-stamos-as-ciso/ #TheCyberExpressNews #CybersecurityNews #CISOAppointment #TheCyberExpress #AlexStamosCISO #FirewallDaily #Appointments #SentinelOne #AlexStamos

SentinelOne Appoints Alex Stamos as Chief Information Security Officer https://thecyberexpress.com/sentinelone-appoints-alex-stamos-as-ciso/ #TheCyberExpressNews #CybersecurityNews #CISOAppointment #TheCyberExpress #AlexStamosCISO #FirewallDaily #Appointments #SentinelOne #AlexStamos

SentinelOne Appoints Alex Stamos as Chief Information Security Officer https://thecyberexpress.com/sentinelone-appoints-alex-stamos-as-ciso/ #TheCyberExpressNews #CybersecurityNews #CISOAppointment #TheCyberExpress #AlexStamosCISO #FirewallDaily #Appointments #SentinelOne #AlexStamos

SentinelOne Appoints Alex Stamos as Chief Information Security Officer https://thecyberexpress.com/sentinelone-appoints-alex-stamos-as-ciso/ #TheCyberExpressNews #CybersecurityNews #CISOAppointment #TheCyberExpress #AlexStamosCISO #FirewallDaily #Appointments #SentinelOne #AlexStamos

@Nonilex
Here is @annaleen talking with @nicolesandler about #AlexStamos & the #Internet Observatory. They are important, especially now that the #Facebook Election protections are GONE.
Here's the whole show
https://www.youtube.com/live/HX6ngwFGq6E?si=FK8NnJCaP4gR4KP5&t=1680

@Nonilex
Here is @annaleen talking with @nicolesandler about #AlexStamos & the #Internet Observatory. They are important, especially now that the #Facebook Election protections are GONE.
Here's the whole show
https://www.youtube.com/live/HX6ngwFGq6E?si=FK8NnJCaP4gR4KP5&t=1680

@Nonilex
Here is @annaleen talking with @nicolesandler about #AlexStamos & the #Internet Observatory. They are important, especially now that the #Facebook Election protections are GONE.
Here's the whole show
https://www.youtube.com/live/HX6ngwFGq6E?si=FK8NnJCaP4gR4KP5&t=1680

@Nonilex
Here is @annaleen talking with @nicolesandler about #AlexStamos & the #Internet Observatory. They are important, especially now that the #Facebook Election protections are GONE.
Here's the whole show
https://www.youtube.com/live/HX6ngwFGq6E?si=FK8NnJCaP4gR4KP5&t=1680

@Nonilex
Here is @annaleen talking with @nicolesandler about #AlexStamos & the #Internet Observatory. They are important, especially now that the #Facebook Election protections are GONE.
Here's the whole show
https://www.youtube.com/live/HX6ngwFGq6E?si=FK8NnJCaP4gR4KP5&t=1680

#AlexStamos founded the #Internet Observatory after publicizing that #Russia has attempted to #influence the #2016election by sowing division on #Facebook, causing a clash w/the company’s top execs. Special counsel Robert S. #Mueller III later cited the Facebook operation in indicting a Kremlin contractor. At #Stanford, Stamos & his team deepened his study of #InfluenceOperations from around the world, including 1 it traced to the #Pentagon.

#law #disinformation #NationalSecurity #CyberSecurity

#AlexStamos founded the #Internet Observatory after publicizing that #Russia has attempted to #influence the #2016election by sowing division on #Facebook, causing a clash w/the company’s top execs. Special counsel Robert S. #Mueller III later cited the Facebook operation in indicting a Kremlin contractor. At #Stanford, Stamos & his team deepened his study of #InfluenceOperations from around the world, including 1 it traced to the #Pentagon.

#law #disinformation #NationalSecurity #CyberSecurity

#AlexStamos founded the #Internet Observatory after publicizing that #Russia has attempted to #influence the #2016election by sowing division on #Facebook, causing a clash w/the company’s top execs. Special counsel Robert S. #Mueller III later cited the Facebook operation in indicting a Kremlin contractor. At #Stanford, Stamos & his team deepened his study of #InfluenceOperations from around the world, including 1 it traced to the #Pentagon.

#law #disinformation #NationalSecurity #CyberSecurity

#AlexStamos founded the #Internet Observatory after publicizing that #Russia has attempted to #influence the #2016election by sowing division on #Facebook, causing a clash w/the company’s top execs. Special counsel Robert S. #Mueller III later cited the Facebook operation in indicting a Kremlin contractor. At #Stanford, Stamos & his team deepened his study of #InfluenceOperations from around the world, including 1 it traced to the #Pentagon.

#law #disinformation #NationalSecurity #CyberSecurity

#AlexStamos founded the #Internet Observatory after publicizing that #Russia has attempted to #influence the #2016election by sowing division on #Facebook, causing a clash w/the company’s top execs. Special counsel Robert S. #Mueller III later cited the Facebook operation in indicting a Kremlin contractor. At #Stanford, Stamos & his team deepened his study of #InfluenceOperations from around the world, including 1 it traced to the #Pentagon.

#law #disinformation #NationalSecurity #CyberSecurity

#AlexStamos, the fmr #Facebook chief #security officer who founded the #Internet Observatory 5 yrs ago, moved into an advisory role in Nov. Observatory #research manager Renée DiResta’s contract was not renewed in recent wks.

The collapse of the 5-yr-old Observatory is the latest & largest of a series of setbacks to the community of #researchers who try to detect #propaganda & explain how #FalseNarratives are manufactured, gather momentum & become accepted by various groups.

#NationalSecurity

#AlexStamos, the fmr #Facebook chief #security officer who founded the #Internet Observatory 5 yrs ago, moved into an advisory role in Nov. Observatory #research manager Renée DiResta’s contract was not renewed in recent wks.

The collapse of the 5-yr-old Observatory is the latest & largest of a series of setbacks to the community of #researchers who try to detect #propaganda & explain how #FalseNarratives are manufactured, gather momentum & become accepted by various groups.

#NationalSecurity

#AlexStamos, the fmr #Facebook chief #security officer who founded the #Internet Observatory 5 yrs ago, moved into an advisory role in Nov. Observatory #research manager Renée DiResta’s contract was not renewed in recent wks.

The collapse of the 5-yr-old Observatory is the latest & largest of a series of setbacks to the community of #researchers who try to detect #propaganda & explain how #FalseNarratives are manufactured, gather momentum & become accepted by various groups.

#NationalSecurity

#AlexStamos, the fmr #Facebook chief #security officer who founded the #Internet Observatory 5 yrs ago, moved into an advisory role in Nov. Observatory #research manager Renée DiResta’s contract was not renewed in recent wks.

The collapse of the 5-yr-old Observatory is the latest & largest of a series of setbacks to the community of #researchers who try to detect #propaganda & explain how #FalseNarratives are manufactured, gather momentum & become accepted by various groups.

#NationalSecurity

#AlexStamos, the fmr #Facebook chief #security officer who founded the #Internet Observatory 5 yrs ago, moved into an advisory role in Nov. Observatory #research manager Renée DiResta’s contract was not renewed in recent wks.

The collapse of the 5-yr-old Observatory is the latest & largest of a series of setbacks to the community of #researchers who try to detect #propaganda & explain how #FalseNarratives are manufactured, gather momentum & become accepted by various groups.

#NationalSecurity

"It is just much harder for a volunteer-run, distributed system to roll out protections like E2EE than a centralized company."

#AlexStamos, #SaraShah, #StanfordInternetObservatory, 2023

https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/common-abuses-mastodon-primer

Explain the logic underlying that conclusion. Counterexample, the Matrix network. A distributed system, much of which is volunteer-run.

#E2EE #decentralisation

"It is just much harder for a volunteer-run, distributed system to roll out protections like E2EE than a centralized company."

#AlexStamos, #SaraShah, #StanfordInternetObservatory, 2023

https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/common-abuses-mastodon-primer

Explain the logic underlying that conclusion. Counterexample, the Matrix network. A distributed system, much of which is volunteer-run.

#E2EE #decentralisation

"It is just much harder for a volunteer-run, distributed system to roll out protections like E2EE than a centralized company."

#AlexStamos, #SaraShah, #StanfordInternetObservatory, 2023

https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/common-abuses-mastodon-primer

Explain the logic underlying that conclusion. Counterexample, the Matrix network. A distributed system, much of which is volunteer-run.

#E2EE #decentralisation

"It is just much harder for a volunteer-run, distributed system to roll out protections like E2EE than a centralized company."

#AlexStamos, #SaraShah, #StanfordInternetObservatory, 2023

https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/common-abuses-mastodon-primer

Explain the logic underlying that conclusion. Counterexample, the Matrix network. A distributed system, much of which is volunteer-run.

#E2EE #decentralisation

"Mastodon users probably aren’t aware of CSAM on the platform unless it leaks into their federated timelines. This can happen when a fellow user on their instance follows an account posting CSAM. Ways to handle this problem are few. Though users who follow CSAM-disseminating accounts can be suspended from an instance by administrators, they can easily set up a new account on another..."

#AlexStamos, #SaraShah, #StanfordInternetObservatory, 2023

https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/common-abuses-mastodon-primer

#CSAM

(1/2)

"Mastodon users probably aren’t aware of CSAM on the platform unless it leaks into their federated timelines. This can happen when a fellow user on their instance follows an account posting CSAM. Ways to handle this problem are few. Though users who follow CSAM-disseminating accounts can be suspended from an instance by administrators, they can easily set up a new account on another..."

#AlexStamos, #SaraShah, #StanfordInternetObservatory, 2023

https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/common-abuses-mastodon-primer

#CSAM

(1/2)

"Mastodon users probably aren’t aware of CSAM on the platform unless it leaks into their federated timelines. This can happen when a fellow user on their instance follows an account posting CSAM. Ways to handle this problem are few. Though users who follow CSAM-disseminating accounts can be suspended from an instance by administrators, they can easily set up a new account on another..."

#AlexStamos, #SaraShah, #StanfordInternetObservatory, 2023

https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/common-abuses-mastodon-primer

#CSAM

(1/2)

"Mastodon users probably aren’t aware of CSAM on the platform unless it leaks into their federated timelines. This can happen when a fellow user on their instance follows an account posting CSAM. Ways to handle this problem are few. Though users who follow CSAM-disseminating accounts can be suspended from an instance by administrators, they can easily set up a new account on another..."

#AlexStamos, #SaraShah, #StanfordInternetObservatory, 2023

https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/common-abuses-mastodon-primer

#CSAM

(1/2)

"While large platforms with robust trust & safety teams are able to be more discerning in their moderation..."

#AlexStamos, #SaraShah, #StanfordInternetObservatory, 2023

https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/common-abuses-mastodon-primer

Are they though?

Centralised moderation teams often lack the context to know what they're looking at. Fediverse admins each take care of a small, well-defined bit of overall moderation; the bit that affects accounts on their server. They know what's acceptable in their community.

(1/3)

#moderation

"While large platforms with robust trust & safety teams are able to be more discerning in their moderation..."

#AlexStamos, #SaraShah, #StanfordInternetObservatory, 2023

https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/common-abuses-mastodon-primer

Are they though?

Centralised moderation teams often lack the context to know what they're looking at. Fediverse admins each take care of a small, well-defined bit of overall moderation; the bit that affects accounts on their server. They know what's acceptable in their community.

(1/3)

#moderation

"While large platforms with robust trust & safety teams are able to be more discerning in their moderation..."

#AlexStamos, #SaraShah, #StanfordInternetObservatory, 2023

https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/common-abuses-mastodon-primer

Are they though?

Centralised moderation teams often lack the context to know what they're looking at. Fediverse admins each take care of a small, well-defined bit of overall moderation; the bit that affects accounts on their server. They know what's acceptable in their community.

(1/3)

#moderation

"While large platforms with robust trust & safety teams are able to be more discerning in their moderation..."

#AlexStamos, #SaraShah, #StanfordInternetObservatory, 2023

https://cyber.fsi.stanford.edu/io/news/common-abuses-mastodon-primer

Are they though?

Centralised moderation teams often lack the context to know what they're looking at. Fediverse admins each take care of a small, well-defined bit of overall moderation; the bit that affects accounts on their server. They know what's acceptable in their community.

(1/3)

#moderation

Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) op-ed at @CNN: “When it comes to TikTok, the US is blind” — waging proxy war on China via TikTok will make the USA & “The West” more *like* China

Personally, I am outright terrified of how people will interpret Alex saying:

It turns out that there is no US law clearly governing the access that Beijing or Moscow-based employees of any tech or social media company have to the personal data of US citizens that use their services. 

…because damn we don’t need NOFORN to become a private-sector employment issue in the tech industry. I broadly agree with Alex… but then I know Alex, and also I possess the nuance to read his:

The US and our allies also need to seriously engage in the information war, both by protecting and supporting journalists who are able to operate independently of any government, and by building civil society coalitions that create public resiliency against the Chinese-style censorship that is invading countries such as India and Turkey. 

…as a call for supporting the transparent and open internet, rather than (as others in Government might interpret) a call for “us” to match “them” in terms of investment in propaganda. In other words: I didn’t stop reading after the first comma.

Links

The Op-Ed is here:

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/23/opinions/tiktok-data-privacy-china-stamos/index.html

…but it’s a regrettably painful experience to view on mobile; if you’re stuck there’s a copy at:

https://archive.is/93UKS

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https://alecmuffett.com/article/47047

Alex Stamos (@alexstamos) op-ed at @CNN: “When it comes to TikTok, the US is blind” — waging proxy war on China via TikTok will make the USA & “The West” more *like* China

Personally, I am outright terrified of how people will interpret Alex saying:

It turns out that there is no US law clearly governing the access that Beijing or Moscow-based employees of any tech or social media company have to the personal data of US citizens that use their services. 

…because damn we don’t need NOFORN to become a private-sector employment issue in the tech industry. I broadly agree with Alex… but then I know Alex, and also I possess the nuance to read his:

The US and our allies also need to seriously engage in the information war, both by protecting and supporting journalists who are able to operate independently of any government, and by building civil society coalitions that create public resiliency against the Chinese-style censorship that is invading countries such as India and Turkey. 

…as a call for supporting the transparent and open internet, rather than (as others in Government might interpret) a call for “us” to match “them” in terms of investment in propaganda. In other words: I didn’t stop reading after the first comma.

Links

The Op-Ed is here:

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/23/opinions/tiktok-data-privacy-china-stamos/index.html

…but it’s a regrettably painful experience to view on mobile; if you’re stuck there’s a copy at:

https://archive.is/93UKS

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Extraordinarily Confused Congressional Rep. Thinks Social Media Companies Are Secretly Communicating With Gov’t Censors… Via Jira

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/15/extraordinarily-confused-congressional-rep-thinks-social-media-companies-are-secretly-communicating-with-govt-censors-via-jira/

#electionintegritypartnership #houseoversightcommittee #electiondisinformation #informationsharing #annapaulinaluna #ticketingsystem #disinformation #alexstamos #atlassian #elections #stanford #jira

Extraordinarily Confused Congressional Rep. Thinks Social Media Companies Are Secretly Communicating With Gov’t Censors… Via Jira

https://www.techdirt.com/2023/02/15/extraordinarily-confused-congressional-rep-thinks-social-media-companies-are-secretly-communicating-with-govt-censors-via-jira/

#electionintegritypartnership #houseoversightcommittee #electiondisinformation #informationsharing #annapaulinaluna #ticketingsystem #disinformation #alexstamos #atlassian #elections #stanford #jira

This is a provocative interview with Alex Stamos, “the former head of security at Facebook who now heads up the Stanford Internet Observatory, which does deep dives into the ways people abuse the internet”. His argument is that social media companies (like Twitter) sometimes try to hard to make the world better, which he thinks should be “resisted”. I’m not sure what to make of this. On the one hand, I think we absolutely do need to be worried about misinformation. On the other, he does have a very good point about people being complicit in their own radicalisation. It’s complicated. I think what has happened is there was a massive overestimation of the capability of mis- and disinformation to change people’s minds — of its actual persuasive power. That doesn’t mean it’s not a problem, but we have to reframe how we look at it — as less of something that is done to us and more of a supply and demand problem. We live in a world where people can choose to seal themselves into an information environment that reinforces their preconceived notions, that reinforces the things they want to believe about themselves and about others. And in doing so, they can participate in their own radicalization. They can participate in fooling themselves, but that is not something that’s necessarily being done to them. […] The fundamental problem is that there’s a fundamental disagreement inside people’s heads — that people are inconsistent on what responsibility they believe information intermediaries should have for making society better. People generally believe that if something is against their side, that the platforms have a huge responsibility. And if something is on their side, [the platforms] should have no responsibility. It’s extremely rare to find people who are consistent in this. […] Any technological innovation, you’re going to have some kind of balancing act. The problem is, our political discussion of these things never takes those balances into effect. If you are super into privacy, then you have to also recognize that when you provide people private communication, that some subset of people will use that in ways that you disagree with, in ways that are illegal in ways, and sometimes in some cases that are extremely harmful. The reality is that we have to have these kinds of trade-offs. Source: Are we too worried about misinformation? | Vox

https://thoughtshrapnel.com/2023/01/28/should-we-resist-trying-to-make-things-better-when-it-comes-to-online-misinformation/

@leadegroot There are a few counterarguments, not all of which I agree with, though I mention them here:

• Norms modelling. Telling people unambiguously "this is not OK" may change minds. If not of the person the comment is directed to, then to those listening in. (These discussions we're having are public, there are many silent participants.) I've done this, had it done to me, and observed it in interactions between others. I see some merits. The modelling may be followed by a block or ban. Hacker New's moderator, dang, practices this often, and is instructive to study: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=dang

• Persuasion. Above and beyond norms, there's actual rational argument. My faith in its capacity has been profoundly shaken over the past decade or so...

• Echo chambers. If two groups A & B sever all or most ties, then you end up with two separate communities with little interaction. There are those who suggest that this may not be a Bad Thing...

• Some speech is directly threatening. This is what Doctorow's passage refers to mostly: that open/public discourse tends to be dominated by the most aggressive and repressive elements. This is especially true in the case of a major state OR non-state regime of oppression. Examples of the former being, say, North Korea, Iran, Syria, and Russia. Examples of the latter being narcoterrorists, racial/religious supremacists, and organised crime, as in Latin America, the United States, India, and offshore-banking locales. In practice, the distinction between state and non-state may be distinctly indistinct.

• Specific communities may face greater threats. The rules for moderating, say, a private school's intranet discussion might be quite different from a service frequented by children or teens in an area strongly influenced by gang activity.

• Disempowered groups both need and are threatened by open communications. There's a history going back millennia of slang and in-group language used to discuss issues in a way that the broader community can't understand or has difficulty in following. That this might translate to the Internet is hardly surprising. Groups need to communicate, but also to protect themselves from surveillance, censorship, manipulation, and propaganda. That these needs are inherently in conflict is simply part of the landscape. A concern I've had with the Fediverse is that many people have/are indicating that it is safe, in ways that I strongly suspect it is not. It's been protected to some extent by its small scale and obscurity. Those defences are melting away like fog under a hot sun as we speak. (#AlexStamos has commented on this recently as I've mentioned a few days ago.) #BlackMastodon (and other groups) have been increasingly vocal about the abuse they've found directed toward themselves, and they're not the only group with this issue.

I don't think that the problem can ultimately be solved just through moderation, though that's one tool. Ultimately there need to be political, legal, institutional, and cultural defences and remedies. But moderation can be a part of that.

Put another way: All cultures have limits on free speech, on privacy, cases under which the State can , will, and should investigate individuals and be able to demand information or sanction both action and speech. It's the ones that do so in a principled way that protects the least privileged and strengthens the #CommonWeal (see my pinned toots on that topic) which seem to me to best serve their inhabitants and themselves. And when that value breaks down ... nothing can save you. Certainly not individual initiative and technological fixes.

@woozle @pluralistic

Edits: tyops, speling.