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[PODCAST]🎙️ "A Roadmap for Confronting the Chilling Effects of Censorship, Surveillance and New Technology"
https://podcasts.wesfryer.com/episode/r9y03V0sYV1fehHE0JNs
#TechPolicyPress with Jonathon W. Penney, author of “Chilling Effects: Repression, Conformity, and Power in the Digital Age”
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[PODCAST] #TechPolicyPress “How To Get Paid to Polarize on TikTok”
https://pca.st/episode/365b4243-3688-4290-9cc3-92d1ece0161a#MediaLit #AI #AIslop #polarization #disinfo #DeepFake #TikTok #PodcastRecc
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This is an incredible interview, with two very brave civil rights monitors. Reporting on what communities in Minneapolis have experiencing at the hands of masked ICE thugs, and the surveillance tech being deployed by ICE in "Operation Metro Surge”;
https://techpolicy.press/ai-surveillance-and-the-siege-of-minneapolis
This is why I've started talking about technofascism. Because the historical parallels are chilling, and the role of corporate tech platforms and their collaborator owners is undeniable.
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"... the massive amount of money - billions and trillions of dollars - that as [Alejandra Montoya-Boyer] said ... could be going in to supporting our communities. People are getting obscenely wealthy from surveiling us."
#IrnaLandrum, 2026
https://techpolicy.press/ai-surveillance-and-the-siege-of-minneapolis
It wasn't Mussolini, but someone wrote; fascism should more rightly be called corporatism; it's the merger of state and corporate power. In this case, their' tech power.
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"... [The] problem with the 'smart home', in the context of the law of the home, is that the data ... doesn't stay in the home. If it ... was all localised there, police would ... at least need a warrant to get into that privileged space of the home."
#AndrewGuthrieFerguson, Professor, Washington University Law School, 2026
https://techpolicy.press/how-to-apply-the-tyrant-test-to-technology
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#podcast recc: Through to Thriving: Pursuing The Truth with Dr. Jasmine McNealy and Naomi Nix #TechPolicyPress - Pocket Casts [PODCAST] https://pocketcasts.com/podcasts/e1256a00-4ba1-0139-3381-0acc26574db2/ea94b6eb-c21a-4bac-b551-bf06ce4baca6 via #MastoFeed & my Pinboard:
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#podcast recc: Through to Thriving: Pursuing The Truth with Dr. Jasmine McNealy and Naomi Nix #TechPolicyPress - Pocket Casts [PODCAST] https://pocketcasts.com/podcasts/e1256a00-4ba1-0139-3381-0acc26574db2/ea94b6eb-c21a-4bac-b551-bf06ce4baca6 via #MastoFeed & my Pinboard:
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#podcast recc: Through to Thriving: Pursuing The Truth with Dr. Jasmine McNealy and Naomi Nix #TechPolicyPress - Pocket Casts [PODCAST] https://pocketcasts.com/podcasts/e1256a00-4ba1-0139-3381-0acc26574db2/ea94b6eb-c21a-4bac-b551-bf06ce4baca6 via #MastoFeed & my Pinboard:
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Listening to an interview with folks from Data and Society on the Sunday Show, a podcast of Tech Policy Press;
https://techpolicy.press/interrogating-tech-power-and-democratic-crisis
They mention the "network state", which I'd never heard of.
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"... Data Workers Inquiry ... is a really important example of bringing attention to what's going on in the work that is hidden behind the facade of artificial intelligence because it's being marketed so heavily is fully automated when it's always people and so the various initiatives to make that visible are hugely meaningful even if they are small compared to the onslaught."
#EmilyMBender, author of The AI Con, 2025
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I'm really enjoying the interviews I've heard so far on the Sunday Show, the podcast of Tech Policy Press;
It's refreshing to be reminded that there is a wide range of people doing deep thinking about the information environment. Researching it, sharing their insights and findings, and talking about radical solutions.
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"Instead of thinking about fixing existing platforms - that's done, they're not going to fix themselves - I think it's about developing new platforms. Voting with your feet, getting to places where you want to be."
#KateStarbird, University of Washington, 2024
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#podcasts #TechPolicyPress #SundayShow #SocialMedia #PlatformCapitalism
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Great #podcast episode @petramolnar on Migration in the Age of #ArtificialIntelligence by @justinhendrix with #TechPolicyPress
Lots of interesting elements in this discussion, but especially the reality that we will be facing unprecedented migration. #ExtremeWeather & #ClimateChange will shake borders.
The role that #AI is going to play in reducing people to a number is shocking.
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Important read from Taylor Owen in #techpolicypress 'On the Coming Merger of Tech and State Power' https://www.techpolicy.press/on-the-coming-merger-of-tech-and-state-power/
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Don’t miss @justinhendrix interview @kissane for Sunday’s #TechPolicyPress #Podcast discussing #Fediverse Governance Report #FediversalistPapers co-authored with @darius supported by @DigInfFund
📝https://fediverse-governance.github.io
🎙️https://player.captivate.fm/episode/aaf1f847-89df-4a72-8bef-9c828876b2d0 -
It is not the case that “AI gathers data from the Web and learns from it.” The reality is that AI companies gather data and then optimize models to reproduce representations of that data for profit.
#TechPolicyPress #AI #GenerativeAI
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#TechPolicyPress offers about the only #sociopolitical analysis of tech available anywhere, so I listen.
Today there's an interview with #Mozilla's president. Surely a radical thinker, I hoped.
He spoke about Mozilla's focus on AI, how it will generate "trillions of dollars of new wealth", how excited he is about #capitalism.
And how great it is that #Firefox offers you more choice by letting you "change the default search engine" - WTF does that mean?
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‘AI systems constrain our ability to beat the odds, flip the script, or start over. As they increasingly mediate important aspects of our lives — what college one attends, whether a parent has to repel state suspicions of child mistreatment, or even whether an accused gets bail or parole — the ability to secure a manual override becomes ever more advantageous.’ — @maroussia
https://www.techpolicy.press/the-future-is-analog-if-you-can-afford-it/(And let’s stop calling it ‘AI’ already!)
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@shane ooh what are your favourite podcasts Shane?
Mine are mostly political or tech and I assume would bore most people: #LateNightLinux, #BigPicture, #Macrodose, #Deconstructed, #OnTheMedia, #TechPolicyPress, #PoliticsTheoryOther, #factually.
Always looking for more good ones 😊
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#TechPolicyPress - such a good podcast - did a great pod today about our work https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sunday-show/id1552627235?i=1000657566216 #AI #shareholderactivists #responsibletechnology #Meta #eko
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Major platforms are announcing new APIs for researchers/civil society under EU policy. What impact will they have on research and accountability globally? GW IDDP is diving in and looking for community support, check it out! (thanks #TechPolicyPress @justinhendrix ) https://techpolicy.press/platform-researcher-access-tools-the-brussels-effect/
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"Should we be worried about a handful of incumbents controlling AI? [...] It isn’t difficult to envision a similar future for AI, where a few dominant firms monopolize critical upstream inputs (cloud infrastructure, foundation models) and use their position to dictate terms to everyone else." Great article by Max von Thun in #TechPolicyPress @justinhendrix on what's missing in the #generativeAI debate #floss #cloud #bigtech (cc @karen) -> https://techpolicy.press/monopoly-power-is-the-elephant-in-the-room-in-the-ai-debate/
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5 Years On: My interview on #CambridgeAnalytica with @justinhendrix deeply examining the legacy of the most significant #privacy scandal to date and what the future portends. part I of a two-part series for #TechPolicyPress https://techpolicy.press/the-cambridge-analytica-scandal-five-years-on/
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The #twittermigration to Mastodon and the #Fediverse is a unique opportunity to build #DigitalPublicSpace. But in order to achieve this, the networks need to be maintained in a different way.
In an article on #TechPolicyPress @tarkowski points to Mastodon’s governance and structure as limits to its own growth and sustainability, and proposes three priorities to set to overcome these obstacles.
https://techpolicy.press/priorities-to-make-the-fediverse-sustainable/
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Weekend reading: my piece in #TechPolicyPress on post-migration #Mastodon as a "newbie network", and the need for a new take governance and sustainability. I've covered some of these issues in my posts here, in recent weeks. Hat tip to @justinhendrix
https://techpolicy.press/priorities-to-make-the-fediverse-sustainable/
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The Whiteness of Mastodon, podcast (with transcript) by Tech Policy Press, interview with @shengokai
https://techpolicy.press/the-whiteness-of-mastodon/
Includes discussion of #Disability #DisabilityTwitter
#Podcast #TechPolicyPress #Mastodon #BlackMastodon #BIPOC #Whiteness
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CW: #MastoAdmin CSAM & Nazis
“Part of becoming your own server administrator is confronting the urgent need to block and defederate your community from the absolute worst-of-the-worst.” This quote from my piece this weekend on #TechPolicyPress is so restrained. I’m referring to CSAM, to absolute nazis who have harnessed the occult. I smash these domains and I’m not waiting to defederate until it gets bad. When people tell us who they are we need to believe them.
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Fascinating to think through #Mastodon & #Whiteness within this #TechPolicyPress #Podcast featuring @shengokai
https://techpolicy.press/the-whiteness-of-mastodonI hand't thought of the RT as part of a call/response culture.
My main concern with the piece is that we cannot control whether or not Twitter implodes. Monopolies are inherently fragile & we know it is being run by a benevolent dictator.
Twitter had a good run. We have to adapt. That means building in better means to protect marginalized users. #a11y
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Since my once beloved doomscrolling site has been pivoted to an all-out shitposting service by new mgmt, I wrote about starting my own #Mastodon instance for #TechPolicyPress
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Trendy #ImageSynthesizers like #StableDiffusion amplify harmful stereotypes, researchers find. Shocked not shocked that a hedge funder’s foray into #SyntheticMedia is socially toxic. #AI #aiart #AIethics #DataRights #TechPolicyPress via @justinhendrix https://techpolicy.press/researchers-find-stable-diffusion-amplifies-stereotypes/