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Ben Werdmuller

@benwerd

I lead technology at @ProPublica. This is a personal account.

I write about tech and society on my site at werd.io.

More about me: about.werd.io

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linkhttps://werd.io calendar_today20-02-2007 13:34:20

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"The way we raise the money at The Guardian is different than any place I’ve ever been. This is truly a jointly owned responsibility among the business side and editorial." buff.ly/3X6Q6kj

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Holy wow, Dot and Bubble. I don't know that the previous iterations of the show - or any show for a family audience - would have been as bold. This one is absolutely not holding back. #doctorwho

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"The nation, fractured by war, disease, and famine, has seen more than 6 million people die since the mid-1990s. But, in recent years, the death and destruction have been aided by the growing number of EVs humming down American streets." buff.ly/451zCfu

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This list of the New Scientist's favorite science fiction books is brilliant. The books I've read that are included here are some of my favorites of all time; the others are on my to-read list. What's your favorite? buff.ly/3V5iG2U

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There's no good way to prevent AI models from being trained on art published on the fediverse. But there's work we can do to prevent it and protect the artists who post there. werd.io/2024/protectin…

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"Zoom founder Eric Yuan has big ambitions in enterprise software, including letting your AI-powered ‘digital twins’ attend meetings for you." Such a bizarre vision of the future. buff.ly/3X88M3o

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Interesting business model: UK broadcasters are trading unused ad space for equity in digital media startups, turning them into venture-scale investors. buff.ly/4c60g8X

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"The key to effective engineering leadership lies in figuring out which scenarios are worth deliberately defying conventional logic, and when to simply follow the rules." Lots of food for thought here. buff.ly/4e3KiOx

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This is a lovely piece about Tony Stubblebine, who, as it rightly says, is doing an excellent job as the new CEO of Medium. buff.ly/3x2k1PZ

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"Eghbariah’s paper for the Columbia Law Review was published on its website in the early hours of Monday morning. The journal’s board of directors responded by pulling the entire website offline." buff.ly/3KuAobh

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"The pervasive nature of modern technology makes surveillance easier than ever before, while each successive generation of the public is accustomed to the privacy status quo of their youth." buff.ly/3yLSW45

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"Surprise! It turns out that the unencrypted database and the stored images may contain your user credentials and passwords. Use a password manager like 1Password? Sorry, your 1Password passwords are probably visible via Recall." buff.ly/3yLVS0B

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I have a few thoughts about the upcoming British general election. None of them particularly polite. werd.io/2024/a-jab-bac…

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"An important step toward a more interoperable “fediverse” — the broader network of decentralized social media apps like Mastodon, Bluesky and others — has been achieved." Ryan's come to the rescue with Bridgy once again. buff.ly/45cCg1S

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"Chamber of Progress, a tech industry coalition whose members include Amazon, Apple and Meta, is launching a campaign to defend the legality of using copyrighted works to train artificial intelligence systems." buff.ly/3RiP3dA