by @wildebees.bsky.social
Tech Policy and Society Feed, ranked by the Hacker News Algorithm, based on likes and time. Includes academics, theorists, journalists, activists, and technologists talking about how to use tech for societal benefit.
Financial Times FT Exclusive: Donald Trump is failing to arrest the decline of his popularity only weeks out from the midterm elections, with voters in a new FT poll giving the president record-low marks on his handling of the US economy ft.trib.al/Pztj50j
Anil Dash Sometimes people push back when I say that staying on Twitter/X breaks your brain & makes you lose touch with reality. Here's a post from the guy who led product at X when they shipped their "create CSAM" feature, with a reply from a psychotic dude who's been posting about me for 14 years straight.
James Ball Cers has wares, if you have coin.
Dare Obasanjo Reporter: Why does Mike Rogers have to answer for Donald Trump if you don't have to answer for Hasan Piker? Abdul El-Sayed: Is that a serious question? Reporter: I didn't want to ask another dumb one, so I wrote it down for you. El-Sayed: Well, Donald Trump is the president of the United States.
Claes de Vreese Support #ComingOutDay 🌈 🏳️🌈❤️
Jack Stilgoe 
Kate Klonick The indy protest schwag at the MUSK premiere did not disappoint.
Financial Times Good morning, New York. While you were sleeping, this was the most-read story ft.trib.al/WRSk1Kz
Gil Durán Coming Nov. 3: "The Nerd Reich" in Italian! They translated it as "Silicon Reich: The Rise of the Tech Giants and the War On Democracy." This is one of MANY forthcoming translations—Bulgarian, Dutch, Italian, French, Polish, Greek, Finnish, Japanese, South Korean, and Vietnamese!
Dare Obasanjo “This recent dump of papers on Tuesday destroyed the careers of early-career mathematicians. We've had whole research programs wiped out on Tuesday by their dump … they have all the mathematicians research programs in their training data” - Tristan Buckmaster on OpenAI solving unsolved math problems
POLITICO Europe EXCLUSIVE: The European Commission is working with the U.K. to avoid a cliff edge that threatens to raise the cost of cross-channel electric vehicle exports by 10 percent from the start of next year. 🔗 vist.ly/5mvyp
WIRED More than two dozen workers at three major publishing houses—HarperCollins, Simon & Schuster, and Hachette—tell WIRED that LLMs are being used for publicity, cover art, back cover copy, and emails, as some execs push junior staff to champion the tech. Read the full story: buff.ly/p0ymGmN
Dare Obasanjo “I could say the stupidest things and you’d clap and say ‘I love you so much’” - Donald Trump ~~ No one thinks less of MAGA voters than Trump.
POLITICO Europe The growing popularity of far-right parties across Europe is sparking worries in NATO that they could weaken public support for rearmament and military aid to Ukraine as risks grow of a confrontation with Russia. 🔗 vist.ly/5mvrf
Financial Times Warm water, missing dishes and interminable waits: our critic found little luxury in the spectacular Mayfair dining room of RH London ft.trib.al/fJBeEck
Dare Obasanjo I guess calling it AI is now “woke”.