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Love it, Josh. Yes, I do have a suggestion. I have put together several lists on Bluesky. You can access them easily from my profile. For instance, acces the list The News, which is a list of 30 or so pro-democracy, fact-based newsrooms reporting in the public interest. You can just go there any time you want news. You can also check out the list of legal experts that I have put together to understand what's happening when this administration violates the law or the captured Supreme Court issues hyper-partisan rulings in favor of anti-constitutional behavior by ICE, for example.
Impressive curation. The AI glasses facial recognition story is genuinely unsettling when you think about the infrastructure gap between surveilance capability and regulatory frameworks. I ran into similar doxing tech demos at a conference last year, and the fact this can now run on consumer hardware without any meaningful consent layer is pretty wild. Gu ess we're basically beta-testing a future where anonymity in public spaces doesn't exist.
Thanks! My video and article about Aaron Parnas revealed that Americans who seemingly weren't interested in journalism before encountering Aaron actually have no idea that great journalism exists, is largely un-paywalled, and is easy to access. By showing people important stories that aren't necessarily all "breaking" maybe we can get people to have a little more enlightened understanding of how information becomes our outcomes.
Thanks a lot for this. But what do you suggest for people to replace Parnas with who can't follow all of the above.
Do you have ideas of sources that curate but give credit and links appropriately?
Personally, I've been checking out Portside.
https://portside.org/
Love it, Josh. Yes, I do have a suggestion. I have put together several lists on Bluesky. You can access them easily from my profile. For instance, acces the list The News, which is a list of 30 or so pro-democracy, fact-based newsrooms reporting in the public interest. You can just go there any time you want news. You can also check out the list of legal experts that I have put together to understand what's happening when this administration violates the law or the captured Supreme Court issues hyper-partisan rulings in favor of anti-constitutional behavior by ICE, for example.
Impressive curation. The AI glasses facial recognition story is genuinely unsettling when you think about the infrastructure gap between surveilance capability and regulatory frameworks. I ran into similar doxing tech demos at a conference last year, and the fact this can now run on consumer hardware without any meaningful consent layer is pretty wild. Gu ess we're basically beta-testing a future where anonymity in public spaces doesn't exist.
Thanks! My video and article about Aaron Parnas revealed that Americans who seemingly weren't interested in journalism before encountering Aaron actually have no idea that great journalism exists, is largely un-paywalled, and is easy to access. By showing people important stories that aren't necessarily all "breaking" maybe we can get people to have a little more enlightened understanding of how information becomes our outcomes.