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Justin Hendrix

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Concerned with tech, media and democracy. CEO & Editor at Tech Policy Press. Research & Adjunct Professor at NYU Tandon School of Engineering. Opinions mine.

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"Academics researching online misinformation in the US are learning a hard lesson: Academic freedom cannot be taken for granted." @rcalo.bsky.social & @katestarbird.bsky.social:
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

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Better than Buffer?

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'Abundance'

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Hahahaha

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NEWS --> Mark Robinson, the MAGA extremist GOP nominee for governor in North Carolina, appeared to endorse political violence against unnamed foes in a recent speech.

"Some folks need killing!" he shouted. "It's a matter of necessity!"

Video and story here:
newrepublic.com/article/1834...

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Sent ya an email! Would love to add this one to the mix too

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President Biden urgently needs to rectify institutional limits for privacy and set the US on a new trajectory when it comes to surveillance, writes Isadora Borges Monroy. Particularly important given the possibility of his successor: www.techpolicy.press/biden-cannot...

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My first ever piece is live, thanks @justinhendrix.bsky.social at @techpolicypress.bsky.social. Read it, we worked hard on a reasonable word count!

*President Biden urgently needs to rectify the institutional limits for privacy and set the US on a new trajectory when it comes to surveillance.*

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I think the thing that stands out to me is just how clear leaders on the right are about the stakes, and how rarely the moment is met by the leaders who claim to oppose them.

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The story is always the same: major tech companies tell us they care about the environment to silence criticism, then never actually follow through. Google’s emissions are up ~50% in 5 years, following similar news Microsoft is also blowing past its climate commitments.

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Spinning the results of recent research on its effects on politics, Meta seems to want to disarm its critics. But are the results really strong enough to counter the concerning evidence from inside the company that is in the public domain? @justinhendrix.bsky.social and Paul Barrett say no:

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Transitioning the Christchurch Call to Action and its multistakeholder effort to address terrorist and violent content to a not-for-profit model was necessary to ensure its success for years to come, writes Rachel Wolbers. www.techpolicy.press/the-christch...

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NEW from me: As tech and cyber issues increasingly dominate geopolitics, the State Dept is quietly preparing US diplomats to navigate these issues and score wins abroad.

For WIRED, I got an exclusive look inside State's new tech and cyber training program: www.wired.com/story/us-sta...

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Spinning the results of recent research on its effects on politics, Meta seems to want to disarm its critics. But are the results really strong enough to counter the concerning evidence from inside the company that is in the public domain? Paul Barrett and I say no:

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Oh that is by far the creepiest Twilight Zone

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There is a lot the US government can do to mitigate significant AI risks, even if Congress is unable to pass new legislation designed to address the current frenzy, say Rachael Klarman at Governing for Impact and Adam Conner at the Center for American Progress. www.techpolicy.press/a-roadmap-fo...

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The hailstorm of AI-related lawsuits over the past nine months can make the litigation space feel chaotic and confusing. In fact, the lawsuits can be roughly sorted into two simple buckets: copyright infringement and harmful AI-driven outcomes, writes Transparency Coalition.AI's Bruce Barcott:

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The thing I can't stop thinking about is this: I'm 48, and in my adult lifetime there has been one Republican who won the popular vote. But I will probably spend the rest of my life under the authority of a Supreme Court dominated by hard right conservatives. How is that democracy?

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This is the ball game folks, the authoritarian green light laid out in advance. Congress will not impeach Trump. And SCOTUS now blesses him with extraordinary latitude to do whatever he wants in power. A second administration will not be constrained by Congress, the courts, the bureaucracy or law.

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Homeless people can be arrested for sleeping, Presidents cannot be arrested for rampant graft and corruption done while in office. There is no clearer a summary of "conservative 'law and order'" than this.

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There is a lot the US government can do to mitigate significant AI risks, even if Congress is unable to pass new legislation designed to address the current frenzy, say Rachael Klarman at Governing for Impact and Adam Conner at the Center for American Progress. www.techpolicy.press/a-roadmap-fo...

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Quinta Jurecic's avatar Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social
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it feels like the whiteness of big political media spaces right now is having a big effect on how people are thinking about the debate. eg I have seen relatively little discussion of trump's "black jobs" comment, which immediately exploded on black twitter

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June US tech policy roundup! Developments in Congress, the courts, federal agencies and beyond by Freedman Consulting's Rachel Lau & J.J. Tolentino and Tech Policy Press's Ben Lennett. Read & share:
www.techpolicy.press/june-2024-us...

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Confident liars do appear to have an advantage

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