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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.
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The most-liked posts we have captured from Ranked Tech Pol & Soc. Links go to the original on Bluesky.
Eye popping. Court just unsealed Summary Judgment motions in New York Times v OpenAI / Microsoft. Easy to see why the AI companies had so many redactions (pink). Their own people wrote the lede for NYT, the "largest theft of labor in huma…
There are a lot of people who think their parents got their brains destroyed by Fox News, but somehow they’re not getting their brains destroyed by staying on Twitter.
I think the universal grieving comes in no small part from the fact she represented the best of what America could be, and that she never stopped chasing that ideal, artistically and socially
A typical morning at the Anthropic head office
MapQuest is now the No. 1 U.S. app after bucking Trump’s ‘Lake America’ renaming
I'll add some nuance here — most local pushback against data centers is actually quite fluent, and not grounded in the more wild-eyed rhetoric you see on social media. Very often, the core premise is a simple, correct one: you can't trust …
This is the founder of Silk Road – which enabled international drugs trafficking on an industrial scale, among other things – speaking at President Trump's midterm convention (after getting a pardon from him), because lol nothing matters.
I was wrong. It’s happening
I think it should be a source of deep embarrassment – and perhaps even shame – that Rishi Sunak has spoken out on this before Andy Burnham has.
Coyote vs Acme is a gem of a movie. It’s funny, surprisingly touching and treats the Looney Tunes characters with love and respect. The story of corporate greed willing to put profits over harm to individuals seems to resonate more now th…
One thing I will say: you can give Stevie Wonder his flowers right now. We can cherish him right now.
“Democracy has been hailed as, like, the holy grail for the last couple hundred years, but democracies are inefficient,” said the crypto billionaire. “If you get a benevolent dictator, it’s actually extremely efficient." Hmm, where have I…
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