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👀 What are you seeing?
5 minutes to influence the AI conversation
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New_ Public
✨💑 New_ Public’s AI framework: Learn in public, keep humans centered
Everything on our new policy on AI use, from "secret cyborgs" to "start-up mindset"
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Josh Kramer
🧑‍🚒🤝💬 How California turned wildfire recovery into a deliberative democracy experiment
CA Office of Data Innovation Dir. Jeffery Marino on trust, tech, and rebuilding after disaster
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Josh Kramer
🏛️🧨🪛 Will AI break democracy or fix it? Yes.
An excerpt from Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders' new book
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Bruce Schneier
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Nathan E. Sanders
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Josh Kramer
📻🎙️🛜 As public broadcasting faces cuts, KQED leans into digital community building
A Bay Area radio station cracks the code on digital conversation (and shares their playbook)
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Francesca Fenzi
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Josh Kramer
🧶✏️👩🏽‍💻 The internet’s hidden creative renaissance (and how to find it)
The indie web means the return of gifs, funky cursors, and personal websites
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BlogTherapy
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Josh Kramer
🔭🖤🚀 Social media’s next evolution: decentralized, open-source, and scalable
How Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar
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Rudy Fraser
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Josh Kramer
The Algorithm Next Door
How local digital platforms like Nextdoor and Facebook are fraying the fabric of neighborhood trust — and what we can build instead.
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🗣️➡️👯‍♀️ Come for the language skills, stay for the friendship
Exploring peer-driven language-learning apps like HelloTalk, Tandem and Italki
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Madison Karas
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Josh Kramer
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