👀 What are you seeing?

5 minutes to influence the AI conversation

Nov 9 • 

New_ Public

2

✨💑 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"

Nov 2 • 

Josh Kramer

17

October 2025

🧑‍🚒🤝💬 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

Oct 19 • 

Josh Kramer

16

1

🏛️🧨🪛 Will AI break democracy or fix it? Yes.

An excerpt from Bruce Schneier and Nathan E. Sanders' new book

Oct 5 • 

Bruce Schneier

, 

Nathan E. Sanders

, and 

Josh Kramer

21

2

September 2025

📻🎙️🛜 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)

Sep 21 • 

Francesca Fenzi

 and 

Josh Kramer

13

🧶✏️👩🏽‍💻 The internet’s hidden creative renaissance (and how to find it)

The indie web means the return of gifs, funky cursors, and personal websites

Sep 7 • 

BlogTherapy

 and 

Josh Kramer

70

2

August 2025

🔭🖤🚀 Social media’s next evolution: decentralized, open-source, and scalable

How Blacksky grew to millions of users without spending a dollar

Aug 24 • 

Rudy Fraser

 and 

Josh Kramer

44

10

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.

Published on After Babel • Aug 10

July 2025

🗣️➡️👯‍♀️ Come for the language skills, stay for the friendship

Exploring peer-driven language-learning apps like HelloTalk, Tandem and Italki

Jul 27 • 

Madison Karas

 and 

Josh Kramer

10

🐦💙 He coded Twitter. Now he’s building tech for New_ Public

A Q&A with Blaine Cook, our new Principal Software Engineer for Local

Jul 13 • 

Blaine Cook

 and 

Josh Kramer

34

5

June 2025

🇺🇸🗽🎆 Real freedom starts with community

New_ Public Co-Director Deepti Doshi says our rights must be lived out in our neighborhoods, communities, and shared digital spaces

Jun 29 • 

Deepti Doshi

18

🎮🕹️⌨️ Fortnite squads, Discord servers, and channels of deep connection

Sijal Nasralla takes us beyond likes and shares toward something that feels more like community

Jun 15 • 

PitaBreadFace

 and 

Josh Kramer

13

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