Very pleased to be speaking at this event on the importance of interoperability to open social media to more pro-social designs and incentives. The current direction is leading to disaster - that will be even greater as AI fuses with social media and individuals and communities are disenfranchised.
Very pleased to be speaking at this event on the broad importance of Interoperability as a Design Principle for the Digital Economy --
at NYU Stern School of Business with Ioannis Lianos, Nicholas Economides, and Christos Makridis.
Thanks @frankfukuyama.bsky.social, for pointing the way to the end of misunderstanding history — as too many do, including many of our top leaders.
"He who has a why to live can bear almost any how." The grimly hopeful story of Ukraine — and if we do not help, it may soon become our turn.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/15/o...
Red alert!
Midterms under threat, some measures to safeguard the vote, via @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social @nytimes.com
"The Attachment Economy Is Here. We’re Not Ready." via @humanetech.bsky.social
It defines a whole new level of AI threat to consumers, beyond attention and intention, to “attachment.”
It could take the idea of “relationship commerce” to a new dimension of abuse. open.substack.com/pub/centerfo...
Scary and very real!
@davidfrenchjag.bsky.social, "I’ll try to describe what can be done to stop him — aside from simply hoping and praying that his lawlessness has limits other than his own morality — but a nation won’t rouse itself if it doesn’t hear the alarm." Please do!
"This is Not a Drill" - scary and very real.
@davidfrenchjag.bsky.social, "I’ll try to describe what can be done to stop him — aside from simply hoping and praying that his lawlessness has limits other than his own morality — but a nation won’t rouse itself if it doesn’t hear the alarm." Please do!
Nice report by @laurenshof.online and @joshpkramer.bsky.social via @newpublic.org
Cc @ivansigal.bsky.social @chadkoh.com @bmann.ca @robin.berjon.com
Europe’s taking a leading role because US big tech & “government” are destroying society. Truly “social” media are fighting this from elsewhere. Join in, reverse the big tech train wreck, rebuild this sorry scheme of things nearer the heart’s desire. #FreeOurFeeds!
open.substack.com/pub/newpubli...
Can it be that the real savior of American democracy against ICE thuggery is not constitutional checks and balances, but popular outrage bred by 250 years of life under the Bill of Rights? (...unlike how Weimar Germans accepted brownshirt thuggery)
Conservative, liberal, or head in the sand - if you value your freedom, you need to read this, look around (beyond your echo chambers and comfort zones), and act - before it is too late!
Via @davidfrenchjag.bsky.social.
The real AI extinction threat, and far more imminent — the extinction of society. Yes, “absolutely everyone should read.” Via @hartzog.bsky.social and @jessicasilbey.bsky.social, via @garymarcus.bsky.social. open.substack.com/pub/garymarc...
If we don't all hang together, we shall most assuredly hang separately" - true for Europe, USA, Ukraine, and the future of the free world. The US is a republic, “if you can keep it,” even if the road is long an d winding. Thanks Ben F, and @frankfukuyama.bsky.social
Read the article and think about those who still support MAGA. Then read On Tyranny by @timothysnyder.bsky.social
Is Trump Putin’s useful
idiot or Manchurian Candidate? Probably former, but sometimes hard not to wonder. Via @timothysnyder.bsky.social
Thanks to @ivansigal.bsky.social for all your efforts and those of the others cited in your LI repost (along with me). Gratified to see ideas I have been pushing for decades (and my coining of the #FreeOurFeeds hashtag on Twitter in early 2021) are gaining real traction!
Join the movement toward "a world in which tech serves people over companies and governments. Find out more and get in touch here: modalfoundation.org"
Putting users, communities, and PUBLISHERS back into "social" media...
Congratulations -- and thanks to @ivansigal.bsky.social for all your efforts and those of the others cited in your LI repost (along with me). Gratified to see ideas I have been pushing for decades (and my coining of the #FreeOurFeeds hashtag on Twitter in early 2021) are gaining real traction!
Makes one think twice about those who continue to support MAGA. …And for those who do not, how “Silence in the face of evil is itself evil.”
(gift article from The New York Times): www.nytimes.com/2026/01/15/o...
"Science Keeps Changing. So Why Should We Trust It?" A timely and simple explanation for skeptics. www.nytimes.com/2026/01/05/o...
"Putin is betting the U.S. will talk itself into believing Ukraine cannot succeed. The past four years show the opposite," Sens. Jeanne @shaheen.senate.gov and Mitch McConnell (R) write.
"It is up to Washington to match Ukraine’s resolve with the clarity this moment demands."
...cc: @tiziano.bsky.social @msaveski.bsky.social @jiachenyan.bsky.social
...More on how this social mediation ecosystem worked traditionally -- and can work again in the digital era once we enable it: www.techpolicy.press/three-pillar...
...While this is an indirect remedy that will not eliminate harmful content, it enables users & communities to rebuild the "social mediation ecosystem" that traditionally generally kept harmful speech on the margins most of the time (as part of what I call "Three Pillars of Human Discourse")...
...The enabler is open interoperability of feed ranking attention agents. A prime example is Bluesky's AT protocol ecosystem that moves control of feeds from the engagement-driven platforms to individual & community-driven ranking services.
This study demonstrates the importance of better algorithms, and has implications that not only “enables scientists to test a much broader set of interventions” but demonstrates why it is essential to enable the market (of finance and of ideas) to test a much broader set of interventions. 🧵
A corollary to Abe Lincoln—you can’t fool all the people who voted for you all the time— explains Trump’s collapsing approval ratings. Trumpian flimflam has hit its limits. A reasonable majority exists. It’s searching for alternatives to a leader & a movement it has found wanting.
