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Take Back Our Digital Infrastructure to Save Democracy

https://www.techdirt.com/2025/08/05/take-back-our-digital-infrastructure-to-save-democracy/
8•verdverm•16h ago

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WarOnPrivacy•15h ago
Lede:

    what the oligarchs [and fascists] don’t want you to understand:
    the same underlying technologies enabling this power concentration
    can be architected to resist it. 

    The key isn’t begging for better billionaires or smarter 
    regulations—it’s recognizing that decentralization isn’t a
    technical preference.

    Decentralization is a democratic necessity.
Backstory:

    fascists are winning because they’ve built a direct pipeline
      from concentrated technological power
      to concentrated political power.

    This isn’t about technology being inherently dangerous—it’s about how
    distorted Wall Street incentives drove us toward digital infrastructure
    that mirrors authoritarian power structures. 

    [fascists] discovered that when digital platforms become centralized
    and authoritarian, democratic institutions will follow.
cont:

    The same authoritarian capture that took over centralized social media
    is already threatening AI systems as well. 

    Just as we’ve watched [a fascist] morph Twitter’s algorithms
    into X’s non-stop amplification of his personal political 
    preferences, we’re seeing AI systems designed to reflect the
    biases and political agendas of their corporate owners. 

    But this pattern isn’t inevitable. We need to understand that
    AI doesn’t have to be another tool of oppression. Designed
    correctly, it can be a weapon of liberation.

Dear CEO: A Love Letter to Your AI Revolution

https://medium.com/@adrianbooth/dear-ceo-a-love-letter-to-your-ai-revolution-e1684bd2c5a8
1•adrianbooth17•57s ago•0 comments

Which jobs can be replaced with AI?

https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/06/unmerchantable-substitute-goods/#customer-disservice
1•almost-exactly•2m ago•0 comments

Zig-Error-Patterns

https://glfmn.io/posts/zig-error-patterns/
2•Bogdanp•3m ago•0 comments

Human First AI

https://ente.io/blog/human-first-ai/
1•Brog_io•4m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I built a plugin to create a ChatGPT archive with Typemill CMS

https://typemill.net/news/build-your-private-chatgpt-archive
1•trendschau•7m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I open-sourced my framework for debugging sourdough

https://github.com/hendricius/the-sourdough-framework
2•hendricius•8m ago•0 comments

Show HN: Built an Agentic Gaming PC Builder

https://github.com/runagent-dev/runagent
1•Radeen1•9m ago•0 comments

Where's That Shared Library

https://narang99.github.io/2025-07-28-linker-search/
2•thunderbong•10m ago•0 comments

Trump raises India tariffs to 50% over Russian oil purchases

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/08/06/trump-trade-india-tariffs-russia.html
6•kamaraju•11m ago•1 comments

The Most Mysterious Cells in Our Bodies Don't Belong to Us

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2024/01/fetal-maternal-cells-microchimerism/676996/
3•georgecmu•12m ago•0 comments

The GitHub Copilot Chat extension is now open source

https://code.visualstudio.com/blogs/2025/06/30/openSourceAIEditorFirstMilestone
1•jaflo•15m ago•0 comments

Is multiculturalism as American as Apple pie?

https://anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/etho.70018
1•PaulHoule•16m ago•0 comments

Houston, you've got a space shuttle only NASA won't say which one

https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/08/houston-youve-got-a-space-shuttle-only-nasa-wont-say-which-one/
2•LorenDB•16m ago•0 comments

Show HN: I Built an Extension That Writes Emails in Seconds Using Gemini 2.5 Pro

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/email-draft-accelerator/gekhjogflifbelhfnhgogmmgdomhbfaj
1•AppMaestro•16m ago•0 comments

A Silver Crown

https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/the-cold-and-forbidding-worlds-of-cynthia-ozick/
2•petethomas•17m ago•0 comments

Gemini Hijacked with a Poisoned Calendar Invite; Takes over a Smart Devices

https://www.wired.com/story/google-gemini-calendar-invite-hijack-smart-home/
3•60hzrider•18m ago•1 comments

Claudebox – Claude Code Sandbox for Mac

https://greitas-kodas.github.io/claudebox/
1•dotpot•19m ago•0 comments

A Guide to Developing for Meta Quest on Mac

https://spin.atomicobject.com/developing-meta-quest-mac/
2•philk10•20m ago•0 comments

US tariff on India zooms to 50% as Trump piles on 25% additional duty

https://indianexpress.com/article/world/trump-india-25-percent-additional-tariff-10173917/
6•akbarnama•21m ago•0 comments

When Decision Discipline Shapes the Business

https://whybyproduct.substack.com/p/decision-discipline-that-shapes-business
2•mooreds•21m ago•0 comments

Burnout – Try 1

https://marcusblankenship.substack.com/p/on-burnout-try-1
2•mooreds•22m ago•0 comments

Developers reluctant to use AI: 2025 Stack Overflow Developer Survey results

https://stackoverflow.blog/2025/07/29/developers-remain-willing-but-reluctant-to-use-ai-the-2025-developer-survey-results-are-here/
1•gortok•23m ago•0 comments

Book Review: Hear That Lonesome Whistle Blow (2004)

https://www.mooreds.com/wordpress/archives/85
2•mooreds•23m ago•0 comments

New method is the fastest way to find the best routes

https://www.quantamagazine.org/new-method-is-the-fastest-way-to-find-the-best-routes-20250806/
9•baruchel•23m ago•0 comments

Crystal: Claude Code Needs an Agent Management Platform, Not an IDE

https://github.com/stravu/crystal
3•jbentley1•25m ago•1 comments

Kaggle Game Arena

https://www.kaggle.com/blog/introducing-game-arena
1•simonpure•26m ago•1 comments

Handy – Open-Source and Cross-Platform Superwhisper Alternative

https://handy.computer/
1•sipjca•30m ago•0 comments

How Potatoes Evolved

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2025/july/we-finally-solved-the-mystery-of-how-potatoes-evolved.html
3•gmays•30m ago•0 comments

Dotfiles feel too intimate and personal to share

https://hamatti.org/posts/dotfiles-feel-too-intimate-and-personal-to-share/
24•speckx•30m ago•11 comments

'My teeth told me': What it was like aboard the Enola Gay

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/06/hiroshima-oral-history/
3•voxleone•31m ago•0 comments