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user: benwerd
created: 2010-01-21
karma: 5793

Helping to build communities on the open web.

Previously: ProPublica, The 19th*, ForUsAll, Unlock, Matter Ventures, Medium, Known, Latakoo, Elgg.

Personal homepage: https://werd.io

[ my public key: https://keybase.io/benwerd; my proof: https://keybase.io/benwerd/sigs/YK-QOCNnsiG6ADHQHU5pAARzJFek-ajUnq2wvcDCRk0 ]

submissions:

Sam Altman is ready to decelerate
4 points | 1 comments
Private healthcare makes industries less innovative. It's time for change
143 points | 163 comments
People are transcribing your conversations without asking. That puts you at risk
7 points | 1 comments
China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning
1243 points | 933 comments
0 points | 0 comments
We need a PIT Crew for news
7 points | 0 comments
Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources
553 points | 217 comments
Communities will build trust for public media. Chicago is taking a leap forward
2 points | 0 comments
Governance can prevent AI from undermining democracy. But only if it has teeth
2 points | 0 comments
Happy 250th Birthday, America
2 points | 0 comments
OpenAI wants to give us 5% of its success. It's a bad bargain
1 points | 1 comments
I have a theory about AI fake news site The Editorial
2 points | 0 comments
They tell us surveillance makes us safer. It undermines our democratic rights
3 points | 1 comments
A right-wing media chain tried to replace 47 newspapers with AI. They all died
5 points | 1 comments
0 points | 0 comments
Empower Others
2 points | 0 comments
Journalism is rearranging the deckchairs. It needs to reinvent itself
50 points | 64 comments
Signs you're a dangerous terrorist: using Signal, moving zines
131 points | 88 comments
The New Election Threat: Disinformation Inside the Answer
2 points | 0 comments
More people get their news from social media than anywhere else – globally
2 points | 0 comments
It's not enough to have better ideals
3 points | 0 comments
The community-first software era
2 points | 0 comments
Know Your Point C
3 points | 0 comments
Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few
345 points | 67 comments
Why micropayments can't save news
5 points | 0 comments
Speed Month – The Reader Meets the Fediverse
3 points | 0 comments
The Open Social Web Needs Section 230 to Survive
3 points | 0 comments
Product-Shaped or Movement-Shaped?
1 points | 0 comments
Building with Love, and Paying for It
4 points | 1 comments