Ben Moskowitz

@DynamicWebPaige yeah let's connect! check DMs

@benrito Ahh, this is so cool! I was worried about copyright restrictions, so didn't add anything that wasn't already placed on the Internet Archive would love to brainstorm if you're interested in a collab!

doing vector math on 40 years of obscure sci-fi magazines just to feel something (i built a 3d embedding space for old @omnimagazine and BYTE archives using @googleaistudio + @antigravity at @vivariumsf last night, so we can endlessly scroll the latent space together 💕)

@DynamicWebPaige love it -- doing something similar at tronixlibrary.org what are your next steps?

🔗 try it out yourself: thestacks.dev

Wow. Congress just tabled a bill that would *actually* kill open-source. This is easily the most aggressive legislative action on AI—and it was proposed by the GOP senator who slammed @finkd for Llama. Here's how it works, and why it's different to anything before it.

DIARIO DE ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY: Lo que damos, florece. Lo que guardamos, se pudre.

@JaneOst_ @carlfranzen Correct

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Democratic Party keeps making the same mistakes. 2016, HRC treated as presumptive nominee. 2020, party hacks coalesce around less popular candidates to stop popular momentum of the Sanders coalition. 2024, essentially no primary. Healthy primaries make healthy parties.

📢📢 Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy is organizing a flagship conference on tech policy. Hear from movers and shakers in government, academia, industry, and civil society. citp.princeton.edu/event/tech-pol… The conference is for everyone interested in ensuring that technology has a positive impact on society. Learn about how you can make an impact on the development and governance of technology, whether in industry or the public sector. Alumni, affiliates, and friends of @PrincetonCITP will reflect on their careers and share advice, while current CITP scholars will present their research that has contributed to ongoing debates on topics including AI, social media, and cybersecurity. Register for in-person attendance: forms.gle/tVcxhfjtmHMxxG… (Livestream will be available on the conference webpage.) Panel 1: The Opportunity Ahead – 9:30 to 11 a.m. Why does tech policy matter? Which areas are most important today, and how might this change over the next decade? Panelists will discuss and help shape the agenda for tech policy. Can policy keep up given rapid changes in technology? How can you help? What is the role of U.S. policy in the global arena? Lightning talks – 11:20 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Lunch and networking – 12:30 to 1:45 p.m. Keynote – 1:45 to 2:30 p.m. Jessica Rosenworcel, Chairwoman, Federal Communications Commission Panel 2: Theories of Change – 2:30 to 4 p.m. How does tech policy change happen? How can diverse career paths contribute to it, including academia, industry, civil society, government, and more? Panelists will reflect on their own careers and share advice for those entering the field. Reception and networking – 4:05 to 5 p.m. Speakers include: Alondra Nelson (@alondra ), Harold F. Linder Professor, Institute for Advanced Study Anne-Marie Slaughter (@SlaughterAM), CEO, New America Arvind Narayanan, Director, CITP and Professor of Computer Science, Princeton University Chloé Bakalar (@cbakalar), Chief Ethicist, Meta David Robinson (@dgrobinson), Head of Policy Planning, OpenAI Ed Felten (@EdFelten ), Co-Founder & Chief Scientist, Offchain Labs; Emeritus, Robert E. Kahn Professor of Computer Science and Public Affairs and the Founding Director of CITP Gabriel Weinberg (@yegg), CEO and Founder, DuckDuckGo Jennifer Rexford (@jrexnet), Provost, Professor of Computer Science, and Gordon Y. S. Wu Professor in Engineering, Princeton University Jessica Rosenworcel (@JRosenworcel ), Chairwoman, Federal Communications Commission Pablo Chavez (@pablochavez ), Adjunct Senior Fellow, Technology and National Security Program, Center for a New American Security Paul Ohm (@paulohm ), Professor of Law, Georgetown University Law Center

@allafarce Axelrod too.

remember that ezra klein op-ed?

Meeeeeeeanwhile

Likely path: shambling to November Happy path: messy open convention birthing an energetic coalition reflecting popular will Sad path: a bunch of consultants & technocrats in smoky room concocting “plan B” Anything but #3. Party hacks are root cause of the current predicament

real healthy democracy, guys

Imagine it’s an alternate universe where we host presidential debates, but they’re more like they were in the 1960s — long form, substantive conversations. Both candidates are competent. What q’s are our enlightened debate moderators asking?

@DanDotLewis Love it

Presidential debates suck. Let’s imagine they didn’t. What’s 1 question you wish moderators would ask in this week’s Biden v. Trump matchup? Assume candidates aren’t limited to 30 sec canned responses & that both are capable of substantive exchange on philosophy & policy.

Better-than-human levels of persuasion, plus ad supported LLMs, has implications we are going to want to think through. Example: Vendy, a little GPT that knows that the solution to any problem is probably buying a refreshing lemonade, and is here to help: chat.openai.com/g/g-LMszzSJYv-…

Vernor Vinge (1944-2024) file770.com/vernor-vinge-1…

Proud that our work is recognized by Fast Company — we're a "Most Innovative Company" for giving consumers the power to protect their data! fastcompany.com/91031050/consu…

A very fun, spontaneous, and extended conversation between @camillefrancois and me! Talking AI, privacy, capitalism, and the business model of tech...among much else♥️ (Now posting a link to the full segment👇) youtube.com/watch?v=iLzQXW…