AI tools are here to stay, Moyer says, but Vimeo wants to build on ‘authenticity.’
Brendan Carr’s mission to trash the First Amendment.
The Democrat from Oregon says ‘we’re going to use every tool’ to try and thwart Elon Musk’s DOGE.
The billionaire is taking over the federal government and remaking it in Twitter’s image.
Senator Ron Wyden joined Decoder today to talk about what’s going on with Elon Musk and DOGE, the future of TikTok, and everything else that’s going on. The full episode hits on Monday, but it felt important to note Wyden isn’t mincing words about Trump’s running roughshod over the Constitution.
Jameel Jaffer, executive director of the Knight First Amendment Institute — and previous Decoder guest — runs down the list of major media companies capitulating to frivolous Trump lawsuits and investigations, with particular scorn for Meta, which agreed to donate $25m to Trump’s presidential library instead of fighting a case it would have won handily. And not fighting has real consequences — as Jaffer says:
The First Amendment is just words on a page. Giving those words meaning — sustaining their promise, generation after generation — depends on a civic courage that seems, right now, to be in ominously short supply.
Strange times out there — don’t forget your values.
The company is amping up its fight against Amazon with a new frontier: ebooks.
Great catch by our friends at 404 Media — a declassified WWII-era US government guide to sabotaging fascism is currently the 5th-most downloaded ebook on Project Gutenberg.
The motivating factor for writing the guide, according to a passage within it, is that citizen saboteurs were highly effective at resisting the Nazis during World War II, and the Office of Strategic Services wanted to detail other ways sabotage could be done.
Seems relevant!
The Chinese chatbot and OpenAI’s new data center venture present a stark contrast for the future of AI.
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