Community Strong Starts in the Right Place. But Democracy Needs Better Ears

The @CommunityStrong Constitution is a great start, but democracy needs better ears. To hear the silent majority—not just those with the most time, money, or loud voices—we must move beyond simple meetings to random-sample Citizens’ Juries. Let’s build a methodology that listens to everyone, not just the loudest.

AI Use by the US Government

On 14 April, the Trump administration quietly acknowledged the widespread use of AI to automate government processes. The office of management and budget (OMB) disclosed a staggering 3,611 active or planned use cases for AI across the federal government. The list has ballooned by 70% from the one published in the final year of the Biden administration, and includes many disturbing-seeming plans…

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Bernie Sanders’ AI Sovereign Wealth Fund Plan

Let no one accuse Bernie Sanders of ducking the big questions. Writing in the New York Times last week, the senator asked: “Will the future of humanity be determined by a handful of billionaires who have promoted and developed AI, with virtually no democratic input, who stand to become even richer and more powerful than they are today?”

We agree entirely that this is one of the most potent…

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Dwellings of a Manbaby. 🍼

How Kristen Welker may be the antidote to Trump 2.0 What a way to start off the week: with one that has a temper tantrum. Kristen Welker of Meet the Press had another opportunity to grill Trump and get the truth out of him. Another for she took a jab at him before, during the … Continue reading Dwellings of a Manbaby. 🍼 →

“Anonymity is Important for Democracy — and It’s Also at Risk”: Discussing Online Identity…

“Anonymity is Important for Democracy — and It’s Also at Risk”: Discussing Online Identity Verification as a Threat to People’s Speech and Power at Yale ISP Workshop

A passenger at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, US, scans their ticket at a biometric station to board a flight. Image by US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Photography, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

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Communist China Murders History on 37th Anniversary of Tiananmen Massacre

The Chinese Communist government continued its effort to erase the Tiananmen Square massacre from history on the 37th anniversary of that grim slaughter, ordering families of the dead to stay away from graves of their loved ones and cracking down on any attempt to remember the fallen.

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Chilling Effects

Younger Americans have soured on the second Donald Trump presidency, but they are not protesting it.

Despite an unpopular Iran war and an even more unpopular Trump administration, college campus protests nationwide have gone silent. And at many schools, student activism is virtually nonexistent.

This silence comes in the wake of a relentless Trump administration war on campus speech that has…

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Word of the Week: Fractal Democracy

With our democratic systems collapsing, which includes the dismantling of democratic systems in America, and the surge of far-right populism in Europe, one wonders what will become of democracy- whether it will be replaced by authoritarian rule as we are seeing in China and Russia, or if we will see something totally different that it … Continue reading Word of the Week: Fractal Democracy →

Weaponized non-governance and political impotence

Nothing Is Ever Going Back To Normal by Anya Kamenetz “By ‘normal-feeling’ I mean not utopia, but these two specific beliefs: “There are adults in charge of the most powerful country in the world and they are mostly doing their best “The arc of the moral universe bends toward justice*. Bad things are naturally going to […]

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SPLC

In a stunning burst of hilarity upon the already ludicrous, the US DOJ has sued the SPLC, alleging that for decades it has been paying Right-wing extremists to continue being Right-wing extremists while passing along information to the SPLC. Now we know the secret to their “hacks” and “intelligence” reports: they paid for the information, […]

Digital Hopes, Real Power: The Rise Of Network Shutdowns

Iran’s internet has been intermittently disrupted for months. After years of bombardment, Gaza’s telecommunications infrastructure remains fragile. In India, recurring shutdowns and throttling have become a routine response to protests and unrest, cutting millions off from news, work, and basic services. Across dozens of other countries, governments increasingly treat connectivity itself as…

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