benwerd

5,806 karmajoined January 21, 2010On HN

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 ]

Recent submissions

Shopify says AI search is driving more traffic and sales, not replacing Google techcrunch.com
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Sam Altman is ready to decelerate techcrunch.com
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Private healthcare makes industries less innovative. It's time for change werd.io
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People are transcribing your conversations without asking. That puts you at risk werd.io
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China’s open-weights AI strategy is winning werd.io
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We need a PIT Crew for news werd.io
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Former NOAA employees built Climate.us to preserve climate data and resources 19thnews.org
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Communities will build trust for public media. Chicago is taking a leap forward werd.io
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Governance can prevent AI from undermining democracy. But only if it has teeth werd.io
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Happy 250th Birthday, America werd.io
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OpenAI wants to give us 5% of its success. It's a bad bargain werd.io
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I have a theory about AI fake news site The Editorial werd.io
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They tell us surveillance makes us safer. It undermines our democratic rights werd.io
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A right-wing media chain tried to replace 47 newspapers with AI. They all died werd.io
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Empower Others pointc.co
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Journalism is rearranging the deckchairs. It needs to reinvent itself werd.io
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Signs you're a dangerous terrorist: using Signal, moving zines werd.io
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The New Election Threat: Disinformation Inside the Answer willrobinson.substack.com
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More people get their news from social media than anywhere else – globally werd.io
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It's not enough to have better ideals werd.io
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The community-first software era werd.io
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Know Your Point C pointc.co
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Pope Leo XIV says AI must serve humanity, not the powerful few religionnews.com
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Why micropayments can't save news werd.io
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Speed Month – The Reader Meets the Fediverse activitypub.blog
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The Open Social Web Needs Section 230 to Survive techdirt.com
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Product-Shaped or Movement-Shaped?werd.io
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Building with Love, and Paying for It werd.io
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Sustaining innovation has failed us. It's time to think more radically werd.io
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Launching XOXO Explore xoxofest.com
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