Nice write-up of a good talk by Bollier that I saw at Berkman.
New Zealand's mandatory helmet law doesn't seem to have had the effects people hoped.
Beautiful visualization. Interesting and informative display.
"We should legislate that developing, distributing, or running a program on generally used computing hardware does not constitute patent infringement."
"The Electronic Frontier Foundation announced a new initiative on Tuesday to seek reform of the United States patent system. But conspicuously missing from the list is the most direct and obvious way to solve the problem: exclude software from patent protection altogether."
I pulled this down from ProQuest. https://search.proquest.com/globalnews/docview/1918845555/2876135FA9C243EEPQ/1?accountid=14784
"The Prison Policy Initiative documents the impact of mass incarceration on individuals, communities, and the national welfare in order to empower the public to improve criminal justice policy."
"Upon the demise of LimeWire as a useful client, many people simply stopped using Gnutella altogther."
"The Undersight Board is a generative-AI policy testing system built on LLM-derived personas to allow policy managers, moderation leads, and operations teams to generate, test, and deploy localized community-specific inputs for Trust & Safety policy decision-making. We aim to develop a democratically-trained, model-assisted, and regionally-localized voice of the community system for policy inquiry, development, and evaluation."
"What modern data science is finding is that nearly any type of data can be used, much like a fingerprint, to identify the person who created it: your choice of movies on Netflix, the location signals emitted by your cell phone, even your pattern of walking as recorded by a surveillance camera."
Nice writeup about the Wikimedia public policy initative. It's nice to see that it seems to be taking off reasonably well.
