Cori Crider
@coricrider.com
Executive Director, Future of Tech Institute, Acting ED, Tech@Meliore. Hon. Prof. UCL Laws. Fellow, Open Markets. Before: Foxglove, Reprieve.
https://futureinstitute.tech/about-us
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Cori Crider
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Big week in Berlin for FoTI with two events we’ve put on - our small cloud roundtable x KAS x @openmarkets.bsky.social and the very big and open #Euroskylive.
In town for the sovereignty summit? Come say hi 👋 🤓
In town for the sovereignty summit? Come say hi 👋 🤓
Big week in Berlin for FoTI with two events we’ve put on - our small cloud roundtable x KAS x @openmarkets.bsky.social and the very big and open #Euroskylive.
In town for the sovereignty summit? Come say hi 👋 🤓
In town for the sovereignty summit? Come say hi 👋 🤓
November 17, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Big week in Berlin for FoTI with two events we’ve put on - our small cloud roundtable x KAS x @openmarkets.bsky.social and the very big and open #Euroskylive.
In town for the sovereignty summit? Come say hi 👋 🤓
In town for the sovereignty summit? Come say hi 👋 🤓
Pope Leo vs Shrimp Jesus and slop writ large. Love this song
November 17, 2025 at 6:28 AM
Pope Leo vs Shrimp Jesus and slop writ large. Love this song
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This week Open AI walked back a call for the govt to backstop financing for its trillion dollar investments in data centers. This was only the tip of the iceberg; a slow bailout for AI firms is already underway. Read more from @ambakak.bsky.social and I in @wsj.com: www.wsj.com/opinion/you-...
Opinion | You May Already Be Bailing Out the AI Business
Washington is treating the industry as if it’s too big to fail, even as the market sends lukewarm signals.
www.wsj.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:56 PM
This week Open AI walked back a call for the govt to backstop financing for its trillion dollar investments in data centers. This was only the tip of the iceberg; a slow bailout for AI firms is already underway. Read more from @ambakak.bsky.social and I in @wsj.com: www.wsj.com/opinion/you-...
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a “Space Force”, if you will
November 13, 2025 at 2:27 PM
a “Space Force”, if you will
Great setting for a mad max sequel, IMO
Data-center projects that “may sit empty for years because the local utility isn’t ready to supply electricity.”
@bloomberg.com @weisenthal.bsky.social $NVDA
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
@bloomberg.com @weisenthal.bsky.social $NVDA
www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
November 10, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Great setting for a mad max sequel, IMO
🔴Project 2025, Europe Edition - one to keep a beady little 👀on (including but by no means only re the tech enforcement wars)
The Heritage Foundation, the intellectual engine behind the 922-page blueprint that has become the key policy manual for Donald Trump’s second term, is partnering with a constellation of European nationalist far-right movements to export its playbook.
The Heritage Foundation goes from MAGA to MEGA — Make Europe Great Again
On the agenda: pro-natalism, freedom of expression, opposing trans rights and fighting Chinese influence.
www.politico.eu
November 10, 2025 at 9:20 AM
🔴Project 2025, Europe Edition - one to keep a beady little 👀on (including but by no means only re the tech enforcement wars)
I'll try and find time to sprinkle some memes (and outtakes) from @robin.berjon.com's and my talk if you didn't make it to the FAR END of montjuic this morning:
November 7, 2025 at 1:28 PM
I'll try and find time to sprinkle some memes (and outtakes) from @robin.berjon.com's and my talk if you didn't make it to the FAR END of montjuic this morning:
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“We conduct the largest pretraining poisoning experiments to date, pretraining models from 600M to 13B parameters on chinchilla-optimal datasets (6B to 260B tokens). We find that 250 poisoned documents similarly compromise models across all model and dataset sizes…”
arxiv.org/abs/2510.07192
arxiv.org/abs/2510.07192
Poisoning Attacks on LLMs Require a Near-constant Number of Poison Samples
Poisoning attacks can compromise the safety of large language models (LLMs) by injecting malicious documents into their training data. Existing work has studied pretraining poisoning assuming adversar...
arxiv.org
November 7, 2025 at 12:39 PM
“We conduct the largest pretraining poisoning experiments to date, pretraining models from 600M to 13B parameters on chinchilla-optimal datasets (6B to 260B tokens). We find that 250 poisoned documents similarly compromise models across all model and dataset sizes…”
arxiv.org/abs/2510.07192
arxiv.org/abs/2510.07192
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A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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November 6, 2025 at 8:43 PM
A List of Things Said to Have Been Ruined by Women
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Three Moves to Stop Broligarchy (Break, Build, Enforce) by
Cori Crider and Robin Berjon
mzf.st/15
hands down one of the most refreshing talks at MozFest
Cori Crider and Robin Berjon
mzf.st/15
hands down one of the most refreshing talks at MozFest
November 7, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Three Moves to Stop Broligarchy (Break, Build, Enforce) by
Cori Crider and Robin Berjon
mzf.st/15
hands down one of the most refreshing talks at MozFest
Cori Crider and Robin Berjon
mzf.st/15
hands down one of the most refreshing talks at MozFest
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"If we let the bad people get a trillion dollars a year that we're not getting, they're going to kick our ass every single time": @robin.berjon.com's case in a #MozFest talk with @coricrider.com for breaking Google's hold on the digital-advertising market--which EU regulators seem poised to do.
November 7, 2025 at 9:25 AM
"If we let the bad people get a trillion dollars a year that we're not getting, they're going to kick our ass every single time": @robin.berjon.com's case in a #MozFest talk with @coricrider.com for breaking Google's hold on the digital-advertising market--which EU regulators seem poised to do.
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Great start to my first mozfest with @robin.berjon.com and @coricrider.com talking about how to break, build and enforce new digital infrastructure for democratic societies
November 7, 2025 at 9:38 AM
Great start to my first mozfest with @robin.berjon.com and @coricrider.com talking about how to break, build and enforce new digital infrastructure for democratic societies
Here we go
BREAKING: OpenAI is requesting US government support to help guarantee financing for the massive investments in AI chips and data centers it needs for expansion, per Bloomberg.
November 6, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Here we go
That is, indeed, a Big Short.
November 4, 2025 at 9:58 PM
That is, indeed, a Big Short.
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November 3, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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I literally just yesterday listened to a lobbyist say “we are totally domiciling your data locally , just how you like it.” while the locals were like “ #digitalSovereignty means no one can accidentally or intentionally turn our [stuff] off.”
"There are more tech lobbyists than MEPs."
Live from Brussels:
(It's a good study. Check it out.)
Live from Brussels:
(It's a good study. Check it out.)
October 29, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I literally just yesterday listened to a lobbyist say “we are totally domiciling your data locally , just how you like it.” while the locals were like “ #digitalSovereignty means no one can accidentally or intentionally turn our [stuff] off.”
"There are more tech lobbyists than MEPs."
Live from Brussels:
(It's a good study. Check it out.)
Live from Brussels:
(It's a good study. Check it out.)
October 29, 2025 at 4:10 PM
"There are more tech lobbyists than MEPs."
Live from Brussels:
(It's a good study. Check it out.)
Live from Brussels:
(It's a good study. Check it out.)
Cool to see @financialtimes.com getting into explainers!
Chatted with @johnreedwrites.ft.com on the AWS blackout and the risks of banking our futures on cloud monopoly. Also feat. the redoubtable @maxvonthun.bsky.social:
www.ft.com/content/ad45...
Chatted with @johnreedwrites.ft.com on the AWS blackout and the risks of banking our futures on cloud monopoly. Also feat. the redoubtable @maxvonthun.bsky.social:
www.ft.com/content/ad45...
What makes us so vulnerable to cloud computing outages?
Amazon’s recent issue highlights how dependent the internet is on a handful of US Big Tech groups
www.ft.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Cool to see @financialtimes.com getting into explainers!
Chatted with @johnreedwrites.ft.com on the AWS blackout and the risks of banking our futures on cloud monopoly. Also feat. the redoubtable @maxvonthun.bsky.social:
www.ft.com/content/ad45...
Chatted with @johnreedwrites.ft.com on the AWS blackout and the risks of banking our futures on cloud monopoly. Also feat. the redoubtable @maxvonthun.bsky.social:
www.ft.com/content/ad45...
Or perhaps the campaign will pull a move like @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social did at the end of his (very funny, don't sleep on it!) special, and film him getting it covered up?
you know it is not at all difficult to acknowledge the legitimate concerns about the tattoo and still make a case for the candidate. but this would require maturity, a perspective outside ones own and a willingness to lose a little face, which means it won’t happen.
“Let him among you who is without a Nazi tattoo cast the first stone.” -The Bible
October 22, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Or perhaps the campaign will pull a move like @gianmarcosoresi.bsky.social did at the end of his (very funny, don't sleep on it!) special, and film him getting it covered up?
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Canvas, the course management platform used by my university (and many others), has been down all day due to the AWS outage. It has prompted some good discussions about how much critical infrastructure is now outsourced to a few companies.
Amazon Web Services outage shows internet users ‘at mercy’ of too few providers, experts say
Amazon Web Services outage shows internet users ‘at mercy’ of too few providers, experts say
Crash that hit apps and websites around world demonstrates ‘urgent need for diversification in cloud computing’
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Business live – latest updates
Experts have warned of the perils of relying on a small number of companies for operating the global internet after a glitch at Amazon’s cloud computing service brought down apps and websites around the world.
The affected platforms included Snapchat, Roblox, Signal and Duolingo as well as a host of Amazon-owned operations including its main retail site and the Ring doorbell company. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Canvas, the course management platform used by my university (and many others), has been down all day due to the AWS outage. It has prompted some good discussions about how much critical infrastructure is now outsourced to a few companies.
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Relevant debate today in the European Parliament on how free, independent and reliable media are key tools to foster sound debates and enrich our democracy.
Relevant debate today in the European Parliament on how free, independent and reliable media are key tools to foster sound debates and enrich our democracy.
October 20, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Relevant debate today in the European Parliament on how free, independent and reliable media are key tools to foster sound debates and enrich our democracy.
Relevant debate today in the European Parliament on how free, independent and reliable media are key tools to foster sound debates and enrich our democracy.
📺 UK folks, I'll (apparently) be on BBC News around 10PM talking about the AWS outage and the risks to our security and resilience from banking our economy on a handful of cloud monopolies:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC News - BBC News at Ten, 20/10/2025
The latest national and international news from the BBC.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 20, 2025 at 7:33 PM
📺 UK folks, I'll (apparently) be on BBC News around 10PM talking about the AWS outage and the risks to our security and resilience from banking our economy on a handful of cloud monopolies:
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
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Early morning mist by the River Balgy.
October 17, 2025 at 3:59 AM
Early morning mist by the River Balgy.
Vestager at the @openmarkets.bsky.social / @article19.bsky.social free speech conference on Brussels makes the point that laws are 'promises made to the voters', and that enforcing the law says that 'keeping the promises you make to voters is your first priority'.
October 15, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Vestager at the @openmarkets.bsky.social / @article19.bsky.social free speech conference on Brussels makes the point that laws are 'promises made to the voters', and that enforcing the law says that 'keeping the promises you make to voters is your first priority'.
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09:30. The tops of the Torridon Hills.
October 12, 2025 at 8:48 AM
09:30. The tops of the Torridon Hills.