Joseph Jerome
@joejerome.com
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Joseph Jerome
@joejerome.com
· Oct 27
Inside DuckDuckGo - can privacy win the browser wars?
Podcast Episode · Future Media w/ Ricky Sutton and Chapell · 10/22/2025 · 47m
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Humble brag: excited to join the line-up of guests that @rickysutton.bsky.social and Alan Chapell have had on the Future Media Podcast to talk about AI, competition, surveillance, and where the browser fits in: podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
Gotta love how the “social network” has just given up prioritizing real people.
This is 100% preparing to push Content Provenance tooling on to average users in order to extract even more data so that your photos don't get labeled as AI. He talks about cryptographic signing, but Insta will be requiring the keys, I'm sure.
The Slopocalypse
December 31, 2025 at 11:30 PM
Gotta love how the “social network” has just given up prioritizing real people.
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This is 100% preparing to push Content Provenance tooling on to average users in order to extract even more data so that your photos don't get labeled as AI. He talks about cryptographic signing, but Insta will be requiring the keys, I'm sure.
December 31, 2025 at 11:26 PM
This is 100% preparing to push Content Provenance tooling on to average users in order to extract even more data so that your photos don't get labeled as AI. He talks about cryptographic signing, but Insta will be requiring the keys, I'm sure.
Finally realized who the tech oligarchs remind me of!
December 29, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Finally realized who the tech oligarchs remind me of!
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The NFL getting three garbage games on Christmas is exactly what the NFL deserves for holding three games on Christmas
December 26, 2025 at 2:48 AM
The NFL getting three garbage games on Christmas is exactly what the NFL deserves for holding three games on Christmas
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It’s time. Happy Christmas Eve y’all. 🍿🎄
December 25, 2025 at 1:10 AM
It’s time. Happy Christmas Eve y’all. 🍿🎄
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Again: y’all need to make up your minds about whether technology is good or bad for students! Right now the journalistic perspective seems to be just a reflexive opposition to any policy in any direction or any reason. It’s not helpful and it destroys trust 😡
Does anyone else bristle at this framing? WSJ says blue books are “torturing” students with hand cramps, and “nobody likes them.”
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
Listen, students have been outsourcing everything to AI and cheating their way through college. Blue books should be celebrated as a return to authentic human learning.
They Were Every Student’s Worst Nightmare. Now Blue Books Are Back.
Cheating with ChatGPT has become a huge problem for colleges. The solution is painfully old-school.
www.wsj.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:33 PM
Again: y’all need to make up your minds about whether technology is good or bad for students! Right now the journalistic perspective seems to be just a reflexive opposition to any policy in any direction or any reason. It’s not helpful and it destroys trust 😡
When Meta became Meta, it kicked off a $50 million round of funding for research in how to make the metaverse not suck. www.vice.com/en/article/f...
December 21, 2025 at 3:48 AM
When Meta became Meta, it kicked off a $50 million round of funding for research in how to make the metaverse not suck. www.vice.com/en/article/f...
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The Google crawling advantage in one image:
December 18, 2025 at 9:43 AM
The Google crawling advantage in one image:
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This is, of course, always where this was headed. Things will only get worse as facial recognition becomes normalized unless lawmakers ban it outright. Next up: precautionary facial surveillance of everyone, all the time, just in case (with guardrails that will also eventually be rolled back).
Dallas PD to expand use of Clearview “to Class B misdemeanors and above, which means it could use facial recognition for crimes like theft and trespassing.”
Dallas Police to expand controversial facial recognition tech to less serious crimes
The use of the tech is currently reserved for serious felonies like murder, kidnapping and rape. Now it could be used for porch pirates.
www.wfaa.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:37 PM
This is, of course, always where this was headed. Things will only get worse as facial recognition becomes normalized unless lawmakers ban it outright. Next up: precautionary facial surveillance of everyone, all the time, just in case (with guardrails that will also eventually be rolled back).
It me!
Duck Tales 🎬 A behind-the-scenes look at DuckDuckGo
Ep.13: DuckDuckGo Donations — why we've donated more than $8M to organizations that align with our vision, and what causes we support.
Full episode: insideduckduckgo.substack.com/p/duck-tales... | 'Inside DuckDuckGo' on Spotify
Ep.13: DuckDuckGo Donations — why we've donated more than $8M to organizations that align with our vision, and what causes we support.
Full episode: insideduckduckgo.substack.com/p/duck-tales... | 'Inside DuckDuckGo' on Spotify
December 17, 2025 at 6:39 PM
It me!
If you don’t want companies sharing your search terms, give DuckDuckGo a try!
December 17, 2025 at 12:06 AM
If you don’t want companies sharing your search terms, give DuckDuckGo a try!
Bad headline. Society may not have been ready, but for social media companies, this situation is entirely by design.
Just to be clear: if 'no one was ready' a lot of people fucked up, bc those of us who work on this laid out what was going to happen 8yrs ago.
The twofold issue that 1)it's not just a tech problem, and 2) Big Tech allowed itself to be ref-worked into spinelessness.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/t...
The twofold issue that 1)it's not just a tech problem, and 2) Big Tech allowed itself to be ref-worked into spinelessness.
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/08/t...
A.I. Videos Have Flooded Social Media. No One Was Ready.
www.nytimes.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:39 AM
Bad headline. Society may not have been ready, but for social media companies, this situation is entirely by design.
I get the Packers’ losses have all been close, but this team seems lucky to have nine wins. Just looks inconsistent and often mediocre. #Packers #GoPackGo?
a green bay packers player laying on the field
ALT: a green bay packers player laying on the field
media.tenor.com
December 14, 2025 at 11:44 PM
“We had been ditched by venture capitalists. They were interested in the metaverse and applications that could quickly scale.”
A Gaming Tour de Force That Is Very, Very French
www.nytimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:19 AM
“We had been ditched by venture capitalists. They were interested in the metaverse and applications that could quickly scale.”
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linkedin job history
Chief AI Officer Dec. 2024- Present
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Chief NFT Officer Feb. 2023 - Dec. 2024
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Chief Metaverse Officer Jun. 2022 - Feb. 2023
Chief AI Officer Dec. 2024- Present
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Chief NFT Officer Feb. 2023 - Dec. 2024
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Chief Metaverse Officer Jun. 2022 - Feb. 2023
December 11, 2025 at 10:28 PM
linkedin job history
Chief AI Officer Dec. 2024- Present
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Chief NFT Officer Feb. 2023 - Dec. 2024
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Chief Metaverse Officer Jun. 2022 - Feb. 2023
Chief AI Officer Dec. 2024- Present
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Chief NFT Officer Feb. 2023 - Dec. 2024
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Chief Metaverse Officer Jun. 2022 - Feb. 2023
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We’re deeply honored that HADES II is in the running for Game of the Year and more at #TheGameAwards tonight, especially since we’re in the company of such an amazing group of wildly different and beautiful games.
Congratulations to all our fellow nominees — we salute you!! 🙏👏
Congratulations to all our fellow nominees — we salute you!! 🙏👏
December 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
We’re deeply honored that HADES II is in the running for Game of the Year and more at #TheGameAwards tonight, especially since we’re in the company of such an amazing group of wildly different and beautiful games.
Congratulations to all our fellow nominees — we salute you!! 🙏👏
Congratulations to all our fellow nominees — we salute you!! 🙏👏
Never was prouder to be a BU alum and more disappointed in @bostonu.bsky.social than when the administration criticized graduates from booing his commencement speech. www.bu.edu/articles/202...
December 11, 2025 at 1:48 AM
Never was prouder to be a BU alum and more disappointed in @bostonu.bsky.social than when the administration criticized graduates from booing his commencement speech. www.bu.edu/articles/202...
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So, from sheer burnout, I’ve recently taken a step back from writing a lot about surveillance, which was my primary focus for a good 15 years. But I found myself today mulling some of the debates I had with proponents of robust surveillance powers, and their core argument usually came down to this:
December 9, 2025 at 11:29 PM
So, from sheer burnout, I’ve recently taken a step back from writing a lot about surveillance, which was my primary focus for a good 15 years. But I found myself today mulling some of the debates I had with proponents of robust surveillance powers, and their core argument usually came down to this:
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Guido van Rossum invented Python, the programming language in which ChatGPT is written, based on ABC, based on Fortran, based on Speedcoding, based on Harvard Mark I, based on the Difference Engine, based on the Antikythera mechanism, based on the planetarium of Archimedes, who did not need ChatGPT.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?"
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
December 9, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Guido van Rossum invented Python, the programming language in which ChatGPT is written, based on ABC, based on Fortran, based on Speedcoding, based on Harvard Mark I, based on the Difference Engine, based on the Antikythera mechanism, based on the planetarium of Archimedes, who did not need ChatGPT.
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I’m glad there’s a discussion of EA in here. It’s a bigger deal than you might realize. Four years ago, @joejerome.com and I wrote about invasive surveillance using video games in terms of hypermonetization, but it is also a national security and user privacy issue as well.
December 7, 2025 at 1:08 PM
I’m glad there’s a discussion of EA in here. It’s a bigger deal than you might realize. Four years ago, @joejerome.com and I wrote about invasive surveillance using video games in terms of hypermonetization, but it is also a national security and user privacy issue as well.
There are some mild improvements, some insane timelines, and limited likelihood that this thing is actually going to end Google’s monopoly.
December 6, 2025 at 4:16 AM
There are some mild improvements, some insane timelines, and limited likelihood that this thing is actually going to end Google’s monopoly.
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Google's crawler for search and Gemini training sees 3.2 times more web data than OpenAI's crawler and even more than Microsoft and others, according to Cloudflare's Matthew Price revealing the new stat at @wired.com's #WIREDBigInterview event.
He chalks that up to why Gemini is improving.
He chalks that up to why Gemini is improving.
December 4, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Google's crawler for search and Gemini training sees 3.2 times more web data than OpenAI's crawler and even more than Microsoft and others, according to Cloudflare's Matthew Price revealing the new stat at @wired.com's #WIREDBigInterview event.
He chalks that up to why Gemini is improving.
He chalks that up to why Gemini is improving.
As one does with endless consent forms, I raced to click accept…on letting a bunch of adtech data brokers use medical information to target me with ads. I will never understand why this society tolerates this. Does anyone want to be marketed to based on their healthcare history?
December 4, 2025 at 9:52 PM
As one does with endless consent forms, I raced to click accept…on letting a bunch of adtech data brokers use medical information to target me with ads. I will never understand why this society tolerates this. Does anyone want to be marketed to based on their healthcare history?
"Without adequate regulation, AI companies will be free to pursue the goals they deem necessary for growth. As we’ve seen, these innovations will likely be at the expense of the people using their tools.”
Truth from @proton.me's Christine Bannan: proton.me/blog/ai-regu...
Truth from @proton.me's Christine Bannan: proton.me/blog/ai-regu...
The US is on a dangerous course without AI regulation | Proton
An executive order creating federal regulation for AI in the US could have ramifications for the privacy of citizens: Find out how to protect yourself
proton.me
December 3, 2025 at 9:37 PM
"Without adequate regulation, AI companies will be free to pursue the goals they deem necessary for growth. As we’ve seen, these innovations will likely be at the expense of the people using their tools.”
Truth from @proton.me's Christine Bannan: proton.me/blog/ai-regu...
Truth from @proton.me's Christine Bannan: proton.me/blog/ai-regu...