LX Cast
@lxcast.bsky.social
Mostly water and bacteria, stardust, an emergent invention. Tech product & research. Social engineer, belonging-centred, collective practitioner. Experimental, curious, Canadian, contradictory, vegan (except for brownies), consultant, contributor.
Event alert! Folk Tech is a movement among people who want tech for their community without depending on big tech companies, and an alliance of developers making decentralized, p2p, open source, open standard-based tech.
November 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Event alert! Folk Tech is a movement among people who want tech for their community without depending on big tech companies, and an alliance of developers making decentralized, p2p, open source, open standard-based tech.
Feeling crushing FOMO I’m not in Taipei right now 🌏
February 23, 2025 at 11:39 PM
Feeling crushing FOMO I’m not in Taipei right now 🌏
Is it just me or does this lady look like she is about to eat someone?
February 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Is it just me or does this lady look like she is about to eat someone?
Next Q: what are the AI safety implications of an AI model trained in this USA
January 31, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Next Q: what are the AI safety implications of an AI model trained in this USA
American Journalism 2025 by @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social
January 29, 2025 at 7:37 PM
American Journalism 2025 by @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social
Those crazy Harvard students seem to love accidentally creating surveillance states www.linkedin.com/posts/a-bank...?
Alex Banks on LinkedIn: Two Harvard students created I-XRAY.
It exposes your personal data in… | 175 comments
Two Harvard students created I-XRAY.
It exposes your personal data in public:
AnhPhu Nguyen and Caine Ardayfio connected Meta’s Ray-Ban smart glasses to a… | 175 comments on LinkedIn
www.linkedin.com
January 28, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Those crazy Harvard students seem to love accidentally creating surveillance states www.linkedin.com/posts/a-bank...?
Administration pausing all funding to nonprofits. Next step: rewrite the criteria for nonprofit status itself? thenonprofittimes.com/npt_articles...
Breaking: Trump To Pause Federal Funding, Grants - The NonProfit Times
The Trump administration has ordered all federal grants and loans be stopped by 5 p.m. tonight, even if the money was already part of federal legislation which can’t be rescinded by order of the execu...
thenonprofittimes.com
January 28, 2025 at 5:44 PM
Administration pausing all funding to nonprofits. Next step: rewrite the criteria for nonprofit status itself? thenonprofittimes.com/npt_articles...
There's this thing where the same people keep saying they have an amazing way that a zillion dollars are about to be made and we need to change all the rules to support it and then weirdly the only thing changing is the percentage of global wealth in their hands?
January 27, 2025 at 10:13 PM
There's this thing where the same people keep saying they have an amazing way that a zillion dollars are about to be made and we need to change all the rules to support it and then weirdly the only thing changing is the percentage of global wealth in their hands?
This week, @bonnittaroy.bsky.social posed a key question- why are zillions of dollars being thrown at AI at this moment? Hint: it's not because of its broad-based usefulness and possible positive impact on our future wellbeing.
January 19, 2025 at 7:10 PM
This week, @bonnittaroy.bsky.social posed a key question- why are zillions of dollars being thrown at AI at this moment? Hint: it's not because of its broad-based usefulness and possible positive impact on our future wellbeing.
*Maybe* 'China' is thinking about selling TikTok to Musk 🫠, but @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social suggests "American users, like our politicians, incorrectly believe that TikTok needs them."
www.garbageday.email/p/tiktok-doe...
www.garbageday.email/p/tiktok-doe...
TikTok doesn't need America
Read to the end for some good vocal fry
www.garbageday.email
January 14, 2025 at 1:08 AM
*Maybe* 'China' is thinking about selling TikTok to Musk 🫠, but @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social suggests "American users, like our politicians, incorrectly believe that TikTok needs them."
www.garbageday.email/p/tiktok-doe...
www.garbageday.email/p/tiktok-doe...
Remember when people said a "business case" was a viable strategy to influence companies towards ethical behaviour?
a man with a beard and mustache is sitting in a kitchen looking down .
ALT: a man with a beard and mustache is sitting in a kitchen looking down .
media.tenor.com
January 13, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Remember when people said a "business case" was a viable strategy to influence companies towards ethical behaviour?
I really don't miss social media actually
January 13, 2025 at 12:58 AM
I really don't miss social media actually
Installed @mozilla.ai Orbit. Discovered that, funnily enough, Orbit does not work on Orbit's own Privacy Policy page. 🧐
December 31, 2024 at 6:24 PM
Installed @mozilla.ai Orbit. Discovered that, funnily enough, Orbit does not work on Orbit's own Privacy Policy page. 🧐
Wait there is a DOG(e) named Krypto and a hilarious british Lex Luthor? Seems like 2025 is going to be on the same metro line we got on this year without looking at the map
December 20, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Wait there is a DOG(e) named Krypto and a hilarious british Lex Luthor? Seems like 2025 is going to be on the same metro line we got on this year without looking at the map
Reposted by LX Cast
Inside a new initiative to lend cybersecurity volunteers to organizations that need it most
via @timstarks.bsky.social
#CyberCivilDefense
cyberscoop.com/cyber-resili...
via @timstarks.bsky.social
#CyberCivilDefense
cyberscoop.com/cyber-resili...
Inside a new initiative to lend cybersecurity volunteers to organizations that need it most
The idea behind the initiative, details of which CyberScoop is first reporting, is that too much cyber expertise doing volunteer work is uncoordinated.
cyberscoop.com
December 4, 2024 at 6:46 PM
Soil for thought youtu.be/gjy5s2_fyXs?...
Upward spirals, lessons from nature: Paul Krafel at TEDxRedding
In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self-organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x = independently organized TED event. The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)
youtu.be
June 5, 2024 at 5:37 PM
Soil for thought youtu.be/gjy5s2_fyXs?...
Please stop saying things like "there's nothing inherently wrong with technology." It's true, but it centres the wrong thing.
May 23, 2024 at 9:06 PM
Please stop saying things like "there's nothing inherently wrong with technology." It's true, but it centres the wrong thing.
To make ethical technology, we need to collaborate with the people we serve. Story-based interviewing is one method. open.substack.com/pub/changema...
And... what happened next?
How to conduct story-based interviews and ditch the script.
open.substack.com
January 5, 2024 at 9:13 PM
To make ethical technology, we need to collaborate with the people we serve. Story-based interviewing is one method. open.substack.com/pub/changema...
If we had been strategic we would have moved to ban companies from profiting on AI models trained on public data. But how about re-colonising indigenous languages? Or maybe it's white-saving them? blog.papareo.nz/whisper-is-a...
OpenAI's Whisper is another case study in Colonisation
Whisper, a speech recognition model trained on 680,000 hours of audio taken from the web, demonstrates the problems with Big Tech and data theft.
blog.papareo.nz
January 4, 2024 at 12:09 AM
If we had been strategic we would have moved to ban companies from profiting on AI models trained on public data. But how about re-colonising indigenous languages? Or maybe it's white-saving them? blog.papareo.nz/whisper-is-a...