And with that, #mozfest 2025 is officially over.

An insanely intense but beautiful few days. Thankful for incredible colleagues and this community, who make it all worth it in the end 💗🙏🏽

Now, we rest!!

@mozilla.org #mozillafestival #mozfest2025

Hey from Barcelona, where we are SO READY for you at @mozilla.org Festival 2025! 🇪🇸

Join us alongside 2000+ from across the globe, 500+ session hosts, 275+ sessions/installations/experiences - all centered around creating a better tech future that puts people first #mozfest #mozillafestival

I wrote a piece for the State of AI Ethics Report Vol. 7, published by @mtlaiethics.bsky.social 🌍

For my piece, I married my grassroots work in civic engagement w/ current work in AI: "Reinforcing the Feedback Loop: How AI in Elections Deepens Democratic Inequities."

Read: montrealethics.ai

Mozilla Festival 2025 is Nov 7-9 in Barcelona w/ 500+ session hosts, 200+ experiences, talks, labs, forums, film screenings, & installations.

Keynotes @xychelsea.tv @audreyt.org @ruha9.bsky.social

If you haven't gotten your festival badge, use code MOZSEHER 🎟️ @mozilla.org www.mozillafestival.org

In 2022, I decided to make a big switch into the tech sector, eventually landing at @mozilla.org. It was not easy!

I was invited to speak on a podcast about my career journey, switching sectors, as well as my thoughts on AI regulation, among other things!

Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/1JZt...

@mozilla.org is looking for artists, technologists, and innovators to lead sessions at #MozillaFestival!

Submit your idea by May 21 and join us!

📍Barcelona
🗓️ Nov 7–9
🔗mzl.la/cfp
#mozfest

If you're following #elxn45 in Canada, here's where the English language debate will be streamed tonight at 7pm EST #cdnpoli #cdnelection

An interesting conversation on AI, democracy, and public good this morning at @dxcsummit.bsky.social

Just because big tech companies aren't based in Canada, doesn't mean there isn't a real and urgent need for robust public engagement on AI regulation and digital/AI literacy

#DXC25

Closing at @rightscon.org focused on funding crisis re: USAID

$233 billion was given in foreign aid in 2023

2025 cuts are $78 billion

‼️1/3 funding gone overnight

This is not a gap that philanthropy can fill. The sector is facing a funding crisis that'll require new strategies.

#rightscon2025

Great session @thraets.org on GenAI in 2024 elections

* Humans can't anymore detect what's not real - models getting better
* At same time: AI-ification of longstanding problems = marketing opp - may SEEM AI is problem more than it is
* AI makes mistake b/c humans make mistakes

#rightscon2025

If you're at #RightsCon2025 @rightscon.org come check out our @mozilla.org booth by room 201C!

We're spotlighting our Common Voice project: a free, open source platform for community-led data creation with a focus on uplifting languages under-represented in LLMs

More: commonvoice.mozilla.org/en

Great pieces in this session from @mila-quebec.bsky.social

How does a western scientist cut a cake? Horizontally – one layer evenly.

Indigenous knowledge cuts vertically - across all domains -"humans, earth, sea, and the people".

Need to look at AI systems in this holistic way.

#RightsCon2025

Great session on Algorithmic transparency & tech in global majority governments @rightscon.org

Companies that build AI are based in global North. They use big wallets to lobby for policies friendly to them. Fear of AI regulation means they frame this as "pro-innovation" policy

#RightsCon2025

Hi from Taipei -- here for @rightscon.org 🇹🇼

Join @mozilla.org MozFest colleagues Mon Feb 24 at 9am for an interactive session on digital governance --how to balance human connection alongside privacy and fairness online?

Reg link: mozillafoundation.tfaforms.net/117