Silicon Valley’s Dream Tech Job Is Disappearing 
Ben Werdmuller
Silicon Valley’s Dream Tech Job Is Disappearing
“We’re seeing right now why tech needs unions.”
Ben Werdmuller
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I lead technology at ProPublica and write speculative fiction. This is a personal account.
Every day, I write about tech, democracy, and society at https://werd.io.
More about me: https://about.werd.io
Trump and the Energy Industry Are Eager to Power AI With Fossil Fuels
Ben Werdmuller
Trump and the Energy Industry Are Eager to Power AI With Fossil Fuels
The Trump administration is using AI as a way to shill fossil fuels. But even for tech companies that don't care about climate change, renewables a...
OpenAI’s gold medal performance on the International Math Olympiad
Ben Werdmuller
OpenAI’s gold medal performance on the International Math Olympiad
OpenAI claims a significant result: gold-level performance International Mathematical Olympiad. But they're scant on details and it needs to be ind...
Microsoft can't protect French data from US government access
Ben Werdmuller
Microsoft can't protect French data from US government access
When vendor promises meet government warrants, the warrants win every time. Microsoft's Senate testimony shows why "trust us" isn't a data protecti...
Senate Votes to Strip $1.1 Billion From Public Broadcasting in Blow to PBS and NPR
Ben Werdmuller
Senate Votes to Strip $1.1 Billion From Public Broadcasting in Blow to PBS and NPR
Without public media funding, local stations will close, creating news deserts and allowing political corruption to thrive.
Welcome to the new Werd I/O 
Ben Werdmuller
Welcome to my new site
I relaunched my website on Ghost. Here's why.
Airlines Don't Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS 
Ben Werdmuller
Airlines Don't Want You to Know They Sold Your Flight Data to DHS
404 Media reports that the country's major airlines are selling passenger data to Customs and Border Protection and ICE.
Bounce lets you move your followers from Bluesky to Mastodon
Ben Werdmuller
Bounce lets you move your followers from Bluesky to Mastodon
[Cameron Faulkner at The Verge]
Bounce is a game-changer for the open social web:
"Bounce is built on the work of Bridgy Fed, which makes your Bl...
The Darkest Day: A fantasy Doctor Who season 
Ben Werdmuller
The Darkest Day: A fantasy Doctor Who season
If I was Doctor Who showrunner ...
