Colin Crowell 🔵🦉

Short summary: Guy making argument that only a small handful of companies can be trusted with AI technology to ensure its safe, ethical development has lost the trust of his board over lack of candor. 🤖⤵️

“Some, including possibly Mr. Musk, will be so-called special government employees, a specific category of temporary workers who can only work for the government for 130 days….DOGE itself is now unlikely to incorporate as an organized outside entity or nonprofit.” www.nytimes.com/2025/01/12/u...

Having been through the Clipper Chip debate and the first Crypto Wars in the 90s in the US, we seem to have to repeat this encryption debate every decade or so. The substance of the debate is immutable, only the policymakers who need to learn it change. ⤵️

“To live entirely in the present, to be alive to the sounds and smells and people of each passing moment — this was the joy of the road.” - from “Between the Woods and the Water” by Patrick Leigh Fermor

Pre game #ACK @redsox.com Game 3

Crochet pitched a gem www.bostonglobe.com/2025/09/30/s...

#ACK

“The Giants also took on the remainder of Devers’s contract, approximately $237.7 million through 2033” 🧐 www.bostonglobe.com/2025/06/15/s...

I sat down with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Brody Mullins for our latest episode of the "Winging It" podcast 🔵🦉🎙️ Brody is the co-author of "The Wolves of K Street" and offers an unvarnished look at the forces shaping US democracy. Please give it a listen: open.spotify.com/episode/69Wo...

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It was a delight to chat with @nytceciliakang.bsky.social on the latest episode of the @blueowlgroup.bsky.social “Winging It” podcast. Cecilia and I discussed her career journey as well as her insights on tech policy, AI, and journalism. Hope you give a listen 🙏 🔵🦉 open.spotify.com/episode/5g2s...

Looking at recent #elections in #Canada 🇨🇦 and #Australia 🇦🇺 -- it is difficult to think of other elections outside the U.S. that have been influenced so significantly by current political leadership in the U.S. 🇺🇸, and in ways unintended by that leadership. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/04/w...

In this edition of @blueowlgroup.bsky.socials "Winging It" podcast, Senior Advisors @chch.bsky.social Carlos Cortés and Andrea Barenque discuss the complex challenges of tech policymaking in Latin America. This "Charlas con Charli" version is w/Spanish subtitles. 🔵🦉🇨🇴🇲🇽🤖 youtu.be/51UOAVD3HTc?...