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. ⤵️

This week marks three decades since #Section230 became law🏛️ 🎉🎂Here is my first-hand account of how it became law, which i wrote on the 25th anniversary of the Telecommunications Act of 1996 colincrowell.medium.com/reflections-... #TechPolicy #CDA230

Can the U.S. Congress do for AI policy🤖 what it did for the early Internet? Shared my reflections on the 30th anniversary of the law that built the Internet here👇 www.blueowlgrp.com/latest/the-l... #Section230 #ERATE #CDA230

New "Winging It" podcast: @nxthompson.bsky.social, CEO of @theatlantic.com, on how discovering his potential as a distance runner in his 40s changed how he thinks about limits — & how that discipline shapes his approach to leadership in the AI era🤖 🎙️Listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/3vlQ...

It was a delight to have you! Great insights! Let’s do it again sometime 🙏

🎙️New Winging It podcast episode from is out - here's our latest convo with @mcfaulmike.bsky.social - former U.S. Amb to Russia, Stanford professor, & author of the new book "Autocrats vs. Democrats: China, Russia, America, and the New Global Disorder." 🎧 Link here: open.spotify.com/episode/5OM0...

🎧 New on Winging It: I talk with Prof Tim Wu @superwuster.bsky.social, author of the new book "The Age of Extraction" — how the Internet went from great promise to an extraction dynamic, what it means for #AI policy, & how to build a fairer digital economy.🤖 Link: open.spotify.com/episode/0ZL5...

“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...

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