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🎛️📲 Meet the algorithm you can actually control and understand (opens the original)
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Meta has been saying for years that making its social media apps meaningfully safer and less toxic would break their products. And yet, when facing almost all of the states’ Attorneys General, they agreed to a suite of new features and settings for teens.Maybe this stuff is far more plastic and changeable than we all thought. So why should the companies get to decide how you experience these apps?We find ourselves in a moment where
Bulletin Board: Entrepreneur in Residence, fall classes, and ghost posting (opens the original)
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Welcome back to New_ Public’s Bulletin Board, where we share the best of what the prosocial internet has to offer and build connections among technologists, builders, funders, designers, engineers, researchers, community leaders, and anyone else who wants to make the web more public-spirited and healthy. ✨We hope you had a good summer ☀️ — now we’re in “back to school” mode and change is in the air. Let’s go! 🍂<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetc
📅💡🧪 What if you had three months to test your best idea? (opens the original)
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Read the Nieman Lab article announcing our partnership with Chicago Public Media to bring Roundabout to Chicago!Big things are happening around here. Public Spaces Incubator, our partnership with public service media organizations, is reaching new levels of collaboration and implementation. Meanwhile
Bulletin Board: Cloud Atlas, Portland, and Small AI (opens the original)
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Welcome back to New_ Public’s Bulletin Board, where we share the best of what the prosocial internet has to offer and build connections among technologists, builders, funders, designers, engineers, researchers, community leaders, and anyone else who wants to make the web more public-spirited and healthy. ✨This month’s Bulletin Board meanders across different approaches to AI, new research resources and opportunities, and local communities — both IRL and online. We encourage wandering: it’s how y
⁉️⏩💬 How public broadcasters are changing online conversation (opens the original)
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This week, an update on the Public Spaces Incubator project from Catherine Tait, Expert-In-Residence at New_ Public and one of the key originators and boosters of the project. Here’s some key background on PSI, and a deep dive into its design process.PSI’s robus
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