Ethan Zuckerman
Host at Reimagining the Internet
UMass Amherst, Global Voices, Berkman Klein Center. Previously MIT, Geekcorps, Tripod. RT ≠ endorsement, RT = interesting read. He/Him @[email protected]
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2 weeks ago |
prospectmagazine.co.uk | Ethan Zuckerman
Like a lot of middle-aged people, I am on Facebook not so much because I want to be, but because it feels essential to keep up with the minutiae of daily life in my circle of friends and family. Facebook gives me an ambient awareness of what’s going on in the lives of people I don’t see very often: their children’s sporting achievements, who’s been accepted into what colleges, anniversaries and other milestones and—increasingly these days—the deaths of parents and occasionally of friends.
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1 month ago |
ethanzuckerman.com | Ethan Zuckerman
Three days ago, the editor of The Atlantic, a major American news magazine I occasionally write for, revealed that he was inadvertently added to a group chat on the encrypted messaging app Signal, in which plans to bomb Houthi rebels in Yemen were discussed.
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1 month ago |
prospectmagazine.co.uk | Ethan Zuckerman
On 27th January 2025, the stock price of one of the world’s highest-flying companies, Nvidia, fell 17 per cent. The stock ultimately lost almost $600bn in value, a record loss for any publicly traded company in the US. Nvidia makes powerful chips that power generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, which have captured public imagination and many billions in investment.
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1 month ago |
prospectmagazine.co.uk | Ethan Zuckerman
On 27th January 2025, the stock price of one of the world’s highest-flying companies, Nvidia, fell 17 per cent. The stock ultimately lost almost $600bn in value, a record loss for any publicly traded company in the US. Nvidia makes powerful chips that power generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, which have captured public imagination and many billions in investment.
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2 months ago |
prospectmagazine.co.uk | Ethan Zuckerman
Before Elon Musk became the world’s most visible tech entrepreneur, Mark Zuckerberg was the preferred avatar of Silicon Valley. Facebook is the final product to emerge from Zuckerberg’s history of misbehaviour at Harvard University. In 2003, he built Facemash, which scraped photos from the websites of Harvard’s nine “houses” and invited students to rate whether their peers were “hot or not”.
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