Joanna Bryson, blathering

@j2bryson
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I'm an academic, proud to work in a policy school, but still sometimes longing to return to natural science and/or programming again. Or maybe art? This Mastodon account is more personal than professional; my more professional one is bridged here https://mastodon.social/@j2bryson.bsky[email protected] Blogpost on my social media policy, linking yet more accounts: https://joanna-bryson.blogspot.com/2024/10/guidance-to-my-social-media.html Increasingly reading physical books again too.
PositionProfessor of Ethics and Technology, Centre for Digital Governance, Hertie School, Berlin
ExpertiseArtificial & natural intelligence, culture, cooperation, evolution (behavioural ecology),
Expertise (cont.)technology policy, competition/antitrust, and (digital) governance
Websitehttps://www.joannajbryson.org/
Ami Fields-Meyer (@fieldsmeyer.com)

A reminder that as our normal lives proceed apace, the horrors in Darfur mount without so much as an organized campaign or even a protest from most corners of the progressive movement. The UN has said these events bear the “hallmarks of genocide.” https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/22/world/africa/sudan-hospital-darfur-attack.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

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Nahal Toosi (@nahaltoosi.bsky.social)

I'm not sure I'll ever get over this quote from Trump today: "In Trump time, a day, you know what it is? It's an eternity."

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Tim Crane (@timcrane.bsky.social)

An absolutely devastating account of part of what is going on in Sudan. The RSF apparently funded by the UAE, where people go for sunny holidays ... (until recently anyway) https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/mar/25/heroism-horror-and-the-pits-of-hell-inside-the-last-days-of-el-fasher

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404 Media (@404media.co)

NEW: Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content. https://www.404media.co/wikipedia-bans-ai-generated-content/

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@Lana I loved the guards treating a spell like police treat a gun , by the way.

Chat Control 1 is dead. Let’s end Chat Control 2.

Members of The European Parliament: stand firm in your position – no mass surveillance whatsoever!

@fullyabstract yes, that’s what I’m hoping for as I focus on facilitating the liberal end of the interconnected world — the US rejoining on the other side of this.
"America does not know how to exist in a world it does not control. Since its inception, America has assured itself it was simply too big, too far away and too richly endowed to suffer any serious consequences for its actions. But there will be no escaping the cataclysm in Iran. In its wake, there is a chance to recognize our place in an interconnected world and see ourselves clearly. The way out of the cycle of failure and betrayal is to shed our illusions, once and for all."

General Stanley McChrystal in a recent NYT interview laid out why the entire Iran war strategy is built on magical thinking. He described three “great seductions” that trap American administrations: covert action that never stays covert, surgical Special Ops raids that don’t change facts on the ground, and the myth of air power dominance. He’s seen all three up close. And he’s watching all three fail in real time in Iran.

“Everything after this will be harder,” McChrystal said.