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  "publishedAt": "2026-05-16T21:24:06.000Z",
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  "tags": [
    "@henry-fisher",
    "@jonah",
    "Open Media",
    "Mastodon",
    "BlueSky",
    "why we should encourage privacy companies like Proton to sell their gift cards via the Proxy Store",
    "Prophecy (2026)",
    "Carissa’s TED Talk",
    "@Carey",
    "Carissa Véliz",
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  "textContent": "Just finished watching @henry-fisher’s interview and it was equally compelling as PG’s.\nBelow are some the main takeaways I have from this interview:\n\n**WE NEED MORE PRIVACY ADVOCATES**\n\n> _There is way too much ground for any one person to cover._\n\nThis is something that I can appreciate, even though I still admittedly wonder why certain privacy organizations or advocates, don’t cover certain issues that are happening in their backyard. For example, and again, I leave room for the possibility that I am wrong, I have never seen Carissa Véliz touch on all the surveillance policies that have recently passed or been proposed in the UK when she lives there and is a UK citizen.\n\nThat being said, I appreciate all the work all these incredible advocates are doing, and I hope we get more of them because as Naomi says, there’s too much ground to cover. In PG’s video, @jonah referenced an article by Open Media, a Canadian based privacy organization, which to my memory, I had never heard of, but I noticed that I already followed them on Mastodon. I gave them a follow on BlueSky and subscribed to their RSS Feed, so thank you, PG!\n\n**BITCOIN & ANONYMOUS PAYMENTS**\n\nI appreciate that Naomi and Henry highlighted the fact that decentralization does not guarantee privacy, which to my understanding, partially explains why Bitcoin is not anonymous, and why we should encourage privacy companies like Proton to sell their gift cards via the Proxy Store, as they are the easiest way to widely support anonymous payments with little to no limitations.\n\n**ON THE INEVITABILITY & ETHICS OF AI**\n\n> _Opting out of AI isn’t an option._\n\nThis is the part where I disagree with Naomi and why I really hope she reads **Carissa Véliz** ’s new book _Prophecy (2026)_. I would encourage her to start with Carissa’s TED Talk on the topic.\n\nI have friends and family who use AI and believe the same thing. Even if I were to concede that opting out of AI is not optional, most people who believe that would likely be unwilling to exclusively use more “ethical” tools like Proton’s Lumo, instead of Chat GPT, Gemini, or Claude.\n\nMoreover, **I am curious what makes an AI tool ethical to optimists like Naomi Brockwell?**\nBecause the issue is not just about AI companies spying and training their models on the data of the people who use them. It’s also the fact that AI is overwhelmingly built on stolen work, and many users do not seem to care.\n\nI also find it ironic that many of the same people who didn’t care about Big Tech’s precarization of millions of working class jobs via the gig economy, are the same people who are ringing the alarm about Big Tech threatening middle class jobs. And let’s not forget the environmental cost.\n\nFrom a privacy standpoint, as far as I understand it, it is currently not possible to have an AI that completely respects users’ privacy, and that can 100% guarantee it is not built on the stolen work of others.\n\nI haven’t had the time to discuss them yet, but the 2 interviews that @Carey from _**Firewalls Don’t Stop Dragons**_ had last year with Carissa Véliz and Proton’s Head of AI Eamonn Maguire, reinforced that belief.",
  "title": "Interview with Naomi Brockwell: From Content Creator to Policymaker"
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