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Ben Werdmuller

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I lead technology at ProPublica and write speculative fiction. This is a personal account. Every day, I write about tech, democracy, and society at https://werd.io. More about me: https://about.werd.io

benwerd 4 months ago

‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid

‘ELITE’: The Palantir App ICE Uses to Find Neighborhoods to Raid

"Internal ICE material and testimony from an official obtained by 404 Media provides the clearest link yet between the technological infrastructure...

benwerd 4 months ago

The Zurich protocol

The Zurich protocol

They came for the newsroom. It was ready.

benwerd 4 months ago

Bari Weiss Is The Symptom

Bari Weiss Is The Symptom

"The truth is that prestige journalism is lousy with Bari Weisses, up and down the line. Ask any journalist trying to cover the genocide in Gaza or...

benwerd 4 months ago

How to know if that job will crush your soul

How to know if that job will crush your soul

"But these questions are framed in this way to encourage us all to aspire towards roles that enable us to do our best work, to have the biggest imp...

benwerd 4 months ago

47 lessons

Things I've learned.

benwerd 4 months ago

How I hire engineers

How I hire engineers

Building a community means looking beyond coding tests.

benwerd 4 months ago

Notable links: January 2, 2026

Notable links: January 2, 2026

Looking ahead: humans are cool again.

benwerd 4 months ago

What is Instagram’s Adam Mosseri really saying in his year-end memo?

What is Instagram’s Adam Mosseri really saying in his year-end memo?

"Instagram no longer believes it can beat AI by making more or better content. It wants to be the referee, to decide what is real and what is not, ...

benwerd 4 months ago

2025: The year in LLMs

2025: The year in LLMs

Simon Willison breaks down what happened in the LLM space in 2025. Some of it has the potential to transform tech forever.

benwerd 4 months ago

The next big thing in 2026 will be

The next big thing in 2026 will be...

This year's predictions from tech experts and decision-makers are notably pro-human.

benwerd 4 months ago

Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS

Watching Bari Weiss Murder Investigative Journalism at CBS

"Notes from someone who's withstood White House demands to stop an explosive story—and who once even had a 60 Minutes piece spiked."

benwerd 4 months ago

A 2026 checklist

A 2026 checklist

A way to build a habit out of what's important.

benwerd 4 months ago

2025: a personal year in review

2025: a personal year in review

Highlights and hopes for the new year.

benwerd 4 months ago

Friday links: December 26, 2025

Friday links: December 26, 2025

An alternative Christmas; lies we tell ourselves.

benwerd 4 months ago

My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions

My 2026 Open Social Web Predictions

Tim's 2026 predictions are worth paying attention to - and form a great map for following where the open social web is going.

benwerd 4 months ago

2025 in review: an interesting year

An ... interesting year

On fascism, technology, and finding the helpers.

benwerd 4 months ago

Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud

Airbus to migrate critical apps to a sovereign Euro cloud

"Airbus is preparing to tender a major contract to migrate mission-critical workloads to a digitally sovereign European cloud – but estimates onl...

benwerd 4 months ago

The Knight Foundation scrubs DEI section from its 'About' page https://werd.io/the-knight-foundation-scrubs-dei-section-from-its-about-page/

benwerd 4 months ago

Lies we tell ourselves

Lies we tell ourselves

We don't need to educate our audiences to fit our needs. We need to educate ourselves to fit our audiences.

benwerd 4 months ago

Friday links: December 19, 2025

Friday links: December 19, 2025

Predictions for journalism; paperbacks are dead; feeling the fear.

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