Tech Can Serve the People but Only with the People

How To Citizen with Baratunde

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Society & Culture, News, Technology

4.4 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

Today, we head to Chicago, where a civic gathering called Chi Hack Night is bringing technologists, designers, policy nerds, and everyday residents together to build a better city.

Access to visuals for this story are here:

https://newsletter.baratunde.com/p/we-found-the-anti-doge-in-chicago

and that conversation on Life With Machines with Deb Roy is here

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/life-with-machines/id1766829040?i=1000703577941

mRelief, a woman-led initiative that’s made it easier for people to access food benefits. Since 2018, it’s helped unlock $2 BILLION (yes, with a B) in SNAP support for people across the country.

In a time of DOGE and digital distrust, it’s tempting to think all tech can do is tear things down. But this is what happens when we invite everyone—not just the billionaires—into the process of shaping solutions.

This is what citizening looks like:

🧑‍🤝‍🧑 People-powered innovation
🏙️ Tech rooted in place
💡 Making tools with communities, not just for them

💬 Seen something like this in your community, an org that asks first?

Visit https://stories.howtocitizen.com, join our list, and let us know you have a story to share. These stories are everywhere — and we need them more than ever.

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0:00.0	In 2020, a group of young woman found themselves in an AI-fueled nightmare.
0:05.8	Someone was posting photos.
0:08.1	It was just me naked.
0:09.5	Well, not me, but me with someone else's body part.
0:13.2	This is Levitown, a new podcast from IHeart Podcasts, Bloomberg and Colliderscope,
0:18.2	about the rise of deep fate pornography and the battle to stop it.
0:22.1	Listen to Levittown on Bloomberg's Big Take podcast.
0:25.4	Find it on the IHeart Radio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:30.2	I'm Clayton English.
0:31.2	I'm Greg Glead.
0:32.0	And this is season two of the War on Drugs.
0:34.4	Yes, sir.
0:35.1	Last year, a lot of the problems of the drug war this year,
0:38.2	a lot of the biggest names
0:39.1	in music and sports.
0:41.5	This is kind of starts that in a little bit, man.
0:43.7	We met them at their homes.
0:45.2	We met them at their recording studios.
0:47.4	Stories matter, and it brings a face to them.
0:49.5	It makes it real.
0:50.3	It really does.
0:51.3	It makes it real.
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