Welcome to a weekend bonus episode of the Tech Mem Ride Home. I'm your host

Brian McCullough. This one requires a bit of explaining. Remember that segment I did recently about Change of View,

that subreddit that was becoming its own website to try to create a platform for

healthy discourse and online debate. They got backing and technical support from an

alphabet subsidiary called Jigsaw. Jigsaw actually wasn't on my radar so I went down a bit of a rabbit hole and I learned that

jigsaw's remit is to seemingly try to make the internet not suck as much or at

least use technology to make the world a better place, which is bizarrely,

kind of feeling like an old school thing at this point.

So long story short, I reached out to some people and got put in touch with

Dan Kaiserling of Jigsaw to see what they're up to. Combating radicalization online,

online censorship, trolls, bias in AI, all of that is what

Jigsaw is working on.

It turns out there are still some folks who believe technology can make the world a better place and not just

break everything. Huge if true. But seriously, this is a bit of a palette cleanse for me and for you but really mostly for me. Please enjoy.

Well I'm here to cheer you up. Well I'm going to give you a you know positive hopeful vision of the role of technology in the world.

Okay listen if you can do that by the way let's let's let's

consider to do that that's all I'll promise.

All right, well then, can we consider ourselves recording officially?

Sure, absolutely.

Okay, well, because if you can do that,

then you'll make my week here.

So I got turned on to Jigsaw specifically.

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