Who should get an AI kill switch?
Last week, the Trump Administration ordered Anthropic to cut off access to its most advanced AI models — Mythos 5 and the pared-down public version, Fable 5 — from foreign nationals due to reported security weaknesses in Fable's safeguards.
In response, Anthropic shut them down for everyone including the handful of companies that had been granted access to Mythos.
One of those companies is Mozilla, which said Mythos identified about 270 bugs in its Firefox browser that had slipped through previous reviews.
Marketplace’s Meghan McCarty Carino spoke with Mozilla chief technology officer Raffi Krikorian about the government essentially hitting a kill switch on the system.
More on this
What to know about the Anthropic models takedown - from The Hill
Mythos and Fable can make us all safer. Shutting them down is reckless - from the Transformer Substack
Federal spending on Y2K reaches $8.38 billion - from CNET
1012: Who Decides What Ships on the Web?
Scott and Wes sit down with Jake Archibald from Mozilla to unpack how web standards actually get made at Firefox. From browser features and developer feedback to the drama around the Prompt API. They discuss Interop 2026, the future of web APIs, and what it’s really like shaping the web after a career spanning both Google and Mozilla.
Show Notes
00:00 The Importance of Sunscreen
02:29 Welcome to Syntax!
04:35 Transitioning from Google to Mozilla
06:00 Brought to you by Sentry.io
06:43 Mozilla’s Current Position and Development Priority
HTML Sanitizer API
08:35 Feature Implementation and Developer Feedback
13:12 JPEG XL and AVIF: The Future of Image Formats
18:06 Balancing User Features and Web Standards
20:56 Navigating the AI Translation Dilemma
23:03 Understanding the Prompt API Controversy
32:56 Rethinking the Future of Prompt APIs
39:00 Exploring Local Models and User Control
44:04 The State of Firefox DevTools
45:42 Browser Stability and Developer Editions
47:39 Introduction to the Heading Offset API
51:14 Interop APIs and Their Importance
Headingoffset & Headingreset attributes
54:10 Developer Feedback and Browser Features
Developer Signals
58:05 Animating Display None and Its Challenges
01:00:44 HTML and Canvas: Opportunities and Concerns
01:04:01 Sick Picks + Shameless Plugs
Sick Picks
Scott:
Wes:
Jake:
Clues by Sam
Shameless Plugs
Scott:
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Jake:
Bluesky
Mastodon
Threads
LinkedIn
YouTube
X
Insatgram
Tiktok
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Prettier and Opinionated Code Formatting with James Long
Developer tooling shapes how software gets written day to day, but the best tools often disappear into the background once they succeed. Formatting, linting, and build systems can either create friction and endless debate, or quietly remove entire classes of problems from a team’s workflow. Over the past decade, the JavaScript ecosystem has wrestled with both extremes as it scaled rapidly and accumulated complexity.
Prettier emerged as a response to the surprisingly human problem of engineers spending too much time debating code style instead of building software. It offers a deterministic, opinionated formatter that helped normalize automation as part of everyday development.
James Long is a design and product engineer who has worked at Mozilla and Stripe, and he’s the creator of Prettier. He joins the show with Josh Goldberg to talk about the origins of Prettier, why formatting debates are so emotionally charged, the technical challenges of building formatters, the realities of maintaining popular open-source tools, and how the JavaScript tooling ecosystem continues to evolve.
Josh Goldberg is an independent full time open source developer in the TypeScript ecosystem. He works on projects that help developers write better TypeScript more easily, most notably on typescript-eslint: the tooling that enables ESLint and Prettier to run on TypeScript code. Josh regularly contributes to open source projects in the ecosystem such as ESLint and TypeScript. Josh is a Microsoft MVP for developer technologies and the author of the acclaimed Learning TypeScript (O’Reilly), a cherished resource for any developer seeking to learn TypeScript without any prior experience outside of JavaScript. Josh regularly presents talks and workshops at bootcamps, conferences, and meetups to share knowledge on TypeScript, static analysis, open source, and general frontend and web development.
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Humility in the Age of Agentic Coding
What happens when an AI hater starts building with AI agents? In this episode, we talk with software engineer Steve Klabnik, known for his work on the Rust programming language, about his journey from criticizing AI to experimenting with it firsthand. We explore Steve’s programming language Rue, largely built with the help of AI tools like Claude, and discuss what this means for software engineering and the future of coding in an AI-driven world.
Featuring:
Steve Klabnik – LinkedIn
Chris Benson – Website, LinkedIn, Bluesky, GitHub, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Links:
The Rust Programming Language
Rust
Rue
Daniel's RSA Meeting link for March 23, 2026
Daniel's RSA Meeting link for March 24-25, 2026
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704: Sanitizer API with Frederik Braun
Show Description
We talk with Frederik Braun from Mozilla about the Sanitizer API, how it works with HTML tags and web components, what it does with malformed HTML, and where CSP fits in alongside the Sanitizer API.
Listen on Website
Watch on YouTube
Guests
Frederik Braun
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social
Security engineer and manager working on the Mozilla Firefox web browser
Links
Frederik Braun: Why the Sanitizer API is just setHTML()
Frederik Braun
freddyb (Frederik B)
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668: Jake Archibald on Native HTML Includes
Show Description
Jake Archibald joins us to discuss HTML includes, potential solutions, and the implications of introducing such a feature. We talk about security concerns, performance implications, and community feedback regarding HTML imports.
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Guests
Jake Archibald
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social
Engineer at Shopify. Once swam to the end of an infinity pool.
Links
Off The Main Thread podcast
blink-dev - Google Groups
667: Jen Simmons on Declarative Web Push, Form Control Styling, & More
Show Description
Jen Simmons stops by to talk about new CSS and Safari features like Form Control Styling, Declarative Web Push, Typography, contrast-color(), and more.
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Guests
Jen Simmons
Guest's Main URL • Guest's Social
Safari & WebKit Evangelist. Member of the CSS Working Group. Webmaster since 1996.
Links
webkit.org
Safari Release Notes
WCAG 2.0
contrast-color() function
APCA Color Contrast Tool
Color.js Release
Lea Verou’s page on color contrast
Declarative Web Push
Web Push for Web Apps on iOS and iPadOS
CSS Forms Level 1 Specification in Progress
<input type="color" colorspace="display-p3" alpha>
line-height units
Home | Open UI
text-wrap: pretty
margin-trim
CSS shape() function
Two Lines of Cross-Document View Transitions Code
Grab bag! On the floor at HumanX
Paul Dhaliwal is the founder and CEO of CodeConductor.
Priya Joseph is the AI field CEO at DDN.
Lizzie Siegle is a developer advocate at Cloudflare.
Erin Mikail Staples is a developer experience engineer at Galileo.
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Local-first, y/n? (Friends)
Our friends Johannes Schickling & James Long join us to discuss the movement of local-first, its pros and cons, the tradeoffs, and the path to the warming waters of mostly local apps.
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James’ local-first post
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ElectricSQL | Postgres sync engine
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Zero Sync
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Jazz - Build local-first apps
localfirst.fm
Ink & Switch define “Local-first software”
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#213 Mark Surman: How Mozilla Is Shaping the Future of Open-Source AI
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In this episode of the Eye on AI podcast, we sit down with Mark Surman, President of Mozilla, to explore the future of open-source AI and how Mozilla is leading the charge for privacy, transparency, and ethical technology.
Mark shares Mozilla's vision for AI, detailing the company's innovative approach to building trustworthy AI and the launch of Mozilla AI. He explains how Mozilla is working to make AI open, accessible, and secure for everyone—just as it did for the web with Firefox. We also dive into the growing importance of federated learning and AI governance, and how Mozilla Ventures is supporting groundbreaking companies like Flower AI.
Throughout the conversation, Mark discusses the critical need for open-source AI alternatives to proprietary models like OpenAI and Meta's LLaMA. He outlines the challenges with closed systems and highlights Mozilla's work in giving users the freedom to choose AI models directly in Firefox.
Mark provides a fascinating look into the future of AI and how open-source technologies can create trillions in economic value while maintaining privacy and inclusivity. He also sheds light on the global race for AI innovation, touching on developments from China and the impact of public AI funding.
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(00:00) Introduction to Mark Surman and Mozilla's Mission
(02:01) The Evolution of Mozilla: From Firefox to AI
(04:40) Open-Source Movement and Mozilla's Legacy
(06:58) The Role of Open-Source in AI
(11:06) Advancing Federated Learning and AI Governance
(14:10) Integrating AI Models into Firefox
(16:28) Open vs Closed Models
(22:09) Partnering with Non-Profit AI Labs for Open-Source AI
(25:08) How Meta's Strategy Compares to OpenAI and Others
(27:58) Global Competition in AI Innovation
(31:17) The Cost of Training AI Models
(33:36) Public AI Funding and the Role of Government
(37:40) The Geopolitics of AI and Open Source
(41:35) Mozilla's Vision for the Future of AI and Responsible Tech
800: Why the jQuery Creator Uses React and Typescript - John Resig
In episode 800 of Syntax, Scott and Wes sit down with John Resig, the creator of jQuery, to discuss the current state of React and TypeScript. They dive into the evolution of frontend frameworks, the challenges of server-side rendering, and the tech stack at Khan Academy.
Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
00:59 Brought to you by Sentry.io.
01:32 What is jQuery?
05:31 Did you anticipate the success jQuery had?
07:16 allow-discrete, @starting-style. Install Nothing: App UIs With Native Browser APIs - Scott Tolinski.
07:54 Building the community around jQuery.
11:16 jQuery plugins.
13:00 Did you ever make money from jQuery?
16:13 What is your role at Khan Academy.
17:58 What is the tech stack at Khan Academy?
21:56 Why do you want to change your CSS and JS framework?
24:03 TypeScript vs Flow.
25:25 GraphQL federation.
28:08 What was your frontend framework journey?
30:23 Is there any part of React you wish would improve?
32:37 Reservations using React Router.
33:14 Khan Academy web platform vs native platform.
35:21 What do you use for state management?
38:48 What’s harder than it should be on the web today? Kilian’s Question On X.
Polypane.app.
42:46 Opinions on JavaScript Sprinkles.
44:04 What’s with the $ sign in jQuery?
45:29 The challenges of having your name in such a widely used software.
51:06 Challenges with server-side rendering in React.
52:42 Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs.
54:48 What are the performance issues associated with internationalization?
56:57 Back to Sick Picks & Shameless Plugs.
Sick Picks John: Biome, Remix, Lingui.
Shameless Plugs John: Khan Academy.
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725: Safari is the New Chrome - Jen Simmons of Apple
Wes and Scott talk with Jen Simmons about the latest updates to Safari, reporting bugs to Apple, understanding color in CSS, new CSS switch controls, and testing your websites in Vision Pro hardware.
Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax!
00:03 Brought to you by Sentry.io
01:05 Meet Jen Simmons.
03:15 Safari has been killing it lately
Safari Release Notes
WebKit Features in Safari 17.0
WebKit Features in Safari 17.1
WebKit Features in Safari 17.2
10:25 Wes’ cOnSpirACy about Apple and APIs
18:18 Where is the best place to report bugs to Apple?
Bugs.Webkit.org
Jen on Mastodon
Web Compat
20:35 What’s happening with CSS Color gamuts and models?
33:57 Is contrast color ever going to to land?
36:25 Where is the CSS Grid and Masonry proposal at?
44:20 Will we be able to target a specific row in a grid?
46:17 What are CSS switch controls?
48:44 How can web devs view their websites in Vision Pro devices?
Apple Vision Pro
Running your app in Simulator or on a device
54:26 In what ways are HTML / CSS / JavaScript running where we don’t realize it?
58:43 Sick Picks
Sick Picks Jen: Walking.
Shameless Plugs Jen: webkit.org X
Feedback Assistant at Apple
Sessions - WWDC23 - Apple Developer
Webkit Standards Positions
Safari Technology Preview
Safari Technology Preview Release Notes
What’s new in CSS at WWDC23
Rediscover Safari developer features at WWDC23
What’s new in Web Apps at WWDC23
Meet Safari for spatial computing at WWDC23
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Wes: X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads
Scott:X Instagram Tiktok LinkedIn Threads
Punk Rock, the Peace Movement, and Open-Source AI: The Mozilla Foundation’s Mark Surman
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When Mark Surman produced a pro-peace public service announcement for his local TV station as a self-proclaimed “punk rock kid” in the 1980s, he wasn’t thinking about a future career evangelizing fair, equitable, and trustworthy technology access for everyone. But today, as president of the Mozilla Foundation, he is focused on exactly that.
Mark went on to study filmmaking and has parlayed his communications expertise into technology leadership roles, where he has continued to work to “change hearts and minds by telling the truth.” On this episode, Mark shares his take on the roles of both big tech and startups in the responsible AI conversation and also describes a recent report on trustworthy AI from the Mozilla Foundation. Read the episode transcript here.
Guest bio:
Mark Surman is president of the Mozilla Foundation, a global nonprofit that does everything from developing the Firefox web browser to advocating for a more open, equitable internet. His current focus is fueling Mozilla’s efforts to invest in responsible tech startups (via Mozilla Ventures) and to create foundational technology for more trustworthy AI (via Mozilla.ai). Before joining Mozilla, Surman spent 15 years leading organizations and projects that promoted the use of the internet and open-source technology for social empowerment.
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AI trailblazers putting people first
According to Solana Larsen: “Too often, it feels like we have lost control of the internet to the interests of Big Tech, Big Data — and now Big AI.” In the latest season of Mozilla’s IRL podcast (edited by Solana), a number of stories are featured to highlight the trailblazers who are reclaiming power over AI to put people first. We discuss some of those stories along with the issues that they surface.
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Show Notes:
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The IRL podcast
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Creating instruction tuned models
At the recent ODSC East conference, Daniel got a chance to sit down with Erin Mikail Staples to discuss the process of gathering human feedback and creating an instruction tuned Large Language Models (LLM). They also chatted about the importance of open data and practical tooling for data annotation and fine-tuning. Do you want to create your own custom generative AI models? This is the episode for you!
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Erase browser history: can AI reset the browser battle?
Hello and welcome to Decoder. I’m Nilay Patel, editor in chief of The Verge, and Decoder is my show about big ideas, and other problems.
Today, I'm talking to Mitchell Baker, the chairwoman and CEO of Mozilla, the organization behind the Firefox browser, the Thunderbird email client, the Pocket newsreader, and a bunch of other interesting internet tools.
Now as you all know, Decoder is secretly a podcast about org charts – maybe not so secretly, and Mozilla’s structure is really interesting. Mozilla itself is a nonprofit foundation, but it contains within it something called the Mozilla Corporation, which actually makes Firefox and the rest. Mitchell is the chairwoman of the foundation, and the CEO of the corporation. And the Mozilla Corporation, which they charmingly call MoCo, can make a profit - or it can least be taxed, which is an important distinction you’ll hear Mitchell talk about.
I bring this up because Mozilla has been around since 1994 in a variety of structures and business models – it started as a company called Netscape, and Mitchell was one of the first employees in the legal department. Netscape’s product was Netscape Navigator, the first commercial web browser, which of course changed the consumer internet and scared Microsoft so much it did a bunch of anticompetitive things that led to the famous antitrust case. In the meantime, Netscape got sold to AOL, and along the way Mitchell led the somewhat renegade Mozilla Project inside the company which eventually lead to Mozilla the non-profit foundation that eventually launched Firefox. It’s a lot!
But now Mitchell is trying to live up to Mozilla’s nonprofit ideals of protecting the open internet while still trying to compete and cooperate with tech giants like Apple and Google. And these are complicated relationships: Google still accounts for a huge percentage of Mozilla’s revenue – it pays hundreds of millions of dollars to be the default search engine in Firefox. And Apple restricts what browser engines can run on the iPhone – Firefox Focus on the iPhone is still running Apple’s webkit engine, something that regulators, particularly in Europe want to change.
On top of all that, some big foundational pieces of the web are changing: Microsoft is aggressively rolling out its chatGPT-powered Bing search engine in an effort to displace Google and get people to switch to the Edge browser, and Twitter’s implosion means that Mitchell sees Mastodon as one of Mozilla’s next big opportunities.
So how does Mozilla get through this period of change while staying true to itself? And will anyone actually switch browsers again? Turns out – it might be easier to get people to switch on phones, than on desktops. That’s Mozilla’s belief, anyway.
Links:
Netscape - Wikipedia
The State of Mozilla: 2021 — 2022 Annual Report
The future of computers is only $4 away, with Raspberry Pi CEO Eben Upton
Firefox drops Google as default search engine, signs five-year deal with Yahoo
Microsoft thinks AI can beat Google at search — CEO Satya Nadella explains why
Microsoft announces new Bing and Edge browser powered by upgraded ChatGPT AI
A beginner’s guide to Mastodon, the hot new open-source Twitter clone
Transcript: https://www.theverge.com/e/23362385
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AI IRL & Mozilla's Internet Health Report
Every year Mozilla releases an Internet Health Report that combines research and stories exploring what it means for the internet to be healthy. This year’s report is focused on AI. In this episode, Solana and Bridget from Mozilla join us to discuss the power dynamics of AI and the current state of AI worldwide. They highlight concerning trends in the application of this transformational technology along with positive signs of change.
Featuring:
Solana Larsen – LinkedIn, X
Bridget Todd – X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
The Internet Health Report 2022
Facts of the AI Power Imbalance
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Cloning voices with Coqui
Coqui is a speech technology startup that making huge waves in terms of their contributions to open source speech technology, open access models and data, and compelling voice cloning functionality. Josh Meyer from Coqui joins us in this episode to discuss cloning voices that have emotion, fostering open source, and how creators are using AI tech.
Featuring:
Josh Meyer – GitHub, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
Show Notes:
Coqui
BibleTTS - Data and models for African langauges
Coqui TTS Hugging Face Space
Coqui on Github
Joshua’s previous Practical AI episode about Common Voice
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Actual(ly) opening up (Interview)
Adam and Jerod are joined once again by James Long. He was on the podcast five years ago discussing the surprise success of Prettier, an opinionated code formatter that’s still in use to this day. This time around we’re going deep on Actual, his personal finance system James built as a business for over 4 years before recently opening it up and making it 100% free.
Has James given up on the business? Or will this move Actual(ly) breathe new life into a piece of software that’s used and beloved by many? Tune in to find out.
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Actual’s website
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Actual on GitHub
Open-sourcing Actual
You Need a Budget
Dave Ramsey’s EveryDollar
The Broken Window Theory
Absurd SQL on GitHub
Tauri
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🌍 AI in Africa - Voice & language tools
In the third of the “AI in Africa” spotlight episodes, we welcome Kathleen Siminyu, who is building Kiswahili voice tools at Mozilla. We had a great discussion with Kathleen about creating more diverse voice and language datasets, involving local language communities in NLP work, and expanding grassroots ML/AI efforts across Africa.
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Masakhane
Common Voice
Open for Good Alliance
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JS on Wasm
KBall and Nick Nisi sit down with Nick Fitzgerald to learn about running JavaScript on WebAssembly. They talk about almost instantaneous startup, running interpreted languages at the edge, and take a deep dive into the weeds of how Wasm based modules will change the future of application development.
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Oxidizing Source Maps with Rust and WebAssembly
Making JavaScript Run Fast on WebAssembly
Wizer
Talk: Hit the Ground Running: Wasm Snapshots for Fast Startup
Ableton
Wasmtime
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Of spiders and monkeys
Yulia Startsev from Mozilla’s SpiderMonkey team joins Jerod & Feross to talk compilers, going back to get your Master’s, making decisions as a group, process of shepherding a feature through TC39, how Firefox actually works, and LavaMoats. Yes, LavaMoats.
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SpiderMonkey’s website
The Monkey posters
TC39 Discourse
Argumentation theory
TC39 Realms Proposal
LavaMoat
Compartments proposal
Yulia’s Twitch stream
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Radicalization by Algorithm
Bridget Todd joins the show to talk about the role social networking platforms play with radicalization and extremism. From a hands-off approach to algorithms that exacerbate a dangerous problem, we look at what we do know and establish what we don't.
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Speech tech and Common Voice at Mozilla
Many people are excited about creating usable speech technology. However, most of the audio data used by large companies isn’t available to the majority of people, and that data is often biased in terms of language, accent, and gender. Jenny, Josh, and Remy from Mozilla join us to discuss how Mozilla is building an open-source voice database that anyone can use to make innovative apps for devices and the web (Common Voice). They also discuss efforts through Mozilla fellowship program to develop speech tech for African languages and understand bias in data sets.
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Jenny Zhang – Website, X
Remy Muhire – GitHub, X
Josh Meyer – GitHub, X
Chris Benson – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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Mozilla Common Voice
Announcement of Josh and Remy’s fellowship work on speech tech for African languages
Artie Bias Corpus
Readings on Demographic Bias in ASR: Voice recognition still has significant race and gender biases
Gender and Dialect Bias in YouTube’s Automatic Captions
Racial disparities in automated speech recognition
Common Voice LREC Paper
Common Voice + DeepSpeech collaborators for Low-resource languages: Digital Umuganda
AI Lab, Makerere University
Language Technologies Unit, Bangor University
Linguistics Department, Indiana University Bloomington
“under-sampled majority” is a quote from Joy Boulamwini (see this article)
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Recode Decode: Mark Surman
Mozilla Foundation executive director Mark Surman talks with Recode's Kara Swisher about why the internet needs a "public option," how Mozilla's browser Firefox is positioning itself for the future, and the future of tech regulation. Surman also discusses how punk rock and small-town censorship shaped his worldview, and why being the number one browser isn't actually Firefox's main goal.
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Mark Surman (@msurman), executive director, Mozilla Foundation
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#212: Python in Web Assembly with Pyodide
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Funding OSS with Mozilla Open Source Support awards (Interview)
We’re talking with Mehan Jayasuriya program officer at Mozilla about MOSS — the Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) program which recognizes, celebrates, and supports open source projects. Earlier this year we caught the “MOSS 2018 Year in Review” blog post — this post highlighted many of their efforts in 2018 so we reached out to talk through the history, goals, and impact of this very generous project.
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Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
Mozilla Open Source Support (MOSS) awards program
MOSS 2018 year in review
Mitchell Baker on Wikipedia + Mitchell Baker on Twitter
Mozilla Foundation
Apply for a MOSS award
Open source inclusion basic checklist for open source projects on mozilla/diversity
In Memoriam: Gervase Markham
The Changelog #335: Enabling open code for science at NumFOCUS
MozFest
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Analyzing AI's impact on society through art and film
Brett Gaylor joins Chris and Daniel to chat about the recently announced winners of Mozilla’s creative media awards, which focuses on exposing the impact of AI on society. These winners include a film that responds to the audience (via AI recognized emotions) and an interesting chatbot called Wanda.
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Daniel Whitenack – Website, GitHub, X
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Winners of the Creative Media Awards
Do not track movie
The Science behind Cambridge Analytica
Mozilla manifesto
Machine bias article from ProPublica
Practical AI episode from Lindsey Zuloaga about bias
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REST easy, GraphQL is here (Interview)
In this special rebroadcast of JS Party, Jerod and Suz talk with John Resig about how he’s using GraphQL at Khan Academy, some of the mistakes and successes using GraphQL, John’s feelings on jQuery, and community Q&A.
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Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
John’s intro to the GraphQL Guide - Introduction by John Resig, author of GraphQL Guide
Get the GraphQL Guide (beta) - Link to the Ebook & Training information on GraphQL, with a free tshirt for full edition Ebook readers
The Changelog #255: Why is GraphQL so cool? - Link to the GraphQL Podcast
The Changelog #297: Prisma and the GraphQL data layer - Link to the Prisma and GraphQL Data Layer
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REST easy, GraphQL is here
Jerod and Suz talk with John Resig about how he’s using GraphQL at Khan Academy, some of the mistakes and successes using GraphQL, John’s feelings on jQuery, and community Q&A.
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Featuring:
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Suz Hinton – GitHub, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
John’s intro to the GraphQL Guide
Get the GraphQL Guide (beta)
The Changelog #255: Why is GraphQL so cool?
The Changelog #297: Prisma and the GraphQL data layer
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