Alex Ossola
@alexossola.bsky.social
host/producer, what's news PM podcast at WSJ / views = mine
Such an impressive story about what happens when governments use AI to dole out important things like welfare—and why it's so hard to do it fairly www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/11/1...
Inside Amsterdam’s high-stakes experiment to create fair welfare AI
The Dutch city thought it could break a decade-long trend of implementing discriminatory algorithms. Its failure raises the question: can these programs ever be fair?
www.technologyreview.com
July 23, 2025 at 5:29 PM
Such an impressive story about what happens when governments use AI to dole out important things like welfare—and why it's so hard to do it fairly www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/11/1...
one member of the couple is required to be terminally online and the other basically never online. partner A tells partner B what is going on in the world of the internet, and partner B is astounded. these are the rules.
October 3, 2023 at 6:39 PM
one member of the couple is required to be terminally online and the other basically never online. partner A tells partner B what is going on in the world of the internet, and partner B is astounded. these are the rules.
🚨 BIRD ALERT: we're mid migration, so turn off or dim those non-essential lights!
birdcast.info/migration-to...
birdcast.info/migration-to...
September 12, 2023 at 6:42 PM
🚨 BIRD ALERT: we're mid migration, so turn off or dim those non-essential lights!
birdcast.info/migration-to...
birdcast.info/migration-to...
Finally, female Alexes have made it to fiction (Jennifer Aniston in The Morning Show, the main character in The Guest... others?)
September 8, 2023 at 8:33 PM
Finally, female Alexes have made it to fiction (Jennifer Aniston in The Morning Show, the main character in The Guest... others?)
How many Trader Joe's locations must I go to before I can try the frozen kimbap (so far 3 and counting)
September 6, 2023 at 3:11 PM
How many Trader Joe's locations must I go to before I can try the frozen kimbap (so far 3 and counting)
me: good morning, I love you!
bf: it's melon season
bf: it's melon season
July 26, 2023 at 1:42 PM
me: good morning, I love you!
bf: it's melon season
bf: it's melon season
Wanted to do the Oppenheimer/Barbie double feature but my friend and I are too busy so we're doing one movie per night on two consecutive weeknights. That still counts right?
July 11, 2023 at 2:34 PM
Wanted to do the Oppenheimer/Barbie double feature but my friend and I are too busy so we're doing one movie per night on two consecutive weeknights. That still counts right?