Julia Black
@juliablack.bsky.social
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Signal: @mjnblack.09 Email:
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Work:
https://www.juliablackwrites.com/
There's a growing schism over AI policy between the right's religious conservatives and its tech libertarians. Now all eyes are on the Pope, who is expected to release a landmark document on the topic in the coming weeks. I wrote about it for Transformer!
www.transformernews.ai/p/pope-artif...
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Can the Pope spur meaningful action on AI?
AI safety advocates are hoping an unlikely ally can provide a rallying cry for guardrails and regulation
https://www.transformernews.ai/p/pope-artificial-intelligence-encyclical-vatican-regulation-policy-rerum-novarum?utm_source=post-email-title&publication_id=1688188&post_id=182323698&utm_campaign=email-post-title&isFreemail=true&r=43hvp&triedRedirect=true&utm_medium=email
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Thanks for having me on,
@baparker.bsky.social
@npr.org
!
www.npr.org/2025/10/29/n...
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How Elon Musk and JD Vance plan to 'save civilization' with more babies : Code Switch
What do conservatives like JD Vance and tech executives like Elon Musk have in common? They, like other pronatalists, want to âsave civilizationâ by having more American babies. But it wasnât that lon...
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/29/nx-s1-5588605/how-elon-musk-and-jd-vance-plan-to-save-civilization-with-more-babies
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By the way... my current fellowship winds down soon-ish, and I'll be back on the market for a full-time reporting role! If you want to do stories like this together, feel free to reach out (: email/links in bio
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Literally impossible for me to see this man without hearing this song⊠what an achievementâŠ
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While I was reporting this NYT profile of defense tech investor & JD Vance ally Katherine Boyle, a State Department official told me: âIf youâre looking at her project as a policy project, youâre not really understanding it. Her project is ultimately civilizational.â
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...
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The Tech Right Gets Its Own Phyllis Schlafly
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/business/katherine-boyle-andreesen-horowitz-american-dynamism.html
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This year, two new products launched claiming to be able to detect IQ in embryos(!) In my latest for
@technologyreview.com
, I dove into the ethical morassâand very real world implicationsâof ranking humans before they are even born.
ter.li/JuliaB
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The race to make the perfect baby is creating an ethical mess
A new field of science claims to be able to predict aesthetic traits, intelligence, and even moral character in embryos. Is this the next step in human evolution or something more dangerous?
https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/16/1125159/ethics-embryo-screening-reproduction-baby/?utm_source=staff_social_outreach&utm_medium=tr_staff_social&utm_campaign=social&utm_content=guestbp
2 months ago
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really jealous of the depth of this reporting by
@laurabullard.bsky.social
â a must-read!
www.wired.com/story/the-re...
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The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thielâs Antichrist Obsession
Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. Theyâve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.
https://www.wired.com/story/the-real-stakes-real-story-peter-thiels-antichrist-obsession/
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lord help me I started a (free!) substack got some cool stuff in the pipeline, so please subscribe! (:
open.substack.com/pub/10000000...
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A Billion to One | Julia Black | Substack
A newsletter about wealth, technology, and power. Click to read A Billion to One, by Julia Black, a Substack publication.
https://open.substack.com/pub/1000000000to1
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Angela Watercutter
4 months ago
I learned so much working on this
@juliablack.bsky.social
piece on the rise of microschools.
www.wired.com/story/silico...
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How Microschools Became the Latest Tech Mogul Obsession
Between homeschool provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill and Trumpâs attempts to gut the Department of Education, teaching kids looks different now. Silicon Valleyâs answer? Microschools.
https://www.wired.com/story/silicon-valley-tech-moguls-microschools/
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Michael Clemens
5 months ago
The student newspaper. This fell. To the student. Newspaper.
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Coming out of stealth mode... to share that I will be joining the
@omidyarnetwork.bsky.social
's next Reporters in Residence cohort! This support will enable me to work on some absolute dream projects. I'm so grateful. more news soon! đ
omidyar.com/update/omidy...
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Announcing our sixth class of reporters in residence - Omidyar Network
Our new reporters will report on the emerging rules, institutions, norms, people and narratives shaping our technology and society.
https://omidyar.com/update/omidyar-network-announces-sixth-class-of-reporters-in-residence/
6 months ago
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Dana Hull
6 months ago
Medicaid is the largest single payer of pregnancy-related services, financing 41% of births nationally in 2023and over half of births in four states (Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma):
www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...
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5 Key Facts About Medicaid and Pregnancy | KFF
This brief examines Medicaidâs pregnancy and postpartum coverage and its support for strengthening and improving maternal health outcomes.
https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/5-key-facts-about-medicaid-and-pregnancy/
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Chiliagon Imaginer
10 months ago
Reading this article by
@juliablack.bsky.social
from Aug9 is basically just opening tomorrow's newspaper.
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we truly love to see it
www.teenvogue.com/story/vivian...
@thevivllainous.bsky.social
9 months ago
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Federal employees, I would love to speak with you about how DOGE is using technology to reshape your agencies⊠spot a new AI use? FedRAMP request? Code rewrite? Hereâs my work:
juliablackwrites.com
Secure Signal contact: @mjnblack.09
@altusds.bsky.social
@fedworkersunited.bsky.social
#altgov
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Julia Black
Work by tech and business journalist Julia Black.
https://juliablackwrites.com
10 months ago
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Tech Wonât Save Us
11 months ago
Sam Altman imagines a grand AI-powered future for humanity, but isnât too concerned with what it might actually mean for average people. Up next in our premium interviews from DATA VAMPIRES is
@juliablack.bsky.social
! Become a Patreon supporter to listen:
www.patreon.com/posts/sam-al...
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nick andersen
10 months ago
âany press is good press, especially on the internetâŠyou have to have a good sense of self.â â
@taylorlorenz.bsky.social
, at
#onairfest
w/
@juliablack.bsky.social
, on how she deals w/ being an internet main topic occasionally
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@arctictony.bsky.social
starting the Future of Media panel off strong by quoting a text from
@pkafka.bsky.social
: âweâre all fucked lolâ
about 1 year ago
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Taylor Lorenz
about 1 year ago
The latest Pew Research report on news content creators paints a damning picture of our skewed information ecosystem. â©I went deep into the 122 page report and broke down the key findings and what they mean
www.usermag.co/p/the-majori...
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The majority of news influencers are conservative men, study finds
The latest Pew Research report on news content creators paints a damning picture of our skewed information ecosystem
https://www.usermag.co/p/the-majority-of-news-influencers
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Been on the fence about how much to bother with Bluesky but
@alexrkonrad.bsky.social
says this is where the organic conversation is happening so⊠lets give it a go!
about 1 year ago
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I dunno how shameless self-promotion plays on this platform but, uh, I really do want you to read this story, so hereâs some anyway:
https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-openai-chatgpt-worldcoin-helion-future-tech-2023-4
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He's played chess with Peter Thiel, sparred with Elon Musk and once, supposedly, stopped a plane crash: Inside Sam Altman's world, where truth is stranger than fiction
With the success of ChatGPT, Altman has turned into a household name. And he's just getting started.
https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-openai-chatgpt-worldcoin-helion-future-tech-2023-4
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