New argument against AI regulation just dropped. Checkmate, atheists. www.wsj.com/tech/peter-t...

Here I also explained specifically why a fusion breakthrough doesn’t fix climate change: tl;dr: you still have to finance, permit & build tons of reactors (to say nothing of still needing to clean up fertilizer, airlines, cattle burps & more).

So smart

This is horrific and feels like it should be a bigger deal. Business Insider reports that people who have worked at xAI have seen Grok create images and written material with child sex abuse material. www.businessinsider.com/elon-musk-gr...

“The @oaklandballers.bsky.social believed when no one else did.” www.kqed.org/news/1205707...

🚨 48 hours of chaos. A scramble for flights. Tech workers walking off planes. Immigration lawyers working nonstop. The White House’s $100K H-1B fee threw Silicon Valley into turmoil overnight. Big new feature from me + my dream team at @businessinsider.com www.businessinsider.com/trump-h-1b-v...

$100k?

Unless I'm reading this badly wrong and the administration puts out contrary implementation, it would appear that starting tonight, anyone with an H-1B who doesn't write a $100,000 check to the US government is banned from reentering the country if they're currently outside the US.

“The First Amendment is good for business.” @amediaoperator.com

If you’re in NYC this fall, go see Waiting For Godot. The indefatigable @alexwinter.com does some job to provoke difficult existential questions. Keanu Reeves doesnt do a bad job either. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/05/t...

Boycotts work. We MUST show corporate America that there are consequences for folding to fascism. #teslatakedown stands shoulder to shoulder with #BOYCOTTDISNEYABC. Check out the linked doc below for actions YOU can take.

Who’s fighting to protect the first amendment?

"The armed forces will identify targets on the battlefield in any future war using technology created by Palantir, a data-mining company linked to the CIA, under a £750 million deal to be signed during President Trump’s state visit" www.thetimes.com/uk/defence/a...

Freelance illustration gigs drying up. Ad agencies using Midjourney instead of hiring human artists. Costume design turned over to AI wholesale. Good work vanishing. These are the stories of working visual artists, who describe losing jobs, wages, and hope as their clients and bosses embrace AI.

I thought right wingers cared about the first amendment

Finally an AI safety group speaking truth to power alignmentalignment.ai

It was a wild weekend in tech and labor. Going to round up some of the biggest stories we're tracking right now. First up, xAI laid off 500 of 1500 workers after asking each of them to do an overnight skills test. (Via reporting by Grace Kay at Business Insider) #ai #tech #labor

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3 stories for Valkyries playoff 0 stories for @oaklandballers.bsky.social playoff

We’re Back!!! taco Saturday at Tesla Easton Columbus Ohio!!! #TeslaTakedown

“Karachi residents face a cruel paradox: they pay monthly bills for piped water that rarely arrives, while spending thousands on private tankers to meet daily needs. If they do not pay KWSC, the agency refuses to clean and repair sewage and drains during overflows…” www.geo.tv/latest/62345...

Craven stuff happening over at XAI right now archive.ph/2025.09.13-0...

PSA Bay Area: Go watch the Ballers tomorrow night in Oakland. “It's the most important game in our franchise’s short history. We're determined to bring Championship baseball back to Oakland. And we need your help to make it happen.” @oaklandballers.bsky.social

New from me. The biggest labor story in the US is happening at Microsoft. More people should be talking about it. I spoke with 5 tech workers who have all been fired for protesting Microsoft's complicity in genocide. They don't regret it & won't stop @therealnews.com therealnews.com/the-biggest-...

My brother, Michael, launched his general contractor business in Berkeley a few weeks ago. To celebrate the launch, my siblings and I got him a billboard. If you’re looking for a contractor, give Michael a call!

“But the A.I. chat bots are selling a kind of magic — a kind of magic they appear capable of when they succeed at performing a credible simulacrum of human intelligence.” @elirosenberg.bsky.social wrote about @karenhao.bsky.social’s book & the data behind chatGPT open.substack.com/pub/hardrese...

ICE places Irish grandmother and green card holder in US isolation cell over $25 cheque “Hughes-Brown moved from Ireland to the United States, where she has lived permanently for the past 47 years. She has renewed her green card several times.” www.irishtimes.com/ireland/2025...

I’m just back from an international trip. Both on leaving, and on return, there was CBP officers waiting when we got off plane randomly checking people’s passports.

Northern Ireland man from Lisburn kidnapped by Trump’s Ice raids because he “looked like a Mexican”. He had the correct visa, all his documents. He’s never been in trouble with police. Held in terrible conditions. A fellow captive couldn’t get his medication and dropped dead of a heart attack

"A key part of ICE’s efforts will be setting up random traffic stops and checkpoints throughout the city & making educated guesses about who to detain and who not to detain. These 'Guess Stops' will be staffed by special agents known as Guess Stop Officers, or 'Guess-Stop-O' for short." Nailed it.

In this week’s Hard Reset, @williamfitz.bsky.social imagines what it would take for Silicon Valley to break rank with Trump. How far would Trump have to go for tech leaders to stop enabling his march to authoritarianism? hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/imagining-...

I would like for Trump corruption and crypto self-dealing to be my beat (and maybe my next book). I have been writing about it a lot already, including revealing who paid World Liberty Financial $100m. I have enough freelance work but need a regular paycheck and healthcare.

If you’re attending the #usopen tomorrow, you have ONE JOB. #boo youtube.com/shorts/18oYT...

What would need to happen for big tech to break with Trump? For @hard-reset.bsky.social, I tried to imagine what would it take for some of the individuals currently enabling Trump to change course: hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/imagining-...

What would need to happen for big tech to break with Trump? For @hard-reset.bsky.social, I tried to imagine what would it take for some of the individuals currently enabling Trump to change course: hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/imagining-...

So, I've missed the #TeslaTakedown in Golden Valley the past couple of weeks. Family obligations. But I'll be there tomorrow (9/6) --- and if you're within shouting distance of Golden Valley, I hope I'll see you there, too! actionnetwork.org/event_campai...

“What’s actually going to happen is rich people are going to use AI to replace workers. It’s going to create massive unemployment & a huge rise in profits. It will make a few people much richer and most people poorer. That’s not AI’s fault, that is the capitalist system.” www.ft.com/content/31fe...

Breaking News: The A.I. firm Anthropic agreed to a record $1.5 billion settlement for illegally downloading and storing copyrighted books.

Wonder how long it’s gonna take for these ghouls to regret this? www.washingtonpost.com/video/politi...

“The oligarchs’ conclave”

🚨 FRIDAY NIGHT 6-8PM Tesla Diner (All-In Summit edition) 7001 Santa Monica Blvd Hollywood JOIN US ⚡️ (and yes, we’re still doing our usual Saturday and Sunday Tesla Diner demonstrations as well. there will be All-In bros in town all week)

Everyone of these guys are key players in enabling Trump’s authoritarian regime “ Mark Zuckerberg, Apple CEO Tim Cook, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and OpenAI founder Sam Altman, Google co-founder Sergey Brin; Palantir CTO Shyam Sankar; and co-founder of Scale AI Alexandr Wang.”

Pakistan is currently undergoing a massive, world-leading and surprising solar revolution. It would be a pretty massive mess if all of that just ends up serving Bitcoin mining demand instead of cutting down on fossil fuels.

New from @aristeinhorn.bsky.social in today's Hard Reset: "What sort of large-scale financial fraud is able to continue, as diplomacy centers around the Trump family’s financial agenda and corruption?" hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/trumps-fam...

Wonder how the Google and YouTube sales people feel about this. They didn’t sign up to be propagandists for a genocide but maybe it’s all cool bro because of sales bonus? open.substack.com/pub/dropsite...

Great day for the oligarchs

“Punjab is facing what officials call the worst flooding in its history, with more than 2.4 million people affected and thousands of villages inundated…” tribune.com.pk/story/256454...

“256 GW in just six months” wow

“easy to point to the President & blame him for it, or if you’re a Republican, blame the preceding admin. But the truth is much less comforting. It is the billionaires in Silicon Valley, & those who befriended & enabled them, who have brought us to this dangerous...” @matthewstoller.bsky.social