🚨 BREAKING: We filed SEVEN new lawsuits against OpenAI and Sam Altman in California state courts, alongside Social Media Victims Law Center. The suits allege wrongful death, assisted suicide, involuntary manslaughter, and a variety of product liability, consumer protection, and negligence claims. 🧵

The 24 corporations funding Trump's ballroom have received $279 billion in government contracts in the past 5 years. Most of them are facing federal enforcement actions. These are not random donations. It's a clear as day effort to kiss up to the Trump admin.

It makes me very happy to know my book 📖 Corporatocracy is available through the @nycplan.org web.nypl.org/research/res... 📚

On Oct. 29, I'll be at Busboys and Poets in DC where I'm talking with Daniel Greene, Corey Frayer, and Sandeep Vaheesan about how MAGA and the tech right found common cause, DOGE, and this whole democracy business. www.busboysandpoets.com/events/th-ev...

i won

I'm more of a slime mold fan, but I do love and appreciate mushrooms adding to the ambience of this season. #NationalMushroomDay

going to a thing with a costume contest tonight, I’m probably gonna win

my kid found me a birthday present

the RI Mycological Society made this to promote an event where I’ll be tabling at Borders Farm Saturday 10/18 10am-noon

I don't like him personally, but David Simon on AI is the final word on the subject.

gonna get extremely middle aged this weekend

if you want a picture of the future, imagine a human face staring at their rebooting device, forever

Finished a book by @rickclaypool.bsky.social and eating something that looks like it came from the book.

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Finally reading Skull Slime Tentacle Witch War by @rickclaypool.bsky.social I mean this in the best way: if you ever wished for more of the MTV 80s animation block called Liquid Television, this is the literary equivalent. It reminds me to be more weird and pursue awesomeness.

now is the time of monsters xraylitmag.com/underground-...

xraylitmag.com/underground-... Great set of recommendations. Honored my little debut novella made the list.

a little treat for you freaks

In this video, our slime mold hero heads toward the honey to eat up all the glucose, then sets up shop farming microbes in yogurt town!

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Trump Has Dropped a Third of All Government Investigations Into Big Tech 🔗 www.404media.co/trump-has-dr...

My new @publiccitizen.bsky.social report exposes the Trump admin’s retreat from federal enforcement against lawbreaking by Big Tech corporations. Below is a thread of the most important findings. Click the link to read the full report 👇 (1/23)

🚨 New findings on Big Tech's regulatory erasures, especially with regard to crypto and labor (Upwork, ScaleAI). And incredible documenting of Uber's footprints in this assault: I didn't know Uber's co-founder was involved in hiring for DOGE.

Data is from @publiccitizen.bsky.social

Just how little tech enforcement has the second Trump admin been doing? It’s actually quite astounding when you look at the numbers. Good time to be a crypto company facing pre-Trump 2.0 legal action (exclu from a Public Citizen report, appearing first in Inner Loop): www.wired.com/story/james-...

A new report from @publiccitizen.bsky.social on how the Trump administration has ended enforcement actions and investigations — many against technology companies that have spent more than a billion dollars on lobbying, campaign contributions, and payments to Trump businesses.

New @publiccitizen.bsky.social report: The Trump admin is deleting enforcement against Big Tech lawbreaking amidst the industry's BILLION-dollar influence efforts. Turns out in Trump's techno-swamp, tech insiders are immune & "tough on crime" rhetoric is just for punishing the poor.

John Oliver’s latest show was about corporate crime and cited @publiccitizen.bsky.social’s Corporate Enforcement Tracker www.citizen.org/article/corp...

John Oliver dug up old footage of Trump defending corruption on TV. He also issued the first-ever corporate pardon to BitMEX, "which had been sentenced to a $100 million fine for violating an anti-money laundering law."

John Oliver’s latest show was about corporate crime and cited @publiccitizen.bsky.social’s Corporate Enforcement Tracker www.citizen.org/article/corp...

pretty excited about @lastweektonight.com tonight

the big boletes have begun

lol the author suggesting leftists don’t argue with each other showing he has never in his life interacted with groups of actual leftists

Comrades fungi stand in solidarity with workers. Boycott Windmill Mushroom Products!

Not now, giant mysterious pulsing entity beneath the earth's crust that could tear a continent apart

I wrote more about romantic AI chatbots and why tech can't be trusted to solve feelings of isolation here: open.substack.com/pub/michaele...

Trump's DOJ dropped Toyota's bribery investigation a week after announcing its weakened enforcement policy. In May, Trump's CFPB scrapped a Toyota consent decree, sparing the corporation from paying $40 million in refunds. Quite the return on Toyota's $1 million inaugural gift!

how the fuck does anybody concentrate on anything anymore

Overjoyed to report one of my favorite slime molds reappeared today after I haven’t seen it for about 3 years. Delighted to see you again, old friend

in the woods, screaming

Sure, generative AI consumes unimaginable amounts of fuel and fresh water, and requires a vast workforce of digital sweatshop workers, and appropriates without compensation every work of art ever created, but have you considered it also helps people completely lose their minds?

This book rulz! So much so I used a Z! Get it!

probably the best absurdist weird fiction for the current moment, too

Local book alert!

good news, Amazon avoiders: Skull Slime Tentacle Witch War is on Bookshop dot org now 💀🫠💖 bookshop.org/p/books/skul...

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“sure we’re sellouts, but have you considered we’re also losers”

If Trump's DOJ hadn't worked out a deal to help Boeing avoid going to trial for its crimes, that trial would be starting on Monday