One of the more misogynistic takes currently trending in the AI policy space is "women use less AI than men because they have less tech literacy" Ok but have you considered that women use less AI than men because we have more tech literacy?

The surveillance state is a problem. AI companies market their tech as crime-prevention tools. Govt monitors our every move to crack down on dissent. It’s time to push back: we @freepress.bsky.social launched #SOS w/ dozens of civil rights orgs to #stopgovtspying: www.solidarityoversurveillance.com

Pass the Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act. Now. Pass strong, comprehensively consumer privacy protections. Now. Cut off foreign adversaries from buying Americans data. Now. Lawmakers are pushing for this fix to be voted on as part of the pending FISA deadline. Speaker Johnson is refusing.

I've been warning about this moment for two decades over at Techdirt The U.S. is too corrupt to regulate data brokers (and their exploitation and sale of location data) and the check has come due

I, for one, am thrilled to see “dismantle the surveillance advertising business model” listed among the “Project 2029” policy proposals. If we manage that, and another dozen things besides, we might have a shot at reconstructing democracy.

Erin Brockovich has been fighting evil corporations that pollute the environment for so long that there was a Hollywood movie about her starring Julia Roberts back in 2000. It's a bad sign for the AI industry that she is now on the anti-data center bandwagon.

As I was saying: www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/o...

When politicians say they can't hold corporations accountable, remember: they can. They just choose not to.

lots of discussion on how this will affect tech jobs, but once again this applies to academia also every professor you know on a visa will now have to leave the US for a green card, sometimes for multiple years. many will give up in the process. universities may not give them back their jobs.

If someone wants to leak me a copy of this app (either .apk or .ipa), please reach out on Signal — my username is zackwhittaker.1337 — and I would be keen to run this app through Burp Suite to see how it works. Happy to grant anonymity.

WTF ?!?! Fuck you, Apple.

Because personal stories matter: this policy would have destroyed my nuclear family had this been in place a few years ago. I can think of dozens of people, from all walks of life, this would have wrecked or may yet wreck. The cruelty is the point.

Calling a bathroom ban "respectful" has nothing to do with respect for trans people; it's only a sign of how shamelessly transphobes lie.

We would also solve a lot of the nasty stuff we see happening with commercial tech use in conflict, so absolutely yes!

Exactly how many stories need to run about Mark Zuckerberg doing or saying something evil and stupid before it becomes the consensus view that he is, in fact, evil and stupid?

a company claiming to be worth $1.75 trillion reporting a $4.9 billion net loss on $18.67 billion in consolidated revenue for 2025, all run by a white supremacist fake engineer with a head full of cottage fucking cheese I'm sure it will go fine

this is unworkably insane as well as morally repellent, and still isn't going to win the government any points at all from the people who are now going to tour the country waging lawfare against any organisations that look like they might be treating trans people with dignity

Abolishing dual-class share structures should be at the top of the post-Trump Reconstruction agenda. This 2021 article, written with @hackylawyer.bsky.social & @janrydzak.bsky.social, touches on why.

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Obviously, Maureen Galindo is a ridiculous conspiracy theorist whose brain has been seemingly steeped in some sort of algorithmic hellscape, but 🚨🚨🚨 no, I do not think that we need "Section 230 reform" to fight antisemitism, former Second Gentleman Doug. Absolutely tf not.

I wrote about money being paid out and court settlements being written to establish alternate realities. The Alex Berenson handout is the kind of thing we’re gonna be seeing a lot more of if this insane $1.776 billion “weaponization” fund is deployed. open.substack.com/pub/agentsof...

Correction: I don’t actually think it’s a mistake. I think it’s a deliberate rhetorical strategy to paint those who resist the AI industry’s power-grab as hapless dummies who fear/hate all technology.

The louder we get about resisting the AI industry's mass immiseration project, the more industry mouthpieces like the Chamber of "Progress" will try to convince the Democratic party to avoid aligning itself with voter sentiment. Case in point: this drivel from the "Blue Horizon Project"

Nice piece on the value of being a technopragmatist in 2026 from @nathaliemarechal.net :

Great stuff!

it's actually true that you cannot fund good government entirely by taxing the rich, which is why slopulist proposals to gut the tax base are a bad idea but taxing the rich at punitive levels is a goal in and of itself, billionaires are simply too dangerous to public policy to exist

Economic illiteracy

Fantastic read by @karlbode.com on the bubbling over of AI rage, including by kids and young adults today. "Why the living shit would any of these kids believe anything being sold to them about any of this? ...All these kids have ever known is a world intentionally set on fire by terrible men."

I maintain that the abundance movement is a political project designed by the extraction class to pre-empt authentic populist progressive reform with something akin to 00s era Obama vibes based deregulatory corporatism and I don't love that honest reformers have been forced to adopt the parlance

I say again: Seems the only way these hypemerchants & advantage-takers might maybe learn that a very large swathe of people fucking hate the current paradigm of "AI" & all it stands for is by facing large crowds of people very clearly telling them "No." They're lucky folx're still using their words.

Bravo, bankers!

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Canadians overwhelmingly support encryption and reject expanded government access to private messages. New research by CDT finds deep public concern with key surveillance powers proposed in Bill C-22, including risks to privacy, free expression, and online security.

People dunking on Katie clearly haven’t spent their career being talked over, ignored, mansplained, and rhetorically demoted because of who they are or what they look like. Must be nice!

Relatedly, people in positions of authority in academe openly talk about using AI, for tasks that require some human judgement (but that they have been used to getting human assistants to do as well). Ditto those accustomed to having RAs to order around. Gendered, but also other hierachies at work.

I wrote this one angry: About the tireless efforts to sanitize the discourse, about the fact that we are constantly asked to come up with exculpatory tales, to please not call those pursuing a political project of re-segregation racists - so mean! so “divisive”! - or segregationists.

good thing we live in a country too corrupt to pass modern privacy laws under an autocracy that just lobotomized all our consumer protection regulators

New from me: Why can't America have nice things like democracy? The answer is white supremacy. Let's talk about why the fight for a true multiracial democracy is the only way to get the America we want. www.altrightdelete.news/p/erosion

just open contempt for the united states as a pluralist and secular democracy. and a reminder that the function of the fiction that the united states was founded as a fundamentalist christian nation is to establish a hierarchy of human worth with white christians at the top

Forget the “Who delivered the best commencement speech?” debate. Instead, give me scenes of students loudly and proudly denouncing speakers spreading AI hype.

again, staying completely silent on the actual merits of ai, the initial ai boosters basically campaigned on "this will eliminate your job, forever, and make me personally rich." it should not surprise *anyone* that this provoked a backlash.

Look at these cowards over here, thinking their complicity will protect them.

Check out my new report with @openmarkets.bsky.social, “No Bailouts for Big Tech Billionaires: Policies for when the AI bubble bursts.” The title gives you a sense of its content. Available in audio/podcast form on Spotify, in addition to text!

Hey, doctors. I know you are loving AI recording our visits and transcribing notes for you. But bragging how much time it saves you while I sit there realizing you don't think about my medical problem ever again after leaving because you have your AI write it up for you is um... not trust inducing.

I am not worried software is suddenly going to decide it wants power over humanity. I am worried about what people who already have power over humanity can do with that software.

"The oligarchs want a permanent ruling class. The extremists want a permanent underclass to grind a boot into. The deal between them is straightforward enough: the oligarchs get captured courts and permanent tax cuts, the extremists get their hierarchy of human worth written back into the law"

Boston City Council gets it.

This is today at 10am!

In advance of this morning’s oral argument, here’s a great piece from @thecoalition.bsky.social’s @geurkink.bsky.social on the ways in which this policy is making us all dumber.