Very interested in the tech employee to poet pipeline.

Smart man @aristeinhorn.bsky.social interviewed musician today who had success on Spotify but is now really concerned about AI slop open.substack.com/pub/hardrese... via @hardresetmedia.com

I’m convinced that Katie Miller thinks the Handmaid’s Tale is a romcom

In Jan '25, a whistleblower filed a complaint to the FTC about Amazon’s deal w/robotics startup Covariant. The FTC hasn't said a peep since. @aristeinhorn.bsky.social & I dug into the whistleblower complaint, the FTC's shoddy state, Big Tech’s reverse acquihire reliance, & Amazon's robotics plans

"Chopra AI is a sales product, part PR, part new gadget — a polished and scrubbed AI-version of exactly the person he wants us to think he is." - @aristeinhorn.bsky.social on the self-help gurus cashing in on AI chatbots: www.hardresetmedia.com/p/deepak-cho...

Very compassionate. We should all apply:

A man suffered a sudden brain aneurysm, and didn’t have a will. He’s been caught in the guardianship system ever since—and his purported consciousness and the potential improvement of his minimal brain activity are being used as the reasons to keep him alive. I wrote about it for Slate:

Rachel Aviv reviewed four decades’ worth of Oliver Sack’s journals—many of which had never been read before. What she found reveals how the neurologist’s own stories shaped the ones he told about his patients.

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“the more we try to make AI become more human, the more humans seem to be acting like AI.” - @aristeinhorn.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/hardrese...

Reporting from @websummit.bsky.social in Lisbon, @aristeinhorn.bsky.social makes the case that what distinguishes this #AI boom from other big moments in tech is a distinct lack of culture. Read the full piece at Hard Reset now and let us know what you think! www.hardresetmedia.com/p/does-the-a...

According to @microsoft.com we may not need the law anymore 🤔

Microsoft’s new argument as to why we need more data centers for AI: it will finally bring developing countries in places like Africa into an era of electricity. 🤔

Disney: Be a beautiful princess and a prince will marry you and live happy ever after. Kpop Demon Hunters: Start a girl band with your best friends and slay all the boy demons to save the world.

NYC techies— We see you, we hear you, we know you need a laugh. That’s why the Hard Reset team is bringing you @NathanMacIntosh at @marylou_nyc on Dec 2nd! Doors open at 6:30 PM with drinks & networking to follow. Grab your ticket here: luma.com/0aj3jn1n

"We’re hearing a lot about healthcare — not like fearful of “it’s coming,” but that it’s already here. We’ve heard stories about how overriding an A.I. decision in the hospital is extremely hard." - @lorenagonzalez.bsky.social of @californialabor.bsky.social www.hardresetmedia.com/p/fighting-f...

In a shocking reality check, @wired.com is not, in fact, bankrolled by “donations from far left organizations.” We actually rely on an amazing and growing audience of subscribers to support our journalism, so please subscribe to WIRED if you don’t already.

“We are treating AI as if it is operating under typical market imperatives. But what we’re actually seeing is a market that is being backstopped by government intervention,” said @smw.bsky.social to @hardresetmedia.com. Read the interview here: www.hardresetmedia.com/p/the-fusing...

Hello! I'm joining @elirosenberg.bsky.social, @aristeinhorn.bsky.social, and @williamfitz.bsky.social as a writer at @hardresetmedia.com, a publication/newsletter about tech, politics, power, and media. These are all of my favorite things to write/report on, so I'm very excited to get going

Excited for this new kind of investigative journalism and fraud fighting in the whistleblower space - go team 🔥

"What’s changed with the #Vercel example...is that there’s a certain level of boldness and freeness to those who are leaving and making their departure known." - @aristeinhorn.bsky.social for Hard Reset: www.hardresetmedia.com/p/a-selfie-w... #ai #gaza

If you were only on bluesky last week you would have missed this. After Vercel CEO posted a selfie on X with Netanyahu a drove of customers dropped the company and some staff left. Tech culture has shifted on support for Israel. open.substack.com/pub/hardrese...

NEW: @aristeinhorn.bsky.social speaks with @jenawuu.bsky.social, ex-Meta and Uber policy lead, on what it was like inside those companies, what drove her to leave the tech world, and how she's changing things from the outside: www.hardresetmedia.com/p/ex-meta-ub...

Larry Ellison is more low-key than Musk or Zuck, but he and his son are constructing a chokehold on the structures and systems powering our information and media ecosystems. @aristeinhorn.bsky.social’s latest for Hard Reset: hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/the-billio... #ai #oracle #datacenter

- Yesterday @aristeinhorn.bsky.social followed up on a crazy post from a couple months ago on a Pakistani memoir-writing scam targeting elder Americans, and how it connects to Trump's latest bitcoin mining scam: hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/trumps-fam...

Great talking to Hard Reset about how we came to "be ubiquitous online" and the process of "shining a light on the way that our unequal society is increasingly tilted toward the powerful." hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/the-bernie...

"He told me we needed to do a campaign to greenwash the data centers as it was going to become a problem in the future" V good post here detailing the PR strategy of companies and most importantly, how they're winning flat out right now -> hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/ai-energy-...

For @hard-reset.bsky.social, I wrote about the spin machine behind big tech and AI energy use. They really don’t want you to think AI is using much energy. Don’t believe their cherry-picked data. hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/ai-energy-...

“But when it comes to places like Palantir or Lockheed Martin, in my friend groups and circles, it’s a hard no. If you are actively contributing to the harm of marginalized communities, it’s not something we are interested in.” hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/hot-girls-... #DumpPalantir

More excellent thinking and writing from John Herrman on the way the tech future collapses wishes into tactics. You don’t own the future by winning it. You own it by naming it. nymag.com/intelligence...

✨ My Vietnam essay is finally out in @slate.com. This one means a lot to me—about family, history, and going home. slate.com/life/2025/08...

This was a good conversation! My interview with @aristeinhorn.bsky.social from @hard-reset.bsky.social where I talk about my reasons for leaving big tech, AI ethics, and how Satyajit Ray's “Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne” can inspire us to build more socially responsible technology.

Today Hard Reset published interview with @bmitra.bsky.social, former AI researcher at Microsoft where he explains that "AI hype" is the true AI product, and it's done to provide cover for social agendas. Fascinating interview by @aristeinhorn.bsky.social: hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/machine-le...

"The human cost of datacenters" - latest from @aristeinhorn.bsky.social for Hard Reset: hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/the-human-...

"the formative part of my youth was my mum basically saying: ʻGo out and live your best life” Made me so happy to be able to talk about how amazing my mum is in the @irishtimes.com www.irishtimes.com/business/202...

“I think about Hannah Arendt’s Eichmann in Jerusalem. We see different shapes and psychological profiles attracted to different functions within authoritarianism. There are the unthinking functionaries—the banality of evil.” @alistairkitchen.bsky.social to HardReset open.substack.com/pub/hardrese...

Our new publication (Hard Reset) is starting to have an impact. A recent interview we published with a fired Tesla manager was re-published by Futurism, Electrek, and Yahoo Finance. Shoutout to @aristeinhorn.bsky.social and Eli Rosenberg. hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/ex-tesla-m...

Read Hard Reset, interview with a Tesla ambassador and Cybertruck driver who turned on Elon:

“A lot of employees felt that Microsoft needed to disclose ties with governments. They didn’t sign up to work for a weapons manufacturer. At least when people work for Boeing or Lockheed Martin, they know what they’re signing up for.” hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/the-calcul...

“The (Egypt) revolution symbolized the power of the people and the power of collective action. It meant being willing to put things on the line, and to sacrifice your privilege and life for what you believe in.” Hossam Nasr in Hard Reset open.substack.com/pub/hardrese... v @aristeinhorn.bsky.social

"It’s a reminder that ordinary people can do extraordinary things, to show what courage looks like." hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/how-one-di... via @aristeinhorn.bsky.social

"Palantir is often pushed on institutions in subversive way via deep contracts, free software trials, and emergency situations. Then institutions become reliant, leading to vendor locking." @aristeinhorn.bsky.social interview w/Juan Pinto, x-Palantir hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/palantir-w...

The people who say this type of thing also have corkboards on their walls with pinned grainy photos of you and yarn “connecting the dots”

"This is what these descriptions of AI technology remind me of: a kindergarten girl peddling a stream of lies." Read the latest on Hard Reset from @aristeinhorn.bsky.social hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/ai-is-beco...

I wrote about two parallel conservation efforts in Mozambique, where a civil war ravaged the landscape, maimed lions, and starved people. Here, indigenous people, expats (including one billionaire), lions, and elephants are working to co-exist.

"The lawyers who take on these cases are people, too. Who are they, and how does their behavior ripple out to the rest of us?" Latest from @aristeinhorn.bsky.social for Hard Reset: hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/who-are-th...

Latest from @aristeinhorn.bsky.social for Hard Reset: open.substack.com/pub/hardrese...

Latest from @aristeinhorn.bsky.social for Hard Reset: "Why Are There So Few Big Tech Comms Whistleblowers?" The cultiness is real. hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/why-are-th...