The Eric Schickler essay in Larry Bartel's symposium on "What Trump Has Taught Us About Political Science" is one of the most insightful pieces I've read in 2025. US institutions turned out to be weak, and we have to rethink conventional wisdom. open access: academic.oup.com/psq/advance-...

Wow. Must read piece from last month. Gripping insider look into the despair that fuels our current politics without despairing about it but finding a ray of light in solidarity. By former FTC commissioner who& one of my favorites on surveillance and race. Solid gold. @bedoyausa.bsky.social

Victory for GEMA in Germany against OpenAI The Munich Regional Court has handed down its much-awaited decision in GEMA v OpenAI, and it is… a lot, and right on the back of the Getty Images High Court ruling. On the surface, this looks like a clear defeat for OpenAI: the court found copyright…

At #MozFest, we organized a surprise main stage session titled "Unlearning Cisnormativity: Trans Justice is Tech Justice." The recording is now live, w/ @vektra.bsky.social, Dia Kayyali, Elijah MacKinnon, @alexhanna.bsky.social, and myself: www.mozillafestival.org/en/2025-high... @mozilla.org

"92 million low-income people in the U.S. states—everyone whose income is less than 200 percent of the federal poverty line—have some basic aspect of their lives decided by AI" www.techtonicjustice.org/reports/ines... this is a damning report

Messed up. But also erosion of trust in reality only assists the worst of power gluttonous despots.

“We think that it’s essential to balance humans and technology to keep the platform safe" #TikTok #InspireCreativity #EnrichLife

Education research org doing the hard work on how these tools are being rolled out k-12, with examples at end www.air.org/sites/defaul...

Diversify your portfolio moments. arstechnica.com/ai/2025/11/g...

Follow up news from @krisshrishak.bsky.social and @abeba.bsky.social on the letter asking President of European commission to retract his hype (Superintelligence ) and the buzz that privacy protections are threatened because of this excitement for "agi" www.techpolicy.press/ai-hype-is-s...

Anyone else watching pluribus? Cause Samsung did not... this is more of an adbusters style detournement using the tool against itself IMHO www.reddit.com/r/assholedes...

ICCL has filed a complaint to the European Ombudsman against the European Commission for its use of generative Al in public documents, which likely violates its own guidelines and its obligation under the treaties. www.iccl.ie/news/europea...

Trailer for my new video: The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance. It's on how AI culture functions like historical spiritualism using our collective grief and fear to shape beliefs that enable greater extraction, violence and the concentration of power. asapjournal.com/node/seance-...

My local library is featuring native authors and skimming through their plots was heartbreaking because so many over and over are about murders. Write what you know. Native women are murdered at 10x the national rate a direct legacy of colonialism creating extreme vulnerability

The student surveillance company proctorio which boomed during the pandemic had sued this university employee for critical tweets it said shared confidential info but just exposed their sketchy practices. www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

If algorithms work so well how come my ads are all

Trailer for my new video: The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance. It's on how AI culture functions like historical spiritualism using our collective grief and fear to shape beliefs that enable greater extraction, violence and the concentration of power. asapjournal.com/node/seance-...

Google considers ICE agents to be a vulnerable group in need of protecting but does not consider the immigrants they're hunting down to be vulnerable group www.404media.co/google-has-c...

There are a lot of efforts like this meant to educate on techs lean to authoritarianism but too often they cut out important people & orgs because they are considered more left even though if you follow the money it's the same crowd. Look at all the missing ppl here www.authoritarian-stack.info

My article on 'cute surveillance' is now out Literature: Journal of C21st Writings 'Cute Surveillance: Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Intimacy in Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes' Open access here: c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...

@eff.org Gen AI Panel Thursday: EFF Director of Policy and Advocacy @ktrendacosta.bsky.social EFF Staff Attorney Tori Noble, Berkeley Center for Law & Technology Co-Director @pamelasamuelson.bsky.social and Icarus Salon Artist @serife.bsky.social -- sign up: www.eff.org/event/effect...

Lobbyist have done their jobs and civil society needs to yell and push back here. It's a nasty precedent to loosen data privacy because the EU has AI FOMO, especially when this fear is marketing and cultural and not evidence based.. www.politico.eu/article/brus...

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! How could this even get published!??The kind of person in an office who would say something no longer can say it in this climate of fear. www.economist.com/business/202...

New art video just dropped! The 7 Trillion Dollar Seance 🔮 This is meant to be performed live, recited in front of the video at conferences, museums, public events. It got a standing ovation at Tech Together in NYC. Your phone works but best on your largest screen. vimeo.com/1116289621 🧵

This is sometimes read as "look 'AI' isn't working". But the opposite is true. _This_ is what "AI" is _for_. Push down labor power, push down wages, make employment more insecure. https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/29/forrester_ai_rehiring/

Leaks everywhere most of all with the business model which doesn't hold water www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

This is a classic line! “It’s not a ‘partnership,’” Professor Kenney said. “If you switch out the product, we would never say, ‘Xerox is collaborating with San Francisco State to offer photocopiers to all the members of its community.’”

You gotta go through your family's social media, my scammy ads are much higher quality. Meryl Streep says she has alzheimers and this one easy trick can cure it. It's very poor quality but targeted demo can't tell.

Yeah but from up close it looks more like the new world is dying and the old one is struggling to be reborn.

Between high solid wall and an egg that breaks against it. I will always stand on the side of the egg - Haruki Murakami

Caught this by luck on a TV.

They have these chat with Jesus bots now that market themselves to Christians to get closer to God and we probably haven't heard the last of how that's going to go wrong

this group built a data center tracker www.distilled.earth/p/these-data...

The International Trade Union Confederation annual list has Amazon, Anduril, Meta, Palantir, Northrop Grumman, SpaceX and vanguard as companies that violate rights and are anti-democratic ituc-csi.org/corporate-un...

This parody project has a billboard up in SF. Anyone know where the funding came from and who is behind it? It's a surprisingly large budget for a parody site... replacement.ai

I've often said my city is where we are experimented on by tech companies: launching cars, apps, services and also shifting our culture in ways that serve tech elite. It's getting scarier too www.currentaffairs.org/news/democra...

we are in a self-awareness crisis

Using partiful for your event planning and organizing? I saw the Andreeson requires his events to use partiful. nyc-noise.com/drone-party/

Salesforce thread. Board member and friend resigns. A lot of people are surprised by Benioff but these politics have been evident in his Twitter posts for many years all those rogan andreeson retweets fortune.com/2025/10/16/r...

today’s hot take: most machine learning research, particularly that touches on any human phenomena (attempts to “solve” any human related problem) is conceptually and methodologically hollow

I see your $10k meme contest on tech optimism and I raise you the 100k essay ( in total prizes) contest on positive agi futures.

SF using humor to educate and protest on Salesforce contracts with ICE. www.sfchronicle.com/sf/article/d...

High school students are using the Media Cloud database to map ICE activity around the US via news reports at icemap.dev ethanzuckerman.com/2025/10/16/t...

The increasing proliferation of facial recognition systems which often fail to properly capture and categorize disabled users with facial differences As Faces At All is leading to mischategorization, inaccessible systems, personal tech lockout, & other harms, & like… Yeah, dawg: we told you it would

It's worth noting that Trump and Republicans repeatedly criticized the Biden administration for pressuring social media companies into removing content in the past.

Red flag. There are already tons of chat 🌽services. Open AI needs the numbers because they feel pressure as they are stuck bleeding out money and need more signals of growth for investors. IMHO.

This is an alarming compression of the planetary destruction timeline: with the massive growth of the AI bubble, data centers are expected to consume up to 12% of total US electricity by 2028, up from 4.4% in 2023. www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/t...

Roland Barthes right before he died shifted away from Death of an Author (reader interprets>author intention) to the resonance of biographical textures of the author in their work. This video shows this and gen AI hype/arguments creates tension that illuminates this difficult to pin down concept.

Friend's kid Sidney just said: “I haven’t used ChatGPT and I never will. It’s for babies who ask ‘Why is my milk warm???’ and ChatGPT says ‘Did you check the expiration date?’ and the babies says “Oh, thank you, Mommy!’ when they really should’ve just put the milk in the refrigerator.”

The metaverse is a military service. Just like how hololens surprised artists by being geared for the military and not video games. What customer means more money? That's the customer that matters, all artist work and efforts will be usurped towards it.