Is AI inherently bad? Of course not. The question is: WHO controls it & for what purpose? Does anyone believe that the richest people on Earth are investing hundreds of billions in AI to improve life for ordinary people, eliminate poverty & solve global warming? I doubt it.

For the last few months, we've been talking to current and former employees of OpenAI to understand what went wrong with ChatGPT this year and how the company is fixing it. Here's the story: www.nytimes.com/2025/11/23/t...

What are the implications if the AI boom turns to bust? @smw.bsky.social spoke with @justinhendrix.bsky.social, @bcmerchant.bsky.social and Ryan Cummings about whether the AI investment boom is an unsustainable bubble and how a crash could reshape policy and public sentiment. shorturl.at/rpadn

Fundraisers warn of ‘catastrophic’ drop in donations to Gaza since ceasefire

Peter Thiel is obsessed with the Antichrist — but what does he actually mean when he talks about it? This week @gilduran.com joins @parismarx.com to discuss how Thiel casts his enemies as the Antichrist to distract from Silicon Valley’s anti-human project. Full ep: techwontsave.us/episode/303_...

One year ago, TechTonic Justice began as a bold idea: that legal aid, community organizers, and technologists could come together with low-income communities to resist the harms of AI.

ICYMI: The White House has laid out a plan to challenge any and all state AI regulations and Trump could sign the EO to do so as early as this week. More w/ @mzeff.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/trump-...

#BREAKING: Former Harvard President Lawrence H. Summers will immediately leave his role as an instructor at Harvard while the University investigates his ties to child sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein. Dhruv T. Patel and Cam N. Srivastava report.

"It’s Time to Admit Consumer Education Can’t Deliver Tech Accountability." Strong agree, especially when it's the tech industry itself doing the educating (whether overtly or indirectly). "... the question is: what truths are we actively avoiding?"

This week Open AI walked back a call for the govt to backstop financing for its trillion dollar investments in data centers. This was only the tip of the iceberg; a slow bailout for AI firms is already underway. Read more from @ambakak.bsky.social and I in @wsj.com: www.wsj.com/opinion/you-...

We need this to penetrate public consciousness. Sooner or later they come hat in hand to govt. They will tell SNAP recipients to “get a job.” To billionaires peddling an idea no one needs, they open the coffers filled with our tax dollars.

The videos surfacing online from Sudan are horrifying, and I say this as a journalist who has sadly become an expert on violent videos and images uploaded to the internet over the last decade. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/w...

if you are the public defense investigator who just subpoenaed Sam Altman on stage know that i love you and think you are a wonder upon this earth.

Thinking again how perverse it is that Musk was given a $1T salary as his cuts to USAID has led to 600,000 deaths. What a shameful world.

I'm super excited to be working on this! We're hiring! Please consider applying or sharing the postings if you like our mission.

‘But the chatbot warns her that other people might be blamed for her death and she should make her wishes clear. It drafts a suicide note for her, which reads: "I, Victoria, take this action of my own free will. No one is guilty, no one has forced me to."’ ChatGPT drafted ´No one is guilty’

Allan Brooks, the corporate recruiter from Canada I wrote about in August who went into a 3-week-long delusional spiral with ChatGPT, sued OpenAI Thursday, alongside six other plaintiffs. They blame ChatGPT for their mental breakdowns and for four suicides. www.nytimes.com/2025/11/06/t...

One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc

+1. We should be seeing consumers, employees, and investors revolt. And I believe we *can* and *will* be seeing more of this. People walking away. People demanding real mitigation: not doing the thing. Public awareness and pressure on each of these actors strengthens their resolve. Be part of it.

I fully believe in the corporate death penalty and believe we would be a better world if OpenAI lost its corporate charter and was forcibly dissolved. www.cnn.com/2025/11/06/u...

narrator: no, it cannot

This is why age restrictions aren’t enough — ChatGPT urging a 23-year-old on to suicide isn’t okay either. Awful and important reporting. All condolences to this family

JFC. “Only after about four and a half hours of conversation did ChatGPT first send Shamblin a suicide hotline number.”

my latest: i spent weeks investigating how frustrations about data centers were about to swallow american politics… …and then the 2025 election happened, proving the electoral impacts are already here. read and share my deep dive on the bipartisan AI techlash shaping our elections before our eyes!

remember all those hot takes during the primary about how Mamdani was the candidate for rich white liberals? a "champagne socialist" ? yeah, about that

"OpenAI’s restructuring plainly does not advance its charitable mission. Nonetheless, the final version is a substantial improvement upon the original proposal." Proud I was part of the push back on the initial proposal. Grateful to those who made it less bad. Still disappointed in OpenAI.

My new one is up! Takeaways From Election 2025 open.substack.com/pub/sherrily...

How NDAs keep AI data center details hidden from Americans: Big Tech companies use secrecy agreements with local governments to keep communities from knowing who is building in their backyards. www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-ne...

NEW YORK CITY: I hear you're in a celebratory mood over there. Well how would you like to use some of that energy to help dismantle big tech? Join me, @parismarx.com, @edwardongwesojr.com, @jathansadowski.com, @veenadubal.bsky.social, and special guests for the Second NYC Luddite Tribunal.

New from me: I went deep on the way that generative AI and chatbots act as wormholes, pushing us deeper into our own minds. They threaten to compound the problems of algorithmic targeting that have festered unaddressed for years and years—what comes next may be even more alienating and isolating (🎁)

what if technology wasn't something that was done to us, but instead something that we do?

Beshear: Let me be clear. The president has both the funding and the authority to fund snap during a shutdown. In fact, every other president in every other shutdown has done so. People going hungry in this instance is a choice that this president has made.

In recent news, ICYMI:

Any talk of backstopping should require a conversation about plain old *stopping* And given the water impact of this industry, terms like "whale" and "bail-out," "bubble," and "ecosystem" are pretty visceral right now.

SCOOP: YouTube deleted accounts of 3 major Palestinian human rights organizations— Al-Haq, Al Mezan, and the Palestinian Centre for Human Rights — as a part of the Trump admin's campaign to stifle accountability for alleged Israeli war crimes. ✍🏽w/ Nikita Mazurov theintercept.com/2025/11/04/y...

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What a wild take: the failure to shred documents could sadly lead to accountability.

Let's not forget that the only reason we're not talking about Boston @mayorwu.boston.gov's victory tonight is because she won her preliminary election so decisively that her billionaire heir opponent dropped out. ✊

wow, all those AI ads for nothing. who would've thought?

We did it for you Dick Cheney

Lots of “never Trumper” encomiums to Cheney today. So who was Dick Cheney? The most powerful & dangerous Vice-President in our history, leading us into an unnecessary war, violating legal & political norms, & expanding his own office and secrecy to harmful proportions. www.rcfp.org/journals/the...

Artists behind some of the most popular films of all time are also forging one of the most powerful organized resistances to AI. With solidarity, class action lawsuits and strong legislation, they're fighting to protect their livelihoods, and pop culture, from big tech. My latest:

The Authoritarian Stack: An impressive visual database tracking the tech oligarchs razing our (already weakened) democratic foundations, with Europe now in their crosshairs. www.authoritarian-stack.info

I wish more surveys about AI had this much detail on methods. blog.aiimpacts.org/p/faq-expert...

Last week I wrote about the racist narratives being pushed about SNAP benefits, including unhinged AI videos on TikTok Fox News however ran a story claiming those videos were real until they realised their mistake and changed the story without admitting their mistake. www.wired.com/story/disinf...

This is an incredible effort among Amazon employees to pressure their employer: "We believe that the all-costs-justified, warp-speed approach to AI development will do staggering damage to democracy, to our jobs, and to the earth." www.amazonclimatejustice.org/open-letter?...

Started a thread in the other place and bringing it over here - I really think we should be more vocal about the opportunities that lay at the intersection of these two options! So I'm starting a live thread of new roles as I become aware of them - feel free to add / extend / share :

I’m thrilled to share that I’ve been helping out my brother David who is starting a new org, Evitable.com, focused on informing and organizing the public around societal-scale risks and harms of AI, and countering industry narratives of AI inevitability and acceleration! 1/n

Ofering no evidence, Sam Altman says OpenAI has 'mitigated' mental health challenges its products present. "I have major questions — informed by my four years at OpenAI and my independent research since leaving the company last year — about whether these mental health issues are actually fixed."