New from @elirosenberg.bsky.social - The activist group @stopai.bsky.social says that A.I. is going to kill us all. Full-stop. We talked with their founder about where this gloomy philosophy came from: www.hardresetmedia.com/p/q-and-a-de...

Now more than ever, tech needs a hard reset. So we’re recognizing those using technology to create a better world with the first-ever Hard Reset Awards. Submit your nominations right here in the comments, or as a comment on the post! Categories to follow... www.hardresetmedia.com/p/announcing...

Now more than ever, tech needs a hard reset. So we’re recognizing those using technology to create a better world with the first-ever Hard Reset Awards. Submit your nominations right here in the comments, or as a comment on the post! Categories to follow... www.hardresetmedia.com/p/announcing...

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...

"We have to figure out the business model for A.I. that somehow pays quality creators for their content in a meaningful way." - @elirosenberg.bsky.social had a really interesting convo with Steve Grove, @startribune.com publisher. Read the full interview: www.hardresetmedia.com/p/a-q-and-a-...

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

"This overall structure of coercion and intimidation that big tech is setting up when they are setting up these projects is something we should all be concerned about" - Jai Dulani of @mediajustice.bsky.social on #ai #datacenter and the threats to communities implicit in their construction:

From our interview with Jai Dulani of @mediajustice.bsky.social - looking at how the South bears the environmental cost of #AI data centers:

BREAKING: Prince George's County, the DC suburb of about 1 million people, is moving to suspend all data center permits while a task force completes a review of the projects and their impacts.

We spoke with Jai Dulani of @mediajustice.bsky.social on how folks in the South are showing up and fighting back against ruthless AI data center expansion:

It was a wild weekend in tech and labor. Going to round up some of the biggest stories we're tracking right now. First up, xAI laid off 500 of 1500 workers after asking each of them to do an overnight skills test. (Via reporting by Grace Kay at Business Insider) #ai #tech #labor

We’ve hit the big leagues! Thanks everyone for subscribing. If you find our posts interesting, please share with someone you think would too: hardresetmedia.substack.com

What is the implication of the unemployment rate being the same for college and non-college educated men between 22-27? We dive deeper into it in today’s Hard Reset: hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/we-spoke-w...

“But the A.I. chat bots are selling a kind of magic — a kind of magic they appear capable of when they succeed at performing a credible simulacrum of human intelligence.” @elirosenberg.bsky.social on @karenhao.bsky.social's Empire of AI: hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/data-in-do...

This week in Hard Reset, @elirosenberg.bsky.social expands on a key moment from @karenhao.bsky.social's excellent book Empire of AI, and the impact of the decisions made between GPT-2 and 3 on the industry, and our world, today: hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/data-in-do... #ai #openai #chatgpt

“But the A.I. chat bots are selling a kind of magic — a kind of magic they appear capable of when they succeed at performing a credible simulacrum of human intelligence.” @elirosenberg.bsky.social wrote about @karenhao.bsky.social’s book & the data behind chatGPT open.substack.com/pub/hardrese...

For big tech, "harming working class communities of color isn't a bug in their system. It's a feature of their business model" - Interview with Jai Dulani of Media Justice, up now on Hard Reset: hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/communitie...

In this week’s Hard Reset, @williamfitz.bsky.social imagines what it would take for Silicon Valley to break rank with Trump. How far would Trump have to go for tech leaders to stop enabling his march to authoritarianism? hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/imagining-...

What would need to happen for big tech to break with Trump? For @hard-reset.bsky.social, I tried to imagine what would it take for some of the individuals currently enabling Trump to change course: hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/imagining-...

Busy week over here at Hard Reset! Here's what we've been working on ICYMI:

Initial data on AI's impact to jobs is showing a distinction "between industries that are using A.I. to augment work, which has not resulted in job loss, and those that have been using A.I. to automate work, which does." Read the full piece here: hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/amid-the-a...

Pakistan is currently undergoing a massive, world-leading and surprising solar revolution. It would be a pretty massive mess if all of that just ends up serving Bitcoin mining demand instead of cutting down on fossil fuels.

New from @aristeinhorn.bsky.social in today's Hard Reset: "What sort of large-scale financial fraud is able to continue, as diplomacy centers around the Trump family’s financial agenda and corruption?" hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/trumps-fam...

Trump turns to Pakistan. Pakistan starts making wild claims about bitcoin mining capabilities that would enrich the Trump family. Trump invents oil reserves in Pakistan. It's scams all the way down. @aristeinhorn.bsky.social unpacks this wild story: 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...

"The impact for me right now is documenting the struggle for local communities over oligarchy. These economic justice issues actually are gaining sway with conservatives" Read the full interview with @moreperfectunion.bsky.social's @faiz.bsky.social here: hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/the-bernie...

As platforms like OnlyFans continue to monetize parasocial relationships, there's an interesting conversation to be had about whether it's better for people to be doing that work or AI: hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/will-the-u...

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-...

"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-...

Many more people have thought about this more deeply than I have. We need to be talking about this more. bsky.app/profile/hard...

This thread is excellent but highly recommend reading the full post. One of the few actually critical looks at Google's AI data center energy usage claims, vs. most news orgs reprinting Google's PR claims (hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/ai-energy-...)

"The report TechEquity released seemed to underscore a message for policymakers: don’t fear A.I. but regulate it." Some "blunt and absolutist" protesters in the building however had a different message. Latest from Hard Reset: hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/sounding-t...

via @bcmerchant.bsky.social - "...a full *70% of Californians* were in favor of “strong laws” that regulate AI" www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-califo...

💼 Interview with workers in the data annotation industry: “[W]orkers across the globe toil, sometimes for very low wages and under stressful conditions, to do repetitive and menial digital tasks to train A.I. systems. @hard-reset.bsky.social @elirosenberg.bsky.social buff.ly/ELDuAmp

💼 Interview with workers in the data annotation industry: “[W]orkers across the globe toil, sometimes for very low wages and under stressful conditions, to do repetitive and menial digital tasks to train A.I. systems. @hard-reset.bsky.social @elirosenberg.bsky.social buff.ly/ELDuAmp

New on @hard-reset.bsky.social today about how AI is made. @elirosenberg.bsky.social spoke w/ @ephantuskanyugi.bsky.social & @joan1k.bsky.social from @datalabelers.bsky.social. If you use AI, give it a read, not to feel bad, but to understand how it's made hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/we-intervi...

"Fostering a community is going to push the left further" - we spoke with Cait Camelia, who founded Hot Girls for Zohran, on the success of the movement and why it can be a blueprint for future efforts: hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/hot-girls-...

New feature: @ucblaborcenter.bsky.social's @mishal-khan.bsky.social on the tsunami of legislation over the past few months that regulates AI and other digital technologies and that impacts workers: hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/roundups-o...

What building AI does to your psyche: We spoke with @joan1k.bsky.social and @ephantuskanyugi.bsky.social of @datalabelers.bsky.social on how they've organized their fellow workers who power the #AI industry to raise pay and improve working conditions: hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/we-intervi...

Join us for our first in-person event! Thursday 8/21 in SF at 5pm. Go from the sauna to the bay and back while meeting others navigating today’s tech landscape and swapping ideas on what’s next. Register free here: hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/pop-up-eve...

We've covered stories of tech workers organizing internally at their companies against tech's authoritarian turn. Today we're focusing on those who saw that a different path can be taken outside of the tech world entirely and gave it all up: hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/leaving-or...

“Do U.S. companies have a social mission or obligation outside of their bottom lines — a duty to ensure that their products are used responsibly and not for violence, conflict and legal and human rights violations, as is likely the case in Gaza?” hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/will-big-t...

"The glaring exposure of Microsoft’s connection to the atrocities in Gaza has the potential to be a spark that starts a small fire." Latest from Hard Reset and @williamfitz.bsky.social - read the full piece now: hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/will-big-t...

ICYMI - @elirosenberg.bsky.social's roundup of "frenzied and apocalyptic" AI news this week, from super intelligence to full psychosis: hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/another-we...

"It could cause large scale job loss! But create jobs too! OpenAI is honing a complicated and potentially contradictory narrative about A.I." Latest from @elirosenberg.bsky.social on OpenAI's attempt to convince us their product is a net win for society: hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/the-produc...

Hundreds of acres of forest cut down. 90x the amount of annual energy used by the town's residents. Water taps running dry. ICYMI, last week Hard Reset did a deep dive on the real cost of AI data centers: hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/the-human-...

"Big tech’s response to the real needs of our communities is simply “let them eat chatbots.” - @bmitra.bsky.social interviewed in today's @hard-reset.bsky.social newsletter: hardresetmedia.substack.com/p/machine-le...