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Charles Monaco

@charlesmonaco.com
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Digital strategy for organizations and campaigns. New Yorker. More likely to find me here than the other place. prev: @workingfamilies.org @nywfp.bsky.social

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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Tomorrow, on October 1, the biggest transfer of wealth from the working class to the wealthy hits a critical milestone. Many of the provisions from the Big Ugly Bill will go into effect, harming hundreds of thousands of Michiganders in order to create tax cuts for the richest people in America.
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The collapse of support for Trump in the Rio Grande Valley is a big story of the moment. It's more deserving of our attention than what some centrist tweeted somewhere, believe it or not.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Meta is tapping "into a tax credit intended for research and experimentation. It’s an aggressive interpretation of the tax break, which Meta embraced to claim billions of dollars in tax credits for data center expansion."
nytimes.com
How Meta Uses A.I. Data Centers to Avoid Billions in Federal Taxes
Meta is exploiting a lucrative tax break intended to support research and experimentation. Its own accountants say the gambit is risky.
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Jared Yates Sexton @jysexton.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Just helping with editing here. These bots aren’t sentient. They’re doing what they’re programmed to do. OpenAI, a private company supposedly bound by laws, committed federal crimes.
Screenshot of BBC article: OpenAI bots (struck through) meddled with multiple US government agency sites
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Sam @samd.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
it’s genuinely fascinating how establishment democratic politics in big cities has become so ossified and incompetent that they’ve created a huge lane for the left to embrace good government reforms and build a broad coalition of socialists and technocrats
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Charles Monaco @charlesmonaco.com · 26/09/2026
You used to be able to start a war and get popular from it in this country
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Greg Sargent @gregsargent.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Trump is raging at news orgs for refusing to cover his reception of Xi after he banned three from the White House. The real lesson here: When institutions join together to resist his abuses of power it actually works, sending him into a helpless fury. New from me: newrepublic.com/article/2158...
newrepublic.com
Trump’s Angry Tirade Over Failing Press Ban Reveals His Achilles’ Heel
Trump is furious that news organizations are fighting back against his vile efforts to punish their colleagues—because collective resistance to his authoritarianism actually works.
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Charles Monaco @charlesmonaco.com · 26/09/2026
You used to be able to start a war and get popular from it in this country
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Quinta Jurecic @qjurecic.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump’s hissy fit over White House press passes is a signal of what to expect during his lame -duck period: petty, self-defeating chaos
theatlantic.com
The Two-Year Temper Tantrum to Come
Trump’s recent kerfuffle with the press is a preview of his next era.
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Joshua Holland @joshuaholland.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I had plenty of uncertainty about what was to come when Trump won a second term but I had no doubt at all that he’d be wildly unpopular as soon as he reminded the American people who he was.
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Charles Monaco @charlesmonaco.com · 24/09/2026
A lot of comparisons to 2018 and 2006 going around. Or 2010 or 1994. Might be time to start looking at 1974.
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Charles Monaco @charlesmonaco.com · 23/09/2026
Recursive self-degradation
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damniel spookradski @self.agency · 23/09/2026
it's not enough that they stole all the web's content, they're also stealing all the web's traffic so that they can serve ads on what they stole and profit from it
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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
According to the Swan/Haberman book, Trump became an evangelist for AI after someone used ChatGPT to turn one of his executive orders into a poem.
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Charles Monaco @charlesmonaco.com · 22/09/2026
"There is power, there is leverage right now"
nytimes.com
How Unions Are Confronting A.I. Threats in the Workplace
The machinists union shows how workers are negotiating for a say in the ways artificial intelligence is used in their workplaces.
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Charles Monaco @charlesmonaco.com · 22/09/2026
Someone check on Slovenian TLD owners
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Charles Monaco @charlesmonaco.com · 22/09/2026
The least popular U.S. war ever, with room to decline further
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Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Trump is popular with people he himself finds repulsive and contemptible; Mamdani is popular with the people whose approval Trump has always craved.
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Aaron Huertas @aaronhuertas.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Related to the Two Brains news, saying computers can do human level thinking requires understanding how our own minds and bodies work and that remains an incredibly open frontier of discovery.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Portrait of a community fundamentally premised on the abrogation of consent
nytimes.com
The A.I. Party House Where Networking Has a Dark Side
Group tech houses have proliferated across the San Francisco Bay Area in the artificial intelligence boom. One of the most prominent has also racked up an extensive police record.
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shauna @goldengateblond.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
among other things, this is disqualifying for his inevitable potus run. if you won’t stand up to the billionaires and you can’t tell when they’re lying (which is always), you’re no better than what we have now.
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Charles Monaco @charlesmonaco.com · 21/09/2026
The Sixths need to play all of Hyacinths And Thistles here
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Gregg Levine @greggjlevine.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Humans at NORAD thought to call Greenland, where the radar was stationed. Some human in the loop was uncertain about the “certainty” of the machine’s 99.9% finding, namely because this human knew that Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev was actually in New York that day. Moral of the story: HUMANS!
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Marisa Kabas @marisakabas.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
"In past conflicts, preparing lists of proposed targets — work that includes assessing how they align with an operation’s objectives — had taken hours for staffers to complete. Ahead of the US attack on Iran, much of that work was condensed into several minutes via Maven," a Palantir AI system.
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
This is the type of AI disaster scenario that I ACTUALLY worry about. (1) AI industry oversells the capabilities of its products to score fat government contracts. (2) govt puts the AI in charge of critical shit. (3) AI fucks up, because it has a nonzero error rate. (4) shit, now we’re at war.
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Charles Monaco @charlesmonaco.com · 18/09/2026
New email from @aoc.bsky.social to her list with some of her most expansive comments yet on AI: "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that AI robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves."
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
With reference to scholars who have been following them for some time, Nathalie Maréchal traces how ideas such as transhumanism, longtermism, and effective altruism converge into "the AI cult,” and why she thinks policymakers and the public can't afford to ignore it.
techpolicy.press
What Policymakers and the Public Need to Know About the Cult of AI
Nathalie Maréchal asks, why are we betting the economy and the future of democracy on cult-like beliefs?
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Robert Cruickshank @robertcruickshank.com · 17/09/2026
Trump has said it openly: he thinks inflation is worth it to achieve his larger goals and that everyone should just fall in line. The country mostly does not agree.
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Jesse Myerson @jessemyerson.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Occupy Wall Street, which began 15 years ago today, was cringey, politically immature, and pathologically attached to certain ideas that turned out to be self-undermining. But darn it, we changed the world. Happy S17 to all who observe.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17/09/2026
Trump on his Iran war: "You have a higher gas -- it's a very inexpensive price to pay for what we've done. Remember that. It's a little more. Frankly, even if it was a lot more."
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Anil Dash @anildash.com · 16/09/2026
On the other hand, they also don’t understand the technology.
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Josh Marshall @joshtpm.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This is a big deal on its own. But hard to overstate the level of fail on Trump's part. He committed various high crimes to boot the old Fed chief and finally appoint his own nepo-by-marriage-Fed Chief, all to get soft money policies. And now his new guy has raised rates. Sad.
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Charles Monaco @charlesmonaco.com · 16/09/2026
Incredibly useful guide, and much easier than trying to map out dozens of Twitter fights:
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Tim Sherratt @wragge.hcommons.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/09/2026
So Internet Archive, Open Street Map, and Zenodo all currently getting hammered by fucking AI bots. Core pieces of research infrastructure under threat. And those of us trying to keep resources online for the public become the unpaid servants of the mega-rich AI shysters.
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Mark Jacob @markjacob.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Every time we push back against attempts by the rich and powerful to shut us up, it encourages more of us to speak out. People power is a real thing. Use it!
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Charles Monaco @charlesmonaco.com · 15/09/2026
The lamer a duck he becomes, the more this may play out in vengeance against the Republican Party specifically
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Charles Monaco @charlesmonaco.com · 15/09/2026
“Just a few hundred thousand of you who we are kicking off of Medicaid in January”
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...
404media.co
Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...
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Charles Monaco @charlesmonaco.com · 14/09/2026
"There is a more direct path. The workers can take action themselves. They can organize, and they can make demands, and they can, if necessary, stop doing harmful work, in a coordinated fashion."
hamiltonnolan.com
Unionize AI
Is a strike less realistic than building a doomsday machine on purpose?
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Charles Monaco @charlesmonaco.com · 14/09/2026
A bill to repeal the 2001 AUMF was introduced late last year by @jayapal.house.gov and Rep. Tom Massie. Here is the current list of co-sponsors:
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Charles Monaco @charlesmonaco.com · 14/09/2026
25 years ago today, @barbaraleeformayor.bsky.social cast the sole vote in Congress against an authorization for the use of military force that has been cited by presidents of both parties to justify a quarter-century of global atrocities in our name. The AUMF is still active.
youtube.com
Speech on 9/14/01
YouTube video by Rep. Barbara Lee
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
"People are really mad and however mad you are, it’s not enough. Because there is something so profound about no longer believing in the future, about seeing no value in our shared home, in the natural world. They’re traitors to creation.” www.theguardian.com/books/2026/s...
theguardian.com
Naomi Klein: ‘Extreme wealth has a deranging effect. It turns you into a supremacist’
She’s tackled neoliberalism and the digital world, now the writer and activist is taking on tech billionaires. She explains how the super-rich are capitalising on climate and financial chaos in pursui...
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Chase Madar @madar.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
I was a fully grown adult at the time of 9/11 attacks, which i first learned about by seeing the north tower burning with my own eyes from my building’s front door, and I thought the response of most American political elites over the following months and years to be garbage. I still think that.
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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
It was an MLM convention. Anyone whose Dad ever sold Amway knows what this was. The downlines have tapped out their networks and are dropping off, garages full of product they can’t move and broken homes waiting for them when they get back.
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Charles Monaco @charlesmonaco.com · 10/09/2026
Hope the airbags are still working.
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Charles Monaco @charlesmonaco.com · 10/09/2026
They are still coming for every second of our lives and more and more people want out
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Charles Monaco @charlesmonaco.com · 08/09/2026
A party is not the sum of its appeals to voters, but who it acts accountable to.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Here's an anecdote: On 9/10/2001, The Onion staff had a New York launch party at the Bowery Ballroom to celebrate the staff's move from Madison, Wisconsin to New York City. They woke up hungover, took a week off, and then produced one of the greatest front pages in the history of newspapers.
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