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Edward Ongweso Jr

@edwardongwesojr.com
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writer, editor, degenerate, Luddite, decel thetechbubble.substack.com

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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 21/09/2026
lol why is this sector run by even more cartoonishly stupid capitalists than average
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
New: we are starting to get data showing what cops are using Axon's license plate cameras for, which are replacing Flock around the country. But we need your help: is your city using Axon? We have written the request you need to get this data yourself. Get it here: www.404media.co/is-your-city...
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Is Your City Using Axon License Plate Cameras? We Need Your Help
404 Media is filing public records requests around the country to find out how cops are using Axon's ALPRs. Here is how you can do that too.
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NYC Policy Forum @nycpolicyforum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
We're pleased to share that @ambakak.bsky.social co-ED of @ainowinstitute.bsky.social will join @hellodcwp.bsky.social Commissioner @saalevine.bsky.social to discuss local AI governance with writer @edwardongwesojr.com next week. RSVP at governing-ai-for-nyc-workers-and-consumers.eventbrite.com
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Governing AI for Workers and Consumers: NYC's Public Approach
Dive into what NYC can do to advance affordability for working families during the rise of AI and corporate consolidation.
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Oatmeal Enthusiast @ogresloth.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Important point and makes me think of @edwardongwesojr.com 's argument that aesthetic and moral opposition isn't to AI isn't enough, we need to "articulate an opposition that will survive improvements in the technology"
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NYC Policy Forum @nycpolicyforum.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Join us and the @cuny.edu School of Law Burns Program for a talk on 9/30 with @hellodcwp.bsky.social Commissioner Sam Levine and writer @edwardongwesojr.com exploring city government tools to protect New Yorkers through the rise of AI and corporate consolidation: buff.ly/kcsU0fL
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
14/“a lucrative alliance has arisen between Big Tech and fossil fuel companies—the former signing cloud computing deals that maximize productivity, while the latter build new coal & gas power plants to satisfy exploding AI energy demands” @edwardongwesojr.com www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ai...
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 08/09/2026
Worth a listen.
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Health Fascism, Body Politics, and the Anti-State State (DP x S26)
To support the show and help make episodes like this one possible, become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/deathpanelpod This is the first recording in a series of sessions we organized at this ye
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 05/09/2026
When 3M scientist Kris Hansen discovered that a chemical the company produced was in the blood of the general public, her bosses questioned her work. Yet all along, some people inside the company had known the same thing. Listen to this excerpt:
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Phillip Maciak @pjmaciak.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
"Refusal is not just some impotent act of nostalgia, and the extent to which we think so is a measure of our contempt for the prospect of taking democratic politics seriously." This, by @edwardongwesojr.com, is a wonderfully good and urgent piece of writing. www.thetechbubble.info/p/the-future...
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The Future Is Not Tech-Forward
On artificial intelligence, data centers, technological politics, and who gets to build the future.
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Navneet Alang @navneetalang.com · 02/09/2026
Wowwowwow. This is definitely worth your time.
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jenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
🗣️🗣️🗣️ “It needs ceaseless and prioritized access to energy. And it needs complete opacity. What’s the political and social order we can expect to follow from that?”
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Generic white guy SysAdmin @westbynoreaster.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
This essay by @edwardongwesojr.com is proper good shit, especially necessary for anyone with the "horseshoe" itch they feel the need to scratch when it comes to the topic of #ServerWarehouse resistance. I hate the term #DataCenter almost as much as #Cloud.
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 01/09/2026
This essay talks about the left's vision for technology, the "alliance" between left and right-wing anti-data center movements, politics of refusal, democratic control over the AI infrastructure buildout, China, industrial policy, and more. www.thetechbubble.info/p/the-future...
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The Future Is Not Tech-Forward
On artificial intelligence, data centers, technological politics, and who gets to build the future.
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 01/09/2026
surfacing for a minute to point out this good piece by @edwardongwesojr.com > Refusal is not just some impotent act of nostalgia, and the extent to which we think so is a measure of our contempt for the prospect of taking democratic politics seriously.
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The Future Is Not Tech-Forward
On artificial intelligence, data centers, technological politics, and who gets to build the future.
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@charleshb@mastodon.sdf.org @charleshb.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
FREE – Forum for( @freefreeforum.bsky.social )Real Economic Emancipation "Pax Silica: The US Plan to Control AI, Chips, and Data Centers | Edward( @edwardongwesojr.com )Ongweso Jr." Clara Mattei www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdEU...
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Pax Silica: The US Plan to Control AI, Chips, and Data Centers | Edward Ongweso Jr.
YouTube video by FREE – Forum for Real Economic Emancipation
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Sandy Bill @stateeducated.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
From @edwardongwesojr.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ_S... Public backlash is a serious threat to the AI bubble.
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AI is failing to boost productivity | Edward Ongweso Jr
YouTube video by The Tech Report
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
this is my economy ???
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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 15/08/2026
Watch this short clip to the end to understand what level (maximum) of white supremacy we're dealing with here. 1/n
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Cool Zone Media @coolzonemedia.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
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OR Books @orbooks.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
A group of leading experts offers a progressive blueprint for a foreign policy that answers to voters instead of defense contractors and Super PACs Co-publishing with @thenation.com and edited by @mattduss.bsky.social A World For All is available for pre-order now: orbooks.com/catalog/a-wo...
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A World For All
A progressive blueprint for a foreign policy that answers to voters instead of donors, defense contractors, and Super PACs.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
@rebeccawilliams.info hit on some of this last November. www.techpolicy.press/mayor-elect-...
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Mayor-Elect Mamdani Can Build a Tech Agenda for New York and a Model for the Country
By resisting surveillance, extraction, and exploitation, Mamdani can show how technology truly serves the people, writes Rebecca Williams.
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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
This is important, and in some way may foreshadow whether there is any hope at all of Democrats dismantling the DHS surveillance state. If Mamdani can't eventually find the will in NYC, it won't bode well.
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 12/08/2026
Mamdani inherited a sprawling surveillance state. What is he going to do with it? Wrote about the gang database, NYCHA surveillance cameras, Domain Awareness System, the POST Act, and more for @nymag.com
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Mamdani’s Surveillance State
The mayor inherited a vast network of cameras, databases, and tracking tools. Now he has to decide what to do with it.
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FREE @freefreeforum.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
AI data centers drink enormous amounts of water and electricity and create very few permanent jobs. Full panel out now: Clara Mattei with @edwardongwesojr.com, Brad Carson, Rep. Amanda Clinton, Cheyenna Morgan, Kyle Schmidt.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Funny how no one calls this "overcapacity" @katemac.bsky.social @aldasky.bsky.social @edwardongwesojr.com US Data Center capex boom of many trillions over a decade + global dominance at about 80% of global AI investments is analagous to China's enormous Green boom + 70-80% global dominance.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
1/ "This is the pivot point in the energy transition folks. Fossil chaos drives people to electrotech, as this is the first oil shock with a superior alternative. " says @ember-energy.org @kingsmillbond.bsky.social We argued similarly last week at Wesleyan (slides here) tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWe...
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Keifer @dannyvegito.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Taylor Swift has trapped all of the NYPD underneath the sewers of Madison Square Garden and detonated all of the bridges leading out of Manhattan. The fire rises.
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Elect Alexis for Maryland! @electalexis.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
IT’S ELECTION DAY, MARYLAND!!! Find your polling location here: elections.maryland.gov/voting Join me at the polls! Let’s have a GAY OLD TIME!!! 🪩👯‍♀️🍬🛹🗳️🥰 😉
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Kate Kaye @katekaye.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Since idea of everyday joes sharing in AI profits is in news now, I thought I'd share this thoughtful, well-informed and at-times hilarious analysis of OpenAI's 'industrial' policy approach from @edwardongwesojr.com and @jathansadowski.com which pokes all the holes. As usual I learned and laughed.
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453. Super “Intelligent” Industrial Policy
We do a deep dive into OpenAI’s new report “Industrial Policy for the Intelligence Age: Ideas to Keep People First” and pick apart their extensive set of proposals for building an “Open Economy” and "
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 13/06/2026
re-upping because @edwardongwesojr.com said more crisply (to @jathansadowski.com on TMK) > My growing fear is actually the bubble is not going to burst... equity stakes might be a way [to] manage... a bail out, makes [AI co's] systemically important institutions that are treated as too big to fail.
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461. The Book of Ludd — This Machine Kills
“Welcome to the Church of Ludd, it’s nice to see you join our congregation. Please pick up a pamphlet as you walk in, which explains how to set up your religious exemption from using AI at your workpl...
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Mattering Press @matteringpress.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
1/ We are very pleased to announce the publication of Predictions, Volume 1: From Speculative Ethnography to Apocalyptic Testimony, edited by @melhogan.bsky.social, @stefanlaser.bsky.social and @edwardongwesojr.com www.matteringpress.org/books/predic...
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Predictions (Volume 1): From Speculative Ethnography to Apocalyptic Testimony
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ali alkhatib @ali-alkhatib.com · 15/05/2026
i'm so embarrassed that i'm just now listening to the TMK episode about anti-data center organizing (and about eco-modernism) but it's a really good episode so far overcast.fm/+AAg6yFF4Vp4
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455. The Anti-Anti-Anti-Data-Centers Social Club — This Machine Kills
We deconstruct the confused arguments – from the left – against moratoriums for data centres. These positions set up a false dichotomy between either pausing or governing technology, they start from t...
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
NEW:Stranded countries are far more dangerous than "stranded assets" of pvt oil companies. It's Western navel gazing to only focus on latter & not powerful National Oil Companies Ep 2 of Polycrisis DRAMA KINGS @katemac.bsky.social & I chat about UAE shock OPEC exit Listen here: pod.link/1884213852
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
"AI threatens to enclose what’s left of our threadbare epistemic commons — the bottom-level online communication where people still figure out what they think, together," @edwardongwesojr.com writes. www.thedriftmag.com/directing-th...
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Directing the Herd
Social media platforms don’t produce a common public; they produce competing sub-publics, each with its own sense of what everyone knows.
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Quinn Slobodian @quinnslobodian.com · 21/04/2026
Karp’s book came out after @bentarnoff.com and I had already started writing ours. Reading it we were like “oh this is Muskism.” The interesting thing, as @lioneltrolling.bsky.social pointed out, is that it was written with the assumption of an incoming Harris administration.
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
From Gaza to now Iran and Lebanon, Israel is expanding its testing ground for AI-enabled military technology in terrifying ways. Read my latest piece in Zeteo about how big tech is powering Israel’s AI war machine 👇
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Big Tech Is Powering Israel's AI War Machine
From Gaza to now Iran and Lebanon, Israel is expanding its testing ground for AI-enabled military technology in terrifying ways.
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 20/04/2026
For @thedriftmag.com I wrote about social control, digital infrastructure, and what passes for a public sphere in our society www.thedriftmag.com/directing-th...
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Directing the Herd
Social media platforms don’t produce a common public; they produce competing sub-publics, each with its own sense of what everyone knows.
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The Drift @thedriftmag.com · 20/04/2026
In Issue 17’s Dispatches section, @tarpley.bsky.social, Noelle Bodick, @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social, @edwardongwesojr.com, @erikmbaker.bsky.social, Ege Yumuşak, Ismail Ibrahim, @meganmarz.bsky.social, and @samadlerbell.bsky.social examine the public sphere. www.thedriftmag.com/a-nicely-sit...
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A Nicely Situated Ideal
Dispatches on the Public Sphere
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B @bryyyyguy.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
@edwardongwesojr.com and @jathansadowski.com had great discussion semi related to this on the most receNT TMK. All the AI company “solutions” are bullshit.
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International Affiliation of Writers Guilds @iawg.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
A detailed, line-by-line critique of OpenAI’s objectives is laid out by @edwardongwesojr.com and @jathansadowski.com in this week’s episode of @thismachinekills.bsky.social 3/
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453. Super “Intelligent” Industrial Policy
Podcast Episode · This Machine Kills · April 15 · 1h 41m
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/04/2026
Q: Are there certain kinds of civilians targets like schools or hospitals that are off limits? TRUMP: I don't want to tell you that. We have a plan where every bridge and power plant in Iran will be decimated by 12 o'clock tomorrow night
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Edward Ongweso Jr @edwardongwesojr.com · 01/04/2026
inspired by a recent visit to SF and a Matthew Yglesias essay I recently read about how SF isn't a megacity because of housing policy, I wrote about why that's a very superficial analysis at best! www.thetechbubble.info/p/one-billio...
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One Billion Buildings
The case for thinking bigger (about why we don't have megacities)
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
“We will restore peace, stability and harmony throughout the world"-Donald Trump @katemac.bsky.social & I decided it was time for a Polycrisis podcast about the peace, stability & harmony reigning throughout the world Enjoy our first season ELECTRIC WORLD ORDER podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/i...
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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
The main goal of Silicon Valley appears to be finding an ethical way to have a slave
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kitty standard time @kittystandardtime.bsky.social · 28/03/2026
inspired through imbibition of the ruthless tech criticism of @jathansadowski.com and @edwardongwesojr.com
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 25/03/2026
The Hollywood executive dream that AI will revolutionize how movies are made or that they can lean on user generated AI slop to drive costs down is not going to work and is already a disaster www.404media.co/disneys-open...
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Disney's Sora Disaster Shows AI Will Not Save Hollywood
It turns out when you try to serve slop on a product people pay for, no one wants it.
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Albert Pinto @70sbachchan.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
How bad is it? Well. Qatar Energy just announced they may have to declare Force Majeure on long-term contracts **FOR UP TO FIVE YEARS**. www.phenomenalworld.org/analysis/mol...
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fandr @dilemmatic.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
The author reminds us we should not celebrate the death of the metaverse, but learn from it. I share the feeling, but knowing that projects like this one sometimes don't end up poisoning our day-by-day lives feels a little bit good to me.
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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 18/03/2026
“The free market that Silicon Valley champions depends…on the least free capital in the world. Kingdoms & gangs, bound in a compact of association, dividing the plunder according to an agreed convention, infesting the earth until nothing is left (or until someone abandons the compact).”
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