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Jed Miller

@jedm.bsky.social
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Columbia Heights | former UWS 3 Bridges | former ACLU, NYT Balding | former hair #responsibletech #civilrights #datagovernance

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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
In the American tradition of the Masked Battle of Lexington & Concord, Shay's Masked Rebellion and Hooded Normandy.
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Photo (and future Pulitzer) by Cheney Orr for Reuters, www.instagram.com/orr_photo/
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Look at this photo. Look at it. Am in Maine, not DC today. But we should all ride with this young woman forever.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
100 years ago.
The klan marching in front of the US Capitol in 1926
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
Something related that @marietjeschaake.bsky.social said when her first book came out always sticks with me: Governments may now have a better influencing corporations as customers than they do as regulators.
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Hannah BW @hbwhbwhbw.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
I wrote something for @techpolicypress.bsky.social about Chatrie and the limits of courts in reining in police surveillance powered by private enterprise.
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Lina Srivastava @linasrivastava.bsky.social · 03/07/2026
Works are by Thaler Pekar @deepaiyer.bsky.social @rekha6.bsky.social @romainmurphy.bsky.social MKMinani Alisha Bhagat @keefemurren.bsky.social @scoxsmith.bsky.social @elmirab.bsky.social @dunagan23.bsky.social Eboné Bishop @jedm.bsky.social @mythilisk.bsky.social Rashida Boyd @meowtree.bsky.social
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
It was an honor to have my reflection included in this zine declaring political hope amid a time of dissolution and laying-bare. Thank you @linasrivastava.bsky.social. Here's to keeping honest and keeping at it.
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
When this dark time is retold, headline writers will get a closer look than they've gotten so far. Cannot come a moment too soon. "For Headline Writers, a Reckoning."
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Sarah Posner @sarahposner.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Oh, it sucks when someone steals your shit, doesn't it www.nytimes.com/2026/02/23/t...
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Anthropic Accuses 3 Chinese Companies of Harvesting Its Data
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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump www.npr.org/2026/02/24/n...
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Justice Department withheld and removed some Epstein files related to Trump
An NPR investigation finds the public database of Epstein files is missing dozens of pages related to sexual abuse accusations against President Trump.
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
With massive dependency on Taiwan chip supply, "there is increasing concern that inaction by some of Silicon Valley’s most important companies risks destabilizing the global economy." @nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/t...
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The Looming Taiwan Chip Disaster That Silicon Valley Has Long Ignored
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
The specifics of this are extremely bad. DHS is using a tariffs/product importation law to demand Meta unmask the identity of an Instagram account that posts about ICE enforcement actions. The page sells no merch. Lawyers call it "wildly outside the scope" of the law www.404media.co/dhs-tries-to...
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DHS Tries To Unmask Ice Spotting Instagram Account by Claiming It Imports Merchandise
There is no evidence the Instagram and Facebook account, called Montcowatch, sells anything. Lawyers from the ACLU say the move is "wildly outside the scope" of DHS' authority.
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Politico @politico.com · 24/10/2025
EXCLUSIVE: Jeffries will endorse Mamdani for NYC mayor, after nine months of pressure and just before early voting begins Saturday. That leaves Schumer as the last key person in the state's Dem leadership to withhold support.
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After a lengthy wait, Jeffries to endorse Mamdani
The powerful Brooklyn Democrat plans to endorse the democratic socialist Friday afternoon.
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
👀 When is research not exactly facts. When it's Silicon Valley.
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Who's in the room when legislators make tech decisions? What makes communities visible? What makes science legible? Some highlights from CAT Lab @cornelluniversity.bsky.social Summit on NY State tech policy. citizensandtech.org/2025/10/at-c... w @eleag.bsky.social @natematias.bsky.social
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At CAT Lab Summit on New York State Tech Policy, a Call for Listening - Citizens and Technology Lab
For most of us, daily life depends on government data of one kind or another. Your payroll taxes (or unemployment check), the bus schedule, your property taxes or medical bills—all of these are genera...
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Philip Gourevitch @pgourevitch.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
What is the Times doing calling this extrajudicial murder spree “cartel strikes”? On what evidence do they ape the killers’ propaganda? www.nytimes.com/2025/10/23/u...
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Trump Says He Will Not Seek Authorization for Cartel Strikes
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
The Quick and the Deadpool
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Throttled by Meta.
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 20/09/2025
I don't think Dowager Countess dry delivery meets the moment, NYT.
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
See full Gessen article on Lifton here. I've never seen a clearer, fuller explanation for the normalization of hurt people hurting people. Not a coincidence to publish this on 9/11. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/11/o... 4/4
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Opinion | Totalitarianism Can Be Terrifying. It Can Also Be Thrilling. He Taught Us Why.
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
"Angry grief, combined with military policy, fueled the indiscriminate killing that ensued. That combination of policy and emotion, or policy and ideology, is what Lifton called an 'atrocity-producing situation.' 3/4
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
A short while earlier, a beloved older sergeant from the American unit had been killed by a booby trap. The company commander, Lifton learned, had then told the soldiers, “There are no innocent civilians in this area.” 2/4
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
@mashagessen.bsky.social on 'angry grief': "[Robert Jay] Lifton used this term when he carried out research on the 1968 My Lai massacre in South Vietnam, in which American soldiers killed as many as 500 unarmed civilians ... in one hamlet. 1/4
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
www.nytimes.com/2025/09/12/w...
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Anti-Corruption Crusader Named Nepal’s Leader After Gen Z Protests
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
"In a sign of the continuing chaos in Nepal, where many official documents and records have gone up in smoke, Ms. Karki’s online biography was unavailable. In fact, the entire Supreme Court website was not operational."
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Iran Likely to Have Moved Nuclear Components Ahead of Fordow Attack - @mazmhussain.bsky.social www.dropsitenews.com/p/iran-nucle...
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Iran Likely to Have Moved Nuclear Components Ahead of Fordow Attack: Iranian Nuclear Scientist
Despite the Trump administration's claims, Iran's nuclear program has not been "totally obliterated."
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
From Justice Jackson dissent in injunctions/birthright citizenship case: “It is important to recognize that the Executive’s bid to vanquish so-called ‘universal injunctions’ is, at bottom, a request for this Court’s permission to engage in unlawful behavior.” www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Kathleen Bush-Joseph @kathleenbush.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Wow was that fast--an immigrant advocate group already filed an amended complaint seeking class action relief in its birthright citizenship case in federal court in Maryland
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Sherrilyn Ifill @sifill.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson’s dissent hits the target. She is reminding us of the stakes in this case. And she is spot on. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24p...
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Unfolding reactions to SCOTUS stripping/limiting lower court power to issue nationwide injunctions. See NYT, and @katiephang.bsky.social on Substack: www.nytimes.com/live/2025/06... open.substack.com/live-stream/...
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Live Updates: Trump Hails Supreme Court Ruling Limiting Nationwide Injunctions
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
NEW: A WIRED investigation of 911 calls placed from ICE detention sites across the US show a system inundated by life-threatening crises, delayed treatment, and overcrowding. By me & @dmehro.bsky.social. Free to read:
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'They're Not Breathing': Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls
Records of hundreds of emergency calls from ICE detention centers obtained by WIRED—including audio recordings—show a system inundated by life-threatening incidents, delayed treatment, and overcrowdin...
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Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Advocacy in Myanmar, Thailand, and Cambodia shows that Global South demands gain traction in platform governance when they align with Western priorities, are amplified by international allies, and build trust with marginalized communities, writes Mai Van Tran.
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Lessons from Resisting Big Tech Power in Southeast Asia | TechPolicy.Press
It is more important than ever for Western donors to champion the inclusion of digital rights in their development aid agendas, writes Mai Van Tran.
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
As Malaysia investigates possible Chinese local use of restricted chips, this explainer on remote poaching I helped develop remains very timely. Researcher Min-yen Chiang goes deep on how China continues sourcing chips and expertise. www.opentech.fund/news/how-chi...
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How China is Poaching Taiwan’s Semiconductor Industry to Power Its Digital Authoritarianism: A Supply Chain Analysis
ICFP research reveals how the CCP is acquiring advanced AI and chip technology to expand the scope of its information control regime.
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
So far, the two let's-normalize-war alerts I've gotten are from NYT and the UK's conservative standby The Spectator.
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
New Yorkers
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Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 🌌 @chanda.blacksky.app · 17/06/2025
So I just want to be clear that the gentile President's anti-immigrant goons illegally assaulted and kidnapped the leading Jewish candidate for Mayor in New York City for walking into a federal building for the crowd that is keeping track of The Antisemitism Problem
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
More accurate headlines. 2024: Netahyahu OKs Biden exaggeration of ceasefire prospects. 2025: Netanyahu OKs Trump proxy saber-rattling.
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
On Russian relationship w/Iran: "Iran has supplied Russia with Shahed kamikaze drones to be used on Ukrainian targets, and last year, there were reports that Russia received hundreds of Fath-360 ballistic missiles from Iran." @al-jazeera-english.bsky.social www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/6/...
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How will Russia respond to the Israel-Iran conflict?
A delicate balancing act awaits Russia, one of Iran’s key allies that also maintains ties with Israel.
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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 14/06/2025
I get so tired of all the ways pundits talk around Democrats’ real problem, which is so obvious that an entire industry exists to obfuscate it. They cannot describe, let alone attack, the real sources of injustice in this country because to do so would indict themselves and their donors.
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Mel Buer @melbuer.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
If you’re looking for quality independent reporting on what’s happening in Los Angeles, I’ve put together a starter pack for it. If you’d like to be added or know an indie who should be added, hmu
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
The talk was packed with insight, and great points on frames and how "magical thinking" clouds AI discourse. Companies build empires behind "the glib of marketing," one person said. I wrote this last year about our problematic wish for robot companions: jedmiller.substack.com/p/faces-in-t...
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Faces in the clouds
In literature and popular fiction, our tendency to merge automation and personality is older than electrification or science fiction.
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
"It never helps to start by calling it Artificial Intelligence. It’s not a clear term. It’s a marketing term.” @emilymbender.bsky.social, co-author of "The AI Con" thecon.ai TY @tamigraph.bsky.social and @datasociety.bsky.social for this talk.
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THE AI CON
How to Fight Big Tech's Hype and Create the Future We Want
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
@alexhanna.bsky.social pointing out the inflection point that empires once persuaded "at the point of a sword," and with AI the persuasion is happening at the level of ideation.
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
"You could maybe build an empire without a "con," but the scam of AI is helping the empire-building. @karenhao.bsky.social is documenting in such damning detail the empire building forces that are in play." - @emilymbender.bsky.social
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
Watching Karen Hao, Emily Bender & Alex Hanna discuss links between AI as an "empire" (Hao's book) and AI as a "con" (Bender/Hanna book). "'Empire' and 'con' are both powerful frames to look at what AI is doing, and doesn’t actually do." @karenhao.bsky.social datasociety.net/events/chall...
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Challenging AI Hype and Tech Industry Power
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
The quote marks are attempting a lot of work here. George Lakoff called.
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Brent Cox @titivil.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
Oh come the fuck on.
Elon Musk is back to thinking about the existential fate of humanity, according to NYT.
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
You know how customer service bots and standard search engines like saying "Did you mean ...?" Too often the Google AI Overview still feels like that. No, I didn't. Please show me my results. "Operator... Operator..."
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Jed Miller @jedm.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
I think so would check the feed/archive here! knightcolumbia.org/events/surve...
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Surveillance Ascendant, Democracy in Free Fall
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