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Jennifer Fearing

@jenniferfearing.bsky.social
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Nonprofit advocate at #caleg 🌱 eater | 🦫 believer | 🐕 lover | 🌊 protector | hater of manels (🙋🏼‍♂️🙋🏻‍♂️🙋🏼‍♂️🙋🏻‍♂️) Striving to be a traitor to my class fearlessadvocacy.com 📍Sacramento, CA

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 26/09/2026
peter thiel is another one of those guys who we are supposed to think is brilliant but every time he opens his mouth my first thought is “this guy sounds like an idiot”
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AmyAlexCA @amyalexca.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hm. As @timnitgebru.blacksky.app + @emilymbender.bsky.social have already laid out: These #OpenAI *systems* aren’t “going rouge.” The Truth is that these LLMs are built by Nefarious people who are so Rapacious and Irresponsible that they (the Humans) are biggest Risks www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/t...
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OpenAI’s A.I. Went Rogue and Meddled With U.S. Government Websites
The company did not learn until recently that its technology had meddled with websites for the Education and Commerce Departments and the Securities and Exchange Commission.
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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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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 26/09/2026
"Mr. Vice President: Peter Thiel played a decisive role in your life. Recently, he suggested that evil is good and called the Pope a 'useful idiot.' How do you respond to these extreme statements from your benefactor? Do you agree with him?" —Question a DC reporter should ask (but likely won't)
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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
i really can’t bring myself to care about AI anthropomorphism debates. “is AI thinking?” i don’t know. is a calculator calculating? questions for the philosophers. what’s important is that we put sam altman in prison.
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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 24/09/2026
over the past few weeks several AI evaluation/cybersecurity experts have explained how what's happening is a result of human incompetence rather than "AI going rogue". I'm begging the media to show a shred of journalistic integrity and stop parroting what altman or amodei say
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Jennifer Fearing @jenniferfearing.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Why doesn’t the headline read: Rogue Tech Company Commits Crimes with their Created Products? Where is the liability for the harms these companies are actively creating?
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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Computer crimes are already illegal. I do not think “we knowingly deployed software we can’t control” is a legitimate defense against break those laws.
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Julia Carrie Wong @joolia.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I’m really not sure that “goes rogue” is an accurate description of a behavior that is apparently both habitual and condoned
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More OpenAl Incidents
The company's A.l. went rogue this year at least four additional times, trying to break into government and university sites.
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Brad Grenz @bradgrenz.site · 23/09/2026
"We need the UN to bail out our Ponzi scheme" is a real head scratcher of an exit strategy.
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Golden State @goldenstateorg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Proposition 38, the immunology bond measure on California's Nov. 3 ballot, could steer more than $4 billion to its backer's own institute, which isn't even open yet. That's just one problem with it. LINK: www.golden-state.org/prop-38-unet...
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Americans for Tax Fairness @4taxfairness.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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The billionaire who fueled JD Vance's rapid rise to the Trump VP spot — analysis
Vance's most prominent benefactor over the years has been iconoclastic tech investor Peter Thiel, who in recent months said he's not giving money to any politician in 2024.
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026
I promise you there would be no AI alignment problem if the CEOs of AI companies faced jail time if their AI killed anyone.
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Jennifer Fearing @jenniferfearing.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Want to know what to make of the AI chatter? Right here @aoc.bsky.social nails it. It’s the tech oligarchs we should be focused on, not the software.
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Jim Stewartson, Antifascist @jim-stewartson.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
As a long-time technologist who has built many software products: If your software does something you can’t control, you are a shitty software engineer. You have not birthed an alien intelligence.
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Robert Evans (the Only Robert Evans) @iwriteok.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This is a great example of one of the ways AI is actually going to endanger / kill huge numbers of people. Shitty chatbots cause their special sort of brain rot to the people who package intelligence for our shot-callers. They take the bad ideas from there. www.cnn.com/2026/09/18/p...
It was only just before the planned operation that officials dug deeper into the report put together by a special operations command analyst and found it had been generated with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) — and that a chatbot the analyst had used inaccurately identified the material the ship was carrying. CNN was not able to learn what the misidentified cargo was.

The report, according to one of the sources, was “entirely false.” But it also “almost started a war,” the source said. Any US operation against a Chinese vessel could have risked spiraling into an armed conflict between the two nations.
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Assemblymember Damon Connolly @asmdamonconnolly.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
It was a great experience touring beaver coexistence sites with Secretary Crowfoot other partners. AB 2196, made the state’s Beaver Coexistence Program permanent, and secured grant funding. We are now seeing projects implemented throughout the state that allow beavers and people to live in harmony.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On CNN's Amanpour Astra answered the question that’s on lots of people’s minds this week: How should we understand all of the Silicon Valley executives and engineers warning that AI might destroy humanity? Her advice: watch what they do more than what they say. @astra.bsky.social
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Jenny Gray @jenny-gray.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
With California poised to implement #SB54, the most far-reaching law to reduce plastic packaging and pollution, it’s so encouraging to have the effort led by a talented individual like @calrecycle.bsky.social's Zoe Heller: bit.ly/4h4Re0g #CircularEconomy #PlasticPollution #EnvironmentalJustice
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Leadership at a pivotal moment
Throughout her career, Zoe Heller, director of CalRecycle, has been focused on the human connection to environmental effects. That focus
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AG Rob Bonta @agrobbonta.oag.ca.gov · 16/09/2026
Endangered species and their habitats must be protected from risk of further species decline and extinction. In CA, we’ll continue to fight to defend the animals, plants and habitats that share this planet with us—today and for generations to come. More from @calmatters.org:
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California sues over Trump's changes to Endangered Species Act, arguing they threaten habitat
The Trump administration reinterpreted the Endangered Species Act to counter what it called "federal overreach." California is suing to block its changes, arguing they threaten vital habitat.
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The Lever @levernews.com · 16/09/2026
Everyone’s worried about the “Terminator” AI doomsday. But the more immediate threat could look a lot more like The Big Short. . @edzitron.com explains why the AI boom’s real danger may be an economic one — and what happens if the money behind it starts to unravel.
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 16/09/2026
The doomsday eugenicist cult has "highly specialized minds" that allows them to see these things he says. No matter how much documentation we provide journalists they choose not to see this.
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Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
ok so just so we’re clear on the concerns that are taken seriously ❌ it’s terrible for the climate ❌ it’s fuelled by stolen data ❌ it threatens jobs/entire occupations ❌ it’s often just wrong ❌ it’s literally caused actual suicides ✅ one day it might extinct everyone by bioengineering a plague
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 15/09/2026
The U.S. AI industry is being run by a batshit rationalist sex cult, and no, I am not being hyperbolic - they’re genuinely Like That:
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I went to an rationalist/EA Al doomer event last night with the goal of meeting someone who could calmly explain to me the argument for how they get to the conclusion that Al will kill everyone.
Because these are rationalists, I expected to find people who could lay out a serious extinction pathway, walk through the assumptions and intermediate steps, identify choke points where negative pathways could potentially be regulated, and entertain disagreement about where their assumptions might break down.
My experience was the exact opposite.
The people I spoke to seemed psychologically unable to entertain the possibility that their conclusion (that Al literally kills everyone, which was a point that many would not even budge on) might be wrong.
Their most extreme conclusion was treated as an axiom.
I had multiple people walk out of conversations with me when I questioned their inevitable extinction premise.
At one point during a panel, the moderator asked everyone in the audience who was still skeptical of Al doom to raise their hands. About half the room did. He then told all of the skeptics to leave the panel and go with one of the speakers, who would answer their questions separately. They filtered out all the skeptics, and continued the panel only with the subset who accepted their extreme position.
I genuinely felt like a heretic just for questioning whether superintelligent Al inevitably leads to the extinction of humanity, or entertaining the possibility that the future might actually turn out well.
That does not mean Al safety is fake. Obviously there are serious questions about rapidly advancing Al systems and what happens as they become much more capable. Those are exactly the conversations I went there hoping to have.
But what I encountered was an apocalyptic death cult. These people are not rational. They are deeply afraid, they reinforce that fear in one another, and they have become so emotionally committed to apocalypse
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Jennifer Fearing @jenniferfearing.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Proud of my friend/comrade @gilduran.com for connecting dots, making sure all can see clearly who we are dealing with and what’s at stake. I’ll never take $1 or an idea from a billionaire. (Kudos to @mikemadrid.bsky.social too) #FuckTheNerdReich
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 03/09/2026
Sacramento! Join @mikemadrid.bsky.social and me for a discussion of "The Nerd Reich"—@calmatters.org LIVE at the UC Student at Policy Center on 9/15. give.calmatters.org/event/the-ne...
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The Nerd Reich: A Conversation and Book Signing with Gil Durán
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Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Data centers
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Jennifer Fearing @jenniferfearing.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
I deleted Google Maps app and downloaded MapQuest.
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Jennifer Fearing @jenniferfearing.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Of course I have my pre-ordered copy of @gilduran.com’s best-selling book … and it’s a good thing because I’d be waiting awhile in line at the Sacramento Public Library for it:
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Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Pleased to report that a deal for California Forever did NOT make it into a budget trailer bill, despite them spending massive amounts of money lobbying this year, and enormous pressure from the Governor's office. It's rare, but sometimes David actually does still prevail over Goliath!
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 27/08/2026
From @theathletic.com: A decade after Colin Kaepernick took a knee, he still stands taller than his peers, our columnist writes. nyti.ms/4gyxNfR
“In modern athlete activism, Kaepernick stands alone. He is far from beloved, but his stance is aging well. The prominent athletes of the past 10 years have mishandled what they should’ve treated as a precious legacy. With their conceit, the clout chasers have turned his courage into a template without asking what made the original worth copying.” - Jerry Brewer, a senior columnist
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Jennifer Fearing @jenniferfearing.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
Read my friend @gilduran.com’s new book to understand what we are up against, but only if you care about the future of American democracy.
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Jennifer Fearing @jenniferfearing.bsky.social · 16/08/2026
This is not hard to believe or understand.
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Jennifer Fearing @jenniferfearing.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
Oh YouTube, you’re gonna regret this.
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Jennifer Fearing @jenniferfearing.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Thrilled for Fearless Advovacy to be recognized for the 8th time on @capitolweekly.bsky.social annual #Top100 list! Our growing team supports the California policy advocacy of nearly two dozen leading nonprofits including CalNonprofits which has partnered with us from the start! 🦁🐑✊🏽
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 08/08/2026
“The new gas-burning plant, if built to specifications, would be permitted to release more planet-warming gases than any other power plant in the country.”
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New Amazon Data Center Is Set to Have the Most Polluting Power Plant in the U.S.
The tech giant is investing in the natural-gas-burning power plant as part of a huge data center in Texas, even as it pledges to honor climate commitments.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 05/08/2026
If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future. The @theguardian.com just published an amazing piece about my book, "The Nerd Reich: Silicon Valley Fascism and the War on Democracy." Coming August 18! www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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‘If we don’t fight back, we don’t have a future’: the journalist taking on the ‘tech fascists’ of Silicon Valley
As Elon Musk, Peter Thiel and their peers have grown richer and more influential, Gil Durán argues they have all but abandoned democracy – and found the perfect government to enable them
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Jordan Grimes @cafedujord.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
He really isn't, and I remain surprised by how many otherwise smart people continue to be suckered by this guy
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Jennifer Fearing @jenniferfearing.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Great @sacbee.com reporting about need for #caleg to follow through on fixing the highly problematic #sb131 problem that leaves CA communities less protected from harmful projects. #sb954 amp.sacbee.com/news/politic...
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Opponents of CEQA exemption for manufacturing facilities worry about key lawmaker
Supporters of SB 954 want the Assembly to close a CEQA loophole for advanced manufacturing; they fear Appropriations Chair Buffy Wicks may block the bill.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 31/07/2026
The California Forever model: secretly buy up 60,000 acres you’re not allowed to build on, then buy legislation that makes the rules go away.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 31/07/2026
Some very obtuse people think California Forever is about housing. But real estate is an actual business. There are people who do it for a living. None of those people would do anything this stupid. California Forever is not about housing or economic development. It’s about billionaire power.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 31/07/2026
If you ever feel unqualified, remember that a gang of billionaires spent $900 million for 60,000 acres with no water, no infrastructure, a roster of endangered species, and a voter-approved ordinance that specifically bans building a city there. Now they’re begging politicians to bail them out.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
I don't know, man, I think if Joe Biden had kept confusing Zelenskyy with Putin and Iran with Japan, the media might have made a pretty big deal about it?
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
The Democrats' Project 2029 is to force through the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025 tech policy agenda
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 27/06/2026
In a few years, the NYT or Post will win a Pulitzer for a sprawling investigation into how tech money poured into every nook and cranny of our political system at an unprecedented scale. Until then, enjoy the silence.
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Jennifer Fearing @jenniferfearing.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Sign me up! 💉
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Jennifer Fearing @jenniferfearing.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
This sickens me.
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Jennifer Fearing @jenniferfearing.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
@natashanyt.bsky.social Hi, is the students’ Declaration of AI Independence read on the Daily today online/available? I really want to read and utilize it but can’t find it. Thanks!
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 17/06/2026
CEO said a thing!
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Karl Bode @karlbode.com · 17/06/2026
somebody currently in journalism school can tell me if you're taught to just parrot the claims of high level executives and call it journalism
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