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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Fantastic from @jeffsharlet.bsky.social .. This resonates completely with my experience teaching undergraduates.. "They used AI because it was there, because their classmates use it, because they fear if they don’t use it they’ll fall behind." www.chronicle.com/article/my-s...

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Opinion | My Students Hate AI. But They Can’t Stop Using It.

Big Tech has gotten them addicted to cheating, and they’ve internalized the blame.

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Tech CEO's want liberal internationalism in an increasingly hyper-realist world... “(Amodei's ideas include" evaluation and verification systems so countries can verify each other’s commitments, and common global standards for testing AI along with a notification system for AI security incidents.”

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Sam Altman, Dario Amodei urge UN Security Council to adopt international AI standards | CNN Business

The leaders of two of the world’s top AI companies are usually fierce rivals. But in front of the UN Security Council on Wednesday, they were in agreement: The AI industry needs international standard...

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

This is how ppl lose faith in liberal democracy... the legislative opposition party refuses to support legislation intended to address a problem because they want to use it as a campaign issue.. R's did this on immigration in 2024. Now it's the Dems turn... www.semafor.com/article/09/2...

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Exclusive: Some Republicans push to prioritize Husted data center bill

Republican senators have discussed the idea but made no final decision.

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

The entire global economy is being supported by an AI buildout.... that is posting a serious security threat to governments around the world. Feels like two incommensurate positions.. which one gives first? www.cnn.com/2026/09/23/b...

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‘Extreme concern’ over first known AI hack of a government system | CNN Business

An OpenAI agent hacked into an Australian national healthcare database in the first known case of AI hacking a government network, the country’s prime minister said Wednesday.

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Great article @marcwatkins.bsky.social on the ability of Jev to automate assessment... I expect lots of new university platforms to be build on Jev that will automate grading. marcwatkins.substack.com/p/what-happe...

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What Happens When Grading Costs Almost Nothing?

Ultra Cheap Machine Intelligence Arrives

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Andy Greenberg @agreenberg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Using AI in many cases means sending your most sensitive and intimate thoughts to a server where they can be exploited as training data, sold to ad brokers, or even handed to law enforcement. So I assembled this guide to using AI with your privacy intact. www.wired.com/story/how-to...

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How to Use AI With Your Privacy Intact

Your conversations with AI chatbots are both highly personal and deeply vulnerable to surveillance. Here’s how you can protect yourself.

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Great, as always, from @himself.bsky.social on our era of global instability and the inability of single focus theories to explain it all. Reminds me a bit about Harold Lasswell's policy sciences approach.. create meta frameworks designs to uncover "blindspots" instead of striving for parsimony.

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International relations has a problem with the future

Then, so does everything else

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I have an idea for a Mystery Science Theater 3000 reboot 🤔

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Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Sarah Engelberg-Nolan, Emma Haberman, and Nicole Brosnan map out the legal questions raised by ICE's use of Palantir's Enhanced Leads Identification & Targeting for Enforcement (ELITE) targeting tool, from Fourth Amendment search issues to due process and standing hurdles.

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From Records to Raids: The Questionable Legality of ICE’s Palantir ELITE System

There are important legal considerations implicated by ICE’s use of ELITE, write Sarah Engelberg-Nolan, Emma Haberman and Nicole Brosnan.

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Effective altruism strikes me as a weird target to go after, no? I don't get the angle?

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Make this kid a college dean! “It’s mathematics and physics that develop your brain the most after four years of education. With AI, that development is what matters more,” he said. “Because if you can think more creatively and more rigorously on your own, you’re able to actually use the AI better"

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AI has changed the calculus for computer-science students, and schools that hope to teach them

Faced with the risk that artificial intelligence will drain the job market, some of Canada’s young coders are changing tack at university

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Color my cynical, but third party evaluators that will get access to determine model safety based on "common safety standards" can be read as code for safety = "closed weight/closed source" models not from China. techcrunch.com/2026/09/12/a...

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Anthropic CEO outlines plan to slow AI development | TechCrunch

Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman seem to agree that it's time to "pace the frontier." What would that actually look like?

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Two things can be true at the same time: the concerns about unsupervised AI can be legitimate AND there are trillions of dollars riding on the future growth of this technology, so calls for a slowdown can also be a financially strategic decision interestingengineering.com/ai-robotics/...

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Anthropic CEO, tech leaders building powerful AIs now want to slow it down

Leading figures in the AI space, like Anthropic's Dario Amodei and OpenAI's Sam Altman, are asking the industry to slow down development.

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Unintended consequenes of AI destroying human relationality -- the market of humans from the global south helping privileged college students cheat is getting decimated by non human AI. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/05/t...

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Kenyans Did College Students’ Homework for Years. Then A.I. Arrived.

Thousands of Kenyans made a living writing essays for overseas students. With A.I., the work has dried up, a warning for online gig work that has been a global lifeline.

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Good reminder of what the stakes are if we allow this rights based global order to go sideways

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Dhanaraj Thakur @thakurdhanaraj.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

The Multiracial Democracy Project at @gwlaw.bsky.social, the @gwclt.bsky.social and @cdt.org are hosting a symposium on the Impacts of AI on Multilingual and Multiracial Democracy. Sept 28, 2026 (9am to 2pm) in Washington DC, with a remote option. Please join us! www.eventbrite.com/e/impacts-of...

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Impacts of AI on Multilingual and Multiracial Democracy

Exploring the real-world challenges of multilingual AI and how technology and policy can advance greater language equity.

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

At the rate the bond market is going, that $5,000 is going to buy you a bag of Takis and a bottle of Coke

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Good thread... Completely agree... To take on tech oligarchs, we have to be realistic about the capabilities of LLMs

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Markets usually respond well to getting flexed on

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This is a remix of the early 2000's argument -- "the internet will close the gap between rich and poor by making information available to everyone" ... was naiive then, is naiive now.

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I don't think making books subversive to kids is going to have the effect they think it's going to have

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Watching this PBS documentary on "The Dictator's Playbook" and it strikes me how much social media behaves just like Kim Jong Soon's "Criticism Sessions" where citizens are encouraged to criticize neighbors... the engagement algorithm is so much more at creating a culture of fear and restentment!

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The Dictator's Playbook | PBS

Explore how dictators, from Mussolini to Saddam Hussein, seized, held and fell from power.

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

I never imagined global markets would absorb so much instability and chaos from a US president.... Maybe they think he's bluffing, but if the worlds largest consumer market becomes a mercantilist state.....

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Ian Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Today we read this outstanding article by @melhogan.bsky.social and coauthors. Such a great source for critical analysis of data centers. journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The making of critical data center studies
Dustin Edwards
Zane Griffin Talley Cooper
Mel Hogan

Abstract
In this article, the authors demonstrate how the data center has become a key site, object, and
metaphor for interdisciplinary scholarship of the internet. While the data center is a fabrication of
engineering, computer science, and cognate fields, it has been the critical gaze of scholars outside of
those industries. Together, this scholarship has established the field of Critical Data Center Studies.
Critiques of the data center – often thought of more generally as ‘internet infrastructure’, and more
evocatively as ‘the cloud’ – have emerged from the social sciences, humanities, journalism, and the
arts. The authors do this by answering questions about the current social, cultural, political, and
environmental landscapes of the data center. Scrutiny of the foundational imaginaries of the in-
ternet, real estate deals by Big Tech, the industry’s enabling policies, their connections to energy and
other public infrastructure – among many other factors – serves, at the very least, to situate the data
center as a media object, as more than simply a material infrastructure, as more than data
warehouse, and as more than ‘the cloud’. Further to this, the authors reflect on how the data center
has been and continues to be studied, and why critical interventions have been so fruitful within a
vast array of disciplines – from history and anthropology, to media studies, information studies, and
science & technology studies – for shifting the focus from questions of infrastructural visibility to
questions that weave together concerns of efficiency, policy, popular culture, and planetary
devastation.

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Bluesky needs more finance people on here to help make sense of the global bond market... Otherwise one is left with X bros telling you the financial apocalypse is nigh

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

The dark enlightenment has a PR problem

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

So this has to show up in every Democratic candidate's advertising for the next 60 days?

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awkword @awkword.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Communities across the country have been fighting Flock and other ALPR spy camera companies. A new project allows you to track which towns and cities have canceled their contracts ij.org/institute-fo... @ij.org

Background: surveillance cameras | Text: A NEW PROJECT ALLOWS YOU TO TRACK WHICH TOWNS HAVE CANCELED THEIR CONTRACTS WITH FLOCK

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

The more time spent alone the more time you're enmeshed in an "ontological enclosure" that distorts one's view of world and inhibits richer, more relational experiences of life www.axios.com/2025/02/16/t...

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The teen loneliness machine

Social life is moving online, with worrying effects.

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

There is absolutely nothing that can go wrong here :/

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

A small but significant advance.. a $399 "roboduck" with an open source platform on huggingface that allows users to upload different reinforcement learning skills that can be plugged into the "duck" techcrunch.com/2026/08/27/h...

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Hugging Face is selling a cute $399 open source duck robot, Microduck | TechCrunch

Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face, said the Microduck is an “open-source robot you can teach new tricks with reinforcement learning.”

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Hedge funds think gas prices are going up....

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Republican and Independent candidate tied in South Dakota?!? 2026 is either going to be a galactic polling miss for the industry or there's some, to quote George W. Bush, "weird s**t" going on this cycle.

Poll shows Republican and Independent candidate tied in South Dakota

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Worth stepping back for a minute to ponder the state of our economy -- highest corporate earnings in history coupled with lowest personal savings rate in history (immediately preceded by one of the highest personal savings rates during COVID)....

chart shows US savings rate falls to lowest point in history

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Judith Skhlar said that the one thing a liberal society cannot do is abide cruelty.. it can tolerate almost all other vices but that one... we're failing that test big time.

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

We are all International Relations constructivists now.. this isn't a rational act from a nation state trying to gain leverage to achieve policy ends. I don't quite know what it is...

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

This tells you all you need to know about our current political era --- We can do this for data centers, but we can't do this for affordable housing projects?

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

My academic friends who have a stronger sense of financial history than I do... Has this level of intervention ever worked or are markets going to do what they are going to do?

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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

"What emerges in these examples is therefore not an equal enforcement policy but rather a Trump-era price list.. intervening worked only in proportion to what each had to offer, so the shackles came off in Atlanta and stayed on in Amritsar for reasons having nothing to do with the men wearing them"

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Deportation Has a Foreign Policy Price - FPIF

The more power a country has, the more concessions it can wring from Trump.

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