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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 1h

My god, yes. My former team at @rankingdigitalrights.org and I have done a lot of work on this topic over the years. @janrydzak.bsky.social especially has forgotten more about this than most people will ever know.

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 3h

Tech industry is laser focused on solving the problem of humans enjoying each other’s company bsky.app/profile/down...

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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 2h

Yep, that’s the one 👇🏻 This has become an unspoken, unquestioned assumption in much of tech policymaking, as I explained for @techpolicypress.bsky.social earlier this month. The extraordinary claim here that requires extraordinary evidence is simply taken as an article of faith. It shouldn’t be.

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · 19h

> Capitalist elites hate workers and despise worker expertise. [I] have decades of experience, sitting in rooms with (mostly) men who [...] hated that a wage servant possessed technical expertise they needed, but were too lazy, arrogant or stupid to grasp. — @cloudquistador.eurosky.social

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The Tech Industry: An Autopsy

The tech Industry, and the fields that grew from it, are dead. The Industry, which, as Yasha Levine details in his book, ‘Surveillance Valley’, was always a tool of oppression, and never &#82…

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ProTip (AKA alt_localgov) @protip.altgov.info · 29/09/2026

This is why you resist the fascists immediately, tirelessly, with all your might, until they’re all defeated, and never yield an inch.

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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 21h

Integrity. Courage. Decency. These values never go out of style. We all deserve more leaders like Jack Smith. We owe it to each other to live up to his example, each in our own way.

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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 21h

Today’s reminder that the Trump administration is a subsidiary of Silicon Valley. #technofascism

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Erin Kissane @kissane.myatproto.social · 29/09/2026

A thing I learned about Meta when I was trying to understand how their statements relate to their actions a few years ago is that *they just tell absolutely indefensible lies* and journalists almost always let them. They believed no one would ever punish them for it in any way that matters.

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Ann M. Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

seriously, SpaceX showed the way and Anthropic is following it. Selective leaks of the "confidential" prospectus to gin up enthusiasm for the IPO, which is wildly illegal under the federal securities laws but no one cares about that anymore www.reuters.com/legal/transa...

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EXCLUSIVE: Anthropic leaders to control AI lab via 'Founder LLC' to promote public good over market forces

Anthropic has long positioned itself as the virtuous AI company. An early look at its IPO filing shows how it is creating a new "Founder LLC" vehicle aimed at serving the common good, while insulatin...

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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 28/09/2026

I humbly submit that the international human rights framework is a pretty darn good fit for this moment. All moments, really, but especially this one.

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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 28/09/2026

💯💯💯💯💯 If we’re serious about the Third Reconstruction, we must hold the Trump administration and its enablers accountable for their many crimes and human rights abuses.

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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 28/09/2026

Great discussions at this conference on “Impacts of AI on multilingual and multiracial democracy.” But I am disappointed - though not surprised - that the AI industry’s role in dismantling US democracy by rolling back decades of work to make it truly multilingual and multiracial - wasn’t mentioned.

Flyer for the “impacts of ai on multilingual and multiracial democracy” event at GWU law, co-sponsored by CDT

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Urvi @theurv.com · 28/09/2026

There were more men in a single documented gang rape at one school than the number of competitive trans athletes nationally. But I’ve heard a lot more politicians being asked about protecting girls from one of these scenarios and not another… I’ll let you guess which is which.

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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 28/09/2026

I, for one, cannot think of a single thing I do for work that could be “delegated” to an AI agent. Jobs are much more than collections of discrete, computer-mediated tasks.

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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 28/09/2026

This is very good www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The idea that people want AI oversight to happen "all of a sudden" ignores years of research, warnings, and policy efforts. The delay hasn’t been a lack of awareness; it’s been because of years of industry lobbying against regulation, political resistance, and inaction.

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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 27/09/2026

We don’t talk enough about what an absolutely disaster linking health insurance to employment is for social movements. We could have so many more fierce voices speaking truth to power & fighting for change if we weren’t beholden to risk-adverse institutions to keep ourselves & our families healthy

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 27/09/2026

Anthropic and OpenAI are both very intermeshed with the disturbingly bizarre rationalist/effective altruism/“AI safety” cultures in Silicon Valley, just FYI.

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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

The techbros don't want you to see this trailer. Pass it on.

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Will Oremus @willoremus.com · 26/09/2026

Meta's platforms have repeatedly been caught running ads for deepfake "nudify" apps that let you virtually undress real people without their consent, but they won't run an a trailer for an upcoming documentary that reflects poorly on Elon Musk. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...

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The Major Social Media Platforms Are All Rejecting Paid Ads for Alex Gibney’s ‘Musk’ (Exclusive)

YouTube, TikTok and Meta have all turned down the trailer for the Oct. 9 doc, citing “political” content. X won't even take Bleecker Street's calls. The distributor is appealing.

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Violet Blue® @violetblue.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

[Laughs in Streisand Effect]

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Nicholas Grossman @nicholasgrossman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Greatest trick AI leaders have pulled is convincing many people—especially influential people in govt, media, and business—that their software is intelligent, independent, yet never culpable. Humans build it, humans deploy it, but no one bears responsibility for the things that happen when they do.

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Ami Fields-Meyer @fieldsmeyer.com · 25/09/2026

Dr. Oz is on my flight right now. He is sitting in the very first seat, front row. I saw him get on the plane. So when I stepped off the jetway onto the plane I approached him and put my hand out. What the man in charge of healthcare for the people on the very margins of society said…was revealing

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Claire Atkin @catthekin.checkmyads.org · 24/09/2026

Yes! Rage is a business model.

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Elizabeth Lopatto @lopatto.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

what did I fucking tell you people about this guy. what did I say

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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 23/09/2026

We refuse to surrender our communities, our democracy, or our future to technofascism.

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Professionally Nosy @professionallynosy.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

My Rage Against the Machine/Les Mis mashup is complete. This is my interpretation of the quilt guild’s summer challenge “quilt with your interpretation and/or feelings towards our current ‘democracy’” all hand stitched.

Quilt hanging on a card catalog. Neutral background with navy cursive appliqué “Do you hear thr people sing?” The background is embroidered in red starting light and getting bolder the lyrics to “killing in the name” the quilting effect is a focused sunburst from the center.

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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 22/09/2026

Normal, non-big-tech affiliated, non-effective altruist funded organizations working on ethical tech have been absolutely financially *devastated* in the last few years, thanks to both Trump and Big Tech deciding it no longer needs to pretend to care about ethics.

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Yell In a War @jelenawoehr.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

the real proof that companies use AI to break labor power, not because it can actually replace human work: OpenAI hires entire humans to prevent other humans from using AI to train the AI, and those humans can get fired for using AI to stop the other humans from using AI

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People Training OpenAI’s AI Fired for Using AI to Train the AI

OpenAI has thousands and thousands of contractors helping improve the company's AI models. Multiple contractors have been fired for using AI to train the AI.

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Not ‘shape’ they want to destroy and pervert education as a project. They make it very clear that teachers and professors are their enemies and that schools and universities cannot exist as they do now. They want complete control of education; as their fascist desires necessitate that.

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Emily Phelps @epindc.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Oof. "Big Tech, which is now Big AI, is in thrall to an AI cult whose ultimate objective is to automate away human labor, agency, creativity, and autonomy, and to replace democracy with (br)oligarchic rule over a permanent underclass."🔥from @nathaliemarechal.net www.techpolicy.press/what-policym...

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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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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Renee DiResta (@noupside.bsky.social) and Dean Jackson published a new paper explaining how the "censorship industrial complex" propaganda campaign took shape & was eventually used to dismantle election information resilience infrastructure in the U.S. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

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<em>Public Administration Review</em> | ASPA Journal | Wiley Online Library

This paper examines how a propaganda frame alleging the existence of a “Censorship Industrial Complex” was institutionalized and then helped justify the dismantling of US election information resilie...

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Today, September 22, I’ll be speaking live with Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor at 12:00 p.m. PT / 3:00 p.m. ET about economics, concentrated wealth, and reactionary politics and their new book 'End Times Fascism.' Please join us. open.substack.com/live-stream/368619

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Gabe Nakamura @gabe-nakamura.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

A note to the Democratic 2028 field. I will be paying attention to how far everyone is willing to go in pointing out the myriad of ways this guy fucking sucks. The meaner you are to him, the more likely I am to support you.

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Susan Rinkunas @susanrinkunas.com · 22/09/2026

hey virginians did you know you get to vote to remove a BAN on same-sex marriage from the state constitution and protect people if the 6 robed freaks overturn obergefell? www.vpm.org/news/2026-08...

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Voters will decide whether to enshrine marriage equality in Virginia
VPM | By Jahd Khalil and Adrienne Hoar McGibbon
Published August 24, 2026 at 5:00 AM EDT

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Dave Willner @dwillner.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

@masnick.com and I took the time to formalize some thoughts around the unlikelihood of the “sexy apocalypse” as compared to the dumb, disappointing, and far more likely ones.

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Nora Benavidez @attorneynora.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Happening within the same 72 hours that Trump banned media from the White House — alarm bells as we hurl towards the midterms with near-daily reminders that the group of men controlling our govt & media & tech grows smaller as they glom onto power & wield increasingly authoritarian tactics.

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 21/09/2026

One of the problems with the AI industry being run by apocalyptic millenarian cultists isn’t that their end of the world scenarios are made up; it’s that like other similar millennialists, they think their desired end of the world is a utopia and they’ll do whatever they can to make it real.

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johnraff @johnraff.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

"Once you understand the broligarchs care more about hypothetical, future AI-enhanced lives than today’s population and believe it is their right and duty to sit atop a brutally hierarchical society where cold “rationality” trumps human rights and dignity, a lot of things start making sense."

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vortex_egg @vortexegg.com · 21/09/2026

It seems straightforward that, in the early 21st century, one of the main reasons that attempting to counter the widespread social deployment of technicized propaganda by partnering with the tech companies failed was because the tech companies were the largest funders and beneficiaries of propaganda

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Candice Bernd @candicequestions.com · 21/09/2026

NOW: Just arrived at the intersection of Research Blvd and Anderson Lane—near where ICE shot & wounded 29-yr-old Wilber Rafael Garces Perez earlier today. Between 300-500 people still holding intersection here. ICE is reportedly not letting Garces Perez’s family access him at the hospital.

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Anne Libby @annelibby.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Wittgenstein

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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 21/09/2026

Pop quiz: what is this excerpted from, and/or who wrote it ? Wrong answers only.

These are digitally native intelligences navigating digital worlds, and our world is increasingly built atop the digital world. Our physical infrastructure is a layer of atoms atop code. It is critical to our future that the A.I.s act reliably inside this world, upon which ours depends.

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

People are actually pressured not to develop political imagination in this country. You are called naive, idealistic, not with it, at best.

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Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Panic and fury are not the same thing. That’s why I used one word and not the other. this also responds to something that isn’t happening — it’s not that people aren’t furious; it’s that they are. And they are organizing around it. Manufactured panic is an op.

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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD @nathaliemarechal.net · 20/09/2026

If learning about the Harry Potter fanfic or the Sankey chart seemed like a lot, I do not recommend reading up on the Zizians. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

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Abstract Tesseract @abstracttesseract.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

just pure Merchants of Doubt bullshit

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SE Gyges @segyges.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This legislation seems nonsensical because it is nonsensical and it is nonsensical because it is meant to prevent Yudkowsky's paperclip maximizer from killing you, and not to solve any real problem that actually exists.

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