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Nik Marda

@nrmarda.bsky.social
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CM for @jakejohnsonmn.bsky.social. Used to do AI stuff in the Biden White House OSTP and at Mozilla.

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Jake Johnson @jakejohnsonmn.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
The people didn’t want this. But the corporate donors did. Guess who got their way?
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Kat Rohn @rohnkat.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
To put a Republican +8 hold in TN in perspective: using the Cook PVI model there are roughly 99 GOP held seats in Congress that are closer to midpoint than this (2025 PVI R+10) district. In MN that includes MN-06 (Emmer, PVI R+10), MN-08 (Stauber, R+7), MN-01 (Finstad R+6). Huh.
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Nik Marda @nrmarda.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
AI for social good
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Jake Johnson @jakejohnsonmn.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
I was a SNAP kid. Now I'm running for Congress against the guy who gutted SNAP.
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Jake Johnson @jakejohnsonmn.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
I’ve been a public school teacher for 20 years. My wife is a paraprofessional who works with deaf and hard-of-hearing students. So let me tell you why these cuts to special education will be absolutely devastating 🧵 www.usatoday.com/story/news/e...
usatoday.com
Education Department wipes out special ed office in shutdown layoffs, union says
The Education Department laid off nearly everyone at the Office of Special Education and Rehabilitative Services.
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Nik Marda @nrmarda.bsky.social · 04/08/2025
I'm running the Madison Marathon this fall to raise money for the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention @afspnational.bsky.social Here's the link if you'd like to donate! www.gofundme.com/f/support-am...
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Donate to Madison Marathon for Suicide Prevention, organized by Nikhil Marda
We're a group of friends who grew up together in Rochester, Minnesota. On Novembe… Nikhil Marda needs your support for Madison Marathon for Suicide Prevention
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Jake Johnson @jakejohnsonmn.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
We raised more money than Congressman Brad Finstad last quarter, and we did it without any corporate PAC donations. No one has ever beat him like this in a fundraising quarter, and we’re just getting started. #MN01
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Jake Johnson @jakejohnsonmn.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
We had an incredible time at the Rochesterfest parade yesterday! Over 50 volunteers turned out and marched with us.
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Nik Marda @nrmarda.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
I'm fired up to start a new job as the campaign manager for @jakejohnsonmn.bsky.social, my high school math teacher who is running for Congress in MN-01! This used to be Tim Walz's district. Today, it's repped by a founding member of the DOGE caucus. He's going to flip this seat again.
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Jake Johnson @jakejohnsonmn.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
I’m a teacher, union leader, and father, and I'm running for Congress in southern Minnesota. I grew up poor here, so I know what high prices and gutted public programs mean to working families. Meanwhile, Brad Finstad is jacking up prices and won't listen to us.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
I was pleased to join others in the research community in signing this scientific consensus statement on bias and discrimination in AI. www.aibiasconsensus.org
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Scientific Consensus on AI Bias
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Nik Marda @nrmarda.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Over 100 researchers are issuing a statement today that reiterates the scientific consensus that AI can exacerbate bias and discrimination. The last three U.S. Administrations — including the first Trump Administration — and 192 other nations have recognized this basic fact.
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Federation of American Scientists @scientistsorg.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
We released a letter with 16 of our closest friends telling the Trump Administration: Transparency is essential for public trust. It is imperative you maintain the federal agency AI use cases inventories at the current level of detail. Read more ➡️ fas.org/publication/omb-ai-use-case-inventories/
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Nik Marda @nrmarda.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
Turns out if you keep "harnessing the benefits and mitigating the risks" of tech on the margin, you won't do enough to prevent the owners of that tech from amassing this much power
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sorelle @friedler.net · 30/01/2025
"guardrails so basic that any engineer should be ashamed to release a product without them" This is exactly what OMB's guidance on AI (m-24-10 & 18) put in place for fed gov use of AI. But it's now being revised. Glad consumer and tech groups are speaking up! www.cnbc.com/2025/01/30/t...
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Tech and consumer groups urge Trump White House to keep 'key rules' in place for AI
A joint letter from the Consumer Federation of America and Mozilla implored the White House to keep "key rules" in place for AI testing and transparency.
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Marc Aidinoff @maidino.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
We have built a state that relies on nonprofits and industry to do its basic tasks. Pausing funding breaks in this framework breaks the current us social safety net. Though the legality of this directive is quite suspect, it goes WAY beyond research.
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Natalie Alms @almsnatalie.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
The new order says that AI systems should be "free from ideological bias or engineered social agendas." While an AI-focused order from Trump 1.0 pointed to civil rights/liberties protections, the latest order makes no such reference www.nextgov.com/artificial-i...
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Trump signs AI executive order
The order calls for the development of an AI action plan and sets up a process for revoking actions taken under President Biden’s previous AI executive order signed in October 2023.
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amac @amac0.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
President Trump’s Executive Order re: DOGE is not the most important nor most inhumane EO from yesterday, but here’s a thread about it. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential... 1/
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Establishing And Implementing The President's "Department Of Government Efficiency" – The White House
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.
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Michael Li (李之樸) @mcpli.bsky.social · 21/01/2025
The scope of the birthright citizenship executive order is broader than some rumors had it. The denial of birthright citizenship would apply not just to U.S. born children of *undocumented immigrants* but to anyone who did not have a parent who was at least a permanent resident.
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 07/12/2024
New article by @andrewrchow.bsky.social on the potential ethics issues and well oligarchy, (my term not his) raised by the David Sachs appointment as AI czar. With quotes from @nrmarda.bsky.social and me, among others. time.com/7200518/davi...
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What Trump's New AI and Crypto Czar Means For Tech Industry
David Sacks campaigned hard for Trump, and will now likely attempt to grow both the AI and crypto industries.
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Suresh Venkatasubramanian @geomblog.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
This press release from Ted Cruz is very concerning. It's a standard authoritarian move (I've seen this in India) to start tracing money trails as a way to harass NGOs and others doing work in a space. 1/2 www.commerce.senate.gov/2024/12/cruz...
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Cruz Calls Out Potentially Illegal Foreign Influence on U.S. AI Policy
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Nik Marda @nrmarda.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
best spam message i've ever gotten
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Nik Marda @nrmarda.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I would like to meet one (1) person who user tested the new iOS photos app just to confirm that they actually exist
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Nik Marda @nrmarda.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Can't wait for BART service alerts to be rebranded as State-of-the-Bart Performance
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Nik Marda @nrmarda.bsky.social · 12/11/2024
Hello world!
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