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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 7h

"Right now, your washing machine is subject to more safety rules than AI. Every carton of milk that you see in the grocery store is subject to safety rules and inspection."--Brad Smith

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 3h

If there’s evidence of fraud or other financial crimes, let’s see it. But trying to denaturalize and deport a sitting member of Congress over mistakes a parent allegedly made on immigration forms when she was a child is immoral and reprehensible. We can’t stand for it.

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Immigration enforcement officials search Ilhan Omar's home in pre-dawn raid

Rep. Ilhan Omar's home was the subject of a pre-dawn HSI raid.

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Anders Schneiderman @raschneiderman.bsky.social · 1h

One thing I really appreciate about El-Sayed is that when he’s dealing with scummy politicians, he lets fly. But as this video shows, when he talks to voters, he treats them with deep respect – and he treats them like they are thoughtful adults youtu.be/Ot_ISEIfMms?...

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‘You Need More People’: Corrections Officer Confronts Abdul El-Sayed, Then His Answer Stuns Everyone

YouTube video by Hook Global

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Anders Schneiderman @raschneiderman.bsky.social · 17h

Me, suddenly realizing that tomorrow is Monday

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 09/10/2026

Troy Jackson: "The gentleman's name was Johan Sebastian Guerrero. He had a 3 year old daughter. The only mistake he made that morning was going to work. Because Sen. Collins is not willing to stand up to Donald Trump, he was murdered in the streets of Biddeford for doing nothing wrong."

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Nathan Newman @nathansnewman.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

MAJORITY of the public now supports expanding the Court Dem leaders either support this or expect a primary challenge in 2028.

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Anders Schneiderman @raschneiderman.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

This is the third time I’ve heard Ashley Nixon say, why would I want to defund the police and abolish prisons if I want to lock up my opponent for stealing $10 million from sick kids, and it’s as funny the third time as it was the first. She seriously kicks ass youtu.be/ydoa1awUw2w

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Angie Nixon: Impeach Trump AND His Whole Damn Cabinet! | Bulwark Daily

YouTube video by The Bulwark

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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Part (but far from all) of what's horrific here is: a woman weighing the consequences of speaking up about being sexually assaulted, because speaking up imposes burdens and costs (and so does not speaking up).

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Congressional candidate is raped while repairing her campaign signs

Embarrassed, she initially didn’t want to report attack. Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office's investigation is ongoing. A Phoenix New Times exclusive.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 07/10/2026

Troy Jackson after Collins takes credit for rural healthcare cuts in big beautiful bill not being as bad as they could've been even though she voted to advance the bill: "Sen. Collins is like an arsonist who helped set the fire, and then she wants credit for bringing a cup of water to put it out"

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Anders Schneiderman @raschneiderman.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I don’t know if we could ever be lucky enough to have a President this special. But a boy can dream @aoc.bsky.social youtu.be/TovJ144hwv0?...

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AOC Visits Southside Community Center in Ithaca

YouTube video by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez

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Anders Schneiderman @raschneiderman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Why not just go for public ownership or a frontier models as public utility? Because building the grassroots power needed to beat trillions of $$ isn’t going to happen fast

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Anders Schneiderman @raschneiderman.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Robinson’s essay is Exhibit A of why I think we need to start by slowing Big Tech down using smart approaches like @alondra.bsky.social recommended and end w frontier model builders as publicly owned utilities. Big Tech has a trillion dollar incentive to sabotage any attempt to rein them in

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Angie Nixon @angieforfl.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. /1

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Anders Schneiderman @raschneiderman.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

What’s most significant about the study is not that frontier AI can handle “well defined accounting tasks” more accurately than junior accountants, but that it only took 18 months for them to get that good.

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Duncan Hothersall @dhothersall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

For all that it's been barely reported in the UK press, it's still hard to understate the importance of the stance @labourunionsuk.bsky.social has taken on trans and non-binary rights this week. Every single trade union affiliated to the party of government has stood up and said we will not comply.

Joint statement from National TULO

Solidarity with the trans and non-binary community

Labour's 11 affiliated trade unions stand in total solidarity with the trans and non-binary community.

Trans rights are human rights, and trans rights are workers' rights.

We in the trade union movement will do all we can to stand up for our trans members and all our trans siblings, to protect them from persecution, harassment and attack.

The government must act now to protect all trans people, to make sure their rights are protected, expanded and upheld in our workplaces and communities.

Labour Unions

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Anders Schneiderman @raschneiderman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Solar + Batteries: Save the Planet, Save Your Fridge’s Groceries

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Anders Schneiderman @raschneiderman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

FYI, this is part of what Ethan is responding to: several more cases where OpenAI is finally admitting their AI agents tried to hack into websites. For ex: www.bbc.com/news/article...

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Rogue OpenAI agent 'infiltrated' Australian government website in world first

Australia criticised OpenAI for taking "too long" to tell them about the breach which happened in June.

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Anders Schneiderman @raschneiderman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Personally I find this more than a little unnerving. Trying to figure out how to stop AIs from operating from bad intent is no small task, but it seems a lot simpler than stopping AIs that are trying to be “helpful.“

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Anders Schneiderman @raschneiderman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A little piece of good news about the conversation around AI safety — Nelson is one of the smartest people around when it comes to complex, nuanced science & tech issues

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Anders Schneiderman @raschneiderman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Mamdani is The Man, Part 642 My favorite bit: Norway’s PM explaining that he walked to the school, then Mamdani plus the virtues of walking in a city

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Scott Horton @robertscotthorton.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

NYT has now independently corroborated all the major allegations against Susan Collins in the ProPublica report, including that investigators were prepared to move against her and then Trump intervened to shut it down. This put Trump in a position of exceptional and extortionate leverage over her.

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F.B.I. Shut Down Inquiry Into Top Ally of Senator Susan Collins

The inquiry was closed last year because senior bureau officials questioned the veracity of a campaign donor’s account, according to current and former officials.

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Anders Schneiderman @raschneiderman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This is the most plausible scenario for AI extinguishing all human life: just one dumbass too many tells Fable 9.0 to create their fantasy football league for them

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Anders Schneiderman @raschneiderman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Most of the time social media drives me crazy. But every once in a while we get something like this: a fascinating list by @chantalahailey.bsky.social on how black parents navigate the hard, often painful choices about choosing schools in a deeply racist education system

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Anders Schneiderman @raschneiderman.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Didn’t think that one big question in 2026 would be, will Trump do more damage to us in the next 2 years with his staggering stupidity around AI or Iran?

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

NEW: @apnews.com confirms that ICE has begun electronically "disappearing" people in the agency's custody who have final orders of removal. As of last week, anyone jailed by ICE with a final order of removal will NOT appear in the ICE Online Detainee Locator System, making them effectively vanish.

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AP Exclusive: ICE hides locations of thousands of detainees with final removal orders

U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has stopped publicly revealing where it is holding most detainees who are subject to final deportation orders, in a move that has made it harder for lawyers an...

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Anders Schneiderman @raschneiderman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Yes! And that’s why folks at the grassroots have some real leverage — if the organizing around data center grows into something bigger

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Anders Schneiderman @raschneiderman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

if you’re starting to ask, how do we put some brakes on AI, this 2022 report is a really good place to begin. Then take a look at what they’ve said since then. I don’t know what agree with them, but they are hands-down some of the smartest, most nuanced people writing about AI

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Anders Schneiderman @raschneiderman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

And unlike railroads, we have a lot of leverage. Midwest populist farmers complained that railroad barons had them by the throat; they had to use railroads to sell their goods. Not so with AI — at least not today

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 21/09/2026

one thing that is worth remember apropos this useful piece is that novel technologies do not necessarily require novel political solutions. americans have had to deal with fast-moving, disruptive technological change in the past, and they did so through collective, democratic action.

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Opinion | Bernie Sanders, Steve Case and Others on What Washington Should Do Now on A.I.

How can the government reel in the technology? Here are six ideas.

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Anders Schneiderman @raschneiderman.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

Media elites finally fighting back. Just a bit. But still an encouraging sign (because yes, by 2026 my standards have dropped this far)

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Anders Schneiderman @raschneiderman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

And at least among my fellow geek friends, panic from Hugging Face etc is helping; I’ve had more real conversations w geeks in the last few weeks about to regulate AI than I have in years

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Anders Schneiderman @raschneiderman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

They’re definitely sowing panic to further their own power. I think we disagree on whether panic is also useful on our side right now. I respect why you don’t. My read is that far from getting Big Tech what they want, it’s helping tank AI in the polls & getting more people pissed off

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Anders Schneiderman @raschneiderman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I think some of the grassroots work around data centers is about very real problems that are hurting people right now , and some of it is about panic, rage etc — and that’s a good thing

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Anders Schneiderman @raschneiderman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Making good decisions is hard. But I think the much harder part is building enough grassroots power to make D politicians more afraid of us than Big Tech — esp given that Trump’s president for the next few years . For that, panic, fury etc can be very helpful.

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Anders Schneiderman @raschneiderman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Just remember: you don’t have to get up really early, you just have to get up earlier than the other person trying to outrun the robots

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Anders Schneiderman @raschneiderman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Centrist Ds: doing what they can to help Socialists win more seats

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Anders Schneiderman @raschneiderman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

“The [AI] threat is already here. Panic won’t fix it. Politics will.” Why does our side do this to ourselves? How often does “don’t panic” win in politics? The fight isn’t panic vs “sober” politics. It’s what we should panic about and what we _do_ w our panic www.nytimes.com/2026/09/19/o...

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Opinion | A.I. Is a Threat, but Not in the Way You Think

The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.

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Anders Schneiderman @raschneiderman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

It feels like we might finally be turning the corner on treating AI like a product, not a utopian unicorn AI is a product. And we don’t allow companies to build products they think may kill us all. youtu.be/6oo0ZrojX-I?...

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Does AI need an antitrust exemption so it doesn't kill everyone???? | Decoder

YouTube video by Decoder with Nilay Patel

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Anders Schneiderman @raschneiderman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Welcome to 2026, where The Resistance includes a former central banker (Carney) and a NYC socialist mayor (Mamdani), both of whom have sky high voter approval ratings

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Anders Schneiderman @raschneiderman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Also, you should really really read this article. This is really messed up, and we need to start freaking out and doing something about it now.

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Anders Schneiderman @raschneiderman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I get why people are saying, don’t fall into Big Tech’s trap. But let’s not make the opposite mistake. /5

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Anders Schneiderman @raschneiderman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

If you’re trying to build a positive alternative, sometimes anchoring what we’re doing to today can lead you to overlook too many opportunities. But if we’re trying to avoid a threat? Tackling today’s threats while keeping an eye on tomorrow’s is a great two-fer/4

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Anders Schneiderman @raschneiderman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

As a software developer and manager, this tactic — sometimes called “scaffolding” — is often used to gain experience & expertise when we are dealing with an immediate and a larger issue and it isn’t clear how we deal w the bigger problem/3

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Anders Schneiderman @raschneiderman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Are folks on the other side trying to distract the public or market their AI by focusing on tomorrow? Yes they are Does that mean we can’t walk and chew gum at the same time? Nope In fact, why not argue for using today’s threats as a testbed for trying out strategies to stop tomorrow’s/2

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Anders Schneiderman @raschneiderman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I don’t understand why very smart folks on our side keep insisting, we shouldn’t waste our time focusing on the future, just focus on now. In no other part of our lives do we say, even worse sh*t may happen tomorrow, but we can only choose to focus on the future or now. /1

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Anders Schneiderman @raschneiderman.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I think you’re being really unfair to goldfish. They aren’t unethical, they just lack opposable thumbs

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Adam Becker @adambecker.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

@aoc.bsky.social just put out a great statement on AI. Refreshing to see a major politician on the left nail this. "Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity. But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves." 🎯

Charles,

Last weekend, Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, one of the largest Al companies in the world, publicly asked his industry to slow down Al development.

Shortly after, Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAl, followed suit. Then Elon Musk.

This all came days after an Anthropic researcher quit, citing his belief that this technology could wipe out humanity and that Al companies are "gambling with our lives."

For years, people have warned that generative Al could slip out of our direct control.

Those safety concerns must be taken seriously.

And this is why I have advocated for strict safety standards on how Al is built and deployed, public oversight over this technology, and using existing laws to hold these companies accountable when they cause harm.

But I want to draw your attention to another reality: Right now, the U.S. economy and our financial futures are riding on Silicon Valley's bet that Al will soon be immensely profitable and pay off. And that bet isn't looking good.

The formula for a profitable business isn't complicated: make more money than you spend. But the biggest Al companies aren't doing that. They are spending hundreds of billions per year on data centers, chips, and other costs while their ability to make revenues that exceed their already-immense sunk costs are unclear. Experts estimate that these Al companies will require another $600 billion of debt just to finance

themselves in 2026 alone. That is more than the entire budgets of the U.S. Departments of Justice, Transportation, & Education combined.
Meanwhile, despite almost every single one of these companies not turning a profit & having sunk billions of investor dollars in development of data centers & other infrastructure, Al companies are also on a spending spree of hundreds of millions of dollars in lobbying & dark money in our elections.
It would be one thing if we were discussing a few private companies with a poor business model. But last year, virtually all stock market gains - 80% - rested entirely on just a handful of Al companies.
That tells us two things:
1. Nearly the entire U.S. economy outside the Al industry is relatively stagnating and faring poorly & the gains from these few companies are disguising it; &
2. Millions of people's retirements - including their pensions, 401ks, & investments - are potentially exposed to this risk.
That's why these Al companies' dubious financial positions matter to working people.
These companies argue that debt is necessary. They'll tell you that building transformative technologies requires upfront capital, & that massive borrowing today will pay off in generating unprecedented prosperity tomorrow.
But this is not the typical debt that startups take on while they build out a company. We are talking about billions going on trillions of dollars leveraged with no indication that these companies will be able to recoup these funds profitably. And they are increasingly looking to the government as their source of cash.
In an effort to hide their debt, tech companies have been relying on "circular financing" where tech giants like Google, Amazon, & Microsoft give billions to Al startups like OpenAl & Anthropic, only for those startups to hand that money right back to buy Al processing power.
In other words, these Al companies are luring in new investors by making it look like their financials are healthier than they really are.

What's even worse is that retirement & pension funds are key to supporting this illusion.
When the Al companies issue bonds to raise more money, your pension funds & retirement accounts are some of the biggest buyers. When Musk's Al business went public, it became part of index funds where millions of Americans invest our savings. Many Americans don't even know that their retirement investments are tied up in these companies at all.
From Big Tech's perspective, that's a feature, not a bug. By tying our futures to their reckless gambling, Al billionaires are trying to make themselves too big to fail. They think they can take such dangerous risks because we will bail them out if things go wrong.
Sound familiar? This scene is dangerously reminiscent of the rampant speculation, corruption, & broken incentives leading up to the 2008 financial crisis that plunged millions of working class Americans into financial chaos that we never fully recovered from.
It is no accident that these warnings from Altman & Amodei come months-if not weeks-before these companies were meant to go public.
When companies go public, they have to be more transparent about how they are doing financially. And after a waiting period, they typically have to let private investors-like their own employees-sell their shares.
The New York Times recently confirmed that OpenAl has postponed going public for this very reason. They are in no rush for the truth about their finances to come out.
But the moment these oligarchs began to seek our public tax dollars & public contracts while exposing their companies to public pension funds & investments, they opened themselves to public accountability & scrutiny.
Silicon Valley billionaires have rigged the game & are attempting to shift their financial risk to working people: If they're right about Al's potential, they reap the profits. If they're wrong & the bubble bursts, they are setting up the American people to pick up the tab.
Heads, they win; tails, we lose.

We can stop this, and we shouldn't play their game. Together we can address both the economic and safety threats of unrestricted Al development and prevent financial chaos and stabilize market risk.

We must make it clear now that should the Al bubble pop, Congress should not bail out Big Tech.

And across our federal agencies, we have the authorities and tools to hold Al companies and their leaders accountable for releasing dangerous, unvetted, and defective products. We must not wait.

Silicon Valley billionaires want us to believe that Al robots will destroy humanity.

But the biggest threat to humanity are the tech oligarchs themselves.

It's time we hold them accountable.

Thank you for reading.

In solidarity,

Alexandria

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