Reposted by jenna ruddockReuters @reuters.com · 16hMaricarmen Abascal, the 87-year-old woman whose eviction sparked housing protests in Spain, has died, Madrid's tenants' union said reut.rs/3TsfUIt 33724
Reposted by jenna ruddockDr Dean Burnett @drdeanburnett.bsky.social · 06/10/2026"By using AI, tasks like essays that used to take hours can be completed in minutes!" Sure, like how if I arrive at the gym and immediately go for a shower, my workout is done in record time. And if I throw my sandwiches straight in the bin, I can finish my lunch in under 10 seconds. 7069231897
Reposted by jenna ruddockAndrew Couts @couts.bsky.social · 21hNEW: We made a continuously updating tracker to help everyone make sense of Elon Musk’s America PAC spending on the midterms. Tool built by @dell.bsky.social, @dmehro.bsky.social, & @regret.bsky.social; reporting by @hugolowell.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/elon-m...wired.comElon Musk’s America PAC Is Spending Big on the Midterms. We’re Tracking It DailyTo follow Elon Musk’s America PAC money, WIRED created a live-updating tracker that highlights the trillionaire’s overall influence on November’s elections. 410156
Reposted by jenna ruddockProPublica @propublica.org · 06/10/20265/ Hundreds of Americans were also held while they were engaging in their First Amendment rights. 60+ were held while they were filming. 2802211
Reposted by jenna ruddockMatt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 05/10/2026We murdered four more people in a boat today 12524931066
Reposted by jenna ruddockHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 03/10/2026“The decision to go public signals ‘the spyware vendor's ambition and investor confidence…’”therecord.mediaControversial spyware firm Paragon to go public by end of yearThe company plans to close the deal around the end of the year at which point Paragon will begin trading on Nasdaq under the REDLattice umbrella. 12012
Reposted by jenna ruddockTyler King @tyleraking.com · 03/10/2026Meta has enabled Muse to build extensive and ever-growing profiles on the orbit of people in a user’s life. Based on user input but also “publicly available information.” Whether that means a web search, Facebook’s own extensive data, or buying data broker info…we don’t know? And we can’t opt out.wired.comMuse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and FamilyMillions have downloaded Meta’s AI agent Muse. But getting it to do your bidding comes with privacy costs. 381194690
Reposted by jenna ruddockTimnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 02/10/2026I suppose in the same way that eugenics was also the "biggest idea"? 18786172
Reposted by jenna ruddockAlondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 03/10/2026To think that there is nothing to be learned and innovated on from the safety practices of other industries is lunacy. AI tools are power. They are not magical or exempt from safety practices that work for other complex systems. Governing AI requires disenchantment; break the spell. 518348
Reposted by jenna ruddockDhruv Mehrotra @dmehro.bsky.social · 02/10/2026NEW: DHS agents tracked people observing ICE arrests, photographed them, ran their plates, pulled personal information, and added them to a Palantir database, according to newly unsealed court filings. w/ @regret.bsky.socialwired.comICE Has Been Dumping Protester Photos Into a Palantir DatabaseDHS agents not only tracked and intimidated people observing ICE activity in Maine, but stored information about them in a Palantir-built database, newly unsealed court filings say. 12529941783
Reposted by jenna ruddockmolly taft @mollytaft.com · 02/10/2026NEW: Amazon announced this morning that it has stopped using NDAs in its data center agreements with local officials NDAs have been a massive flashpoint in anti-data center backlash, w local and national legislation being proposed in recent weeks to stop the practice:wired.comAmazon Says It’s No Longer Using NDAs for Data CentersThe company announced it has stopped using secret agreements with county officials and acknowledged that community backlash is leading to data center moratoriums across the country. 24412
jenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social · 02/10/2026they really love to complain about misinformation while their companies continue actively shielding basic project information from the public — like they have been for years 050
Reposted by jenna ruddockRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 01/10/2026Household debt at a record high. Student loan defaults at a record high. Credit card debt at a near record high. Meanwhile, corporate profits are the highest they’ve ever been. CEOs are paid 325x more than their typical workers. U.S. billionaire wealth is up 30% in a year. It's unsustainable. 811969731
Reposted by jenna ruddockJeff Doctor @jeff.doctor · 01/10/2026meanwhile...cbc.caHuman rights panel condemns Canada's inaction regarding Indigenous people | CBC NewsCanada is failing to meet international legal obligations by refusing to hold thorough investigations into the crimes committed in its residential school system, says a global human rights organizatio... 12220
Reposted by jenna ruddockjenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026one of my favorite internet rabbit holes: unexpected DNS gold rushes www.euronews.com/2026/09/29/t...euronews.comTrump's AI rebrand sparks unexpected rush for Slovenian .si domainsAfter Trump told the UN General Assembly that "artificial intelligence" sounded "fake" and the US would adopt "super intelligence" or SI, Slovenia's domain registrations jump from 3,500 a month to a w... 2134
Reposted by jenna ruddockAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 01/10/2026This will be one of the most important immigration cases in a generation. The Trump admin claims that a 1996 law mandates the detention of millions of people without any right to a bond hearing; every person who entered illegally, no matter how long in the past. If they win, it's a nightmare. 351242506
Reposted by jenna ruddockSocial Media Lab @socialmedialab.ca · 01/10/2026Failing up ..."Pete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfare. A year after his explosive tenure at Doge, the SpaceX CEO is back in the Trump administration’s good graces." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...theguardian.comPete Hegseth appoints Elon Musk to US taskforce on future of warfareA year after his explosive tenure at Doge, the SpaceX CEO is back in the Trump administration’s good graces 4615681
Reposted by jenna ruddockHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 30/09/2026Eugenics 🤝 ai www.nytimes.com/2026/09/29/h... 1231779550
jenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social · 30/09/2026one of my favorite internet rabbit holes: unexpected DNS gold rushes www.euronews.com/2026/09/29/t...euronews.comTrump's AI rebrand sparks unexpected rush for Slovenian .si domainsAfter Trump told the UN General Assembly that "artificial intelligence" sounded "fake" and the US would adopt "super intelligence" or SI, Slovenia's domain registrations jump from 3,500 a month to a w... 2134
Reposted by jenna ruddockKate Hagen's House of Horrors 👻 @thathagengrrl.bsky.social · 30/09/2026"Meanwhile, Jane Doe dropped out of Cornell and was denied her request to get her tuition refunded so that she could transfer to a different college. She hence faced more severe consequences than most of the men who she alleges gang-raped her." www.thecut.com/article/what...thecut.comWhat It Feels Like at Cornell Right NowAs a professor at the Ivy League school, Kate Manne has known many, many victims. There’s a palpable feeling on campus, she writes, that this is big. 653023990
Reposted by jenna ruddock🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I am convinced they are arguing for regulatory capture because most of their products if exposed would show that the worst breeches were just vibe coding and human malfeasance 15218
Reposted by jenna ruddockJason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026new: A third-party surveillance company is telling cops that it wants to add facial recognition to Flock footage and ALPR reads to help them "close the gap" in what Flock offers. Company offers racial analysis, gender analysis, behavior analysis www.404media.co/surveillance...404media.coSurveillance Company Tells Cops It Wants to Add Facial Recognition to Flock CamerasA surveillance company wants to "close the gap" that Flock won't do, by pitching facial recognition on its cameras. 511888
Reposted by jenna ruddockKat Abughazaleh @katmabu.bsky.social · 29/09/2026I literally don’t know a single woman who hasn’t been raped, stalked, groped, harassed, or sexually violated in some way at some point in their life. If you choose to doubt and dox survivors, just know every woman in your life is disgusted by you. 766286835988
Reposted by jenna ruddockJim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind 1002200778
Reposted by jenna ruddockTeam Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Ken Paxton: The only thing that really saves us is that the Supreme Court came along and allowed Super PACs. Otherwise... I would be sitting here and never have a chance... 1862475899
Reposted by jenna ruddockIan Carrillo @iansociologo.bsky.social · 29/09/2026No wonder so many Dem consultants are saying "go easy on AI and data centers" 77227
Reposted by jenna ruddockJohannes Franzen @johannesfranzen.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Incredible stuff. 13617162
Reposted by jenna ruddockAnn Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026seriously, 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...reuters.comEXCLUSIVE: Anthropic leaders to control AI lab via 'Founder LLC' to promote public good over market forcesAnthropic 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... 39735
Reposted by jenna ruddockAnn Monster Lipton @annmlipton.bsky.social · 29/09/2026And once again I have to ask, why has Reuters seen the prospectus and do we even have an SEC anymore? www.reuters.com/business/fin...reuters.comEXCLUSIVE: Anthropic's IPO prospectus shows sweeping AI vision, surging costsAnthropic is making a massive bet that AI will transform the global economy more profoundly than industrialization, electricity and the internet, according to its IPO prospectus seen by Reuters. 1016151
Reposted by jenna ruddockHypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 29/09/2026Seems like a “my bad” isn’t really sufficient here.theguardian.comOpenAI ‘sorry and working to do better’ after hack of Medicare and other Australian government websitesArtificial intelligence firm to front parliament as it apologises to Australians for agent attack 715036
Reposted by jenna ruddockAthena Coalition @athenaforall.bsky.social · 28/09/2026THIS is what the data center fight looks like! People from all over the US met up in Indianapolis to work on protecting our climate, jobs, and communities from Big Tech’s greedy AI race. Big thanks to Citizens Action Indiana for hosting! 0113
Reposted by jenna ruddockBrian Goldstone @brian-goldstone.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"So many people are coming to us who have never come to the food bank before. It used to be people who were working hourly-wage jobs. Now we see salary employees." Maybe we should measure the "strength" of the economy not by the stock market but by the length of the line at our local food bank? 314661
Reposted by jenna ruddockNoel Healy @drnoelhealy.bsky.social · 25/09/2026The assault on US universities didn't start in 2025. Our new paper traces the decades of corporate capture that made it possible, and why climate research is a primary target. Open access: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti... 13710307
Reposted by jenna ruddockJoseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 28/09/2026New from 404 Media: the group that hacked the FBI and stole data on "all FBI employees" says it won't publish the data. The group gave the FBI a one week countdown. Now says won't publish at all. Still represents a massive national security/counterintelligence risk www.404media.co/fbi-hackers-...404media.coFBI Hackers Say They Won’t Publish Massive Trove of FBI Employee DataShinyHunters, the group that stole data on “all FBI employees” including addresses and details on their spouses, told 404 Media on Monday “Since the very beginning we had made our decision that we wou... 79531
Reposted by jenna ruddockAndrew Lawrence @ndrew.bsky.social · 28/09/2026the two big ai stories to kick off the week are - meta ai giving your address to strangers on fb marketplace - stole a scientific breakthrough and presented it as its own work this is what we get instead of healthcare or third spaces or public transportation or pick literally anything else 232480613
Reposted by jenna ruddock404 Media @404media.co · 28/09/2026Human contractors are reviewing Copilot users’ prompts and uploaded images, 404 Media has learned. The contractors are also bombarded with users’ requests for sexual AI images. @evystadium.bsky.social has more. Sccop here by @josephcox.bsky.social: www.404media.co/humans-readi... 12463228
Reposted by jenna ruddockBen Winters @benwinters.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Gavin Newsom vetoed a bill that would have banned the sale of sensitive consumer data -- an unconscionable practice that should've been banned long ago -- which helps with stalking, scamming, law enforcement, and other predatory behavior with no public benefit. Shameful choice of data brokers > ppl 134
Reposted by jenna ruddockNYC Policy Forum @nycpolicyforum.bsky.social · 21/09/2026We're pleased to share that @ambakak.bsky.social co-ED of @ainowinstitute.bsky.social will join @hellodcwp.bsky.social Commissioner @saalevine.bsky.social to discuss local AI governance with writer @edwardongwesojr.com next week. RSVP at governing-ai-for-nyc-workers-and-consumers.eventbrite.comgoverning-ai-for-nyc-workers-and-consumers.eventbrite.comGoverning AI for Workers and Consumers: NYC's Public ApproachDive into what NYC can do to advance affordability for working families during the rise of AI and corporate consolidation. 11713
Reposted by jenna ruddocktante @tante.cc · 28/09/2026Silicon Valley brain: They literally don't understand that political action exists. Everything has to be an engineering problem or it's unsolvable. Weird broken men tante.cc/2026/09/24/the-test 1018245
Reposted by jenna ruddockGhostly Bree @mostlybree.kitrocha.com · 28/09/2026I assume everyone who follows me knows who Ashley is because I mean HOW COULD YOU NOT but if you just arrived, she spends untold hours organizing to protect people being targeted by ICE and abandoned by their politicians, and any quarters we can shake out of the couch can help her heal in peace 17339
jenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social · 28/09/2026wonder what made him believe that [camera pans to John Roberts] 050
Reposted by jenna ruddockPrisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 28/09/2026"But now Billy was dead, and the state of Connecticut said he owed $232,733 for room and board during his earlier prison stay. Selling the house where DeSenti now lived alone would help satisfy that debt." ctmirror.org/2026/09/27/t...ctmirror.orgThey served their time in prison. Then the bills arrived.Hundreds of CT residents have had money seized through a law that allows the state to charge a fee for every day a person spends in prison. 22496294
Reposted by jenna ruddockMother Jones @motherjones.com · 27/09/2026“Most LLMs (including those from OpenAI) are built on millions of scraped webpages and other large text datasets, and almost none of this content has been obtained with its owners’ knowledge or consent.” This is how tech executives talk when no one thinks they’re listening.motherjones.comAI exec: We may have pulled off “the largest theft of labor in human history.”Documents from our lawsuit reveal how tech leaders talk when they think no one is listening. 6259126
jenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026these tools have been built on extraction, including the nonconsensual use of other people's intellectual work. you cannot use them and expect your inputs to be treated any differently. 040
jenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"i never thought the leopards would eat MY face" etc. 142
jenna ruddock @ruddock.bsky.social · 27/09/2026"industry in theory" vs. "industry on the ground" does explain a lot of the data center discourse lately 010
Reposted by jenna ruddockAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Your taxpayer dollars are being illegally spent to air a literal Trump 2024 campaign ad. 711443362
Reposted by jenna ruddockTressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 27/09/2026People don’t understand how fragile our water infrastructure is. I’ve had contaminated water in the last six years. I’ve had my water co. hijacked for digital ransom. We are in perpetual near drought conditions... in NC, not AZ. AI boosters use pedantry about water use as an accountability shield. 9981269