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Jim Thomas

@scanthehorizon.bsky.social
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Tracking emerging tech, corporate power, food systems, biodiversity and occasional glimmers of hope and humanity. Fan of good lyrics and kickass poetry.

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Jim Thomas @scanthehorizon.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Meme proposal: The “GOON A-TEAM” : Big US tech giants used to be known as the GAFAM , FAANG or MAG7 (Magnificent 7). Silicon Valley is now pushing for “MANGOS” I propose The “GOON A-TEAM” (Google, Open Ai, Oracle, Nvidia, Amazon, TSMC, Elon, Anthropic And Microsoft)
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Tom Booker @tbooker1.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
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Jim Thomas @scanthehorizon.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Honored to be interviewed about biodigital technologies and Africa for this weeks episode of 'The Battle for African Agriculture' which is the weekly Podcast of the amazing Alliance for Food Sovereignty in Africa (AFSA) : www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNa6...
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Digital Colonialism: Is AI the New Frontier of the Battle for African Agriculture?
YouTube video by Battle For African Agriculture Podcast
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
AOC: Should this AI bubble pop, we should not be entertaining a bailout of these corporations while healthcare is being denied to Americans and SNAP is being denied to Americans —
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Jim Thomas @scanthehorizon.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
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Jim Thomas @scanthehorizon.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
"The Emperors New App" - An old fable rewritten for new times. tldr: AI is bullshit and the Emperor has no clue. Please share. www.scanthehorizon.org/p/fairytalet...
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Jim Thomas @scanthehorizon.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
another #AI meme proposal: Rename 'Hyperscale Data Centers' as "Hype and Scale data centers" - since thats what drives the AI bubble - ie hype and scaling
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Jim Thomas @scanthehorizon.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Meme proposal: LLM’s = Large Looting Models. Since LLM’s ( so-called Large language models)facilitate mass theft and exploitation ( of knowledge, text, art, music, images, culture, genetic material, personal data etc) I propose LLM should stand for Large Looting Models . Pass it on / repost!
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Jim Thomas @scanthehorizon.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
At AI summit: Abebe Birhane. « Sometimes what we need is no AI » Janet Haven : « We can’t rely on AI to solve social problems . @abeba.bsky.social @datasociety.bsky.social
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Jim Thomas @scanthehorizon.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Stickers circulating at the Paris AI Summit.. the French reads ‘ I already hear the sound of bots’ - ‘bruit des bottes’ ( sound of boots) is a French reference to the sound of marching fascist jackboots.
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Jim Thomas @scanthehorizon.bsky.social · 25/01/2025
Finally something inspiring, upbeat, truth telling. Thank you AOC.
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Leo Prints @leoprints.bsky.social · 17/01/2025
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NDN Collective @ndncollective.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
🔊 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 🔊 “It’s finally over– I’m going home.” – Leonard Peltier  Today, President Biden granted Leonard Peltier executive clemency and commuted the remainder of his sentence. Read our full press release: ndnco.cc/PeltierCleme...
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'It's finally over': President Biden Grants Leonard Peltier Clemency - NDN COLLECTIVE
In his final moments in office, President Biden grants executive clemency to Leonard Peltier, the longest-incarcerated Native American political prisoner in American history.
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💥 @dynamoe.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!
Gold Banner on Red Background:

Stop Forcing A.I. into Fucking EVERYTHING!
Nobody Asked For It; Everyone Hates It
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Jim Thomas @scanthehorizon.bsky.social · 17/12/2024
Luddites! Artificial intelligence! Synthetic Biology! Generative Biology! Financialising nature! tech bro billionaire space cowboys! All the topics in one wide ranging interview with the breaking green podcast globaljusticeecology.org/breaking-gre...
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Breaking Green: Artificial Intelligence and Generative Biology with Jim Thomas – Global Justice Ecology Project
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Jim Thomas @scanthehorizon.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Uh oh.. www.mercurynews.com/2024/12/13/o...
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OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartment
A former OpenAI researcher who raised concerns about the company is dead at 26.
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Jim Thomas @scanthehorizon.bsky.social · 12/12/2024
Biden to increase data centers, pollution and tech power as his parting shot: “The action could allow data centers to exceed pollution limits, open federal lands to data center construction and give data centers priority access to available power supply” subscriber.politicopro.com/article/2024...
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POLITICO Pro: White House weighing executive action to spur data centers
The exact nature of the action is still under discussion, said two people familiar with the matter.
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Jim Thomas @scanthehorizon.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
I don't know who has put this site together but it seems a very well curated overview and explanation of the agendas driving the techbroligarch takeover in washington #siliconswamp www.vcinfodocs.com
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Venture Capital Status
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Jim Thomas @scanthehorizon.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
Go at it!... too many good choices...
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Jim Thomas @scanthehorizon.bsky.social · 09/12/2024
A nyt piece detailing many of the #broligarchs of the #silicon-swamp - www.nytimes.com/2024/12/06/u...
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Elon Musk and the Tech Billionaires Steering Trump’s Transition Team (Gift Article)
The involvement of wealthy investors has made this presidential transition one of the most potentially conflict-ridden in modern history.
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Brian Schoner @bschoner.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
I'm not saying MAD got this idea from @raynegrimm.bsky.social - I'm just saying you can get stickers. www.etsy.com/shop/FennecF...
A sticker showing a six-fingered hand with the two middle fingers extended, with the caption "Fuck AI."
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Jim Thomas @scanthehorizon.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
Looks like AI resistance has found its hand gesture!
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Kirubel Teshome @kiruskyd.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Jim Thomas @scanthehorizon.bsky.social portrays the CBD #COP16 as a struggle between the interests of the world’s biggest profit makers and the interests of people struggling to safeguard their planet, their food and their economies. He unpacked it all here! 👇🏾 bit.ly/41gzcSs
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Big Finance, Big Tech AI Titans Ride Next Wave of Colonization at COP16
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Jim Thomas @scanthehorizon.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
Time to brand Washington as the new Silicon Swamp? Is anyone keeping a running list of the the new silicon swamp creatures ?? www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/12/...
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Trump says venture capitalist David Sacks will be AI and crypto 'czar'
David Sacks spoke at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee in July and hosted a fundraiser for Trump in San Francisco.
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NDN Collective @ndncollective.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
Today Sen. Brian Schatz (D-HI), Chair of the Senate Committee on Indian Affairs, delivered a powerful speech on the Senate floor calling for President Biden to grant clemency to Leonard Peltier.
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Jim Thomas @scanthehorizon.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre.... Exactly this. Free Leonard Peltier ( and others who don’t happen to be Joe Biden’s son)
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Biden could do so much good with pardons. Instead he bailed out his son | Tayo Bero
Hunter Biden cut the line while thousands of people who deserve similar considerations of mercy languish in prison
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 03/12/2024
Newsletter: We're at peak AI - generative AI models have hit the wall where they won’t improve much further thanks to a lack of training data, killer apps or any kind of sustainable business model. The results of a collapse could be catastrophic. wheresyoured.at/godot-isnt-making-it
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Godot Isn't Making it
Before we get going — please enjoy my speech from Web Summit, Why Are All Tech Products Now Shit? I didn’t write the title. What if what we're seeing today isn't a glimpse of the future, but the new ...
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Jennifer Clapp 🇨🇦 @jennifer-clapp.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Let's make this a thing! Folks researching the political economy of food and agriculture. Let me know if you should be added to this list! go.bsky.app/GykU1LD
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NDN Collective @ndncollective.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Our Director of Policy & Advocacy Janene Yazzie talked global climate policy, the plight of Leonard Peltier, & the push for clemency from President Biden with @counterpunchmedia.bsky.social ➡️About us: www.ndncollective.org ➡️Text “FreeLeonardNow” to 50302 for updates on how to free our relative
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Janene Yazzie: COP29, Leonard Peltier and the Future of Indigenous Resistance
On this episode of CounterPunch Radio, Janene Yazzie, Director of Policy and Advocacy at the NDN Collective, joins Joshua Frank and Erik Wallenberg to talk global climate policy, the plight of Leonard...
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Jim Thomas @scanthehorizon.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Now Biden should pardon someone who’s really suffered long enough. Sign and share this petition asking Joe Biden to Free Leonard Peltier. act.amnestyusa.org/page/96017/a....
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Clemency for Native American Elder Leonard Peltier
Native American activist Leonard Peltier has been imprisoned in the USA for over 46 years, despite critical concerns over the fairness of his trial. President Biden must grant Leonard Peltier clemency...
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Jim Thomas @scanthehorizon.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
I was interviewed about CBD COP16, AI, Synthetic Biology, biopiracy and financializing nature by GPEDOCS. V long interview, much in there so these are select excerpts :-) www.scanthehorizon.org/p/interview-... You can also watch/read the whole thing at gpenewsdocs.com
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Interview: Big Finance, Big Tech AI Titans Ride Next Wave of Colonization at COP16
Excerpts from an interview with Lynn Fries of GPE NewsDocs
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Jim Thomas @scanthehorizon.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Essential listening: really great episode of Computer Says Maybe interviews @kevindeliban.bsky.social of @techtonicjustice.bsky.social on the upsetting algorithmic cruelty we are going to see more of with the upcoming DOGE cost cutting of the Musk administration. www.saysmaybe.com/podcast/algo...
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Computer Says Maybe
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Jim Thomas @scanthehorizon.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Thrilled that @parismarx.com of the brilliant @techwontsave.us and King Ludd himself, @bcmerchant.bsky.social are now teaming up to give us an extra weekly dose of tech-critcial insight and wisdom with System Crash - Timely and neccesary - first episode here: podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/s...
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System Crash
Technology Podcast · 2 Episodes · Updated Weekly
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 21/11/2024
New followers! Since you’re escaping Elon Musk’s social dystopia, you might like my newsletter. It’s the critical perspective on the tech industry you’ve been looking for. Subscribe to Disconnect today: disconnect.blog Or become a paid supporter: disconnect.blog#/portal/sign...
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Disconnect
Tech critic Paris Marx provides the critical take on Silicon Valley you’ve been missing
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Kevin De Liban @kevindeliban.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Today is the launch of TechTonic Justice, a new org to fight the ground-level harms that AI causes low-income folks! Our groundbreaking report explains and quantifies the ways AI is used in the lives of low-income people. Check out our website, read the report, and share the news far and wide!
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Jim Thomas @scanthehorizon.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
Hi friends. I've written a kickass article on why #AI titans are now on the hook to pay billions of $$$ to indigenous and local communities for training data thru the #UNCBD Cali Fund and why this is an important precedent for #artificialintelligence policy www.scanthehorizon.org/p/un-puts-ai...
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UN puts AI Titans on the hook for billions of dollars of biopiracy payments.
A new UN decision says AI giants should pay out billions of dollars compensation for use of AI training data . Here’s why the UN’s new “Cali Fund” sets an important precedent far beyond biodiversity.
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Roger McNamee @moonalice.com · 17/11/2024
The brilliant @carolecadwalla.bsky.social offers 20 tips for dealing with the present moment. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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How to survive the broligarchy: 20 lessons for the post-truth world | Carole Cadwalladr
In the wake of Trump’s unnerving appointees, the investigative journalist and veteran of the libel court offers pointers on coping in an age of surveillance
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