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Tekendra Parmar

@tekendra-parmar.bsky.social
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Investigative Journalist. Bylines: Bloomberg BusinessWeek, Business Insider, Time, Fortune, and The Nation. www.tekendra-parmar.com.

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Tekendra Parmar @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
For @fastcompany.com I wrote about Big Tech's faustian bargain with the Trump administration: Endanger trust and safety workers in exchange for the might of the administration to help you tackle loathsome foreign regulators: www.fastcompany.com/91459921/vis...
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The U.S. is now blocking visas for people who fight misinformation
The government says fact-checkers and content moderators are 'censors'—and Big Tech isn’t saying a word.
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Tekendra Parmar @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
Here's a picture of my cat being cute
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 04/12/2025
Russia was removed from Eurovision in 2022 over its invasion of Ukraine, but Israel is still allowed to compete despite being an apartheid state committing a genocide in Gaza. Good on Spain, Ireland, and the Netherlands. I’m sure they won’t be the last to announce a boycott.
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Spain, Ireland and Netherlands to boycott Eurovision after Israel retains place
Major European nations pull out of song contest after calling for country’s exclusion over conduct of war in Gaza
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Tekendra Parmar @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social · 02/12/2025
"Suspected drug smugglers" is doing a lot of work here
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Compiler @compiler.news · 24/11/2025
"If competition from TikTok and YouTube are enough to suggest that Meta’s products aren’t monopolistic, it says more about the limits of antitrust laws than it does Meta’s monopolistic nature," writes @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social.
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Meta victory reveals cracks in antitrust enforcement
If Meta’s not a monopoly, the ruling gives every other tech giant a green light to become one.
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Karen Tumulty @ktumulty.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Who says we don't need civics education in this country?
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Tekendra Parmar @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
I wrote about it for @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/09/24/c...
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Videos of Charlie Kirk’s Murder Are Still on Social Media — and That’s No Accident
Politicians demanding the removal of videos of Kirk’s killing pushed tech companies to gut the very systems they now expect to protect them.
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Tekendra Parmar @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
🚨 Republicans advocated for dismantling content moderation — now they’re shocked it won’t protect them. Graphic videos of Charlie Kirk’s assassination are still all over social media. For years, the right demanded platforms scale back enforcement. This is what that looks like.
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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.
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Tekendra Parmar @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
Was unfortunately fired for expressing my unbridled glee after hearing about the public execution of Benito Mussolini, the un-tragic demise of Moammar Gadhafi, and of course, the self-inflicted gunshot wound that took out Hitler in the bunker.
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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
I wrote a column responding to Ezra Klein’s eulogy for Charlie Kirk, and argued that democracy depends not just on civil disagreement, but on the civic equality that Kirk passionately opposed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Charlie Kirk’s killing was a tragedy. But we must not rewrite his life | Moira Donegan
In the wake of horror, honest accountings of his life have not only become rare – they have also become dangerous
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dell cameron @dell.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
Two students shot at a Denver-area high school, per CNN.
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Compiler @compiler.news · 04/09/2025
Great reporting from @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social reveals how police departments regularly deactivate safeguards meant to prevent bias and increase oversight of an AI tool designed to generate police reports. www.compiler.news/axion-ai-bod...
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Police disable safety features in AI crime tools
Departments are turning off Axon’s A.I. safeguards in software that auto generates reports from body-cam footage, raising accountability concerns.
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Mike Farrell @heymike.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Great reporting from @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social that reveals a troubling trend among police departments beginning to use AI that connects to body cameras.
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Tekendra Parmar @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social · 24/08/2025
A major undiscussed recession indicator: the number of people throwing hot dog themed parties
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 15/08/2025
🚨 SCOOP🚨: Records obtained by Mother Jones almost uniformly show police departments are deactivating safeguards meant to prevent AI bias while making it difficult or impossible to audit which police reports were generated by AI. @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social reports:
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Government documents show police disabling AI oversight tools
Departments aren't reviewing or disclosing AI-written police reports—which are now being used in plea deals.
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Tekendra Parmar @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social · 12/08/2025
Today, in being the family fact-checker.
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Tekendra Parmar @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social · 07/08/2025
Good news everyone! My I-485 was approved and I'm getting my green card in three weeks. No intermediary EAD cards and advanced parole it seems!
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Tekendra Parmar @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
Yep... It's really "the world" that's in the way of Gazans getting food. Not the systemic use of starvation on a population by a regime propped up by our government.
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Tekendra Parmar @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Read more about it from me on @inc.com www.inc.com/tekendra-par...
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What If AI Goes Rogue? This Startup Wants to Write the Insurance Policy
With hallucinating chatbots, deepfakes, and algorithmic accidents on the rise, AIUC says the solution to building safer models is pricing the risks.
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Tekendra Parmar @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
It’s a small team with big ambitions. Enterprise AI adoption is projected to hit $500B in the next 5 years. Whether this model scales or not, it reflects a growing push to formalize responsibility as AI moves into the mainstream.
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Tekendra Parmar @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
The idea: insurance markets can help quantify and manage AI risk more quickly than regulation can. One example? A retailer insuring against chatbot errors in its returns policy.
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Tekendra Parmar @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
AIUC was founded by an early Anthropic employee, a McKinsey insurance partner, and a Thiel Fellow. Backers include Nat Friedman, Emergence, and Anthropic alums. They’re creating independent safety standards—and insurance policies for AI deployments.
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Tekendra Parmar @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
A new startup wants to insure against AI risk—from hallucinating chatbots to deepfakes. It’s called AIUC, and it just raised $15M to underwrite companies deploying advanced AI systems.🧵
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Tekendra Parmar @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Read more about it from me at @inc.com www.inc.com/tekendra-par...
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Why This Startup Is Building a $50 Million Computer
Quantum computing startup Infleqtion has big plans for a facility in Chicago.
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Tekendra Parmar @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Infleqtion’s move is part of a much bigger shift. Chicago’s not just playing catch-up—it wants to lead. Gokhale puts it plainly: “Cities that follow suit will gain a strategic edge in the next technological era.”
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Tekendra Parmar @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
It’s not just lab coats and theory. This is serious hardware buildout: cooling centers, research labs, chip-processing facilities. And yes—dozens of new jobs across engineering, ops, research, and commercialization.
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Tekendra Parmar @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
The new site sits inside the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, a 128-acre project unveiled in 2024 by Gov. J.B. Pritzker to attract high-tech manufacturing and R&D. Think: IBM, DARPA, PsiQuantum, and now Infleqtion all in one place.
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Tekendra Parmar @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Infleqtion, a $700M Colorado-based startup, will headquarter its quantum ops in Chicago. Their tech? Neutral atom quantum computers—where lasers arrange and manipulate individual atoms to run calculations beyond what normal computers can handle.
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Tekendra Parmar @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
🚨 A quantum startup is building a $50M computer on the site of a shuttered steel mill in Chicago. This is about more than one company—it’s the start of a $9B industrial bet to turn Illinois into the heart of quantum tech.🧵
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Tekendra Parmar @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social · 16/07/2025
Does Stephen Miller regularly get cucked by immigrants? Is that why he's so pissy about us?
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Tekendra Parmar @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
The hive-mind of the right is something to behold. It seems like all the free thinkers made an aboutface on the Epstein files all at once
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Tekendra Parmar @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Been thinking a lot about how our species evolved to detect snakes, even when they're camouflaged, in the grass. I wonder if over the years, we'll also naturally select for people who are better at identifying AI slop? Will this become an essential skill to our survival? Identifying what is human.
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Tekendra Parmar @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
I feel like Zohran should release a custom Instagram filter
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Tekendra Parmar @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
People too often treat history like its a bowling alley with bumper guards. Balls forever hurtling down the path of the righteous. "History will remember them deplorably," they'll say. You sure? Why don't you ask a Native American what they think about that?
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Mark Chadbourn @chadbourn.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
New York’s financial elite are frantically raising $20 million to block Zohran Mamdani’s path to City Hall, the WSJ reports. A new super PAC, New Yorkers for a Better Future Mayor 25, has been formed to spearhead anti-Mamdani efforts.
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Tekendra Parmar @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social · 10/07/2025
Catch me on @marketplace.org this week talking about the rise of "Peace Tech" and how AI is being used to predict wars. www.marketplace.org/episode/2025...
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Could AI be a peacekeeper of the future?
Tech companies are training AI to help predict and prevent global conflict. Investigative journalist Tekendra Parmar breaks down how governments may begin to use it.
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 07/07/2025
putting aside the intense racism for a moment, it’s a bit rich for a silicon valley guy to accuse anyone of coming from a “culture that lies about everything.” that’s literally their business model.
Mamdani comes from a culture that lies about everything

It’s literally a virtue to lie if it advances his Islamist agenda

The West will learn this lesson the hard way
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Jason Linkins @dceiver.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
"Soon, lawyers for the Times will start combing through private ChatGPT conversations, shattering the privacy expectations of over 70 million ChatGPT users." Yeah but they'll probably fixate on anything that will hurt Zohran Mamdani. thehill.com/opinion/tech...
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Tekendra Parmar @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
The problem is BlueSky is boring. But Twitter is horrifying.
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Tekendra Parmar @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Been back on Twitter for the last week. So the blue check mark is exclusively Nazis and conspiracy theorists?
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
There's an idea emerging among centrist Dems that Zohran won because of short form video or podcasting and I'm sorry but that's just not it
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Zohran did not win because of TikTok and podcasts
His victory was the culmination of years of organizing and a platform that resonated with hundreds of thousands of New Yorkers.
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Tekendra Parmar @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
I am not convinced it is a raving endorsement to have one man accused of inappropriately touching his staff endorse another man accused of inappropriately touching his staff. But that's just me. I'm weird that way 🙃
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Tekendra Parmar @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Don't rank Cuomo. That's all, folks. Also, de Blasio wasn't actually that bad. He brought us one step closer to a public option in this city. That really friggin matters. nymag.com/intelligence...
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Bill de Blasio on Andrew Cuomo and That Nasty Times Op-Ed
The former mayor has a few things to get off his chest.
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Tekendra Parmar @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Perfect interview length too. I actually got through it
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Tekendra Parmar @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
We're living through an era of global instability—from Ukraine to Gaza, Kashmir to Tigray. Some believe AI can help preempt the next war. Others fear it could start one. Read my deep-dive into the rise of “peace tech” : www.businessinsider.com/peace-tech-a...
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Meet the ex-Harvard professor who says his AI can predict the next war: 'I don't want to break the world"
An ex-Harvard professor says his AI could prevent the next world war. Critics say it could start one.
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Tekendra Parmar @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Anadyr says it’s aware of these risks. It uses global datasets, consults experts, and releases North Star only to vetted clients. “We want to simulate what breaks the world,” Bell says. “We don’t want to break the world.”
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Tekendra Parmar @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
There’s also a darker twist: studies show AI diplomats sometimes favor escalation. One model even launched a nuke to “de-escalate” conflict.
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Tekendra Parmar @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
But peace tech has peace problems. AI trained on biased data can reinforce existing geopolitical narratives—or create new ones. “The claim that a place is unstable will make it unstable,” warns researcher Timnit Gebru.
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Tekendra Parmar @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Anadyr's backers see it as “peace tech”—the climate tech of geopolitics. With war costing the global economy $19T in 2023, they think this market could be huge. Clients already include corporate risk managers and state agencies.
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