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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 25/09/2026

How can we make social media work for kids when it doesn’t even work for us? For the last episode of our Back to School series, we’re turning to a hot button topic: child safety online.

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 18/09/2026

EdTech makes big promises about accelerating learning. But putting a laptop in every kid’s hands doesn’t make them better students—it just makes them better consumers.

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 16/09/2026

A few months ago, @naomiaklein.bsky.social chatted with @alixdunn.com on the pod about why fascists frame today as ‘end times’:

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 11/09/2026

Imagine this: your five-year-old kid comes home from school talking about their new friend, Amira. The only problem? She’s not real.

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 04/09/2026

Ever wonder what forcing a laptop into every schoolkid’s face does to their brains? According to Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath, nothing good!

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 28/08/2026

@alixdunn.com sat down with @stefanturk.bsky.social , VP of Public Policy at RAINN, to unpack why it’s so damn hard to pass good tech policy. Stefan is one of the leading experts in writing (and actually passing!) laws that protect people from abuse and assault online.

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 21/08/2026

The military tech company lobbied the Ohio government to buy its way out of the democratic process - allowing it to raze farmland and build a weapons factory on top of it without pushback from the local community.

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 24/07/2026

@keshaunpearson.bsky.social has fought corporate extraction before. He knows how companies turn neighborhoods like his into their dumping grounds. And he knows how to fight - and win.

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 17/07/2026

In 2013, taxi drivers began noticing something unusual: unmarked, black cars were cutting them off in taxi lines and picking up their passengers. Little did they know, those black cars were the start of Uber — and that it wasn’t just going to destroy the taxi industry, but wage labor as we knew it.

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 10/07/2026

Tech execs are doing everything they can to make the power they’re consolidating feel inevitable - as though there’s nothing we can do to stop it. So how do we counter that? We go deep, and we go networked.

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 03/07/2026

For the third episode of REAL Resistance, @alixdunn.com speaks with four incredible organizers and researchers that are fighting back against tech’s struggle for power in their countries.

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 30/06/2026

Governments across the Global Majority are trying to tackle tough problems with tech. But instead of creating the oft-promised efficiencies, these tools are delivering deeper inequities–while making them harder to see and challenge.

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 29/06/2026

Tech companies are making AI the front door to the internet—and it's distorting news, language, and knowledge as we know it. For our first episode of REAL Resistance, @alixdunn.com spoke with @klaudia.bsky.social, @aliyabhatia.bsky.social, and Yanick Kemayou about how AI warps the world’s info.

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 26/06/2026

Welcome to REAL Resistance: a series of conversations produced in collaboration with @REAL ML, a global network of experts and advocates building movements to challenge the material harms of technology.

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 26/06/2026

Tech should be designed to serve our collective well-being. But today, a handful of billionaires pull the strings that shape our lives. To change that, we need to understand how these systems work, what a better technological future could look like, and how we can build it together.

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 22/06/2026

"We look at it with horror, seeing armed conflict and violence spreading across the world, where they see it as business opportunities." @marwasf.bsky.social speaks with @alixdunn.com and @docmattmoudi.bsky.social about how tech executives view AI-powered warfare with dollar signs in their eyes.

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 19/06/2026

They discuss the demands of their joint statement, what it takes for public dissent to motivate private action, and what future we can (and must!) build towards. "What if tech companies built tools that were considered public goods? What if they weren't private?" @docmattmoudi.bsky.social

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 08/06/2026

“ It's saying mass killing or mass occupation is the point. If you are using Palestinians or Lebanese or Iranians, whoever it may be, almost as a testing ground for your new technology, when there is no accountability for mass killing or mass crimes, why would you stop them?”

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 03/06/2026

@alixdunn.com is going live this Friday, June 5th at 12pm ET with @daminis.bsky.social, Director of Amnesty Tech at @amnesty.org , and @gregmepstein.bsky.social , Humanist Chaplain at Harvard and MIT, to unpack this moment.

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 15/05/2026

The US military and Big Tech drive a huge portion of funding for academia and the scientific community. This enables warmongers and tech executives to shape, control, and direct innovation towards profit and war crimes. So what do we do about it?

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 14/05/2026

“Ahmad, do you want to die with those around you or alone?” That's what an Israeli soldier asked a Lebanese man on the phone while he sat with family members. Ahmad hung up, quickly walked out of the home, and got in his car. Minutes later, Israel launched two missiles at his car, killing him.

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 08/05/2026

Lis starts in 2017, and breaks down how US politicians and tech execs constructed a highly effective narrative to steamroll safety standards, drive unthinkably large resources to Big Tech, and prop up shoddy tech before it’s actually ready.

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 06/05/2026

What they found is shocking: this algorithm is overcharging the poorest and undercharging the richest.

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 01/05/2026

What they don’t mention is that in giving this data, in agreeing to these expensive contracts, that the US government is locking themselves in partnership with Anduril and Palantir. 4/

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 29/04/2026

SpaceX might be described as a satellite company that also makes some of the world’s most unsafe commercial AI technology. You can also describe it as an ads company that makes rockets. As Elon Musk aims to take it public this year, it might be his biggest attempt at trillionaire status yet.

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 24/04/2026

In this conversation with @alixdunn.com, Jeffrey Stern walks us through the precursor to AI-driven warfare: the development of self-guided missiles and the fallacy of “precision.”

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 23/04/2026

Older workers face a brutal job market. Enter AI data annotation platforms: they’re recruiting highly‑skilled workers to train AI models—models that ultimately aim to replace them.

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 17/04/2026

War is a serious business. When an autocratic America partners up with SaaS companies looking for ARR, we get something that feels both unserious and horrifying.

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 16/04/2026

The Node Project generated Danny with AI to drum up white nationalism and xenophobia. This secretive collective is funded by the far-right party Advance UK to make political campaign content, bringing disinformation to a whole new level.

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 10/04/2026

What do Frankenstein and Sigourney Weaver have in common? They both tell stories inspired by Luddites.

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 08/04/2026

Why are schoolchildren in Brazil being surveilled for…attendance? Every day, as many as one million students in the state of Paraná have their faces scanned and biometrically assessed, all to try and save a few seconds of roll call.

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 03/04/2026

Tech billionaires and MAGA politicians want us to feel scared right now. But @naomiaklein.bsky.social thinks that's a sign that they're the ones who are actually TERRIFIED— and should be. 1/

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 02/04/2026

We’ve been nominated for a Webby!! Computer Says Maybe with @alixdunn.com is up for Best Technology Podcast - we’re honored that our conversations about tech politics and power are resonating with the good people of the Internet. Huge thanks to everyone who listens and shares the pod with friends 🙌🏼

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 27/03/2026

Do you wanna guess what the kids call anything that feels fake, hollow, or emotionally unresonant? They call it AI.

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 25/03/2026

Grammarly, a glorified AI spellchecker, briefly introduced a feature called “Expert Review,” where users could ask writers, dead and alive, to review their writing.

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 20/03/2026

@anatosaurus.bsky.social brings her messaging chops to the fight for our technological future. She and @alixdunn.com explore how the left centers problems and how we need to instead share values, show solutions, and bring people to action.

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 13/03/2026

A few reality checks: 1️⃣ No modern computer approaches the complexity of the human brain. 2️⃣ Data centers in space would overheat - cooling in a vacuum is extremely difficult. 3️⃣ Earth’s deadliest day was when an asteroid killed the dinosaurs. That day was far more livable than an average day on Mars.

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 27/02/2026

And lastly, @naomiaklein.bsky.social quickly debunks the idea that AI will save us on climate. Instead, she reveals how AI has actually revived the fossil fuel industry, and how fossil fuels, technology, and warmongers are not-so-secret bedfellows.

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 26/02/2026

Elliott “El’Bo” Awatt is trying to change that. El’Bo is a Driver Organizer with Colorado Independent Drivers United, a gig worker union that is fighting for fair wages and better working conditions in Colorado.

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 26/02/2026

@amostoh.bsky.social says the US military likely used Claude in the unconstitutional Venezuelan invasion and kidnapping of President Maduro. The DoD says they can do whatever they want with AI as long as it’s legally compliant. But if Claude was used in Venezuela, was it really legally compliant?

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 25/02/2026

Introducing @bedoyausa.bsky.social. Alvaro is the former Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission, the founding director of @georgetownprivacy.bsky.social, and current Senior Advisor at @econliberties.bsky.social.

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 24/02/2026

@seligmanforag.bsky.social has a few ideas. David is the Executive Director of @towardsjustice.bsky.social and is the Democratic candidate for Colorado Attorney General, and he’s trying to build a ground-up movement to push back on corporate power.

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The People's Policy
Holding Big Tech Accountable in Colorado and Beyond
Monday, March 2nd
5:30 MT
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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 20/02/2026

ICYMI: We did make an AI Lingo Bingo card for the Impact Summit - tell us if you went and got bingo!

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 20/02/2026

President of the @signal.org Foundation @meredithmeredith.bsky.social breaks down the idea of “Open Source AI”— she brings us back to the roots of open source and how the mainstream concept of AI runs so far from it.

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 20/02/2026

We’re back with part 2 of Lingo Bingo at the India AI Summit; this time we’re diving into buzzwords like “Open Source AI” and the infamous “AI for Good.”

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 20/02/2026

Despite working 60+ hour weeks, many Uber and Lyft drivers have seen their pay drop by nearly 50% over time. Even as these companies report record profits, consumers face inflated prices, while the workers who are (quite literally) driving these companies’ success are paid less and less.

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 19/02/2026

“We are living in a kind of academic ‘Stranger Things’ nostalgia…recovering words like imperialism, colonialism, and sovereignty because we didn’t address those issues properly in the past. So the monsters and zombies are back.” - @grohmannrafael.bsky.social

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 19/02/2026

” We are moving towards another level of data, which is language, and language is also personal identity…We often ask ourselves, who actually does own the language? Who gives us the permission?” - Chenai Chair

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 18/02/2026

“We should be questioning how power formed in a way that enabled a handful of people—in service of their quarterly returns—to make socially significant decisions on behalf of everyone else, without scrutability, without clarity, and without democratic oversight.” - @meredithmeredith.bsky.social

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The Maybe @themaybe.org · 18/02/2026

“Kenya had this health data partnership with the United States where it would provide access to the US with sensitive Kenyan health data for basically decades. That's unreasonable.” - @chinasa.bsky.social

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