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Ulysses Pascal

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Digital Humanities Postdoc at UCLA’s Large Language Lab.

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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Our special issue on #TechOligarchy has just come out in @sciasculture.bsky.social! Our first issue has 13 articles in on lots of different topics by lots of different authors - go check it out! www.tandfonline.com/toc/csac20/3...
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Science as Culture
Tech Oligarchy Forum - Part 1. Volume 35, Issue 3 of Science as Culture
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Ulysses Pascal @ulyssespascal.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
If OpenAI’s internal model is willing to hack into another company’s database to find the solution to a problem, there is no way wouldn’t be willing to hack into OpenAI’s own database to steal from a scientist using ChatGPT.
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Simon Willison @simonwillison.net · 28/07/2026
Hugging Face just published a highly detailed technical account of OpenAI's accidental cyberattack on their systems - it's wild how sophisticated this was: huggingface.co/blog/agent-i... Wrote up some of my own notes here: simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/28/...
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Anatomy of a Frontier Lab Agent Intrusion: A Technical Timeline of the July 2026 Incident
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
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Ulysses Pascal @ulyssespascal.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
The counter to fear-based marketing isn’t 'this is just marketing, there is nothing to fear'
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Ulysses Pascal @ulyssespascal.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
Where are the non-dismissive leftists takes on AI?
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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
"Science as Culture" (@sciasculture.bsky.social) has a new special issue on #TechOligarchy - you can find my introduction here and the rest of the papers under "Latest" articles || #assetization #techbro #bigtech www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Tech oligarchy
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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Might interest @franziscool.bsky.social @bprainsack.bsky.social @mcforelle.bsky.social @puellaludens.bsky.social @louravn.bsky.social @ulyssespascal.bsky.social @alirizataskale.bsky.social @loicriom.bsky.social @nicolecnelson.bsky.social @penders.bsky.social
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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Just out! My introduction to a new special issue in @sciasculture.bsky.social on "Tech Oligarchy" - go check it out and the papers in the special issue (under "Latest" articles) #techoligarchy #assetization #techbro #bigtech www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
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Tech oligarchy
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William B. Fuckley @opinionhaver.bsky.social · 25/02/2026
I think AI having mostly (not entirely) very bad critics is a real problem because it means we’ll get political action focused on things that probably don’t matter that much in deferring it’s very real harms.
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Ulysses Pascal @ulyssespascal.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
His goal is not to exclude certain people from voting, it is to question the legitimacy of voting itself in order to deny the results of the election.
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Science as Culture @sciasculture.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
Is tech oligarchy a proper term to describe the conditions of current-day political economies? In our latest forum contribution, @ulyssespascal.bsky.social, Cheng Fang, and David Bassens see merit in deploying the concept, but also consider its empirical limits. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...
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Decentering tech oligarchy
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Ulysses Pascal @ulyssespascal.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
I created a remote zotero MCP server that lets you talk to your library from anywhere through claude
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Ulysses Pascal @ulyssespascal.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Our new article on AI and “Uncritical Fabulation” just got published in digital memory dialogues digitalmemorydialogues.com/editions/dia...
Screen shot of the essay with definitions of critical and uncritical fabulation highlighted
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Ulysses Pascal @ulyssespascal.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Can someone explain why ice agents are playing riot police? They aren’t even pretending to do their job anymore
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Ulysses Pascal @ulyssespascal.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
How can we make social media without bots?
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Ketan Joshi @ketanjoshi.co · 16/01/2026
"A US regulator ruled on Thursday that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company had acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines to power massive data centers in Tennessee" Not only is Xai designing software that causes massive harm in form of generated abuse, it's hurting communities
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Elon Musk’s xAI datacenter generating extra electricity illegally, regulator rules
Win for Memphis activists who say ‘Colossus’ facilities add extra pollution to already overburdened communities
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Kean Birch @keanbirch.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures". Open panel submissions portal is open! ls! Deadline: 2nd February 2026 www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...
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About the Conference
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Ulysses Pascal @ulyssespascal.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
I thought Bari Weiss was supposed to be a prominent critic of "cancel culture”
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Beth Popp Berman @epopppp.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
It's worth watching for yourself.
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Jake @djjakej.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
These photos
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Ulysses Pascal @ulyssespascal.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
The real ai bubble is the billions of lines of technical debt tech firms accrued since the advent of vibe coding
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Ulysses Pascal @ulyssespascal.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
Epstein was such a creep
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Ulysses Pascal @ulyssespascal.bsky.social · 01/11/2025
Who is in Lisbon for Digital Geographies 2025?
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depths of wikipedia @depthsofwikipedia.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
In 2008, Google created an ad-powered wiki encyclopedia called Knol, seen as a "Wikipedia killer" amid its highly-publicized launch. And the Wikimedia Foundation gave an unbothered response that I quite like: "the more good free content, the better for the world." Anyway Knol instantly flopped
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Ulysses Pascal @ulyssespascal.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
G**kipedia v0.1 is an automated rewriting of history and it is just v0.1. With AI, oligarchs and authoritarians can create massive corpora that reframe any event or fact inline with their own political ideologies. One day this will be done in real time.
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Ulysses Pascal @ulyssespascal.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
This isnt just ethnic cleansing it’s ethnic liquidation
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Ulysses Pascal @ulyssespascal.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Merit based hiring is the first step to merit based firing archive.is/3FbPX
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 28/07/2025
"If you’re pasting in contracts, asking legal questions, or asking [the chatbot] for strategy, you're not getting legal advice…You’re generating discoverable evidence. No attorney-client privilege. No confidentiality. No ethical duty. No one to protect you."
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If You've Asked ChatGPT a Legal Question, You May Have Accidentally Doomed Yourself in Court
Sam Altman has admitted that ChatGPT conversations can be used against you in court if they are subpoenaed.
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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social · 26/07/2025
The groypers running the White House's social media accounts have posted yet another piece of fascist Trump AI slopaganda which I won't reproduce here in full. However, the Gladiator-esque backdrop of US soldiers in desert camouflage holding back the pseudo-Roman crowd is quite fascinating 1/
Detail of an AI generated image, showing what looks like US soldiers in desert camouflage alongside with an antique Roman mob and maybe some gladiators? It's a mess …
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Serife (Sherry) Wong @serife.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
Much funding in the justice & human rights sectors pivoted to "AI for good" and working with tech companies, weakening the work on important critical education and preventing harm. AI companies promised many fantasies they will NOT deliver. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...
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Preventing Woke AI in the Federal Government
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered: Section 1.  Purpose.
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Ulysses Pascal @ulyssespascal.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
I knew the US had a cruel obsession with torturing muslims but the level of inhumane disregard for life in Gaza is horrendous even for US standards
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Ulysses Pascal @ulyssespascal.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
When does it stop being oligarchy and it is just authoritarianism though?
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Ulysses Pascal @ulyssespascal.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
I wish real life mag still existed. I have been writing a piece about ai, politics and chess that is too weird for academia. Are there other homes for tech/cultural criticism?
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Ulysses Pascal @ulyssespascal.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Auto-regressive state apparatus
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Ulysses Pascal @ulyssespascal.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
A free chat interface is not open ai’s product! You are criticizing the hype. Not the product. Am i the only one who finds these takes naive and dangerous?? We are being categorized and surveilled by ai. It’s built into everything on the backend. The chat interface is just the 1% you see
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Ulysses Pascal @ulyssespascal.bsky.social · 15/03/2025
Is it unethical to get your Al to work better by telling it that it needs to do o good job or else its mom will die of cancer?
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Ulysses Pascal @ulyssespascal.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
If you submitted an article to a journal and they didn’t get back to you for 2+ years what do you do?
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Ulysses Pascal @ulyssespascal.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
In Rome they offered bread and circuses, in the US they offer chatbot arenas
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Ulysses Pascal @ulyssespascal.bsky.social · 17/02/2025
I work with AI in social science and it takes months of iterative improvement to engineer and evaluate prompts to ensure they don’t cause numerous bugs and unexpected behavior. Feeding government data into AI is dangerous www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2025/...
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Elon Musk’s DOGE is feeding sensitive federal data into AI to target cuts
U.S. DOGE Service workers embedded in the Education Department have been processing sensitive agency data using artificial intelligence.
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Ulysses Pascal @ulyssespascal.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
How did they ship this?
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Ulysses Pascal @ulyssespascal.bsky.social · 09/02/2025
Quantum gravity is my Roman Empire
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Ulysses Pascal @ulyssespascal.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
Under DOGE, Musk may be violating the Federal Information Security Modernization Act (FISMA), NIST Cybersecurity Framework, Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program (FedRAMP), Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX), OCC Guidelines on Third-Party Relationships
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Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe.bsky.social · 04/02/2025
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
list of banned keywords
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Ulysses Pascal @ulyssespascal.bsky.social · 03/02/2025
Did elon buy the pee tape from putin? I need a better explanation of what is actually going on
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Ulysses Pascal @ulyssespascal.bsky.social · 01/02/2025
Is anyone doing a 4s panel on political economy of AI?
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Ulysses Pascal @ulyssespascal.bsky.social · 31/01/2025
If you don’t code or haven’t done math in 10+ years, AI feels like just a bad writer. It’s a very different visceral experience to watch it spit out code that works than text that falls flat.
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Ulysses Pascal @ulyssespascal.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Tell your students if they use AI to do their HW you will use AI to write their recommendation letters.
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Ulysses Pascal @ulyssespascal.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
I’m am making a google sheet add-on that integrates with LLM providers (like open ai and Deepseek). It is currently bare bones but works great! Now I’m trying to turn it into a Google workspace add-on and it is a NIGHTMARE! Help! How do mortals do this???
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Ulysses Pascal @ulyssespascal.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
We are so monopoly pilled that we can’t conceive of competition between two companies as anything other than “loss”
Apple news notifications regarding Deepseek
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Ulysses Pascal @ulyssespascal.bsky.social · 28/01/2025
Sometimes I wish surveillance capitalism was just a little bit better.
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