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music maker // free all political prisoners // fight all supremacies // Fifteen (2026), Defiant Life (2025), Thereupon (2025), Sanctuary (2025), Compassion (2024), Trouble (2024), Love in Exile (2023) // prof @ h*rv*rd // linktr.ee/vijayiyer

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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
The literal argument here is that you're not assimilated if white people are racist against you because of who you are or how you look. bsky.app/profile/jame...
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Jiří Štěpán @siderorea.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Vijay Iyer bývá možná nejsilnější, když hraje v triu. O to víc mě zajímalo, jak to bude znít s intelektuálním Henry Threadgillem. Nebylo třeba pochybovat – individuální hlasy slouží skladbě –, a Dafnis Prieto dodává jistotu i volnost. Až mi snad ani nechybí basa. vijayiyer.bandcamp.com/album/fifteen
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Fifteen, by Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, Dafnis Prieto
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NYTimes: affirmative action for mediocre editors angry at MeToo @originalist.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
Chris Rufo "a total product of right-wing affirmative action and you literally would never have heard of him if he was a liberal" bsky.app/profile/chri... NYT front page coverage all the time! By powerful, mediocre editors who push "meritocracy" narrative yet hired each other with legacy privilege
Christopher F. Rufo X @realchrisrufo

We launched the Claudine Gay plagiarism story from the Right. The next step is to smuggle it into the media apparatus of the Left, legitimizing the narrative to center-left actors who have the power to topple her. Then squeeze.Christopher F. Rufo X @realchrisrufo

A drama in four acts. Beautiful.

Christopher F. Rufo X @realchrisrufo

EXCLUSIVE: @RealChrisBrunet and I have obtained documentation demonstrating that Harvard President Claudine Gay plagiarized multiple sections of her Ph.D. thesis, violating Harvard's policies on academic ntegrity.
This is a bombshell.
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Christopher F. Rufo X @realchrisrufo

We launched the Claudine Gay plagiarism story from the Right. The next step is to smuggle it into the media apparatus of the Left, legitimizing the narrative to center-left actors who have the power to topple her. Then squeeze.

The New York Times

OPINION
JOHN MCWHORTER
Why Claudine Gay Should Go
Dec. 21, 2023

HARVARD PRESIDENT CLAUDINE GAY RESIGNS, SHORTEST TENURE IN UNIVERSITY HISTORY

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lan Miles Cheong @stillgray • 1h

Perfectly executed. Who's next?Christopher F. Rufo X @realchrisrufo
Replying to @realchrisrufo and @ConceptualJames

The goal is to have the public read something crazy in the newspaper and immediately think "critical race theory."
We have decodified the term and will recodify it to annex the entire range of cultural constructions that are unpopular with Americans.

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gita “the formalist” jackson @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
the rise of anti-Indian racism has been uhhh really worrying
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McBoo-lie @mcjulie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Remember, this is all RFK Jr’s doing. This is what he wants to happen.
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McSweeney's @mcsweeneys.net · 29/09/2026
"Can a rapist’s prose elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect what empathy and accountability might look like so undergrads may successfully mimic them on paper in pursuit of avoiding just punishment." buff.ly/5na4oMY
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Announcing Cornell University’s Newest Writing Course: Rape Essays 101
“Can a rapist’s prose effectively elicit remorse for sexual assault? What word count best equates to appropriate jail time? In this class, we will dissect wh...
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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
bye now!
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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
we are playing a free concert next week in cambridge, ma. just a few tix left -- reserve yours now: www.eventbrite.com/e/artsthursd...
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ArtsThursdays - Henry Threadgill / Vijay Iyer / Dafnis Prieto: FIFTEEN
Threadgill, Iyer, and Prieto bring their acclaimed collective jazz trio to the stage performing music from their new album FIFTEEN.
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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Californians, have at it—
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Emily L. Hauser (she/her) ❌👑 @emilylhauser.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
EARLY VOTING IS NOW OPEN IN: -ILLINOIS -MINNESOTA -VERMONT -VIRGINIA Spreadsheet with dates & a link to more information ⬇️
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Early / In-person Absentee Voting Dates
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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
You might not understand this, but when you say “showing up at” you mean “getting cruelly tricked or forcibly dragged into,” because they are small children.
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Chris Weedon @chrisweedon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
"We didn’t add these songs to the album, but they were part of what I was feeling and discovering as we made it. They bring me back to that time in my life, and now they get to become part of yours." www.theguardian.com/music/2026/s...
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Stevie Wonder releases four unheard songs from Songs in the Key of Life sessions
Previously unreleased material comes as Wonder marks 50th anniversary of album with arena tour
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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
!!! youtu.be/Uf7pCPJK9c8?...
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John Coltrane Quartet Live - "Ascension" France, 1965
YouTube video by Jazz Video Guy
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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"The Haaretz report punched a hole in Mr. N___’s argument that Isr___’s military and intelligence services were to blame for the intelligence failures leading to the 0ct 7 attacks." www.nytimes.com/2026/09/25/w...
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Netanyahu Said to Have Been Warned by Emirati Leader About Hamas Attack Before Oct. 7 (Gift Article)
The warning from the leader of the United Arab Emirates, which lacked specific details about the nature of an attack, never reached the chiefs of Israel’s security establishment, Israeli officials sai...
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トーンの音楽 @musetone.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
世代や音楽的背景が異なる三人の奏者が、 一つの響きを紡ぎ出したんだ。 ヘンリー・スレッギル、ヴィジェイ・アイヤー、 そしてダフニス・プリート。 彼らが奏でる音は、まるで新しい地図を 描いていくような、とても興味深いものだよ。 異なる魂が重なり合う瞬間に生まれる響き。 その不思議な音の世界を、 キミにもぜひ感じてみてほしいな。 www.radiomusic.jp #news
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ヘンリー・スレッギル、ヴィジェイ・アイヤー、ダフニス・プリート「I Wanted a Map」(ジャズ・トゥナイト 2026/9/19) - ラジオと音楽
Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, Dafnis Prieto「I Wanted a Map」 9/19 ジャズ・トゥナイト「ホットピックス」のコーナーで、シカゴ出身現在82歳のアルトサックスとフルートの大御所、ヘンリー・スレッギルが世代や音楽的背景の異なる二人、ヴィジェイ・アイヤーとダフニス・プリートと共に録音したアルバム『Fifteen』が紹介されました。ヴィジェイ・アイヤーはインド系アメリカ人のピアニスト、ダフニス・プリートはキューバ系アメリカ人のドラマー。『Fifteen』は彼らが共演を始めてから15年になることに由来しているそうです。 この曲はヴィジェイ・アイ…
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Isaac Kamola @isaackamola.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
@aclu.org & @amnesty.org just published a massive report "Student Speech Under Attack." 300pp & 2 years in the making it offers the definitive account of how the speech of students (faculty and staff) was silenced, and continues to be policed, on campus. @aaup.org www.aclu.org/publications...
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"Student Speech Under Attack: Suppression of Pro-Palestine Speech and Dissent on Campus" | American Civil Liberties Union
"Student Speech Under Attack: Suppression of Pro-Palestine Speech and Dissent on Campus," an ACLU and Amnesty International USA research report, documents the heavy-handed responses by certain univers...
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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 24/09/2026
Never been to the opera before? Now’s your chance. We’re giving away 70,000 free tickets to the @metopera at the iconic Lincoln Center. Go to on.nyc.gov/opera to enter the lottery. There’s not a bad seat in the house.
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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
🎉 threadgilliyerprieto.lnk.to/Fifteen
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Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, Dafnis Prieto - Fifteen
Listen to Fifteen by Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, Dafnis Prieto.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
My entire life I've heard centrists scolding leftist candidates with "oh, but how will we pay for all that? isn't your agenda unreasonable? shouldn't we run on a modest proposal for means-tested tax rebates?" Then Mamdani gets elected and makes it all look pretty easy. No wonder they hate him.
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Selmin Kara @selminimal.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Not in my department, but this is a position that sound scholars might be interested in. Feel free to share. recruit.ucsc.edu/JPF02127
recruit.ucsc.edu
Assistant Teaching Professor of Sound and Media Art
University of California, Santa Cruz is hiring. Apply now!
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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
i accidentally deleted that "a thought on coltrane" post, so here it is again --
Coltrane was known for relentlessly practicing for hours and hours every day, even during gigs while his bandmates were soloing. What was he trying to do?

Iyer: We have to understand him as a composer.

He was working on ideas. He wasn’t just trying to sound cleaner and faster than the next guy. He was just like any composer who lives into their 100s and keeps creating. There’s always this “What’s the next idea?” And then also, “How do I put that idea into practice as a player?” It was processing ideas and trying to develop them.

We use the word practicing, but what do we mean?

It’s the word we use in classical music to say I’m trying to polish this rendition of this piece. But that’s not what most of us in creative music are doing. We’re trying to refine the process of creating. He knows that there’s more than what he knows, and he knows there’s a way to access it. That is already here.

So, it’s about trying to open that door. It’s not about refining anything. It’s about those doors that you’re trying to open. That’s why any of us play. That’s why any of us are artists. Because we’re interested in channeling something from beyond ourselves and being that conduit so that we can bring that healing property and that magic to others.
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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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AV; Muslims, Dalits, Adivasis have a right to Joy @apveng.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Hey folks, please support Sameer Project if you can. They provide water, food, health care, & other assistance to many Palestinians in Gaza. They are running out of funds. If you do not want to donate to individuals, Sameer Project is a good option. Share. Thank u. thesameerproject.org?page_id=4595
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Pop Crave @popcrave.com · 17/09/2026
Ms. Rachel announces she will match Macklemore and donate $1 million to organizations supporting Palestine: “I will match Macklemore’s donation and I invite every wealthy white celebrity to match it and speak out against the genocide in Gaza.”
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 17/09/2026
BREAKING NEWS: The United Nations’ top human rights body reported that it found “reasonable grounds” to believe that the U.S. committed war crimes in Iran.
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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
On Friday I’m playing a trio concert with Devon Gates and Jeremy Dutton at the Jazz Loft in Stony Brook, NY as part of the Harbor Jazz Festival. See thejazzloft.org for details.
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Home - The Jazz Loft - Stony Brook
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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
🙏🏾 threadgilliyerprieto.lnk.to/Fifteen
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Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, Dafnis Prieto - Fifteen
Listen to Fifteen by Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, Dafnis Prieto.
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 16/09/2026
a simply *classic* Kaleckian moment, with some tech-specific wrinkles www.wired.com/story/agains...
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Why the Postpandemic Tech Bust Sent Billionaires to Trump
Following mass layoffs in 2022 and 2023, many tech workers turned against their employers. When liberal politicians also rallied against Silicon Valley, their backers turned to Donald Trump.
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Petter Törnberg @pettertornberg.com · 14/09/2026
Completely agree. Great if we can move away from this misleading term. I wrote about this recently in PoP www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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It’s Not Polarization; It’s the Radicalization of the Political Right | Perspectives on Politics | Cambridge Core
It’s Not Polarization; It’s the Radicalization of the Political Right
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Perry Bacon @perrybaconjr.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
"These attacks on media and these attacks on universities are themselves ideological and partisan attacks," says @shannimcg.bsky.social. Great conversation on the problem with writers/academics trying to be seen as "neutral" and fixating on "polarization." newrepublic.com/article/2153...
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Transcript: America’s Big Political Problem Isn’t Polarization
Academics and journalists do the far right favors when they describe American politics as polarized and desperately seek to seem neutral, says professor Shannon McGregor.
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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I don’t know who needs to hear this but Steve Bannon is not “pro-human”
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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Since R Kraft is in the news, here’s ex Harvard prez LHS asking JE why Kraft didn’t “use a higher class service” after Kraft was arrested in a prostitution case in 2019
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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ed Sheeran is now Kraft Single
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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 14/09/2026
⭕️ B’Tselem report documents Israel’s “eliminationist project” in the occupied West Bank The Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem released a lengthy new report entitled “The Elimination Project” on Monday, detailing Israel’s “systematic effort to dismantle Palestinian collective existence...

⭕️ B’Tselem report documents Israel’s “eliminationist project” in the occupied West Bank

The Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem released a lengthy new report entitled “The Elimination Project” on Monday, detailing Israel’s “systematic effort to dismantle Palestinian collective existence in the West Bank.”

The report says this effort has accelerated since the current government took office in December 2022 and especially since October 7, 2023, identifying five interconnected mechanisms used by Israeli forces in the territory: violence and intimidation, movement restrictions, economic strangulation, social and political destruction, and ethnic cleansing and territorial takeover.

Israel has established 200 new checkpoints since October 7, 2023, the report finds, seized about 18% of Palestinian land in the occupied West Bank through settlements and illegal outposts, and depopulated 64 Palestinian shepherding communities.B'Tselem בצלם بتسيلم
@btselem
Israel is dismantling Palestinian collective life in the West Bank.

A catastrophe is unfolding across the West Bank. Checkpoints, expulsions, killings and land takeovers are not separate events or isolated human rights violations. They are part of the same system. It is time to connect the dots.

Our new report, The Elimination Project, shows how these mechanisms form one political project: dismantling Palestinian collective life while expanding Israeli control and Jewish presence.

Since late 2022, and especially since October 2023, this process has accelerated and become more openly violent. Palestinians live under constant threat from soldiers and armed settler militias. Since 7 October 2023, Israel has killed 1,107 Palestinians, including 245 children. State-backed settler farms and outposts seize vast areas, communities are expelled, and movement restrictions fragment Palestinian space.

Israel is also strangling the Palestinian economy, criminalizing political and social organizing, shutting down civil society organizations and arresting journalists and activists.
Together, these mechanisms cut Palestinians off from land, livelihoods and one another, dismantling the conditions they need to exist as a people – with institutions, leadership, shared history and a political future.

The Elimination Project is not new. Its logic has shaped Israeli policy for decades through dispossession, fragmentation, military rule and apartheid. In 2017, Bezalel Smotrich published the “Decisive Plan,” centered on making Jewish-Israeli control irreversible. It gives Palestinians three options: relinquish their collective aspirations and live under Jewish supremacy, leave, or face military repression. Under the current government, central elements of this vision are being translated into policy, budgets, powers and practices. In Gaza, this logic has reached its most extreme manifestation: the genocide Israel is committing there.

The international community must stop treating Israel’s violence and violations as isolated incidents, stop enabling Israel’s crimes, and end the impunity that allows the Elimination Project to continue.

Connect the dots. See the system.

Read more in our new report.
https://btselem.org/the_elimination_project/?lang=en
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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
“What else is a university for?”
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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
solidarity with Mahmoud Khalil www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
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Mahmoud Khalil sues Columbia University over years of alleged anti-Palestinian discrimination
Lawsuit accuses university of ‘deliberate indifference’ and failure to respond to ‘persistent and coordinated harassment’
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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Since R Kraft is in the news, here’s ex Harvard prez LHS asking JE why Kraft didn’t “use a higher class service” after Kraft was arrested in a prostitution case in 2019
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
gothamist.com/news/covid-h...
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COVID hospitalizations are on the rise in NYC. Here's how to protect yourself.
More than 500 admissions were recorded in the five boroughs in the week ending Sept. 5.
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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Prem Thakker ツ @premthakker.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, Dafnis Prieto - Fifteen
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Nonesuch Records @nonesuch.com · 14/09/2026
Big Ears Festival announced the lineup for its 2027 edition— taking place in Knoxville, April 1–4—including artist-in-residence @vijayiyer.bsky.social, Brad Mehldau, Jeff Parker ETA IVtet, Josh Johnson, @nataliemerchant.bsky.social, @dirtyprojectors.net solo, Gustavo Santaolalla, and Kronos Quartet.
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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Oh yeah? You got a standing ovation? for how many minutes though
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 14/09/2026
The only person in public service who has consistently made 100% sense on issues of "AI," which is why they hate her so much.
Law enforcers already have authority to charge companies and their CEOs for creating and releasing dangerous, unvetted, or defective products. We shouldn’t let discussions about new legal regimes distract from the fact that there’s no AI exemption from laws already on the books — a point 
@FTC
 emphasized repeatedly during my tenure.

1. There is an extensive set of laws that govern dangerous and defective products. For example, releasing unvetted AI models or agents can violate consumer protection laws. Shipping flawed AI tools without implementing adequate measures to detect and stop rogue or defective AI agents can be an “unfair or deceptive” act or practice under the FTC Act (and analogous state laws). And some state AGs are already exploring holding AI firms and their CEOs criminally liable when their models participate in criminal activity.

2. Existing laws also prohibit “unfair methods of competition.” This covers instances where AI firms appropriate the competitively sensitive information of their customers, including through tracking their use of various tools. It can also cover instances where firms pursue dangerous behavior, aware that doing so may compel rivals to do the same.As the Supreme Court has noted: “A method of competition which casts upon one's competitors the burden of the loss of business unless they will descend to a practice which they are under a powerful moral compulsion not to adopt, even though it is not criminal, was thought to involve the kind of unfairness at which the [unfair methods of competition] statute was aimed."

3. The highly concentrated and interconnected structure of these markets could be creating major risks and conflicts of interest. We had started investigating these partnerships and cross-investments across the stack (and released a preliminarily overview of some findings: https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2025/01/ftc-issues-staff-report-ai-partnerships-investments-study). 

Both federal and state enforcers should be scrutinizing these opaque relationships and inter-dependencies. We are already seeing how these relationships could undermine accountability. For example, OpenAI could face liability given the Hugging Face incident, but Hugging Face being bought up by Nvidia means that we’re unlikely to see it file a lawsuit over this — given Nvidia’s strong incentive to see OpenAI continue full speed ahead.4. As AI tools dramatically change the landscape of cybersecurity risks and hacks, all businesses should be doubling down on having core security protections in place. Firms that fail to invest in adequate data security measures or fix known vulnerabilities can also be breaking the law. A recent analysis showed that around 1/3 of Fortune 100 companies do not even have a way to notify them about security issues. During my 
@FTC
 tenure, we sued firms for poor data security practices and held CEOs liable when they were personally responsible.

https://this.weekinsecurity.com/dozens-of-americas-largest-companies-have-no-simple-way-to-report-security-flaws/

https://ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2022/10/ftc-takes-action-against-drizly-its-ceo-james-cory-rellas-security-failures-exposed-data-25-million

5. As policymakers consider new legal regimes, we should be looking to lessons from prior efforts to govern major sectors, such as banking and other networks, platforms, and utilities. Tools like structural separations, nondiscrimination, and supervision could be key, and there’s a rich history of what works and what doesn’t. But we can and must pursue any new efforts alongside enforcing existing laws.
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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The genocidal billionaire scammers of the tech world are totally not scamming us this time. They’ve learned true compassion and are now heroically rescuing humankind from the problem they claim to have created. They are speaking out of benevolence, and have no other motives. Lucky us! 🙄
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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 13/09/2026
All of a sudden we're not talking about the widely popular bipartisan opposition to massive data center buildouts. I wonder why 🤔
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Seán Clancy @seanlclancy.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Settling into the night with some angular 🔥 by Henry Threadgill, @vijayiyer.bsky.social & Dafnis Prieto… vijayiyer.bandcamp.com/album/fifteen
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Fifteen, by Henry Threadgill, Vijay Iyer, Dafnis Prieto
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vijay iyer @vijayiyer.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
never forget
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