Alix Dunn
@alixdunn.com
I bloop about the politics of technology and host the Computer Says Maybe podcast: https://www.themaybe.org/podcast
Guys, the Coxon dude did not do this for money.
September 16, 2026 at 4:19 PM
Guys, the Coxon dude did not do this for money.
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HEY EVERYONE - NEW REPORT!!!
NVIDIA is the largest company by market cap on the planet. But it hides key climate data, while claiming AI is going to be a 'net benefit' for climate.
We (8 groups) put together the first ever broad critique of NVIDIA's climate record:
ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n...
NVIDIA is the largest company by market cap on the planet. But it hides key climate data, while claiming AI is going to be a 'net benefit' for climate.
We (8 groups) put together the first ever broad critique of NVIDIA's climate record:
ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n...
September 16, 2026 at 7:08 AM
HEY EVERYONE - NEW REPORT!!!
NVIDIA is the largest company by market cap on the planet. But it hides key climate data, while claiming AI is going to be a 'net benefit' for climate.
We (8 groups) put together the first ever broad critique of NVIDIA's climate record:
ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n...
NVIDIA is the largest company by market cap on the planet. But it hides key climate data, while claiming AI is going to be a 'net benefit' for climate.
We (8 groups) put together the first ever broad critique of NVIDIA's climate record:
ketanjoshi.co/2026/09/16/n...
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In this special episode, @alixdunn.com spoke with @js-tan.bsky.social and Clarissa Redwine, authors of the book ‘Against Tech Oligarchy,’ about the dramatic shift in tech worker power over the last decade—and what it takes for workers to organize and fight back.
www.themaybe.org/podcast/the-...
www.themaybe.org/podcast/the-...
The Battle for Power Inside Big Tech: Against Tech Oligarchy w/ JS Tan & Clarissa Redwine
In their new book, Against Tech Oligarchy, authors JS Tan and Clarissa Redwine ask the question: did tech workers ever actually learn how to fight?
www.themaybe.org
September 16, 2026 at 12:41 AM
In this special episode, @alixdunn.com spoke with @js-tan.bsky.social and Clarissa Redwine, authors of the book ‘Against Tech Oligarchy,’ about the dramatic shift in tech worker power over the last decade—and what it takes for workers to organize and fight back.
www.themaybe.org/podcast/the-...
www.themaybe.org/podcast/the-...
Who is working on unwinding the idea that national compute is a path to control?
September 15, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Who is working on unwinding the idea that national compute is a path to control?
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Today is the day! A journey that Astra and I started as an essay in The Guardian is now officially out in the world. End Times Fascism – And the Fight for the Living World is in bookstores now. If you are inclined, please buy one from an indie bookseller or borrow it from your local library.
September 15, 2026 at 12:36 PM
Today is the day! A journey that Astra and I started as an essay in The Guardian is now officially out in the world. End Times Fascism – And the Fight for the Living World is in bookstores now. If you are inclined, please buy one from an indie bookseller or borrow it from your local library.
Was curious what the pod bros would say about the AI discourse. It's amazing how obsessed center left analysts are with polls UNTIL we talk about AI and then they turn into 17 year old boys talking about accelerating acceleration and superintelligent AI.
September 15, 2026 at 1:33 PM
Was curious what the pod bros would say about the AI discourse. It's amazing how obsessed center left analysts are with polls UNTIL we talk about AI and then they turn into 17 year old boys talking about accelerating acceleration and superintelligent AI.
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One of the biggest things to me is this is *on by default* and OpenAI not disclosing humans may read chats like this. I asked where they do disclose it, the company didn't answer. They did quietly update info telling people how to opt-out after I emailed them though www.404media.co/inside-proje...
September 14, 2026 at 3:13 PM
One of the biggest things to me is this is *on by default* and OpenAI not disclosing humans may read chats like this. I asked where they do disclose it, the company didn't answer. They did quietly update info telling people how to opt-out after I emailed them though www.404media.co/inside-proje...
Like Chief Termites headlining the structural engineering summit: www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
King Charles to host AI executives as threat fears mount
Britain's King Charles will host the leaders of major artificial intelligence companies this week to discuss whether a shared set of principles is needed to guide a technology that has sparked growin...
www.reuters.com
September 14, 2026 at 2:28 PM
Like Chief Termites headlining the structural engineering summit: www.reuters.com/legal/litiga...
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Generative AI is dangerous to humans, not in the Asimovian way the Anthropic creeps are carping on about, but in the way that it is literally poisoning our air and water www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Tidal wave’ of Pfas being launched to satisfy AI industry, campaigners warn
Big manufacturers planning to produce more of the forever chemicals to meet demand from datacentres
www.theguardian.com
September 14, 2026 at 8:16 AM
Generative AI is dangerous to humans, not in the Asimovian way the Anthropic creeps are carping on about, but in the way that it is literally poisoning our air and water www.theguardian.com/environment/...
For Y2K, the Chinese government made the heads of airlines be in the air on the turn of the millenium. Wondering what the equivalent is for AI bosses. Should Dario be made to live in Boxtown?
September 14, 2026 at 2:25 PM
For Y2K, the Chinese government made the heads of airlines be in the air on the turn of the millenium. Wondering what the equivalent is for AI bosses. Should Dario be made to live in Boxtown?
I think so much about @abeba.blacksky.app framing AI as potential benefits alongside actual harms. But with this round of discourse it's so disorienting that it is all now actual harms in exchange for...potential harms?
September 13, 2026 at 5:25 PM
I think so much about @abeba.blacksky.app framing AI as potential benefits alongside actual harms. But with this round of discourse it's so disorienting that it is all now actual harms in exchange for...potential harms?
It's funny to me that the AI guys thinking about the paperclip hypothetical, are actually acting it out in pursuit of AGI.
September 12, 2026 at 8:49 PM
It's funny to me that the AI guys thinking about the paperclip hypothetical, are actually acting it out in pursuit of AGI.
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Ifeoma just gets shit done and you find out about it because of the impact. No fanfare.
✴️ Like the extensive tech worker handbook she created: techworkerhandbook.org
✴️ Like passing the Silenced no more act!
✴️ Like the extensive tech worker handbook she created: techworkerhandbook.org
✴️ Like passing the Silenced no more act!
September 11, 2026 at 9:58 PM
Ifeoma just gets shit done and you find out about it because of the impact. No fanfare.
✴️ Like the extensive tech worker handbook she created: techworkerhandbook.org
✴️ Like passing the Silenced no more act!
✴️ Like the extensive tech worker handbook she created: techworkerhandbook.org
✴️ Like passing the Silenced no more act!
A very American response to an American tragedy.
I'm going to have to make a whole thread of "furry merch that was sold to cash in on 9/11."
This figurine asks us to imagine an Al Qaeda terrorist attack in the Sylvanian Families cinematic universe:
www.whitehouseholidays.com/Remember_911...
This figurine asks us to imagine an Al Qaeda terrorist attack in the Sylvanian Families cinematic universe:
www.whitehouseholidays.com/Remember_911...
September 12, 2026 at 12:03 PM
A very American response to an American tragedy.
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A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...
Declaration — Math and AI
Read the declaration and add your name.
mathandai.org
September 11, 2026 at 5:40 PM
A group of 25 Fields Medalists, including myself, have made a joint declaration on Math and AI: mathandai.org . We welcome additional signatories. See also this article in the Economist announcing the declaration: www.economist.com/science-and-...
Imagine if you could get the British press to cover the plight of immigrants in the UK like they cover the plight of British immigrants in post-Brexit Sweden.
September 11, 2026 at 7:39 PM
Imagine if you could get the British press to cover the plight of immigrants in the UK like they cover the plight of British immigrants in post-Brexit Sweden.
Just posted such a cool ep about a parent who has mobilised parents to boot a shoddy AI literacy tool from schools in New Mexico.
Inspiring tactics that can be used in your local area too!
www.themaybe.org/podcast/meet...
Inspiring tactics that can be used in your local area too!
www.themaybe.org/podcast/meet...
Meet the Mom Winning Against AI in Schools
In New Mexico, kids are required to read aloud to an AI avatar named Amira—and it records their voices without consent. Ifeoma Ozoma fights back.
www.themaybe.org
September 11, 2026 at 11:54 AM
Just posted such a cool ep about a parent who has mobilised parents to boot a shoddy AI literacy tool from schools in New Mexico.
Inspiring tactics that can be used in your local area too!
www.themaybe.org/podcast/meet...
Inspiring tactics that can be used in your local area too!
www.themaybe.org/podcast/meet...
It's funny how tech industry folks complain about plans to tax unrealized gains because it would hurt their liquidity and then they set up giant "foundations" before they're even profitable.
September 11, 2026 at 7:06 AM
It's funny how tech industry folks complain about plans to tax unrealized gains because it would hurt their liquidity and then they set up giant "foundations" before they're even profitable.
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Today, we filed a FOIA request with DHS concerning an AI-generated image the @DHSgov X account posted this morning. The image depicts a Transformer facing a South Asian man, over a caption telling "Mr. Singh" to self-deport and get off American roads. We want the prompt.
September 10, 2026 at 1:49 AM
Today, we filed a FOIA request with DHS concerning an AI-generated image the @DHSgov X account posted this morning. The image depicts a Transformer facing a South Asian man, over a caption telling "Mr. Singh" to self-deport and get off American roads. We want the prompt.
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Millennium math problem solved by OpenAI may have "regurgitated" competitors unpublished work... also they spent more than $22 million in computing power in one week to scoop them.
techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/o...
techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/o...
OpenAI fought dirty on career-making math problem, says NYU mathematician | TechCrunch
There is a $1 million bounty for the first person providing a solution to the Navier-Stokes existence and smoothness problem.
techcrunch.com
September 8, 2026 at 9:16 PM
Millennium math problem solved by OpenAI may have "regurgitated" competitors unpublished work... also they spent more than $22 million in computing power in one week to scoop them.
techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/o...
techcrunch.com/2026/09/08/o...
Yes.
I'm having some fun in this thread but I do think you should get in trouble for unleashing insane hacker robots on the open Internet that you've explicitly instructed to attack critical public infrastructure, which, to be clear, it eventually succeeds at.
September 10, 2026 at 8:46 AM
Yes.
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Yeesh. 👀
“.. we find limited evidence that data center development improves fiscal balances, employment, or business formation.”
(via @talsmith.bsky.social)
download.ssrn.com/2026/9/1/738...
“.. we find limited evidence that data center development improves fiscal balances, employment, or business formation.”
(via @talsmith.bsky.social)
download.ssrn.com/2026/9/1/738...
September 8, 2026 at 5:15 PM
Yeesh. 👀
“.. we find limited evidence that data center development improves fiscal balances, employment, or business formation.”
(via @talsmith.bsky.social)
download.ssrn.com/2026/9/1/738...
“.. we find limited evidence that data center development improves fiscal balances, employment, or business formation.”
(via @talsmith.bsky.social)
download.ssrn.com/2026/9/1/738...
Why do so many schools fall for the ploy that more tech in school = more progress?
I spoke with Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath about his book 'The Digital Delusion,' where we dig into what kids really need for learning. Spoiler alert: it’s not more screens.
Listen here: www.themaybe.org/podcast/the-...
I spoke with Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath about his book 'The Digital Delusion,' where we dig into what kids really need for learning. Spoiler alert: it’s not more screens.
Listen here: www.themaybe.org/podcast/the-...
The Digital Delusion w/ Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath
Ever wonder what forcing a laptop into every schoolkid’s face does to their brains? According to Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath, nothing good!
www.themaybe.org
September 7, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Why do so many schools fall for the ploy that more tech in school = more progress?
I spoke with Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath about his book 'The Digital Delusion,' where we dig into what kids really need for learning. Spoiler alert: it’s not more screens.
Listen here: www.themaybe.org/podcast/the-...
I spoke with Dr. Jared Cooney Horvath about his book 'The Digital Delusion,' where we dig into what kids really need for learning. Spoiler alert: it’s not more screens.
Listen here: www.themaybe.org/podcast/the-...
Just doing some casual weekend Guardian reading and absolutely horrified to read a Marina Hyde - some random advice columnist that is often on the front page talking about like what not to wear to a funeral - response to a reader question.
Who would you want as PM?
JK FUCKING ROWLING
Who would you want as PM?
JK FUCKING ROWLING
September 5, 2026 at 4:57 PM
Just doing some casual weekend Guardian reading and absolutely horrified to read a Marina Hyde - some random advice columnist that is often on the front page talking about like what not to wear to a funeral - response to a reader question.
Who would you want as PM?
JK FUCKING ROWLING
Who would you want as PM?
JK FUCKING ROWLING
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Really pleased to report that our first event for the new book is a collaboration with @demsocialists.bsky.social
Online, free to attend, and you don't have to be a member (though you should join!)
Sept 10th 8PM ET. RSVP below.
actionnetwork.org/events/end-t...
Online, free to attend, and you don't have to be a member (though you should join!)
Sept 10th 8PM ET. RSVP below.
actionnetwork.org/events/end-t...
September 4, 2026 at 5:31 PM
Really pleased to report that our first event for the new book is a collaboration with @demsocialists.bsky.social
Online, free to attend, and you don't have to be a member (though you should join!)
Sept 10th 8PM ET. RSVP below.
actionnetwork.org/events/end-t...
Online, free to attend, and you don't have to be a member (though you should join!)
Sept 10th 8PM ET. RSVP below.
actionnetwork.org/events/end-t...