
data and tech person // fighting for worker-led AI transition prev: @workingfamilies @sunrisemvmt.
Pittsburgh, PA
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hi i’m political analyst steve kornacki and im not leaving tonight’s party until we know the results of this election
"Speculative data center debt is being repackaged and sold to pension and retirement funds, university endowments, and other institutional investors in a manner eerily reminiscent of the subprime bubble."
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I will never recover from whatever The Democrats did to my phone number
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Lina Khan: "Whenever you have a tiny number of elites getting to call the shots around this potentially transformational technology, that is gonna be dangerous... It really comes down to the concentration of power."
Lina Khan on AI: "These are individuals that have become used to a certain level of impunity, elite impunity that I think we've talked about in the past as being a broader cultural, social phenomena that results when we're not holding the rich and the powerful to the same rules and the same standards that we do to everybody else.
I think there are a lot of magazine profiles and other assessments looking at what these individuals as a personal matter and their character. I think to me, some of that is a little bit less interesting than this basic question of: Who is deciding in the first instance what trajectory these technologies take?
And whenever you have a tiny number of elites getting to call the shots around this potentially transformational technology, that is gonna be dangerous even if you have the most benevolent, well-meaning people in the driver's seat. It really comes down to the concentration of power."
From our people's town hall with @AINowInstitute
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AI shouldn't be able to fire you, fire a weapon, or deny you healthcare.
“An Israeli advertising agency has been serving millions of online adverts that allow “zero-click” spyware to be used against targets"
Seems bad!
theguardian.com/technology/2…
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Attention, people who do fundraising: @runforsomething is looking for a major gifts manager -- help us find the best person! workforcenow.adp.com/mascsr/…
When should the data team be looped in on new program? Too early, and you’re wasting time in brainstorming meetings where you have no input. Too late and a program has shipped without a conversation about capacity or scope of work. What’s the right middle ground?
got 2 shots in the roof of my mouth this morning at the dentist. please tell me how strong and brave i must be.
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Wondering what labor rights employees at AI labs have in terms of collectively organizing around safety?
This has you covered:
substack.com/@adehl/note/p-2…
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ever wondered why you can't find housing in sf?
i made a game where you try to build some. every site is a real project and every law is real. see how far you get.
Horrifying. Not a scenario I even had on my radar and yet of course this would happen.
“if it’s not in VAN, it doesn’t count.”
for a decade we’ve built our data around what one system could hold.
we can only organize around what we can see, and we’ve mostly looked at who voters are, not how they live.
thebrittanybennett.substack.…
that’s why i’m helping build Matter with Indigo Engineering: 23 modeled variables on housing costs, benefits enrollment, health coverage, and employment. available through Catalist
matter.indigo.engineering/
the next few years will set our data defaults for the next decade. a faster CRM with the same demographic fields is still a blunt instrument. what’s counted, counts.
let’s talk: indigo-eng.cal.com/indigo-en…
The discourse about Open AI’s new model abuse policy is strange to me because as a woman I know how men talk to those they deem inferior, how it feeds their power fantasy, and leads to violence — it’s great that we’re preventing this cycle with chat models.
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[whispers] “sounds like OpenAI employees could really benefit from having a Union…”
"AI will take your job, destroy your children's future, and possibly kill you" isn't a winning message?
Why do people hate AI money in politics and not trust AI companies? Maybe because the companies themselves are telling us their product will take our jobs.
Our spokesperson former Indeed CEO Chris @hyams lays out what OpenAI's mission is in their own words.
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Just how toxic is AI money? New polling w/ @DataProgress shows 3/4 of voters less likely to support a candidate backed by an AI super PAC, a bigger impact on vote share than a candidate who voted to cut billions from Medicaid or supports a nationwide abortion ban. More below 👇
New: Guardrails Action is out with polling shared first with @BGOV finding that taking AI industry cash could be a political liability with voters in swing states. They hope it will counter fears candidates may have about taking a tough line on AI news.bgov.com/bloomberg-gove…



















