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The Coup Starts in Your Feed

How Malicious AI Swarms Could Steal the Midterms

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Resistance Media

Elon Musk’s $2 Trillion IPO is a Weapon, Not an Investment

What Wall Street Won’t Tell You About the SpaceX Initial Public Offering.

Artificial Intelligence • Democracy • Digital Rights • Fascism • Surveillance

Elizabeth Spiers — The Nation

Palantir’s Manifesto Promises a Dystopian Future

The tech company’s CEO Alex Karp delivers a self-serving broadside that’s steeped in oligarchic hubris and authoritarian nihilism.

Artificial Intelligence • Human Rights • Surveillance • Technology • Violence

Ken Klippenstein

Death by A.I.

New "Autonomous Warfare Center" will automate targeted killings.

Artificial Intelligence • Culture • Democracy • Disinformation • Technology

Will Robinson — Will Robinson's Newsletter

AI’s Promise Is Real. So Is the Threat No One’s Talking About.

Beyond deepfakes, bad actors are learning to manipulate search itself - shaping what AI sees, what it surfaces, and ultimately what people believe.

Artificial Intelligence • Environment • Global • Health • Technology

Molly Taft — Wired

New Gas-Powered Data Centers Could Emit More Greenhouse Gases Than Entire Nations

A WIRED review of permits for data center projects using natural gas and linked to OpenAI, Meta, Microsoft, and xAI shows they could emit more than 129 million tons of greenhouse gases per year.

Artificial Intelligence • Executive Power • Surveillance • Technology

Ronan Farrow and Andrew Marantz — The New Yorker

Sam Altman May Control Our Future - Can He Be Trusted?

New interviews and closely guarded documents shed light on the persistent doubts about the head of OpenAI.

Artificial Intelligence • Financial • Legal • Regulations

Lawrence Lessig

The Extortion Presidency

Anthropic in the cross-hairs.

Artificial Intelligence • Culture • Democracy • Social Media • Technology

Matt Shumer — Fortune

Something big is happening in AI — and most people will be blindsided

We’re past the point where this is an interesting dinner conversation about the future. The future is already here. It just hasn’t knocked on your door yet. It’s about to.

Artificial Intelligence • Democracy • Technology • Threat Management

Dario Amodei — darioamodei.com

The Adolescence of Technology

Humanity needs to wake up, and this essay is an attempt—a possibly futile one, but it’s worth trying—to jolt people awake.

Artificial Intelligence • Culture • Democracy • Disinformation • Europe • Social Media • Technology

Ben Quinn — The Guardian

Meet ‘Amelia’: the AI-generated British schoolgirl who is a far-right social media star

The avatar, created to deter young people from extremism, has been subverted and is breaking out of niche online silos.

Artificial Intelligence • Cryptocurrency • Cyber Security • Digital Rights • Disinformation • Europe • Executive Power • Human Rights • Journalism • Legal • Press Freedom • Resistance • Russia • Safety • Social Media • Surveillance • Technology • Threat Management • Violence

Ron Williams

The Resistance Will Be Reported (Updated November 12, 2025)

The environment for press freedom in the United States is entering a perilous new phase. The attacks have been unprecedented, widespread and continue to escalate.

Artificial Intelligence • Corruption • Democracy • Disinformation • Global • Journalism • Press Freedom • Resistance • Safety • Surveillance • Technology

Rowan Philp — Global Investigative Journalism Network

Maria Ressa Calls for ‘Radical Collaboration’ to Combat Misinformation and Preserve Press Freedom

“Everything we knew as an industry has been destroyed. So we don’t stand still. This is a time for radical collaboration.”

Artificial Intelligence • Financial • Journalism • Press Freedom • Social Media • Technology

Jake Lahut — Wired

Larry Ellison Is a ‘Shadow President’ in Donald Trump’s America

The Ellison family is cornering the market on attention and data the same way the Vanderbilts did railroads and the Rockefellers did oil.

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Brian Barrett — Wired

All the President’s Tech CEOs

One by one, Trump asked the executives how much they were investing in the United States. One by one, they obliged, praising Trump’s leadership along the way.

Artificial Intelligence • Culture

Max Tani — Semafor

‘Founders Films’ aims to remake Hollywood with patriotism, Palantir and Ayn Rand

Changes in viewership habits and advances in technology have given this generation of right-leaning entertainers an opportunity to break through.

Artificial Intelligence • Democracy • Environment • Health • Resistance

George A. Polisner — Leadership Matters

Nation of Fear

How many believe that the representative democracy in the United States is healthy, strong, and working well as we evolve toward a “more perfect Union”?

Artificial Intelligence • Corruption • Democracy

George A. Polisner — Leadership Matters

The Three C's of the Apocalypse

But sure, let's have a parade!

Artificial Intelligence • Cyber Security • Surveillance • Technology

Carole Cadwalladr — How to Survive the Broligarchy

The Dark Lord of Silicon Valley

Peter Thiel enters the chat.

Artificial Intelligence • Cyber Security • Digital Rights • Surveillance • Technology • Threat Management

Sheera Frenkel and Aaron Krolik — The New York Times

Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans

Mr. Trump could potentially use such information to advance his political agenda by policing immigrants and punishing critics...

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Nicole Schneidman — If you can keep it

DOGE’s data “panopticon” pales compared to what’s next

If state governments surrender their datasets, there’s no telling how they could be abused

Artificial Intelligence • Cyber Security • Digital Rights • Surveillance • Technology • Threat Management

LUKE O’BRIEN — Mother Jones

The Shocking Far-Right Agenda Behind the Facial Recognition Tech Used by ICE and the FBI

Thousands of newly obtained documents show that Clearview AI’s founders always intended to target immigrants and the political left. Now their digital dragnet is in the hands of the Trump administration.

Artificial Intelligence • Democracy • Fascism • Social Media • Technology

Kara Swisher — The Atlantic

Move Fast and Destroy Democracy

Silicon Valley’s titans have decided that ruling the digital world is not enough.

Artificial Intelligence • Democracy • Executive Power • Fascism • Technology

Mike Brock — notesfromthecircus.com

The Plot Against America

Teams of young tech operatives are systematically dismantling democratic institutions and replacing them with proprietary artificial intelligence systems. Civil servants who raise legal objections are being removed. Government databases are being migrated to private servers. Decision-making power is being transferred from elected officials and career bureaucrats to algorithms controlled by a small network of Silicon Valley elites.

Artificial Intelligence • Cyber Security • Safety • Surveillance • Threat Management

Rachel George — Council on Foreign Relations

Iran's AI Assault on Women

Iran and other countries in the Middle East are increasingly using artificial intelligence as a tool to crackdown on women's rights.

Artificial Intelligence • Cyber Security • Digital Rights • Surveillance • Technology • Threat Management

BERYL LIPTON AND MATTHEW GUARIGLIA — EFF

GAO Report Shows the Government Uses Face Recognition with No Accountability, Transparency, or Training

Face recognition technology, particularly when used by law enforcement and government, puts into jeopardy many of our important rights.

Artificial Intelligence • Democracy • Digital Rights • Financial • Technology

Jonathan Taplin — Vanity Fair

The Four Billionaire Techno-Oligarchs Creating an Alternate, Autocratic Reality

In an excerpt from his new book, The End of Reality, the author warns about the curses of AI and transhumanism, presenting the moral case against superintelligence.

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