Ana Brandusescu
@anabrandusescu.bsky.social
Researcher, policy analyst, social scientist. PhD-ing on political power and privatization in the scale of AI governance.
she/her | Montreal | anabrandusescu.com
she/her | Montreal | anabrandusescu.com
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Brazil showing us the way!
November 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Brazil showing us the way!
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Okay, I hestitate to even share this link, because while I like NYMag I do not want to send this journalist in particular clicks, b ut:
If your framing is that an academic is the "dominant voice" and the underdogs are OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, maybe a fact check in is order??
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If your framing is that an academic is the "dominant voice" and the underdogs are OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, maybe a fact check in is order??
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Is ChatGPT Conscious?
Many users feel they’re talking to a real person. Scientists say it’s time to consider whether they’re onto something.
nymag.com
November 25, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Okay, I hestitate to even share this link, because while I like NYMag I do not want to send this journalist in particular clicks, b ut:
If your framing is that an academic is the "dominant voice" and the underdogs are OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, maybe a fact check in is order??
>>
If your framing is that an academic is the "dominant voice" and the underdogs are OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, maybe a fact check in is order??
>>
Brazil showing us the way!
November 26, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Brazil showing us the way!
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Can only assume that this is because Goran, kind Goran, shares accounts of Palestinian folks in dire need of help and financial support. So incredibly shameful on behalf of the Bluesky moderators. I hope they change their hearts before their callousness and cruelty destroys all that they love.
Bluesky suspended Goran Gligovic, the guy that makes nice art. Jesus fucking Christ Bluesky
November 26, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Can only assume that this is because Goran, kind Goran, shares accounts of Palestinian folks in dire need of help and financial support. So incredibly shameful on behalf of the Bluesky moderators. I hope they change their hearts before their callousness and cruelty destroys all that they love.
Advancing techno-fascism, the EO edition.
Launching the Genesis Mission
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.
www.whitehouse.gov
November 26, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Advancing techno-fascism, the EO edition.
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Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.
heated.world
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
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pretty soon chatGPT is gonna have more rights in this country than poor people
November 25, 2025 at 10:04 PM
pretty soon chatGPT is gonna have more rights in this country than poor people
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Notice in the piece that Meta would love for the focus to be entirely on children (and solved with age verification) -- where in reality, the design of these bots is wronging people of all ages
November 25, 2025 at 5:21 PM
Notice in the piece that Meta would love for the focus to be entirely on children (and solved with age verification) -- where in reality, the design of these bots is wronging people of all ages
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LLM-powered chatbots need to be regulated for everyone, not just children
November 25, 2025 at 5:16 PM
LLM-powered chatbots need to be regulated for everyone, not just children
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People who adore the LLM-machine, that by design has no concern for truth, must have no concern for truth
November 23, 2025 at 4:15 PM
People who adore the LLM-machine, that by design has no concern for truth, must have no concern for truth
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Much like offloading onto LLMs, men are more likely to feel OK offloading generally. Women do not & sadly are used to doing this work. Men are formed by patriarchy to demand, expect, and tolerate this. This is in pure contrast to all the women who contact me to say they will work hard to fight AI.
TBF they need much more help than just not using AI, but indeed they are its most vociferous supporters and for good reason: men under patriarchy are used to outsourcing (especially to women) their cognitive labour
September 20, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Much like offloading onto LLMs, men are more likely to feel OK offloading generally. Women do not & sadly are used to doing this work. Men are formed by patriarchy to demand, expect, and tolerate this. This is in pure contrast to all the women who contact me to say they will work hard to fight AI.
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"Big tech companies have to date made few public statements about pushback to data center projects."
The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived
A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"Big tech companies have to date made few public statements about pushback to data center projects."
"Big tech companies have to date made few public statements about pushback to data center projects."
The Data Center Resistance Has Arrived
A new report finds that local opposition to data centers skyrocketed in the second quarter of this year.
www.wired.com
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 AM
"Big tech companies have to date made few public statements about pushback to data center projects."
"Major insurers including Great American, Chubb, and WR Berkley are asking U.S. regulators for permission to exclude widespread AI-related liabilities from corporate policies."
AI is too risky to insure, say people whose job is insuring risk | TechCrunch
Major insurers including AIG, Great American, and WR Berkley are asking U.S. regulators for permission to exclude AI-related liabilities from corporate policies. One underwriter describes the AI model...
techcrunch.com
November 24, 2025 at 6:36 PM
"Major insurers including Great American, Chubb, and WR Berkley are asking U.S. regulators for permission to exclude widespread AI-related liabilities from corporate policies."
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for the visual learners
November 22, 2025 at 6:35 PM
for the visual learners
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Hoping the Marxist bros end their love affair with him, but not holding my breath.
November 22, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Hoping the Marxist bros end their love affair with him, but not holding my breath.
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I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 1:43 PM
I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
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We are all so screwed because the entire global economy has bet on an industry that can’t make money.
Read about the massive fraud:
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
Read about the massive fraud:
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
The Algorithm That Detected a $610 Billion Fraud: How Machine Intelligence Exposed the AI Industry’s Circular Financing Scheme
On November 20, 2025, trading algorithms identified what may become the largest accounting fraud in technology history—not in months or years, but in 18 hours.
open.substack.com
November 22, 2025 at 4:22 PM
We are all so screwed because the entire global economy has bet on an industry that can’t make money.
Read about the massive fraud:
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
Read about the massive fraud:
open.substack.com/pub/shanakaa...
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"Why is Big Tech so intent on pushing new features before their dangerous behaviors can be fully understood and contained?"
This is rhetorical. We all know why. Big Tech has shown us who they are over and over again. And yet, we will be adopting their products, wholesale, over and over again.
This is rhetorical. We all know why. Big Tech has shown us who they are over and over again. And yet, we will be adopting their products, wholesale, over and over again.
Critics scoff after Microsoft warns AI feature can infect machines and pilfer data
Integration of Copilot Actions into Windows is off by default, but for how long?
arstechnica.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
"Why is Big Tech so intent on pushing new features before their dangerous behaviors can be fully understood and contained?"
This is rhetorical. We all know why. Big Tech has shown us who they are over and over again. And yet, we will be adopting their products, wholesale, over and over again.
This is rhetorical. We all know why. Big Tech has shown us who they are over and over again. And yet, we will be adopting their products, wholesale, over and over again.
"Why is Big Tech so intent on pushing new features before their dangerous behaviors can be fully understood and contained?"
This is rhetorical. We all know why. Big Tech has shown us who they are over and over again. And yet, we will be adopting their products, wholesale, over and over again.
This is rhetorical. We all know why. Big Tech has shown us who they are over and over again. And yet, we will be adopting their products, wholesale, over and over again.
Critics scoff after Microsoft warns AI feature can infect machines and pilfer data
Integration of Copilot Actions into Windows is off by default, but for how long?
arstechnica.com
November 21, 2025 at 3:16 PM
"Why is Big Tech so intent on pushing new features before their dangerous behaviors can be fully understood and contained?"
This is rhetorical. We all know why. Big Tech has shown us who they are over and over again. And yet, we will be adopting their products, wholesale, over and over again.
This is rhetorical. We all know why. Big Tech has shown us who they are over and over again. And yet, we will be adopting their products, wholesale, over and over again.
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The only way to understand this is to realize that they are eugenicists.
To Survive the Next Pandemic, Walk More, the NIH Says
The agency is picking up Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s argument that a healthy immune system can keep even pandemic germs at bay.
www.theatlantic.com
November 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
The only way to understand this is to realize that they are eugenicists.
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I can’t walk bc of the last (ongoing) pandemic. I’ve been homebound w long covid for over a year . But thanks!!!!!
The only way to understand this is to realize that they are eugenicists.
To Survive the Next Pandemic, Walk More, the NIH Says
The agency is picking up Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s argument that a healthy immune system can keep even pandemic germs at bay.
www.theatlantic.com
November 19, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I can’t walk bc of the last (ongoing) pandemic. I’ve been homebound w long covid for over a year . But thanks!!!!!