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Lawfare @lawfaremedia.org · 23d

On Lawfare Daily, @tylermcbrien.com spoke to @mwoluchem.bsky.social, @livgar.bsky.social, and Joan Mukogosi from @datasociety.bsky.social about their research trips across Pennsylvania, where they learned about the current and future impacts of the nascent AI data center industry in the state.

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Maia Woluchem @mwoluchem.bsky.social · Aug 20

On the road again! Latest dispatch from Three Mile Island from @livgar.bsky.social, Joan Mukogosi and me, this time from outside a Bon Ton.

Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · Aug 20

With a deal to provide nuclear-powered energy to data centers, Three Mile Island is coming back online to power the AI boom. As @livgar.bsky.social, Joan Mukogosi, & @mwoluchem.bsky.social write, locals are wrestling with how to handle AI-driven industrial change. datasociety.net/points/in-pe...

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Maia Woluchem @mwoluchem.bsky.social · Aug 18

Commentary today from TI’s brilliant @livgar.bsky.social and many other experts about Meta’s profoundly disturbing chatbot policies and their real human impacts. Essential reflections for any and all of us using the internet

Justin Hendrix @justinhendrix.bsky.social · Aug 18

Last week, Reuters published two articles by journalist Jeff Horwitz reporting concerning details about Meta's AI chatbot policies and products and how they affect children and vulnerable adults. Tech Policy Press invited experts to submit reactions to the reports—here are their responses:

Experts React to Reuters Reports on Meta's AI Chatbot Policies | TechPolicy.Press

Tech Policy Press invited a range of experts to submit reactions to concerning reports on Meta's AI chatbot policies and products.

www.techpolicy.press

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Maia Woluchem @mwoluchem.bsky.social · Jul 24

Grateful to @justinhendrix.bsky.social for facilitating this necessary conversation between @smw.bsky.social, Ryan Gerety, and me on why this AI Action Plan is so dangerous and what we can do about it. Listen/read here:

Tech Policy Press @techpolicypress.bsky.social · Jul 24

Yesterday, the Trump administration unveiled its AI Action Plan. Shortly after it was published, Justin Hendrix sat down with the AI Now Institute's Sarah Myers West, Data & Society's Maia Woluchem, and the Athena Coalition's Ryan Gerety to discuss the plan and what it portends for the future.

Considering Trump’s AI Plan and the Future It Portends | TechPolicy.Press

A podcast discussion with the AI Now Institute's Sarah Myers West, Data and Society's Maia Woluchem, and Athena for All's Ryan Gerety.

www.techpolicy.press

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MediaJustice @mediajustice.bsky.social · Jul 24

Trump's new #AIActionPlan threatens to expand the surveillance and criminalization of our people under the guise of “innovation.”

We’re breaking down what this means and how we can resist next WEDS, 7/30 at 6PM ET | 3PM PT,
bit.ly/our-techfuture

The final graphic for our webinar states in the center. "Join the call to find out who is behind Trump's AI Action Plan?" Trump is stylistically crossed out. In the lower righthand corner shows two composed images of protestors against Elon Musk. Toward the left is the date and final details of our webinar: "July 30, 6PM ET. Register for free." Finally our bit.ly link is below: "bit.ly/our-techfuture"

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Maia Woluchem @mwoluchem.bsky.social · Jul 22

@tamigraph.bsky.social and I get to some mythbusting today about data centers and the supposed future they bring. Long story short: 😬

alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · Jul 22

Data Centers Aren't the Future of American Prosperity- @tamigraph.bsky.social & @mwoluchem.bsky.social bust the myths of data centers: they don't massively increase jobs, they don't increase clean energy investment, and they don't benefit local communities! OH SNAP datasociety.net/library/data...

Data Centers Aren’t the Future of American Prosperity

Tamara Kneese and Maia Woluchem cut through lobbying points and speculative myths to focus on what the evidence reveals about the tech industry’s claims.

datasociety.net

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Maia Woluchem @mwoluchem.bsky.social · Jul 15

Of course, one industry’s decline often begets another’s ascendance, each with their own generational harms. However, in this AI race, PA needs to act more decisively to avoid cementing its own history alongside other global stories of industrial extraction for supposed AI gains.

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Maia Woluchem @mwoluchem.bsky.social · Jul 15

You’ll hear more myth-busting in a piece @tamigraph.bsky.social and I are releasing next week. We’ll also soon be publishing more about what we found at Three Mile Island, in Pittsburgh, and across PA.

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Maia Woluchem @mwoluchem.bsky.social · Jul 15

Though notably imperfect, the steel, coal, & glass industries bore strong local unions, community reinvestment, & a certain type of cohesion. Today’s proposed economic wins primarily benefit private tech companies, militarized infrastructure, and a race for global AI dominance.

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Maia Woluchem @mwoluchem.bsky.social · Jul 15

We already know that all such investment in data centers can endanger cities’ right to self-determination, access to water & energy, & betray the meaning of dignified labor. In PA, this AI-centric vision may be extending this already traumatic history of land, labor, and power extraction.

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Maia Woluchem @mwoluchem.bsky.social · Jul 15

We have been researching post-industrial PA as it shifts under the weight of this new vision. These cities built the industrial revolution only to be left behind when these sectors crashed. The question for today: Are industrialists using PA again at its own peril?
datasociety.net/points/digit...

Digital Infrastructures, Material Consequences

Members of the Trustworthy Infrastructures team write about their research road trip through Pennsylvania, where they traced the connection from the industrial past to our tech-dominated present.

datasociety.net

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Maia Woluchem @mwoluchem.bsky.social · Jul 15

Today Trump, Sen. McCormick, and industry leaders convened to discuss their plan for AI-forward PA. Upshot: $92 billion will go to data centers, natural gas & nuclear infrastructure, & re-organizing labor around the AI race. DoE Sec. Chris Wright declared: “AI is our second Manhattan Project.”

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Maia Woluchem @mwoluchem.bsky.social · Jun 12

Proud of this labor of love and how full circle this process was - beginning as a grateful workshop participant and ending as director of this incredible team. Offering up precious ideas from around the globe on what trust means, with or without the tech that mediates it today. Read here!

Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · May 29

📣 Just published! Our new anthology reframes the question of trust and technology away from whether a particular technology is trustworthy and toward how trust shapes institutions, bodies, and knowledge. 1/5 datasociety.net/library/trus...

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Anita Chan @anitachan.bsky.social · Apr 9

JOIN me, @xriskology.bsky.social, @timnitgebru.bsky.social & @mwoluchem.bsky.social for @datasociety.bsky.social 's
#PredatoryData event discussion of the 21st C #eugenicsInBigTech and how to resist it. RSVP and join us online tomorrow Thur 4/10 at 1P EasternUS time! datasociety.net/events/resis...

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Nik Marda @nrmarda.bsky.social · Mar 21

Over 100 researchers are issuing a statement today that reiterates the scientific consensus that AI can exacerbate bias and discrimination.

The last three U.S. Administrations — including the first Trump Administration — and 192 other nations have recognized this basic fact.

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Maia Woluchem @mwoluchem.bsky.social · Mar 21

Hi Teddy! Great question. Please feel free to shoot us an email at [email protected] and it should make its way over. Thanks very much!

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Maia Woluchem @mwoluchem.bsky.social · Mar 18

Trustworthy Infrastructures is hiring! Come work with @livgar.bsky.social, Joan Mukogosi, and me, as we look to build out our Nodes & Conduits project. We're really looking forward to getting to know you and your work - please don't hesitate to reach out with any additional questions!

Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · Mar 18

Job alert: We’re hiring a post-doc research fellow to work with our Trustworthy Infrastructures program on a project exploring how post-industrial communities adapt to socioeconomic transformations driven by the tech industry. Learn more & apply by April 18! job-boards.greenhouse.io/datasocietyr...

Post-Doctoral Fellow, Trustworthy Infrastructures

New York, NY

job-boards.greenhouse.io

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · Mar 12

April 10 @ 1pm ET: Join "Predatory Data" author @anitachan.bsky.social, @xriskology.bsky.social, @timnitgebru.bsky.social, & @mwoluchem.bsky.social for a discussion of the 21st century eugenics revival in big tech and how to resist it. RSVP and join us online! datasociety.net/events/resis...

A green, yellow, blue and red promotional graphic for the online discussion “Resisting Predatory Data” happening on April 10 at 1pm ET, moderated by Maia Woluchem, with headshots of participants Anita Say Chan, Emile P. Torres, and Timnit Gebru.

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Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock.cc · Feb 27

A thread of Save Medicaid actions:

@aclu.org action.aclu.org/send-message...

Congress: Save Medicaid Now

Politicians are attempting to pass devastating cuts to Medicaid right now and we must act fast. Send a message telling your member of Congress to fight back now.

action.aclu.org

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Maia Woluchem @mwoluchem.bsky.social · Feb 26

Lots of things coming up this spring! We're so excited to have @drniajohnson.bsky.social, Ekene Ijeoma, and @followlori.bsky.social in to talk through community confrontations around infrastructure. Registration link below!

Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · Feb 26

March 20 @ 3pm ET: Join us for this public panel — part of our Connective (t)Issues workshop — as we break down confrontations between tech infrastructures & local communities w @drniajohnson.bsky.social, Ekene Ijeoma, @followlori.bsky.social & @mwoluchem.bsky.social datasociety.net/events/conne...

A pink and orange promotional graphic for the online panel Connective (t)Issues: Stories of Digitality, Infrastructures, and Resistance happening on March 20 at 3pm ET, moderated by Maia Woluchem. With headshots of panelists Nia Johnson, Ekene Ijeoma, and Lori Regattieri.

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Gabriel Winant @gabrielwinant.bsky.social · Feb 8

The only hope for higher ed is the academic labor movement. Join this @higheredlabor.bsky.social call next week to plan our fight us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Fund Don't Freeze: National Higher Education Strategy Call. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar.

Join higher education workers from around the country on 2/13 at 8 PM Eastern / 7 PM Central / 6 PM Mountain / 5 PM Pacific for a national strategy call on the federal attack on higher education and h...

us06web.zoom.us

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Andrea Ritchie @dreanyc123.bsky.social · Feb 6

It turns out the NY doc indicted for telemedicine abortion care in LA was once MY doctor. Hands down the best I have ever had - I broke down in tears on my 1st visit because I had never received care like that & didn't even know it was possible

Pls support her if you can: www.theactgroup.org/donate

Donate | The ACT Group

Donate and help us make a difference in access to telemedicine for all

www.theactgroup.org

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Maia Woluchem @mwoluchem.bsky.social · Feb 6

Many thanks for our friends along the way, including Uncle Johnny, @bobgradeck.bsky.social, @alicetiara.bsky.social, @tamigraph.bsky.socialm the National Museum of Industrial History, the Heinz History Museum, and everyone between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh who left their yard signs up

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Maia Woluchem @mwoluchem.bsky.social · Feb 6

Are you doing similar work on this? Organizing around these questions? Just want to be in touch? Please fill out our form at the bottom of this piece or shoot us an email at [email protected]. We really want to meet you too.

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Maia Woluchem @mwoluchem.bsky.social · Feb 6

TI is building work deep in these communities, trying to understand our social ties, our unions, our institutions, and our power, as these companies race to trade our communities for their visions of the technofuture. As much about what oligarchy takes as it is about what we build in return.

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