Sanjay Raghavendra
@sanjayrag.bsky.social
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I suspect part of the problem is that billionaire babies can't handle owning a company that is operating at a loss, even if they could absorb that loss indefinitely. They would rather destroy the lives of hundreds of people than appear like they are not the Aristotelian ideal of a businessman.
February 4, 2026 at 5:30 PM
I suspect part of the problem is that billionaire babies can't handle owning a company that is operating at a loss, even if they could absorb that loss indefinitely. They would rather destroy the lives of hundreds of people than appear like they are not the Aristotelian ideal of a businessman.
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In two weeks, world leaders and tech executives will descend on Delhi for the AI Impact Summit 2026. There, power brokers will paint a pretty picture of the role AI will play in saving the world - from sharing prosperity to fixing climate change.
February 3, 2026 at 6:14 PM
In two weeks, world leaders and tech executives will descend on Delhi for the AI Impact Summit 2026. There, power brokers will paint a pretty picture of the role AI will play in saving the world - from sharing prosperity to fixing climate change.
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Welcome to Paris.
February 3, 2026 at 5:08 PM
Welcome to Paris.
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That one is some amazing Euro-centric imagination (or we might even say cope).
People colonized Indonesia then Polynesia all the way to Hawaii, long, long, LONG before 1492 but it didn't spark a scientific revolution in the South Pacific.
People colonized Indonesia then Polynesia all the way to Hawaii, long, long, LONG before 1492 but it didn't spark a scientific revolution in the South Pacific.
February 2, 2026 at 3:35 PM
That one is some amazing Euro-centric imagination (or we might even say cope).
People colonized Indonesia then Polynesia all the way to Hawaii, long, long, LONG before 1492 but it didn't spark a scientific revolution in the South Pacific.
People colonized Indonesia then Polynesia all the way to Hawaii, long, long, LONG before 1492 but it didn't spark a scientific revolution in the South Pacific.
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West Hollywood. Seattle. Austin. Beverly Hills. One message for Tim Cook: #AppleIsCooked. We're done with corporations and billionaires licking boots while the Temu Stormtroopers kidnap our friends and murder our neighbors in the street.
February 1, 2026 at 8:06 PM
West Hollywood. Seattle. Austin. Beverly Hills. One message for Tim Cook: #AppleIsCooked. We're done with corporations and billionaires licking boots while the Temu Stormtroopers kidnap our friends and murder our neighbors in the street.
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more tobacco parallels h/t @lewan.bsky.social
> In the 1990s Philip Morris implemented a 10-year “sound science” public relations campaign to create controversy regarding evidence that environmental toxins cause disease.
ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10....
> In the 1990s Philip Morris implemented a 10-year “sound science” public relations campaign to create controversy regarding evidence that environmental toxins cause disease.
ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10....
February 1, 2026 at 7:15 PM
more tobacco parallels h/t @lewan.bsky.social
> In the 1990s Philip Morris implemented a 10-year “sound science” public relations campaign to create controversy regarding evidence that environmental toxins cause disease.
ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10....
> In the 1990s Philip Morris implemented a 10-year “sound science” public relations campaign to create controversy regarding evidence that environmental toxins cause disease.
ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10....
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"We’ve seen other data-harvesting monopolies and Silicon Valley companies paying homage to Trump: Meta and Google and OpenAI and Oracle and Amazon and Nvidia, many of which have financial and other links to Thiel. Palantir is the very tip of this extremely poisonous spear."
NEW: What’s happening in the US is TECHNOFASCISM.
It’s fascism + surveillance technologies. Palantir is playing a central role. And the UK is next in line.
My latest for @thenerve.news
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www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...
It’s fascism + surveillance technologies. Palantir is playing a central role. And the UK is next in line.
My latest for @thenerve.news
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www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...
What’s happening in America is technofascism. It could happen here
Peter Thiel's data surveillance company Palantir is powering Trump's ICE operation in the US. Carole Cadwalladr argues that the UK will be next
www.thenerve.news
February 1, 2026 at 3:14 PM
"We’ve seen other data-harvesting monopolies and Silicon Valley companies paying homage to Trump: Meta and Google and OpenAI and Oracle and Amazon and Nvidia, many of which have financial and other links to Thiel. Palantir is the very tip of this extremely poisonous spear."
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To understand the logic behind these warehouses and this new horrific carceral regime, you can’t do better than Ruthie Gilmore’s The Golden Gulag.
It is fitting that the US edition of concentration camps are going to be situated in disused warehouses (former data centres?): www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...
ICE Begins Buying ‘Mega’ Warehouse Detention Centers Across US
Plans for such centers and jails in nearly two dozen communities have sparked protests over suitability, proximity to homes and schools.
www.bloomberg.com
January 30, 2026 at 4:33 PM
To understand the logic behind these warehouses and this new horrific carceral regime, you can’t do better than Ruthie Gilmore’s The Golden Gulag.
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If anyone else's personal Gmail suddenly started giving AI summaries of your emails with no option to turn them off:
I already took the elevated blood pressure hit for you and figure out how to get rid of it WITHOUT getting rid of the multiple inboxes (which I personally need in order to function)
I already took the elevated blood pressure hit for you and figure out how to get rid of it WITHOUT getting rid of the multiple inboxes (which I personally need in order to function)
January 29, 2026 at 6:15 PM
If anyone else's personal Gmail suddenly started giving AI summaries of your emails with no option to turn them off:
I already took the elevated blood pressure hit for you and figure out how to get rid of it WITHOUT getting rid of the multiple inboxes (which I personally need in order to function)
I already took the elevated blood pressure hit for you and figure out how to get rid of it WITHOUT getting rid of the multiple inboxes (which I personally need in order to function)
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Tonight at Sundance, join Ghost in The Machine director Valerie Veatch, @themaybe.org’s Alix Dunn, AI Now’s Alli Finn, and others for a panel on AI ethics, data centers, and Big Tech.
Register here:
collab.sundance.org/catalog/Stor...
Register here:
collab.sundance.org/catalog/Stor...
Tackling the Ethics of AI Through the Making of GHOST IN THE MACHINE: Part 1
collab.sundance.org
January 29, 2026 at 4:21 PM
Tonight at Sundance, join Ghost in The Machine director Valerie Veatch, @themaybe.org’s Alix Dunn, AI Now’s Alli Finn, and others for a panel on AI ethics, data centers, and Big Tech.
Register here:
collab.sundance.org/catalog/Stor...
Register here:
collab.sundance.org/catalog/Stor...
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Does your #brain exist mainly to think? Or is its most important function something else? "Three Lessons about the Brain" is a talk I delivered at the Wrocław University of Science and Technology in Poland. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aii...
Prof. Lisa Feldman Barrett: How Does the Brain Predict the World and Create Emotions? | Wrocław Tech
YouTube video by Politechnika Wrocławska
www.youtube.com
January 27, 2026 at 4:07 PM
Does your #brain exist mainly to think? Or is its most important function something else? "Three Lessons about the Brain" is a talk I delivered at the Wrocław University of Science and Technology in Poland. www.youtube.com/watch?v=4aii...
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Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Ivan Ehlers. #NewYorkerCartoons
January 23, 2026 at 10:00 PM
Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Ivan Ehlers. #NewYorkerCartoons
How might we seriously get back to normal? From my PoV in California, other than voting, I don't see many practical options. This needs international cooperation....
Trump sees dollar signs with Venezuelan oil, has designs on other countries, and clearly sees himself as some kind of emperor of the world. I don’t think he has plans to leave in 2028. And he’s showing he’ll use the military however he wants
January 4, 2026 at 8:31 PM
How might we seriously get back to normal? From my PoV in California, other than voting, I don't see many practical options. This needs international cooperation....
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Spain's Sánchez did somewhat more.
Spain's PM Pedro Sanchez is 1st European leader to make a stronger statement following Trump's press conference where he said the US will run Venezuela and take its oil.
Sanchez has been ostracised by other 🇪🇺 leaders for his past criticism of Trump. Will they listen to him now?
Sanchez has been ostracised by other 🇪🇺 leaders for his past criticism of Trump. Will they listen to him now?
January 4, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Spain's Sánchez did somewhat more.
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Now Trump says "we" need Greenland.
Well done weak European leaders who tepidly criticized/welcomed Trump’s invasion of Venezuela yesterday.
You're next.
Well done weak European leaders who tepidly criticized/welcomed Trump’s invasion of Venezuela yesterday.
You're next.
January 4, 2026 at 7:11 PM
Now Trump says "we" need Greenland.
Well done weak European leaders who tepidly criticized/welcomed Trump’s invasion of Venezuela yesterday.
You're next.
Well done weak European leaders who tepidly criticized/welcomed Trump’s invasion of Venezuela yesterday.
You're next.
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India orders X to fix Grok to block the generation of obscene content, giving it 72 hours to submit an action-taken report or risk losing "safe harbor" immunity (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
January 2, 2026 at 6:45 PM
India orders X to fix Grok to block the generation of obscene content, giving it 72 hours to submit an action-taken report or risk losing "safe harbor" immunity (Jagmeet Singh/TechCrunch)
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
Main Link | Techmeme Permalink
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Thank you!!!
Hey, I was asked to outline why I believe AI should not be embraced in schools in the below link (no one is voting "no" with me, so am trying to find ppl who agree with me to vote here, if u have a minute. Well my video maybe 15 mins)
generativerevolution.ai/should-schoo...
Hey, I was asked to outline why I believe AI should not be embraced in schools in the below link (no one is voting "no" with me, so am trying to find ppl who agree with me to vote here, if u have a minute. Well my video maybe 15 mins)
generativerevolution.ai/should-schoo...
Debate: Should schools embrace AI technology in education rather than forbid it? - Generative Revolution Insights
generativerevolution.ai
January 3, 2026 at 6:57 PM
Thank you!!!
Hey, I was asked to outline why I believe AI should not be embraced in schools in the below link (no one is voting "no" with me, so am trying to find ppl who agree with me to vote here, if u have a minute. Well my video maybe 15 mins)
generativerevolution.ai/should-schoo...
Hey, I was asked to outline why I believe AI should not be embraced in schools in the below link (no one is voting "no" with me, so am trying to find ppl who agree with me to vote here, if u have a minute. Well my video maybe 15 mins)
generativerevolution.ai/should-schoo...
Loved listening to this long, insightful, and entertaining critique of Turing's famous paper. pca.st/episode/d565...
Computing Machinery and Intelligence by Alan Turing (feat. Felienne Hermans)
pca.st
January 2, 2026 at 11:30 PM
Loved listening to this long, insightful, and entertaining critique of Turing's famous paper. pca.st/episode/d565...
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You empty little mops. Grok didn’t say “sorry”. It’s not sentient, has no guilt, has no feelings, has no moral compass.
Its owner Elon Musk also has no guilt, has no feelings, has no moral compass.
Its owner Elon Musk also has no guilt, has no feelings, has no moral compass.
Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X reut.rs/498SoUk
Grok says safeguard lapses led to images of 'minors in minimal clothing' on X
Elon Musk's xAI artificial intelligence chatbot Grok said on Friday lapses in safeguards had resulted in "images depicting minors in minimal clothing" on social media platform X and that improvements were being made to prevent this.
reut.rs
January 2, 2026 at 10:32 PM
You empty little mops. Grok didn’t say “sorry”. It’s not sentient, has no guilt, has no feelings, has no moral compass.
Its owner Elon Musk also has no guilt, has no feelings, has no moral compass.
Its owner Elon Musk also has no guilt, has no feelings, has no moral compass.
Something tells me that this easy comparison between how a compiler works vs. something output by an LLM -based bot (assuming that's what "AI-assisted" means) is fundamentally flawed, but I am unable to construct a proper argument....👇
January 1, 2026 at 6:17 PM
Something tells me that this easy comparison between how a compiler works vs. something output by an LLM -based bot (assuming that's what "AI-assisted" means) is fundamentally flawed, but I am unable to construct a proper argument....👇
Really enjoyed this conversation with @irisvanrooij.bsky.social and @olivia.science! The "homogenization" discussion made me think of 'The Joining' in Pluribus. pca.st/episode/f442...
September 12, 2025 — Safeguarding Science from AI: An Interview with Olivia Guest and Iris van Rooij
pca.st
January 1, 2026 at 1:14 AM
Really enjoyed this conversation with @irisvanrooij.bsky.social and @olivia.science! The "homogenization" discussion made me think of 'The Joining' in Pluribus. pca.st/episode/f442...
Time will tell whether the "...magnetism of America's promise...." is enduring or not, but in my 3+ decades here as an Indian American, I can say that the animosity seems to have surfaced only recently. Maybe people are feeling more licensed nowadays....
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
Opinion | One of America’s Most Successful Experiments Is Coming to a Shuddering Halt
www.nytimes.com
December 29, 2025 at 7:26 PM
Time will tell whether the "...magnetism of America's promise...." is enduring or not, but in my 3+ decades here as an Indian American, I can say that the animosity seems to have surfaced only recently. Maybe people are feeling more licensed nowadays....
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
www.nytimes.com/2025/12/29/o...
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This is called "freedom" and it's pissing off the new Commissars who believe that artists must perform at the State's command
Issa Rae has canceled her sold out performance at the Kennedy Center. Pulitzer Prize winner Rhiannon Giddens, Peter Wolf, Low Cut Connie, and the Gay Men’s Chorus of Washington, D.C., have also canceled. Lin-Manuel Miranda has canceled the entire Kennedy Center run of Hamilton.
December 29, 2025 at 4:09 AM
This is called "freedom" and it's pissing off the new Commissars who believe that artists must perform at the State's command
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LA! Come draw with me and @sarahmackattack.bsky.social on Jan 15!
We just released tickets and I think they’ll go fast, so jump on it:
We just released tickets and I think they’ll go fast, so jump on it:
ATTN: Los Angeles!
@ologies.bsky.social & I are hosting an evening of ART & ACTIVISM. We're going to be creating art that communicates important messages & learning about work happening in your city.
RSVP here: luma.com/fp919u5x
Poster by the amazing @nicolegoux.bsky.social!
Please repost, LA!
@ologies.bsky.social & I are hosting an evening of ART & ACTIVISM. We're going to be creating art that communicates important messages & learning about work happening in your city.
RSVP here: luma.com/fp919u5x
Poster by the amazing @nicolegoux.bsky.social!
Please repost, LA!
December 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
LA! Come draw with me and @sarahmackattack.bsky.social on Jan 15!
We just released tickets and I think they’ll go fast, so jump on it:
We just released tickets and I think they’ll go fast, so jump on it:
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I mean for sure infinity migrants don't currently fit in America but I'll send you the blueprints for building Hilbert's Grand Hotel suuuper don't worry about it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert...
Love set theory. Hate fascism. Oh and also love housing people
Love set theory. Hate fascism. Oh and also love housing people
December 26, 2025 at 9:40 PM
I mean for sure infinity migrants don't currently fit in America but I'll send you the blueprints for building Hilbert's Grand Hotel suuuper don't worry about it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilbert...
Love set theory. Hate fascism. Oh and also love housing people
Love set theory. Hate fascism. Oh and also love housing people