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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 13h

We get a lot of wild publicity pitches for TMK, but this one is among the most pathological. I shudder to think of the people who this pitch – and insane person – would excite, rather than repulse.

Before LegalZoom reached unicorn status, co-founder Eddie Hartman was actually disinvited to his family's Thanksgiving, because he wouldn't stop asking for money to help fund his dream venture. "Me and my two co-founders invested our own money and then started asking friends and family for help," says Eddie. "We quickly wore out our welcome but it was worth it because we knew how to take what we started and grow it while maintaining profit."
Eddie, who is co-author of the new book Scaling Innovation: How Smart Companies Architect Profitable Growth (Wiley), a sequel to the international bestseller Monetizing Innovation, is immediately available for interviews and expert commentary to share the following:

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 15h

It’s partly a free public event, but it sold out really fast! There’s way more interest in Luddism than the organizers anticipated. You can go on the waitlist here www.eventbrite.com/e/new-luddis...

New Luddism: Technology and Resistance in the Modern Workplace

Join us at Columbia University for a student-led conference featuring researchers, workers, and organizers.

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 16h

Looking forward to giving the keynote at this very cool conference in New York City next month along with so many other comrades-in-luddism — New Luddism: Technology and Resistance in the Modern Workplace

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 1d

Call for abstracts: "Insurance, Climate Change, and Spatial Governance" paper session for the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, March 17-21, 2026

I'm co-organizing this session with some amazing scholars. Here's our extended abstract:

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Rosie Collington @rosiecollington.bsky.social · 23h

At this point I am just a @triofrancos.bsky.social superfan & wanna recommend everything she’s doing but I particularly enjoyed this interview with @jathansadowski.com & @edwardongwesojr.com on all things extraction, stranded renewables assets, China, & much more 🫡
open.spotify.com/episode/4kfb...

425. The Oxymorons of Green Capitalism (ft. Thea Riofrancos)

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Savannah Cox @savannahcox.bsky.social · 1d

Climate and insurance folks: please join @jathansadowski.com, Leigh Johnson, Stephen Collier and me for an AAG session on insurance, spatial governance and climate adaptation. CFP below, abstract form here:

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 1d

Please submit abstracts of no more than 250 words via this form by October 23rd docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

Abstract Submission for AAG 2026 Paper Session: Insurance, Climate Change, and Spatial Governance

Call for Papers: Insurance, Climate Change, and Spatial Governance paper session for the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, March 17-21, 2026 Organizers: St...

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 1d

Call for abstracts: "Insurance, Climate Change, and Spatial Governance" paper session for the American Association of Geographers Annual Meeting, San Francisco, California, March 17-21, 2026

I'm co-organizing this session with some amazing scholars. Here's our extended abstract:

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 3d

The AI bubble is gonna tank the economy. The ironic future of AI is to throw us backwards into a great depression. Let’s gooooo www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai...

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 3d

According to reports by journalists and activists on the flotilla, “Thunberg was “wrapped in the Israeli flag and paraded like a trophy”—a scene described with disbelief and anger by those who witnessed it.”

Israel calls the flotilla “terrorists,” while their rights are “systematically violated”.

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Paul T. Levin @paultlevin.bsky.social · 3d

““They dragged little Greta [Thunberg] by her hair before our eyes, beat her, and forced her to kiss the Israeli flag. They did everything imaginable to her, as a warning to others,” the Turkish activist ErsinÇelik, a participant in the Sumud flotilla, told Anadolu news agency.”+

Israel accused of detaining Greta Thunberg in infested cell and making her hold flags

Activist tells Swedish officials she has been subjected to harsh treatment, including insufficient food and water

www.theguardian.com

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 5d

Just discovered there's a whole category of stock photos that are people biting their computers out of frustration.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 6d

OpenAI is essentially a social arsonist, developing and releasing tools that hyper scale the most racist, misogynistic, and toxic elements of society, lowering the barriers for all manner of abuse. The so called guardrails make a pinky swear look like an ironclad contract.

This social app can put your face into fake movie scenes, memes and arrest videos

The new Sora social app from ChatGPT maker OpenAI encourages users to upload video of their face so their likeness can be put into AI-generated clips.

www.washingtonpost.com

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 6d

What an unsurprising decision by corporations that desperately need to make money with AI. If every other company with a chatbot isn't already doing this, then expect them to be following Meta's lead soon. The chatbot is not your friend; it's a corporate listening device. www.ft.com/content/22f7...

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Meta will use conversations people have with its chatbots to personalise advertising and content across its platforms, in a sign of how tech companies plan to make money from artificial intelligence.

The owner of Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp on Wednesday said it would use the content of chats with its Meta AI to create advertising recommendations across its suite of apps.

“People will already expect that their Meta AI interactions are being used for these personalisation purposes,” said Christy Harris, privacy and data policy manager at Meta.

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🎃smell🎃patatas🎃 @its.small.patatas.ca · 7d

This discussion is so fuckin good holy shit

Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 8d

In the new TMK, @triofrancos.bsky.social joins us to discuss the about the many frontiers, tensions, and futures of green capitalism. We go deep into the political economy of lithium and the material infrastructures of extraction. Thea is so sharp and this is such a great conversation.

425. The Oxymorons of Green Capitalism (ft. Thea Riofrancos)

We are joined by Thea Riofrancos — author of Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism — to chat about the many frontiers, tensions, and futures of green capitalism. How do we understand a system

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 7d

Incredible ruling in a case brought by the AAUP against Rubio and the State Department.

A federal court found that "arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students and faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the First Amendment." www.aaup.org/news/court-r...

Court Rules in AAUP v Rubio: Trump Admin Violated First Amendment
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In a landmark ruling, a federal court today ruled that the Trump administration’s policy of arresting, detaining, and deporting noncitizen students and faculty members for their pro-Palestinian advocacy violates the First Amendment. The AAUP, the Middle Eastern Studies Association and several AAUP chapters brought the suit with the Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University, seeking to block the Trump administration from carrying out large-scale arrests, detentions, and deportations of noncitizen students and faculty members for ideological reasons (typically because of pro-Palestinian speech).

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Veena Dubal @veenadubal.bsky.social · 7d

WE WON: "This case -– perhaps the most important ever to fall w/in..this district court squarely presents the issue whether non-citizens lawfully present here in US..have the same free speech rights as the rest of us. The Court answers this Constitutional question unequivocally “yes, they do.”"

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Chicago 🏳️‍⚧️🌱 @chicagotrans-plant.bsky.social · 7d

On the way to my girlfriend's on an Amtrak listening to @edwardongwesojr.com and @jathansadowski.com 's podcast while playing hades 2 does life get any better than this?

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 7d

Congrats on living the best day of your life. Condolences that every next day is downhill from here.

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 8d

In the new TMK, @triofrancos.bsky.social joins us to discuss the about the many frontiers, tensions, and futures of green capitalism. We go deep into the political economy of lithium and the material infrastructures of extraction. Thea is so sharp and this is such a great conversation.

425. The Oxymorons of Green Capitalism (ft. Thea Riofrancos)

We are joined by Thea Riofrancos — author of Extraction: The Frontiers of Green Capitalism — to chat about the many frontiers, tensions, and futures of green capitalism. How do we understand a system

soundcloud.com

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Hannah Nicklin @hannahnicklin.bsky.social · 9d

I’m the subject of this week’s “What’s on Your Bookshelf” column at @rockpapershotgun.bsky.social — they reached out when I was on a week off so got deep-reading me. Revolutions, Egyptian alt fantasy comics, citizen assemblies, Luddism and Stewart Lee abound www.rockpapershotgun.com/whats-on-you...

What's on your bookshelf: Saltsea Chronicles, Mutazione and Thronglets' Hannah Nicklin

Hannah Nicklin tells us about the books they love, have loved, and are hoping to love in the future.

www.rockpapershotgun.com

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 9d

It's very cool to see my book recommended in RPS by game narrative designer @hannahnicklin.bsky.social — alongside books by Murray Bookchin and Hilary Mantel — especially since I have RPS opened in a different tab to help me find the witch crest in Silksong www.rockpapershotgun.com/whats-on-you...

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 13d

Every paragraph hit me with more psychic damage

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 13d

Honestly it's pretty cool that a bigger than expected part of my job is reading the Financial Times every day.

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Jathan Sadowski @jathansadowski.com · 14d

In the new TMK Premium, we discuss the growing genre and tropes of personal literary essays about AI — what N+1 dubs the "AI-and-I" genres — where artists and intellectuals pen long essays laying out their thoughts, worries, and ultimate embrace of AI. www.patreon.com/posts/139592...

Premium – 424. Me and My AI | This Machine Kills

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