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Adam Rogers
@jetjocko.bsky.social
Journalist and author. Ex-Business Insider, ex-Wired. Hosted a podcast about an Alien TV show. Wrote a book about booze and a book about colors.

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No one knows how to do that. Brain computer interfaces can barely move a computer cursor after lots of training and they break after not much use. And no one knows how brains process information, really. It’s not data like a computer. Also, surely not Google, the company? What’s the source?
February 19, 2026 at 1:00 AM
A universal basic income is what everyone gets unconditionally. If you tell people they only get money if they contribute their brain to corporate data, that's a job. And ripe for abuse, it seems like.
February 19, 2026 at 12:37 AM
Confronted with what looks like an onslaught of opinion from their voters, politicians will follow it. But the problem is when it's inauthentic, paid for by the exact interests who will lose money and influence if a new regulation passes and unrepresentative of actual humans.
February 18, 2026 at 10:10 PM
Let's not do that please.
February 18, 2026 at 10:08 PM
Honored to be part of a Polk Award-winning team, is what I mean.
February 18, 2026 at 7:44 PM
Plus a dose of being metric-pilled I think. A big part of society equates “makes money” with “good,” and therefore any attempt to stop the moneymaking is bad (and so probably comes from a buncha godless commies with too much empathy).
February 18, 2026 at 5:27 PM
Obviously Chuck is right about Muppet tech, which should be tightly regulated like any other valuable natural resource.
February 18, 2026 at 5:25 PM
Like this! Because there is *plenty* of leftist criticism of solar (land use, environmental-type stuff) and batteries (exploited nations, illegal mining) and EVs (car dependency, brake dust, kills transit). It’s OK to look at potential impacts! That’s how you make policy!

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“Is there a technology the left is excited about?”

High-speed rail! MRNA vaccines! New cancer treatments! Solar and wind energy collection! Better and longer-range EVs! That wood that's harder than steel! New apples! Fibermaxxing! Buldak Swicy ramen! Muppets! Muppets are too a technology, shut up!
February 18, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Or maybe 3) that any criticism of technology that worries about its impact of fully implemented the way its makers promise is somehow implicitly “leftist”? Like is the only right-coded permissible critique “will not make money”?
February 18, 2026 at 5:20 PM
That’s really more of a destination, no?
February 18, 2026 at 5:13 PM
Ahem. Yes. Well.
February 18, 2026 at 2:44 AM
Because this idea implies two things: 1) that all tech is an Omelas machine, that it can’t not hurt someone so might as well enjoy it. And 2) that the critics *would* unquestioningly support a left-coded tech. They don’t! When solar panels require exploited resources like coltan etc, that’s bad too!
February 18, 2026 at 2:44 AM
'ey, how articulated was dis post? *Dis* articulated.
February 18, 2026 at 1:34 AM
Reposted by Adam Rogers
I've know these people for years. They've worked for Kamala Harris, Jerry Brown, Gavin Newsom, Antonio Villaraigosa, Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, etc. Now they are working for crypto and venture capital, as vc and crypto underwrite Trump fascism.
February 17, 2026 at 11:07 PM