Sreekanth Mukku
@sree-mukku.bsky.social
PhD-ing on Global AI Race @Ifp-ude.bsky.social @unidue.bsky.social I Critical AI/Tech Policy researcher I Initiator and researcher networkedfutures.org I Interested in International Political Economy of Tech, Sustainability of AI & STS.
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Sreekanth Mukku
@sree-mukku.bsky.social
· Jul 17
📢 Personal Update‼️
🚀 Coming in a little late—but I’m thrilled to finally share that I’ve embarked on an exciting new chapter: I’m pursuing a PhD in the political science department @ifp-ude.bsky.social the @unidue.bsky.social Germany.
🚀 Coming in a little late—but I’m thrilled to finally share that I’ve embarked on an exciting new chapter: I’m pursuing a PhD in the political science department @ifp-ude.bsky.social the @unidue.bsky.social Germany.
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US issues visa ban on former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton as well as Imran Ahmed, the British CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate; Anna-Lena von Hodenberg and Josephine Ballon of the German nonprofit HateAid; and Clare Melford, co-founder of the Global Disinformation Index (GDI).
US targets former EU commissioner, activists with visa bans over alleged censorship
The Trump administration on Tuesday imposed visa bans on a former European Union commissioner and anti-disinformation campaigners it says were involved in censoring U.S. social media platforms, in the...
www.reuters.com
December 24, 2025 at 1:23 PM
US issues visa ban on former EU Commissioner Thierry Breton as well as Imran Ahmed, the British CEO of the Center for Countering Digital Hate; Anna-Lena von Hodenberg and Josephine Ballon of the German nonprofit HateAid; and Clare Melford, co-founder of the Global Disinformation Index (GDI).
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Waymo has halted service in San Francisco after numerous videos & images showed its autonomous cars snarling traffic during the blackout.
With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
Waymo halts service during massive S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
Waymo stopped its service across San Francisco on Saturday after numerous autonomous vehicles caused traffic jams in the city.
missionlocal.org
December 21, 2025 at 3:49 AM
Waymo has halted service in San Francisco after numerous videos & images showed its autonomous cars snarling traffic during the blackout.
With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
With traffic lights down, Waymos across the city stopped dead in their tracks at intersections.
missionlocal.org/2025/12/sf-w...
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Amid the AI investment boom, cities and counties across the US are pulling the emergency brake on data centers, writes Jenna Ruddock. From Maryland to Missouri, at least fourteen states are home to towns or counties that have implemented moratoriums: a complete pause on data center development.
The Real Race for an AI Moratorium: Stopping Data Centers | TechPolicy.Press
Cities and counties across the US are pulling the emergency brake on data center development, writes Jenna Ruddock.
buff.ly
December 21, 2025 at 2:51 PM
Amid the AI investment boom, cities and counties across the US are pulling the emergency brake on data centers, writes Jenna Ruddock. From Maryland to Missouri, at least fourteen states are home to towns or counties that have implemented moratoriums: a complete pause on data center development.
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I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
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Waymo?
I'll walk, thanks.
I'll walk, thanks.
Waymo halts service during massive S.F. blackout after causing traffic jams
Waymo stopped its service across San Francisco on Saturday after numerous autonomous vehicles caused traffic jams in the city.
missionlocal.org
December 21, 2025 at 4:47 AM
Waymo?
I'll walk, thanks.
I'll walk, thanks.
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I read "heritage American" as a way to give White people claim to a title in a sort of monarchy of meritocracy.
And I see the ambiguity as strategic--so lots of White people can claim, "my ancestors did something important™ for my country, so i deserve money/status/power more than others here."
And I see the ambiguity as strategic--so lots of White people can claim, "my ancestors did something important™ for my country, so i deserve money/status/power more than others here."
December 21, 2025 at 2:26 PM
I read "heritage American" as a way to give White people claim to a title in a sort of monarchy of meritocracy.
And I see the ambiguity as strategic--so lots of White people can claim, "my ancestors did something important™ for my country, so i deserve money/status/power more than others here."
And I see the ambiguity as strategic--so lots of White people can claim, "my ancestors did something important™ for my country, so i deserve money/status/power more than others here."
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Seems like it's a major design flaw to have your AVs bug out during a citywide infrastructure failure.
At least five FUBARed Waymo robots:
Market & Guerrero, SF
One is a problem, two a mistake, five a major ops screw up. Waymo has never fixed their cascading failure problem. Maybe they don't know how.
Fundamentally unfit for service at scale until they do, IMO.
OP: tiktok.brahmsstan
Market & Guerrero, SF
One is a problem, two a mistake, five a major ops screw up. Waymo has never fixed their cascading failure problem. Maybe they don't know how.
Fundamentally unfit for service at scale until they do, IMO.
OP: tiktok.brahmsstan
December 21, 2025 at 7:02 AM
Seems like it's a major design flaw to have your AVs bug out during a citywide infrastructure failure.
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After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts
www.nber.org/papers/w34524
via @florianederer.bsky.social
www.nber.org/papers/w34524
via @florianederer.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 1:42 AM
After becoming a congressional leader, a politician’s stock portfolio beats out those of peers by 47 (!!!) percentage points a year through trades timed around bills and firms that later get government contracts
www.nber.org/papers/w34524
via @florianederer.bsky.social
www.nber.org/papers/w34524
via @florianederer.bsky.social
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„China has reportedly built an extreme‑ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine inside a high‑security laboratory in Shenzhen, in what sources described as a nationally coordinated push to overcome the most tightly held chokepoint in advanced chipmaking.“
Made-in-China EUV machine targets AI chip output by 2028 - Asia Times
China has reportedly built an extreme‑ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine inside a high‑security laboratory in Shenzhen
asiatimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:51 PM
„China has reportedly built an extreme‑ultraviolet (EUV) lithography machine inside a high‑security laboratory in Shenzhen, in what sources described as a nationally coordinated push to overcome the most tightly held chokepoint in advanced chipmaking.“
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Amazon is reportedly in talks to invest at least $10 billion in OpenAI — a few weeks after OpenAI committed to buying $38 billion worth of capacity from Amazon Web Services.
These circular deals are a bright red warning sign of a bubble. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wxBHxpMFXA
These circular deals are a bright red warning sign of a bubble. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wxBHxpMFXA
Brace Yourself for the AI Bubble
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
December 19, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Amazon is reportedly in talks to invest at least $10 billion in OpenAI — a few weeks after OpenAI committed to buying $38 billion worth of capacity from Amazon Web Services.
These circular deals are a bright red warning sign of a bubble. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wxBHxpMFXA
These circular deals are a bright red warning sign of a bubble. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wxBHxpMFXA
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„Thinking too much about how Trump is desecrating this or sleeping through that really can be “a distraction”—not in the he’s tricking the sheeple sense that a lot of Bluesky posters imply, but in the sense that it distracts us from the structural consequences and causes of what we are seeing.“
Taking America Private
The political-economic consequences of Mr. Trump
musgrave.substack.com
December 19, 2025 at 9:42 PM
„Thinking too much about how Trump is desecrating this or sleeping through that really can be “a distraction”—not in the he’s tricking the sheeple sense that a lot of Bluesky posters imply, but in the sense that it distracts us from the structural consequences and causes of what we are seeing.“
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"how can someone not at least find it interesting watching a whole planet shift geological ages in the blink of an eye?"
Hear, hear!
Hear, hear!
December 20, 2025 at 9:24 AM
"how can someone not at least find it interesting watching a whole planet shift geological ages in the blink of an eye?"
Hear, hear!
Hear, hear!
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Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
December 19, 2025 at 5:20 PM
Closing out my year with a journal editor shocker 🧵
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
Checking new manuscripts today I reviewed a paper attributing 2 papers to me I did not write. A daft thing for an author to do of course. But intrigued I web searched up one of the titles and that's when it got real weird...
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Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Australia, the UK and Israel have committed to the US-proposed Pax Silica strategic initiative “to build a secure, prosperous, and innovation-driven silicon supply chain.
Pax Silica binds US allies in tech bloc tackling China - Asia Times
Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Australia, the UK and Israel have committed to the US-proposed Pax Silica strategic initiative “to build a secure,
asiatimes.com
December 19, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Australia, the UK and Israel have committed to the US-proposed Pax Silica strategic initiative “to build a secure, prosperous, and innovation-driven silicon supply chain.
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Korea unveiled an ambitious plan Wednesday to invest $534 billion to bolster its semiconductor sector and gain an edge in the global chip race shaped by artificial intelligence (AI), aiming at a more balanced, innovation-driven ecosystem spanning the entire semiconductor value chain.
Korea unveils $534 bil. plan to lead global chip race in AI era - The Korea Times
Korea unveiled an ambitious plan Wednesday to invest 700 trillion won ($534 billion) to bolster its semiconductor sector and gain an edge in the gl...
www.koreatimes.co.kr
December 10, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Korea unveiled an ambitious plan Wednesday to invest $534 billion to bolster its semiconductor sector and gain an edge in the global chip race shaped by artificial intelligence (AI), aiming at a more balanced, innovation-driven ecosystem spanning the entire semiconductor value chain.
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"According to Foxglove, the new demand would be comparable to two to three times the capacity of the 1180MW Peterhead gas power station....and the total generation capacity of all of Scotland’s offshore wind turbines in 2024, which stood at 2971MW"
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/plan...
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/plan...
Planned hyperscale data centers in Scotland could demand 2-3GW of power - report
Just under Scotland's winter peak demand of 4GW
www.datacenterdynamics.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:23 AM
"According to Foxglove, the new demand would be comparable to two to three times the capacity of the 1180MW Peterhead gas power station....and the total generation capacity of all of Scotland’s offshore wind turbines in 2024, which stood at 2971MW"
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/plan...
www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/plan...
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Netflix is planning to buy Warner Bros for $72 billion, allowing it to acquire its major competitor HBO Max.
This corporate monopoly will be great for Netflix’s executives and a raw deal for everyone else.
Lina Khan explains the danger of corporate concentration.
This corporate monopoly will be great for Netflix’s executives and a raw deal for everyone else.
Lina Khan explains the danger of corporate concentration.
The Illusion of Choice: How Big Business Controls Your Life (ft. Lina Khan)
Robert Reich
www.youtube.com
December 5, 2025 at 11:14 PM
Netflix is planning to buy Warner Bros for $72 billion, allowing it to acquire its major competitor HBO Max.
This corporate monopoly will be great for Netflix’s executives and a raw deal for everyone else.
Lina Khan explains the danger of corporate concentration.
This corporate monopoly will be great for Netflix’s executives and a raw deal for everyone else.
Lina Khan explains the danger of corporate concentration.
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The top-10 carmakers by market cap make up 75% of global passenger car sales.
Tesla makes up less than 2%.
The Tesla bubble will be widely documented in history books.
Tesla makes up less than 2%.
The Tesla bubble will be widely documented in history books.
December 4, 2025 at 2:27 PM
The top-10 carmakers by market cap make up 75% of global passenger car sales.
Tesla makes up less than 2%.
The Tesla bubble will be widely documented in history books.
Tesla makes up less than 2%.
The Tesla bubble will be widely documented in history books.
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Irgendein Produkt von Palantir in Deutschland auf Landes- oder Bundesebene einzusetzen, ist fahrlässig und ein gewaltiger Fehler. Wie man es auch dreht wendet, am Ende überwiegen die Nachteile und Risiken sehr deutlich—die Entscheidung der öffentlichen Hand muss klar dagegen sein.
December 4, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Irgendein Produkt von Palantir in Deutschland auf Landes- oder Bundesebene einzusetzen, ist fahrlässig und ein gewaltiger Fehler. Wie man es auch dreht wendet, am Ende überwiegen die Nachteile und Risiken sehr deutlich—die Entscheidung der öffentlichen Hand muss klar dagegen sein.
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„Key demands from Big Tech firms and their affiliated lobby associations to water down the AI Act and weaken data protection made it into the Commission’s proposals;
Big Tech weaponised the Trump administration to attack the EU’s digital rulebook“
Big Tech weaponised the Trump administration to attack the EU’s digital rulebook“
I Challenge Thee
corporateeurope.org
November 19, 2025 at 8:02 PM
„Key demands from Big Tech firms and their affiliated lobby associations to water down the AI Act and weaken data protection made it into the Commission’s proposals;
Big Tech weaponised the Trump administration to attack the EU’s digital rulebook“
Big Tech weaponised the Trump administration to attack the EU’s digital rulebook“
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Sollte das jetzt nicht alle jene entgültig zum Schweigen bringen, die sich unerhörte Mühe damit geben, in deutschen Medien den trumpschen Faschismus zu verharmlosen und wegreden zu wollen.
November 20, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Sollte das jetzt nicht alle jene entgültig zum Schweigen bringen, die sich unerhörte Mühe damit geben, in deutschen Medien den trumpschen Faschismus zu verharmlosen und wegreden zu wollen.
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Not that EVs are at all a solution for climate change, but now SoftBank is putting $3b to remodel an EV factory to begin manufacturing parts for data centers.
www.theinformation.com/articles/sof...
www.theinformation.com/articles/sof...
SoftBank to Invest Up to $3 Billion in Factory for OpenAI Data Centers
SoftBank plans to invest up to $3 billion to remodel an electric vehicle plant in Lordstown, Ohio, that will produce equipment for OpenAI’s forthcoming data centers, according to two people with knowl...
www.theinformation.com
November 20, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Not that EVs are at all a solution for climate change, but now SoftBank is putting $3b to remodel an EV factory to begin manufacturing parts for data centers.
www.theinformation.com/articles/sof...
www.theinformation.com/articles/sof...
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OpenAI is huge in India. Its models are steeped in caste bias thelivinglib.org/openai-is-hu...
OpenAI is huge in India. Its models are steeped in caste bias.
Article by Nilesh Christopher: “When Dhiraj Singha began applying for postdoctoral sociology fellowships in Bengaluru, India, in March, he wanted to make sure the English in his application was pitch-...
thelivinglib.org
November 14, 2025 at 8:09 AM
OpenAI is huge in India. Its models are steeped in caste bias thelivinglib.org/openai-is-hu...
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Starting in 2026, startups seeking government-backed innovation programs will need to demonstrate compliance with worker welfare standards, including active participation in Korea’s retirement pension system koreatechdesk.com/korea-startu...
Korea Links Startup Policy to Worker Welfare: New ESG Standard for Innovation - KoreaTechDesk | Korean Startup and Technology News
Korea ties startup funding to employee welfare, setting a new ESG benchmark that reshapes innovation policy and investor confidence in Asia’s tech ecosystem.
koreatechdesk.com
November 10, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Starting in 2026, startups seeking government-backed innovation programs will need to demonstrate compliance with worker welfare standards, including active participation in Korea’s retirement pension system koreatechdesk.com/korea-startu...
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A horrific mass murder is unfolding in Sudan, where no one can see it. The RSF are murdering civilians in El Fasher, having finally defeated the Sudanese army forces holding out in the city. The BBC has managed to speak to some who escaped
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7fC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7fC...
Sudanese survivors of el-Fasher siege tell the BBC about RSF brutality | BBC News
YouTube video by BBC News
www.youtube.com
November 1, 2025 at 7:14 AM
A horrific mass murder is unfolding in Sudan, where no one can see it. The RSF are murdering civilians in El Fasher, having finally defeated the Sudanese army forces holding out in the city. The BBC has managed to speak to some who escaped
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7fC...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7fC...