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For the people AI leaves behind. A multidimensional, community-based effort to strengthen local justice movements + build long-term power. Launched 11/19/24. Founder: @kevindeliban.bsky.social Launch report: www.techtonicjustice.org/reports/inescapable-ai

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Together we can #DoRightByOurPeople and fight to #EndAIDecisionMaking - because this tech oligarchy is not going to wear us out, they’re not going to outwork us, we’re not going away, we’re smarter than you, and we’re coming for you! (4/4)
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30.07.2025 20:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Inescapable AI — TechTonic Justice

Read & share our #InescapableAI Report, to learn more about how AI decision-making impacts our ability to survive & send us a message to lead a training in your community, so that together we can do right by our people! (3/4)
www.techtonicjustice.org/reports/ines...

30.07.2025 20:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

#TechTonicJustice stands against #MedicaidCuts and continues the fight to hold our government accountable to ensure that people who need public benefits that provide lifesaving care, can access them WITHOUT the interference of algorithmic decision-making models. (2/4)

30.07.2025 20:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

#Medicaid & #Medicare turn 60 today, weeks after Trump’s Reconciliation Bill cut $1,000,000,000,000 from federal healthcare spending - defunding Medicaid and cutting health care for around 17 million people. On top of Medicaid access being continuously threatened by life-altering AI decisions. (1/4)

30.07.2025 20:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Tips For Identifying AI Use — TechTonic Justice

Check out our Tips for Identifying AI Use! Share with your friends and family! If you suspect that AI made a decision about you, reach out to us, our DM’s are always open! #ThanksToTheADA #TechTonicJustice
www.techtonicjustice.org/resources/ti...

26.07.2025 15:20 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

We are confronting the obstacles of accessibility in the technological age and fighting against the algorithms that impact how historically marginalized communities survive.
But we need your help to identify and fight AI that harms access to work, housing, benefits, school, and family safety.

26.07.2025 15:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Rage Against The Algorithm As Trump leans into AI, automated systems are already ruining lives. A new organization is out to stop it.

This victory was one of the first in the world against government use of AI and laid the roadmap for our work at TechTonic Justice today.
www.levernews.com/rage-against...

26.07.2025 15:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

But when the state replaced nurses’ professional judgement with an algorithm-based system for determining home-care eligibility, people faced drastic cuts to their benefits leading to disastrous impacts to their health and dignity.

26.07.2025 15:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

During his time at Legal Aid of Arkansas, our founder @kevindeliban.bsky.social, faced his first AI-related battle that involved Arkansas’ Medicaid program which provided in-home caregiving services to disabled people who would otherwise have to live in nursing facilities.

26.07.2025 15:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Today is the 35th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), without it, people with disabilities would not have equal access in all areas of public life. In 2025, the fight for accessibility is disrupted by the invisible hand of AI decisions. This is why TechTonic Justice was born.

26.07.2025 15:20 — 👍 10    🔁 4    💬 1    📌 0

@fightforthefuture.org @localprogress.bsky.social @mediajustice.bsky.social @nelp.org @openmicmedia.bsky.social @powerswitchaction.org @publiccitizen.bsky.social @techworkerscoalition.org @upturn.org

24.07.2025 22:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@ainowinstitute.bsky.social @aaup.org @aft.org @amzn4climate.bsky.social @athenaforall.bsky.social @aiainetwork.bsky.social @biologicaldiversity.org @datasociety.bsky.social @demandprogress.bsky.social @dredf.bsky.social @dairinstitute.bsky.social @epic.org @economicsecurityproject.org

24.07.2025 22:51 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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People's AI Action Plan

The advancement of AI must deliver first and foremost for the people; we can't afford to let Big Tech and Big Oil lobbyists write the rules. That's why we need a People’s AI Action Plan that puts the needs of everyday Americans over corporate profits. peoplesaiaction.com

24.07.2025 22:51 — 👍 7    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0
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Operations Manager TechTonic Justice is now hiring for the position of Operations Manager in Los Angeles. Apply today.

Operations Manager ($90K-$120K / July 1 deadline). We want someone with 7+ years of experience to help us manage all the key parts of running the organization (with support from outside accountants and lawyers): finances, HR, board relations, policies, etc. More info and application instructions:

16.06.2025 21:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Experienced Attorney (5+ years in high-volume legal aid) TechTonic Justice is now hiring for the position of Experienced Attorney (5+ years in high-volume legal aid) in Los Angeles. Apply today.

Experienced Attorney ($95K-$125K / July 1 deadline). We’re looking for someone with 5+ years of experience in a high-volume, civil legal aid setting to build out our ability to train, provide strategic support, and, eventually, litigate. More info and application instructions:

16.06.2025 21:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Digital Content Creator Intern (15 hours + $350 per week / Deadline Friday)! For someone passionate about digital storytelling, analytics, and building online content! This is a chance to gain hands-on experience in a startup environment at the intersection of tech + economic justice. Apply:

16.06.2025 21:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Reminder that we have three openings now: one paid, part-time internship for a Digital Content Creator (deadline this Friday) and two permanent full-time positions for an Experienced Attorney and Operations Manager (deadline 7/1). Details in thread.

16.06.2025 21:02 — 👍 6    🔁 6    💬 1    📌 1

AI is central to the conservative agenda to destroy government capacity and public benefit programs, but its role is hidden. Here, we’ve got destructive policy being justified by the deluded notion that AI and related technology will make it less inaccurate and harmful.

13.06.2025 18:19 — 👍 8    🔁 7    💬 1    📌 2
TechTonic Justice: New York Times and New Jobs

Our latest newsletter has 3 job announcements (attorney, ops manager, paid social media intern) + updates. Get the latest on presentations, a NYTimes OpEd, a Tech Policy Press essay, + the reconciliation bill pending in the U.S. Senate that will snatch health care + food from tens of millions of ppl

11.06.2025 19:20 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Come join us TODAY (Tuesday) at 12:30 pacific / 3:30 eastern to talk about AI and the ways people with power--government officials, landlords, employers, and others--use it in ways that harm low-income people and how TechTonic Justice is fighting back. Register here: us02web.zoom.us/.../reg.../W...

10.06.2025 15:52 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1

AI is the most destructive way for conservatives to cut Medicaid + other benefit programs. Now, it’ll play a role in the effort to impose requirements on Medicaid recipients to report work or lose insurance. We cover that within a bigger-picture look at these termination traps in this NYT OpEd.

08.06.2025 18:25 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

This great series of essays explains this moment of collusion between Big Tech + authoritarian forces that threatens democracy. Our president @kevindeliban.bsky.social’s essay is the fourth in the thread + explains how AI is stripping people of the stability needed to participate in democracy.

06.06.2025 21:14 — 👍 9    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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Why are Tech Oligarchs So Obsessed with Energy and What Does That Mean for Democracy? | TechPolicy.Press Promises of abundance contrast with the real environmental impact of AI infrastructure, writes Data & Society's Tamara Kneese.

Two new entries in the series org'zed by @techpolicypress.bsky.social + @datasociety.bsky.social on tech power + democratic crisis.

Tamara Kneese (@tamigraph.bsky.social) on energy demands:

www.techpolicy.press/why-are-tech...

Reem Suleiman on data misuse: www.techpolicy.press/public-secto...

05.06.2025 16:12 — 👍 12    🔁 6    💬 0    📌 1
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Austerity Intelligence | TechPolicy.Press Kevin De Liban says AI, pushed by Big Tech and the Trump administration, threatens democracy by deepening inequality and undermining public participation.

How does democracy exist when AI makes life too unstable + too poor to participate in it?

TTJ prez @kevindeliban.bsky.social lays out the case + the answers in this essay, one entry in a series coordinated by @techpolicypress.bsky.social + @datasociety.bsky.social on tech’s threats to democracy.

04.06.2025 21:46 — 👍 17    🔁 7    💬 0    📌 0
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Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: SpitfireU: When Algorithms Decide: Combatting AI Harms. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. AI is making life-altering decisions often without people knowing. From housing to healthcare, education to second chances, AI can reinforce inequality when it gets it wrong, with the greatest harm fa...

Join us for a conversation on combatting the harms of AI that we're hosting on June 10 with our friends at Spitfire Strategies. We'll talk about how governments, employers, + others use AI to make high-stakes decisions about people’s lives + what we can do to fight back. Bring a friend!

02.06.2025 21:14 — 👍 5    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you so much for tuning in and these kind words! Hope it rallies folks who feel like us and challenges people who don't (yet).

30.05.2025 18:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Rectangular artwork with a yellow background and black text that says, "AI Failure: Injustice, Inequality, and Algorithms." The text lists the event time as 1 pm eastern time on Friday, May 30. The artwork also features a picture of a smiling white man with glasses named Kevin De Liban.

Rectangular artwork with a yellow background and black text that says, "AI Failure: Injustice, Inequality, and Algorithms." The text lists the event time as 1 pm eastern time on Friday, May 30. The artwork also features a picture of a smiling white man with glasses named Kevin De Liban.

Happening one hour from now (10 am PT / 1 pm ET)! Join live to help me get the word out on the dangers of AI, especially for low-income communities. Let us know you're there with comments + questions. Two ways to join:

CXOTalk page: www.cxotalk.com/episode/ai-f...

LinkedIn event: lnkd.in/gqB5i_nN

30.05.2025 16:11 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

In this article on the pending budget bill, TTJ prez @kevindeliban.bsky.social: "The House Republican proposal is stealing from poor people to give huge handouts to Big Tech to build technology that is going to perpetuate the president’s authoritarian plans + crackdowns against vulnerable people.”

29.05.2025 22:03 — 👍 3    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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AI FAILURE: Injustice, Inequality, and Algorithms | CXOTalk Discover why AI decision-making is catastrophically failing vulnerable populations and the implications for your organization. Learn how to prevent AI disasters through accountability, on CXOTalk epis...

There's no registration there, just a link to add it to your calendar for the live broadcast: www.cxotalk.com/episode/ai-f...

Or, you can do it through LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/events/73331...

29.05.2025 15:48 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Rectangular artwork with a dark red background and white text that says, "AI Failure: Injustice, Inequality, and Algorithms." The text lists the event time as 1 pm eastern time on Friday, May 30. The artwork also features a picture of a smiling white man with glasses named Kevin De Liban.

Rectangular artwork with a dark red background and white text that says, "AI Failure: Injustice, Inequality, and Algorithms." The text lists the event time as 1 pm eastern time on Friday, May 30. The artwork also features a picture of a smiling white man with glasses named Kevin De Liban.

Asking folks who care about AI/tech injustice to show up for Kevin's hour-long appearance this Friday at 1 pm ET on the #CXOTalk podcast. We'll focus on the shocking scale of AI failures, particularly for low-income people.

Join the event + add it to your calendar: www.cxotalk.com/episode/ai-f...

29.05.2025 15:36 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 1

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