Tricia Wang

Super grateful to @jeffjohnroberts.bsky.social for edits and Michael Casey @michaeljcasey.bsky.social for encouraging me to get it out asap

thanks to @tcpuente.bsky.social for early read and The Op Ed Project for the community.

Home - DAIS The Decentralized AI Society The Operating System for Humanity The Decentralized AI Society (DAIS) brings together the leading players in […]

21/ Also if you’re working in the space of decentralization - ESPECIALLY DECENTRALIZED AI, please reach out to me - I just joined the Decentralized AI Society (DAIS) as a senior advisor to work with the team on creating a future where DeAI enables agency dais.global

20/ Any other other writers, books, or pieces that capture the fusion of Big Tech and state power?

#TriciaWang #Technofascism #Centralization #Decentralization #BigTech #TechPolicy #DigitalRights #Blockchain #ElonMusk #Trump #Power #Control #OpEd #bigstate #biggovernment #biggov #technocracy

How Governments Spy On Protestors—And How To Avoid It

19/ @wired.com covers the intersection of #bigtech #bigstate

such as
www.wired.com/video/watch/...

Boston Police Bought Spy Tech With a Pot of Money Hidden From the Public Massachusetts police can seize and keep money from drug-related arrests. No one has publicly reported how that money gets spent. A WBUR/ProPublica investigation found that Boston police used over $600...

18/ @propublica.org has solid coverage of this topic - such as the piece on the Boston police or machine bias in the seminal report on court software www.propublica.org/article/bost...
www.propublica.org/article/mach...

Applied for Student Aid Online? Facebook Saw You – The Markup The FAFSA form included code that sent personal information back to Facebook

17/ @themarkup.org Consistently covers technofascist transgressions. Start with this piece by @suryamattu.com & Colin Lecher on how the U.S. Dept of Edu. FSA inserted Meta Pixel tracking code onto the student aid application site themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2...

ICE Just Paid Palantir Tens of Millions for ‘Complete Target Analysis of Known Populations’ The records show that Palantir is actively working on the technical infrastructure underpinning the Trump administration’s mass deportation efforts which could soon impact U.S. citizens.

16/ All the writing from @josephcox.bsky.social on @404media.co starting with www.404media.co/ice-just-pai...

15/ @frankpasquale.bsky.social's The Black Box Society and on "algorithmic governance," addresses how opaque computational systems gives power to corporations and the state
www.lawschool.cornell.edu/faculty-rese...

Evgeny Morozov

14/ @evgenymorozov.bsky.social's To Save Everything, Click Here and The Net Delusion - proudly grumpy critic of techno-utopianism, exploring how internet technologies are often used for state control, surveillance, and can undermine democratic processes evgenymorozov.net

Automating Inequality “This book is downright scary — but with its striking research and moving, indelible portraits of life in the ‘digital poorhouse,’ you will emerge smarter and more empowered…

13/ Virginia Eubank's Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor - Solid reporting on Big Tech/gov surveillance (like Palantir's work with ICE)
virginia-eubanks.com/automating-i...

Shoshana Zuboff: ‘Surveillance capitalism is an assault on human autonomy’ What began as advertising is now a threat to freedom and democracy argues the author and scholar. Time to wake up - and fight for a different digital future

12/ Shoshana Zuboff's Surveillance Capitalism - a classic www.theguardian.com/books/2019/o...

‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s

11/ Here are recommended readings on technofascism:

Everything by @beccalew starting with her latest piece in the @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

10/ I've made a technofascist Bluesky list of writers addressing Big Tech fusing with the state? @beccalew.bsky.social @josephcox.bsky.social @evgenymorozov.bsky.social @frankpasquale.bsky.social @josephcox.bsky.social @404media.co

Anyone else to add from Bluesky?
bsky.app/profile/hitr...

Technofascism is here. We have one way out Big Tech has taken control of our democracy. The answer is to build decentralized platforms these companies can't control.

9/ We've fought centralized power before (like dismantling theocracies!). Now, we must fight #Technofascism by actively building & using decentralized systems. Understand the fight & join in: fortune.com/crypto/2025/...

8/ Platforms like @bsky.social (Bluesky itself!), tools like @signal.org & the growth of blockchain networks are vital parts of this. We must build and use alternatives free from single points of failure or control.

7/ The only viable path to counter this? DECENTRALIZATION. Building systems where power is distributed, not concentrated. Where YOU control your data & connections.

6/ Today, we see figures like Trump challenging norms, enabled by concentrated power. This isn't just politics; it's the same #Centralization crisis. The game isn't just rigged, it's being rewritten.

5/ How'd we get here? Post-9/11 surveillance expansion through the Patriot Act, tech becoming gov infrastructure (Amazon/Google/MSFT cloud), regulatory capture by tech giants.

4/ This fusion is creating something chilling: #Technofascism. Control justified by black-boxed algorithms & platforms wielded by a powerful few. It mirrors history's authoritarian systems, but uses data power. You see symptoms everywhere: censorship, data misuse, infra control by single points.

3/ But this isn't just an "Elon problem" or about one administration (like Trump's) leveraging power. It's a CENTRALIZATION crisis. Big Tech monopolies & the state are fusing into a single ruling force.

2/ The real battleground for government control? It's deep inside federal databases. You see figures like Elon Musk at the center, connected to critical systems like the Treasury's payment network.

Technofascism is here. We have one way out Big Tech has taken control of our democracy. The answer is to build decentralized platforms these companies can't control.

1/ My op-ed on #Technofascism & the danger of centralized tech power is out in @FortuneMagazine. (Paywall, but you get a few free articles)

Key points for you. 👇 fortune.com/crypto/2025/...

‘Not Like Us’ by Kendrick Lamar wins Best Music Video at the 2025 #GRAMMYs.

“Record labels need to treat their artists as valuable employees with a livable wage and health insurance and protection. Labels, we got you — but do you got us?”

— Chappell Roan demanding labels to do better during her #GRAMMYs acceptance speech.

Donate to Support 15-year-old Alena's Journey at LLU Medical School, organized by Daphne McQuarter Support 15-year-old Alena's Journey in her Ph.D. & Medical Re… Daphne McQuarter needs your support for Support 15-year-old Alena's Journey at LLU Medical School

This UNBELIEVABLE 15-year-old with college and masters degrees is in medical school working on a doctorate,,, but federal funding has cut off her research and scholarships.

We NEED more doctors,,, especially little black and brown girls to grow up believing they can be anything.

gofund.me/1549247a

Secession. What they're describing is secession.

www.wired.com/story/startu...

a man wearing a beanie and a necklace says " decentralized " in front of a blue background ALT: a man wearing a beanie and a necklace says " decentralized " in front of a blue background

I'm officially here after, done mourning loss of twitter.

Bluesky kinda feels like old days of twitter! But actually decentralized into the stack....

"[computational engines] were prefigured on the plantation; as tech to control enslaved people. Issues like worker surveillance, workplace automation, and the computationally mediated restructuring of employment as gig work—echo the way that [this] thinking historically emerges as a mode of control"

“The vulnerable mind fits ambiguous information to its own preconceptions and expectations”