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Exclusive: AI could erase 100 million U.S. jobs, Senate Dem report finds A ChatGPT-based analysis from Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee found that AI could wipe out swaths of both white- and blue-collar jobs

With labor friends like these, who needs enemies?

"A ChatGPT-based analysis from Democrats on the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions Committee found that AI could wipe out swaths of both white- and blue-collar jobs."

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NEW: ICE agents violently arrested a man in a busy Hyattsville, MD intersection this week, at one point brandishing guns and pointing them at bystanders.

I spoke to multiple witnesses—including a local priest whose church is a sanctuary for undocumented people: www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-agents...

No, it's not just passing the same $100 billion back and forth...we generated $200 billion in GDP...

At UMich, CS students have been raiding the school of information offices for coffee/snacks and it has led to huge messes like someone pissing in a trash can and spilling coffee everywhere

So now facilities has implemented what SI grads lovingly refer to as martial law in order to reclaim our land

giving a talk on Fri on a panel led by @oddletters.bsky.social; I’ll talk about imperial ambitions in Silicon Valley’s 2001 conjuncture caught between the dot com crash and the post9/11 rise of the security state

I’m at 4s this week in Seattle! Would love to chat about marxisms in STS, political economy of tech, and techs role in racial capitalism if you’re here as well

Signal at @nathanckim18.49

Right it’s not like google is maintaining its monopoly by having a better search product or anything so sharing search data effectively does nothing to break up the monopoly

Judge Orders Google to Share Search Results to Help Resolve Monopoly

This Google decision appears to be a complete failure to break up its monopoly. It has to share *some* search data? Big deal. Plus it can still legally do search engine payola. And no Chrome sale.

A best possible outcome for Google, the same monopolized, enshittified internet for the rest of us.

in the cloud. straight up "deployng it". And by "it", haha , well. let's justr say. my kubernets

Nothing like good ‘ol Michigan football straight to the face

I worked at a USDA dairy lab the summer after high school and one of our primary research goals was finding uses for millions of tons of whey protein that was a byproduct of subsidized cheese production. This was when I first learned about the Missouri Cheese Caves

perhaps this is a criticism i only get in a so-called "school of information" where any real understanding of the world is traded for both a blind empiricism and a daily splurge of dime-a-dozen concepts, and announcing this to the world is the only naive aspect in this thread

3) it feels particularly wrong to say this about our *current* moment -- given it is clear not only that this is a product of many decades or centuries of violence (not a trivially bounded moment), but also because we ended up here because such analyses of prior conjunctures were absent

2) it's exactly in those conjunctures that we can make sense out of much longer running processes! those moments are where existing theories fail (at least from an initial read) to explain how we ended up in a specific moment, and for those reasons are rich in potential insights

1) ALL papers respond to particular historical moments and searching for a universal or timeless intervention is not only narrow minded but also dishonest about what any given project does

inviting thoughts: i think criticizing a paper for situating itself within a particular historical moment as limiting its accessibility and longetivity is absurd. We exist in historical moments, people --

another fan of @long-haul-mag.bsky.social

Congrats to @davidthewid.bsky.social and @nathanckim.bsky.social on this must-read report on how #bigcloud is entrenching power off the AI gold rush #AI&MarketPowerFellowship

New study by @nathanckim.bsky.social and @davidthewid.bsky.social on cloud investments of the Big Three.

Police have set up a checkpoint and appear to be stopping every single car on 14th st NW, between W+V, here in northwest DC. Some cars are being pulled over after being stopped.

Some police are wearing “HSI police” vests (Homeland Security Investigations)

‘Big Cloud’ is Building Power via Pervasive Investments | TechPolicy.Press Dependence on Big Cloud is not just technical or infrastructural: it is also financial, write Nathan Kim and David Gray Widder.

"Dependence on Big Cloud is not just technical or infrastructural: it is also financial, as a source of investment. This then compounds the need for structural separation:

@nathanckim.bsky.social & @davidthewid.bsky.social

www.techpolicy.press/big-cloud-is...

🔥new report from David and Nathan. Big VC is a small part of the AI gold rush compared with the cloud investments from hyperscalers.

this is a must-read for anyone interested in learning about how cloud infrastructure is captured by big tech

cloud colonialism indeed

@davidthewid.bsky.social, postdoctoral fellow at Cornell Tech, released a new report on how “Big Cloud” companies — Google, Microsoft, and Amazon — are quietly reshaping the tech ecosystem through strategic investments.

Read the full report here: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

Banger

Thanks to @maxvonthun.bsky.social, who we also learned a lot from in the course of writing this report :)

See more in David's thread about our report >>> bsky.app/profile/davi...

Piece by me and @davidthewid.bsky.social out now in @techpolicypress.bsky.social describing our recent report's analysis and implications for both critics and competition regulators!

Donald Trump Is Mostly a Crypto Billionaire Now, Group Says Traditional business ventures now make up less than half of Donald Trump’s wealth compared to crypto, says a new analysis from Accountable.US.

73% of Trump’s $15.9 billion fortune comes from crypto schemes he advanced while in office.

He gutted health care and SNAP, then pushed laws to boost his own shady crypto empire.

Corruption in plain sight. theintercept.com/2025/08/09/t...