Tekendra Parmar

The U.S. is now blocking visas for people who fight misinformation The government says fact-checkers and content moderators are 'censors'—and Big Tech isn’t saying a word.

For @fastcompany.com I wrote about Big Tech's faustian bargain with the Trump administration: Endanger trust and safety workers in exchange for the might of the administration to help you tackle loathsome foreign regulators: www.fastcompany.com/91459921/vis...

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Spain, Ireland and Netherlands to boycott Eurovision after Israel retains place Major European nations pull out of song contest after calling for country’s exclusion over conduct of war in Gaza

Russia was removed from Eurovision in 2022 over its invasion of Ukraine, but Israel is still allowed to compete despite being an apartheid state committing a genocide in Gaza.

Good on Spain, Ireland, and the Netherlands. I’m sure they won’t be the last to announce a boycott.

"Suspected drug smugglers" is doing a lot of work here

Meta victory reveals cracks in antitrust enforcement If Meta’s not a monopoly, the ruling gives every other tech giant a green light to become one.

"If competition from TikTok and YouTube are enough to suggest that Meta’s products aren’t monopolistic, it says more about the limits of antitrust laws than it does Meta’s monopolistic nature," writes @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social.

Who says we don't need civics education in this country?

Videos of Charlie Kirk’s Murder Are Still on Social Media — and That’s No Accident Politicians demanding the removal of videos of Kirk’s killing pushed tech companies to gut the very systems they now expect to protect them.

I wrote about it for @theintercept.com theintercept.com/2025/09/24/c...

🚨 Republicans advocated for dismantling content moderation — now they’re shocked it won’t protect them. Graphic videos of Charlie Kirk’s assassination are still all over social media. For years, the right demanded platforms scale back enforcement. This is what that looks like.

Becoming increasingly clear we’re gonna have to build a parallel infrastructure for all the media we really love. The reason all of this is happening under the color of law is hyperconsolidation, dissent being traded straight up for merger approval, or fear of harassment.

Was unfortunately fired for expressing my unbridled glee after hearing about the public execution of Benito Mussolini, the un-tragic demise of Moammar Gadhafi, and of course, the self-inflicted gunshot wound that took out Hitler in the bunker.

Charlie Kirk’s killing was a tragedy. But we must not rewrite his life | Moira Donegan In the wake of horror, honest accountings of his life have not only become rare – they have also become dangerous

I wrote a column responding to Ezra Klein’s eulogy for Charlie Kirk, and argued that democracy depends not just on civil disagreement, but on the civic equality that Kirk passionately opposed.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Two students shot at a Denver-area high school, per CNN.

Police disable safety features in AI crime tools Departments are turning off Axon’s A.I. safeguards in software that auto generates reports from body-cam footage, raising accountability concerns.

Great reporting from @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social reveals how police departments regularly deactivate safeguards meant to prevent bias and increase oversight of an AI tool designed to generate police reports.

www.compiler.news/axion-ai-bod...

Great reporting from @tekendra-parmar.bsky.social that reveals a troubling trend among police departments beginning to use AI that connects to body cameras.

A major undiscussed recession indicator: the number of people throwing hot dog themed parties

Government documents show police disabling AI oversight tools Departments aren't reviewing or disclosing AI-written police reports—which are now being used in plea deals.

🚨 SCOOP🚨: Records obtained by Mother Jones almost uniformly show police departments are deactivating safeguards meant to prevent AI bias while making it difficult or impossible to audit which police reports were generated by AI.

@tekendra-parmar.bsky.social reports:

Today, in being the family fact-checker.

Good news everyone! My I-485 was approved and I'm getting my green card in three weeks. No intermediary EAD cards and advanced parole it seems!

Yep... It's really "the world" that's in the way of Gazans getting food. Not the systemic use of starvation on a population by a regime propped up by our government.

What If AI Goes Rogue? This Startup Wants to Write the Insurance Policy With hallucinating chatbots, deepfakes, and algorithmic accidents on the rise, AIUC says the solution to building safer models is pricing the risks.

Read more about it from me on @inc.com www.inc.com/tekendra-par...

It’s a small team with big ambitions. Enterprise AI adoption is projected to hit $500B in the next 5 years.

Whether this model scales or not, it reflects a growing push to formalize responsibility as AI moves into the mainstream.

The idea: insurance markets can help quantify and manage AI risk more quickly than regulation can. One example? A retailer insuring against chatbot errors in its returns policy.

AIUC was founded by an early Anthropic employee, a McKinsey insurance partner, and a Thiel Fellow. Backers include Nat Friedman, Emergence, and Anthropic alums.

They’re creating independent safety standards—and insurance policies for AI deployments.

A new startup wants to insure against AI risk—from hallucinating chatbots to deepfakes.

It’s called AIUC, and it just raised $15M to underwrite companies deploying advanced AI systems.🧵

Why This Startup Is Building a $50 Million Computer Quantum computing startup Infleqtion has big plans for a facility in Chicago.

Read more about it from me at @inc.com www.inc.com/tekendra-par...

Infleqtion’s move is part of a much bigger shift. Chicago’s not just playing catch-up—it wants to lead.

Gokhale puts it plainly: “Cities that follow suit will gain a strategic edge in the next technological era.”

It’s not just lab coats and theory. This is serious hardware buildout: cooling centers, research labs, chip-processing facilities.

And yes—dozens of new jobs across engineering, ops, research, and commercialization.

The new site sits inside the Illinois Quantum and Microelectronics Park, a 128-acre project unveiled in 2024 by Gov. J.B. Pritzker to attract high-tech manufacturing and R&D.

Think: IBM, DARPA, PsiQuantum, and now Infleqtion all in one place.

Infleqtion, a $700M Colorado-based startup, will headquarter its quantum ops in Chicago.

Their tech? Neutral atom quantum computers—where lasers arrange and manipulate individual atoms to run calculations beyond what normal computers can handle.

🚨 A quantum startup is building a $50M computer on the site of a shuttered steel mill in Chicago.

This is about more than one company—it’s the start of a $9B industrial bet to turn Illinois into the heart of quantum tech.🧵