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Alondra Nelson
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Scholar, author, policy advisor alondranelson.com Science, Technology, and Social Values Lab https://www.ias.edu/stsv-lab
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Sep 11
🧵 The summer of 2025 has been AI's "cruel summer"—wrongful deaths, dangerous therapy chatbots, medical misinformation, facial recognition failures. These aren't isolated glitches but predictable harms from systems deployed without adequate oversight. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
An ELSI for AI: Learning from genetics to govern algorithms
In the United States, the summer of 2025 will be remembered as artificial intelligence’s (AI’s) cruel summer—a season when the unheeded risks and dangers of AI became undeniably clear. Recent months h...
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Denise Oliver-Velez @deniseoliver-velez.bsky.social · 5h
This series is posted on Sundays, but I want to acknowledge that Saturday was the birthday of jazz drummer Art Blakey, who was born on Oct. 11, 1919
#BlackMusicSunday: Flowers for drumming legend Art Blakey
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Black Music Sunday: Flowers for drumming legend Art Blakey
� Black Music Sunday is a weekly series highlighting all things Black music, with over 280 stories covering performers, genres, history, and more, each featuring its own vibrant soundtrack. I hope ...
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 4h
Gift Link: on.ft.com/46PRI6F
America is now one big bet on AI
It’s seen as the magic fix for every threat to the US economy
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 5h
"But Mr. Douglas, an [African American]albino with fair skin, blue eyes and blond hair, was perhaps best remembered for a widely circulated photograph by Steve Schapiro in which he is the lone pale figure among a group of Black Americans walking arm in arm in the third and final march from Selma"
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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 5h
The Rev. Jesse L. Douglas Sr. organized the Selma-to-Montgomery marches www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
Jesse L. Douglas, Aide to King in Marches From Selma, Is Dead at 90
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Mara Gay @maragay.bsky.social · 5h
The Rev. Jesse L. Douglas Sr. organized the Selma-to-Montgomery marches www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...
Jesse L. Douglas, Aide to King in Marches From Selma, Is Dead at 90
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Daniel Kibblesmith @kibblesmith.com · 5h
Every democrat should be talking like this. Not the feckless mueller time version of this that we’ve had for years, but actual promises of actual consequences

As long as it goes unpunished we’ll never be free of this
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Graham Platner for Senate @grahamformaine.bsky.social · 6h
We have armed secret police kidnapping people off the street based on the color of their skin.

When we win: we will haul them before a Senate committee. The masks will come off. There will be consequences.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 5h
Great explanatory 🧵
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Abe Newman @abenewman.bsky.social · 2d
1/ New rare earth restrictions mark escalation in China’s weaponization of interdependence — adopting US extraterritorial permission structures. This is not just an export ban but regulated how global firms use Chinese equipment and material.
www.reuters.com/world/china/...
China expands rare earth restrictions, targets defence, semiconductor users
China tightened its rare earth export controls on Thursday, saying it planned to limit exports to overseas defence firms and semiconductor users and adding five rare earth elements to its list.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 5h
"Since the wealthiest 10 per cent of the population own 85 per cent of US stocks, they enjoy the largest wealth effect when they go up... the latest data shows America’s consumer economy rests largely on ...[the spending of the] top 10 per cent" #AI #irrationalexuberance www.ft.com/content/6cc8...
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John Palfrey @palfrey.org · 6h
"He quoted Hannah Arendt's 'The Origins of Totalitarianism' in asserting that the world needs free and objective information."

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Pope Leo calls for news agencies to stand as bulwark against "post-truths," lies and manipulation
Pope Leo XIV has encouraged international news agencies to stand firm as a bulwark against the "ancient art of lying" and manipulation.
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Ian Bogost 🍔 @ibogost.bsky.social · 21h
It’s almost like George Lakoff has been right for the last (checks watch) 29 years.
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Ify Nwadiwe @ifycomedy.com · 23h
I think we really should stop using antifa and just fully say anti-fascist and get them saying they are against anti fascism. Using antifa is giving them some distance and I genuinely think some of their base don’t even know that’s what it stands for.
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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 1d
CHICAGO: REBUILD is providing therapy to folks detained by ICE. Please feel free to let people know.

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Find Me A Therapist
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Carissa Véliz @carissaveliz.bsky.social · 1d
Very nice to see my TEDx Porto talk is out! How #privacy can save your life. For more on privacy, get the #book - Privacy Is Power. #AIEthics

www.youtube.com/watch?v=xSPR...
How privacy can save your life | Carissa Véliz | TEDxPorto
YouTube video by TEDx Talks
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Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 1d
Two people asked Grok if a particular video is AI. One response says it is AI, another says it isn’t.

Please don’t waste your time asking AI chatbots if something is AI.
Pale Sun @PaleSun • 3h Is this Al generated? @grok 38K ıll 5.9M X ill 15K Grok 7 X @grok 贝 X.com Yes, this video appears to be Al-generated. Visual artifacts, like the dog phasing through the fallen branch, and unnatural physics in the fall suggest it's synthetic, consistent with recent trends in fake CCTV clips. 10:12 AM • 10/11/25 • 2.8K Views Htrebreh Navy @Harvisnavy • 2h O Auto-translated by Grok Show original @grok is this video made with Al? • 4 ill 24K X 贝 Grok Y @grok X.com Ø Auto-translated by Grok Show original No, the video seems to be real. It's a security camera clip that captures a genuine incident where a tree branch falls near a couple walking their dog. It shows no obvious signs of Al generation, and there are verified reports of similar events. How lucky they were! Rate this translation: 11:44 AM • 10/11/25 • 5.5K Views
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 1d
Looking forward to joining Shoshana Zuboff and Cathy O'Neil this week at the Harvard Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights for a conversation on democratic resilience in the age of AI and tech power concentration.

Join us October 16, 5-6pm ET. You can register here: www.hks.harvard.edu/events/surve...
Social card for the event: Surveillance Capitalism, Power, and our Democratic Future Speakers and Presenters Alondra Nelson, Harold F. Linder Professor at the Institute for Advanced Study and architect of the "Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights."; Cathy O'Neil, Data Scientist and Author of Weapons of Math Destruction; Mathias Risse, Berthold Beitz Professor in Human Rights, Global Affairs and Philosophy and Director of the Carr-Ryan Center for Human Rights; Shoshana Zuboff, Charles Edward Wilson Professor Emeritus and Co-Director of the Human Rights and Technology Fellowship Date and Location October 16, 2025 5:00 PM - 6:00 PM ET Starr Auditorium
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 1d
On Thursday, I'll join Megan Molteni at the 2025 @statnews.com Summit for a fireside chat on the future of science, technology, and research policy--from AI governance to public trust, from access to human rights. And how to ensure science serves the public good. www.statnews.com/stat-summit-...
Thu Oct 16, 11:50 AM - 12:15 PM EDT (25 min) Staying Human in the Age of AI How do we build technologies in ways that expand opportunity, improve human life, and strengthen democracy? A wide-ranging interview that will span genomics, bioinformatics, artificial intelligence, and Silicon Valley’s growing influence on American sociopolitics. Speakers Alondra Nelson Former Deputy Assistant to President Joe Biden & Director White House Office of Science and Technology Policy Speaker Megan Molteni Science Writer STAT Moderator
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 1d
"the American people continue to be reliant on little more than insurers’ promises that they are not taking potential life-and-death decisions away from doctors and giving them to machines.”
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 1d
Top Democrat demands more detail from Medicare insurers about their use of AI www.statnews.com/2025/10/09/b... via @statnews.com
Top Democrat demands more detail from Medicare insurers about their use of AI
A key Democrat is asking top Medicare Advantage insurers about how they use artificial intelligence in decisions about medical care and coverage.
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Timothy McBride @mcbridetd.bsky.social · 1d
Biden Is Receiving Radiation Therapy for Cancer

Prayers for President Biden
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Biden Is Receiving Radiation Therapy for Cancer
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unraveled @unraveledpress.com · 1d
A group of hundreds of faith in coalition who started at a Maywood church just arrived at the detention center for a eucharistic procession.

They want to offer communion to detainees inside, but won't be able to get past the barricades and fence on Beach Street.
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 1d
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · Aug 28
Call for Papers!

"Technology and Inequality in Culture, Media, and the Arts"-a special issue of Poetics, coedited with @jticona.bsky.social + Angèle Christin

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Technology and Inequality in Culture, Media, and the Arts
Call for Papers Technology and Inequality in Culture, Media, and the ArtsA Special Issue of Poetics: Journal of Empirical Research on Culture, the Media and the Arts
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 1d
Wisdom from the great Saidiya Hartman artreview.com/the-intervie...
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 1d
"For centuries, we have named the vice in which we are held captive. The ? is whether others are willing to know what we know, whether the formations of knowledge and power that enabled this capture can be expected to produce something else-or whether we must rethink existence, world and Earth."
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Alondra Nelson @alondra.bsky.social · 1d
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Ryan J. Reilly “paints a vivid and urgent portrait of… disarray” @ryanjreilly.com · 1d
PORTLAND, Ore. — A small group of federal agents in camouflage and face masks watched from atop the immigration processing center Thursday night as a unicorn, peacock, dinosaur and raccoon danced to Cher’s “If I Could Turn Back Time.” www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...
Costumed protesters in Portland defy description of the city as a 'war zone'
Dancing frogs, peacocks and unicorns outside the federal immigration building present a joyful contrast to the Trump administration's portrait of the Oregon city, they say.
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Matterist Books @matteristbooks.bsky.social · 1d
Cool!
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Zora Neale Hurston’s Play Comes Alive for the First Time
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George Conway 👊🇺🇸🔥 @gtconway.bsky.social · 1d
@sanders.senate.gov: "No, Speaker Johnson, the #NoKings Rally on October 18th is not a 'hate America' rally. ... It’s a rally of millions of people who believe in American freedom and are not going to allow you and President Trump to turn us into an authoritarian country."
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Rich Raho @richraho.bsky.social · 1d
Coalition for Spirituality & Public Life host a Eucharistic Procession from St. Eulalia in Maywood to the ICE Detention Center in Broadview where there will be prayer & Communion. The Coalition will also try to bring Holy Communion to those detained in the facility, which is a right by Illinois law.
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Liz Neeley @lizneeley.bsky.social · 1d
The specifics of the RIFs I’ve seen in group chats have been staggering. Bracing & reminding myself these are specifically intended to cause fear & distress.

Please share URLs for any good trackers you seen as they emerge. (I want more than OMB’s version) fedscoop.com/trump-federa...
Table of how many federal employees have been laid off in the latest RIF (Reduction in Force). This is from an OMB legal filing from Oct 10. For each agency, it lists number of fired employees, RIF notice date, and whether the administrations has recalled any of those employees to do work. Total headcount is 4,100 across 8 agencies. Treasury (1446) and HHS (1200) are the most affected. EPA (30) had the fewest layoffs this time.
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