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Actually, the left is winning the AI debate
But it does need to get organized.
Feb 26
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Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras
Anger over ICE connections and privacy violations is fueling the sabotage. PLUS: 10,000 drivers call on Uber to repay stolen wages, a man is arrested at…
Feb 20
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Five takeaways from an unhinged AI discourse
What's behind the feverish AI discourse? Who thinks "AI is fake"? Is "the left" wrong to dismiss AI? Is that even what's happening? What's really going…
Feb 18
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How to quit Spotify
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Across the US, people are dismantling and destroying Flock surveillance cameras
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The AI bubble is so big it's propping up the US economy (for now)
Aug 3, 2025
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The AI jobs crisis is here, now
May 2, 2025
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A $500 billion tech company's core software product is encouraging child suicide
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AI Killed My Job: Tech workers
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The tech oligarchs and their AI are taking over. Let's fight back.
Alright, I’m really doing this thing. Support Blood in the Machine and fearless independent tech journalism.
Feb 18, 2025
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The most aggressively anti-AI film of the ChatGPT era
Good Luck, Have Fun, Don't Die takes a big swing at AI. Does it connect?
Mar 1
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Google is stifling anti-ICE speech in the workplace as 1,200 employees call on the company to cut ties
The search giant has made it harder and riskier to protest its policies. Workers are still fighting back. Plus: A community takes down a data center…
Feb 12
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How Jeff Bezos and Amazon became instruments of authoritarianism
And how to stop them
Feb 6
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On the smokescreen of AGI, and fighting for workers in the age of Trump and the tech oligarchy
Plus, protestors demand Amazon ditch its ICE contracts on the national day of protest.
Jan 30
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The lines have been drawn
Silicon Valley must decide which side it's on
Jan 26
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What Trump really wants with AI
Trump's AI agenda is often described as a push for deregulation; an effort to cut red tape so AI companies can innovate. In truth, it's a big government…
Jan 23
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