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Alex Pasternack ♼ pasternack.bsky.app

@pasternack

~ still human in the strange loop •writer /editor /producer # presents futures º contributing ed Fast Company ⟴ founding ed Motherboard; cofounder Bandwagon

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calendar_today02-09-2008 20:07:33

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This is wild. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years. from Четыреста Четыре

This is wild. Republicans have inserted language into the budget reconciliation bill that would ban states from regulating AI in any capacity for 10 years.  

from <a href="/404media/">Четыреста Четыре</a>
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Trump’s EPA has a new new mission: making the U.S. the capital for AI and reviving the auto industry. “They’re doing all this under the guise of efficiency, but what they really are doing is dismantling this agency from doing its job,” one staffer told me. theintercept.com/2025/05/13/tru…

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Cuts to cyber at the federal level are putting states at greater risk New York’s cyber czar Colin Ahern spoke w/ me about the value of federal programs, his hopes for a US Cyber Force, and how tariffs threaten NY’s big AI ambitions: fastcompany.com/91330572/new-y…

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'One of the most common scams seen by banks involves the sale of pets, despite Meta’s rules banning “peer-to-peer sales or trade” of live animals outside of narrow contexts...' wsj.com/tech/meta-frau…

Alec MacGillis (@alecmacgillis) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This piece on what it's like being an Uber driver at LAX is so bleak. If only there was some system where drivers would wait in a line and people would come out and get in the cars and pay them for the ride. Maybe the cars could be yellow.

This piece on what it's like being an Uber driver at LAX is so bleak. If only there was some system where drivers would wait in a line and people would come out and get in the cars and pay them for the ride. Maybe the cars could be yellow.
Michael Arrington 🏴‍☠️ (@arrington) 's Twitter Profile Photo

I am a long time investor in and champion of Coinbase 🛡️. Something that has to be said though - this hack - which includes home addresses and account balances - will lead to people dying. It probably has already. The human cost, denominated in misery, is much larger than the $400m

I am a long time investor in and champion of <a href="/coinbase/">Coinbase 🛡️</a>. Something that has to be said though - this hack - which includes home addresses and account balances - will lead to people dying. It probably has already. The human cost, denominated in misery, is much larger than the $400m
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A fun thing about how Meta reacts to these outside studies is that they refuse to open their books to researchers they haven't paid just so they can make up data in moments like this

Hannah Zeavin (@hzeavin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Alice Notley passed on from here to there last night, a binary she didn't quite believe in. I loved her very much as a poet and a person, and I'm so grateful that not that long ago I got to sit for a week in her apartment and learn from her one more time. My love to her family.

Alice Notley passed on from here to there last night, a binary she didn't quite believe in. I loved her very much as a poet and a person, and I'm so grateful that not that long ago I got to sit for a week in her apartment and learn from her one more time. My love to her family.
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The Map of Life Rapid Assessments (MOLRA) system uses drones, sophisticated sensors, and AI to collect audio, visual, and genetic samples to support detailed species mapping—where plants and animals are likely to be and how those populations are changing. ow.ly/559850VVIg0

The Map of Life Rapid Assessments (MOLRA) system uses drones, sophisticated sensors, and AI to collect audio, visual, and genetic samples to support detailed species mapping—where plants and animals are likely to be and how those populations are changing. ow.ly/559850VVIg0
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My father was a Nazi hunter, until he was killed in the Lockerbie bombing, when I was four. Now, a man will stand trial for the crime. What does it mean, after nearly forty years, to seek justice for the crimes of history? My new cover story for NYT Magazine: nytimes.com/2025/05/20/mag…

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Chicago Sun-Times Prints AI-Generated Summer Reading List With Books That Don't Exist 🔗404media.co/chicago-sun-ti… 404media.co/chicago-sun-ti…

Kaiser Kuo (@kaiserkuo) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The U.S. isn’t just targeting Chinese students. It’s normalizing Sinophobia as strategy — and letting racism masquerade as national security. My latest on why this isn’t just self-defeating. It’s a civic failure. Link in replies.

The U.S. isn’t just targeting Chinese students. It’s normalizing Sinophobia as strategy — and letting racism masquerade as national security. My latest on why this isn’t just self-defeating. It’s a civic failure. Link in replies.
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At a historical moment of global unease, new heights of military spending stand to be the latest and most extravagant source of Silicon Valley’s power, driving risks to open societies and individual freedom, write Brian J. Chen, Tina M. Park, and Alex Pasternack ♼. Link in thread.

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Some news: I’m joining MSNBC where I’ll continue to report on the fringe forces affecting our politics, public health, and … everything else. Lets go! fastcompany.com/91361764/msnbc…

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Join us for an unmissable discussion on why 'Privacy is Power' Carissa Véliz, Roger McNamee & Carole Cadwalladr will be Live on Citizens Reunited this Wed, July 9 5-6pm BST / 9-10am PST Subscribe to our Substack to be notified when we go Live! citizensreunited.substack.com/p/join-us-for-…

Join us for an unmissable discussion on why 'Privacy is Power'

<a href="/CarissaVeliz/">Carissa Véliz</a>, <a href="/Moonalice/">Roger McNamee</a> &amp; <a href="/carolecadwalla/">Carole Cadwalladr</a> will be Live on Citizens Reunited this Wed, July 9

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