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Nathalie Maréchal, PhD
Fighting for democracy and human rights in the age of technofascism. She/her. Opinions personal, etc. ❌👑
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Opinion | Progressives Are Listening to the Wrong People on A.I. nytimes.com
The AI Hype Reckoning Is Upon Us karlbode.com
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Bernie Goes Down the X-Risk Rabbithole (with Dr. Nathalie Maréchal), 2026.05.04 - Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 buzzsprout.com
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Erin Brockovich asks Americans for help as she launches data center map newsweek.com
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Elon Musk's USAID Cuts: A Silicon Valley Genocide thenerdreich.com
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A people-first vision for the future of work in the age of AI | Brookings brookings.edu
Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 78 - Bernie Goes Down the X-Risk Rabbithole peertube.dair-institute.org
politico.com
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The Slop Doctrine thebulwark.com
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NEWS: Sanders Releases Report on Big Tech Oligarchs’ War Against Workers, Warns AI Could Eliminate Nearly 100 Million U.S. Jobs » Senator Bernie Sanders sanders.senate.gov
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the final reckoning between AI hype and reality is upon us. buckle up.
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New from Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000: Bernie Goes Down the X-Risk Rabbithole In which @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social are joined by @nathaliemarechal.net to unpack Sen Sanders’ AI Doomerism & why nuclear weapons are a bad analogy for "AI" www.buzzsprout.c…
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Erin Brockovich has been fighting evil corporations that pollute the environment for so long that there was a Hollywood movie about her starring Julia Roberts back in 2000. It's a bad sign for the AI industry that she is now on the anti-data center bandwagon.
Nathalie Maréchal, PhD reposted
When billionaires preach "abundance," remember that the richest man in the world killed the poorest children in the world just for the LOLs. And if these AI fascists get their way, most of us will join the starvation class. www.thenerdreich.com/a-silicon-va...
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I can't believe this has to be said, but we should have real human teachers caring for our kids. www.brookings.edu/articles/a-p...
AI Weekly's analysis
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- A Brookings essay argues US job quality was already eroding through surveillance, algorithmic scheduling, and declining autonomy before AI arrived.
- The authors propose minimum staffing rules for schools, mid-career retraining institutions, and tripartite bodies where labor, business, and government jointly design AI at work.
- They cite a Carnegie Mellon and UNITE HERE app for hotel guest room attendants as a working example of worker-led AI co-design.
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Remember when I said this? I was fresh off recording an episode of MAIHT3K with @emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social, during which we analyzed (and mocked!) Bernie's descent into AI doomerism. peertube.dair-institute.org/w/jV5u1DVL4b... or wherever your get your …
This Politico primer on the various “factions” of AI safety is helpful in that it disambiguates the different meanings attached to the term, which keeps us talking past each other - much as the term “AI” itself does. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
This Politico primer on the various “factions” of AI safety is helpful in that it disambiguates the different meanings attached to the term, which keeps us talking past each other - much as the term “AI” itself does. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Nathalie Maréchal, PhD reposted
While Republicans and Democrats are growing suspicious of AI at roughly the same pace, right-wing politicians and influencers have embraced AI slop in a way that the left has not. Why? @alicetiara.bsky.social on the right's love affair with AI slop:
Never forget that in fall 2025, Bernie’s staff published a report on projected job losses to AI whose methodology was “ask ChatGPT and publish the hallucinations.” No I am not kidding. www.sanders.senate.gov/press-releas...
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The louder we get about resisting the AI industry's mass immiseration project, the more industry mouthpieces like the Chamber of "Progress" will try to convince the Democratic party to avoid aligning itself with voter sentiment. Case in point: this drivel from the "Blue Horizon Project"
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