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John Palowitch

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software engineer @archive.org. formerly research @ google deepmind. organizer with @notechforapartheid.bsky.social. SF musician. any view you think is expressed by my account should be attributed to me alone. ml.johnpalowitch.com jpalomusic.com

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I wonder if she predicted she would lose the election because she promised to continue sending weapons to Israel while they were committing a genocide

www.axios.com/2026/02/22/d...

07.03.2026 01:11 πŸ‘ 34 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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This 4chan Board Became a Factory for Explicit AI β€˜Deepfakes.’ Nobody Is Stopping It. - Open Measures Open Measures builds accessible and transparent products to contextualize the spread of harmful online information that impacts public discourse and global events.

One of the internet's most active hubs producing sexually explicit AI "deepfakes" is hiding in plain sight on 4chan, where users on a NSFW board have victimized countless women and girls. The problem is getting worse, and it seems no is trying to stop it.

openmeasures.io/4chan-ai-dee...

06.03.2026 22:43 πŸ‘ 51 πŸ” 34 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 1

the intentional conflation of "criminal" with "incompetent" that liberal outlets will use to avoid direct criticism of this administration should be called out at every turn

06.03.2026 20:47 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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At the funeral of Rev. Jesse Jackson. Rep. Jones and I walk in his footsteps. Our story isn’t possible without the work, advocacy, Organizing, and struggle of Rev. Jackson. Rest in power.

06.03.2026 20:21 πŸ‘ 2921 πŸ” 449 πŸ’¬ 63 πŸ“Œ 14

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06.03.2026 20:18 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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used as "seeing stones" BY THE VILLIANS

www.thetimes.com/world/middle...

06.03.2026 06:21 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
Matt Welsh
Head of AI Systems at Palantir
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Returning from an overseas deployment supporting advanced technology development for the armed forces (and, yes, being somewhat vague), I'm reflecting on how my work at Palantir may be the most meaningful thing I've done in my career. If you like solving hard problems and building things that really matter, we're hiring -- drop me a line and let's chat.
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Matt, I don't understand how to reconcile the thoughtful and empathetic engineering leader I knew when we worked together at Google, and you choosing to work at Palantir under the Trump administration, with Palantir assisting in carrying out some of the worst human rights abuses enacted by DHS, and openly embracing the lawless, white supremacist agenda of President Trump.

Matt Welsh Head of AI Systems at Palantir 4h Returning from an overseas deployment supporting advanced technology development for the armed forces (and, yes, being somewhat vague), I'm reflecting on how my work at Palantir may be the most meaningful thing I've done in my career. If you like solving hard problems and building things that really matter, we're hiring -- drop me a line and let's chat. likesupport 19 1 comment Liz Fong-Jones Field CTO @ honeycomb.io 1s Matt, I don't understand how to reconcile the thoughtful and empathetic engineering leader I knew when we worked together at Google, and you choosing to work at Palantir under the Trump administration, with Palantir assisting in carrying out some of the worst human rights abuses enacted by DHS, and openly embracing the lawless, white supremacist agenda of President Trump.

I just... can't any more.

26.06.2025 20:27 πŸ‘ 659 πŸ” 80 πŸ’¬ 28 πŸ“Œ 11
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Nothing to Declare Making big public statements is always fun and people who think themselves to be important love doing it as a way of trying to influence public opinion and/or politics. They are a way for institutions...

By @tante.cc who is on point as always.

"So there is a new declaration in town called the β€œThe Pro-Human AI Declarationβ€œ...before we go into the details, let’s look at who is pushing this for a second because the declaration keeps talking about how broad their coalition is"
tante.cc/2026/03/05/n...

05.03.2026 23:27 πŸ‘ 112 πŸ” 51 πŸ’¬ 2 πŸ“Œ 2
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CBP Tapped Into the Online Advertising Ecosystem To Track Peoples’ Movements An internal DHS document obtained by 404 Media shows for the first time CBP used location data sourced from the online advertising industry to track phone locations. ICE has bought access to similar t...

New from 404 Media: CBP tapped into the online advertising ecosystem to track peoples' movements, according to an internal DHS document. Shows for the first time DHS tracked phones via process for putting ads in ordinary appsβ€”video games, fitness apps, many more www.404media.co/cbp-tapped-i...

03.03.2026 14:07 πŸ‘ 1171 πŸ” 728 πŸ’¬ 31 πŸ“Œ 119
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How AI helps 20 US troops do the work of 2,000 in Iran war Palantir technology used by the US military can choose and dismiss targets quicker than the human brain can think, ushering in a new era of bombing

War fetish 🀝 Silicon Valley

03.03.2026 21:44 πŸ‘ 85 πŸ” 24 πŸ’¬ 4 πŸ“Œ 4

All I can think about is Jeff Bezos saying that he slashed jobs at the Washington Post β€” including those of foreign correspondents in the Middle East β€” based on "the data," and a few weeks later a whole war breaks out in the Middle East that these laid off folks would have covered as true experts.

03.03.2026 19:12 πŸ‘ 5803 πŸ” 1304 πŸ’¬ 131 πŸ“Œ 59

if only certain Democratic lawmakers had an ounce of this resolve

03.03.2026 18:39 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

πŸ’― in many ways, the Musk buyout was the event that put me on my big tech breakup arc

02.03.2026 22:02 πŸ‘ 3 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

very vindicating of my past decisions to not pay attention to him ever

02.03.2026 21:59 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Tech CEOs Confused by Why Everybody Hates AI So Much With public sentiment on AI resoundly negative, the tech CEOs pushing the new tech only seem to be doubling down.

just spitballing but some of it might have something to do with 15 years of sociopathic behavior culminating in the enthusiastic embrace of violent fascism

25.02.2026 16:11 πŸ‘ 3519 πŸ” 870 πŸ’¬ 93 πŸ“Œ 79

removepaywalls.com is your friend :)

02.03.2026 03:27 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0
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Google Workers Seek β€˜Red Lines’ on Military A.I., Echoing Anthropic

it's a shame that this is needed at all. but so so proud of my former colleagues here at DeepMind.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/t...

02.03.2026 03:26 πŸ‘ 1 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

need more linkdumps like this

27.02.2026 18:48 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

This is murder. ICE routinely deposits released detainees far from their home just to be cruel. It’s standard practice. To do this to a blind man on a wet cold winter day in Buffalo is to know you are potentially sending him to his death.

27.02.2026 16:26 πŸ‘ 4659 πŸ” 1796 πŸ’¬ 252 πŸ“Œ 83

democrats should internalize that this is what their colleagues think of them and act accordingly

25.02.2026 03:24 πŸ‘ 15120 πŸ” 3515 πŸ’¬ 284 πŸ“Œ 1
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Pentagon Gives A.I. Company an Ultimatum

It should be a five alarm for all Americans that the Pentagon is going to the mat to force an AI company to let the Defense Department use its powerful technology to surveil Americans. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/24/u...

25.02.2026 05:31 πŸ‘ 409 πŸ” 219 πŸ’¬ 18 πŸ“Œ 16
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Bad Internet Bills All of the bad internet bills. One website.

Go to badinternetbills.com for information on these laws and what you can say when you call. Do not let staffers gaslight you about the harm of these laws!! These "child safety" surveillance and censorship laws would devastate the internet. Sign the petitions on the site. CALL TODAY & KEEP CALLING!!

24.02.2026 22:48 πŸ‘ 476 πŸ” 416 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 6
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CALL YOUR CONGRESS PERSON NOW!!!!!! Tell them:
β€” NO to KOSA
β€” NO to Section 230 reform
β€” NO to the SCREEN Act
β€” NO to the App Store Accountability Act
β€”NO age verification laws
β€”NO to digital ID systems

24.02.2026 22:09 πŸ‘ 1571 πŸ” 1246 πŸ’¬ 12 πŸ“Œ 43
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Support the Fired 50 Google Workers' Legal Defense Fund Dear Friends, Family, Coworkers, and Supporters,

There are a LOT of other causes out there more worthy of your help right now.

But if you are a tech worker or otherwise interested in trying to protect workers' right to organize, we would be grateful for your donation or a reshare. Litigation is expensive.

11.12.2025 20:30 πŸ‘ 7 πŸ” 3 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

Bluesky has not failed--it's literally just a website.

The left, the progressive movement, and American civil society have failed to organize a boycott of the neo-Nazi propaganda website that's central to political media. That's not on Bluesky.

23.02.2026 02:02 πŸ‘ 2803 πŸ” 411 πŸ’¬ 76 πŸ“Œ 20

This is exactly right. The Onion quietly left Twitter a month ago and... our weekly subscribers went up. It's because we're doing well here, on Instagram and on YouTube.

As a business, being on Twitter is somewhere between useless or detrimental, unless you're selling boner pills.

23.02.2026 01:51 πŸ‘ 29444 πŸ” 4984 πŸ’¬ 333 πŸ“Œ 124

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20.02.2026 21:45 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

t.ly/nimbus

20.02.2026 20:57 πŸ‘ 0 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 0 πŸ“Œ 0

drop Project Nimbus ✊🏻

20.02.2026 20:57 πŸ‘ 2 πŸ” 0 πŸ’¬ 1 πŸ“Œ 0

so inspired by my former co-workers and current co-organizers for leading the charge against Google Cloud for hosting data and AI for CBP and ICE

theintercept.com/2025/04/03/g...

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