Edward Ongweso Jr

Mamdani inherited a sprawling surveillance state. What is he going to do with it? Wrote about the gang database, NYCHA surveillance cameras, Domain Awareness System, the POST Act, and more for @nymag.com

I have just published a piece that is very important to me. It's about why so many "progressives" and people on "the left" are lying to us right now about crime, safety, and repression, and what we should be doing instead. equalityalec.substack.com/p/why-is-eve...

I loved this talk with @jathansadowski.com interrogating computational and quantified ideas of trust discussed in the Trust Control podcast. I only lament that @edwardongwesojr.com couldn’t join …if anything because there would have been more swearing.

ESPN producer Nicole Noren quits over sports broadcasting's increasingly predatory promotion of gambling: “I’m not going to work for a gambling company and have blood on my hands.”

I want to be explicit that Mark Zuckerberg, on the softest of softball podcasts, admitted he invested all this capex without really knowing whether any of it would work, shortly after his tech guy said that he had been repeatedly told “hey this better fucking work” by the CFO at an offsite

The Social Reckoning is a movie about how liberal institutions utterly lost a war they barely even knew they were fighting nymag.com/intelligence...

In a panel conversation moderated by @edwardongwesojr.com, @ainowinstitute.bsky.social Co-Director @ambakak.bsky.social and @saalevine.bsky.social explain why the past few decades of tech regulation prove that "self-regulation" for AI must be a non-starter.

lol why is this sector run by even more cartoonishly stupid capitalists than average

We're pleased to share that @ambakak.bsky.social co-ED of @ainowinstitute.bsky.social will join @hellodcwp.bsky.social Commissioner @saalevine.bsky.social to discuss local AI governance with writer @edwardongwesojr.com next week. RSVP at governing-ai-for-nyc-workers-and-consumers.eventbrite.com

Important point and makes me think of @edwardongwesojr.com 's argument that aesthetic and moral opposition isn't to AI isn't enough, we need to "articulate an opposition that will survive improvements in the technology"

Join us and the @cuny.edu School of Law Burns Program for a talk on 9/30 with @hellodcwp.bsky.social Commissioner Sam Levine and writer @edwardongwesojr.com exploring city government tools to protect New Yorkers through the rise of AI and corporate consolidation: buff.ly/kcsU0fL

14/“a lucrative alliance has arisen between Big Tech and fossil fuel companies—the former signing cloud computing deals that maximize productivity, while the latter build new coal & gas power plants to satisfy exploding AI energy demands” @edwardongwesojr.com www.bostonreview.net/forum/the-ai...

When 3M scientist Kris Hansen discovered that a chemical the company produced was in the blood of the general public, her bosses questioned her work. Yet all along, some people inside the company had known the same thing. Listen to this excerpt:

"Refusal is not just some impotent act of nostalgia, and the extent to which we think so is a measure of our contempt for the prospect of taking democratic politics seriously." This, by @edwardongwesojr.com, is a wonderfully good and urgent piece of writing. www.thetechbubble.info/p/the-future...

Wowwowwow. This is definitely worth your time.

🗣️🗣️🗣️ “It needs ceaseless and prioritized access to energy. And it needs complete opacity. What’s the political and social order we can expect to follow from that?”

This essay talks about the left's vision for technology, the "alliance" between left and right-wing anti-data center movements, politics of refusal, democratic control over the AI infrastructure buildout, China, industrial policy, and more. www.thetechbubble.info/p/the-future...

surfacing for a minute to point out this good piece by @edwardongwesojr.com > Refusal is not just some impotent act of nostalgia, and the extent to which we think so is a measure of our contempt for the prospect of taking democratic politics seriously.

FREE – Forum for( @freefreeforum.bsky.social )Real Economic Emancipation "Pax Silica: The US Plan to Control AI, Chips, and Data Centers | Edward( @edwardongwesojr.com )Ongweso Jr." Clara Mattei www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdEU...

From @edwardongwesojr.com www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJ_S... Public backlash is a serious threat to the AI bubble.

this is my economy ???

Watch this short clip to the end to understand what level (maximum) of white supremacy we're dealing with here. 1/n

AI Creativity Doesn't Exist With Chloe Radcliffe and Ed Ongweso Jr. @edzitron.com @chloebadcliffe.bsky.social @edwardongwesojr.com linktr.ee/betteroffline

A group of leading experts offers a progressive blueprint for a foreign policy that answers to voters instead of defense contractors and Super PACs Co-publishing with @thenation.com and edited by @mattduss.bsky.social A World For All is available for pre-order now: orbooks.com/catalog/a-wo...

@rebeccawilliams.info hit on some of this last November. www.techpolicy.press/mayor-elect-...

This is important, and in some way may foreshadow whether there is any hope at all of Democrats dismantling the DHS surveillance state. If Mamdani can't eventually find the will in NYC, it won't bode well.

AI data centers drink enormous amounts of water and electricity and create very few permanent jobs. Full panel out now: Clara Mattei with @edwardongwesojr.com, Brad Carson, Rep. Amanda Clinton, Cheyenna Morgan, Kyle Schmidt.

Funny how no one calls this "overcapacity" @katemac.bsky.social @aldasky.bsky.social @edwardongwesojr.com US Data Center capex boom of many trillions over a decade + global dominance at about 80% of global AI investments is analagous to China's enormous Green boom + 70-80% global dominance.

1/ "This is the pivot point in the energy transition folks. Fossil chaos drives people to electrotech, as this is the first oil shock with a superior alternative. " says @ember-energy.org @kingsmillbond.bsky.social We argued similarly last week at Wesleyan (slides here) tinyurl.com/PolycrisisWe...

Taylor Swift has trapped all of the NYPD underneath the sewers of Madison Square Garden and detonated all of the bridges leading out of Manhattan. The fire rises.

IT’S ELECTION DAY, MARYLAND!!! Find your polling location here: elections.maryland.gov/voting Join me at the polls! Let’s have a GAY OLD TIME!!! 🪩👯‍♀️🍬🛹🗳️🥰 😉

Since idea of everyday joes sharing in AI profits is in news now, I thought I'd share this thoughtful, well-informed and at-times hilarious analysis of OpenAI's 'industrial' policy approach from @edwardongwesojr.com and @jathansadowski.com which pokes all the holes. As usual I learned and laughed.

re-upping because @edwardongwesojr.com said more crisply (to @jathansadowski.com on TMK) > My growing fear is actually the bubble is not going to burst... equity stakes might be a way [to] manage... a bail out, makes [AI co's] systemically important institutions that are treated as too big to fail.

1/ We are very pleased to announce the publication of Predictions, Volume 1: From Speculative Ethnography to Apocalyptic Testimony, edited by @melhogan.bsky.social, @stefanlaser.bsky.social and @edwardongwesojr.com www.matteringpress.org/books/predic...

i'm so embarrassed that i'm just now listening to the TMK episode about anti-data center organizing (and about eco-modernism) but it's a really good episode so far overcast.fm/+AAg6yFF4Vp4

NEW:Stranded countries are far more dangerous than "stranded assets" of pvt oil companies. It's Western navel gazing to only focus on latter & not powerful National Oil Companies Ep 2 of Polycrisis DRAMA KINGS @katemac.bsky.social & I chat about UAE shock OPEC exit Listen here: pod.link/1884213852

"AI threatens to enclose what’s left of our threadbare epistemic commons — the bottom-level online communication where people still figure out what they think, together," @edwardongwesojr.com writes. www.thedriftmag.com/directing-th...

From Gaza to now Iran and Lebanon, Israel is expanding its testing ground for AI-enabled military technology in terrifying ways. Read my latest piece in Zeteo about how big tech is powering Israel’s AI war machine 👇

For @thedriftmag.com I wrote about social control, digital infrastructure, and what passes for a public sphere in our society www.thedriftmag.com/directing-th...

In Issue 17’s Dispatches section, @tarpley.bsky.social, Noelle Bodick, @sarahbrouillette.bsky.social, @edwardongwesojr.com, @erikmbaker.bsky.social, Ege Yumuşak, Ismail Ibrahim, @meganmarz.bsky.social, and @samadlerbell.bsky.social examine the public sphere. www.thedriftmag.com/a-nicely-sit...

@edwardongwesojr.com and @jathansadowski.com had great discussion semi related to this on the most receNT TMK. All the AI company “solutions” are bullshit.

A detailed, line-by-line critique of OpenAI’s objectives is laid out by @edwardongwesojr.com and @jathansadowski.com in this week’s episode of @thismachinekills.bsky.social 3/

Q: Are there certain kinds of civilians targets like schools or hospitals that are off limits? TRUMP: I don't want to tell you that. We have a plan where every bridge and power plant in Iran will be decimated by 12 o'clock tomorrow night

inspired by a recent visit to SF and a Matthew Yglesias essay I recently read about how SF isn't a megacity because of housing policy, I wrote about why that's a very superficial analysis at best! www.thetechbubble.info/p/one-billio...