Nathalie Maréchal, PhD

So you just learned about the AI cult, huh? Here is the longform explainer you need to make sense of the very, very strange ideas driving tech policy in 2026. Buckle up, it’s a wild ride. www.techpolicy.press/what-policym...

I know there’s a lot going, but 19 Republican AGs have said—in writing!—that pro-choice speech should be criminalized. Thats a Big Fucking Deal and it blows my mind that more people aren’t talking about it

Our election research team put out an article today explaining how the prediction markets (e.g. Kalshi, Polymarket) — and social media posts featuring visualizations from those platforms — may feed election rumors & conspiracy theories around the U.S. midterms: uwcip.substack.com/p/what-to-kn...

We're launching the State of Independent Technology Research 2026: Resisting Corporate Capture, capturing the story of researchers from different disciplines, approaches, continents & cultures fighting for research independent from industry interests to drive decisions about AI & other tech. (1/4)

Don't believe the hype. Anthropic's IPO filings show it's not in good shape. You just have to dig a little deeper.

I'm going to try to do this cleanly. Today's right wing governments are networked to each other. Those networks are well-documented. You can read about them in books. Following the elections in one node of that network is good practice for understanding the U.S. node.

down with defeatism! three cheers for democracy, rule of law, & accountability! 🇷🇸 🇧🇷 . . . 🇺🇸

He should go all in on this closing message I think it’s working

We're up on Apple Podcasts now and will show up on Spotify soon - links here www.thewayfinder.net/p/is-the-us-...

Yep. Technofascism.

From city councils to Congress, there’s a growing desire to tax AI, but policymakers don’t always know their options. My new paper outlines 34 ways to tax AI across data centers, chips, data, AI products, automation & general tax reforms. vanderbiltpolicyaccelerator.substack.com/p/ai-isnt-pa...

Statement from Virginia state Sen. L. Louise Lucas: “I will not be intimidated. I will not be bullied. And I will not back down.”

Powerful talk with a familiar refrain: the problem is the business model.

Wise words from @mrose.ink Rebellions are built on hope. Choose rebellion, choose hope, all day every day.

This, too, is technofascism

this is where impunity (and unaccountable wealth) leads & why we need to build a movement for accountability for all those who've escaped it for so many years

I’m not holding my breath on this one, but it’s fun to think about 😂

There's an entire generation of Beltway conventional wisdom that needs to be retired and ignored so that we can be clear eyed about what needs to be done to meet the polycrisis of technofascism, climate change, et al.

Technologies bring with them the worldviews of their creators. We've plainly seen what those worldviews are, and no amount of window dressing should distract us from that fact.

Gil Duran @gilduran.com - author of The Nerd Reich - tells us he's just back from Peter Thiel's four-night speech on the antichrist, delivered in a red-walled room to an audience wearing Hitler haircuts. Those of us who are worried about AI safety are the antichrist, by the way...

Really wild......former Google CEO Eric Schmidt has published a piece in @foreignaffairs.com that seems to be mostly a ripoff of @karenhao.bsky.social book 'Empire of AI'.....the title of the articles 'Empires of AI' Karen's work isn't cited or mentioned at all?? archive.ph/jvf4s

we're going to need a long-term plan, with broad political appeal, for ending impunity & holding the trump administration accountable for its crimes, malfeasance & cruelties. not 'tit-for-tat' but an american version of transitional justice. my take in @slate.com 👇

Courage is knowing the world is going to break your heart, and allowing it to do so anyway

"[T]his future-focused stuff is an attempt to make sure that regulation is not targeting the things that people are actually feeling and that would actually restrict what the chatbots and the AI companies are doing right now ... [T]he potential is severely overstated."

Don't let the door hit you on the way out!

Nothing I have to say about this man would pass mods and there is no French Revolution emoji, so I will just spit on the ground and keep moving. IYKYK.

The producer of a radio show I went on this morning said the host wanted to talk about Ilhan Omar, so I went back and listened to a bunch of the press coverage from last week to refresh my memory on the details. And I realized that the US media still doesn’t know how to talk about authoritarianism.

Late to this Bloomberg piece on Marc Andreessen. This is one of the key things. Andreessen is *angry* about how he has been treated, when any objective observer might note he has benefited enormously from the institutions he now purports to detest. www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

New from me: I'm so sick of the Broligarchy, the world they want to force upon the rest of us, and the millions they waste on that goal. On election day, let's tell them all to go to hell. www.altrightdelete.news/p/f-the-brol...

Note: TikTok - 15% owned by Musk pal Larry Ellison - permanently banned our "Musk" the movie account on the platform. www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/politic...

“The culmination of my life’s work may have been targeted by an AI-assisted censorship tool & terminated by a politically-motivated AI hallucination” If you care in any way about science, you need to read this thread from my friend Kelton Minor.