Ulysses Pascal

I have work on AI and platform capitalism that Id love to share at a conference. I also have developed several hands on AI digital methods and LLM forensics workshops (please invite me to your classrooms). Manifesting more scholarly community 2025

Claude code is just legos for adults

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Our special issue on #TechOligarchy has just come out in @sciasculture.bsky.social! Our first issue has 13 articles in on lots of different topics by lots of different authors - go check it out! www.tandfonline.com/toc/csac20/3...

If OpenAI’s internal model is willing to hack into another company’s database to find the solution to a problem, there is no way wouldn’t be willing to hack into OpenAI’s own database to steal from a scientist using ChatGPT.

Hugging Face just published a highly detailed technical account of OpenAI's accidental cyberattack on their systems - it's wild how sophisticated this was: huggingface.co/blog/agent-i... Wrote up some of my own notes here: simonwillison.net/2026/Jul/28/...

The counter to fear-based marketing isn’t 'this is just marketing, there is nothing to fear'

Where are the non-dismissive leftists takes on AI?

"Science as Culture" (@sciasculture.bsky.social) has a new special issue on #TechOligarchy - you can find my introduction here and the rest of the papers under "Latest" articles || #assetization #techbro #bigtech www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Might interest @franziscool.bsky.social @bprainsack.bsky.social @mcforelle.bsky.social @puellaludens.bsky.social @louravn.bsky.social @ulyssespascal.bsky.social @alirizataskale.bsky.social @loicriom.bsky.social @nicolecnelson.bsky.social @penders.bsky.social

Just out! My introduction to a new special issue in @sciasculture.bsky.social on "Tech Oligarchy" - go check it out and the papers in the special issue (under "Latest" articles) #techoligarchy #assetization #techbro #bigtech www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I think AI having mostly (not entirely) very bad critics is a real problem because it means we’ll get political action focused on things that probably don’t matter that much in deferring it’s very real harms.

His goal is not to exclude certain people from voting, it is to question the legitimacy of voting itself in order to deny the results of the election.

Is tech oligarchy a proper term to describe the conditions of current-day political economies? In our latest forum contribution, @ulyssespascal.bsky.social, Cheng Fang, and David Bassens see merit in deploying the concept, but also consider its empirical limits. 🔗 doi.org/10.1080/0950...

I created a remote zotero MCP server that lets you talk to your library from anywhere through claude

Can someone explain why ice agents are playing riot police? They aren’t even pretending to do their job anymore

How can we make social media without bots?

"A US regulator ruled on Thursday that Elon Musk’s artificial intelligence company had acted illegally by using dozens of methane gas turbines to power massive data centers in Tennessee" Not only is Xai designing software that causes massive harm in form of generated abuse, it's hurting communities

I'm co-chairing the Society for Social Studies of Science @4sweb.bsky.social Conference in Toronto, Oct 2026. #STS #scipol #innovation Theme: "TechnoPower • Technoscientific Futures". Open panel submissions portal is open! ls! Deadline: 2nd February 2026 www.4sonline.org/about_the_co...

I thought Bari Weiss was supposed to be a prominent critic of "cancel culture”

These photos

The real ai bubble is the billions of lines of technical debt tech firms accrued since the advent of vibe coding

Who is in Lisbon for Digital Geographies 2025?

In 2008, Google created an ad-powered wiki encyclopedia called Knol, seen as a "Wikipedia killer" amid its highly-publicized launch. And the Wikimedia Foundation gave an unbothered response that I quite like: "the more good free content, the better for the world." Anyway Knol instantly flopped

G**kipedia v0.1 is an automated rewriting of history and it is just v0.1. With AI, oligarchs and authoritarians can create massive corpora that reframe any event or fact inline with their own political ideologies. One day this will be done in real time.

This isnt just ethnic cleansing it’s ethnic liquidation

Merit based hiring is the first step to merit based firing archive.is/3FbPX

The groypers running the White House's social media accounts have posted yet another piece of fascist Trump AI slopaganda which I won't reproduce here in full. However, the Gladiator-esque backdrop of US soldiers in desert camouflage holding back the pseudo-Roman crowd is quite fascinating 1/

Much funding in the justice & human rights sectors pivoted to "AI for good" and working with tech companies, weakening the work on important critical education and preventing harm. AI companies promised many fantasies they will NOT deliver. www.whitehouse.gov/presidential...

I knew the US had a cruel obsession with torturing muslims but the level of inhumane disregard for life in Gaza is horrendous even for US standards

When does it stop being oligarchy and it is just authoritarianism though?