Ana Brandusescu
@anabrandusescu.bsky.social
Researcher, policy analyst, social scientist. PhD-ing on political power and privatization in the scale of AI governance.
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If we are not doing it for the economy, then what are we doing it for? The forever tech rationale.
November 11, 2025 at 2:19 AM
If we are not doing it for the economy, then what are we doing it for? The forever tech rationale.
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Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, a must watch.
Soundtrack to a Coup D'Etat | Official UK Trailer | In cinemas November 15
YouTube video by Modern Films
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, a must watch.
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In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.
Latest write-up about outrageous administrative over reach at IU. www.jta.org/2025/11/07/u...
In Indiana, a vaunted Jewish studies program is upended by red-state politics over Israel and speech - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
A leadership shakeup, a defunded graduate student and political pressure from above have turned a storied program into a flashpoint for Trump-era campus politics.
www.jta.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:58 AM
In the name of protecting Jews, Jews have their funding cancelled, get kicked out of seminars, and are removed from leadership positions in Jewish Studies to be replaced by non-Jews.
"But there’s a place for businesses selling whiz-bang products at a ludicrous markup, or ones that simply don’t work: government contracts. OpenAI could join the likes of Palantir, TransDigm, Boeing, and all the rest fleecing the taxpayer in the name of national security."
“OpenAI is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies.” After losing more than $13 billion this year, OpenAI officials are angling for a bailout. From @ryanlcooper.com:
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OpenAI Is Maneuvering for a Government Bailout - The American Prospect
For artificial intelligence to ever pencil out, some truly enormous revenue streams will be required. And if you need trillions of dollars for data centers forever, there’s only one entity to turn to: Uncle Sam.
trib.al
November 9, 2025 at 3:16 AM
"But there’s a place for businesses selling whiz-bang products at a ludicrous markup, or ones that simply don’t work: government contracts. OpenAI could join the likes of Palantir, TransDigm, Boeing, and all the rest fleecing the taxpayer in the name of national security."
I'm in the privileged and awkward position to be a full time student who is soon turning 40.
I'm having a hard time making space for colleagues that continue to platform professors, administrators, and institutional excellence while terrorizing students for their support around Palestine.
I'm having a hard time making space for colleagues that continue to platform professors, administrators, and institutional excellence while terrorizing students for their support around Palestine.
November 9, 2025 at 3:03 AM
I'm in the privileged and awkward position to be a full time student who is soon turning 40.
I'm having a hard time making space for colleagues that continue to platform professors, administrators, and institutional excellence while terrorizing students for their support around Palestine.
I'm having a hard time making space for colleagues that continue to platform professors, administrators, and institutional excellence while terrorizing students for their support around Palestine.
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, a must watch.
Soundtrack to a Coup D'Etat | Official UK Trailer | In cinemas November 15
YouTube video by Modern Films
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 2:42 AM
Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat, a must watch.
Reposted by Ana Brandusescu
anyway good night
November 8, 2025 at 6:23 AM
anyway good night
Reposted by Ana Brandusescu
Robert Filliou. Man Carrying his Own Sun on a String, 1973
November 7, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Robert Filliou. Man Carrying his Own Sun on a String, 1973
ICYMI: On 2026 and how to subvert the status quo from within.
Unions, Lawsuits and Whistleblowers: Public Sector Leadership from Below
Excited to share my piece for the @mtlaiethics.bsky.social's State of AI Ethics Report on AI in Government: Public Sector Leadership and Implementation.
montrealethics.ai/state/
Excited to share my piece for the @mtlaiethics.bsky.social's State of AI Ethics Report on AI in Government: Public Sector Leadership and Implementation.
montrealethics.ai/state/
November 8, 2025 at 5:11 AM
ICYMI: On 2026 and how to subvert the status quo from within.
Reposted by Ana Brandusescu
narrator: no, it cannot
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 6, 2025 at 9:32 PM
narrator: no, it cannot
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No, no it cannot. Looks like we need to re-up our paper @jevan.bsky.social
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
No, no it cannot. Looks like we need to re-up our paper @jevan.bsky.social
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okay, now let's hear from people who don't have millions of dollars in tech company stocks still vesting
November 6, 2025 at 5:27 PM
okay, now let's hear from people who don't have millions of dollars in tech company stocks still vesting
Reposted by Ana Brandusescu
Ruth Wilson Gilmore said, ”At stake is not only how we fight to win, but also how prepared we are for victories. Prepare to win means be ready for the morning after.” Stay ready for victories!
November 5, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Ruth Wilson Gilmore said, ”At stake is not only how we fight to win, but also how prepared we are for victories. Prepare to win means be ready for the morning after.” Stay ready for victories!
I will be advocating for a Digital Sanctuary City everywhere.
For @techpolicypress.bsky.social I laid out a tech agenda for Mayor-elect zohrankmamdani.bsky.social that resists surveillance and extraction while advancing his goals for affordability, dignity, and justice.
Zohran Kwame Mamdani (@zohrankmamdani.bsky.social)
Mayor-Elect of New York City
zohrankmamdani.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 3:27 PM
I will be advocating for a Digital Sanctuary City everywhere.
"Achieving algorithmic justice against a backdrop of state sponsored injustice will require coalitions that are polycentric, flexible, durable, and multifarious."
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How can we address algorithmic justice challenges when we are faced with unreliable and malicious governments? My new article "Algorithmic Justice vs. State Power" confronts this question. Read here: montrealethics.ai/state-of-ai-...
November 6, 2025 at 3:20 PM
"Achieving algorithmic justice against a backdrop of state sponsored injustice will require coalitions that are polycentric, flexible, durable, and multifarious."
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"The lesson for Canada is not smug exceptionalism but urgency. If a similar swing arrives here, procedural guarantees must be hard-wired into how AI is procured, deployed and contested. Build for the rainy day, not the sunny press conference."
@vangeuns.bsky.social in the State of AI Ethics Report
@vangeuns.bsky.social in the State of AI Ethics Report
The State of AI Ethics Report | Montreal AI Ethics Institute
This page houses all our State of AI Ethics Reports as well as the Panels associated with each report, ordered from most to least recent The State of AI Ethics: Volume 7 View the pdf here.
montrealethics.ai
November 6, 2025 at 3:09 PM
"The lesson for Canada is not smug exceptionalism but urgency. If a similar swing arrives here, procedural guarantees must be hard-wired into how AI is procured, deployed and contested. Build for the rainy day, not the sunny press conference."
@vangeuns.bsky.social in the State of AI Ethics Report
@vangeuns.bsky.social in the State of AI Ethics Report
Remember when people were looking forward to an AI commissioner? 😏
November 6, 2025 at 1:52 AM
Remember when people were looking forward to an AI commissioner? 😏
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what if technology wasn't something that was done to us, but instead something that we do?
November 6, 2025 at 12:41 AM
what if technology wasn't something that was done to us, but instead something that we do?
Things are grim but writing this piece forced me to think of a silver lining.
"2026 is a year of honest reckoning of what technologies are needed for government to function properly. It is a chance to revisit all the unglamorous AI already embedded in government. AI without the generative part."
"2026 is a year of honest reckoning of what technologies are needed for government to function properly. It is a chance to revisit all the unglamorous AI already embedded in government. AI without the generative part."
Unions, Lawsuits and Whistleblowers: Public Sector Leadership from Below
Excited to share my piece for the @mtlaiethics.bsky.social's State of AI Ethics Report on AI in Government: Public Sector Leadership and Implementation.
montrealethics.ai/state/
Excited to share my piece for the @mtlaiethics.bsky.social's State of AI Ethics Report on AI in Government: Public Sector Leadership and Implementation.
montrealethics.ai/state/
November 6, 2025 at 1:30 AM
Things are grim but writing this piece forced me to think of a silver lining.
"2026 is a year of honest reckoning of what technologies are needed for government to function properly. It is a chance to revisit all the unglamorous AI already embedded in government. AI without the generative part."
"2026 is a year of honest reckoning of what technologies are needed for government to function properly. It is a chance to revisit all the unglamorous AI already embedded in government. AI without the generative part."
Reposted by Ana Brandusescu
Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover
November 5, 2025 at 11:56 AM
Took the cats out for a walk with my brother and accidentally created a 90s Britpop album cover
I most recently wrote about Palantir in Challenging Privatization in Governance by AI:
November 5, 2025 at 3:43 PM
I most recently wrote about Palantir in Challenging Privatization in Governance by AI:
As an amateur birder and a Wikipedia lover, I am so in awe by the intersection of this work. Incredible!
November 4, 2025 at 11:53 PM
As an amateur birder and a Wikipedia lover, I am so in awe by the intersection of this work. Incredible!