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Dylan GL @dylangyauchl.bsky.social · Jul 9
I have a piece in @prospect.org this morning! It’s about the AI industry and the cancer it’s likely to cause.

This one is both deeply personal and (imo) really important, so I hope folks read, share, reflect, etc!

Some highlights 1/🧵

prospect.org/environment/...
More AI Means More Cancer
Many Americans will pay for AI with their health—especially thanks to Donald Trump’s war on renewable energy.
prospect.org
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Go read my latest!
November 18, 2025 at 6:02 PM
dylangyauchl.bsky.social
Larry Summers is stepping back from "public commitments," whatever that means. Good. Now to never let him come back.

My latest out today in @theintercept.com !

theintercept.com/2025/11/18/l...
Don't Let Larry Summers Back Into Polite Society
While Larry Summers’s “association” with Jeffrey Epstein was already known, this newest batch of emails reveals their relationship ran deep.
theintercept.com
November 18, 2025 at 5:49 PM
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revolvingdoordc.bsky.social
Donald Trump's campaign of corruption is the logical endpoint for decades of elite impunity.

Moving past it and restoring the rule of law will require unrigging our political system and restoring accountability.

NEW from @dylangyauchl.bsky.social in @theintercept.com.
Liberal Elites Kicked the Door Wide Open for Trump’s Flagrant Corruption
The president’s corruption is audaciously out in the open, but decades of letting the wealthy play by their own rules enabled him.
theintercept.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:07 PM
dylangyauchl.bsky.social
Much like the East Wing, the bank supervision agencies have been demolished.

The agencies no longer have the resources or inclination to rigorously enforce the law. More in my latest for @prospect.org.

prospect.org/2025/10/31/m...
Making Banking Supervision Suck Again - The American Prospect
Bank supervision consists of two main prongs: risk management and compliance. On the compliance side, consumer protection laws are being enforced less than at any time since at least the Great Recessi...
prospect.org
October 31, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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revolvingdoordc.bsky.social
Bank supervision has been quietly eviscerated since the inauguration. Staffing cuts, regulation rollbacks, weaker standards. In the face of growing risk from asset bubbles, climate change, and more, we're throwing out the tools to ensure a sound banking system 2/2
October 31, 2025 at 1:18 PM
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revolvingdoordc.bsky.social
Banking regulation is the weakest it's been since at least the Great Recession. What could possibly go wrong??

Our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social has more in @prospect.org this morning 1/2

prospect.org/2025/10/31/m...
Making Banking Supervision Suck Again - The American Prospect
Bank supervision consists of two main prongs: risk management and compliance. On the compliance side, consumer protection laws are being enforced less than at any time since at least the Great Recessi...
prospect.org
October 31, 2025 at 1:18 PM
dylangyauchl.bsky.social
Kind of terrifying that apparently Sam Altman thinks "so far, the technology has not produced a really scary giant risk"

Causing psychosis + inciting suicide and murder seems scary to me

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Luiza Jarovsky, PhD on X: "🚨 SHOCKING: Sam Altman says he "expects some really bad stuff to happen," but it doesn't seem to bother him much. [HINT: OpenAI's legal department is probably FUMING over his comments; make sure to save this clip]: This is a clip from Sam Altman's podcast interview with a16z, a https://t.co/Cj6pMYTfAo" / X
🚨 SHOCKING: Sam Altman says he "expects some really bad stuff to happen," but it doesn't seem to bother him much. [HINT: OpenAI's legal department is probably FUMING over his comments; make sure to save this clip]: This is a clip from Sam Altman's podcast interview with a16z, a https://t.co/Cj6pMYTfAo
x.com
October 20, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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revolvingdoordc.bsky.social
NEW: A Third Way fellow claimed in the Wall Street Journal's editorial pages that Democrats “alienated” Big Business into allying with Trump, and that our organization deserves some of the blame.

Our full response in today’s newsletter:
Big Business Will Not Save Us
Scrutinizing the “ideological warfare” a business community mouthpiece says drove Corporate America into the arms of a fascist.
open.substack.com
October 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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prospect.org
Centrist Democrats have again decided the path to victory is to tack to the right. But their compulsive moderation “reinforces the perception that the Democratic Party stands for nothing.” @dylangyauchl.bsky.social with @revolvingdoor.bsky.social: trib.al/ocSBbuw
Centrist Democrats Have Already Forgotten About Kamala Harris
Pivoting to the right didn't work in 2024. It won't work now.
trib.al
October 9, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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revolvingdoordc.bsky.social
Democrats' version of triangulation is really just about punching left. It's as much running right by rote as it is an actual strategy

Our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social makes the case today in @prospect.org! 🧵

prospect.org/politics/cen...
Centrist Democrats Have Already Forgotten About Kamala Harris
Pivoting to the right didn't work in 2024. It won't work now.
prospect.org
October 9, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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revolvingdoordc.bsky.social
No, progressives aren't pushing degrowth.

Read our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social's latest in @theslingutah.bsky.social!

www.thesling.org/the-hollowne...
The Hollowness of Growth as an Objective - The Sling
While degrowth as a framework has been around for a while, its extremely limited presence in the zeitgeist is a relatively recent phenomenon. Modern progressives are not anti-growth; they simply recog...
www.thesling.org
October 8, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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revolvingdoordc.bsky.social
Public-interest lawsuits are a critical mechanism to defend communities from exploitation. This summer, Memphis showed us why attacks on them from the abundance movement, Trump, and SCOTUS are so dangerous.

Our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social for @commondreams.org

www.commondreams.org/opinion/musk...
Musk's xAI Is Showing Us Exactly Why We Need Public Interest Lawsuits | Common Dreams
When powerful corporations are able to completely circumvent basic democratic accountability, public interest lawsuits are a final backstop to protect the community’s well-being.
www.commondreams.org
October 6, 2025 at 2:14 PM
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revolvingdoordc.bsky.social
New blog: "while supporters of abundance tend to center it on discussions of housing, the Klein-Thompson brand of abundance has always included a healthy dose of techno-optimism."

therevolvingdoorproject.org/dont-listen-...
Don’t Listen to Ezra Klein- Annul the BigTech & Democrats Marriage | Revolving Door Project
While supporters of abundance tend to center it on discussions of housing, the Klein-Thompson brand of abundance has always included a healthy dose of techno-optimism.
therevolvingdoorproject.org
October 2, 2025 at 2:53 PM
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prospect.org
Ted Cruz is trying to exempt AI companies from virtually every federal regulation. The person who would hand out the waivers once worked as Peter Thiel’s chief of staff. From @dylangyauchl.bsky.social with @revolvingdoor.bsky.social: trib.al/E2hsVcY
Ted Cruz Attempts to Exempt Big Tech From the Law
The Texas senator has introduced a law allowing any AI company a streamlined path around regulations.
trib.al
September 23, 2025 at 5:00 PM
dylangyauchl.bsky.social
My latest for @TheProspect is out this morning, about Cruz's SANDBOX Act and how it would be an end-run around all of federal law for tech firms. Hope folks enjoy!

prospect.org/power/2025-0...

(Also I had fun with the subheads)
September 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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revolvingdoordc.bsky.social
"Throughout the text, there are myriad details that tilt technocracy in favor of Big Tech and deregulation. From the definitions on, the bill is packed with requirements that make the process favor applicants seeking waivers." 4/4

prospect.org/power/2025-0...
Ted Cruz Attempts to Exempt Big Tech From the Law
The Texas senator has introduced a law allowing any AI company a streamlined path around regulations.
prospect.org
September 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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revolvingdoordc.bsky.social
The bill would give the White House director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy, currently a former Thiel chief of staff, near total control over a process to grant waivers or modifications to regulations promulgated under nearly any federal law. 3/4
September 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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revolvingdoordc.bsky.social
"Big Tech has been pushing, basically, to be exempt from the law" - @economicsecurityproject.org 's Anna Aurilio 2/4
September 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
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revolvingdoordc.bsky.social
NEW: For @prospect.org our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social writes about Ted Cruz's SANDBOX Act and how it could waive nearly all federal regulation for tech companies.
1/4

prospect.org/power/2025-0...
Ted Cruz Attempts to Exempt Big Tech From the Law
The Texas senator has introduced a law allowing any AI company a streamlined path around regulations.
prospect.org
September 23, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Reposted by Dylan GL
prospect.org
On the latest edition of TAP’s Weekly Roundup @ddayen.bsky.social talks with @dylangyauchl.bsky.social and Bryan McMahon about the enormous environmental and economic costs of AI, and what could happen if the AI bubble bursts. trib.al/ZtLdTx1
The Prospect Weekly Roundup: The Politics and Policy of AI
On our live show, David talks with Bryan McMahon and Dylan Gyauch-Lewis about the limits and hazards of the current state of artificial intelligence, and what politicians should do about it.
trib.al
September 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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prospect.org
Recent polling found that only 17% of Americans believe that AI will help the country in the next 20 years. Democrats should align themselves with this popular view. From @dylangyauchl.bsky.social‬ and @maxmoranhi.bsky.social with @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social‬:
Democrats Must Oppose the AI Industry
As currently constructed, AI is an oligarchy-enriching, worker-immiserating, energy-depleting, brain-rotting economic bubble in waiting. Democrats can get on the public’s side here.
trib.al
September 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
dylangyauchl.bsky.social
My latest w/ @maxmoranhi.bsky.social is out in @prospect.org today! It's about why Democrats need to vigorously oppose the AI industry.

Hope folks find it interesting!

prospect.org/power/2025-0...
Democrats Must Oppose the AI Industry
As currently constructed, AI is an oligarchy-enriching, worker-immiserating, energy-depleting, brain-rotting economic bubble in waiting. Democrats can get on the public’s side here.
prospect.org
September 5, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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revolvingdoordc.bsky.social
Democrats must oppose the AI industry.

Our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social and @maxmoranhi.bsky.social lay out the case this morning in a piece for @prospect.org 1/4

prospect.org/power/2025-0...
Democrats Must Oppose the AI Industry
As currently constructed, AI is an oligarchy-enriching, worker-immiserating, energy-depleting, brain-rotting economic bubble in waiting. Democrats can get on the public’s side here.
prospect.org
September 5, 2025 at 1:31 PM
dylangyauchl.bsky.social
You're hearing it more and more!

there's a reason this was in my piece from this morning

open.substack.com/pub/revolvin...
The trouble with talking about the abundance movement is that it’s quite hard to pin down what exactly it is. There’s Paul Williams who basically says that abundance is just an amalgamation of local YIMBY movements, which leads to the counterintuitive position (made at roughly the 1 hour 52 minute mark) that people like Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson aren’t really part of the movement, despite being the most prominent public representatives of the faction’s brand. Amusingly, when I was searching for where Williams said that, Google’s AI told me “No, Paul Williams is not in the abundance movement, but Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson are two of its most prominent proponents.” (For what it’s worth, I truly wish that we lived in a world where we had an abundance movement that matches what people like Williams and Ned Resnikoff mean, rather than a bundling of YIMBYism with clearing a path for AI data centers—which is explicitly cited as an objective by the Inclusive Abundance Initiative—and abetting fossil fuel expansion. Oh well.)
September 4, 2025 at 9:46 PM
dylangyauchl.bsky.social
In our coverage of this week's abundapalooza, I got the fun job in writing this Hackwatch newsletter!

I talk about the good, the bad, and the weird bedfellows, drawing on recent reports from my wonderful colleagues. Hope folks enjoy!
September 4, 2025 at 4:32 PM