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Julia Black
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Signal: @mjnblack.09
Email: juliablackjourno@protonmail.com
Work: https://www.juliablackwrites.com/
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Thanks for having me on, @baparker.bsky.social @npr.org! www.npr.org/2025/10/29/n...
How Elon Musk and JD Vance plan to 'save civilization' with more babies : Code Switch
What do conservatives like JD Vance and tech executives like Elon Musk have in common? They, like other pronatalists, want to “save civilization” by having more American babies. But it wasn’t that lon...
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October 30, 2025 at 5:28 PM
juliablack.bsky.social
By the way... my current fellowship winds down soon-ish, and I'll be back on the market for a full-time reporting role! If you want to do stories like this together, feel free to reach out (:

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juliablack.bsky.social Julia Black @juliablack.bsky.social · 23d
While I was reporting this NYT profile of defense tech investor & JD Vance ally Katherine Boyle, a State Department official told me: “If you’re looking at her project as a policy project, you’re not really understanding it. Her project is ultimately civilizational.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...
The Tech Right Gets Its Own Phyllis Schlafly
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October 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
juliablack.bsky.social
Literally impossible for me to see this man without hearing this song… what an achievement…

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October 20, 2025 at 1:48 PM
juliablack.bsky.social
While I was reporting this NYT profile of defense tech investor & JD Vance ally Katherine Boyle, a State Department official told me: “If you’re looking at her project as a policy project, you’re not really understanding it. Her project is ultimately civilizational.”

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/19/b...
The Tech Right Gets Its Own Phyllis Schlafly
www.nytimes.com
October 19, 2025 at 6:28 PM
juliablack.bsky.social
This year, two new products launched claiming to be able to detect IQ in embryos(!) In my latest for @technologyreview.com, I dove into the ethical morass—and very real world implications—of ranking humans before they are even born.
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The race to make the perfect baby is creating an ethical mess
A new field of science claims to be able to predict aesthetic traits, intelligence, and even moral character in embryos. Is this the next step in human evolution or something more dangerous?
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October 16, 2025 at 2:13 PM
juliablack.bsky.social
really jealous of the depth of this reporting by @laurabullard.bsky.social — a must-read! www.wired.com/story/the-re...
The Real Stakes, and Real Story, of Peter Thiel’s Antichrist Obsession
Thirty years ago, a peace-loving Austrian theologian spoke to Peter Thiel about the apocalyptic theories of Nazi jurist Carl Schmitt. They’ve been a road map for the billionaire ever since.
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October 1, 2025 at 2:06 AM
juliablack.bsky.social
lord help me I started a (free!) substack

got some cool stuff in the pipeline, so please subscribe! (:

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A Billion to One | Julia Black | Substack
A newsletter about wealth, technology, and power. Click to read A Billion to One, by Julia Black, a Substack publication.
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August 25, 2025 at 8:41 PM
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waterslicer.bsky.social
I learned so much working on this @juliablack.bsky.social piece on the rise of microschools.

www.wired.com/story/silico...
How Microschools Became the Latest Tech Mogul Obsession
Between homeschool provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill and Trump’s attempts to gut the Department of Education, teaching kids looks different now. Silicon Valley’s answer? Microschools.
www.wired.com
August 18, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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mclem.org
The student newspaper.
This fell. To the student. Newspaper.
washingtonpost.com The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · Aug 7
Stanford University’s student-run newspaper sued two senior Trump administration officials Wednesday, challenging Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s ability to revoke student visas and deem an individual deportable based on the content of their speech.
Stanford newspaper sues Trump administration over student deportations
The lawsuit challenges Secretary of State Marco Rubio’s ability to revoke student visas and deem an individual deportable based on the content of their speech.
wapo.st
August 7, 2025 at 2:10 AM
juliablack.bsky.social
Coming out of stealth mode...

to share that I will be joining the @omidyarnetwork.bsky.social's next Reporters in Residence cohort!

This support will enable me to work on some absolute dream projects. I'm so grateful.

more news soon! 👀

omidyar.com/update/omidy...
Announcing our sixth class of reporters in residence - Omidyar Network
Our new reporters will report on the emerging rules, institutions, norms, people and narratives shaping our technology and society.
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July 9, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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danahull.bsky.social
Medicaid is the largest single payer of pregnancy-related services, financing 41% of births nationally in 2023and over half of births in four states (Louisiana, Mississippi, New Mexico, Oklahoma): www.kff.org/medicaid/iss...
5 Key Facts About Medicaid and Pregnancy | KFF
This brief examines Medicaid’s pregnancy and postpartum coverage and its support for strengthening and improving maternal health outcomes.
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July 1, 2025 at 10:42 PM
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areidross.bsky.social
Reading this article by @juliablack.bsky.social from Aug9 is basically just opening tomorrow's newspaper.
Yet the Yarvin associate perhaps poised to wield the most influence is J.D. Vance. In 2021, Vance told podcaster Jack Murphy he'd been reading Yarvin's arguments that "we should basically eliminate the administrative state," adding that he found himself "sympathetic to that project." Vance doubled down on the theory the next year, saying that he would advise Trump to "fire every single mid-level bureaucrat...and when the courts stop you, stand before the country, and say, the chief justice has made his ruling. Now let him enforce it," according to Vanity Fair.
March 16, 2025 at 4:17 AM
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we truly love to see it www.teenvogue.com/story/vivian... @thevivllainous.bsky.social
March 20, 2025 at 4:24 PM
juliablack.bsky.social
Federal employees, I would love to speak with you about how DOGE is using technology to reshape your agencies… spot a new AI use? FedRAMP request? Code rewrite?

Here’s my work: juliablackwrites.com

Secure Signal contact: @mjnblack.09

@altusds.bsky.social @fedworkersunited.bsky.social
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February 26, 2025 at 12:04 AM
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techwontsave.us
Sam Altman imagines a grand AI-powered future for humanity, but isn’t too concerned with what it might actually mean for average people.

Up next in our premium interviews from DATA VAMPIRES is @juliablack.bsky.social!

Become a Patreon supporter to listen: www.patreon.com/posts/sam-al...
February 15, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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nicktheandersen.com
‘any press is good press, especially on the internet…you have to have a good sense of self.’ — @taylorlorenz.bsky.social, at #onairfest w/ @juliablack.bsky.social, on how she deals w/ being an internet main topic occasionally
February 20, 2025 at 3:27 PM
juliablack.bsky.social
@arctictony.bsky.social starting the Future of Media panel off strong by quoting a text from @pkafka.bsky.social: “we’re all fucked lol”
November 18, 2024 at 8:51 PM
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taylorlorenz.bsky.social
The latest Pew Research report on news content creators paints a damning picture of our skewed information ecosystem.

I went deep into the 122 page report and broke down the key findings and what they mean www.usermag.co/p/the-majori...
The majority of news influencers are conservative men, study finds
The latest Pew Research report on news content creators paints a damning picture of our skewed information ecosystem
www.usermag.co
November 18, 2024 at 4:49 PM
juliablack.bsky.social
Been on the fence about how much to bother with Bluesky but @alexrkonrad.bsky.social says this is where the organic conversation is happening so… lets give it a go!
November 18, 2024 at 4:17 PM
juliablack.bsky.social
I dunno how shameless self-promotion plays on this platform but, uh, I really do want you to read this story, so here’s some anyway:

https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-openai-chatgpt-worldcoin-helion-future-tech-2023-4
He's played chess with Peter Thiel, sparred with Elon Musk and once, supposedly, stopped a plane crash: Inside Sam Altman's world, where truth is stranger than fiction
With the success of ChatGPT, Altman has turned into a household name. And he's just getting started.
www.businessinsider.com
April 28, 2023 at 7:00 PM