Dr. Nicholas Rabb
@nickrabb.bsky.social
Researching misinformation, AI, ethics, social change. Currently postdoc at Cal State LA studying STEM education and AI in education.
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Revealing tidbit from WSJ about Meta's AI revenues (www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...).
Basically, Meta is claiming AI is working because it's growing it's advertising business -- ad clickthroughs on FB up 3.5% and $10b in Q4 from AI-generated video ads.
This is AI's business model. Ads.
Basically, Meta is claiming AI is working because it's growing it's advertising business -- ad clickthroughs on FB up 3.5% and $10b in Q4 from AI-generated video ads.
This is AI's business model. Ads.
Meta Has Been Spending Like Crazy on AI. It’s Actually Paying Off.
Its planned capital spending of up to $135 billion represents a significant acceleration, but the company’s ad business is keeping pace.
www.wsj.com
February 10, 2026 at 3:36 PM
Revealing tidbit from WSJ about Meta's AI revenues (www.wsj.com/tech/ai/meta...).
Basically, Meta is claiming AI is working because it's growing it's advertising business -- ad clickthroughs on FB up 3.5% and $10b in Q4 from AI-generated video ads.
This is AI's business model. Ads.
Basically, Meta is claiming AI is working because it's growing it's advertising business -- ad clickthroughs on FB up 3.5% and $10b in Q4 from AI-generated video ads.
This is AI's business model. Ads.
So now the EPA officially provides resources for data center developers to get around the Clean Air Act. That's nice.
www.epa.gov/stationary-s...
www.epa.gov/stationary-s...
Clean Air Act Resources for Data Centers | US EPA
A compilation of relevant resources on data center development.
www.epa.gov
January 16, 2026 at 11:20 PM
So now the EPA officially provides resources for data center developers to get around the Clean Air Act. That's nice.
www.epa.gov/stationary-s...
www.epa.gov/stationary-s...
Just when I thought my days getting riled up about Kyrsten Sinema were over, she comes back into my life.
I was reading about data center fights across the U.S. and found that Sinema, former enemy of real climate policy, has now taken to AI lobbying
zeteo.com/p/kyrsten-si...
I was reading about data center fights across the U.S. and found that Sinema, former enemy of real climate policy, has now taken to AI lobbying
zeteo.com/p/kyrsten-si...
How Kyrsten Sinema Bullied an Arizona City to Approve Her Client’s AI Data Center
Just months after leaving the Senate, Democrats’ former corporate villain is raking in money while lobbying for the AI industry and proudly working "hand in glove with the Trump administration."
zeteo.com
January 14, 2026 at 12:15 AM
Just when I thought my days getting riled up about Kyrsten Sinema were over, she comes back into my life.
I was reading about data center fights across the U.S. and found that Sinema, former enemy of real climate policy, has now taken to AI lobbying
zeteo.com/p/kyrsten-si...
I was reading about data center fights across the U.S. and found that Sinema, former enemy of real climate policy, has now taken to AI lobbying
zeteo.com/p/kyrsten-si...
When is enough enough? The U.S. violence against Venezuela is an indication that our society is off the rails, totally uncontrolled. I wrote a brief response on my blog discussing how we need to build back the means of controlling our rogue nation.
ricknabb.medium.com/the-attacks-...
ricknabb.medium.com/the-attacks-...
The Attacks on Venezuela Signal We Need to Drastically Change Society
The U.S. is no stranger to unaccountable acts of state violence. But when is enough enough? To stop these acts, we need to double down on…
ricknabb.medium.com
January 3, 2026 at 4:25 PM
When is enough enough? The U.S. violence against Venezuela is an indication that our society is off the rails, totally uncontrolled. I wrote a brief response on my blog discussing how we need to build back the means of controlling our rogue nation.
ricknabb.medium.com/the-attacks-...
ricknabb.medium.com/the-attacks-...
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Over and over the US inflicts obscene violence against the global South, in flagrant violation of international law, to maintain the conditions for capital accumulation for its decadent billionaire class. It's disgusting and intolerable. We cannot continue to accept this.
January 3, 2026 at 3:04 PM
Over and over the US inflicts obscene violence against the global South, in flagrant violation of international law, to maintain the conditions for capital accumulation for its decadent billionaire class. It's disgusting and intolerable. We cannot continue to accept this.
Reposted by Dr. Nicholas Rabb
NEW from @pewresearch.org: Most popular chatbots among US teens www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...
December 9, 2025 at 8:20 PM
NEW from @pewresearch.org: Most popular chatbots among US teens www.pewresearch.org/internet/202...
Had a fun time revisiting Heidegger to comment on AI's potential to create massive alienation through AI-driven production -- making us see the world of human creativity as a means to an end, rather than an end in itself
#AI #tech #philosophy #bigtech
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#AI #tech #philosophy #bigtech
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Nick Rabb 🌅🌊 on Instagram: "Have you ever considered the social and psychological toll that will come if AI becomes the dominant mode of production of social and cultural artifacts? It seems bad.
Thi...
AI production is reshaping the world, but at what cost? Join the conversation about the potential risks of alienation, creativity loss, and environmental destruction. Heidegger's philosophy offers a u...
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December 5, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Had a fun time revisiting Heidegger to comment on AI's potential to create massive alienation through AI-driven production -- making us see the world of human creativity as a means to an end, rather than an end in itself
#AI #tech #philosophy #bigtech
www.instagram.com/p/DR40cuBDot2/
#AI #tech #philosophy #bigtech
www.instagram.com/p/DR40cuBDot2/
Yesterday, at my university's Academic Senate, we raised critical questions to the administration about the CSU's $17m purchase of ChatGPT-Edu.
This blog post contains the questions as well as lengthy context on AI and education
ricknabb.medium.com/my-universit...
#AI #Education #HigherEducation
This blog post contains the questions as well as lengthy context on AI and education
ricknabb.medium.com/my-universit...
#AI #Education #HigherEducation
My University is Critically Questioning AI in Education
At a recent Academic Senate session, I worked with other instructors to raise questions to administration about their decisions to push…
ricknabb.medium.com
December 3, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Yesterday, at my university's Academic Senate, we raised critical questions to the administration about the CSU's $17m purchase of ChatGPT-Edu.
This blog post contains the questions as well as lengthy context on AI and education
ricknabb.medium.com/my-universit...
#AI #Education #HigherEducation
This blog post contains the questions as well as lengthy context on AI and education
ricknabb.medium.com/my-universit...
#AI #Education #HigherEducation
Came across this interesting article a bit late: edsource.org/2025/ai-assi...
CSU used AI in a legal filing as it fights against RAs joining the Employees Union & it hallucinated a court case in its argument
Embarrassing for the system pushing to be the "AI leader" in higher ed
#AI #highered
CSU used AI in a legal filing as it fights against RAs joining the Employees Union & it hallucinated a court case in its argument
Embarrassing for the system pushing to be the "AI leader" in higher ed
#AI #highered
Cal State says staff AI use ‘resulted in errors’ in legal filing
An administrative law judge said a document filed by Cal State had "all the hallmarks" of AI hallucinations.
edsource.org
December 1, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Came across this interesting article a bit late: edsource.org/2025/ai-assi...
CSU used AI in a legal filing as it fights against RAs joining the Employees Union & it hallucinated a court case in its argument
Embarrassing for the system pushing to be the "AI leader" in higher ed
#AI #highered
CSU used AI in a legal filing as it fights against RAs joining the Employees Union & it hallucinated a court case in its argument
Embarrassing for the system pushing to be the "AI leader" in higher ed
#AI #highered
Well this article is a nightmare.
When your technology is so unpopular that you have to force usage of it through firing the unwilling and hiring proponents, you have an issue.
WSJ of course pushing forward the fear of retaliation on behalf of Big Tech
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-w...
#AI
When your technology is so unpopular that you have to force usage of it through firing the unwilling and hiring proponents, you have an issue.
WSJ of course pushing forward the fear of retaliation on behalf of Big Tech
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-w...
#AI
The Boss Has a Message: Use AI or You’re Fired
At companies big and small, employees have feared being replaced by AI. The new threat: Being replaced by someone who knows AI.
www.wsj.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:10 PM
Well this article is a nightmare.
When your technology is so unpopular that you have to force usage of it through firing the unwilling and hiring proponents, you have an issue.
WSJ of course pushing forward the fear of retaliation on behalf of Big Tech
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-w...
#AI
When your technology is so unpopular that you have to force usage of it through firing the unwilling and hiring proponents, you have an issue.
WSJ of course pushing forward the fear of retaliation on behalf of Big Tech
www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-w...
#AI
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This monster also promoted the invasion of Iraq, which killed hundreds of thousands of people and created mass child malnutrition.
November 18, 2025 at 8:20 PM
This monster also promoted the invasion of Iraq, which killed hundreds of thousands of people and created mass child malnutrition.
An excellent example of AI bias and how it stands to influence thought & media production.
This is a GenAI tool in YT Studio to help creators get ideas for videos based on previous content. It gave me "The Future of Work: Automation and Human Purpose," which I expected to be totally different 🧵
This is a GenAI tool in YT Studio to help creators get ideas for videos based on previous content. It gave me "The Future of Work: Automation and Human Purpose," which I expected to be totally different 🧵
November 14, 2025 at 7:02 PM
An excellent example of AI bias and how it stands to influence thought & media production.
This is a GenAI tool in YT Studio to help creators get ideas for videos based on previous content. It gave me "The Future of Work: Automation and Human Purpose," which I expected to be totally different 🧵
This is a GenAI tool in YT Studio to help creators get ideas for videos based on previous content. It gave me "The Future of Work: Automation and Human Purpose," which I expected to be totally different 🧵
Just read this post by @404media.co about Google hosting CBP's new app on the Play store while removing ICE tracking apps.
What struck me most is how the CBP app reminded me of surveillance systems used to police Palestinians
🧵
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
What struck me most is how the CBP app reminded me of surveillance systems used to police Palestinians
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www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Google Has Chosen a Side in Trump's Mass Deportation Effort
Google is hosting a CBP app that uses facial recognition to identify immigrants, while simultaneously removing apps that report the location of ICE officials because Google sees ICE as a vulnerable gr...
www.404media.co
November 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Just read this post by @404media.co about Google hosting CBP's new app on the Play store while removing ICE tracking apps.
What struck me most is how the CBP app reminded me of surveillance systems used to police Palestinians
🧵
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
What struck me most is how the CBP app reminded me of surveillance systems used to police Palestinians
🧵
www.404media.co/google-has-c...
Join me and other young movement organizers on Nov 18th to hear our perspectives on what the priorities should be for the peace and justice movements 🕊️
Register at: bit.ly/cpdcs-rising-gen
#peace #justice #socialmovement #socialjustice
Register at: bit.ly/cpdcs-rising-gen
#peace #justice #socialmovement #socialjustice
November 11, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Join me and other young movement organizers on Nov 18th to hear our perspectives on what the priorities should be for the peace and justice movements 🕊️
Register at: bit.ly/cpdcs-rising-gen
#peace #justice #socialmovement #socialjustice
Register at: bit.ly/cpdcs-rising-gen
#peace #justice #socialmovement #socialjustice
I created a list of 5 books you can read to develop more critical takes on #AI, cutting through the hype. I have my students read most of these. Take a look at the list and let me know which other books you'd recommend!
www.instagram.com/p/DQp3afejL7...
#BigTech #tech #critical #sociotechnical
www.instagram.com/p/DQp3afejL7...
#BigTech #tech #critical #sociotechnical
November 5, 2025 at 6:46 PM
I created a list of 5 books you can read to develop more critical takes on #AI, cutting through the hype. I have my students read most of these. Take a look at the list and let me know which other books you'd recommend!
www.instagram.com/p/DQp3afejL7...
#BigTech #tech #critical #sociotechnical
www.instagram.com/p/DQp3afejL7...
#BigTech #tech #critical #sociotechnical
Well this is a nightmare. #palantir hiring high-schoolers to intentionally not go to college and instead learn to become a tech worker by working at the company. Problematic for so many reasons 🧵
www.wsj.com/business/pal...
#education #bigtech #tech #engineering
www.wsj.com/business/pal...
#education #bigtech #tech #engineering
November 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
Well this is a nightmare. #palantir hiring high-schoolers to intentionally not go to college and instead learn to become a tech worker by working at the company. Problematic for so many reasons 🧵
www.wsj.com/business/pal...
#education #bigtech #tech #engineering
www.wsj.com/business/pal...
#education #bigtech #tech #engineering
Maybe a bit late to this, but I found out about the latest Bill Gates climate memo from @climatedefiance.bsky.social and wanted to give my two cents.
Written up in long form here: ricknabb.medium.com/bill-gates-c...
But I'll summarize some main points in the 🧵
#BillGates #climatechange
Written up in long form here: ricknabb.medium.com/bill-gates-c...
But I'll summarize some main points in the 🧵
#BillGates #climatechange
Bill Gates’ Climate Memo is Carefully-Crafted Propaganda Serving his Own Business Interests
What is being positioned as pragmatic wisdom is nothing more than a current manifestation in a trend of Gates seeming to care
ricknabb.medium.com
October 31, 2025 at 6:39 PM
Maybe a bit late to this, but I found out about the latest Bill Gates climate memo from @climatedefiance.bsky.social and wanted to give my two cents.
Written up in long form here: ricknabb.medium.com/bill-gates-c...
But I'll summarize some main points in the 🧵
#BillGates #climatechange
Written up in long form here: ricknabb.medium.com/bill-gates-c...
But I'll summarize some main points in the 🧵
#BillGates #climatechange
This is the most neuro-nerd thing I've ever seen and I love it. IYKYK
I made some #halloween treats as a tribute to Phineas Gage--the most important lesion patient in neuroscience
Gage survived an accident in which an iron rod shot through his frontal lobe that damaged his social capacities
If you want to make these treats www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/why-people...
Gage survived an accident in which an iron rod shot through his frontal lobe that damaged his social capacities
If you want to make these treats www.powerofusnewsletter.com/p/why-people...
October 31, 2025 at 6:19 PM
This is the most neuro-nerd thing I've ever seen and I love it. IYKYK
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Exciting position @northeasternu.bsky.social ! Managing Policy Director at the new Institute for Information, & Democracy, please share with interested parties. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...
Managing Policy Director - Institute for Information, Internet, and Democracy
About the Opportunity JOB SUMMARY The Institute for Information, Internet, and Democracy seeks to support rigorous research on the problems of the contemporary information ecosystem, and to evaluate t...
northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Exciting position @northeasternu.bsky.social ! Managing Policy Director at the new Institute for Information, & Democracy, please share with interested parties. northeastern.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/career...
📹 New reel on IG: 3 Media Literacy Tips to help you Navigate GenAI Misinformation
From a misinformation researcher's standpoint, here are three media literacy tips you can use to not get fooled by GenAI garbage:
#misinformation #ai #socialmedia #openai #sora #vibes #media
From a misinformation researcher's standpoint, here are three media literacy tips you can use to not get fooled by GenAI garbage:
#misinformation #ai #socialmedia #openai #sora #vibes #media
October 20, 2025 at 5:03 PM
📹 New reel on IG: 3 Media Literacy Tips to help you Navigate GenAI Misinformation
From a misinformation researcher's standpoint, here are three media literacy tips you can use to not get fooled by GenAI garbage:
#misinformation #ai #socialmedia #openai #sora #vibes #media
From a misinformation researcher's standpoint, here are three media literacy tips you can use to not get fooled by GenAI garbage:
#misinformation #ai #socialmedia #openai #sora #vibes #media
Reposted by Dr. Nicholas Rabb
How should we think about China in today’s debates on AI and society, and how might China serve as a productive analytical lens? In this commentary, @zhifan-luo.bsky.social and I offer a typology to see China as mirror, prototype, counterpoint, and global actor.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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China as an Analytical Lens for AI and Society
How can "China" serve as a productive analytical tool for understanding the relationship between artificial intelligence's and society? This commentar
papers.ssrn.com
September 17, 2025 at 6:22 PM
How should we think about China in today’s debates on AI and society, and how might China serve as a productive analytical lens? In this commentary, @zhifan-luo.bsky.social and I offer a typology to see China as mirror, prototype, counterpoint, and global actor.
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
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Happy to share our commentary is published on Big Data & Society today! Instead of seeing China as AI’s dystopian specter, what if we use it as a generative lens to rethink global AI?
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
October 17, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Happy to share our commentary is published on Big Data & Society today! Instead of seeing China as AI’s dystopian specter, what if we use it as a generative lens to rethink global AI?
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
📝New newsletter!
poiesis.beehiiv.com/p/ai-and-pow...
In it, I discuss AI and militarism, a recent webinar I was on discussing social movement power, and the new GenAI social media platforms -- Sora 2 and Vibes.
#AI #tech #power #organizing #socialmedia #militarism
poiesis.beehiiv.com/p/ai-and-pow...
In it, I discuss AI and militarism, a recent webinar I was on discussing social movement power, and the new GenAI social media platforms -- Sora 2 and Vibes.
#AI #tech #power #organizing #socialmedia #militarism
AI and Power: Misinformation, Surveillance, Targeted Repression
Thinking about power is one of my preoccupations. AI is rapidly changing power relations, as a new tool that influences the information ecosystem, corporate power, and supercharges systems of dominati...
poiesis.beehiiv.com
October 17, 2025 at 7:08 PM
📝New newsletter!
poiesis.beehiiv.com/p/ai-and-pow...
In it, I discuss AI and militarism, a recent webinar I was on discussing social movement power, and the new GenAI social media platforms -- Sora 2 and Vibes.
#AI #tech #power #organizing #socialmedia #militarism
poiesis.beehiiv.com/p/ai-and-pow...
In it, I discuss AI and militarism, a recent webinar I was on discussing social movement power, and the new GenAI social media platforms -- Sora 2 and Vibes.
#AI #tech #power #organizing #socialmedia #militarism
Thinking about the materiality of AI. While people are discussing water & electricity use, do we think about the cost of making countless chips for data centers?
This @unep.org report "AI end-to-end" details some of that aspect
wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/ha...
#AI #climate #sustainability
This @unep.org report "AI end-to-end" details some of that aspect
wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/ha...
#AI #climate #sustainability
wedocs.unep.org
October 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Thinking about the materiality of AI. While people are discussing water & electricity use, do we think about the cost of making countless chips for data centers?
This @unep.org report "AI end-to-end" details some of that aspect
wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/ha...
#AI #climate #sustainability
This @unep.org report "AI end-to-end" details some of that aspect
wedocs.unep.org/bitstream/ha...
#AI #climate #sustainability