Chris Bajgier
@chris.bajgier.net
Man in dark times. Pittsburgher, product leader, humane technologist. Experiments to save democracy. Contains multitudes, but mostly a dad.
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Please watch this.
The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill.
You need to know this, so you can help stop it.
The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill.
You need to know this, so you can help stop it.
November 24, 2025 at 6:52 PM
Please watch this.
The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill.
You need to know this, so you can help stop it.
The Senate killed a bill to ban state regulation of AI by a vote of 99-1 this spring. Now the industry - eager to stay unregulated - and Trump are scheming to shove the provision in the national defense bill.
You need to know this, so you can help stop it.
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🚨HAPPENING TONIGHT: #WeAintBuyingIt this holiday season — join us 8pmET (Nov 20th) to hear about the campaigns you can join to flex your power and your dollar. bit.ly/holidayactions
We Choose Workers Over Billionaires this Holiday Season · May Day Strong
We know how to stand against authoritarianism - it's denying our consent and taking the fight to key companies who are aiding the destruction of our democracy and attacking workers for profit and power.
This holiday season we are standing in solidarit...
bit.ly
November 20, 2025 at 10:02 PM
🚨HAPPENING TONIGHT: #WeAintBuyingIt this holiday season — join us 8pmET (Nov 20th) to hear about the campaigns you can join to flex your power and your dollar. bit.ly/holidayactions
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A new digital era is emerging, and it’s even more anti-social than the last. Damon Beres reports on the false promise of AI companionship:
The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here
The social-media era is over. What’s coming will be much worse.
bit.ly
November 6, 2025 at 1:15 AM
A new digital era is emerging, and it’s even more anti-social than the last. Damon Beres reports on the false promise of AI companionship:
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As Fiserv CEO, Frank Bisignano overinflated sales projections before quickly cashing out with a $500M stock sale.
Now, Fiserv's market value has collapsed — and Trump has put Bisignano in charge of Social Security.
Be warned. https://www.commondreams.org/news/fiserv-ceo-frank-bisignano
Now, Fiserv's market value has collapsed — and Trump has put Bisignano in charge of Social Security.
Be warned. https://www.commondreams.org/news/fiserv-ceo-frank-bisignano
Demand for Trump's Social Security Chief Bisignano to Resign After $30 Billion Implosion of Former Company | Common Dreams
The former CEO of Fiserv has been accused of causing chaos, with the company's stock plummeting by 40% and $30 billion i
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October 31, 2025 at 8:15 PM
As Fiserv CEO, Frank Bisignano overinflated sales projections before quickly cashing out with a $500M stock sale.
Now, Fiserv's market value has collapsed — and Trump has put Bisignano in charge of Social Security.
Be warned. https://www.commondreams.org/news/fiserv-ceo-frank-bisignano
Now, Fiserv's market value has collapsed — and Trump has put Bisignano in charge of Social Security.
Be warned. https://www.commondreams.org/news/fiserv-ceo-frank-bisignano
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Any American medium that fails to cover the largest protests in American history is failing in the basic mission of informing the public about the facts.
#NoKings
#NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Any American medium that fails to cover the largest protests in American history is failing in the basic mission of informing the public about the facts.
#NoKings
#NoKings
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Quietly devastating. How AI firms lied, cheated and robbed their way to killing the open web and decades of mutually agreed, protocol-based technical cooperation
All technologists who work for them are culpable.
They murder knowledge and systems of informal and hard-learned collaboration and care.
All technologists who work for them are culpable.
They murder knowledge and systems of informal and hard-learned collaboration and care.
"The protocol taught us that technology can be based on human values like ethics and morality. It showed that voluntary compliance works when all parties benefit."
On robots.txt.
www.heise.de/en/backgroun...
On robots.txt.
www.heise.de/en/backgroun...
Obituary: Farewell to robots.txt (1994-2025)
The voluntary compliance protocol that civilized the internet has departed, bids Henning Fries farewell.
www.heise.de
October 17, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Quietly devastating. How AI firms lied, cheated and robbed their way to killing the open web and decades of mutually agreed, protocol-based technical cooperation
All technologists who work for them are culpable.
They murder knowledge and systems of informal and hard-learned collaboration and care.
All technologists who work for them are culpable.
They murder knowledge and systems of informal and hard-learned collaboration and care.
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2015: Don’t read the comments
2025: The comments are now in charge
2025: The comments are now in charge
October 5, 2025 at 2:45 AM
2015: Don’t read the comments
2025: The comments are now in charge
2025: The comments are now in charge
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The Sora AI thing is proof of something very important: The technology itself is useless without the ability to use the likenesses of real, living, unpredictable people, and the art they create. And the only way to get those likenesses or that art is to summarily steal it.
October 1, 2025 at 11:02 PM
The Sora AI thing is proof of something very important: The technology itself is useless without the ability to use the likenesses of real, living, unpredictable people, and the art they create. And the only way to get those likenesses or that art is to summarily steal it.
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What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Former Observer big-hitters inc @carolecadwalla.bsky.social launch new title The Nerve with redundancy payouts
After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
After Observer sale: "We decided to launch a title that the journalists themselves would own, that would be truly independent"
pressgazette.co.uk/news/former-...
Former Observer big-hitters launch new title with redundancy payouts
Five former Observer journalists including Carole Cadwalladr have launched their own culture publication using their redundancy money.
pressgazette.co.uk
September 26, 2025 at 11:03 AM
What do you do when your media org is captured? You start your own.
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
Introducing....The Nerve!!! @thenerve-news.bsky.social
We're all-female, journalist-owned & launching next week.
Please help us build a truly independent, progressive new media!👊👊👊
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David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.
September 18, 2025 at 11:06 PM
David Letterman is right: you can't appease a tyrant.
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I miss the days when the Silicon Valley was filled with idealism and trying to make the world a better place — not just for the shareholders.
September 10, 2025 at 12:19 PM
I miss the days when the Silicon Valley was filled with idealism and trying to make the world a better place — not just for the shareholders.
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There are nearly 1,000 billionaires in the United States.
The Department of Class Solidarity is the war room of the working class—arming organizers, activists, and everyday people with the tools to expose all of them.
Learn more at classsolidarity.org and follow @solidaritydept.bsky.social.
The Department of Class Solidarity is the war room of the working class—arming organizers, activists, and everyday people with the tools to expose all of them.
Learn more at classsolidarity.org and follow @solidaritydept.bsky.social.
August 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
There are nearly 1,000 billionaires in the United States.
The Department of Class Solidarity is the war room of the working class—arming organizers, activists, and everyday people with the tools to expose all of them.
Learn more at classsolidarity.org and follow @solidaritydept.bsky.social.
The Department of Class Solidarity is the war room of the working class—arming organizers, activists, and everyday people with the tools to expose all of them.
Learn more at classsolidarity.org and follow @solidaritydept.bsky.social.
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Sold as The Answer to Everything, AI has become a factory of custom manias, faux-companionship and typo-free teenage suicide notes.
By @mobute.bsky.social
By @mobute.bsky.social
Where’s a Moral Panic When You Need One? - Truthdig
Sold as The Answer to Everything, AI has become a factory of custom manias, faux-companionship and typo-free teenage suicide notes.
www.truthdig.com
August 29, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Sold as The Answer to Everything, AI has become a factory of custom manias, faux-companionship and typo-free teenage suicide notes.
By @mobute.bsky.social
By @mobute.bsky.social
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Literally so thrilled that @wired.com's reporting on DOGE has been shortlisted for an Online Journalism Award! This year has been one of the hardest of my career, but I am so grateful to have done it with this team.
awards.journalists.org/entries/insi...
awards.journalists.org/entries/insi...
Inside Elon Musk's 'Digital Coup' - Online Journalism Awards
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August 23, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Literally so thrilled that @wired.com's reporting on DOGE has been shortlisted for an Online Journalism Award! This year has been one of the hardest of my career, but I am so grateful to have done it with this team.
awards.journalists.org/entries/insi...
awards.journalists.org/entries/insi...
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"As AI overviews become the default gateway to info, we risk creating a generation of users who consume knowledge w/o question, publishers who cannot sustain quality journalism, & a public sphere increasingly shaped by the statistical patterns embedded in LLMs." www.techpolicy.press/how-ai-drive...
How AI-Driven Search May Reshape Democracy, Economics, and Human Agency | TechPolicy.Press
Cameron Pattison, Vance Ricks, and John P. Wihbey see differences in kind, as well as in degree, from the pre-generative model-based online search environment.
www.techpolicy.press
August 18, 2025 at 2:44 PM
"As AI overviews become the default gateway to info, we risk creating a generation of users who consume knowledge w/o question, publishers who cannot sustain quality journalism, & a public sphere increasingly shaped by the statistical patterns embedded in LLMs." www.techpolicy.press/how-ai-drive...
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"The more knowledge people have about AI and how it works, the less likely they are to embrace it. ... People in countries with lower average AI literacy tended to be more open to adopting AI compared to those in countries with higher literacy levels."
Why Understanding AI Doesn’t Necessarily Lead People to Embrace It
New research has uncovered a paradoxical relationship between AI literacy and receptivity: Individuals with lower AI literacy are more likely to embrace AI, despite perceiving it as less capable and m...
hbr.org
August 9, 2025 at 11:00 PM
"The more knowledge people have about AI and how it works, the less likely they are to embrace it. ... People in countries with lower average AI literacy tended to be more open to adopting AI compared to those in countries with higher literacy levels."
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"The myth of technological and political and social inevitability is a powerful tranquilizer of the conscience. Its service is to remove responsibility from the shoulders of everyone who truly believes in it." --Joseph Weizenbaum, 1975 #ai
July 31, 2025 at 10:13 PM
"The myth of technological and political and social inevitability is a powerful tranquilizer of the conscience. Its service is to remove responsibility from the shoulders of everyone who truly believes in it." --Joseph Weizenbaum, 1975 #ai
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Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
February 19, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Stand by this: www.politico.com/newsletters/...
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Must-read of the day from Maximilian Alvarez; reads like a sequel to @astra.bsky.social and Naomi Klein’s “end-times fascism” piece (which it explicitly references)
therealnews.com/uaw-what-goo...
therealnews.com/uaw-what-goo...
What good is a union in Hell?
“Brothers, sisters, siblings, we stand here now on the precipice of oblivion… This isn't just about fighting for better wages and working conditions… This is about who is willing to fight for life its...
therealnews.com
July 26, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Must-read of the day from Maximilian Alvarez; reads like a sequel to @astra.bsky.social and Naomi Klein’s “end-times fascism” piece (which it explicitly references)
therealnews.com/uaw-what-goo...
therealnews.com/uaw-what-goo...
Remember — before any of this Epstein stuff came to light, Ghislane Maxwell was familiar enough to Trump to be casually included in this New Yorker profile of him from 1997, in a “these are the kinds of folks he hangs out with” way.
Searching for Trump’s Soul
Donald Trump’s modus operandi has a sharp focus: never budge from the premise that the universe revolves around you, and, above all, stay in character.
www.newyorker.com
July 26, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Remember — before any of this Epstein stuff came to light, Ghislane Maxwell was familiar enough to Trump to be casually included in this New Yorker profile of him from 1997, in a “these are the kinds of folks he hangs out with” way.
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Donald Trump doesn’t really try to dispute his corruption or his lies. His point is more sinister, and made by other would-be despots.
His argument is that they are all liars and crooks, and that he is the only one who is open about it.
For all its cynical appeal, it is just another con.
His argument is that they are all liars and crooks, and that he is the only one who is open about it.
For all its cynical appeal, it is just another con.
July 12, 2025 at 8:28 PM
Donald Trump doesn’t really try to dispute his corruption or his lies. His point is more sinister, and made by other would-be despots.
His argument is that they are all liars and crooks, and that he is the only one who is open about it.
For all its cynical appeal, it is just another con.
His argument is that they are all liars and crooks, and that he is the only one who is open about it.
For all its cynical appeal, it is just another con.
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I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
July 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I am grieving the barbarism that is going to unfurl from all this. People are going to die. Livelihoods gone. All to feed a corrupt kleptocracy.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
I see every day up close how different it is from the first time around. There are no guardrails. A disaster. I’m sorry we have to live through this.
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Whatever it is .... it is sad.
June 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Whatever it is .... it is sad.