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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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!
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#BigTech #tech #critical #sociotechnical
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#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!
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#BigTech #tech #critical #sociotechnical
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#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 🧵
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#education #bigtech #tech #engineering
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#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
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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...
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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
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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.
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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
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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?
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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!
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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
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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...
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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
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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
On Indigenous People's Day, I'm reflecting on important work from one of my former students: reciprocity and materiality of data science and AI.
AI has a material reality, and it's unsustainable
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#AI #indigenouspeoplesday #IPD #Indigeneity
AI has a material reality, and it's unsustainable
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#AI #indigenouspeoplesday #IPD #Indigeneity
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October 13, 2025 at 9:30 PM
On Indigenous People's Day, I'm reflecting on important work from one of my former students: reciprocity and materiality of data science and AI.
AI has a material reality, and it's unsustainable
www.instagram.com/p/DPwv51ekkpz/
#AI #indigenouspeoplesday #IPD #Indigeneity
AI has a material reality, and it's unsustainable
www.instagram.com/p/DPwv51ekkpz/
#AI #indigenouspeoplesday #IPD #Indigeneity
📝 New blog post based on a talk I did for @uujec.bsky.social
🔗 ricknabb.medium.com/the-ai-kille...
Despite the hype and fears of AI-powered super soldiers, it is actually used for deportation, surveillance, and policing -- Big Tech would rather you don't know that.
🔗 ricknabb.medium.com/the-ai-kille...
Despite the hype and fears of AI-powered super soldiers, it is actually used for deportation, surveillance, and policing -- Big Tech would rather you don't know that.
Demystifying AI-Powered Militarization and its Social and Ecological Consequences
AI technologies, the newest stage of digital evolution, are being rapidly integrated into existing systems of extraction and domination, with plans underway to increase the speed and scale of these…
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October 8, 2025 at 4:08 PM
📝 New blog post based on a talk I did for @uujec.bsky.social
🔗 ricknabb.medium.com/the-ai-kille...
Despite the hype and fears of AI-powered super soldiers, it is actually used for deportation, surveillance, and policing -- Big Tech would rather you don't know that.
🔗 ricknabb.medium.com/the-ai-kille...
Despite the hype and fears of AI-powered super soldiers, it is actually used for deportation, surveillance, and policing -- Big Tech would rather you don't know that.
Grateful to have been asked by the Campaign for Peace Disarmament and Common Security to be on an upcoming panel:
Some Way Out of Here: Peace & Justice Movements & Priorities with Cole Harrison from MA Peace Action and Ann Wright from @codepink.bsky.social
Register at bit.ly/cpdcs-mvmt-priorities
Some Way Out of Here: Peace & Justice Movements & Priorities with Cole Harrison from MA Peace Action and Ann Wright from @codepink.bsky.social
Register at bit.ly/cpdcs-mvmt-priorities
October 3, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Grateful to have been asked by the Campaign for Peace Disarmament and Common Security to be on an upcoming panel:
Some Way Out of Here: Peace & Justice Movements & Priorities with Cole Harrison from MA Peace Action and Ann Wright from @codepink.bsky.social
Register at bit.ly/cpdcs-mvmt-priorities
Some Way Out of Here: Peace & Justice Movements & Priorities with Cole Harrison from MA Peace Action and Ann Wright from @codepink.bsky.social
Register at bit.ly/cpdcs-mvmt-priorities
Subscribe to my new newsletter, sharing my research on tech & society as well as how we can resist technological control
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#tech #society #ai #misinformation #surveillance #resistance
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#tech #society #ai #misinformation #surveillance #resistance
October 1, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Subscribe to my new newsletter, sharing my research on tech & society as well as how we can resist technological control
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#tech #society #ai #misinformation #surveillance #resistance
🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 Recently made public by the American Society of Engineering Education: Maintaining Hope Amidst Critique: The Role of Social Change Frameworks in Sociotechnical Engineering Ethics Education
🧵 Brief description...
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#education #tech #ethics
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#education #tech #ethics
ASEE PEER - Maintaining Hope Amidst Critique: The Role of Social Change Frameworks in Sociotechnical Engineering Ethics Education
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September 30, 2025 at 4:37 PM
🚨 New paper alert! 🚨 Recently made public by the American Society of Engineering Education: Maintaining Hope Amidst Critique: The Role of Social Change Frameworks in Sociotechnical Engineering Ethics Education
🧵 Brief description...
peer.asee.org/maintaining-...
#education #tech #ethics
🧵 Brief description...
peer.asee.org/maintaining-...
#education #tech #ethics
So grateful to have been asked to speak on a webinar for @uujec.bsky.social about AI, militarism, and the climate crisis. There is so much to unpack and understand about these dynamics.
More to come, but meanwhile, give the video a watch!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_6L...
#AI #military #climate
More to come, but meanwhile, give the video a watch!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_6L...
#AI #military #climate
Demystifying AI-Powered Militarization and its Social and Ecological Consequences
YouTube video by UUs for a Just Economic Community
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September 29, 2025 at 4:46 PM
So grateful to have been asked to speak on a webinar for @uujec.bsky.social about AI, militarism, and the climate crisis. There is so much to unpack and understand about these dynamics.
More to come, but meanwhile, give the video a watch!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_6L...
#AI #military #climate
More to come, but meanwhile, give the video a watch!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_6L...
#AI #military #climate
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NEW from @pewresearch.org: 20% of US adults now regularly get news from TikTok, up from 3% in 2020.
Among the youngest adults, 43% now regularly get news there, up from 9% in 2020.
Full analysis: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Among the youngest adults, 43% now regularly get news there, up from 9% in 2020.
Full analysis: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
September 25, 2025 at 2:08 PM
NEW from @pewresearch.org: 20% of US adults now regularly get news from TikTok, up from 3% in 2020.
Among the youngest adults, 43% now regularly get news there, up from 9% in 2020.
Full analysis: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
Among the youngest adults, 43% now regularly get news there, up from 9% in 2020.
Full analysis: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
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For the people who use it, TikTok is increasingly a source of news.
55% of adult TikTok users in the US now they say regularly get news there, up from 22% five years ago.
New from @pewresearch.org: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
55% of adult TikTok users in the US now they say regularly get news there, up from 22% five years ago.
New from @pewresearch.org: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
September 25, 2025 at 3:42 PM
For the people who use it, TikTok is increasingly a source of news.
55% of adult TikTok users in the US now they say regularly get news there, up from 22% five years ago.
New from @pewresearch.org: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
55% of adult TikTok users in the US now they say regularly get news there, up from 22% five years ago.
New from @pewresearch.org: www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...
The Trump Admin's new AI Action Plan is a nightmare pushing for corporate domination, thought control, and ecological destruction.
#AI #AIActionPlan #Trump #BigTech
#AI #AIActionPlan #Trump #BigTech
July 24, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The Trump Admin's new AI Action Plan is a nightmare pushing for corporate domination, thought control, and ecological destruction.
#AI #AIActionPlan #Trump #BigTech
#AI #AIActionPlan #Trump #BigTech
Incoming thread analyzing the new, headline-making paper from @mitmedialab.bsky.social "Your Brain on ChatGPT" (arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872). For context, I have a PhD in computer and cognitive science and study STEM education. The paper and media reporting on it have many issues. I'll try to summarize
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June 20, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Incoming thread analyzing the new, headline-making paper from @mitmedialab.bsky.social "Your Brain on ChatGPT" (arxiv.org/pdf/2506.08872). For context, I have a PhD in computer and cognitive science and study STEM education. The paper and media reporting on it have many issues. I'll try to summarize
It's insane to me that a government site giving advice about Covid prevention and safety was turned into a conspiracy peddling page. This is the height of disgusting. More in the thread...
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#covid #covid-19 #misinformation #propaganda
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#covid #covid-19 #misinformation #propaganda
Lab Leak: The True Origins of Covid-19
THE ORIGIN “The Proximal Origin of SARS-CoV-2” publication — which was used repeatedly by public health officials and the media to discredit the lab leak
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April 23, 2025 at 9:14 PM
It's insane to me that a government site giving advice about Covid prevention and safety was turned into a conspiracy peddling page. This is the height of disgusting. More in the thread...
www.whitehouse.gov/lab-leak-tru...
#covid #covid-19 #misinformation #propaganda
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#covid #covid-19 #misinformation #propaganda
Behold, my 18 followers: an article about protest and organizing for continuous social change ✨
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#protest #politics #democracy
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#protest #politics #democracy
Take to the streets. But then what?
Protests are having an upsurge in the U.S. How do we convert that energy into lasting social change?
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April 1, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Behold, my 18 followers: an article about protest and organizing for continuous social change ✨
nickrabb.substack.com/p/take-to-th...
#protest #politics #democracy
nickrabb.substack.com/p/take-to-th...
#protest #politics #democracy
This is basically the title of my dissertation. Glad to know my work made an impact
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March 27, 2025 at 4:31 AM
This is basically the title of my dissertation. Glad to know my work made an impact
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Reflecting on progressive movements since 2016, we have not made major gains on resource distribution, social organization, political party control, media, and political skills. Our lack in these areas enables us to be better controlled, weakening movements.
nickrabb.substack.com/p/do-our-pol...
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Do our political actions even have the power to succeed?
Though we have worked incredibly hard since 2016, our gains have not materially reshaped society as we hoped. All the while, our structural power has been whittled away. How should we move forward?
nickrabb.substack.com
March 19, 2025 at 5:57 PM
Reflecting on progressive movements since 2016, we have not made major gains on resource distribution, social organization, political party control, media, and political skills. Our lack in these areas enables us to be better controlled, weakening movements.
nickrabb.substack.com/p/do-our-pol...
nickrabb.substack.com/p/do-our-pol...