Tim Chambers

Stop Measuring Marches. Start Building Power. Progressives have taken thousands of actions and put millions in the streets. If protests alone could stop Authoritarianism, we’d be done by now. What works is structure, discipline, and defections.

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The Overview: Three Strategies the U.S. Resistance Needs Now Crowd size grabs headlines. Structures, rituals, and defections win.

🚨 Lesson from Abroad, Urgency for Home 🚨

Crowd size grabs headlines. But real power comes from structure, discipline, and defections. If we want to win here, we need to learn from what actually worked there. open.substack.com/pub/willrobi...

No Kings: Why They’re Afraid of Our March When those in power sneer at a march, it’s because they recognize what it means. A march the signal that people have remembered their power. The only question is - what will we do with that power?

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As I like to note every year, today is the anniversary of starting my blog. Good day to release some new web software!

I do not wish to be mean, but if I hear you in the year 2026 claiming that Elon Musk "saved free speech" from "leftist censors" I am going to question your judgment on pretty much everything else, because you do not live in reality.

When there are no laws meaningfully regulating military AI use, the Pentagon’s promise to use AI “lawfully” mean almost nothing. The authoritarian AI crisis has arrived www.platformer.news/anthropic-pe...

The more I work with Zentropi the more impressed I get…

Zentropi Now Labels Images Building guardrails for visual content just got a lot easier. Today we're launching image classification on Zentropi and announcing cope-b-12b, a multimodal model that powers this experience.

Just shipped Zentropi's most requested feature: image classification!

Now analyze images against your own policies, at scale.

To power it we built cope-b-12b, a new multimodal model w/ native vision.

Check out the cat detector we made in < 1 min. 🐱
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Hey #ActivityPub friends. Are there any new ActivityPub / Mastodon features I should add to #ActivityBot?

It's a small bot-only ActivityPub server in a single PHP file.

https://gitlab.com/edent/activity-bot/

It can be followed, post images, allow quote posts, etc.

Is there anything else you […]

This remains one of my favorite quotes relating to the various flavors of the "open social web."

If you genuinely believed you were 18 months from building a superintelligence that could cure cancer, you probably wouldn't pivot the entire company to horny chatbots. But I'm just a person with priorities. Maybe the path to solving death really does go through AI girlfriends. I don't have an MBA.

American Voters, Large Language Models & Shaping Realities — PSG Consulting Our realities are increasingly shaped by what we are “learning” from AI-based sources like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. LLMs (AI Large Language Models) have become part of everyday life and increasing...

3️⃣ The Accountability Problem: Jessica González of Free Press raised the critical point — that the burden of AI safety belongs to the developers, not the users.

Full recording + Slides: www.psgconsulting.com/videos/v/ame...

Register for the April 13 webinar here: us02web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

American Voters, Large Language Models & Shaping Realities — PSG Consulting Our realities are increasingly shaped by what we are “learning” from AI-based sources like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. LLMs (AI Large Language Models) have become part of everyday life and increasing...

2️⃣ The Future of Polling: Kelsey Suter of Upswing Research & Strategy warned us about the increasing use of AI to create synthetic “people” for survey research.

AI models are the new gatekeepers of "truth." But who is training the models?

PSG Consulting's recent #FirstMondaysWebinar focused on the ideological skewing of LLMs and what it means for the American voter.

A quick 🧵 on what you missed:

American Voters, Large Language Models & Shaping Realities — PSG Consulting Our realities are increasingly shaped by what we are “learning” from AI-based sources like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini. LLMs (AI Large Language Models) have become part of everyday life and increasing...

1️⃣ The research: @timothychambers.net and Mary Coller Albert of Dewey Square Group presented new research sponsored by PSG and IFPG showing that the data informing LLMs is skewed across ideological and factual lines.

Opinion | Nine Law Firms Surrendered. Four Law Firms Won. The four law firms that fought Trump’s executive orders have forced him to retreat.

In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

The nine law firms that surrendered to President Trump’s illegal intimidation campaign “failed a high-stakes character test,” the editorial board writes. “Their leaders faced a choice between submitting to a bully and doing the right thing.”

Robert De Niro delivers Lincoln’s civility warning at a Carnegie Hall benefit De Niro was reading excerpts from Abraham Lincoln’s “Lyceum Address,” a warning against mob violence.

Robert De Niro reads excerpts from Abraham Lincoln’s “Lyceum Address,” a warning against mob violence, at the 39th annual benefit concert for the nonprofit cultural and educational organization Tibet House US.

Here's the letter that caused Thom Tillis to erupt at Kristi Noem. The DHS inspector general claims DHS leaders "systematically obstructed" his inquiries, including in something related to a "specific pending criminal investigation."

(confirming scoop from WSJ's Tarini Parti and Josh Dawsey)

We've renamed the DOD the Department of War. Our troops are Warfighters. No of course we're not "at war" you dumb lib

Oh man. Mind your sources, folks, until you have confirmation. Goodnight.

New episodes of #DotSocial, coming soon!

OpenAI posted the terms of the deal. Reveals that it absolutely does allow for domestic surveillance. EO 12333 is how the NSA hides its domestic surveillance by capturing communications by tapping into lines *outside the US* even if it contains info from/on US persons.

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US Congress to debate Trump's war powers.

Some lawmakers want to reassert the role of Congress, which under the US constitution is the only body that can declare war, but the Republican majority will probably shield Trump

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What's at stake for Democrats and Republicans in the Texas Senate primaries Voters head to the polls on Tuesday in Arkansas, North Carolina and Texas. It's in the Lone Star State where competitive races on both sides of the aisle have fueled unprecedented spending. Lisa Desja...

Voters head to the polls on Tuesday in Arkansas, North Carolina and Texas. It's in the Lone Star State where competitive races on both sides of the aisle have fueled unprecedented spending. https://to.pbs.org/3OCdrIC

DOJ backs down in legal fight with law firms Trump targeted The DOJ's decision to withdraw its appeals "makes permanent" the rulings of 4 judges that the executive orders targeting law firms ... were unconstitutional," Jenner & Block said

The DOJ moved to dismiss its appeals against 4 leading law firms that won rulings against President Trump's executive orders targeting them for employing or representing his critics.

Texas senate primary (Emerson poll)

James Talarico 52%
Jasmine Crockett 47%

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🗽 We built a republic—not a monarchy. NO KINGS.

A Complete Guide to the No Kings Day of Action can be found here or scan the QR Code: bit.ly/NoKingsMovem...

#NoKings

Pasco Resists presents No Kings, A National Day of Protest. Saturday, March 28th. In Hudson, FL at US Hwy 19 and County Line Road, 10am-12pm. Scan the QR code for details. www.pascoresists.org

Pasco Resists presents No Kings, A National Day of Protest. Saturday, March 28th. In Trinity, FL at SR 54 and Little Road, 12-2pm. Scan the QR code for details. www.pascoresists.org

Pasco Resists presents No Kings, A National Day of Protest. Saturday, March 28th. In Wesley Chapel, FL at SR 56 and Grand Cypress Drive, 2-4pm. Scan the QR code for details. www.pascoresists.org

Let’s show the country how even a red county in a red state, #PascoCountyFL, can unify!

The posters for each location of #PascoResists #NoKings on 3/28 are below. Sign up on Mobilize for any or all the events.

We’ll see you there! 2/2

Today is Day 17 of the GOP's DHS shutdown — a shutdown that’s only happening because Republicans refuse to hold ICE and CBP to the same sort of standards as law enforcement — and now the GOP wants to use Trump's Iran war to get Democrats to cave and let them shovel billions more to those agencies.

Writing my own position statement for the upcoming Open Social Web un-workshop.

A main reason I ever started #FediForum is that I wanted to attend an event like it! And sometimes you have to create things yourself if they don't exist yet.