Super grateful to @jeffjohnroberts.bsky.social for edits and Michael Casey @michaeljcasey.bsky.social for encouraging me to get it out asap
thanks to @tcpuente.bsky.social for early read and The Op Ed Project for the community.
21/ Also if you’re working in the space of decentralization - ESPECIALLY DECENTRALIZED AI, please reach out to me - I just joined the Decentralized AI Society (DAIS) as a senior advisor to work with the team on creating a future where DeAI enables agency dais.global
20/ Any other other writers, books, or pieces that capture the fusion of Big Tech and state power?
#TriciaWang #Technofascism #Centralization #Decentralization #BigTech #TechPolicy #DigitalRights #Blockchain #ElonMusk #Trump #Power #Control #OpEd #bigstate #biggovernment #biggov #technocracy
19/ @wired.com covers the intersection of #bigtech #bigstate
such as
www.wired.com/video/watch/...
18/ @propublica.org has solid coverage of this topic - such as the piece on the Boston police or machine bias in the seminal report on court software www.propublica.org/article/bost...
www.propublica.org/article/mach...
17/ @themarkup.org Consistently covers technofascist transgressions. Start with this piece by @suryamattu.com & Colin Lecher on how the U.S. Dept of Edu. FSA inserted Meta Pixel tracking code onto the student aid application site themarkup.org/pixel-hunt/2...
16/ All the writing from @josephcox.bsky.social on @404media.co starting with www.404media.co/ice-just-pai...
15/ @frankpasquale.bsky.social's The Black Box Society and on "algorithmic governance," addresses how opaque computational systems gives power to corporations and the state
www.lawschool.cornell.edu/faculty-rese...
14/ @evgenymorozov.bsky.social's To Save Everything, Click Here and The Net Delusion - proudly grumpy critic of techno-utopianism, exploring how internet technologies are often used for state control, surveillance, and can undermine democratic processes evgenymorozov.net
13/ Virginia Eubank's Automating Inequality: How High-Tech Tools Profile, Police, and Punish the Poor - Solid reporting on Big Tech/gov surveillance (like Palantir's work with ICE)
virginia-eubanks.com/automating-i...
12/ Shoshana Zuboff's Surveillance Capitalism - a classic www.theguardian.com/books/2019/o...
11/ Here are recommended readings on technofascism:
Everything by @beccalew starting with her latest piece in the @theguardian.com www.theguardian.com/technology/n...
10/ I've made a technofascist Bluesky list of writers addressing Big Tech fusing with the state? @beccalew.bsky.social @josephcox.bsky.social @evgenymorozov.bsky.social @frankpasquale.bsky.social @josephcox.bsky.social @404media.co
Anyone else to add from Bluesky?
bsky.app/profile/hitr...
9/ We've fought centralized power before (like dismantling theocracies!). Now, we must fight #Technofascism by actively building & using decentralized systems. Understand the fight & join in: fortune.com/crypto/2025/...
8/ Platforms like @bsky.social (Bluesky itself!), tools like @signal.org & the growth of blockchain networks are vital parts of this. We must build and use alternatives free from single points of failure or control.
7/ The only viable path to counter this? DECENTRALIZATION. Building systems where power is distributed, not concentrated. Where YOU control your data & connections.
6/ Today, we see figures like Trump challenging norms, enabled by concentrated power. This isn't just politics; it's the same #Centralization crisis. The game isn't just rigged, it's being rewritten.
5/ How'd we get here? Post-9/11 surveillance expansion through the Patriot Act, tech becoming gov infrastructure (Amazon/Google/MSFT cloud), regulatory capture by tech giants.
4/ This fusion is creating something chilling: #Technofascism. Control justified by black-boxed algorithms & platforms wielded by a powerful few. It mirrors history's authoritarian systems, but uses data power. You see symptoms everywhere: censorship, data misuse, infra control by single points.
3/ But this isn't just an "Elon problem" or about one administration (like Trump's) leveraging power. It's a CENTRALIZATION crisis. Big Tech monopolies & the state are fusing into a single ruling force.
2/ The real battleground for government control? It's deep inside federal databases. You see figures like Elon Musk at the center, connected to critical systems like the Treasury's payment network.
1/ My op-ed on #Technofascism & the danger of centralized tech power is out in @FortuneMagazine. (Paywall, but you get a few free articles)
Key points for you. 👇 fortune.com/crypto/2025/...
‘Not Like Us’ by Kendrick Lamar wins Best Music Video at the 2025 #GRAMMYs.
“Record labels need to treat their artists as valuable employees with a livable wage and health insurance and protection. Labels, we got you — but do you got us?”
— Chappell Roan demanding labels to do better during her #GRAMMYs acceptance speech.
This UNBELIEVABLE 15-year-old with college and masters degrees is in medical school working on a doctorate,,, but federal funding has cut off her research and scholarships.
We NEED more doctors,,, especially little black and brown girls to grow up believing they can be anything.
gofund.me/1549247a
Secession. What they're describing is secession.
www.wired.com/story/startu...
I'm officially here after, done mourning loss of twitter.
Bluesky kinda feels like old days of twitter! But actually decentralized into the stack....
"[computational engines] were prefigured on the plantation; as tech to control enslaved people. Issues like worker surveillance, workplace automation, and the computationally mediated restructuring of employment as gig work—echo the way that [this] thinking historically emerges as a mode of control"
“The vulnerable mind fits ambiguous information to its own preconceptions and expectations”
