Labor has long been understood as something employers rent, says Danielle Li, a professor at MIT. If a company stops paying, it loses access. That dynamic breaks down, she says, when an employer can own a version of that labor in the form of an AI model. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

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"Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given...individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do." @timothysnyder.bsky.social

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DC folks: Come to Politics & Prose tonight (Wharf location)! I'll be in conversation with @js-tan.bsky.social and Clarissa Redwine about their excellent new book, Against Tech Oligarchy: Worker Resistance in the World's Most Powerful Industry. politics-prose.com/tan-redwine-...

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“People feel a lack of agency, a sense of profound disempowerment,” says @sturkle.bsky.social. “There is a parallel between [AI] and depression over climate change...You feel that things are deeply amiss. But action may feel futile, so the depression becomes diffuse.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/01/w...

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Less than a week after mass layoffs at local newspapers across the US, McClatchy emailed staff celebrating five new hires for its AI-focused Content Innovation Lab. Tech Policy Press fellow Chris Mills Rodrigo reports on growing concern among local journalists.

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