Ellery Biddle

Editor, writer, tech skeptic, human rights fan. Now doing business in a sunnier place:

[Ellery Biddle @ellerybiddle]

Twitter is dead, long live Twitter. Happily setting up shop at BlueSky. https://t.co/yBeKh4IYus

[Burhan Wazir @BWazir1]

We have a great @onlinehyphen US election newsletter coming up, courtesy of @ellerybiddle. Please share and sign up here! https://t.co/eyR5G5bNQU
#USElection2024

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It was a pleasure working on this story for @onlinehyphen with @denisethewriter. Take a break from poll anxiety and give it a read. https://t.co/8762jOXGZk

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ICYMI, it's a good time to re-read her NYT opinion piece on the same: https://t.co/WJHS5EKj89

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Media and political leaders have been eerily quiet about Trump's vow to bring back EO 13769 aka the Muslim ban. In his first piece for @onlinehyphen, @KZiabari asks why. Proud to have worked on this piece. https://t.co/DfL2K7Klrq

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It includes a pretty damning quote from ex-DOJ lawyer Erica Newland: “I feel confident that anti-Muslim bias is part of what enabled the supreme court to feel it could get away with claiming that the Muslim ban was a rational policy response to an allegedly real problem.”

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If you're curious about #Cuba, the nationwide blackout, and wtf has happened there over the past six days (or six decades!) follow @norges14

[Norges Rodríguez @norges14]

1) A shameful scandal has struck my home country, Cuba, in recent days: The ruling regime can no longer keep the country supplied with electricity.

[Sarah Myers West @sarahbmyers]

Silicon Valley firms have been pitching the defense community hard on AI uses for military contexts. This needs much closer scrutiny from policymakers, @HeidyKhlaaf, @mer__edith and I argue in a new paper released today: https://t.co/TP7ANxwAY6

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The assault on socio-technical researchers studying online misinformation is a clear and present threat to democratic norms. Excited about this, my first piece w/ @Compilerdotnews and tremendously grateful to everyone who lent their time and thoughts to it.

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Erasure alert: efforts to level Hong Kong's once-badass independent media landscape continue: https://t.co/8MVNkdcSeo nice reporting as always by @hkfp

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Buscando periodista hispanohablante en Houston, TX! Delighted to be commissioning a package of stories on the US election for pals @BWazir1 & @journoramzy at @onlinehyphen. Drop me a note if you're interested: ellery[dot]biddle[at]hyphenonline[dot]com

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Really didn't wanna see the sequel to this one. https://t.co/OP9356zhvR

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Proud to have edited this story https://t.co/l25u1E4IJK Deeply appreciative of the terrific work of all the (now former) Coda staff, the depths of experience that sources shared, and the razor-sharp insights from experts like @Bomu @AuthorPMBarrett @ubiquity75

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Can only imagine what fresh nonsense this roll out might bring. Hold on to your butts...

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@reemalmasri True indeed.

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When AI titans say their technology will revolutionize life on Earth for the better, ask them: better for whom? AI is helping Israel kill tens of thousands of Gazans right now. It is baking bias into public services of all kinds. And it is helping to fuel the climate crisis.

[Sasha Costanza-Chock @schock]

If you're publicly speculating about how AI systems might one day exterminate all of us, maybe speak up against how AI systems are being used now to exterminate Palestinians.

'Lavender' - IDF AI to generate a kill list of individuals

https://t.co/rnARNPYugQ

[Ellery Biddle @ellerybiddle]

So: resist the hype. Take the long view. And read @isocockerell's story on “green colonialism” and techno-solutionism in the Swedish Arctic, which I had the privilege of editing last fall. It has forever changed the way I think about tech & the climate. https://t.co/1JTGNlMLM2

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One especially risky geoengineering idea is to literally dim the light from the sun. The technique is being tested in the western US. This @nytimes story makes it sound exciting, cutting-edge, disruptive...reminds me of starry-eyed AI coverage. Yikes. https://t.co/y8VbGCrMRn