Jacob Ward
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Journo and Founder, The Rip Current // Frmr @NBCNews, @AlJazeeraEnglish, @PopSci editor-in-chief // Author of “The Loop," about our AI mania.
Oakland, CA
Joined July 2008
I'm launching a tech-literate, historically informed, fuck-it-let's-go Substack today, and I'm calling it The Rip Current. Here's the first post! Please subscribe, and check out https://t.co/kU7Nx6vTNF to see the ethical standards I'll be observing in this new phase of life.
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We just aren’t mature enough as a society to make these choices, even as we give ourselves the technology to make them. That’s what I’m learning. #tech #technology #ai #genetics #medicine
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Thank you Scholar for having me! See you tonight, Monday, Jan 12, at Mad Oak in Oakland at 6:30pm!
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🇨🇦 I have come full circle on my opinions about self-driving vehicles, and I think they’ll change car ownership forever. That’s one disruption I’m looking forward to! #tesla #robots #robotcars #autopilot #notthisone
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Robots that can improvise, lift, and replace human labor are headed to U.S. factories by 2028 — and nobody voted on it. #Robots #AI #FutureOfWork #Automation #CES #TechPolitics #Labor #HumanoidRobots #TheRipCurrent
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Robots that can improvise, lift, and replace human labor are headed to U.S. factories by 2028 — and nobody voted on it. #Robots #AI #FutureOfWork #Automation #CES #TechPolitics #Labor #HumanoidRobots #TheRipCurrent
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Every oil empire says this time will be different. History says: absolutely not. From Iraq to Suez to Algeria to Nigeria — oil doesn’t make empires rich. It bankrupts them. Venezuela won’t be the exception. Read and watch the whole thing on my channel and at
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It’s a preview of what’s to come, folks. What happened at the Kolkata stadium wasn’t really about soccer. It was about expectation, exclusion, and betrayal. People paid real money to be promised proximity — to something global, elite, and Western — and then watched it vanish
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It’s a preview of what’s to come, folks. What happened at the Kolkata stadium wasn’t really about soccer. It was about expectation, exclusion, and betrayal. People paid real money to be promised proximity — to something global, elite, and Western — and then watched it vanish
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Americans don’t “hate” AI for no reason. The benefits are vague. The job losses are not. And the safeguards keep failing. 2026 is when the backlash gets real. #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #TechNews #AIRegulation #Grok #ElonMusk #FutureOfWork #TechPsychology #TheRipCurrent
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I try to remember that your brain takes its cues from your environment, that good choices feel bad in the moment, and that your benefits accrue over time. Wishing you a healthy and happy holiday. #alcoholic #depression #mentalhealthmatters
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The unspoken promise of AI is that you get to pass its work and ideas off as your own - and that makes our brains far more gullible and suggestible. Thinking out loud here. 🤷♂️ Would love your take. #AI #ChatGPT #TechEthics #MediaLiteracy #Journalism #CreatorEconomy
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The unspoken promise of AI is that you get to pass its work and ideas off as your own - and that makes our brains far more gullible and suggestible. Thinking out loud here. 🤷♂️ Would love your take. #AI #ChatGPT #TechEthics #MediaLiteracy #Journalism #CreatorEconomy
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AI data centers aren’t just big — they’re city-scale power hogs. They drive up electricity prices, drain water supplies, and are creating the weirdest political alliances you’ve ever seen. Why would towns host buildings even Big Tech doesn’t want on its own balance sheet? Full
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AI data centers aren’t just big — they’re city-scale power hogs. They drive up electricity prices, drain water supplies, and are creating the weirdest political alliances you’ve ever seen. Why would towns host buildings even Big Tech doesn’t want on its own balance sheet? Full
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Do we want a world where secret relationships between sources and journalists yield occasional revelations? Or a world where the relationships are openly adversarial and as a result we know less? #journalism #epstein
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We’ve always regulated tech when it kills people or steals money. Now governments are finally asking a harder question: what happens when it rewires our sense of reality? 🧠⚠️ #AI #TechPolicy #RageBait #ArtificialIntelligence #Psychology #AIMind #TechNews #TheRipCurrent
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We’ve always regulated tech when it kills people or steals money. Now governments are finally asking a harder question: what happens when it rewires our sense of reality? 🧠⚠️ #AI #TechPolicy #RageBait #ArtificialIntelligence #Psychology #AIMind #TechNews #TheRipCurrent
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Sheu Sorry this happened to you, and it’s not just weird…it’s illegal under California law! This is why journalists identify themselves ahead of time, and should always ask if you’d like to be on camera - to make clear the conversation is public. #dating #privacy #privacymatters
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