A note from Alix | Video Highlights | Highlights from the Collective Good ideas need company Hey everyone, After spending the last two months working on our Computer Says Kill series, it was hard not to feel the weight of power consolidation in tech. I needed a reminder that for every violent power structure, there are incredible people organising to tear it down. Enter REAL Resistance: a series of global conversations about tech power, accountability, and resistance. We collaborated with...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
A note from Alix | Podcast Highlights | Highlights from the Collective The enemy of my enemy is…also my enemy? Hey everyone, Anthropic’s PR machine is working overtime to cast the company as AI’s “good guy.” Just yesterday, we saw Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah cozying up to Pope Leo, nodding along to the Pope’s shallow critiques of AI. The performance of humility stands in sharp contrast to how Anthropic is actually moving through the world. Last week, we put out an episode with Madeline...
3 months ago • 3 min read
A note from Alix | Podcast Highlights | Highlights from the Collective It’s time to build our media power. Hey everyone, Technology companies have a compelling story — and people who are very good at telling it. It’s a story about innovation, progress, and building the future. But the reality behind that narrative is a darker truth. We’re living in a world shaped by actors who have become exceptionally good at accumulating power and influence — at everyone else’s expense. To dissuade people...
4 months ago • 4 min read
A note from Alix | Podcast Highlights | Highlights from the Collective Why are we using chatbots in warfare? Hey everyone, Last week, we watched the start of another war. Thanks to a very public spat between the US military and Anthropic, we can confidently say that AI — and specifically LLMs — was used to assess and accelerate the damage. International law is failing us in this moment. Israel’s use of AI to indiscriminately target people and innovation-wash their genocide in Palestine has...
6 months ago • 6 min read
RSVP now! The People's Policy: Holding Big Tech Accountable CSM LIVE next Monday, March 2nd on YouTube - 5:30pm MT (7:30pm ET) Hey everyone— Next Monday, I’m hosting a live conversation, “The People’s Policy,” about how we can shape the future of Big Tech accountability at the local, state, and national level. I'd love for you to join us—RVSP here. Big Tech is lobbying hard at every level of government, pushing to expand data center development, pitching public agencies on discriminatory and...
6 months ago • 1 min read
A note from Alix | Podcast Highlights | Highlights from the Collective All hail scale...what are we doing here? Hey everyone, In Brazil, someone stole a professor’s identity and tried to take $80,000 with it. In Rwanda, a finance minister was warned that funding from the Tony Blair Institute could disappear if Oracle was removed from the government tech stack. In India, a system glitch cut 2 million people off from food rations. What do these stories have in common? They’re all tied to...
7 months ago • 6 min read
A note from Alix | Podcast Highlights | Highlights from the Collective What’s ahead in 2026 Hey everyone, It’s funny how we often treat the start of a new year like a magical clean slate. Lately, I’ve been thinking about why we reach for that feeling in the first place. Especially after a year like 2025, it’s natural to want a moment to imagine something new. But when I look ahead, I don’t see a break between 2025 and 2026. I see a through-line — one shaped by power and profit, yes, but also...
8 months ago • 8 min read
A note from Alix | Pod Highlights | Events & Opportunities | News from the Collective Who gets to scale? What we’re up to at MozFest Hey everyone, As I head to Barcelona for Mozilla Festival 2025, the biggest since pre-Covid days, I've been reflecting on the idea of scale. Maybe it’s the few thousand people convening. Maybe it’s the $2 billion a day spent on data center development. Maybe it’s the AI everywhere all at once, from places like schools to militaries to systems with extreme power...
10 months ago • 4 min read
A note from Alix | Podcast Highlights | News from the Collective AI’s public ‘benefit’ facade Hey everyone, We were in New York City last week for Climate Week, and it was full on — in the best way. In case you missed it, we hosted a live show on the data center boom with three incredible organizers from resistance efforts across the country, all fighting the AI-fueled land grab. Big thanks to everyone who came through in-person or tuned in from home. → Watch the show here → Listen to the...
11 months ago • 5 min read