Archive - One Thousand Means

Stop the AI Arms Race!

Towards a DSA that meets the moment on AI safety.

Sep 8 • Zachary Jones

August 2026

How Elizabeth Street Garden Defeated Zohran Mamdani

Bread Vs. Roses

Aug 24 • Nicholas Levytsky

A Machine That Makes Socialists

The Argument for AI Populism

Aug 20 • Zachary Jones

Victoria Ren On Abundance-Left Fusionism, Organizational Independence, and Structural Change

"It’s clear that we’re all on the same side, and we’ll all need to work together if we do want to build power."

Aug 19 • One Thousand Means

Environmentalism Should be Empirical

Review: No to Nuclear: Why Nuclear Power Destroys Lives, Derails Climate Progress and Provokes War, by Linda Pentz Gunter. Pluto Press, 2026.

Aug 18 • June Kur

11 Additional Reasons the Left Should Care About AI Safety

Low-hanging fruit.

Aug 17 • Alexei Gannon

Brain Shaped Holes

Review: The Laws of Thought: The Quest for a Mathematical Theory of the Mind, by Tom Griffiths. Henry Holt, February 2026.

Aug 16

The Engineering State?

Review: Breakneck: China’s Quest to Engineer the Future, by Dan Wang. W. W. Norton, 2025. 288 pp.

Aug 14 • Katherine Michaelson

The Left Must Stop the AI Arms Race

We cannot let the biggest corporations continue to endanger the public with legal impunity. For now, only the left is prepared to do what it takes.

Aug 13 • Alexei Gannon

July 2026

Freedom’s battle, once begun

An excerpt from the anniversary of the 1st International

Jul 4 • One Thousand Means

June 2026

We Should Not Deport Transplants

And it is increasingly confusing to me why NIMBYs and Establishment Democrats want to.

Jun 4 • Zachary Jones

Saikat Chakrabarti on Venture Capital, AI Risk, and Fighting for Public Control of the Future

"Do we want to plan for that potential shift and handle the transition in a way that creates the least amount of harm and the most amount of good…

Jun 1 • One Thousand Means

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