Author: Tom Valovic

Why Nuclear Power is Simply a Bad Idea for Massachusetts

September 10, 2026 Tom Valovic

It’s abundantly clear that Gov. Healey is committed to bringing nuclear power back to Massachusetts. But is she looking out for the interests of Massachusetts voters or simply responding to pressures and influences from the Trump administration while also kowtowing to Big-Tech special interests? It’s […]

How Living in a ‘Digital First’ World Has Made Our Lives Smaller

August 20, 2026 Tom Valovic

We are stuck in info-bureaucracies—just like real-life bureaucracies, only much more effective at giving us the runaround, wasting time, and conditioning us to accept the absurd as normal. Drowning in my usual sea of online media saturation, I recently spotted an article in The Boston […]

How (And Why) AI is Eroding Democracy in the US

June 24, 2026 Tom Valovic

In the first few weeks of his presidency, Donald Trump announced a massive AI infrastructure project dubbed Stargate. It was an unexpected and rather odd event for a new administration’s first major initiative. It now seems obvious that the project was a highly coordinated initiative between the federal government […]

Can Prospects for Nuclear War Get Any Worse? Sure, We Can Put AI in Charge

April 14, 2026 Tom Valovic

How quickly is the Pentagon moving toward handing the nuclear keys over to AI systems and Big Tech? No one really knows. Can we possibly get away from AI’s ubiquitous presence in our lives? But as long as AI is now in our faces 24/7, […]

Are We Waking Up Fast Enough to the Dangers of AI Militarism?

October 8, 2025 Tom Valovic

by Tom Valovic AI is everywhere these days. There’s no escape. And as geopolitical events appear to spiral out of control in the Ukraine and Gaza, it seems clear that AI, while theoretically a force for positive change, has become has become a worrisome accelerant to […]

Why Is the Media Normalizing Nuclear War and Its Effects on US Populations?

July 30, 2025 Tom Valovic

by Tom Valovic Originally published in Common Dreams. The meme-contour of recent articles seems to invite a casual shoulder shrug with respect to the dark road that we’re now heading down and to minimize the powder keg of conflict looming in the Middle East. As […]

Mass Media and the Spectacle of the Imperial Presidency

May 27, 2025 Tom Valovic

by Tom Valovic This article was originally published in Common Dreams. The revolution won’t be televised, but our national decline will be highly pixelated. I’ve been thinking a lot about how the Trump administration has been using television, social media, and AI-generated digital graphics to […]