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Michael Ellsberg

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Michael Ellsberg

@MichaelEllsberg

Comedian, author, 1st Amendment activist ~ 3 books published by @penguinrandom and @harpercollins ~ Bylines: @nytimes, @washingtonpost, @dailybeast

Berkeley, CA

Joined July 2009

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Michael Ellsberg
@MichaelEllsberg
Dec 10, 2025
Thank you so much for having me on your show @liron - what a deep and rich conversation we got into!
Liron Shapira
@liron
Nov 29, 2025
📺 New episode: My VERY unique conversation about AI doom with @MichaelEllsberg, son of the late Daniel Ellsberg. Daniel Ellsberg made history after leaking the Pentagon Papers. But his later work, The Doomsday Machine, was even more shocking, exposing the instability of
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Michael Ellsberg
@MichaelEllsberg
Jun 25, 2024
My father would have cried tears of joy today--I wish he'd lived an extra year to see this and to give Julian a hug. Blessings to the Assange family. Here is Daniel's final interview on Assange, with @kgosztola, 3/7/23:
Stella Assange
@Stella_Assange
Jun 25, 2024
Julian is free!!!! Words cannot express our immense gratitude to YOU- yes YOU, who have all mobilised for years and years to make this come true. THANK YOU. tHANK YOU. THANK YOU. Follow @WikiLeaks for more info soon…
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A Conversation With Dan Ellsberg On Assange And The State Of Journalism
From shadowproof.com
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Michael Ellsberg
@MichaelEllsberg
Sep 16, 2020
I'm proud of my father- he kicked butt today!
Daniel Ellsberg (Memorial)
@DanielEllsberg
Sep 16, 2020
Recap from @Consortiumnews of my testimony today in the Assange extradition hearing: consortiumnews.com/2020/09/16/ass…
Michael Ellsberg
@MichaelEllsberg
Aug 14, 2024
Replying to @BillieRaeBrandt
You went out of your way to poke the bear, and now you’re lying, pretending that you didn’t intend the post to be judgmental. Next, you say that the people who judge you back after you judge them are “hypocrites.” Then, after you fucked around and found out, you play the victim
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Michael Ellsberg
@MichaelEllsberg
Mar 30, 2023
Sir, he's advocating a... *multinational agreement* which is enforced by... *force* (the last five letters of the word "enforce"). Not saying I agree or disagree with @ESYudkowsky's proposal- but you're hysterically calling him out for advocating... *law*.
mattparlmer 🪐 🌷
@mattparlmer
Mar 30, 2023
In the past I have given credit where it was due to Eliezer Yudkowsky for not explicitly advocating violent solutions to the problems with AI development that by his own admission only he and a few other (mostly nontechnical) people see on the horizon He crossed that line today
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Michael Ellsberg
@MichaelEllsberg
Jun 25, 2024
Replying to @MichaelEllsberg and @kgosztola
(2011, source: umass.edu/ellsberg/docum…)
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Michael Ellsberg
@MichaelEllsberg
May 14, 2018
This is a safe space for SW decrim allies. This is an unsafe space for SW prohibitionists/abolitionists.
Michael Ellsberg
@MichaelEllsberg
Dec 28, 2023
Replying to @TylerAlterman
I’m at about 90%. I was a sesitive moody/writer/philosopher type boy growing up and never a “guy’s guy.” I found that girls/women accepted me for the things guys judged me for and that I could have deeper conversations with them than I could with most guys. I had to get used to
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Michael Ellsberg
@MichaelEllsberg
Sep 7, 2021
Replying to @nytimes
@nytopinion- MacKinnon says "Most women enter the sex industry underage." This has been widely debunked, including by @GlennKesslerWP, WaPo Fact Checker, who gave a related claim "4 Pinocchios," his highest rating of falsity. Will you issue a correction?
washingtonpost.com
Analysis | The Four-Pinocchio claim that ‘on average, girls first become victims of sex trafficking...
Once again, politicians and the media blithely repeat a Four-Pinocchio statistic on sex trafficking that does not hold up to scrutiny.
Michael Ellsberg
@MichaelEllsberg
Mar 24, 2019
1/ There will always be a demand for food, and for sex. Thus, there will always be demand for food service and agricultural labor, and for sexual labor. Yes, trafficking exists in ALL these industries. The way to stop it is not to try to "end demand" for food or sex (good luck!)
Michael Ellsberg
@MichaelEllsberg
Jun 25, 2024
Replying to @MichaelEllsberg
democracynow.org/2023/6/20/dani…
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Michael Ellsberg
@MichaelEllsberg
Nov 27, 2018
Replying to @AshleyJudd and @KateDAdamo
Dear @AshleyJudd- you are telling a number of grown women what their own sexual/consent boundaries are, and then telling them, "No, those aren't actually your own sexual/consent boundaries" when they tell you otherwise. There's a precise term for this: gaslighting.
Michael Ellsberg
@MichaelEllsberg
Dec 10, 2018
Replying to @MichaelEllsberg @AshleyJudd and 9 others
You don't get to say "There's no such thing as you, your work, your experience, your boundaries, and your voices"... but also "I deeply value dialogue with you." To top it off, you have the gall to say you "love" these women whose chosen careers you are calling to abolish...
Michael Ellsberg
@MichaelEllsberg
May 24, 2024
Replying to @victorckumar
By your argument, the following intellectuals and creatives would have had more meaningful lives (and the world would have more meaning in it) had they been non-influential parents, rather than influential non-parents: Hans Christian Andersen Susan B. Anthony Louis Armstrong
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