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@cellllla.bsky.social
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She/her | Postdoc @ UVA DTD | Previously: CMU HCII, Data & Society, UCI Informatics, Big Cartel Workers Union. Views are my own. cella.io

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DISCO Network @disconetwork.bsky.social · 4h
Event recording now available! Watch our panel "Feeling the Future: Asian/Americanist Takes on Techno-Empire, Chinamaxxing, & the 'American Century of Humiliation,'" featuring Brian J. Chen, Julie Chu, Jasmine Ehrhardt, & Paul Kim in conversation with Lisa Nakamura. youtu.be/-KMu9dJEKlg?...
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Feeling the Future: Asian/Americanist Takes on Techno-Empire
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Open Society Foundations @open-society.bsky.social · 23h
In 2022, @js-tan.bsky.social & Clarissa Redwine, tech workers turned union organizers, were working 14-hour days organizing a strike at Elon Musk’s newly purchased, workforce-slashed Twitter, calling every employee they could still reach. In the end, just one of the organizing committee was left.
Can Tech Workers Take on the Oligarchs?In 2022, Tan and Redwine, both tech workers turned union organizers, were working 14-hour days trying to organize a strike at Elon Musk's newly purchased, workforce-slashed Twitter. They called every employee they could still reach. In the end, just one member of the organizing committee was left.
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Cella @cellllla.bsky.social · 18h
We're excited to welcome @repsummerlee.bsky.social as a keynote speaker! There's still time to RSVP at communityaisummit.org
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 26/09/2026
Join us online or in person on Friday for this Community-Centered AI and Infrastructure summit, led by Dr. @cellllla.bsky.social. Featuring keynotes by PA State Sen. Muth, @datasociety.bsky.social’s Maia Woluchem, & others. I’ll moderate a panel on the environmental impacts of AI. All are welcome!
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Livia Garofalo @livgar.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
After two years of work, the AI factory is out! We spent months in Pennsylvania understanding how the "AI race " is landing on communities and how they are fighting back.
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Madeleine Daepp @mdaepp.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
As a proud product of Central PA, I've seen data center fears build intensely and authentically in my hometown over the last year. Now, a wonderful new report from the brilliant folks at @datasociety.bsky.social documents these concerns in social and historical context. Important work!
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
With deep roots in Pittsburgh, D&S's Joan Mukogosi has seen the failed promises of big industries firsthand. Now, amid the push for data centers, residents must ask: “Who will this ‘infrastructure of the future’ actually benefit?” she writes in @triblive.bsky.social. triblive.com/opinion/joan...
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Joan Mukogosi: Data centers are not inevitable
Every so often, my mom tells me about what it was like growing up in Southwestern Pennsylvania in the early ’70s. She recalls how the panoramic view of the city that greets everyone who drives t...
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
📣 New! While AI boosters are selling their vision of PA as an “AI factory,” our research shows that local communities are drawing very different lessons from their state’s industrial past, and have their own visions for its future. 1/5 datasociety.net/research-lib...
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alice e marwick @alicetiara.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I am SO DELIGHTED to announce that our brand new report: The AI Factory: Data Centers, Power, and Resistance in Late Industrial Pennsylvania is out today. datasociety.net/research-lib... TechCrunch has the scoop: techcrunch.com/2026/09/22/e...
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Everyone can find a reason to dislike data center construction | TechCrunch
Inside two years of fraught AI data center debates in Pennsylvania.
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Ana @anthrotechana.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
What an incredible lineup!
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Maia Woluchem @mwoluchem.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
This is such an important event - an opportunity for so many different actors to engage on what AI Infrastructure means moving forward in Pennsylvania. Please come join us!
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Tamara Kneese @tamigraph.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
So excited for this timely event on community responses to data centers in Pennsylvania! Congrats to Cella and the other organizers on pulling so many stakeholders and threads together
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Cella @cellllla.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Please join us at Carnegie Mellon University and online on October 2nd, 2026 for the Community-Centered AI Infrastructure Summit, a statewide convening to consider the opportunities, challenges, and governance of AI infrastructure development in Pennsylvania. RSVP here: communityaisummit.org
Flyer for the Community-Centered AI Infrastructure Summit on Friday October 2, 2026 from 9-5pm at Mellon Institute Auditorium, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA. Join residents, community organizations, policymakers, researchers, technologists, energy experts, and advocates from across Pennslyvania for a public convening. Organized by CMU, Data & Society, PA Climate Equity Table, and Center for Coalfield Justice, with support from the Block Center.
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Maia Woluchem @mwoluchem.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
After 18 months following Pennsylvania's march towards data centers, we're so excited to launch "The AI Factory" at #ClimateWeekNYC, alongside our friends at @pulitzercenter.org, @texastribune.org, and @foodandwater.bsky.social. This process was so full of heart, and we can't wait to share more.
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JS Tan @js-tan.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
To celebrate the launch of our book about class struggle in Silicon Valley and the fight AGAINST TECH OLIGARCHY, Clarissa and I are organizing a book club with: @techworkerscoalition.org @organizeworkers.bsky.social @demsocialists.bsky.social @education.dsausa.org RSVP at tinyurl.com/ato-914
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Costa Samaras @costasamaras.com · 01/09/2026
Pennsylvania is reexamining what to do about data centers. I talked with the @nytimes.com about it. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/31/c...
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Pennsylvania’s A.I. Gold Rush Meets Second Thoughts (Gift Article)
Amid a backlash, Gov. Josh Shapiro is pumping the brakes on enormous data centers. But in a region scarred by the collapse of the steel industry, some welcome billions in construction.
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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 30/08/2026
Former Post-Gazette strikers wanted to return to their newsroom. Instead, they built one they control. @maximillianalvarez.bsky.social speaks with the worker-owners of the @pittsburghprogress.bsky.social about determining their own future.
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Former Strikers Start Cooperative News Organization
Following firings from the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, workers and community members came together to create the Pittsburgh Progress.
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JS Tan @js-tan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
My book AGAINST TECH OLIGARCHY, out Sept 15, is available for pre-order at againsttecholigarchy.com. It chronicles the rise of tech workers' activism, how they courageously came together to challenge the industry's most powerful bosses, and how their movement changed Silicon Valley forever. 1/
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jen liu @uilnej.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
In re: to recent news about the Meta data center, Sheila Tahir and I are sharing our zine, "Ghosts in the Cloud: A Southern Gothic Approach to Studying AI Infrastructure" based on a trip to the hypderscaler construction site in spring 2026.
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Livia Garofalo @livgar.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Thank you @melhogan.bsky.social for having me and @cellllla.bsky.social in wonderful company to talk about the research in PA we are doing with @mwoluchem.bsky.social and @anthrotechana.bsky.social at @datasociety.bsky.social!
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Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
This episode recaps some of the highlights from this amazing set of speakers: aydelotte.swarthmore.edu/publications...
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Just Tech: Take Back Tech Workshop Series - How to Stop a Data Center - Aydelotte
Across the U.S. data centers are being constructed at an unprecedented pace, raising concerns about the environmental impacts, energy costs, and the social benefits of A.I. technologies relative to th...
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Lisa Nakamura @lnakamura.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
What a great, fun conversation this was! It’s not often the case that you get to do a podcast with IRL friends who are also experts in your field. There’s some pretty mind blowing insights esp from @cassiusa.bsky.social highly recommend!
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
Everybody in the "climate space" (which means everyone on earth...) needs to understand these mind-blowing figures. Google's "total electricity consumption jumped from 31 terawatt hours (TWh) in 2024 to 43 TWh in 2025." In ONE year. The AI corporate arms race is eating the world.
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
As part of our series “Reimagining the Future of Digital Health,” @puellaludens.bsky.social considers what historical and contemporary practices of mutual aid can teach us about how to develop skills for the collective governance of healthcare at a grassroots level. datasociety.net/points/lesso...
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Disjunctions Magazine @disjunctionsmag.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
ISSUE 02 — INFRASTRUCTURES We are looking for contributions to our second issue. Send us your pitches! disjunctionsmag.com/call/
Call for submissions — issue 02.
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Janet Vertesi @cyberlyra.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
!!!NOW #HIRING!!! - Postdoc: design for societal impact apply.interfolio.com/187187 - Codesign specialist apply.interfolio.com/187163 - Lecturer in design apply.interfolio.com/187186 Join the Keller Center at @princeton.edu & keep #tech #design centered in societal responsibility! #academicsky
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
According to a new Gallup poll, women are driving the increasing opposition to data centers. This aligns with what D&S's @anthrotechana.bsky.social is seeing in her research on PA's data center industry, she tells @19thnews.org. 19thnews.org/2026/05/wome...
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Americans overwhelmingly oppose data centers. Women most of all.
New polling shows women have stronger concerns than men over the implications of the massive and costly complexes used to power AI.
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Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org · 31/05/2026
Report Shows ‘Bossware’ Is Spying on Workers and Sharing Their Data. Verge article: “Meta and Google get data from the app your boss uses to track you” Workplace monitoring tools are apparently sharing information even further than workers may realize. www.theverge.com/policy/93529...
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Meta and Google get data from the app your boss uses to track you
Workers are often even more vulnerable than consumers, the researchers say.
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DISCO Network @disconetwork.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
New video out now! Watch our panel titled ""Against Surveillance & Spectacle: Building Global Resistance to Tech-Mediated Oppression," featuring @vashetc.bsky.social , Kim Fernandes, & Cheng-Hsiu (Shin) Yang in conversation w/ @remiyergeau.bsky.social youtu.be/GXEjOPdpfa0?...
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Against Surveillance & Spectacle: Building Global Resistance to Tech-Mediated Oppression
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Frank Elavsky (he/him) ⌁ @frank.computer · 20/05/2026
New piece out with @jonathanzong.com where we look at how accessible infrastructure has been continually coopted by technological advancements, and both people with disabilities and everyone else now must compete for use of these spaces.
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
In a new series on Points, @rwjf.org futurist-in-residence (& D&S affiliate) Joan Mukogosi is exploring what the intertwining of care & AI might mean for the future of digital health. That future is ours to shape, and these essays offer inspiration for building it. datasociety.net/points/reima...
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Today @dairinstitute.bsky.social is releasing the Luddite Lab Resource Hub. The hub hosts case studies, resources, and political education for unions, labor organizations, and workers who want to fight “AI” and automation at work. labor.dair-institute.org
Screenshot of the Luddite Lab website. The word Luddite Lab is in the top left corner. The tables in the top read: Case Studies, Primers, Resource Library, Contact Us, and About. The text below reads: “The Luddite Lab Resource Hub provides resources for unions, labor organizations, and worker-organizers fighting AI and automation at work. The lab provides strategies for worker-led governance and oversight of new technology through case studies, primers, and a resource library.” Below, there are five cards: Case Studies (Stories from worker organizers resisting AI), Primers (Applied research insights into AI, automation, and the future of work), Resource Library (Additional resources from partners), Contact Us (Ways to connect with the Luddite Lab team), and About (About the Luddite Lab project and team)
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jonathan zong @jonathanzong.com · 20/05/2026
As agentic AI rapidly transforms internet infrastructure, how do we ensure disabled people's needs are not displaced? In a new article by me and @frank.computer, we argue that accessibility must not be treated as an incidental benefit of rapid AI expansion. Read below:
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Charles Logan @charleswlogan.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
Spread the word: "The Luddite Lab Resource Hub provides resources for unions, labor organizations, and worker-organizers fighting AI and automation at work. The lab provides strategies for worker-led governance and oversight of new technology through case studies, primers, and a resource library."
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Luddite Lab
Research and case studies.
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Alix Dunn @alixdunn.com · 15/05/2026
Academia is in a toxic love triangle with the military and Big Tech, and their love language is money. I spoke with @davidthewid.bsky.social about this triangle - how academia may unwittingly advance AI warfare, how we got into this mess in the first place, and how we get out of it. Listen here 👇
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Computer Says Kill: The Toxic Love Triangle of Big Tech, Big War & Big Science w/ David Gray Widder
Academia, Big Tech, and the military are caught in a sordid love triangle — and their love language is money.
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Britt Paris @hellobrittparis.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Had a great time talking with one of the best out there @samleecole.bsky.social for @404media.co about everything from historical security technology and struggles with laying cooperative Internet fiber to how AI slop has come to inundate education—and how to combat it. + lol our faces here.
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Tim Newman @tnewmsblues.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
"By organizing, they are insisting that people closest to AI’s development should have a voice in its direction. Listening to them is not just a matter of workplace fairness. It is essential to our ability to govern AI" Ft @js-tan.bsky.social @nataliyan.bsky.social @emilymazo.bsky.social research!
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Labor Tech Research Network @labortechresearchnetwork.org · 14/05/2026
Also in the special issue: "AI as a War Issue, War as a Workers’ Issue" www.aaup.org/issue/spring...
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AI as a War Issue, War as a Workers’ Issue
The fight against the University of Michigan–Los Alamos data center.
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Astra Taylor @astra.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
The anti-data center movement isn’t just about limiting local development—it represents a new front in the fight against tech-enabled authoritarianism. Where else can people push back on job-eating algorithms, distorting deep fakes, and autonomous drone strikes? www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The fight against AI data centers isn’t just about tech – it’s about democracy | Astra Taylor and Saul Levin
Claims of nimbyism are a misunderstanding: the movement is about whether regular people have a say in fundamental decisions
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
New issue of the @aaup.org Academe magazine -- AI in the Corporate University -- looks incredible. Important pieces by @dmgreene.bsky.social @hellobrittparis.bsky.social @heavyredaction.bsky.social @heavyredaction.bsky.social @tisjune.bsky.social and many others. www.aaup.org/academe
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Anthropology of Work Review @anthropologyofwork.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
New article alert! "Transit workers offer instead visions of a labor future centered on dignity, safety, and democratic control over technological change" Check out "Futures of transit work Contesting Devaluation and Neoliberal Automation in Bus Transit" by Hunter Akridge & Sarah E. Fox
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Anthropology of Work Review | AAA Labor Studies Journal | Wiley Online Library
Being a bus operator has long meant access to middle class wages, quality benefits, and union membership, forms of security increasingly rare amid growing precarity. But transit is in trouble. In the....
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AI Now Institute @ainowinstitute.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Our North Star Data Center toolkit identifies the affirmative policies to protect communities and equips organizers with policy pathways to stop, slow, and restrict the rapid expansion of AI data centers. Explore it here: datacenters.ainowinstitute.org
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Join @dairinstitute.bsky.social and workers on the front line of resisting AI as we release the Luddite Lab Resource Hub, a new resource for fighting AI at work. 9 AM PT / Noon ET / 4 PM GMT on Wednesday, May 20 www.eventbrite.com/e/launching-...
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Launching the Luddite Lab Resource Hub
Join DAIR and workers on the front line of resisting AI as we release the Luddite Lab Resource Hub, a new resource for fighting AI at work.
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Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
The data center rebellion is just the start, or it should be. Rather than impeding AI governance, this is where good, truly democratic AI governance begins. A look at who's fighting data centers, why, and how a working class resistance can lay the groundwork for a better AI politics:
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The data center rebellion is only the beginning
And it's precisely what democratic governance of AI looks like.
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Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
This is a problematic take. 1. This author draws on personal LLM experiences, such as tutoring as a PhD holder. Actual studies that show mixed results for LLMs as tutors in, say, CS education, including cognitive offloading and students not building relationships with other people.
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Britt Paris @hellobrittparis.bsky.social · 27/04/2026
At Rutgers we’re putting forward contract language for decision-making ability around tech to protect our data/material + guard against discriminatory uses of tech. NJ’s future depends on Rutgers’ teaching, research, and service to promote real social + practical skills + outputs, NOT AI slop.
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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
May 7! Join author @hellobrittparis.bsky.social for a discussion of her book “Radical Infrastructure: Imagining the Internet from the Ground Up” with Mizue Aizeki, exec director of the Collaborative Research Center for Resilience, and D&S's @anthrotechana.bsky.social. datasociety.net/events/what-...
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Ember McCoy @embermcc.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
8 more days to submit an abstract to our 4s panel, "Taking Back Technopower: STS and strategic interventions in the fight against technofascism." Looking forward to an engaging conversation centered on the (totally small, very easy) q: "how do we win?" Apply by 4/30: www.4sonline.org/accepted_ope...
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MediaJustice @mediajustice.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
Thank you to the 500+ movement leaders who joined us last weekend for #TakeBackTech III! 🥳 We all left with sharper analysis, deeper relationships, and a clearer sense of what this movement is capable of. The tech oligarchy has made their choice. Take Back Tech is how we make ours.
Take Back Tech III live conversation between Naomi Klein and MediaJustice's Head of Programs, Jacinta González.MediaJustice's workshop at Take Back Tech III talking about how to fight back against data centers.Mijente's Marisa Franco speaks on the TechnoFaschos panel.An interactive workshop during Take Back Tech III.
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Alex Hanna @alexhanna.bsky.social · 20/04/2026
OMW back from #TakeBackTech and am newly inspired by the range of creative and highly active orgs and people who are fighting AI, tech fascism, and data centers in their towns. I do not regret to inform you, following Femi Taiwo, that we will win. @mediajustice.bsky.social @conmijente.bsky.social
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