jimmy @counteroptimize.bsky.social · 17/09/2026finally, someone thinking marxistly about ai discourse 010
jimmy @counteroptimize.bsky.social · 02/09/2026for @bayareacurrent.bsky.social, i report on a rancid tech-right vibe: Curtis Yarvin and the Hamilton Society debating whether the US should be ruled by a dictatorial "Caesar" their only fear? the specter of a "Caesar Mao, Caesar Stalin, Caesar Mamdani" bayareacurrent.com/sfs-tech-cae...bayareacurrent.comSF's Tech Right Debates the Ideal DictatorPutrid vibes reigned at SF billionaire-funded Hamilton Society debate. 045
jimmy @counteroptimize.bsky.social · 01/09/2026waymo depot worker talks literal shit, safety issues, crazy labor practices. easily the most entertaining piece i've edited recently 1186
jimmy @counteroptimize.bsky.social · 21/08/2026js and clarissa's book is the one we've been waiting for: a guide to the tech worker movement written by and for worker-organizers come out to one of their many tour events as well 093
Reposted by jimmyBen Tarnoff @bentarnoff.com · 23/03/2026If you're a tech worker who's interested in reading Marx's Capital with other tech workers, there's a free online course that's starting later this month cftw.ohrg.org 316467
jimmy @counteroptimize.bsky.social · 23/03/2026actual sf is back: 250+ gather on a random weekday to celebrate luddism, hate on ai billboards and the tech right w/ @bayareacurrent.bsky.social This Machine Kills @jathansadowski.com @dsasf.org 0104
jimmy @counteroptimize.bsky.social · 18/03/2026we're talking shit about tech with some of the best in the business, live in sf tomorrow expecting great turnout. rsvp via eventbrite 361
jimmy @counteroptimize.bsky.social · 18/03/2026my piece on the right-wing tech intelligentsia, originally in @bayareacurrent.bsky.social, now republished in @jacobinmag.bsky.social: jacobin.com/2026/03/tech...jacobin.comSilicon Valley Is Drifting Farther and Farther RightSilicon Valley’s rising right-wing intelligentsia has plenty of money and a willingness to do the intellectual dirty work of some of the world’s most open reactionaries. 173
Reposted by jimmyJacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Silicon Valley’s rising right-wing intelligentsia has plenty of money and a willingness to do the intellectual dirty work of some of the world’s most open reactionaries.jacobin.comSilicon Valley Is Drifting Farther and Farther RightSilicon Valley’s rising right-wing intelligentsia has plenty of money and a willingness to do the intellectual dirty work of some of the world’s most open reactionaries. 12714
Reposted by jimmySad Francisco @sadfrancisco.bsky.social · 22/01/2026Peter Thiel is rumored to be a major funding source for Palladium magazine—a glossy rightwing outlet that is aestheticizing technofascism. New ep with Jimmy Wu on his piece “Meet the New Right-Wing Tech Intelligentsia” — recently published at @bayareacurrent.bsky.social — is up now. 1155
jimmy @counteroptimize.bsky.social · 17/12/2025for @bayareacurrent.bsky.social, i wrote about repeatedly bumping into some of the worst right-wing people in the tech publishing scene bayareacurrent.com/meet-the-new...bayareacurrent.comMeet the New Right-Wing Tech IntelligentsiaLibs and the far-right ‘link and build’ in the Bay’s tech publication scene. 062
Reposted by jimmyBay Area Current @bayareacurrent.bsky.social · 17/12/2025A tech publication scene, with politics ranging from left-liberal to far-right, has flourished in the Bay Area — @counteroptimize.bsky.social dives into an intellectual world whose social and political boundary lines have become increasingly blurred. bayareacurrent.com/meet-the-new...bayareacurrent.comMeet the New Right-Wing Tech IntelligentsiaLibs and the far-right ‘link and build’ in the Bay’s tech publication scene. 043
jimmy @counteroptimize.bsky.social · 27/07/2025sabotage can't replace labor organizing in tech (indeed some organizing is a precondition for it), but it's a tactic that militants on the inside should take more seriously 010
jimmy @counteroptimize.bsky.social · 18/06/2025put on the anti-ideology glasses with @dellsystem.bsky.social's regular column on the goddamn sf billboards 052
Reposted by jimmyBay Area Current @bayareacurrent.bsky.social · 14/06/2025LA's Burning Waymos have become symbols for a growing anti-deportation movement. Some cry chaos—but @veenadubal.bsky.social argues that the flaming robo-taxis represent something else: the public’s fury at tech companies' interests trampling the common good. bayareacurrent.com/the-torched-...bayareacurrent.comThe Torched Waymos: Burning Effigies of Tech OligarchyWhen protesters burned Waymo vehicles in the streets of Los Angeles it wasn’t wanton destruction. It was a direct message from the working class. 24423
jimmy @counteroptimize.bsky.social · 13/06/2025it's a crazy time to launch a new publication, but i'm proud to be tech editor for @bayareacurrent.bsky.social, an outlet for working-class stories and perspective we have some bangers already up on the site and many more coming 052