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jasmine sun

@jasmine.bsky.social
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anthropologist of disruption / writing jasmi.news / san francisco

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Jeremy Diamond ☕️ @dmnd.me · 05/08/2026
This is surprisingly comprehensive and informative on the politics of data centers. I wanted to pull out a few big things that are difficult to face for pros, antis, and in some cases both. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/04/o...
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Opinion | The A.I. Giants Weren’t Prepared for This (Gift Article)
Jasmine Sun, a writer covering technology, takes us into the backlash against A.I. data centers.
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Neil Turkewitz @neilturkewitz.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
“I think a lot of the public backlash to AI isn’t explained by people thinking the technology has no use at all…It’s AI as sort of an avatar for a small group of Silicon Valley billionaires’ ability to impose their vision of the world onto everybody else without their consent.” @jasmine.bsky.social
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Opinion | The A.I. Giants Weren’t Prepared for This (Gift Article)
Jasmine Sun, a writer covering technology, takes us into the backlash against A.I. data centers.
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Taylor Lorenz @taylorlorenz.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
"Until the deeper cultural problems are addressed, the data center backlash will only recreate itself in other forms. If people are this angry at a building sitting and paying taxes on unused land, something deep has gone very wrong."
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No Data Centers In My Backyard
money, power, and populism in the AI buildout
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Luke Andrews @attaboy.ca · 03/08/2026
Terrific and uniquely humanizing reporting by @jasmine.bsky.social on data center politics in small town Wisconsin. There’s undoubtedly misinformation involved, but far more apparent is the clumsy and secretive approach of the big companies involved.
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No Data Centers In My Backyard
money, power, and populism in the AI buildout
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Rory Truex @rorytruex.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
Starting a new initiative this summer, weekly live events on Substack about the core issues facing our democracy, featuring great speakers. This Thursday, 1PM ET, an hour with the great @jasmine.bsky.social on all things work, AI, and the emerging populist backlash. Event link in replies.
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Miriam Elder @miriamelder.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
Really thoroughly reported piece here, impressively done www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/o...
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Opinion | Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass
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Dan Froomkin/Press Watch/Heads Up News @froomkin.bsky.social · 30/04/2026
I found this enlightening and disturbing, with an unexpected silver lining: “The technology is an opportunity for gutsy politicians… to push ideas that are usually too radical for moderate voters to swallow.” (gift link) www.nytimes.com/2026/04/30/o... Kudos to @jasmine.bsky.social
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Opinion | Silicon Valley Is Bracing for a Permanent Underclass
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The San Francisco Standard @sfstandard.com · 01/04/2026
AI is moving faster than anyone can keep up with — including the people building it. So we're bringing in reinforcements. On April 9, join us for a live taping of “Pacific Standard Time," with journalist @jasmine.bsky.social to make sense of the chaos. Enter to win tickets: bit.ly/3QfhdYU
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Damon Beres @damonberes.com · 17/03/2026
"Sam Altman has predicted that large language models will soon be capable of 'fixing the climate, establishing a space colony, and the discovery of all of physics" — but, "might be able to extrude only something equivalent to 'a real poet’s okay poem'" @jasmine.bsky.social on what sets writing apart
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The Human Skill That Eludes AI
Why can’t language models write well?
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jasmine sun @jasmine.bsky.social · 02/03/2026
the real AI alignment problem is Pete Hegseth. here’s my explainer & take on Anthropic vs. the Pentagon — jasmi.news/p/ai-pentagon
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AI vs. the Pentagon
the real alignment problem is Pete Hegseth
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Charlie Warzel @cwarzel.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
Today’s pod is with one of my favorite writers covering the culture of technology in the Bay Area. @jasmine.bsky.social came on to describe the AI boom/hype from ground level in SF and we get deep into what the people building these tools actually believe www.theatlantic.com/podcasts/202...
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What Do the People Building AI Believe?
Inside San Francisco’s AI subculture
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Chris Kuang @chriskuang.com · 21/02/2026
incredibly fun lede by @jasmine.bsky.social about the DCA perimeter rule (a favorite topic of mine) and the rest of her observations about SF/DC divide and similarities jasmi.news/p/ai-populis...
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🌻 my week with the AI populists
a Washington DC scene report
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Johannes Kleske @jkleske.bsky.social · 24/01/2026
If you're intrigued by Claude Code but also feel overwhelmed, I can recommend this more personal account of trying it out by Jasmine Sun: jasmi.news/p/claude-co...
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🌻 claude code psychosis
are your problems software-shaped?
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Alex Shultz @alexshultz.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
A self-identified “engineer” went viral on Reddit (& on social media) w/damning allegations about one of the food delivery apps. Then they circulated a legit-looking “internal document” to journalists, including me. The whole thing was an AI-generated scam intended to smear Uber. Here’s the story
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An AI-Generated Reddit Post Fooled the Internet. It Was Only Half of an Elaborate Scam.
I traded Signal messages with someone purporting to have serious dirt on Uber. They used AI to make the whole thing up.
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Eric Topol @erictopol.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
The Peptide Craze in the US. It's reckless and unfounded. erictopol.substack.com/p/the-peptid... Today @nytimes.com @jasmine.bsky.social goes deep into the use in Silicon Valley, the supply from China, and the reasons this biohacking is popular t.co/lQXUBHNEaG
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Paul Abramson MD @paulabramsonmd.mydoctorsf.com · 03/01/2026
I’m quoted in today’s @nytimes.com on the "Chinese peptides" trend in SF. She asked about the "founder mindset" applied to biology. My take: "The entrepreneurial parallel isn't funding a scrappy start-up. It's wiring money to an unregistered offshore entity based on a pitch deck." buff.ly/n5nEob
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Hard Reset @hardresetmedia.com · 12/12/2025
Reporting live from the legendary Bimbo’s in SF, @elirosenberg.bsky.social on the Substack AI debate party with @jasmine.bsky.social, @bcmerchant.bsky.social and others, where the vibe was … surprisingly congenial? www.hardresetmedia.com/p/live-debat...
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Live debates are in, but winning them is another story
At a buzzy Substack party in San Francisco, four debates on A.I. showed that team human has plenty of fight in it, even amid the boom. And some goodwill on its side, to boot.
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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
jasmi.news/p/ai-friends... This is very good, and close in some ways to the Fourcade and @kjhealy.co account of social media, under which it's co-constituted by users rather than being forced on them.
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AI friends too cheap to meter
“Let me date my chatbot I’m almost 30 and doing well”
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darianwoods.bsky.social @darianwoods.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
"If the world is going to split into the techno kings and the techno peasants, I better prove that I'm gonna stay on top" - @jasmine.bsky.social describing veiled AI anxiety in San Francisco for The Indicator
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Gazetteer SF @sf.gazetteer.co · 24/10/2025
Everywhere you look these days in San Francisco, there's a new zine, magazine, literary journal, or newspaper. At Chat Room: Analog on Nov. 19, @cydhayes.bsky.social will sit down with @jasmine.bsky.social, @laurenmarkham.bsky.social, and @ovillalon.bsky.social to discuss SF's print boom.
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The Print Party: The publication as an object for community
Announcing our first panel for Chat Room: Analog on Nov. 19
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jasmine sun @jasmine.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
A rare first-person account of experiencing AI-induced psychosis, from a young tech founder who "should have known better" joinreboot.org/p/ai-psychosis
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Kyle Chayka @chaykak.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Silicon Valley entrepreneurs are racing to grab a chunk of AI capital and equity as it races upward. Meanwhile the rest of us face a dilemma: "Are you going to be the piggy or be the one making the slop?"
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Steve Randy Waldman @interfluidity.com · 29/09/2025
“Neo-hustle-culture is a modern twist on Weber’s Protestant ethic: if the world is soon to be divided into the blessed and the damned, the techno-kings and the techno-peasants, anxious technologists should work as hard as they can to prove they deserve to end up on the right side of that divide.”
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Mike Shaw @zax2000.bsky.social · 27/09/2025
The latest episode of @kaiserkuo.bsky.social's essential Sinica podcast features @jasmine.bsky.social who is a great China tech watcher. This was one of the topics that they discussed and I very much enjoyed it. It's totally worth your valuable time.
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Jasmine Sun on Silicon Valley through a Chinese Mirror
This week on Sinica, co-host Tianyu Fang makes his debut on the show to join me in interviewing his Stanford classmate and talented writer Jasmine Sun, who studies the anthropology of disruption.
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Max Read @maxread.info · 22/09/2025
really good exploration of silicon valley's collective nervous breakdown as its anxieties about deskilling, diminishing returns, etc manifest themselves in self-flattering memes. total sweaty desperation. look at my leading industry dawg we're all going to die
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are you high-agency or an NPC?
AI anxiety and the new language of silicon valley
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cb ⿻ @lovevolv.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
@jasmine.bsky.social excellent choice youtu.be/6TNg34K85-8?...
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How Hippies Became Hackers (Burning Man, Accelerationism, Stewart Brand) ft. Fred Turner
YouTube video by Jasmine Sun
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New_ Public @newpublic.org · 31/07/2025
Congrats to @jasmine.bsky.social and all our friends at Reboot for 5 years of bold, optimistic thinking! We applaud this renewed manifesto, centering human agency in how technology is created and developed. Here’s to 5 more!
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By And For Technologists
Reboot's new mission for 2025 and beyond
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Xander Cesari @merriman.industries · 18/07/2025
Stumbled into @jasmine.bsky.social's Kernel vol 5 launch party for joinreboot.org last night and boy oh boy was it a needle trip moment. Just when I was losing hope in finding the thread of moral imperative in the Bay Area tech scene! On to Open Sauce conf this weekend.
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Coté @cote.io · 27/06/2025
Some positive, growth oriented thinking about AI in creative endeavors. jasmi.news/p/32-notes-o...
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Stuart Gray @sgray.bsky.social · 27/06/2025
Worth a read. A great list of short insights, thoughts, and observations on GenAI, creativity, and implications…
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Paul M. Cray @pmc.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
From @jasmine.bsky.social jasmi.news/p/32-notes-o...: 15. AI hallucinates, humans misremember. Yet neuroscience suggests that memory and imagination are one and the same. Per Demis Hassabis’s PhD thesis: amnesiacs make shoddy novelists."
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notes on AI & writing
the models read because they cannot live
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jasmine sun @jasmine.bsky.social · 06/06/2025
I wanted to better understand (and complicate!) the “tech right,” so I interviewed an anonymous startup founder who supported Trump in 2024. He regrets it now. I found our conversation fascinating 🧵 jasmi.news/p/fit-to-rule
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Jesse Walker @notjessewalker.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
"Most of us have designed our lives around using the objects and tools that other people made. It takes a change of mindset to go from 'I wish I had an app for that' to 'Why not build it myself?'"
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Essay | Your Next Favorite App? The One You Make Yourself.
‘Vibe-coding’ with new AI tools makes it possible for just about anyone to create personalized apps—no programming required.
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jasmine sun @jasmine.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
chatgpt 4o's sycophancy & genocide grok were problems of human/social misalignment — not model misalignment. unfortunately companies are much more incentivized to solve the latter than the former new essay on the hard problem of aligning AI: jasmi.news/p/alignment
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we have never been aligned
learning from 4o and white genocide Grok
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jasmine sun @jasmine.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
very excited to be collaborating with Kevin on this book project!
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kottke.org @kottke.org · 17/04/2025
“AI discovered wholly new proteins before it could count the ‘r’s in ‘strawberry’, which makes it neither vaporware nor a demigod but a secret third thing.” [jasmi.news]
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🌻 agi (disambiguation)
will we know it when we see it?
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Ben Recht @beenwrekt.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
What if instead of The Terminator and The Matrix, we used Severance and South Park to think about AI?
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Maybe just believing in AGI makes AGI exist.
Kill the wise one!
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José Marichal @josemarichal.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Great stuff from @jasmine.bsky.social on the return to an "oral-first" culture... joinreboot.org/p/talk-is-ch...
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Talk Is Cheap
On LLMs and oral culture
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jasmine sun @jasmine.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
new podcast — WHAT DOGE GETS WRONG ft. @audreyt.org Audrey is the anti-Elon: a prodigy hacker who joined the Taiwan government to improve efficiency she shows why *social intelligence* is needed to successfully leverage frontier tech transcript & video here: jasmi.news/p/doing-doge...
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doing DOGE right ft. audrey tang
speed vs. participation, AI facilitators, depolarizing Taiwan
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Mark Harrison @mhar4.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
A heartfelt essay by @jasmine.bsky.social wsun about the fates of Taiwanese and American democracy. On the metaphor of Taipei's famous garbage collection, before 1994, it was just thrown onto huge gross piles on street corners. Doing it better was a civic choice. jasmi.news/p/taiwan-2025
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garbage in, garbage out
notes on Taiwan, the US, and civic culture
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⿻ Audrey Tang 唐鳳 @audreyt.org · 22/03/2025
Democracy isn’t something you have, it's something you practice — daily. 🔄 @jasmine.bsky.social beautifully captures Taiwan’s civic heartbeat and why active participation matters now more than ever. 🌻 jasmi.news/p/taiwan-2025
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garbage in, garbage out
notes on Taiwan, the US, and civic culture
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The San Francisco Standard @sfstandard.com · 12/03/2025
Stanford students want in on the military tech gold rush
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Stanford students want in on the military tech gold rush
They used to want jobs at Meta. Now Silicon Valley kids want to work on defense intelligence for the government.
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jasmine sun @jasmine.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
My Stanford years were defined by heated protests against tech work for ICE and the US military 5 years later, defense-tech is cool again, and I returned to campus to find out why. New article for @sfstandard.com: sfstandard.com/2025/03/12/s...
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Chris Ellis @designersatlas.bsky.social · 26/02/2025
Everything is vibes now? Great convo with Head of Design at Substack + @jasmine.bsky.social Bonus: No reading required open.spotify.com/episode/3W65...
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🌻 infinite cornucopia (ft. mills baker)
discourse brunch | jasmi.news · Episode
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jay @kuppermann.xyz · 09/02/2025
really loved editing this essay from eileen ahn in reboot on the limits of biological data collection, phenomenology, and (literally) swapping spit joinreboot.org/p/my-biologi...
A few months ago, I had the chance to participate in Lauren Lee McCarthy's exhibition Bodily Autonomy (Saliva Bar) at Gray Area. The exhibition invites visitors to voluntarily exchange saliva to "sidestep the anonymity of medical and corporate entities" and critique issues on data privacy and identity. Here, I spat in a vial, which I then labeled simply with demographic characteristics. In exchange, I received a vial of a person who labeled himself as a "male, heterosexual Latino who is adventurous, eco-conscious, forward-thinking, outdoorsy, urban planner, and photographer." (If this is you, let's connect! I still have your saliva!) This voluntary exchange of saliva also allows engagers to set their own terms of use: My saliva may not be used for weapons. My saliva may not be capitalized. My saliva may not be used for cloning.A photo of a receipt from Lauren Lee McCarthy’s Saliva Bar. The phrases “Saliva Receipt” and “Terms of Use” are visible on the receipt.
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jasmine sun @jasmine.bsky.social · 07/02/2025
we’ll need a new personal ethic for living alongside AI open.substack.com/pub/jasmine/...
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