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J.J. Anselmi

@jjanselmi.bsky.social
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Writer of books, destroyer of ears. Wyoming boi at heart. Luddite bro in training www.jjanselmi.com

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#TeslaTakedown @teslatakedown.com · 23/09/2026
Elon is now above $16,000,000 spent on the mid-terms. Top races so far: -$5,174,007.32 in TX against @jamestalarico.bsky.social -$3,193,553.94 in OH against @sherrodbrownoh.bsky.social -$3,092,319.94 in MI against @abdulelsayed.bsky.social
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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 19/09/2026
I promise you there would be no AI alignment problem if the CEOs of AI companies faced jail time if their AI killed anyone.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 16/09/2026
“Families shouldn’t have to pay for the AI boom with their health.”
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Former EPA officials: Trump is letting data centers make you sick
“Families shouldn’t have to pay for the AI boom with their health.”
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Pookleblinky @pookleblinky.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Billionaires are uniquely vulnerable to being driven into rabbit holes of delusion by generative AI because it talks exactly like how all their meat sycophants talk. They've long, long since forgotten what it is like to talk to someone who is not simpering bullshit at them.
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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
New from 404 Media: humans are reading ChatGPT conversations. OpenAI has hired an army of contractors who read real ChatGPT users' chats. I've seen internal docs, the review system, and real user prompts. Sometimes they contain very personal and sensitive information www.404media.co/inside-proje...
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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...
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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 08/09/2026
did some reporting on a new tool that shows you how much union-busting campaigns cost employers. it's a lot! prospect.org/2026/09/08/u...
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How Much Do Union-Busting Campaigns Cost? - The American Prospect
Is your boss making you sit through anti-union propaganda meetings? It turns out those are pricey.
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WIRED @wired.com · 08/09/2026
Researchers at the Tech Transparency Project (TPP) say they have discovered hundreds of new disturbing ads containing child sexual abuse material, after a previous similar incident. This time, they were able to identify images of real children.
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Meta Failed to Catch Hundreds of AI Child Abuse Ads. Some Included Images of Real Kids
Images of real children—including a member of a European royal family—were used to create some of the 350 ads containing child sexual abuse. Lawmakers say they plan to investigate.
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Revolving Door Project @revolvingdoordc.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
When the AI bubble bursts, Democrats must not bail out its Big Tech overlords.
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An AI Bailout Will Be a ‘Which Side Are You On’ Moment - The American Prospect
If AI falls, Democrats can build an enduring political majority—but only if they reject handing a lifeline to Altman, Musk, and the rest of the industry.
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Tim Maughan @timmaughan.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
rejecting AI isn’t a failure to prepare children for an “inevitable” future, it’s a vital statement of belief in our agency to chose a future for them, rather than letting it be dictated to us by a small group of the richest men, who are increasingly - I wish this was just hyperbole - openly fascist
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 05/09/2026
Also lots of condescending “you don’t hate ai, you hate…”
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Ⓐnarchohoodism 🐈‍⬛ 🏴 @161bklyn.myatproto.social · 03/09/2026
It should've been put on there since the 80s after Reagan’s bullshit with the air traffic controllers, Caterpillar and how they did their workers, for a mining company where they kept SCAB workers, fired the actual workers, and eliminated the unions.
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WIRED @wired.com · 01/09/2026
Flock Safety’s surveillance network has been expanding for years. In recent months, we’ve reported on growing concerns around how US law enforcement is using its cameras, as allegations of misuse pile up. Here’s a deep dive into how we got here.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
The 60 largest planned data centers could produce the same amount of carbon dioxide emissions as 27 coal plants. Big Tech CEOs are polluting our planet and selling out our future to line their own pockets. We need a data center moratorium — now.
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California Nurses Association @calnurses.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
RNs protested at the American Hospital Association summit where Kaiser CEO Greg Adams is speaking to call out Kaiser's push to replace real nurses with untested A.I. Nurses, not executives, should decide the tech used at the bedside. #PeopleOverProfit ✊
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 12/08/2026
Part of the influence for the ankle monitor was some guy noticing how cattle were tagged, so cattle prod gloves are an extension of this extremely fucked up logic.
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Dozens of gas-burning power plants are being built across the country, solely to power data centers. These plants could emit as much planet-warming pollution as half of all passenger vehicles in the entire country in a single YEAR. We need a data center moratorium — now.
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 01/08/2026
🔥 “I’m so sick and tired of you old people not giving a shit about what we’re telling you. We don’t have a future. We’re telling you what we need and you don’t give a damn.”
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National Nurses United @nationalnurses.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
Palantir has helped enable increasingly deadly encounters with immigration officers. Just last week, ICE murdered Mainer Johan Sebastian Durán Guerrero. Yet, MaineHealth refuses to cut its ties with the company? Nurses won't accept it! bit.ly/4px5GBX
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MaineHealth management refuses to cut ties with Palantir
Maine Medical Center registered nurses and community allies will hold a press conference and rally on Thursday, July 23 in Portland to highlight their demand that MaineHealth cancel its contract with ...
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Truthdig @truthdig.com · 25/06/2026
The passage of New York's moratorium marks the speed at which a wave of organized fury against data centers is growing — and winning — in both blue and red parts of the country.
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The Data Center Backlash Uniting America
The passage of New York's moratorium marks the speed at which a wave of organized fury against data centers is growing — and winning — in both blue and red parts of the country.
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J.J. Anselmi @jjanselmi.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
1/3 Dan Caruso is like many people involved in this fight in that he never planned on becoming an activist. Now, a retired mail carrier and former union president, he's left wondering if Amazon and Anthropic are going to decimate the aquifer his Indiana town needs for drinking water.
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J.J. Anselmi @jjanselmi.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
I spoke to people from across the country who've seen their lives get disrupted by these monstrosities. I wanted to compile an oral history because, unlike the politicians and businessmen, it amplifies people's voices and gives them a chance to speak for themselves. Thanks @newrepublic.com 🤘
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Nobody Here Wants the Data Center: An Oral History
We’ve gathered stories from all across the country detailing what happens when Big Tech’s latest monstrosities come to town.
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
sure, everyone from history who did the exact same thing i'm doing is now understood to have been a despicable piece of shit, but when i do it, it's different.
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Gil Durán @gilduran.com · 17/06/2026
The Gavin Files: When he's not busy fighting against the billionaire tax, our slick-haired hero is killing environmental regulations for data centers. He just "shot down legislation to require the facilities to disclose water use." Data Center for President '28! www.politico.com/news/2026/06...
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Gavin Newsom’s data center gamble
As other Democratic governors seize on data centers in a national fight over the AI boom, Newsom says it’s not the issue.
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J.J. Anselmi @jjanselmi.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
I have an oral history coming out soon for @newrepublic.com about people who've been impacted by data centers. I knew it was bad, but actually talking to people who are experiencing the invasion made me realize it's just that--an invasion that's disrupting lives and upending communities.
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Nina Horisaki-Christens @ninahorisakichr.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Modeled on the *fantasy* of a brain. They are not modeled on human brains. They come out of nearly a century of cybernetically-based concepts, attempting to predict human behavior from exterior indicators, treating the brain like a black box whose interiority can be statistically predicted.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 17/05/2026
Virginia has more data centers than anywhere in the world, and companies are pushing to build more of them, including around some of the most hallowed ground in the country: the Manassas National Battlefield Park.
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Data centers are spreading across the country. Communities trying to fight back are on their own.
Our AI future lives inside miles and miles of windowless data centers spreading across the US. Communities trying to fight back are on their own.
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Scott Hechinger @scotthech.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Two weeks ago, @TheNation published my piece arguing Democrats were about to blow a once-in-a-generation political moment on ICE. I was head down and couldn't share it. They blew it — exactly the way I said they would. A thread. 🧵 www.thenation.com/article/soci...
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Why Do the Democrats Keep Expanding the Institutions They Claim to Oppose?
The pattern is always the same: The public demands change, but the Democrats cave to political pressure and maintain the status quo, allowing the machinery to grow.
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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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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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In These Times @inthesetimes.com · 18/04/2026
Even as they profess to be conservationists, Joseph Bullington found that most of the billionaire landowners in the Yellowstone ecosystem accumulated their wealth through industries that help drive the destruction of nature elsewhere. inthesetimes.com/article/yell...
Promotional graphic for an In These Times article titled “Fortress Yellowstone” by Joseph Bullington. The background shows a rustic ranch gate at sunrise with a large cattle skull mounted on a wooden fence post, rolling hills and mountains in the distance, and golden light across a dirt road. Over the image, bold black text on white blocks reads: “Fortress Yellowstone.” Smaller text below reads: “The ultra-rich are fortifying themselves inside one of America’s last intact ecosystems—with money plundered from ecological sacrifice zones around the world.” The In These Times logo appears at the bottom.
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The New Republic @newrepublic.com · 12/04/2026
As if the community college system wasn't strained enough by privatization efforts, tech bros have recently swooped in and are seeking to cause further disruption. A sketchy Silicon Valley-funded online school portends a bleak future for a critical sector of our education system. trib.al/8dN3Qgn
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J.J. Anselmi @jjanselmi.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
When I discovered that tech fascists like Peter Thiel, Joe Lonsdale, and Sam Altman provided VC funding for an online "community college," I had to find out why. Thanks @newrepublic.com for publishing this.
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The Ominous Big Tech Takeover of Our Community College System
A sketchy online school funded by Silicon Valley bros portends a bleak future for a critical sector of our education system.
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Microplastics Sommelier @leastactionhero.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Day 1055: We grow weary awaiting your return. Your vacant expression taunts us. Your unbroken gaze pierces us. Where are you now? Do you ever think about us--about what you left behind? Every day you get further away, carried into the past. A yawning chasm of time between us. Why can't you jump it?
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404 Media @404media.co · 31/03/2026
NEW: Thomson Reuters, the media company which is also a data broker, has long provided personal data for ICE tools, according to documents obtained by 404 Media and sources. There are also indications its data is now part of the Palantir system ICE uses to find which neighborhoods to target.
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How Thomson Reuters Powers ICE and Palantir
Thomson Reuters’ data, which can include peoples’ addresses and details on their ethnicity, is linked to tools used ICE.
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J.J. Anselmi @jjanselmi.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
"Chronically bubonic" is a phrase I would use if I wrote a rap about the bubonic plague and/or marijuana.
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RoseyRoseamund - VOTE, OR FUCK OFF! @roseyroseamund.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
www.cnn.com/2026/03/30/c...
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Data centers are creating ‘heat islands’ and warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees | CNN
The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence are so energy hungry that they’re heating up their surroundings, according to new research. It’s an alarming finding given the number of data c...
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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 23/03/2026
The Grok deepfake scandal is really the culmination of all that. Musk wanted to see more engagement, so he pulled back the guardrails and set his incel fans wild to victimize as many people as they could — the consequences be damned. disconnect.blog/its-time-to-...
In late December, we were all witness to just how abusive and hostile the platform has become to its users. At Musk’s instruction, the team behind Grok rolled back the guardrails so users could prompt it to make scantily clad and nude images of whoever they wanted. Women ended up being the main victims of Musk’s followers, but the pedophiles who use his platform quickly found they could use it to make explicit images of children too.

xAI is now being sued over over allowing images to be generated of minors, not to mention the investigations that remain ongoing in countries around the world. I’ve previously argued the scandal should have been grounds to ban the platform. Over 3 million images were generated in just eleven days, affecting a enormous number of people — especially women — the world over. But if governments aren’t acting fast enough, that doesn’t mean individuals have no agency.
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J.J. Anselmi @jjanselmi.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Awesome reporting from @brandonrichardson.bsky.social. Also worth noting is that Anduril founders Trae Stephens and Palmer Luckey are both Peter Thiel acolytes. Thanks mayor Rex for welcoming these technofascists into our city.
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J.J. Anselmi @jjanselmi.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Main thing is AGI is going to fix all of this, so really it's not so bad if you think about it. Just waiting for the magic answer to pop out and then we'll circle up and get everyone on board.
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J.J. Anselmi @jjanselmi.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
These freaks are very clearly and deliberately choosing slop factories over humans.
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Guardian US @us.theguardian.com · 13/03/2026
Less than a decade ago, Google employees scuttled any military use of its AI. Now Anthropic is fighting Trump officials not over if, but how
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Anthropic-Pentagon battle shows how big tech has reversed course on AI and war
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J.J. Anselmi @jjanselmi.bsky.social · 09/03/2026
Trying to rebrand myself as a thinking man's idiot
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J.J. Anselmi @jjanselmi.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
Check out this essay I wrote a couple few years ago about working a job where we tried to harvest rubber waste from old astroturf @publishedbyjake.bsky.social jakethemag.com/my-summer-of...
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My Summer of Rubber Dust
The Machine didn’t work well, not by a long shot. But, in the end, it worked just enough.
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J.J. Anselmi @jjanselmi.bsky.social · 07/03/2026
There's no such thing as "AI writing." It's slop output from a chatbot. Just cold numbers with a spit shine. We gotta weed out the anthropomorphic language at every level. This has been a public service announcement from a rando
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 06/03/2026
"This isn't a border checkpoint. This is your neighborhood. ICE is now running facial recognition on phones — stopping people on the street, scanning faces in real time. What happens when the algorithm is wrong?"
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A knock on the window and a glimpse of America’s surveillance future
“This is taking a big and very scary step toward a kind of totalitarian checkpoint society,” a privacy advocate warns in a special France 24–Mother Jones report.
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Ryan Goodman @rgoodlaw.bsky.social · 06/03/2026
Reuters Exclusive "U.S. military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school." "The strike would rank among the worst cases of civilian casualties in decades of U.S. conflicts in the ​Middle East."
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Exclusive: US investigation points to likely US responsibility in Iran school strike, sources say
Military investigators believe it is likely that U.S. forces were responsible for an apparent strike on an Iranian girls' school that killed scores of children on Saturday, two U.S. officials told Reu...
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J.J. Anselmi @jjanselmi.bsky.social · 05/03/2026
The rigor of debate and thought on LinkedIn is truly inspiring
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J.J. Anselmi @jjanselmi.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
AGI will swoop in and fix it all = don't worry guys, my mom will clean up after us. Except now it's our planet and resources instead of a little boy's room. Hell yeah
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