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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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J.J. Anselmi @jjanselmi.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Haha yes
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J.J. Anselmi @jjanselmi.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
It all sounds like Ezra Klein's voice too
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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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J.J. Anselmi @jjanselmi.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Awesome! Congrats!
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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 · 24/06/2026
"Despite the modicum of hope people are seeing in New York, here's a wet blanket argument so everyone continues to feel like shit."
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J.J. Anselmi @jjanselmi.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
3/3 Then they want to put a cherry on the shit sandwich by doing "nice things" for the towns they're ravaging. Full piece @newrepublic.com
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J.J. Anselmi @jjanselmi.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
2/3 These companies' aggressive attempts to keep the public from knowing how much water data centers use tells us everything we need to know. It's a massive and unsustainable amount.
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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
@longreads.com
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J.J. Anselmi @jjanselmi.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
Yes!
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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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J.J. Anselmi @jjanselmi.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
This is kind of their MO though right? To glibly pitch some nebulous pause or toothless regulation and scare people of a doom scenario--but meanwhile trick us into thinking they're the good guys.
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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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J.J. Anselmi @jjanselmi.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Can't wait for those spiffy new creepo vision goggles!
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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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J.J. Anselmi @jjanselmi.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Haha maybe a bit 🧐
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J.J. Anselmi @jjanselmi.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Talarico
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J.J. Anselmi @jjanselmi.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
Hahaha it's just a mirror of how he wants to see himself and be perceived. Poor Marc Andreessen, we still think you're a sociopathic moron.
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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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J.J. Anselmi @jjanselmi.bsky.social · 21/04/2026
"In very small ways" haha good lord. Guys I have millions of conservative followers, but in very small, almost imperceptible ways, I may have helped get this fascist regime into power. It was purely financial, I assure you.
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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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J.J. Anselmi @jjanselmi.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Can the follow up to this be about how we should move on from Epstein?
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J.J. Anselmi @jjanselmi.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
🤢
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J.J. Anselmi @jjanselmi.bsky.social · 13/04/2026
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a man in a black shirt is smiling in front of a window with a computer monitor that says ' 00 ' on it
ALT: a man in a black shirt is smiling in front of a window with a computer monitor that says ' 00 ' on it
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J.J. Anselmi @jjanselmi.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
🙌
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J.J. Anselmi @jjanselmi.bsky.social · 12/04/2026
That's what I said!
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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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