🔥 “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.”
J.J. Anselmi
@jjanselmi.bsky.social
Writer of books, destroyer of ears. Wyoming boi at heart. Luddite bro in training www.jjanselmi.com
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
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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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.
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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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.
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 🤘
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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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.
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...
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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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.
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.
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.
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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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...
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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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...
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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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:
The data center rebellion is only the beginning
And it's precisely what democratic governance of AI looks like.
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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...
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
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.
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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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?
Jimmy Fallon@jimmyfallon.bsky.social · 3y agoDay one. Jumping in.
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.
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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"Chronically bubonic" is a phrase I would use if I wrote a rap about the bubonic plague and/or marijuana.
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-...
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.
Long Beach Watchdog@lbwatchdog.com · 5mo agoVoyager Technologies announced Thursday that it has moved into a 140,000-square-foot facility in Long Beach, making it the second defense company to announce a move into the city in less than two months. Read more from @brandonrichardson.bsky.social on the Watchdog. lbwatchdog.com/city-officia...
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.
These freaks are very clearly and deliberately choosing slop factories over humans.
Emily Johnston@enjohnston.bsky.social · 5mo agoHoly shit. These people must be stopped. "By the end of 2025, an estimated 39% of the gas power capacity being developed in the US was designed to serve data centers...up from 5% at the end of 2024."
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
Anthropic-Pentagon battle shows how big tech has reversed course on AI and war
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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...
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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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