I planned to share my report on the body cam footage early next week when I learned that a DC news station had obtained some of the footage as a result of my lawsuit and they were going to scoop me. After working on this for a year, I couldn't let that happen. Published 2 mins before they aired :)

It's like when tech billionaires invoke sci-fi stories, and people say, "he doesn't even understand that story's dystopian," but yes, they do get that! They simply embrace the dystopia, market it as inevitable, and want you to understand yourself as a winner or loser in that context—on their terms.

In comments of the quoted thread, @fractalecho.bsky.social says: "In my book I call this the Disability Diversion where all criticism of techno fascism is deflected with appeals to technosaviorism." "Disabling Intelligences: Legacies of Eugenics and How We are Wrong about AI" by Rua M. Williams

This is so cool! And also, if this dates back far enough, it wouldn't just be a general interest in astronomy, it's about learning very real tools and skills for timekeeping and celestial navigation on the ocean!

this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible

(link: nananwachukwu.github.io/media-captur...)

I really wish the pro-Nazi platform wasn't where I could find my senator, actually.

i think enthusiastic LLM use is mostly a stack of cognitive biases, unacknowledged plagiarism, and unmet needs in a trenchcoat but also my main objections aren't about them being bad at tasks so i don't care if you think they've gotten better at it

Facing consequences, boundaries & friction are the roots of all education, maturity, growth, empathy, & change - these are all prosocial life skills Ai like capitalism fascism colonialism & white supremacy are joyless miserable cruel vapid vile stagnant shameless infantile loser temper tantrums

i thought you had to officially declare war but maybe that’s just for thumbs

CFP, AI Resistance, Refusal, Reclamation & Reimagining: Ethical Imperatives and Emerging Practices! Note "This collection is focused ...on the strategies & actions of individuals, communities, organisations & collectives to actively resist, refuse, reimagine & reclaim 'artificial intelligence."

Sarah makes a great loco moco!

Calling AI "slop" has been one of the most effective instances of the public rebranding a product and it pisses them off.

We are really going to regret the technology we have built.

Another one by Olly: ollycostello.com/portfolio

War is massacre of people who don't know each other for the profit of people who do know each other but don't massacre each other.

Please, please end your partnership with OpenAI, @rweingarten.bsky.social @aft.org. In addition to everything else, given all that we know, it seems incredibly likely that that company is going to funnel student input straight into government surveillance files.

Oops. www.npr.org/2026/02/26/n...

Don’t believe them when they say it’s inevitable.

Great reminder to finally buy one of these no-AI artworks from Michele! I've been admiring them from a distance for a while. 💜

More broadly, the essay is a great example of the "illusion of understanding" that @lmesseri.bsky.social and I warned in 2024 would be a risk of using LLMs, especially as they become more capable 17/ www.nature.com/articles/s41...

The rich are fully aware of climate catastrophe. But their solution for climate catastrophe is to get rid of the rest of us by the way. That’s why tech bros are arguing robots are less resource consuming than humans so openly.

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Hopefully only temporary, but astro.unl.edu is down right now and they have so many useful interactive animations and simulations I link to in my course. I'm working with a student on a makeup lab (the website worked last week), and we had to go through the Wayback Machine to get what we needed!

Hey science folks, here's an opportunity for a tenure-track teaching position at Grand Rapids Community College! www.grcc.edu/faculty-staf... Please send along to qualified folks that are on the job market :)

God, Human, Animal, Machine – superb read on consciousness, AI, and our search for meaning www.themarginalian.org/2023/03/02/g...

I was just doing a regular check of social media and quickly remembered it's the SOTU tonight. I'm gonna log back off now, see y'all tomorrow. Take care of yourselves 💜

Great interview with the creator of Clues By Sam! I solved the daily #CluesBySam, Feb 24th 2026 (Medium), in 04:29 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩 https://cluesbysam.com

Local zoning is the way! A lot of these are being stopped or stalled by neighborhood organizing. These warehouses often need to be purchased, permitted, approved for occupancy and specs. Each one of those steps can be interrupted. Ppl are pressuring corps not to sell, counties to deny permits, etc

The utterance of "A.I.'s inevitability" is one of the most stark pure performatives I've seen in my time working in higher ed. Every time it is uttered, it is clearly not reporting a fact about the world but instead actively trying to create the reality it narrates. We can and must refuse.

"“Unfortunately, ease has never been a defining characteristic of learning,” he said. “Learning is effortful, difficult, and oftentimes uncomfortable. But it’s the friction that makes learning deep and transferable into the future.”"

Doctorow has coined some widely-used concepts, but his arguments have always felt elusively shallow and anemic to me, and this really snaps the reason into focus: It's because they're always and entirely focused on the consumer.

I have started reading Moonbound by Robin Sloan this week, and the prologue starts out with so much lore in just a few pages! (I'm currently on page 27 with an accurate description of orbital precession without using jargon and I'm quite pleased with the story still)

New Brunswick, NJ just canceled plans for a colossal AI data center after massive pushback from the community. That's a huge win for people power. AI data centers are sucking up communities’ utilities AND draining state resources — while enriching Big Tech CEOs.

There is a venn diagram of "We need to believe that AI can develop a real consciousness," "I now adhere to a truly bizarre health routine" and "I need all the money possible and I need it just for me," and at the center of it is "I am terrified of dying and I don't know how to fix that"

I wasn't talking about the effective altruists & longtermists so much last year cause a girl can only do so much. But they've quietly taken over the "left" & appropriated language we use on AI, infiltrating seamlessly. Eg this foundation granting $$ for journalism on AI, www.tarbellcenter.org/team

That's from an excellent collection of essays, and isaac's thread here continues by connecting some key topics in a way that more people need to be doing. Take some time to read it.

BREAKING: The Department of Education has ended its directive that attempted to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion efforts in schools nationwide. This is a victory for academic freedom and education equity.

I recorded an audio version of the essay "I am an AI Hater" by @anthonymoser.com - it's been on my to-do list and I really wanted to share his message today. If you have 5.5 minutes, give it a listen! (Note: the word shit appears twice, overall pretty tame language given the subject matter LOL)

This blog post by @chuckwendig.bsky.social is incredible. If I wasn't already finished with my zine with a list of names for LLMs (linked in pinned post), this one has some gems like "giant corpo shit," "THIEVING MAGPIE," and "bad shrimp." The analogy here at the end for a garlic press is excellent.

The project of "AI" is fascist through and through -- read @timnitgebru.bsky.social and @xriskology.bsky.social 's paper on TESCREALism. Some tech sold these days as "AI" isn't really part of that project. But then one has to ask why the people selling *that* tech are happy with the name.

Damn, go off Joseph Weizenbaum

Lots of great posts in the last 24 hours about all sorts of great technologies that are worth supporting. Le Guin already nailed it two decades ago, though: https://www.ursulakleguin.com/a-rant-about-technology

The lasting way to fight fascism—and the thing each of us can do—is to liberate your mind from the fascist framework. Stop being frightened of the things that fascists say are frightening. Start looking at those things as liberation. Fear the things fascists say make us safe. See them as prisons.

Ultimately, the Left won't embrace AI because rather than salesmen and financiers, the left is composed of professionals, lawyers and educators who read the way AI misrepresents our expertise and conclude all its answers are equally fraught with error. When you don't know anything, AI feels smart.

"Is there a technology the left is excited about?" Let's see, off the top of my head: - libraries - solar power - community-owned, community-run [noun], for example • power grids • communications networks - e-bikes - voting by mail - vaccinations - affordable health care Notice any patterns?

The difference between mutual aid and charity is solidarity. In charity, institutions dictate who deserves support; in mutual aid, everyone deserves support. Charity is top down; mutual aid is horizontal. Charity is hierarchical; mutual aid is community solidarity.

This exactly - there are bad things about being forced to use it too - you’re enriching people above you and likely impoverishing people below you, you’re poisoning people who live near data centers, etc - but I want you to feel deeply ashamed if you’re using it for fun

elated to announce my participation in the Library Futures Research Network, where my project “Sites of Power: Information Work & Data Centers” will “contend w/ what data centers, cloud storage, generative AI, & environmental harm mean for the work of collecting, preserving, & sharing information.”

So is programming. Which is why "vibe coding" is bunk. You have to think through exactly what you want the program to do, and only writing the code will force you to actually think it through properly.