Call for Papers... sayyesdono.com/call-for-pap...

Some thoughts on faux-social LLMs and the financial death of friends and lovers... sayyesdono.com/tech-bros-st...

AI can't offer real relationships, but the closest analogy they can offer is insecure and toxic.

Call for papers, AI critical work welcome... link.springer.com/journal/4368...

How deepfakes rocked a high school; BusPatrol giving AI camera data to cops; and a big time crash out.

Rishi Sunak tells Radio 4 that "AI is changing every aspect of our economy and our lives, and if I was back in office and looked at my diary and where I was going to spend my time, I would spend it on that" At no point does he or the BBC mention the £373,000 given to him every year by an AI company

The retail market will rapidly contract when they start charging, as they'll have to. The business market is gradually waking up to the money they're wasting. That leaves governments and institutions who are going to be the most generous and the slowest to clock on. Sooner or later we'll just be

Same applies to the illegal/unethical content in the training data that's enabling the CSAM and nudification stuff, as well as the harms from faux-social LLMs. Biggest grift of this whole thing is the reckless, thieving approach to data sets immediately being shrugged off as inevitable. Although the

Some thoughts on the increasing shift towards the criminalisation and problematisation of anti-AI resistance. sayyesdono.com/old-tactics-...

This has plenty of historical precedent in the Luddites but then the Luddites could be criminalised and repressed because it didn't matter if they liked the machines that replaced them. If you want to normalise AI use, especially for a mass of end users, then criminalising criticism seems a bad move

In the wake of attacks on CEOs, movements targeting data centers, and increasing concerns about AI job replacement, feds & policing agencies are constructing a new domestic target they characterize as anti-technology extremists. (Which really is just anti-capitalist.) www.wired.com/story/us-law...

If in doubt, blame a Red. Nice to see the old traditions being maintained.

Think the secret was given away when 'AI Sovereignty' turned out to mean 'loads of US owned data centres'.

Blair with another of his 'rare interventions'. Beyond the fact that he's obviously a reprehensible ghoul this anonymous leaker isn't wrong about him. Bit hypocritical given that Labour are also in hoc to tech bro fascists though. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

This will not happen, I'm not even sure that it can. Generalised LLMs are energy intensive, to say 'make them not that' is to tell companies to not do what they've built their entire business model around. It's like telling Meta not to be invasive and manipulative. Without those there is no Meta.

Beyond the inevitable schadenfreude I don't see anything getting better even when the bubble bursts. The legacy players with their gov and institutional contracts will survive along with some of the worst AI use cases. And no doubt a load of normal people's money will be lost either with or saving

Look forward to the day they have to start giving the various tech grifter Sams nicknames to differentiate them in prison.

Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...

Accurate reporting is important, but it is absolutely not enough Industries must not be allowed to operate by dumping the environmental and social cost onto the rest of society for their own profit

It's predictable but depressing how many of the ground level defences of AI echo the US debate on gun control. Bad people with x will do bad things, that's life, just make sure good people have x too. It's a myopic fatalism where no social or cultural change can ever exist, only the self indulgent

It's a bit of a rolling deadline so please do keep submitting work for the upcoming anti-AI anthology - will start getting back to people soon and visual art, fiction and poetry are all welcome... sayyesdono.com/anti-ai-anth...

The whole industry is after apologists, and it's also willing to buy apologists—via grants, lucrative speaking gigs, summer institute bullshit, proximity to extreme wealth and power—which means that as those apologists emerge they should be regarded with suspicion so intense it's visible from space

Good article but this story is far from unique. Reactive legislation is far short of what's needed. These platforms are offered by companies, building on the work of other companies. That's where the hammer should fall, starting with Google and Apple for selling nudification apps on their stores.

“The turbines are running near Southaven, Mississippi, a residential community with homes, schools, churches, and workplaces. The city, which is part of the greater Memphis metro area, is about one-third Black.” wordinblack.com/2026/05/elon...

This is the standout of Anthropic's PR bit on the Pope's AI stuff - they've ignored all of the endless criticisms from academics, workers, activists, educators etc solely because it told them not to do things they want to do. They're not appealing for informed critics, they're after apologists.

Hot Pope action with this weeks Monday AI Resistance Update, amongst other things. sayyesdono.com/monday-ai-re...

We gotta find the guy that did this!!

While it's going to be a bit flexible the deadline for submissions to the anti-AI anthology I'm working on is coming up soon so definitely time to get things in if you're interested. Prose, poetry + visual art are all welcome. Feel free to share too. sayyesdono.com/anti-ai-anth...

Every AI article seems to include a sentence like: "The popularity of AI is soaring, with 2.5 billion people using [feature they can't turn off] monthly."

Looking for images for a project and suddenly realise just how completely broken image search (especially Google) has become. AI related topic so obviously effects things but trying to find anything *real* is a struggle, it's just wall to wall slop.

“We’re not excited to see these advancements in AI if it means it’s going to pollute our environment, spread misinformation, track us and take our jobs…”

Take that Richard Dawkins...

Neither good nor bad really, although Musk embaressing himself will always be funny. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Some thoughts on how 'AI' is becoming a made up term and one of the best motivators for resisting it. sayyesdono.com/exposure-the...

A few bits of resistance related new I've seen this week... sayyesdono.com/monday-resis...

Giving away smoothies, evidently desperate for any kind of real revenue stream.

This week's AI resistance update... sayyesdono.com/monday-ish-a...

Book launch in London next week for @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social's excellent contribution to the struggle: 'An Evening of Techno-Negativity with MayDay rooms and Thomas Dekeyser' maydayrooms.org/event/an-eve...

Support services at the University of Portsmouth being run down so they can be replaced with AI... c.org/9rkbM8pQDP

I've always been unconvinced by the hope of policy as resistance to AI and this is why.

Funny how you need so much training and coercion to get people to use these revolutionary new technologies that offer human like, instinctual interactions for learning and productivity... www.404media.co/literacy-in-...

'How much does meditation cost?' - 'Nothing' - 'Well that won't do at all, quick, let's stick some tech on it and see how much we can rinse from the schools'...

It is a choice, chances are this will lead to errors, those using it are failing in their duty of care given the well documented problems with LLMs and patients everywhere should absolutely ask their doctors not to use it. Any who do so anyway should face formal complaints.

Monday AI Resistance update... Just random bits I pick up throughout the week which may be of interest. sayyesdono.com/monday-ai-re...

“You made your little statement, and that’s OK, but you are instructed not to talk about extinction again,” I love Oakland. www.sfgate.com/tech/article...

Some useful public speaking tips from Freud here.

It's May so final month for submissions to the anti-AI anthology I'm working on - sayyesdono.com/anti-ai-anth... Responses will go out next month but the sooner you submit the better, got a growing pile to go through already.

The video is out from my Rogers Chair lecture at Western University in March: 'AI is a Morbid Symptom of the Interregnum' www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh0U... (yes I did use an exploded view of a Gaggia espresso machine as a slide to accompany 'convivial tools')

Have added my own jangling, caffeine induced thoughts to the original article @ sayyesdono.com/data-centres...