AGI any day now

Whenever the European Commission talks about “digital sovereignty” or “strategic autonomy,” call it what it is: empty rhetoric that hides policies designed to make all of us more dependent (on US tech) and enable the construction of a full-fledged fascist surveillance regime.

To paraphrase Cedric Price: design doing is the answer but what is the question? I find it interesting that this person created a graphic where they’re quoting themselves, saying this.

🌶️ take: if someone is wearing those somewhere near you and is recording you are legally allowed to punch them. I’m just a guy, I don’t make the rules

Love the phrases "Cognitive Cost" and "Executive Function Theft" to pinpoint how exhausting it is to be constantly bombarded with apps telling you to use AI. I've been calling it "Corporate pressure" and "Force feeding". It's quite a lot right now. Seems a bit desperate tbh.

New laptop decor 👌 done Plus most of the stickers are mine and my friend’s ❤️

Nuremburg trials is the moderate position

Pretty sure he masturbates on his chats with Grok

"Why American-style polarisation is spreading across the West" Two words: algorithms and incentives. Mostly incentives. Until we modify or eliminate incentives, all we can do is watch as the fabric of society is pulled apart, strand by strand. www.ft.com/content/5060...

Wondering why no one likes your posts anymore, even among your friends? It's because @jay.bsky.team and team have decided to hide a huge amount of content from all of our feeds by default. Here's how to turn it off. First go to the hamburger menu in the upper left corner

Getting nervous for the talk I'm about to give at a workshop about "using AI to drive impact" which features slides such as these.

Did women ruin elections…for the fascists?

amen!! #Mozfest

Three Moves to Stop Broligarchy (Break, Build, Enforce) by Cori Crider and Robin Berjon mzf.st/15 hands down one of the most refreshing talks at MozFest

The "abundance agenda" is an incredibly designed piece of centre-right climate delay The entire project of climate action comes down to *not extracting and burning fossil fuels*. So if you frame "being against things" as inherently bad, you can pull thousands of ppl into a pro-fossil stance.

Critical design or also known as anti design design club collectivefutures.blog/dont-panic-d...

I love that Zohran did not praise Cuomo in his speech. You absolutely do not have to say nice things about bad people. We should normalize that in “polite” politics: Praising bad people is not actually “civility.”

Spent years wondering if design can contribute anything meaningful to the world beyond chasing profits & maximizing shareholder value. Could the answer be critical design as a critical inquiry towards business as usual? It doesn't pay the bills, but hey! 🧵 collectivefutures.blog/dont-panic-d...

Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it

Rejecting the premise here. "AI" is not coming for your job. Companies are dumping people because they are putting more money into AI investment, not because there is labor replacement via productivity. Even in the Amazon announcement, Jassy backed away from the framing that AI took those 14k jobs.

I would love to write my name in small letters only but I am too OCD for this kind of violence.

I think I should really try to write more bite-sized articles because when I write something big and multifaceted, I feel burnt out for weeks. It took me almost a month to find cognitive capacity to push through my latest article on critical design...

If climate change was not enough to scare people, a world without coffee and chocolate should terrify absolutely every living soul (even ghosts!).

Planet: Critical has left Substack! Find out why visiting Samoa and Crete made me discover something "achingly human" which encouraged me to get away from the noise. www.planetcritical.com/into-the-woo...

Water expert says water is wet

I remember doing these graphics in my 20s in Photoshop 🧐

X is a cesspit led by an unhinged billionaire who is desperately trying to stir up civil war in Britain. Nobody with any sense or decency should be there. No organisations, government departments, or politicians should be there. Everyone who is, is enabling this monster.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

I remember doing these graphics in my 20s in Photoshop 🧐

This is sounding more and more like the Council of Nicea who meet behind closed doors and poke the chatbot until it says it feels something. arstechnica.com/information-...

THIS it's not the technology, it's the business models, which are themselves instruments of the VC model

At a fundamental level, we have to accept much of silicon valley has gone insane.

I don't wish to make people like @olivia.science to spit their coffee/tea/water early in the morning but this now exists (seen in Linkedin, of course, someone from Germany) The irony is not missed though, since they seem to try to colonize(?) education 😅

I am logging in to what seems an angry American sports crowd in Bluesky? Am I in Bluesky?

" Trump is saying: ‘We should blame Mexico and Canada and China,’” Pettifor says. "The left should be saying the problem is Silicon Valley and Wall Street.” www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

Sticker strategy for laptop placement. Do you fancy any?

Linkedin is such a bad social media pushing algorithmic dominance. Even when I have tuned my timeline to show me "most recent" it still will decide to hide posts from my first degree contacts, that I will accidentally see weeks later because someone else reacted to them. Fuck fascist tech

Sticker strategy for laptop placement. Do you fancy any?

Furiously writing a piece on critical design. Stay tuned, maybe.

This with bells on for so many industries right now

I interviewed Paulina Borsook, who warned of tech culture's toxic underbelly over 30 years ago. She wrote a prescient and scathing book, "Cyberselfish." It tanked her career, but a new generation is discovering her work as tech fascism tries to kill democracy 👇 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DL-k...

I feel I need a stipend of like 1000€ to get all the books I want. Potentially a new library shelf as well.

If you are an author, Please Leave Substack. They subsidise and outright provide fiscal funding services to the worst parts of society - literal neoNazis and bigots. If you're not an author, let the authors you read know: You won't read Substack.

Mamdani is already getting the criminals out of NYC!

When you see a great book serendipitously you get that book. This is the way. Photo of the book The AI Con by @emilymbender.bsky.social & @alexhanna.bsky.social

"To live through this moment is to feel that some essential component of our shared humanity is being slowly leached out of the world..." Powerful words here! Also it's insane to me that I have been quoted in this article for my title "infrastructure of meaninglessness" by @cwarzel.bsky.social 🙏

Be the change you want to be.

“What happens between imagination and creation is ineffable—it entails struggle, iteration, joy, and frustration, disappointment, and pride. It is the process through which we enact agency, how we make meaning and move through the world. To lose that, I fear, is to capitulate on our very humanity.”

Walk to the local bookstore in Helsinki today and happy to see Graeber being promoted (I might have done accidentally some spotlight promotion as well) @davidgraeberinst.bsky.social @nikadubrovsky.bsky.social

"To live through this moment is to feel that some essential component of our shared humanity is being slowly leached out of the world..." Powerful words here! Also it's insane to me that I have been quoted in this article for my title "infrastructure of meaninglessness" by @cwarzel.bsky.social 🙏