> AI centrists assume that splitting the difference between exalting AI and rejecting it means accepting the technology—because, as their reasoning often goes, “AI is here to stay.” [And] concerns about AI’s potential harms are supposedly satisfied by a vague commitment to “responsible” practices.

Moreover... * Abandon chatbots * Start planning now to leave Google, Microsoft etc * Act on those plans * Seek out and build technical expertise * Treat social media as enemy terrain

Meta pervert glasses and social media “lives” are a safeguarding issue that we have to address Imagine a child, in witness or police protection. They are on a school trip or filmed by a passer by on their way home from school. That recording, uploaded to social media is used to locate them. Imagine

Exactly. These systems are the only technology that people, aided by propaganda, deliberately misunderstand IN DEFIANCE of the careful, repeated explanations of scientists, engineers and technologists

Thus announcing an effort to create a group of techies to form a computational mutual aid collective. The goal: help individuals and activist orgs leave US-based tech which is a threat vector. More info here: monroelab.com/2026/06/06/c...

"The funniest possible outcome of the AI mandate era is about to be HR departments discovering that 'sincerely held religious belief' under Title VII has a much lower bar than they assumed, and Pope Leo handed every Catholic employee a written excuse" www.businessinsider.com/worker-got-r...

Yes and, also, Anthropic's marketing, to both its primary customers (military and surveillance) and to us is that it is ever on the cusp of dangerous breakthroughs. These are never materially defined but form a propaganda mist.

Thus gifting me with a new reply to AI bros: 'brain it out, punks!'

This is my QED for why I don't bother with spellcheck let alone LLM nonsense anymore... Come at me, like who cares? I can brain it out — and if not, nobody will die if an academic types asses instead of assess (which spellcheck won't catch anyway)

"we must not allow AI, neither as bully nor so-called tool, to redefine our roles as educators or researchers. It is not our job to chase hype. What this means is by all means educators should feel empowered and inspired by the urgency to uplift students, but not to use AI to do so."

After our scoop about an internal Microsoft document that explained the company wanted to “make people addicted” to its AI assistant, CEO Satya Nadella told staff that he was “not sure what this document is or who is writing and leaking this nonsense." The document was written by Microsoft execs.

For me, the most telling thing about this interaction is the 'business journalists' difficulty acknowledging basic facts of cost benefit, unit economics and ROI when applied to 'AI' - youtu.be/zbKDmkJPVvI?...

I continue to think about Kracauer's claim that you can see the encroaching fascism in Weimar Germany in the extensive use of sets rather than location shooting. In his account, this was indicative of a society that could not face even momentary contact with unplanned or uncertain events.

This is very close to the calls for people to take faster showers to save water while industrial use is allowed to grow unchecked. Occam's razor becomes a broadsword here: don't prompt better; rather, don't prompt at all

Shut up you absolute clowns be ashamed you absolute dingbats with your "always smoke with a filter" > Removing “please”, “thank you” and other unnecessary words from AI prompts could save 87 to 98 gigawatt-hours of electricity per year, the report from the UN Unhinged and shameful

Thus inspiring me to cook up an essay on the un-savvy world of business: monroelab.com/2026/06/02/m...

we are now live!

How should we handle it when the AI bubble bursts? On the next MAIHT3k livestream, @matthewus.bsky.social joins me and @alexhanna.bsky.social to discuss how we can avoid bailing out billionaires. Monday, June 1, noon PT twitch.tv/dair_institute

In this episode of the Film Conversations podcast, my co-host @ddclaxton.bsky.social and I are joined by animator, scholar and new co-host Samantha Yousef to discuss the Disney layoffs and that powerful corporation's structure: www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvFw...

the fact this is even given space and a platform as a view

the most surreal thing about this era of open yelling about masculinity is that, if you grew up anything like I did, you were exposed to several sets of standards of masculinity and would be hard pressed to identify which of them the Paxtons and Millers of the world are living up to

One of the topics I must write about for monroelab.com is using LinkedIn (rightly derided but a necessary evil for many) as a way to track the Saga of 'AI' Propaganda. We have entered the desperation phase when cognitive dissonance sets in. This deserves reflection

This about sums it up: youtu.be/5TYB6uy4w7M?...

Hello, long suffering readers; here is my first (of many, I hope) articles on Substack. Or, well, this is kind of a memoranda. Or a literary note. Anyway, enjoy! open.substack.com/pub/henrysim...

STARTING!!! We Are All In the Gunk Now: Nonviolence is Violence Too, Two. ft. Too Black www.youtube.com/live/iGfDxeL...

@irisvanrooij.bsky.social and I wrote a whole paper kirbying this this so I am very much happy you did this cc @anthonymoser.com bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Pope Leo quoting Tolkien in his encyclical on AI seems like a pointed reference for the tech oligarchs who have appropriated LOTR for their own ends.

On the general strike in Bolivia, which can be a model for US anti data center efforts, and more: mronline.org/2026/05/21/b...

Cuba Under Imperial Threat with Alexander Aviña Monday at Noon EDT / 9 AM PT www.youtube.com/live/gRuOyAa...

Calling the US an "embarrassment" is peak white brained thinking. It is now, and has been from the beginning a terror.

Rescheduled to Saturday at 10 AM EDT / 3 PM in the UK Our conversation with Radhika Desai. It should be an excellent discussion on geopolitical economy, the war on Iran, China, Latin America and more!

A near future story in which, the world enforces a sanitary cordon around the US-based tech sector. It is not only a surveillance apparatus but aggressively anti-knowledge. Partition it off.

Tomorrow we'll be live with the incomparable Radhika Desai!

This reminds me, I wrote an essay awhile ago on the merging of 'defense' contracting profitable ineptitude with tech industry deliberate, and profitable grifting. The streams of US treasury robbing have converged: monroelab.com/2025/01/24/t...

I follow quite a few tech industry accounts on Twitter. Meta's layoffs have shaken them. Some are shocked the propaganda they've spouted for years has impacted them. Others have pragmatic, employment concerns. The most intriguingly stupid, who want to believe, cling to the idea of 'progress'.

We’re going to be seeing a lot more of this sentiment. Do not trust these people.

An important question that describes something that's acute in the UK, but seen in other outposts of the mayonaise imperium, such as Germany. My sense: as the US disintegrates, elites cling harder to the past. The US is the heart of this apparatus; mayo elites fear the future

This Friday at 10 AM EDT The War Against Iran, China, Geopolitical Economy, and US Hegemony with Professor Radhika Desai www.youtube.com/live/Ho1ck40...

Data centers' impact on energy and water supply is well documented, but a series of new studies have revealed another potential impact.

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Not just lobbying! our new paper maps 27 mechanisms of regulatory capture used by Big AI + 11 narrative framings that rationalise capture. “Big AI’s Regulatory Capture: Mapping Industry Interference and Government Complicity” will be presented at #FAccT2026 next month arxiv.org/abs/2605.068... 1/

Settler Liberalism, Imperialism, & Counterinsurgency with Lara Sheehi Tuesday at 10 AM EDT youtube.com/live/NjewqyX...

for anyone wondering how dire the current glut of AI-enabled, author-targeted scam emails is, this is what the spam folder for my professional email address looks like:

Today at 3PM EDT The US Plot to Kidnap or Kill Evo Morales with Ollie Vargas youtu.be/DL0KYa4cLIE?...

Now we just need to start booing these people off stage at tech and education conferences. Mock them on LinkedIn and when they talk in person. Make them embarrassed to be saying agentic. Or prompt. Or calling themselves ai experts at all.

Lots of our colleagues were NEVER hired because of their skills, love of mentoring students, integrity, or anything else that would've been (or should've been; the fish rots from the head) in their job description. More in this great episode with @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @melhogan.bsky.social 👇🏼

In case useful: www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/volume-162-p... bsky.app/profile/oliv...

I'm happy you mention this. I've been encouraging people who ask: how do we resist 'AI' to use your work in that space as a guide for action. But ALSO, to see cognitive science as a living research program producing insights that refute tech industry reductionism.