Many critical AI resources are written for teachers, rather than students. I wrote this for undergrad students dealing with “AI literacy” in the humanities, hoping to raise more fundamental questions about what it means to write. People have added it to syllabi, so maybe you’ll find it useful, too.

horror: AI xmas carols with AI voice and AI lyrics snyder.substack.com/p/the-inhuma... spotted by Amy. thankfully text, no audio

Before I sign off for the rest of the year, I am pleased to present the complete and 100% correct BLOOD IN THE MACHINE guide to the best books, TV and film about AI and tech in 2025 (that I managed to read/watch). Enjoy, and happy holidays everyone www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-best-b...

New virtual workshop alert, co-hosted with www.identity20.org ! Join us for an online workshop mapping our everyday moments of resistance to the unwanted incursion of AI. 🗓 Thursday 29th January ⏰ 18:30pm - 20:30pm GMT / 10:30am - 12:30pm PST 📍 Online 🎟 Tickets are free here: luma.com/46m6hul0

This article by 404 Media is worth your time.

Alex Krap should be given a special prize, whoever the winner be.

ProPublica Guild : "At bargaining yesterday, @propublica.org management said that they should have 100% discretion to replace workers with AI and would not commit to labeling future AI-generated content." -----> Sign the Petition 👇🏽

Here's a list of publications that have sworn off generative AI: go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

👏 For techbroligarchs, Science Fiction = Science and Anti Fascism = Fascism.

Yes, well, we do have Tarek Mansour CEO of @kalshiofficial.bsky.social type bros bald-facedly saying they want to financialise everything, so emotional manipulation and disrespecting the dead is definitely the product.

This 👏 ! Also when you're accused of being a Luddite. Luddites were opposed to economic, social and political implications of tech. More in Blood in the Machine by Brian Merchant @bcmerchant.bsky.social

In conversation with Andrés Saenz de Sicilia of The Philosopher journal as part of their 'AI and the Digital' series, covering reform, resistance, fascist resonances, (dis)passionate applications, system contamination and path dependency. www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXEA...

Usually I'd encourage you to find another place to buy the book, but Amazon is selling the BLOOD IN THE MACHINE ebook for $2.99 at what is certainly a loss, so by all means, get a copy for cheap www.amazon.com/Blood-Machin...

So, here am I, in my ninetieth year, looking back on my career as a geographer interested in explaining, with a little help from Marx, how urbanization and uneven development work, finding myself obliged to some extraordinary scholars, such as Sraffa and Robinson;

You know a country is car-centric when everyone starts their company in a garage.

You know you are executive material when you believe a machine can use the same personality studies profile that you can use too, but it can actually look inside a person's head, like an X-ray machine or something. All hail the Oracle.

😂😂😂 me and Lacan

No? If you are vulnerable, yes, watch what you post. But if we start self-censoring what we post on social media right now, what are we even doing. Isn't that the 'obeying in advance' everyone's always warning about? Post, protest, organize—don't let them cow you

Data centre power consumption shouldn't be measured in megawatt hours but in future-power-cut-hours

What. April fool's is it?

i’ll never fully disconnect from US tech products, but i am planning to make a serious push to replace a lot of US software and services i use in the coming weeks (once i’m not travelling so much, basically)

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I was a COBOL mainframe programmer for large public universities for many years. Did a lot of database wrangling. The idea that people without deep knowledge and experience would even TOUCH that kind of code or data makes my head explode. EXPLODE. It could well be that they simply want to break it.

well yes "move fast break things" has been their way for very long

I get why techbros and their ilk like gen-AI: artists and writers to them are just an obstacle to be bypassed. But I'll never get an author/artist/musician who uses it. "I want to be a writer." No you don't. You fetishize ideas but hate the work. You don't respect the craft or its practitioners.

Sam Altman’s Studio Ghibli memes are another distraction from OpenAI’s money troubles pivot-to-ai.com/2025/03/27/s... -text www.youtube.com/watch?v=38T8... - video

evergreen video of a disgusted Miyazaki telling off some AI-wannabe programmers on their terrible animation work. "i feel like we are nearing the end of times" youtu.be/ngZ0K3lWKRc?...

the FT is complicit. @financialtimes.com

American tech companies’ idea of tech dominance is forcing everyone else to accept the toxicity and hate that they do.

Going further: If you're a radium art exhibition curator, or a radium artist that gets workers to produce your radium art, would you still continue being a radium art exhibition curator or artist if you knew the effects of radium art on workers & communities?

Tesla owners who put those stickers saying they bought their #deathmachine before this mofo went crazy just tell on themselves. this mofo was always a sick fk.

There are certain types of tech critics who avoid any mention of racism, sexism, colonialism, genocide & eugenics. If they do it is to attack those of us who expose these threads. Watch out for those discussing "polarization" rather than "white supremacy" Or "racial tensions" rather than racism 🙄

Hustle-productivity-sigma-grindset Execs and wannabes love it.

Okay so my lecture for the Edinburgh University studies on the Politics of AI is done. We'll investigate the question if AI has built-in politics and if yes, which politics those are. Spoiler alert: AI is structurally a right-wing project. It's not a tool for leftists.

A CCP production on Karl Marx, a proper tearjerker love story. A 7-episode emotional ride, i highly recommend, do watch. ☭ ✊ 🌹 ❤️ 领风者 / The Leader youtube.com/playlist?lis...

//Intelligent people have had their say It's time for the foolish to show the way Let's lead this world a merry dance Let's give stupidity a chance// Pet Shop Boys - Give stupidity a chance youtu.be/P9jEuHbB0GQ?...

Capitalism is a hell of a drug.

Silvia Federici on Crisis & Critique podcast with @agonhamza.bsky.social & Frank Ruda // Silvia Federici on feminism, primitive accumulation, bodies, magic, dance… // youtu.be/FBlfEj72vPg?...

Tip truck what a good idea

A big fuck you to J. L. Austin's double positive. en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Sidney_...

while it's unavailable, you can read the ebook here: libgen.is/book/index.p... the paper book is still widely available

This will be brilliant. 10th April, 2PM Central

the actual technology almost doesn't matter, the AI bubble guys were the crypto bubble guys and the metaverse bubble guys and wanna be the quantum bubble guys

We’ve been taught to fetishize convenience so thoroughly, and the costs have been hidden so effectively, that we seek convenience while unknowingly reinforcing the system that make us crave ease in the first place. We have to change this whole paradigm. My latest: www.jphilll.com/p/convenienc...

"Comes to America"?? Kuch bhi. Where'd it come from? @newyorker.com don't be so so modest, your US Masters literally created it & are fcuking the world with it as usual like you do with anything you come up with.

I have a question for a thing I'm working on: When you find yourself having to say "don't get me wrong, I love tech", what are the tech products that you love(d) that come to mind? (feel free to quote post)

this Mofo is a clickbait guy & has to be the b!tch of some yt conservative Senior Editor: he gets too much undeserved FT-airtime. As a fellow Indian-heritage person, i say, Upper Caste Indian males are reared on yt-adjacency. Sole aim of their Uni degrees is money/status & savouring b00tleather.

Do You Know How Much Energy ChatGPT Actually Uses?