Counterpoint: No I will not

This. God, this. It is such a manufactured panic and it started the moment they lost the fight over gay marriage. Support trans rights because it’s the right thing to do and also because this is all just a fascist push

Proud to say I had some minor involvement in this but all credit to everyone from We & AI and beyond who did the real work.

Looks like Richard Florida's back on the menu boys.

Good, but also depressing that not signing a contract with the anti-Christ doomsday cult surveillance company ends up being seen as a real win. Our base line is subterranean.

They’re going to call you Stalin no matter what you do, so why not just do some good things that people actually like rather than burning up every last atom of public goodwill trying to impress people who hate you.

Project I'm working, please do share if you know anyone who might be interested.

Lots of tech companies are releasing surveillance specs & I’m reminded of the internal Meta memo to put facial rec in their glasses during a “dynamic political environment” because people will be too focused on other issues to resist. Companies think now is the right time to foist these on us all.

To be fair this is an excellent reaction to being called out. Next time any editor questions my stuff I will immediately 'launch an investigation' too.

"In YouTube Shorts, a new “Remix” option will let users write a prompt to remix a creator’s video by changing its style or even adding themselves into the video, without changing the basic context of the video." Only fascists will use this feature and only fascists will enjoy watching.

Don't train AI and do public surveillance for Google. That would be stupid, right? I use the Nearby Lens iOS app (it's Nearby Glasses on Android) so I can detect smart glasses and figure out who's wearing them nearby. I feel like a spy.

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

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

Take that Richard Dawkins...

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

I love reading beyond all other forms of cultural experience but I always forget just how easily effected I am by it. Any halfway decent book ends up being a reality I struggle to escape, for better or worse.

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.

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

Good article which happily takes the right approach to the hype - reporting it and then letting the weight of criticism grind it into nothingness. A lot of it could easily transfer to counter the Doomer narratives around AI too - idle talking points which ignore real, immediate harms.

It's absurd and depressing to see statements like this about entirely non-conscious AI while human workers are having to fight for any kind of support as they're bombarded with horrific, traumatising content to moderate for training data. archive.ph/M7sIi#select...

Spotted in Portugal - Burn Teslas, Kill AI...

Finally added some social media for SayYesDoNo.com - it's a project to explore and share resistance to AI and technosolutionism in general.

From yesterday - my weekly Monday Resistance Update for random bits of news I find about resisting AI... sayyesdono.com/monday-resis... #luddite #antiai

Currently a work in progress - the deadline for submissions is 1/5/26 - but I'm working on an anthology of anti-AI poetry, prose and art. Details here... sayyesdono.com/anti-ai-anth...

Second of my Monday Resistance Updates, a very incomplete guide to stuff that's happened around AI resistance this past week. sayyesdono.com/monday-resis...

Facia AI “noted that it could send personalized follow-up emails or promotions to customers who browsed through a shop without buying anything, and could collect data including a customer’s facial features, visit history and shopping preferences.”

Little side project in the works...

Going to try and make a habit of this - the Monday Resistance Update over at Say Yes, Do No. A far from comprehensive guide to stuff I've seen/read/heard recently around AI resistance... sayyesdono.pagecord.com/monday-resis...

Alright you guys it seems like my beloved neighbourhood of Al Karradah in Baghdad has been targeted. It's on TV!

The Kurds are a proud, savvy and enduring people. Them saying no is a fair reflection of that. Starmer saying no on the other hand is a proper insult. If even humanity's most servile and spineless politician is rejecting you then you're really done.

The Kurds said no and rightfully so. They'd gain nothing by being US and Israeli cannon fodder.

“the thinker of tender thoughts” by shel silverstein

It's mad that no world religion has considered that penguins may actually be God's chosen and favourite creation.

I have no idea how Americans (or a lot of Brits tbf) can ever be convinced that war is a real thing that kills and hurts real people. By suffering themselves seems like the only answer, but that's a horrific solution no one should desire.

End of days fantasies at the Gucci store. Toxic masculinity ain't what it used to be.

'Trump did this as a distraction'. Maybe but the US as a state and culture has been doing similar stuff for a century or more with full, foundational support for it. This is business as usual, not an abhorrent exception.

In other Iraq news national grid electricity supply is still abysmal across Iraq for unknown reasons. Iraqi electricity ministry has vehemently denied foul play but Iraqi Facebook and WhatsApp seem to think otherwise.

One of the great tragedies of our time is that Trump and his entire cabinet didn't just get jobs in wrestling. Everyone of them could do the job of comedy heel manager well. And the world would be an infinitely better place for the change of role.

I am overwhelmingly sick of the USA.

US and UK liberals all trying to distill the war against Iran down to a question of legality. Some disjointed, fig leaf legal justification and they'll be all in.

There is ZERO excuse for joining the USA military. Being in poverty doesn’t give you the right to go participate in the mass murder of brown folks. And this includes non-combat military members too. Their entire job revolves around supporting the combat that is happening.

Some vague thoughts on the moment we're in... dylanorchard.com/2026/03/01/a...

Beautiful if true.

Actually all American soldiers are fundamentally cowards hiding behind a massive force multiplier and brutalising civilians wherever they go.

Yes.

On the plus side it'll always be cheaper to use people to violently oppress each other than to buy in robots for the job, so at least that job won't be automated.

Won't go into details but apparently someone complained to my uni about my anti AI stance. I can laugh it off, I am too old and too secure in myself to care. But I bet they were hoping they could intimidate critics into silence. Some people's position may make that effective but hey ho, sod em.

I remember a few years back, in Nashville, and some journo with a camera asked me about some Obama policy. Surveillance related I think. I gave whatever answer, slating all sides probably. They stopped filming, said 'that's a great answer but we were looking for something more 'down home''.

The man discovered “that the same credentials that allowed him to see and control his own device also provided access to live camera feeds, microphone audio, maps, and status data from nearly 7,000 other vacuums across 24 countries.”