Britain's future children to be divided into hackers and absolute rubes.

British fraudsters are using #AI to doctor insurance claims: www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/20... #ArtificialIntelligence

Group of teenagers lurking outside a Curry’s trying to bully you into buying them an iPad so they can go on Pinterest

One thing I've noticed about my PhD is that spending most of your time, every day, thinking about a thing makes you really unsure whether you ever actually think about a thing or actually know anything about it.

The joys of malicious compliance... sayyesdono.com/fire-ill-tak...

On the 8th of July, as part of London Data Week, me and some colleagues will be on a panel exploring what AI really is and what it really isn't here at King's College London. All welcome so feel free to sign up now! luma.com/2aoxft1z

Anti-AI anthology... Started going through the submissions for this (still time to contribute if you're interested!) and it's a genuine pleasure to immediately find stuff that's really good... sayyesdono.com/anti-ai-anth...

I'm a guest editor on this so hope all you AI critical folks are up for it...

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

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

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.

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.