One impressive thing about some AI advocates is the honesty of them. Loads of enthusiasm seems to boil down to 'what I do is completely pointless and LLMs mean I don't even have to bother pretending otherwise'. Summarising their entire jobs away.

A.B.S. - Always be Sharing. Lost the article years ago but recall reading a personal account from an indie musician about how giving away their music digitally, for free pre-streaming had offered a far better income through extra physical copies, merch and touring than Spotify would ever provide.

My kitten has decided he's a brave and fierce hunter. His prey? Earthworms, which he keeps bringing in. I hate it.

A very old short story of mine which I'm re-posting for the AI age. Odd to think how there were innate discomforts back then which fed so well into the work I do on resistance with my PhD now. dylanorchard.com/2025/12/21/t...

"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit. Incredible words. Listen to all of it!

It's the laziness of the lie that gets you. Decades of demonising refugees, trans people, Muslims, anyone who 'deserves' to be bombed that day - our culture is riddled with hateful rhetoric straight from the media and state. None of it ever mentioned, cared about or treated as anything but normal.

Predicting that some universities will soon pledge to provide AI-free instruction, and that this will be an advantage in recruiting and training top students

So much for copyright as a defence.

the way that ai is being advertised now is that everyone has to pretend to be incompetent and incredibly incapable and useless at everything

every time i read about one of these college presidents promising to reinvent the liberal arts education i think of "marge v. the monorail"

Have added a little reading list @ dylanorchard.com/books/ too for some specific AI critical stuff + general resistance/context suggestions.

Adding to my personal site I'm going to start building some resource lists (can never have too many, right?) including a list of zines about/relevant to AI resistance. Have made a minor start but if you come across anything then be sure to let me know... @ dylanorchard.com/ai-resistanc...

What a great headline

This is why OpenAI is selling so aggressively to education at all levels—they want to create entire generations of users incapable of reading, writing and thinking without ChatGPT to hold their hands And teachers and professors should call this out for what it actually is

It was crystal clear that Mel was an absolutely deranged fascist crackpot ten years ago, fifteen, and you’ll notice it has barely hindered her career, not even when the Oslo killer cited her in his crazy manifesto. Quite the opposite, if anything.

Step up future Labour voters, how can you justify standing by this party?

Scavenger Hunt. Find a peer-reviewed study not funded by an EdTech entrepreneur that convincingly correlates screens of any kind with positive student outcomes of any kind.

It might just be me, but men telling me ‘this would make a great podcast’ makes me grind my teeth

This is a good piece but god almighty is it sad, sad, sad

F***k the techbros..

The weirdest thing about modern politics, is this thing where if people found out their favorite politician were secretly having sex with turkeys, they wouldn't say "he's bad" but just, "this sort of thing is really going to give ammunition to those people who said he was a turkey-fucker."

One worry with outlets like The Guardian (rightfully) beasting this tech is that it allows for apathy from a lot of readers. 'I see this is terrible, I won't use it, if others are too stupid to see the same then that's their fault'. This stuff preys on vulnerabilities, naivety and loneliness, the

Define your music tastes in eight artists: Joep Beving King Tubby Entertainment for the Braindead Laura Marling Hamza El Din Max Richter Deltron 3030 Billie Holiday

As it happens, this is almost exactly the same as Nintendo’s annual revenue. Which seems like the right comparison- a successful producer of electronic toys. on.ft.com/4nMkP0B

Good to see our NHS data is in safe hands... www.reuters.com/world/us/pet...

It's hard to have any faith at all in this ceasefire being meaningful but it's just as hard to not let the hope get you.

Life is life, do what you can, do what you want, try to find happiness, don't be a prick. Basically same advice as at every other age, only with more random aches.

It's been a very long time since I've agreed with anything Labour have said or done but now I don't even understand it. Half of it just seems to be unanchored hatred for their own voters, not just the Left ones who they lost a long time ago either, just all of them. It's a massive tantrum.

⚠️Three-quarters of UK police forces refuse to say if they even have a contract with Palantir. Read that back. The head of the UK branch of Palantir is Louis Mosely, grandson of British Fascist Oswald Mosely. goodlawproject.org/uk-police-fo...

New! Cassetteboy vs Keir Starmer. This took absolutely ages, so if you'd like to buy us a coffee at ko-fi.com/cassetteboy we'd really appreciate it. Thanks!

Little Black Sketchbook no.14 drawing from yesterday afternoon's coffee and a sketch with Terry & Elbie.

Human's of the internet - on a Neo-Classical (Joep Beving, Max Richter etc) and gentle Folk (Palm Springs, Entertainment for the Braindead) kick - any music recommendations?

How many millions are being spent on this nonsense?

Sick burn. finance.yahoo.com/news/22-old-...

Every day more bad news 🥺

The racists in the UK are not the ones attending pro-Palestine marches this weekend. The racists in the UK are the ones saying that you shouldn’t protest 53 Palestinians being murdered because two Jewish people were also murdered on the same day. Some of us can condemn both.

ALERTA! ALERTA! DUBLIN ANTIFASCISTA! Fascists are planning a "patriots network conference at the Crowne Plaza Dublin TOMORROW (Saturday). Contact the hotel & demand they cancel the fascist event. Crowne Plaza Hotel Blanchardstown, Dublin 15 Front Desk: 01 8977777 Email: [email protected]

Petition Do not introduce Digital ID cards: 2,761,786 citizens object and their number is still climbing. If so minded, you should add your name here. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...

Zack Polanski shames Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood "Shabana Mahmood is being deeply irresponsible" "Conflating protests against a genocide in Gaza and weaponising that against an antisemitic attack on our streets, a terrorist attack, is deeply irresponsible"

it’s really good when “technology of the future” treats you leaving as if you were leaving a cult

the people of this country have never been as compliant and weak willed as his agenda needs them to be

the history I learned was romanticised especially the avoidance of colonialism but it was not the story of serfs liberated by the enlightened bourgeois it was a story of an establishment that assumed a divine/natural right to rule and a working class that has always rebelled and fought back

If You See AI, You Block AI Free downloadable poster, jpeg and pdf over here :) www.leoboyd.com/2025/01/if-y...

Typical of Akehurst. A symptom of all that is rotten in the current Labour party.

The problem with AI 'safety' on stuff like this is that it assumes it to be a universally acknowledged 'good'. As if AI companies all at least vaguely aspire to benign egality rather than intentionally benefit from inbuilt bigotry. www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/01/1...

Strong stink of customers saying 'we want someone to actually talk to' being repackaged as 'they really want personalised chatbots' on this one.

Headline: % of US GDP propped up by data centre build-outs (> consumer spending) & circular financing Punchline: merger of the state with big tech + redistribution of power in our non-democracies 'Are AI Companies Cooking the Books? w/ Sarah Myers West' www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvN1...

This is just Reform propaganda, endorsing the lie that asylum seekers live some life of absurd luxury here. So easily disproven with even the slightest knowledge or engagement with the issue but Labour just couldn't care less.

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

Cornell is cancelling a distinguished professor's classes on Gaza and suspending him because of the complaints of a student who previously served in Israel's military surveillance agency and was literally recording the comments of other students in class and deliberately derailing discussion.