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.”

His mum gave all his food to the vacuum cleaner so now here we are.

Your most recent saved celebrity photo is a picture of your therapist

That 'Left/AI' article is nonsense. Shows a negligible understanding of academic research on AI, doesn't actually speak to any of the critiques of AI from the Left and gives the right - and billionaires - a bizarre amount of credit for acting in good faith. No idea why its drawn so much attention.

Some quick thoughts on mockery and shaming as anti-AI tactics, bit random but there you go... sayyesdono.pagecord.com/shame-shame-...

Yes yes, nicely done Sydenham.

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No punishment is too grave for the perpetrators of this.

SayYesDoNo.com is my new side project, basically focusing on AI (and general tech) resistance stuff. Bit practical, bit theory, bit opinion. Contributions welcome if you fancy writing something.

Some thoughts on AI and intimacy...

Name them shame them

'But AI is useful to *me*' is a nonsensical argument that some people seem to bring up as a demand for universal approval. A lot of things are useful to a lot of people, that doesn't make them good. I could enlist a load of toddlers to mine for coal in my back garden but 'look at all the

Great pre-loved Tarot reading. Really looking forward to the rest of 1993

Two hours trying to write a single email, I am feeling overwhelmingly thick today.

As we build upon such radical imagination, we have to understand a key truth: there’s no AI in freedom.

I feel the need for some conniving, palace intrigue style easy reading - Wolf Hall, Game of Thrones, Pillars of Earth style - any suggestions? #books

Come to this event where we will throw all the robots into the lava pit

A bit like AI funding in general this is just a circular grift with very little to do with students or teachers. Assessment systems have been broken a long time - since way before AI - and fixes like LLMs or TurnItIn don't improve things for anybody, they just normalise an automated production of

273 comments, not a single one positive. Irony is that even AI enthusiasts couldn't care less about this, it's a gimmick that pleases literally nobody except for the tech companies it helps prop up. Very Keir Starmer.

'Expert' is a term that often covers a multitude of sins. The fantasy of technocracy does a lot to ignore the ideological groundings of even the most good faith experts.

Had missed this but driverless cars are now being tested in London. Underlying all the enthusiasm is a desire to cut labour costs and not much else, safety is a fig leaf to whitewash the reckless testing on London streets. www.autocar.co.uk/car-news/tec...

There's a novel matchup between 'we need to shoot everyone now' and 'no we need to let more people die as motivation for protest' around in some corners. Marginal cases, nothing to do with real questions of how to resist, but still interesting to see competing delusions at work.

I fully support nonviolent resistance tactics but the sense of inevitable justice some people seem to assume it leads to is... difficult.

The stories that will (eventually) come out of this are going to cripple US society.