Damn do I wish I could go to this.

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this is what will show up if you invite me to your ai & copyright law conference

Damn, if I lived in NY...

The previous luddite tribunal was a blast. Come out!

Excited to be in the Big Red Apple so soon after its conversion to communism. Make sure to join us!

New from me: I went deep on the way that generative AI and chatbots act as wormholes, pushing us deeper into our own minds. They threaten to compound the problems of algorithmic targeting that have festered unaddressed for years and years—what comes next may be even more alienating and isolating (🎁)

YouTube publicly decries Biden pressuring it to censor, then quietly does this at Trump's behest: theintercept.com/2025/11/04/y...

Wow I didn't even note the time and place -- This Saturday at STARR BAR in Brooklyn, 7 PM, the second New York Luddite Tribunal. RSVP below if you could, as last time we packed the house.

NEW YORK CITY: I hear you're in a celebratory mood over there. Well how would you like to use some of that energy to help dismantle big tech? Join me, @parismarx.com, @edwardongwesojr.com, @jathansadowski.com, @veenadubal.bsky.social, and special guests for the Second NYC Luddite Tribunal.

“Ansari’s Micro1 also does something called human data capture. It pays people to wear smart glasses that capture everyday actions. It is doing this in Brazil, Argentina, India, and the United States.”

Daycares in our neighborhood are no longer answering their doors after morning drop-off. Parents have to call the daycare when they arrive and they let them in for pickup. It's insane how we live now.

I admit I did not see this one coming, you gotta love it

I'm proud to be included alongside so many great contributors to this much-needed book. Mine is a short essay on what ordinary people and activists can do to resist AI and big tech. I hope you'll check it out.

🎙️ON AIR: We're talking to @theatlantic.com's @cwarzel.bsky.social and tech writer @bcmerchant.bsky.social to get to the bottom of the AI bubble and what might happen if it pops. ❓Are we in an AI bubble? 📻 Listen:

dawg not the steakhouse wedding font

this is an obvious overcorrection that misleads the polling data and will lead to disaster in the Heartland. the results of tonight show that the Democrats should moderate: adopting two or at most three of the five pillars of Islam

So much for the bullshit conventional wisdom that mobilizing the disaffected doesn't work.

meanwhile over on x, things are going about as expected

thank you for the outpouring of support! those of us laid off from Teen Vogue yesterday are now sharing our GoFundMe to help us cover our emergency expenses now that we've lost our incomes, as we get back on our feet.

This is a landslide. The last NYC mayoral candidate to clear 1 million votes was John Lindsay—over 50 years ago. It will be dismissed by pundits saying it can only happen in New York. That's garbage. Think pledging to freeze rent and offer childcare won't resonate in Nevada? Wisconsin? Texas?

Can someone pick up a copy of this for me thx

I'm reading this book right now, and whew it's a good one to read right now, I'll say that. Cory's gonna be a perfect conversation partner for this.

Come join me and Cory Doctorow for a chat about AI, ENSHITTIFICATION, and how workers can help deshittify the world, happening now on Blood in the Machine: www.bloodinthemachine.com

Web4 Is Going Just Great

Actually, I say let's go ahead and let these guys brand AI slop as Web 4.0. Hear me out: this framework accepts that Web 3.0 really was just 18 months or so of people trying to sell cartoon jpgs for profit, and establishes a trend line wherein "AI platforms" are the next devolutionary step.

As folks head to the polls today from CA to NYC, here's a good reminder that part of what's on the ballot is the power of the tech oligarchy (see: Musk backing Cuomo etc). Last week, I spoke with @jacobsilverman.com about his new book, GILDED RAGE, and our chat feels pretty relevant today.

Finally

Thanks for the shout-out, Brian! (and this zine looks amazing. Definitely going to print out some copies for our event) You can still submit today or DM me!

artist solidarity ✊and LUDDITE ZINE! 🔨 I love to see it

Seems fine.

“Film hasn’t bounced back since the strikes and games are experiencing even more layoffs with companies pivoting to AI. Independent artists and freelancers especially are finding it hard to make ends meet.”

Alright what’s everyone’s pick for best horror movie of the year so far that isn’t Sinners or Weapons Mine is Companion but what else

Universities need to get on board.

who's your secretary of homeland security again

Excellent post on the fight against AI in the creative industry. #AI #AIisArtTheft www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-artist...

Absolutely love to see it. Solidarity is the antidote to despair. In 2023, SAG-AFTRA also successfully made (some) AI protections part of their union contract. I’m really hopeful that this can be a force that helps strengthen and expand unionization, and lead to more worker-owned business models.

"'They’ve got money,' Ortiz said, 'but it doesn’t matter if we’ve got people.'"✊

Artists behind some of the most popular films of all time are also forging one of the most powerful organized resistances to AI. With solidarity, class action lawsuits and strong legislation, they're fighting to protect their livelihoods, and pop culture, from big tech. My latest:

So the $20,000 humanoid robot housekeeper actually just webcams your house to a random person in a call center with an Xbox controller www.wsj.com/tech/persona... @joannastern.bsky.social

“I think they are a profoundly antisocial technology that should be rejected in every way possible,” said Gilliard. “Their very existence is toxic to the social fabric.” @hypervisible.blacksky.app www.theverge.com/tech/807834/...

With a shout out to @bcmerchant.bsky.social's smart July post with useful examples and framing: www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/how-big-te...

Did your TV set interrupt you to hit the remote's AI sparkle button? Did (ahem) The Washington Post site nudge you to use an AI browser to get FREE ARTICLES? Have you noticed chatbots paying for phone pre-installs? Welcome to the PAY FOR OR NAG FOR DISTRIBUTION phase of AI. wapo.st/4hv3Eyp

Amazon is laying off 30,000 workers, after CEO Andrew Jassy laid the groundwork by talking up the productivity gains from AI over the summer, saying they'd need fewer employees. Amazon's own workers, meanwhile, say that's BS. AI hasn't been "transformational"—AMZ just needs the $$ for data centers.

How do military strikes 'test' rather than 'end' a ceasefire? Make it make sense

“.. AI’s closest historical analogue here may be not electric lighting but radio. “.. radio turned into one of the biggest bubbles in history—peaking in 1929, before losing 97 percent of its value in the crash ..” @wired.com @bcmerchant.bsky.social www.wired.com/story/ai-bub...

I'm not saying the conditions are there for a Depression, but I am also not saying that

Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.

Grokipedia is not a 'Wikipedia Competitor.' It is the antithesis of Wikipedia in every possible way, and it is not going to work: www.404media.co/grokipedia-i...

This one is currently climbing the charts at WIRED, thanks for reading everyone And kept out of the top slot by @lmatsakis.bsky.social's report on OpenAI being uniquely horrible for the umpteenth time this month