Reading the new capital translation, and by the beginning of the second page, I'm already feeling twitchy

Stating to suspect that Bluesky's answer to "What's your favorite sport?" is "Schisms"

Every action is literally performative. Every outreach to voters is a performance about values. So what platforms and valuattive actions do Democrats want to perform?

an important takeaway here is that people often consider ai chatbots to be reliable, accessible, neutral and factual repositories of human knowledge. but they’re commercial products with programmed political agendas. they will and do warp realities.

my response to “I’m gay, not queer” is “ok have fun!” but god forbid they just leave it at that, they gotta be like “no you don’t understand, I’m saying you shouldn’t be allowed to be queer”

this AM the last Prairieland 9 defendant Ines Soto was sentenced to 50 years — so he and his partner, Liz Soto, got effectively life sentences. they have 3 kids. those who took non-cooperating plea deals, Rowan Gibson and Rebecca Morgan, got 15 each. total time sentenced in this case: 530 years

Fun fact: Performative as a linguistics word (where, you know, Judith Butler took it from!) is about speech acts that perform the thing they are about. Like "I hereby name this boat X" ... or, you know, writing and passing laws.

We should think of the "intelligence" in artificial intelligence not as any kind of mental property, but as the kind one gathers - the stuff of central intelligence agencies. Then we can immediately understand that AI is a technological form of Taylorism, a way for capital to accumulate power.

Jesus Christ this is grim. It's hard not to see this as a future embrace of ecofascism by "socialists." Sorry, displaced by climate change? Our "political culture" can't absorb you.

At @chicagodsa.bsky.social, we passed a blanket ban on using LLMs in our organizing. In this new piece, I argue that this was correct, that it's bullshit to think "AI" is inevitably going to be so useful we all need it, and that its built-in errors are no joke. midwestsocialist.com/2026/06/28/a...

I note this in my piece, but it really bears repeating: my thinking around "AI" owes a ton to @hagenblix.bsky.social, and everyone should read Why We Fear AI. www.commonnotions.org/buy/why-we-f...

Join our #FAccT2026 CRAFT session on resistance to & refusal of AI this Sunday, June 28 at 2:15pm! panel discussion w Renée Sieber @cyberlyra.bsky.social @ali-alkhatib.com @jordant.bsky.social @stoopt.bsky.social @hagenblix.bsky.social & collage workshop to explore resistance together

Worth noting that a judiciary that attacks the left (and being full of clemency for the right, of course) was a pretty important part of how the third reich came into being

The levels of actual-antisemitism-apologism required for the increasingly desperate attempts at weaponizing the false accusation of antisemitism are getting really quite bizarre

The German state of Bavaria is trying to ban AI bans in academia. Can't make this shit up

The thoughtlessness of these people is precisely what Arendt expressed with the banality of evil. Unable to think, caught in the wheels of their own narrow Tetris bubble, the extreme horror of their ideas does not touch their minds.

Worth noting that a judiciary that attacks the left (and being full of clemency for the right, of course) was a pretty important part of how the third reich came into being

The German state of Bavaria is trying to ban AI bans in academia. Can't make this shit up

I've just been told that apparently Cory Doctorow's new book, The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to Criticizing AI, starts with an anecdote about him listening to me talk about Why We Fear AI on This Machine Kills 😂 Someone write a double review of the two books please!

While you're cooking in the heat this week, do bear this in mind.

Elon Musk is apparently going with "the Lancet study that proved I am responsible for the deaths of millions of children was concocted by the evil Jewish puppet master." Because Elon Musk is ideologically a neo-Nazi.

Schrödinger’s Strait of Hormuz

Schrödinger's Strait of Hormuz

Looks like it's Anti-Prime Day over at bookshop.org. Look, I don't think boycotts or corporate anti-corp stuff is an alternative to organizing.. but, hey, grab a copy of Why We Fear AI w/ free shipping

If we fail to understand the logic of AI as itself part of the ever-expanding logic of capital, we risk ending up with a romanticized recent past, false idols, ill-conceived enmities, bad alliances, and entirely incongruous political strategies

The GRE is bad science, and this is an embarrassment to psychology

Centrists seem to genuinely be convinced that politics is literally a one-dimensional game. Hard to wrap one's head around how pea brained that is (but of course it's promoted because all it can ever imagine doing is promote the status quo, ie the thing that's already good for the powerful)

If we fail to understand the logic of AI as itself part of the ever-expanding logic of capital, we risk ending up with a romanticized recent past, false idols, ill-conceived enmities, bad alliances, and entirely incongruous political strategies

I’ve only read the abstract because paywall, but it’s clear that this argument is much greater and scope than simply academic publishing. On the contrary, it applies to most forms of writing in the world today.

centrists have a chatgpt view of the world: as an assemblage of competing averages

Power is always a game of internal contradictions (and, imho, it's absolutely essential for critique to never lose sight of that)

Some schadenfreude here obvs, but I also want to acknowledge that passive investors with Fidelity & other pensions that went hard on SpaceX lost about $5 billion in aggregate wealth today. Elon took hit to his vanity, but there are people who hate him whose retirements are being stolen by this IPO.

Centrists seem to genuinely be convinced that politics is literally a one-dimensional game. Hard to wrap one's head around how pea brained that is (but of course it's promoted because all it can ever imagine doing is promote the status quo, ie the thing that's already good for the powerful)

please apply! come do something weird in the Media Archaeology Lab!

When the wage depression device also mucks up information flow in the labor market: Oh, look, yet another contradiction within capitalism!

I've just been told that apparently Cory Doctorow's new book, The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to Criticizing AI, starts with an anecdote about him listening to me talk about Why We Fear AI on This Machine Kills 😂 Someone write a double review of the two books please!

Bonus panel here: www.smbc-comics.com/comic/ubi #smbc #comics

NPR has a 'Word of the Week' series, and this week it's LUDDITE I spoke with Emma Bowman about who they really were and about the new luddites organizing against big tech + AI A fun one and, since it's airing on All Things Considered, maybe the biggest-audience luddite rehabilitation effort yet

I'm cookin

"isn't badly-coded, un-maintainable software a small price to pay if the larger payoff is being able to fire workers and treat those who remain like (censored)?" mastodon.social/@prietschka/...

AI is a device for devaluing human skills. If it makes you feel like you're uncreative and like your ideas are lackluster, then that's because that is the nature of its political economy. It's intended to make creativity something that can be owned by the few, and that must be rented by the many

this is what i mean when i say ai is a rhetorical technology. functionally this is a tool for *justifying deportation*, not a tool for assessing age. when someone is pitching an ai product, don't ask them what it's supposed to do. ask yourself what it's supposed to justify

Between the attack on skills and quality that AI represents, and a ruling class that is rapidly losing its ability to value coherence and integrity over deference - I think there's a big point to be made for all these things to find their natural home on the socialist left

It's worth taking note of the fact that the Trump administration basically went for unconditional surrender when their shock-and-awe plan A failed. Domestically, tons of institutions fell in line immediately in the face of project 2025's shock-and-awe plans - but when we win, we will win decisively

Remember that we can do lots of amazing things. Don't fall for the nihilism of the ruling class just because *they* cannot imagine a world in which we solve our problems and build a future.

It's worth taking note of the fact that the Trump administration basically went for unconditional surrender when their shock-and-awe plan A failed. Domestically, tons of institutions fell in line immediately in the face of project 2025's shock-and-awe plans - but when we win, we will win decisively

Really need people to stop saying that the Minnesota 15 are going to be fine, that their charges will be dropped like ours. That was four days before trial, was NOT supposed to happen, and only did because of persistent, diligent, and incredible work by our lawyers.

Liam is correct and also my podcast, @leftofphilosophy.bsky.social, is the best show about philosophy. go listen and tell your friends podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

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