Reminder if you support us to sign and share if you can! ✍🏻 We're coming up to a year since I sent this letter to my executive board and I will resend it on or close to the year mark with even more international and national support against AI. Thank you! openletter.earth/open-letter-...

We are super excited for the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 when @alexhanna.bsky.social and I get to talk with Carmen Maria Machado about the use of LLMs in writing, from language arts classes to the publishing industry. Livestream info: Monday, April 13, noon PT, twitch.tv/dair_institute

Teresa Heffernan — Literature Versus the AI Industry @tjheffernan.bsky.social loved this! excellent stuff

Freedom of expression - freedom to dissent.

A Reddit poster commented “how a Ring camera labeled the user, who identified herself as Black, ‘as a dark animal’ while she was leaving for work.”

Instead of focusing on femicide and violence against women, Merz uses it as a moment to exacerbate tensions against immigrant communities, who remain marginalized. Merz's rhetorical practice is in line with the AfD. AfD continues to grow and expresses similar ideas about immigrants.

The complicity of universities cannot be understated... The few of us fighting back aren't enough. openletter.earth/open-letter-...

Response from the President of the @ec.europa.eu It would have been good if the President had provided links or citation to the evidence. www.iccl.ie/wp-content/u...

vdL: <AI Hype!> Scientists and scholars: WTF, that's not true. vdL: <AI Faff! Scientists and scholars agree! No citations!> Scientists and scholars: ???

Daughter’s anti-AI campaign ongoing at art college. Zine made with friends. Management and teachers are unsure how to react.

Peter Thiel just invested in a start up producing AI infused collars for cattle. „A big selling point for the collars is the ability to set up virtual fencing, using sound and vibration cues delivered through the collar to keep the animals within a specific range.“. gizmodo.com/peter-thiels...

I want to flag a certain kind of move in some quarters wherein authors attempt to position themselves not as AI boosters, but as critics of AI criticism. 🧵>>

Live your life such that people don't take the occasion of your death to recount all of the dictatorships and war crimes you supported:

Habermas spent his last years ethically washing Israel's genocidal attacks on Palestine in good old German exceptionalism style newlinesmag.com/argument/jue...

How much water do the data centres use? It’s a secret The AI companies insist: we barely use water, hardly a drop! But we won’t tell you how much water we use. And we’ll take you to court to ... #Data #centres #ChatGPT #Google #Henri #Gendreau #OpenAI […] [Original post on pivot-to-ai.com]

Our tax dollars are paying for this horror. ceobs.org/black-rain-t...

Wir sehen uns übermorgen, München. Vortrag: Medien zwischen journalistischer Professionalität und Propaganda Gerne sharen.

Hey @officialgrammarly.bsky.social we're gonna need to know the full list of identities you have stolen here as well as clear info on how to opt-out techcrunch.com/2026/03/07/g...

Ethiopia's experiments with 'smart' police stations without officers

This video features: - Detours towards various topics, including COP 31 Antalya, Charlie Kirk, and Hearts of Iron IV The Fire Rises mod - Various cool work from from including but not limited to, @emilymbender.bsky.social, @cloudquistador.bsky.social, @olivia.science, and @tjheffernan.bsky.social

if somebody who only so far spent 18 years on earth can figure all this out, what are the older people playing at? he goes over basic openly accessible research on why AI is bad and repeats the correct mantra that companies dont care about us & as a default the correct position is not to trust them

All this conversation about the need for AI regulation is distracting from the fact that we *already* have laws both at the national and international level that are being massively violated by #BigTech. We have enforcement problems that the conversation around AI governance & regulation is ignoring

when people talk about AI used in moderation of social media posts, you must remember there is always the human-in-the-loop, often a woman, often in the Global South, always dehumanised and forgotten 1/n www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

Cloud computing? More like covered in ice at the bottom of the ninth circle of hell computing! Very efficient cooling

Incredible reporting from @anissa.bsky.social in @theinformation.com about OpenAI's struggle to get more computing power as Stargate—its $500B data center buildout—has floundered. theinformation.com/articles/ins... It also includes this detail. We are in the dirt-eating phase of the AI hype cycle.

It also doesn’t help that writers like him consistently launder what people who aren’t white men have said—better and more incisively—into sanded down blog posts that make them money & a name to trade on. The business model they’re using is itself kind of fucked up.

The thing is that machine learning is a technique that became "AI" about 10+ years ago and wasn't AI before, and things that are built to perform specific tasks could be done with or without machine learning. I prefer identifying the problem the thing is built for rather than the technique.

The headline does not convey how completely batshit this story is. The Archive Today (archive.ph etc) admin weaponized the site's captcha to attack a blogger who wrote about them and *altered archived screenshots* as part of the attack. arstechnica.com/tech-policy/...

Summer School: Critical AI Literacies for Resisting and Reclaiming irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/02/18/s... cc @olivia.science @marentierra.bsky.social

Gruselig finde ich diese Iraner*innen in der Diaspora, die Reza Pahlavi gestern in München als Kronprinzen und letzte Antwort feierten, sehr gute Reportage von Omid Rezaee: www.zeit.de/politik/2026...

Yeah, hi, I’m a person with “mobility challenges” (excuse me while I hurl). What we want, by and large, are not expensive, heavy devices that will “help us walk again”, but ramps. I know, it’s not sexy, as technology invented before Christ, but it is overlooked in favor of…this. Repeatedly.

turns out the discord situation is worse! the company that will be doing the age verifications with IDs is Persona, a peter thiel aligned company we're going to try to wind down the Kill The Computer discord and try to get a subreddit for the podcasts community up and running

“victims of nazism & other dictatorships never stopped repeating fascism had not died, that it was still lurking, waiting for the moment to resurface. That is why it will be so important to be aware of history. Looking back is the best way to face the present” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I tell someone new about this every few days. Everyone needs to understand that the utility commissioner in Arizona got up there and said "it's not my job to keep you alive" on X. Well, what if it was? That's what the future of the electricity system is. It's public power. It's universal service.

But the denial of return is a textbook violation. It’s a tool of ethnic cleansing this isn’t even a new finding ? This has been a finding for years …

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

„Taken together, Bach’s communications with Epstein reveal an entire architecture of thought increasingly common among Edge participants: biological hierarchy; racial destiny; gender determinism; genetic optimisation; population culling; fascism as efficiency.“

If you have an easier time having certified eugenicists like Bostrom on stage discussing safety of non-existent "superintelligence" while having a hard time having people who're NOT white dudes, who actually know what so-called "AI safety" means, my conclusion is that you're in with the eugenicists.

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:

Attorney General Pam Bondi said today that she ordered the arrests of journalist Don Lemon and 3 others in connection with the demonstration at a church: Georgia Fort, an independent journalist; and Trahern Jeen Crews and Jamael Lydell Lundy, both activists. More: capitalbnews.org/nekima-levy-...

Generative KI als überall anwesend+unvermeidbar und dswg grundsätzl. für legitim zu deklarieren, ist buchstäblich vgl. mit dem kolonialen Argument "Sklaverei ist überall und unvermeidbar und es ist dswg nicht sinnvoll,ihr zu widerstehen". Das hat nichts mit Nuance,Wissenschaft oder Ethik zu tun.

Thinking about how David Golumbia warned and wrote books about this years ago but was largely ignored before he died.

“I really wish people would mask in public.” Monkey’s paw curls…

Wäre ich Sprecher des CCC oder Rep von Wikimedia Deutschland würde ich mich im Grund und Boden schämen, Semantik und Narrativen wie „digital independence day“ als Nachkomme eines Landes mit einer LANGEN KOLONIALgeschichte zu nutzen #DiDay

Wer mit einem blauen Pass aufwächst, wer an Grenzen auf dem Weg zum Weihnachtsfest mit der Familie zurückgeschickt wird, wer jahrelang all die Schikanen & Erniedrigungen als Andersgemachte erlebt hat, lässt sich nie wieder von ignoranten Menschen ihren beiläufigen Rassismus gefallen.

Ahir hi va haver un tall d’electricitat massiu a San Francisco, com a dany col·lateral nombrosos cotxes autònoms de l’empresa Waymo es van quedar aturats al mig del carrer, causant un sonsiderable caos circulatori. What a time to be alive.

NEW: Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 68: This is What Algo-cracy Looks Like Tech bros say automation can strengthen democracy. @alexhanna.bsky.social and @emilymbender.bsky.social unpack their flimsy arguments about the democratic process. www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...

What big tech billionaires are doing isn't capitalism. It builds on capitalist markets,but is evolving into something else. Billionaires don't want a market with competition. Big tech wants to build empire. The references to roman emperors and thinkers,the creation of infrastructures as a strategy..