"What might language models become if they were not designed around monetization imperatives and corporate risk management?" - Still shit, bro 💩

Some quite valid points in here about the need for socialists to have a positive sense of "worldmaking". But the idea that AI is a vessel for that seems quite bizarre to me, given how much it is (as the same essay points out), a tool that deeply embeds class power, and Taylorist deskilling

With Jeff Bezos's dismantling of the Washington Post and Amazon's extensive ICE and DoD profiteering, it's imperative to understand precisely how both have openly become instruments of authoritarianism

Today in oxymoronic mission statements: 'Harnessing the Power of AI for Justice' www.techandjustice.bsg.ox.ac.uk

Switching from Big Tech to Brit Tech just puts the toxic cocktail of AI in the hands of local oligarchs. AI sovereignty is a solutionist narrative that hides the structural splits in our social & technical arrangements. Resist AI, refuse authoritarianism, reclaim the common good.

Top tip: to avoid having the British Union of Fascists logo on the side of your mock-up train, don't use horrible text-to-image AI slop instead of actual designers and artists. www.scotsman.com/news/transpo...

Belatedly sharing this longer 'Resisting AI' interview with McMaster Uni which ranges across the politics of AI, the failure of the usual remedies, forms of self-organised resistance, moves towards decomputing, and a focus on the role of universities. www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Nva...

People are getting tumescent about a site that points text engines at each other so they can recursively dredge up parts of their search space that were trained on the entirety of Reddit while also triggering automation subroutines that have access to your API keys and passwords #moltbook

ICE is using Palantir's tools which use health data to target victims. And the UK is outsourcing NHS services to Palantir. www.404media.co/here-is-the-...

People are getting tumescent about a site that points text engines at each other so they can recursively dredge up parts of their search space that were trained on the entirety of Reddit while also triggering automation subroutines that have access to your API keys and passwords #moltbook

Seriously?! This 'use & governance' narrative abdicates from the necessity of refusal while simultaneously discrediting citizen assemblies. AI agents are complete BS, the question which should be asked is what further precaritisation & immiseration they'll be used to divert our attention from.

AI isn't "the most transformative technology of our times". There is a lot of structural transformation going on, and there are lots of claims about specific computational technologies. Conflating these facts obscures the true technopolitics of the interregnum.

AI isn't "the most transformative technology of our times". There is a lot of structural transformation going on, and there are lots of claims about specific computational technologies. Conflating these facts obscures the true technopolitics of the interregnum.

There's a lot of talk of AI being anti-human, or at the very least anti-Humanities, but this is missing the point. The AI assemblage is fine with both people and pedagogies as long as they are docile. What AI is anti, and what it undermines, is any trendency to refuse or revolt.

Carney admitting that the rules-based international order was always a sham and Hassabis saying that scaling LLMs is a dead-end hint at the same underlying crisis of legitimacy, but don't be fooled; the aim of such repositioning is to maintain existing concentrations of power.

Carney admitting that the rules-based international order was always a sham and Hassabis saying that scaling LLMs is a dead-end hint at the same underlying crisis of legitimacy, but don't be fooled; the aim of such repositioning is to maintain existing concentrations of power.

The billionaires who gave money to Trump for his inauguration own this, too.

These plonkers from Anthropic want us to believe that they've combined the insights of neuroscience, psychology and dramaturgy, while in reality they're stumbling around in the LLM fog trying to keep the flame of hype alight www.anthropic.com/research/ass...

Question: what do AI companies claim that image models are for? (As opposed to the slop, porn and fascist aesthetics they are actually used for...)

It's a sign of the times that Big Tech has switched from greenwashing to datacentre-washing. In actual fact, the AI industry has revitalised fossil fuel and the imperialist credo that burning as much energy as possible is the route to worldly power. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/m...

Amazing how capitulating to AI can be presented as bravely standing up to it. "Our new AI strategy puts Wikipedia’s humans first" wikimediafoundation.org/news/2025/04...

It's a sign of the times that Big Tech has switched from greenwashing to datacentre-washing. In actual fact, the AI industry has revitalised fossil fuel and the imperialist credo that burning as much energy as possible is the route to worldly power. arstechnica.com/ai/2026/01/m...

With arms linked and snow falling, Minneapolis ICE protesters dance as ICE agents retreat back. "Nah nah nah, hey hey hey, goodbye!" WATCH ⬇️

Are you anti-AI because you believe our institutions delivered democratic accountability and some approximation of fairness that AI has ruined, or because you recognise AI as the amplification of existing injustices and structural cruelty?

While AI narratives present it as heralding some kind of endpoint, whether superintelligence or a more transcendent Singularity, it's more accurate to interpret it as a technology of interregnum; one that both reflects & amplifies destabilisation and authoritarian restructuring.

What's great about 'Resisting AI' being the AI Skeptics Reading Group's current text is the feeling of being part of a growing movement ✊🏻 Shout out to organiser @ali-alkhatib.com buttondown.com/ai-skeptics-...

we’re reading the introduction to @danmcquillan.bsky.social’s Resisting AI and my article Against AI: Critical Refusal in the Library—join us!

All the noise about alignment from the advocates of 'AI Safety' is completely specious because AI already aligns with the hierarchical dualisms that shape our society at the deepest levels, especially misogyny, racism and a contempt for nature.

Started "Resisting AI: An Anti-Fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence" by @danmcquillan.bsky.social this evening. The introduction has resonated with my weary heart, and I look forward to discussing it in book club. "Whatever else AI is, it is not neutral, and neither can we be." (page 2)

All the noise about alignment from the advocates of 'AI Safety' is completely specious because AI already aligns with the hierarchical dualisms that shape our society at the deepest levels, especially misogyny, racism and a contempt for nature.

Noncetech. ("Nonce, a slang term chiefly used in Britain for alleged or convicted sex offenders, especially ones involving children")

Rather than indifference, I'd suggest it would be more accurate to say that the US administration positively delights in the murder of its enemies, & is remarkably frank about it.

update for the AI Skeptics reading group, if you're interested. you should really buy the book (_Resisting AI_ by @danmcquillan.bsky.social) absolutely ASAP if you haven't already. i'm going to start loading you up with auxiliary readings beginning next Monday

I see Hassabis is still promoting fundamentally anti-worker tech under the guise of AGI. "They say in Harlan County There are no neutrals there You'll either be a union man Or a thug for J. H. Blair Which side are you on boys? Which side are you on? Which side are you on boys?"

Facebook mums are a group that isn’t identified as vulnerable in the same way as teen boys etc. we need a Netflix show called “middle age” where it shows the right wing harm being pumped into homes via parenting bloggers etc. Teen boys don’t just find these ideas online, they hear them at home

Relatedly : in every adult online safety workshop I have done, I have said mumsnet and white mummy bloggers or Instagram families should worry you as much as Roblox or Snapchat. Mumsnet and other parenting forums, FB groups etc are hotbeds of right wing radicalisation. We did warn you all..

To paraphrase Raoul Vaneigem, people who talk about Resonsible AI or Responsible Tech without referring to the need to restructure our political-economy for the common good and to socialise all infrastructure, such people have a corpse in their mouth.

Prediction: the notion of 'sovereignty' will be one of key technopolitical pH tests of 2026. Proposed as a solution to AI's centrifugal accelerationism, technonationalism is actually the desired outcome of current restructuring, and a safe space for Western masculine subjectivity.

some reading groups starting January 12: - Thought Soup (buying books from @workshops4gaza.bsky.social store @openpoetrybooks.bsky.social to raise money for Palestinians) ➡️ "echolalia echolalia" by @pipagaopoetry.bsky.social - AI Skeptics Reading Group ➡️ "Resisting AI" by @danmcquillan.bsky.social

This looks like a truly terrible take from Cory Doctorow which, in its apparently unabashed celebration of an "unstoppable coalition of activists, entrepreneurs and natsec hawks", is a mask-off moment for the liberal & statist politics of enshittifcation pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/3...

Both honoured and caffeinated to have made the Brooklyn Coffee Shop reading list of 2025 www.instagram.com/p/DS75lPmDdhl/ ☕️☕️☕️ ('Resisting AI' also makes a brief appearance in this reel www.instagram.com/p/DM0XtRcx5lN/)

just so it's clear: this is the exact core function of genAI Fascist government and climate deniers love it because it can produce the aesthetics of knowledge without any actual tendency towards truth. It is automated denialism. Shame on every climate scientist promoting its use (there are lots)

Thesis: people who are still on the AI hype-train are correct in sensing a systemic restructuring of the political and cultural order and are responding to it in ways that we have all been conditioned to do i.e. to desire our own repression.

Article 15 of the German constitution, allowing for the socialisation of means of production, was in part a reaction to the collaboration of industrial monopolies with the Nazi state. Looking at you, Big Tech 👀 (h/t 'Rabea Berfelde on Socialisation' www.futurehistories.today/episoden-blo...)

A new episode of Future Histories Live! This time I talk to Rabea Berfelde ( @ktbberlin.bsky.social, @humboldtuni.bsky.social) about socialisation, its history, and contemporary movements. Recorded during the 2025 Rethinking Economics Summer School Switzerland. Full Episode: buff.ly/EeUb9Wj

O ponto central do debate sobre o consumo de energia e água dos datacenters é colocar a questão da ressocialização dos recursos energéticos e hídricos em benefício do bem comum.

The deeper point of debating the energy and water demands of data centres is to pose the question of re-socialising energy and water resources for the common good 🔋🌊✊

¡Que se vayan todos!

¡Que se vayan todos!

h/t @matthewarcher.bsky.social