Big tech has spent literal trillions of USD on datacenters. Governments and others many hundreds of billions. To do what exactly? What hungry child is fed by onlining another GPU? What peace is achieved by way of chatbots? Is the bottleneck for a better world really 'not enough computer'?

Virtual Assembly of the Critical AI Network, 27th-29th May, online. 27 amazing talks + 3 keynotes + plenary discussions. AI/Education, AI/Law+Politics, AI/Environment. Registration & network sign-up: cpct.uk/2026/05/09/p... Full programme: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Virtual Assembly of the Critical AI Network, 27th-29th May, online. 27 amazing talks + 3 keynotes + plenary discussions. AI/Education, AI/Law+Politics, AI/Environment. Registration & network sign-up: cpct.uk/2026/05/09/p... Full programme: docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

Dear Wes Streeting, thank you for trying to force GPs in the UK to use these systems.

@olivia.science People are confident and wrong about LLMs in the same way they used to be confident and wrong about Radium paint. Like yeah it's a novel thing but maybe folks shouldn't be licking the paintbrushes

Two factors dominate UK higher education right now: 1) mass redundancies, especially in subjects that emphasise critical thinking. 2) the growing pervasiveness of AI. This is what we call 'technopolitics'.

Er, I meant to say 'only TWO weeks until...' 😳

Only one week until the first virtual assembly of our Critical AI Network “How do we break something that is already broken?”. Three days of quick-fire presentations + keynotes on AI in/as Education, AI in/as Law, Governance & Politics, The Ecology of AI/AI & the Environment cpct.uk/2026/05/09/p...

In times of acute crisis, such as our moment, it's vital to sharpen your thinking (now under assault). In this conversation, we continue providing guidance about dialectical materialism: youtu.be/7_AJwzgfilI?...

Dr @danmcquillan.bsky.social is amongst the experts interviewed in Ghost in the Machine, a new Sundance Film Festival documentary. www.gold.ac.uk/news/2026/gh...

"In the same way it's impossible to read a human mind, it's hard to know what an AI is thinking" IT'S NOT THINKING. "It takes an AI's internal thoughts" IT'S NOT THINKING. "Just like you and me Claude doesn't say everything it's thinking" IT'S NOT THINKING. Pure 💩 get serious.

Looking forward to learning from colleagues at next week's workshop on 'Teaching Anti-Fascism Today' ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/.... I'll argue that anti-fascist pedagogy can be undermined by forms of microfascism manifesting as advanced technologies danmcquillan.org/teaching_ant...

I have a 4th position on AI (not sci-fi, not productive, not normal, but diagnostic of systemic collapse). More in 'AI, Decomputing and the Interregnum' - paper zenodo.org/records/1945..., video www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh0U...

We tried to warn you about Anthropic. Now they're using xAI's ultra-polluting community-killing nightmare data centre to power your toxic claude relationship All the new paid subs from @rutgerbregman.com and @quitgpt.bsky.social's campaign, now powered by Musk 🫠 www.anthropic.com/news/higher-...

Book launch in London next week for @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social's excellent contribution to the struggle: 'An Evening of Techno-Negativity with MayDay rooms and Thomas Dekeyser' maydayrooms.org/event/an-eve...

How very Silicon Valley / Starmer's Labour; the conduit from Big Tech who passed messages to Reeves to sabotage regulation and boost AI growth zones had a previous job where he "ran a corporate intelligence firm founded by former British spies". archive.ph/45OwE

My co-panellists on this BUP webinar will be Masoumeh Iran Mansouri ('How to be ‘anti-AI’ in the 21st century' bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal...) and Patrick Brodie ('From the Bog to the Cloud - Dependency and Eco-Modernity in Ireland') bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/from-the-bog...

Anyone seen a good analysis of colleague-skills archive.ph/uvqBx and anti-distillation officechai.com/ai/chinas-wo...? Seems like a 'moral panic' that fuses legit fear of bosses replacing workers with hype about limited and hugely unreliable agentic AI.

RIP Ben Morea (1941-2026), still a motherfucker libcom.org/article/agai...

As we come marching, marching, in the beauty of the day, A million darkened kitchens, a thousand mill-lofts gray Are touched with all the radiance that a sudden sun discloses, For the people hear us singing, "Bread and Roses, Bread and Roses." en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_a...

The video is out from my Rogers Chair lecture at Western University in March: 'AI is a Morbid Symptom of the Interregnum' www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh0U... (yes I did use an exploded view of a Gaggia espresso machine as a slide to accompany 'convivial tools')

The video is out from my Rogers Chair lecture at Western University in March: 'AI is a Morbid Symptom of the Interregnum' www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh0U... (yes I did use an exploded view of a Gaggia espresso machine as a slide to accompany 'convivial tools')

Sharing this screen grab from a friend at NIH (with permission). This is a checklist program officers have to complete before a grant can be awarded. The first question: "Is this grant All Clean/Clear in the NIH Text analysis Tool?" 🧵1/3

Thanks to Mél Hogan for this wide ranging conversation about AI in which we cover simulation, shame, system collapse and even some hopeful ways forward. shows.acast.com/the-data-fix...

"Bias is presented as an invasive outsider that can be hunted down and cleansed while companies purify themselves by paying lip service to ethical philosophy." Really enjoying @danmcquillan.bsky.social's Resisting AI so far.

'AI, Decomputing and the Interregnum' zenodo.org/records/1945...

"We need to learn from systems that support self-organisation under emergency conditions, whether it's resistance to ICE or hurricane recovery, as ways to survive what's coming as well as to prefigure alternative futures. The time is ripe for experiments in infrastructured mutuality."

"Fascism doesn't return as a tick list of characteristics. Fascism is a fluid and dynamic force which operates at the level of social desires before it appears as jackboots. We need to learn to sense it in our infrastructures as well as in our political discourse."

I posted my speaker notes from the opening plenary ('The Empire of Big Tech') and the afternoon panel ('Is This Technofascism?') danmcquillan.org/resisting_bi...

Homage to Derrida #98: Polymarket is only there to make us believe that other claims about 'the market' are real.

We don’t need to keep a human-in-the-loop, we need to get AI out of the loop altogether! The whole point of AI is to remove the frictions of individual conscience and collective refusal.

The opening and closing plenaries will be streamed (sign up here act.globaljustice.org.uk/node/4727) but not the panel on Technofascism, unfortunately.

Nuclear fusion is the new crypto 💵⚛️ (derogatory)

#TakeBackTech but not tech like AI, what we need is an alternative technopolitics and the collective development of convivial tools for the common good

sloplear implants

Looking forward to debating the contradictions of AI at 'Resisting Big Tech Empires' (Sat 25th). What's happening when $$$ is poured into extractive but failing tech? How is AI a diagnostic for the nihilistic turn in geopolitics? What can we do about it? www.globaljustice.org.uk/event/resist...

Er, why is there even a 'SXSW London'? Do we need another culture-slathered overdose of tech-washing? This kind of glammed up accelerationism has had its day, and we're inhabiting its sorry aftermath. Enough already 🤮☣️

Ever find it hard to get up to speed on a Friday morning? Here's a Burmese punk version of Bella Ciao for you 🏴🔥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddm5...

Looking forward to debating the contradictions of AI at 'Resisting Big Tech Empires' (Sat 25th). What's happening when $$$ is poured into extractive but failing tech? How is AI a diagnostic for the nihilistic turn in geopolitics? What can we do about it? www.globaljustice.org.uk/event/resist...

IPPR recommends: "Deploying AI engineers to schools, hospitals ... to experiment with where AI can improve outcomes" - why not ask people already working there about outcomes? I'm betting 'fix the leaking roof' and 'stop making cuts' would come out ahead of 'more AI please')

Deeply saddened to hear of the passing of the artist Alistair Gentry. A true gent and a creative fighter for the marginalised. See examples of his work here alistairgentry.net and donate to help with funeral costs here www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding... RIP comrade ✊

"So whatever problem AI attempts to solve becomes what philosopher Henri Bergson would call a ‘ready-made problem’ – a problem that is expressed as a function of things prior to itself that have already been turned into abstractions". ('Resisting AI', p43)

ICYMI I'll be reprising 'AI, Decomputing and the Interregnum' for the Uni of Johannesburg this afternoon. Yes I'm aware their comms team trolled me with a truly horrible genAI graphic😷. The talk is on Teams, link in the flyer at drive.google.com/file/d/1RYOY...

This week-long summer study session looks right on point: 'Low-Tech, Luddism and Liberation: reclaiming technology for the collective good' www.nsuweb.org/circle-9-deg... Also family-friendly & includes documentary viewings, poetry readings, hiking excursions and music nights.

Watch the trailer here www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9DA...

Very unimpressed by pop neurodiversity influencers and their AI apologia. More bullshit claiming that anti-AI stances are classist and ableist and racist. Meanwhile, AI is built on exploited black labor, kills disabled people every day, disposesses the working class, and drinks all our water.

#TheComingFossilistInsurrection will go very differently than our antifossilist movement did. A short 🧵 "Over the course of 3 days, protesters had brought much of #Ireland to a standstill. NOT 1 protester had been arrested nor a vehicle removed." 1/x

Similar situation during the 1826 uprising that followed. Good details on that here: History - Weavers Uprising share.google/evmNJ380imPt...