"Where any view of [AI] exists Art cannot be carried on, but War only" (apologies to Wm Blake en.wikisource.org/wiki/Laocoon...

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

"AI cannot coexist with education. It can only degrade it."

This is why the phrase comes up in so many of the things I've written about AI. AI does three main things: 1) dismantle the institutions necessary for democratic society to thrive 2) transfer wealth upwards 3) create the permission structure for (1) and (2)

tl;dr I think @kevinbaker.bsky.social effectively highlights how this attack was driven by existing patterns of bureaucratic violence, but I think it would have been stronger if it framed Claude's role as accountability sink as a continuation of those patterns, rather than a distraction from them

This thread is important technopolitical pedagogy for the current moment

Edinburgh staff urge university to ditch OpenAI deal: www.timeshighereducation.com/news/edinbur...

Check out the speakers here! @emilymbender.bsky.social @abeba.bsky.social @shengokai.blacksky.app @alexhanna.bsky.social @danmcquillan.bsky.social @valerieveatch.bsky.social

In honour of “AI Literacy Day” join a star studded lineup in unpacking “AI” “Literacy” – Sunday, March 29th! Register here! Notaidoc.com/literacy

We don't need sovereign hyperscale data centres because we don't want them or the shoddy tech that depends on them. What we do need is a democratic control of our energy and water resources that orients towards sustainability. Goodbye Thames Water, and take Anthropic with you!

HAPPY WEEKEND here's a quick one! On why climate deniers flat-out lied about a final report into Spain's blackout, pretending it was released 5 days before actual release + why that's reflective of desperation in an ACTUAL global fossil fuel crisis ketanjoshi.co/2026/03/21/t...

It's not that AI agents will multiply our power if only we can constrain them from doing unexpected and unwelcome things, but that their frustrating unreliability reflects the broader point of all AI, which is to strip us of agency altogether.

The inexorable materiality that's been Dragged into existence by dreams of AGI Backpropagates through an imperial state capitalism That obsesses about supply chain control and rare earth minerals Amidst the collapse of a so-called rules-based order [notes for a talk]

My public online talk next Fri 20th March 5pm GMT hosted by the Starling Centre for Just Technologies and Just Societies is titled 'AI is a Morbid Symptom of the Interregnum' and will also make the case for decomputing. Details and signup here: www.uwo.ca/events/2026/...

Check out the trailer for GHOST IN THE MACHINE, coming soon to PBS and your screen! This feature documentary features 40 generous and brilliant AI experts, historians, philosophers, sociologists, journalists and thinkers discussing their work with @valerieveatch.bsky.social.

"The aspect of AI which sabotages it in social settings, its tendency to generate collateral damage through out-of-distribution errors & so-called hallucinations, ceases to be a problem in conflicts where maximum indiscriminate damage is the actual point" zenodo.org/records/1890...

My paper also focuses on AI's overlap with energy & water utilities but points the other way; at reclaiming them as resources for the common good. (Also: abolish AI). zenodo.org/records/1890...

FFS Bernie, repeating a lot of doomer bullshit as a reason for a data centre moratorium is terrible technopolitics. Don't stop the build-out because this is an AI revolution but because AI is a symptom of the same old shitty, broken system. We don't need to be afraid, just angry.

My paper also focuses on AI's overlap with energy & water utilities but points the other way; at reclaiming them as resources for the common good. (Also: abolish AI). zenodo.org/records/1890...

FFS Bernie, repeating a lot of doomer bullshit as a reason for a data centre moratorium is terrible technopolitics. Don't stop the build-out because this is an AI revolution but because AI is a symptom of the same old shitty, broken system. We don't need to be afraid, just angry.

The @starlingcentre.bsky.social @westernufims.bsky.social is delighted to co-sponsor an online lecture by @danmcquillan.bsky.social next Friday, March 20 at 1pm ET. Registration is free, and you can tune in from anywhere on Al Gore's Internet! Register here: westernuniversity.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

My public online talk next Fri 20th March 5pm GMT hosted by the Starling Centre for Just Technologies and Just Societies is titled 'AI is a Morbid Symptom of the Interregnum' and will also make the case for decomputing. Details and signup here: www.uwo.ca/events/2026/...

A short-ish chat covering fun stuff like why LLMs are a cyberattack on higher education and why we should interpret AI as a diagnostic for a deeper underlying crisis of legitimacy.

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New preprint from me: 'AI, Decomputing and the Interregnum' zenodo.org/records/1890... - "This paper treats AI as a diagnostic for deeper, nihilistic changes in the existing order of things. It proposes instead decomputing as a decisive turn towards infrastructuring the common good."

7pm GMT tonight

Some upcoming events I'll be speaking at. Mostly in London, but the Starling Centre lecture will be online. (danmcquillan.org/pages/events...)

Hey Anthony, no spoilers! Like don't you dare mention other guests like @annacolom.bsky.social, @drsyedmustafaali.bsky.social, @fozmeadows.bsky.social, @danmcquillan.bsky.social, and so on. 🤫

I'll be chipping in on decomputing and technofascism

Anthropic doomers peddling delusions about the dangers of superintelligent AI have collided with fascist dumbshits who think an all-powerful death machine is a great idea. So what. The people most harmed by these masculinist fantasies will always be civilians, women, children. ¡Que se vayan todos!

Given this abdication by UKRI we badly need a Critical AI Research Council as a 'shadow' council to highlight where research is needed and _should_ be funded, and as an exercise in collectively and democratically addressing urgent questions.

your enemies fighting each other can be useful but it doesn't make them your friends. anthropic doesn't want to help with hegseth's apocalyptic fantasy *because they have their own* you do not, under any circumstances, gotta hand it to them

Given this abdication by UKRI we badly need a Critical AI Research Council as a 'shadow' council to highlight where research is needed and _should_ be funded, and as an exercise in collectively and democratically addressing urgent questions.

Here is the complete line-up of our 2026 seminar series "Critical Voices on AI" on March 05, 10 and 16. We start next week! 🎉

i cannot stop thinking about this man, who survived the Rohingya genocide but couldn’t survive border patrol. “He died trying to get home” is a gut punch

Good👏to👏see👏UK👏research👏funding👏 keeping👏a👏critical👏and👏rigorous👏academic distance👏from👏AI👏hype👏and 👏AI-pilled👏government 👏policy www.ukri.org/publications...

Activists from the anti-billionaire campaign group "Everyone Hates Elon" went to the Louvre museum in Paris where they hung a framed photograph of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, taken by Reuters photographer Phil Noble on February 19.

AI is Epstein Tech (concentrated networks of masculine power, conspiracism, widespread apparatus of abuse).

AI is Epstein Tech (concentrated networks of masculine power, conspiracism, widespread apparatus of abuse)

Looks good: 'Cables of Resistance' cableresist.de "We are movements and anti-capitalist activists who practise various forms of resistance against big tech. We want to bring together interested people, activists and movements, network and connect local struggles."

It seems that Big Tech is following the liberal-authoritarian playbook of using policy announcements to defuse opposition (c.f. Microsoft and Anthropic's recent statements about covering the electricity costs of data centres) while the 'monopoly of violence' is applied to any actual opposition.

if you're interested in joining tonight, our readings are a chapter from Resisting AI by @danmcquillan.bsky.social ("Post-Machine Learning") and a paper by @annalauren.bsky.social ("Even when you are a solution you are a problem: An uncomfortable reflection on feminist data ethics").

"AI is a morbid symptom of the interregnum" danmcquillan.org/ai_is_a_morb... [0/7]

'AI is a morbid symptom of the interregnum'. An abstract for a forthcoming public lecture: danmcquillan.org/ai_is_a_morb...

Hey Siri, show me the Library of Babel but let's make sure it only contains the worst and most nightmarish content ever produced. This absolutely defies belief.

Big Tech says AI can solve climate change. The actual data says not so fast. Learn why/how so many claims about AI’s climate benefit are a hoax 👇 beyondfossilfuels.org/2026/02/17/t...

What we see operating through AI is an attempt to re-legitimise centralised power despite a polycrisis of its own making, & to do so by invoking the aura of high tech and the material force of energy politics. Decomputing advocates instead the infrastructuring of the common good.