Tracey Emin on AI: https://spitevillage.micro.blog/2026/05/12/tracey-emin-on-ai.html Tracey Emin responds to a questions about the threat AI poses to artists.

"openai.com" was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn (2001), and "tiktok.com" was the quaint shared homepage of a couple as their relationship progressed from dating to married with a baby (2000). THREAD!!!

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Dark Forest Operating System: the new private internet: https://spitevillage.micro.blog/2026/05/11/dark-forest-operating-system-the.html DFOS is an infrastructure designed for private internets, integrating group chats, members, money, and private feeds into a single operating system.

The Luddite Lab Resource Hub, a new resource for fighting AI at work: https://spitevillage.micro.blog/2026/05/06/the-luddite-lab-resource-hub.html A new Luddite Lab Resource Hub has been launched to help workers resist mandated AI and automation in the workplace.

If I hear “harness the power of Ai” one more time, I’m going to take up horse riding and ride a stallion through the meeting room and shout “harness THIS, mofos!”

'Somewhere right now, two strangers’ cursors are touching': https://spitevillage.micro.blog/2026/05/05/somewhere-right-now-two-strangers.html

Mind mental health expert on Google’s AI Overviews: https://spitevillage.micro.blog/2026/04/30/mind-mental-health-expert-on.html

Reading Machines: 'A publishing platform for non-teleological reading.': https://spitevillage.micro.blog/2026/04/30/reading-machines-a-publishing-platform.html

'89% of unbranded prompts (which do not mention a specific brand) are fulfilled by third-party sources': https://spitevillage.micro.blog/2026/04/29/of-unbranded-prompts-which-do.html

Data centres, sustainability and Microsoft removing the 'AI button': https://spitevillage.micro.blog/2026/04/28/data-centres-sustainability-and-microsoft.html

Who is buying Palantir's new chore coat?!: https://spitevillage.micro.blog/2026/04/28/who-is-buying-palantirs-new.html

AI impersonations: A new Clause feature is adding journalists' names to things they did not write. I've seen this too - Claude wrote a report for me and attributed to a real person (TFL's head of data, no less) spitevillage.micro.blog/2026/04/24/i...

Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection. So forgive me if I smell a rat.

"We are now flooded with tools that promise automation and end up producing more repair work.": https://spitevillage.micro.blog/2026/04/24/we-are-now-flooded-with.html

'It's not too late to fix it', Tim Berners-Lee: https://spitevillage.micro.blog/2026/04/24/its-not-too-late-to.html