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As public awareness and resistance ramp up, I'm regularly reminded that researchers have been addressing the environmental, geopolitical, and political-economic impacts of data centers for *a very long time*; legislators, journalists, et al just haven't noticed!

I don't want to hear another word about how much white European visitors are enjoying ranch dressing while team officials, Africa's top referee, and now one of the world's most celebrated fans are turned away from the World Cup. The USA is an utterly unfit host — it's as simple as that

so many wonderful course intros shared here along the lines of "I get that u might struggle to study while coping w. the shitstorm that is the world rn... do what u can, don't use ai, I am here to help u" ofc I can't find any of them now that I am trying to write one myself, but thanks for the inspo

The entire book is free to read online, as a downloadable pdf, or you can order a hard copy!!

Ford had to hire back former engineers to fix mistakes made by its automated systems

“We’ve only had 114 years to do something, let our kids sort it out!”

They gave US zinester Elizabeth Soto *50 fucking years* in prison for publishing a zine that supports an anti-fascism stance. Prosecutors also used her feminism themed zine, and an anti-AI zine as evidence against her. This is unprecedented.

When reality surpasses fiction! Top: fictional forecast for August 2050, broadcast by French TV in 2014 to warn about the consequences of global warming. Bottom: Real French forecast for yesterday, June 22, 2026.

This is poetry

If rumours are to be believed I'll be living with a seventh different Prime Minister shortly. If it carries on like this I'm going to stop making the effort to learn their names.

I totally do this. I will try to stop.

How about we do away with "I apologise for the delayed response" for all emails replies that are sent within one week of receipt? I feel like expectations are way outta hand. I'm getting apologies for replies that took less than 36 hours.

The Thomas House in Dublin announcing they will no longer accept AI generated posters or flyers. The Thomas House is beside, as they say here, Ireland's biggest Art College, namely NCAD. This is the way... to keep humans creative. #AIslop #refuseresist

The World Cup promises joy, pride, and unity. But who profits—and who pays? Our colleagues at @revealnews.org investigate FIFA’s money, power, and politics as the tournament arrives in North America.

>becomes prime minister >wins largest majority seen in labour history >pivots the party hard right, cracks down on palestinian protestors and privacy rights >completely destroys the labour party >resigns what was bro doing any of this for

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one anecdote: I was searching for a link to one of my old papers on Google, and the automated Gemini summary attributed all of my lab's work to my husband

The AI Pitch

maybe UN SCIENTISTS will get thru to the "environmental impact is negligible actually" slopboosters "A new investigation by U.N. scientists warns that AI’s water use in 2030 will match the needs of 1.3B people, power use triple that of population of 650M." www.democracynow.org/2026/6/12/ai...

London always delivers

The world's first trillionaire did this

We have no money. You know this. Why do you keep asking why we’re not doing things we used to do? It’s because we have no money. We. Have. No. Money. We have no money. There is no money left. It’s all gone. None of us have it. No money. Nope. Money gone. We don’t have it. No.

A trillionaire isn’t a success story. it’s a policy failure.

I will never give them up.

Tomorrow Four Palestine Action protesters face being sentenced as terrorists. More than 50 lawyers & legal experts have written an open letter stating that: “Blurring the distinction between principled direct action and terrorism is the hallmark of authoritarian regimes.” 😤 #StarmersBritain 🇬🇧🤐🇵🇸

Kelly Hayes's essays are worth reading cause they describe difficult / scary in the context of ways to survive & counter (mentally & politically) without undue optimism nor despair. Thus one isn't left feeling like giving up nor pretending everything's fine. For me the balance is anxiety reducing.

I wrote about the smash-and-grab politics of fascist gangsterism and what it would mean to take back what’s been stolen. “The task is mass reclamation and transformation: taking back what has been stolen and making it impossible for so few to steal so much again.”

two stages of reading: 1. ​i’ve read 5 books in 3 days. 1. ​i have not read a single sentence in months.

The en-dash steals the show here, but it's still a fine opportunity to marvel at Elle Cordova's brilliance... www.youtube.com/watch?v=ky0Y...

“You identify as an AI writer because our AIs were trained on your writing, please turn yourself in for reprocessing at the nearest Meat Slurper™️ posthaste”

I spoke with @valerieveatch.bsky.social, the director of a documentary charting the historical development of artificial intelligence, about the difficulties of challenging hype narratives and the pressing need to build a culture of technological refusal, for @computerweekly.bsky.social

Is Anthropic a morally good AI company? (Spoiler: no) #ai #tech #anthropic #claude #pope

Every single day we’re met with a flood of information we’re supposed to follow, absorb, and understand to be ready for all the rest that will follow. It keeps us engaged, which is great for the platforms, but is it really great for us? All I know is I need to pull back.

quoted post : Al consultant reveals a client accidentally spent $500,000,000.00 in a single month after failing to set employee limits on Claude usage. Amazon has scrapped its internal Al leaderboard as costs soared, with a senior exec telling staff: "don't use Al just for the sake of using Al."

I think they also just feel like it’s really cheap and cringe, like it is essentially shitty in a way they find viscerally offputting

The framing here - “graduates booed b/c worried about job prospects” - is reductionistic. No, I think the boos also reflect students’ ethical sensibilities about what “AI” and its aggressive rollout represent: corporate greed, environmental destruction, & dehumanizing exploitation, to name a few.

Counterpoint: Yes they are, and that is good

The students really are't down with the AI praise. A compilation of the latest commencement speakers that got booed, and also a school that used an AI system to read off graduates' names, and glitched. From our latest pod here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE0E...

New video out now! Watch our panel titled ""Against Surveillance & Spectacle: Building Global Resistance to Tech-Mediated Oppression," featuring @vashetc.bsky.social , Kim Fernandes, & Cheng-Hsiu (Shin) Yang in conversation w/ @remiyergeau.bsky.social youtu.be/GXEjOPdpfa0?...

It's publication day for The Broken Machine (@mitpress.bsky.social)! The book explores the intertwined histories of breaking machines, social order, and the self in the modern Atlantic, revealing how failing technologies have also shaped our world. mitpress.mit.edu/978026255334... #sts #histtech

Next blog up in the @hypestudies.bsky.social series for @techpolicypress.bsky.social. check it out 👇

Tech hype isn't just marketing and PR—it's also alarm, paranoia, and propaganda. Fabian Muniesa argues today's hype matches what scholars Adorno and Horkheimer called reason's collapse into fascist madness.

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'(...) the Germans & the French are roughly as productive per hour as Americans. They have lower GDP per capita than we do because they have more leisure time. Most German employees, for example, receive 25-28 days of paid leave every year.'

Stoking and channeling boiling contempt for the ultra-rich is a pretty essential element of what needs to happen if we're gonna get out of this. And folks, they've given us a lot to work with. Don't tone police that shit. When it gets out of control, remind people why that's happening.

#RealHeroes Vs #WarCrimes by #Israel.

Truly the Alien vs Predator of copyright disputes.