Perhaps drinking bleach could help us as well?

Before I sign off for the rest of the year, I am pleased to present the complete and 100% correct BLOOD IN THE MACHINE guide to the best books, TV and film about AI and tech in 2025 (that I managed to read/watch). Enjoy, and happy holidays everyone www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-best-b...

"I refuse." This is it. There's no reason we should accept a narrative of an already settled future which marginalizes humans and individual agency. No one wants this. No one asked for it.

"you have to write [x] words per day." No, some days you have bash your head against the keyboard, take a walk, come back inside, consider taking up smoking, spin in your chair, write two sentences, then quit without saving. Getting stuck is part of the process. Budget your time accordingly.

So hear me out: what if we had like a coding academy that would make us into philosophers—but not the lame kind of philosophers that *think* things. We’d be the cool kind of philosophers that *do* things. Things like blockchain. And AGI. And human flourishing. Hey are people still doing NFT’s?

Come work in the best philosophy dept (imho) 👇👇 Reach out if you have questions or fancy a chat!

there is that

Wrote an opinion piece for The Guardian: "Since migration has become the cornerstone of the current authoritarian turn, it is precisely around migration that resistance needs to form." www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

Computer scientists: "So with machine learning we can extract subtle patterns from massive datasets. What shall we do with it?" Business school professors, every single time: "You know, I think phrenology got a raw deal in the late 1800s."

Buying books for the undergraduates in the family and here's a question: what's the tech ethics book of the year you'd get for a computer scientist? My pick would be Karen Hao's magisterial Empire of AI, but have been asked to perhaps go with "something a bit shorter" (LOL). What would you choose?

Nothing says getting into the festive spirit like going online to shout at some biscuits

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Correct me if I'm wrong but it seems that two years of weaponised genocidal mass murder in Gaza has probably made global political violence and terror *MORE* likely, not *LESS* likely And that opposing mass death makes you anti-terrorism, not pro-terrorism www.aljazeera.com/news/2025/10...

Beautiful essay

amen.

all i'm saying is that there were better options

I think people should be pretty angry that a handful of men unilaterally decided culture, art and civilization should be fed into a woodchipper so they could attract VC funding.

lol

Tech news you can use from @theonion.com.

"I'm not in denial, I'm in open rebellion" damn that quote goes hard

Come research with us at the Max Planck Research Group for Machine Visual Culture — “Artificial Intelligence and the History of Seeing” positions open under Dr Leonardo Impett. We’ll get to hang out sometimes. www.biblhertz.it/3757971/0412...

Very excited about this week's Peoples & Things episode featuring historian of computing Tom Haigh talking about his forthcoming book with the working title, _Artificial Intelligence: The History of a Brand_. newbooksnetwork.com/111-thomas-h...

Let’s say you had the opportunity to assign college students *1* thing (article, video, podcast) to help them understand what edtech is, how it’s funded, who benefits from it, and how it preys on their data. What hits these bases in a comprehensive, up-to-date, and powerful way?

"This isn’t innovation—it’s institutional auto-cannibalism"

The first school to market itself as AI free is going to corner the market on people interested in actually learning. And I would not be surprised if rich families and the children of people creating this tech were the first movers.

This is a piece of classic writing advice that I have begun to seriously turn on Don’t kill your darlings. Love and nurture your darlings. Write for your darlings. Recognize when one of them may not be right for the story and gently remove them, but for the most part: fucking INDULGE your darlings

David Graeber wrote about the rise of “bullshit jobs”—work sustained not by necessity or meaning but by institutional inertia. Universities now risk creating their academic twin: bullshit degrees. AI threatens to professionalize the art of meaningless activity. www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...

check out what my buddy @imaginaries.bsky.social has to say about the relationship between hype and venture capital

Introducing a new series on Tech Policy Press, Andreu Belsunces Gonçalves examines how hype operates within venture capital and private equity and why it has become such a powerful political instrument. The orientation provided by AI hype is guiding us towards an oligarchic future, he writes.

OTD in 2002, Ivan Illich died. A radical social critic and philosopher, Illich offered one of the most distinctive and influential critiques of modern technology in the 20th century. 1/

PSA: if you’re somehow not burnt out, you should probably know that almost everyone else is

«The global AI industry is fueled by hidden and precarized labor: workers who collect and annotate data, keep data centers running, and mine rare earth minerals—not to mention the artists, translators, writers, and actors whose work fuels so-called generative AI» 📢 NEW PAPER!

"Ms. Borsook proposes a Silicon Valley Truth and Reconciliation Commission. She imagines...confessions from the men who came up with the labels “sharing economy,” “disruptive innovation” and “thought leader.” The proceedings would, at the least, clear the air and provide greater understanding"

"Her view of tech was practical, the way many engineers thought at the time. It was just like indoor plumbing or electricity: infrastructure, not magic."

Queen!

Thankful for all my fellow luddites today. Hammers up 🤖🔨❤️

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Tired of all the slop? I built a browser extension called Slop Evader that only returns search results from before Nov 30, 2022 - the pre-ChatGPT internet. Sure, the info is a couple years old, but at least you know a human wrote it :) chromewebstore.google.com/detail/slop-...

I usually create a thread of options for people who would like to donate to a Native cause or struggle, but it has gotten HARDER to fundraise on socials over the past couple of years, so I am zeroing in on one ask this year. Pls support Native organizing infrastructure: nativeorganizing.org/donate/

Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen

Omar El Akkad, winner of the 2025 National Book Award for non-fiction for his book “One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This” about the genocide of the Palestinian people in Gaza, speaking tonight at the awards gala in New York City where he accepted the award. #NationalBookAwards

Racism is not justified by immigration levels or rising poverty, unemployment or crime. It is not justified, period. I see the rising wave of voices & arguments justifying the rising levels of racism as the most sinister political development in 2025 on the British landscape.

sts researchers: :spend decades tracing the way well-intentioned design choices constrained by culture, capital, and the material environment can have negative outcomes in aggregate: ai companies: lets put a chatbot in a doll that tells kids to set fires futurism.com/artificial-i...

Evergreen.

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

Exactly the same for AI products

NEW from me: a new report found that national resistance to data centers skyrocketed between March and June of this year—especially in red states like Georgia and Indiana:

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An update to a classic #ClimateInactionStripes #ShowYourStripes CC: @tadziomueller.bsky.social