DON'T LET THE BASTARDS GET YOU DOWN 🏳️‍⚧️ #art #tdov #transart

Apartheid and Genocide are literally codified in their law. It is disgusting. It is not radical to say it. It is a fact. I am exhausted by having to point this out and by any interpretation that my saying so is "controversial."

Does it work properly? No. Are the people making it acting in good faith? No. Have they ensured it can't be used maliciously? No. Does it make people's lives better? No. Will it make people's lives better? No. Is it profitable? No. Is it popular? No. Is it harmless? No. The argument for AI.

"The complete and utter failure of the metaverse is a reminder not just of the fact that the future Silicon Valley is force feeding us is not inevitable, but that quite often these oligarchs quite simply cannot relate to real people." www.404media.co/rip-metavers...

Widely cited AI labor research ignores the most important thing AI is doing: Killing the human internet.

Deadline extended to 23rd of March! Waiting for your submissions 📃 🔗https://aisb.org.uk/aisb-2026-symposium-hype-promise-and-speculation/

Spotted this on a pole behind independence hall. I recently saw someone say they found collage to be the best way to work through things and I didn’t really see it at the time but

AI, as it exists and is planned, is anti-intellectual and misogynist. Palantir CEO Alex Karp thinks AI technology will lessen the power of “highly educated, often female voters, who vote mostly Democrat.” newrepublic.com/post/207693/...

London friends please join us at SOAS next week for event on Resisting Erasure hosted by the wonderful Center for Palestine Studies. A conversation on Palestine and imperialism and the structures shaping this moment. 17 March, 6:30pm Register: www.soas.ac.uk/about/event/...

We promised more news about the upcoming Hype Studies Glossary so let's start with page 1! 🥦 Recruitment call: book cover illustrator/designer 🧀 Whoever came up with the saying "don't judge a book by its cover" must be a audible user. We're definitely in the "picture is worth a 1000 words" camp!

Artist/designer wanted!

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Very exciting news indeed! Keep your eyes peeled for more news from Hype Studies crew @danishanley.bsky.social @velocitygravity.bsky.social @imaginaries.bsky.social , @wenzelmehnert.bsky.social Pierre Depaz, Jascha Bareis

📢 More @hypestudies.bsky.social news!

These are the 4 things AI can do well: •Clean up your email inbox (badly) •Give my shittiest neighbor (Alan) something to talk about at a party •Tell a 12 yr old to kill himself •Incinerate a school at 10:16 AM on a Tuesday You can see why we need to base our economy around it

Amazing site here via @timnitgebru.bsky.social - a map of big tech influence on media and media companies. imo this goes a decent way to explaining why coverage of AI specifically has been so shockingly bad recently. Very useful resource!! nananwachukwu.github.io/media-captur...

Historian Carter G. Woodson showed that when systems are designed and governed without the people most affected, inequality is not a mistake – it is the expected result. Technological inequality, in this context, is not surprising. It is predictable, writes Danielle A. Davis Canty.

While fascism continues its hapless dedication to on-the-nose obviousness and any inability to introduce nuance or the slightest cleverness whatsoever, enjoy the queer and camp dissent of TCM’s counter-programming this evening.

vy happy that our @historyscience.bsky.social session "Contested Science (and Technology Studies): Histories of STS and Its Forerunners, Interlocutors, Competitors, Targets, and Patrons" has been accepted. "our" here is @mnoel75.bsky.social, Paola Altomonte, Friedrich Cain & me...

really happy to see this in print & looking forward to delving further into the Marstrand-Strongs & their circle. tagging @patrickmccray.bsky.social (for the New Alchemists) @danishanley.bsky.social (for the Lindisfarne Association) & @nichecanada.bsky.social (for Strong).

Bluesky is not the commons. Twitter is not the commons. You can’t have a privately held commons. That’s not what words mean

“The Board of Peace should be spelled B-O-R-E-D”

the year is 2033. increasing fears of an economic bubble have made it illegal to impugn the usefulness of LLMs. the “r word” is now “strawberry”

I don't agree with all of it - for example, unclear how much "proletarianization of high-skill work" there is - but I'm glad to see Henrik Skaug Sætra's "The Tyranny of the Stochastic Parrot: How AI Critique Became a Way to Not See What's Happening": papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

To be a professor in 2026 is to be a middle-manager who has to teach from time to time and who likes to write in their spare time. www.chronicle.com/article/is-e...

Love how this turns around.

Once more for the people at the back...

SO GOOD! "the idea that my political ideology is synonymous with hating technology is confusing. Every leftist I know has a hard-on for high speed rail or mRNA vaccines. But the “left is missing out” blog positions generative AI as the only technology that matters." -- @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social

I’ve literally been saying this since I was a teenager:

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perfect friday afternoon thread

Palestine Action have WON their judicial review in the High Court! A massive victory for free speech, freedom of association and the right to protest. A massive defeat for the draconian attempts by Keir Starmer's government to curtail our fundamental rights.

From the doomsaying, curmudgeonly communists at the Harvard Business Review:

Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you

yeahhh boi, the weratedogs dudes get it.

sigh

“No matter how Ring and other surveillance tech companies may downplay it, there’s no world in which finding lost dogs is the final end-use for this technology.”

A second blurb has rolled in by another favourite thinker of mine. Pre-order the book here: www.upress.umn.edu/978151791773...

Exciting conference happening at FASoS right now!👇

Thank you for the invitation @danishanley.bsky.social Wonderful event- congratulations to you and the rest of the team who put this together

So much careful thought on tech refusal crammed into two days. Thanks for the invite and the wonderful organisation @danishanley.bsky.social @judithcampagne.bsky.social @floralysen.bsky.social et al

This was an excellent event, well done Dani and team! (and @aggillespie.bsky.social has been lured to Bluesky)

These past few days were certainly stimulating, provocative and inspirational at the inaugural NO & __ forum on Technological Refusal at @fasosmaastricht.bsky.social thank you for having me! @danishanley.bsky.social 💥

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Fantastic kick-off to day two, hearing from @thomas-dekeyser.bsky.social and @ethicistforhire.bsky.social - amazing discussion and can't wait for their forthcoming books!

and a full room again for the closing discussion of day 1 (between Willem Schinkel and @sallywyatt.bsky.social )

Very excited that the No & _ Forum is finally underway! An incredible turnout of people (100+) and a fantastic programme awaits. Fabulous opening keynote by Tanja Bosch from the University of Cape Town on epistemic refusal in the platform age.