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.

as i was saying …..

I wrote about being inundated with AI writing at every turn, unwittingly turning my brain into the AI police, and how shitty AI writing is randomly showing up in my real life outside of the internet www.404media.co/your-ai-use-...

“The English we were taught was not the fluid, evolving language of modern-day London or California, filled with slang and convenient abbreviations. It was the Queen's English, the language of the colonial administrator, the missionary, the headmaster.” marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...

@valerieveatch.bsky.social @thestranger.com, catch in Seattle tonight! "I hope people walk out of the film knowing, Of course, machines can’t think. AI is an invented concept. It’s not real. This is not inevitable." Tickets: www.siff.net/festival/gho... Read: www.thestranger.com/arts/this-is...

This is more of a big picture story, but many AI agents are necessarily surveillant—they monitor and direct human action. Of course penalization would be the next step.

yup

👀ICYMI | "AI may well be able to generate code, but building usable, secure, and context-sensitive research tools depends on human judgement, domain expertise, and sustained oversight." #QualitativeMethods #SocialScience #DigitalMethods

Context for this speech. It’s worse than it seems. www.404media.co/ucf-ai-comme...

It's becoming clearer that every Manosphere trend is just something straight men co-opted from 2010s circuit gays.

We need a movement to reject this techno-dystopian "relentless optimization" grindset bullshit. I call for maximizing non-performance. Just (don't) do it.

This is fine.

Monthly ebook releases on Amazon were basically flat before the release of ChatGPT and other LLMs. Now around 2/3 of all ebooks released on Amazon are fake.

"[W]e see AI flourishing in certain industries where [...] people’s needs and refusal can be discarded - see Palestine, of course; but [also] in schools, in healthcare, in prisons & policing. It feels as if AI solutions [...] thrive where human rights and civil society have been weakened"

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There are good things in the world. There are good people in the world. There are good things in the world. There are good people in the world. There are good things in the world. There are good people in the world. Hang in there, friends.

I loved this piece, gloriously written, compelling, vital. What are the acts of care, the work of hands, the forms of waiting as well as the forms of organising and action, that keep movements for justice and healing alive?

"There is something deeply contradictory about relying on a technology rooted in structural inequities for addressing social problems" https://restofworld.org/2026/ai-social-good-humans/?utm_campaign=row-social

Ok guys should we use the world's remaining carbon budget to A) power the transition to 100% renewables B) power the plagiarism machines that only a tiny managerial minority wants and aren't profitable even though everyone is being forced to use them?

Imagine wasting billions and wrecking the Earth for a performance that would get any human employee fired www.ft.com/content/b100...

i’ve worked in tech more than 20 years. it has never been more ridiculous.

lmao

That's tens of thousands of authors whose submissions can be desk-rejected from here on out, leaving some more room for the rest of us. www.nature.com/articles/d41...

I despise with the heat of a thousand suns the way I have to be suspicious of all art I see now while I investigate it's authenticity, because this couldn't be more diametrically opposed to the state of mind one should be in while taking in all art.

AI hype is everywhere. Today’s guests on the Tech Policy Press podcast are studying this phenomenon from a variety of perspectives, building out a line of inquiry they call "Hype Studies." They want to understand the social and political dimensions of tech hype, and what it portends.

It really bothers me how effective reactionaries like Jonathan Haidt have been at convincing the median center-left reader that the internet itself is somehow filled with evil magic by its very nature instead of the truth, which is that it has been used to exploit children by Mark Zuckerberg

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with everyone focused on iran, the israeli army is doing to lebanon what it did with impunity in gaza. please read seema jilani's important comment: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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"Within the refusal of tech, we can find alternative imaginations of the future. Not anti-progress, only refusing a particular, narrow idea of what “progress” should look like." restofworld.org/2026/techno-...

"It is not hope. It is the specific exhaustion of people who have been denied hope for so long that the mere postponement of catastrophe registers as reprieve. We celebrated nothing. We simply exhaled."

Movements to shut down or ban data centers are amassing power and notching victories. Wikipedia has banned AI-generated content in articles. Publishers and entertainment studios are being pushed to reject AI-produced content outright. In other words: It's open season for refusing AI.

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.