After tech firms blaming AI for job cuts (it’s actually because they over-hired post covid), car firms are blaming steep shift-to-electric costs for poor results. Had they thought of the planet a bit sooner, would they still be in this mess? PS: the Model T Ford was nearly electric flip.it/1aZzPs

A brilliant interview. Thanks again @naomiaklein.bsky.social & @alixdunn.com. Inspiring stuff 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

New fuck/marry/kill list just dropped

“The one-size-fits-all model of AI development is inherently so problematic and colonial” - Karen Hao drills down on her “Empire of AI" stance in this must-read essay for AINow Institute. Instead, we need "small, specialized models controlled by each community" 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 ainowinstitute.org/publications...

We tried the carrot. Here’s the stick. #ICE is ramping up attacks against immigrants and American citizens— and #Palantir is their surveillance backbone. Go to www.purgepalantir.com/the-palantir-payroll/ for the list of dirty politicians trading our rights for Palantir $$$ — then call them out.

NEW: Our investigation for @thenerve_news reveals not only that Peter Thiel’s Palantir is completely enmeshed in our critical national infrastructure. It’s also the ‘cloud support’ for our nuclear weapons system 🤯 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/palantir-t...

"I’m just going to go to Sam Altman’s house, take all of his things, and then see if he wants to opt out." @karaswisher.bsky.social’s excellent quote perfectly sums up big AI’s robber baron approach to IP. Especially now we know Anthropic hid plans to "destructively scan" all the world’s books" 🥶

ChatGPT is now using Grokipedia as a source. For 9 questions out of 12, re. Guardian. ICYMI, Grokipedia questions whether Jan 6, 2021 was an "insurrection". Yet another reason to get tf off big AI, rn! www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Super cool. And about time. God bless you DuckDuckGo 🦆 noaiduckduckgo.com

AI is too big to not burst. It’s running out of energy (Musk admitted that). It doesn’t have enough clients (Nadella admitted that). 💰-wise, it’s doomed (re. @edzitron.com). The wreckage, however, could be beautiful, re. Cory Doctorow. More: bettertech.blog/2026/01/23/w... cc @sashamtl.bsky.social

40% of workers say AI saves them NO time. Hardly any C-levels do. When will these blinkered leaders accept that most people don’t want this? Another WSJ-cited survey talks of "AI tax", or how LLMs make some tasks longer by adding errors. Wake the f’up, C-levels! www.wsj.com/lifestyle/wo...

Our analysis of job postings data shows no clear evidence that AI is behind the slowdown in early-career employment… & indeed casts doubt on many of the assumptions underlying this narrative, with simpler, non-AI explanations better fitting the data www.ft.com/content/7fbc...

V good point. Just like how any photos you upload to Facebook or Insta have always belonged to Meta… except no one knows or cares 🤷‍♂️ Via @histoftech.bsky.social

Can we measure the environmental impacts of #AI? Yes, but it's complicated (guess why? Yup, GAFAM...) Here's how: bettertech.blog/2026/01/14/c... Oh and if you're wondering why it matters: bettertech.blog/2025/11/14/u...

Just in case we forget next time he causes a diplomatic crisis on a whim: 🌮🌮🌮

Calling all the PhDs I know to make monumental annoyances of themselves (and honestly, who better)

I’m looking for my right-hand person to come help me run the @aial.ie - Job Title: Lab Coordinator, AI Accountability Lab (0.8 FTE) - Pay Scale: (€58,999 - €69,325 per annum pro-rata) - Closing Date: 11-Feb-2026 12:00 Apply here: my.corehr.com/pls/trrecrui... Main Responsibilities👇🏾

“For this [AI] not to be a bubble by definition, it requires that the benefits of this are much more evenly spread” = it's a bubble www.irishtimes.com/business/202... via @interacciones.org

#AI is accelerating #CSAM images by 26,362%, re. Internet Watch Foundation, warning of never-before-seen quantities of abuse material. "Criminals can have their own child sexual abuse machines to make whatever they want" - IWF head Kerry Smith. Legislation, erm, when? www.iwf.org.uk/news-media/n...

@flipboard.com those new pop-over ads? A real buzzkill. I’ve been using Flipboard since you launched, and this is the first time I’ve considered using it less. Please rethink!

Just signed 👏🏻😅 denmarkification.com

Comedy gold. My fave part: OpenAI, the company currently wrecking the planet in its blind "bigger is better" AI race at one stage wanted to be a B-CORP. To escape from Elon 😅 PS: this was the same Brockman who illegally scraped millions of videos from YouTube to train GPT3, btw. ZERO morals…

US fascism marches on 😨

Bravo Bandcamp! Banning AI music to focus on human creativity - plain, simple and effective 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻. Deezer should be next 🤞🏻

This is huge: For the first time since the early 1970s, coal power generation has fallen in both China & India. It undercuts claims that decarbonisation is pointless while they expand coal. Renewables are no longer just adding capacity — they’re displacing coal. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

Indeed. Meta’s only argument that they’re working = they’ve sold 2 million pairs. Since 2023. At an investment of $73bn. Do the math, it’s costing them *$36k a pair*. Bound to catch on!

2025 should above all be remembered as the year Saint Etienne - @bobpetesarah.bsky.social - proved they’ve very much still "got it", with outstanding LP "International". Packed with bangers (Glad, Take me to the pilot) but stand-out is this 80s-tastic tune, w/ Nick Heyward ❤️ youtu.be/mQEqfzMr0EY?...

Rep. @AOC: I understand that Vance believes shooting a young mother of three in the face three times is an acceptable America that he wants to live in, and I do not. That is a fundamental difference between Vance and I. I do not believe that the American people should be assassinated in the street.

"If we look at the legal and commercial constructs and frameworks in place today in Venezuela - today, it's uninvestable." Says the boss of Exxon f’ing Mobil. Further proof - of proof be needed - of Trump’s boundless idiocy

Update: Grok nudify functionality is now for paying subs only (from €9/month). So they’re using the scandal to make money. You couldn’t make this up 🙄

Brilliant! Thank you @privateeyenews.bsky.social for sharing the full show on YouTube. Hilarious… & with Harry Enfield! ❤️

This is really happening. Grok not only insists on making deepfake images users don't want, but then hides behind "pixels are not real people". & says Elon is fine with it. INSANE PS: meanwhile, once more for those at the back; NVIDIA just gave xAI $20bn. Let that sink in...

If there was a child porn factory down the road, it’d be closed immediately. The Govt’s response wouldn’t be “hang on, they let us print flyers there too”.

"They're not buying based on AI. In fact I think AI probably confuses them more than it helps them" - Kevin Terwilliger, head of product at DELL, one of the world’s biggest computer makers. If even they now accept AI doesn’t sell computers = beginning of the end? www.pcgamer.com/hardware/del...

And yet xAI just raised $20bn from NVIDIA. Further proof that tech's money and morals are more at odds than ever 🙄 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

For those of us not in the cult, this is what we hear when anyone from the Trump administration speaks. For the people in the back, this is satire and so well done…

AI is heading for disaster, financially, ethically and ecologically speaking. Especially considering most companies encourage their staff to use it, without having told them how to do so responsibly. My take on why that will have to change in 2026, and how 👀 bettertech.blog/2025/12/29/w...

The Anthropic guy glibly explaining to @joannastern.bsky.social that his models’ f’ing up and giving away $1000s worth of snacks is "a great example of red teaming" is peak AI bubble behaviour. Billions of dollars of investment has gone into these f’ups. And the dude in charge finds it funny 🤯

Ok so Trump tries to plug the hole in his loss-making social media venture with a bet on a totally unproven technology (nuclear fusion) which itself relies on an industry (AI) which consumes shitloads of power without actually needing to (more frugal AI is posssible). What could possibly go wrong?

Rob Reiner (1947–2025)

The tragedy of the death of Rob Reiner and his wife, apparently at the hands of their own son, is as huge as Rob’s incredible contribution to pop culture. A truly astounding body of work. And a true commitment to calling out tyranny too (Trump). Thanks, Rob, for making us laugh and cry so hard 🖤

"A German car manufacturer does not require a chatbot trained on the entire internet." I.e. we don’t need to expose ourselves to the huge financial, social and environmental risks that big AI inevitably brings with it. Brillant, @marietjeschaake.bsky.social 👌🏻 www.ft.com/content/0308...

God bless you for evermore, @privateeyenews.bsky.social (especially for this "spot the difference" 😅)

Hype around OpenAI has now reached such lunacy that it can sign a deal with the owners of the world’s best-loved characters so people can make AI slop with them. AND they get $1bn as a bonus. The world has officially gone mad Via @sababausa.bsky.social thewaltdisneycompany.com/disney-opena...

When this "AI" bubble pops, the men pretending they weren't pushing the hype, like "critics" whose position is "AGI is real but LLMs aren't the way," who were in eugenicist and "AI existential risk"🙄 circles, will get specials discussing what they saw coming, when its the women who told you so.

"Secretary of War" Pete Hegseth: “the future of American warfare is here, and it’s spelled A-I.” Google: hold my beer (GenAI.mil can… summarise documents 🤭) Well worth going back on that "no military AI" promise from not too long ago, eh GOOG? www.theverge.com/news/841219/...

"People dont have the literacy to tell the difference between what’s real & what’s fake", says Sky News presenter Yalda Hakim about her deepfaked interview with Imran Khan’s sister, that went viral. When ministers share this sort of thing - & they did - wars can happen news.sky.com/video/astoni...

Spotify has laid off thousands in recent years, while reportedly paying artists $0.003 per stream. Spotify profits rose 28% in Q3. Its CEO is worth $9.8 billion. It's making money off ICE recruitment ads. Don't you think it's time put a wrap on corporate greed and exploitation?

Calling Sam Altman’s BS on the “PhD in your pocket" claim is now getting quite amusing. Latest example enclosed. In the UK, we drive around roundabouts anticlockwise. The stochastic parrot would only accept this after the prompter said she’s a driving instructor (she is not). Lying to beat a liar…