If useful, here's my attempt to process my feelings about how I feel sadly kinda — or rather very — sick from all this AI fascist nonsense as an academic. 😶‍🌫️ I'd be pleased if even one person finds something useful because there's something to be said for processing this all together, so, um, enjoy?

Anxiety

Reasoning (and crying) my way through fascist AI-induced anxiety.

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> How do [criminalisation of organising and the siege of Cuba] impact Black people and what is the history of these scares that are used against Black people? Dr. Charisse Burden Stelly [discusses this and] is the author of "Black Scare/ Red Scare: Theorizing Capitalist Racism in the United States"

Dr. CBS on Trump's Black/Red Scare

YouTube video by Black Agenda Report

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When something seems not to make sense, you can spot it years before. If you see this case here, Kirstie and I spotted something was rotten. bsky.app/profile/oliv...

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 4d ago

Thanks for sharing & @jwlockhart.bsky.social for writing. Nice example of entryism & explains the sexism (feminists like said point these out) in the 2010s. See: Whitaker, K. J. & Guest, O. (2020). #bropenscience is broken science. The Psychologist. doi.org/10.5281/zeno... olivia.science/entryism/

A must read by @jwlockhart.bsky.social on the money behind open science. He’s spot on that there are some subjects you just can’t touch with typical peer reviewers in #metascience scatter.wordpress.com/2026/07/31/s...

science funding and the cherry picking problem

Science publishing–like all of science–requires money. There’s no getting around it, even with the open science movement. What appears free to many authors and readers still requires money and infr…

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we are now live!

@makcapitalism.bsky.social · 6d ago

Islam, Marxism, Imperialism, and Wahhabism with Fadiah Nadwa Fikri & Farwa Sial TODAY at 10 AM EDT youtu.be/EdWSwKI_v4k?...

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Wednesday Highlight: Sun Kissed Darkness

On Marlowe in Silicon Valley, Raymond Chandler and Silicon Gangsterism

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I appreciate this shout-out from @fellowesin.bsky.social for two reasons: 1.) It's always nice to have your work acknowledged but more critically.. 2.) It inspires a bit of ruthless self critique What is the Monroelab project for? What is the goal and who is the hoped for audience?

They put this saltwater (Antalya) fish into freshwater (Samsun)@fellowesin.bsky.social · last wk.

Dwayne Monroe!! Writes great essays about genAI and why it sucks monroelab.com He's also on here, @cloudquistador.eurosky.social!!

In flames: www.aramco.com/en/news-medi...

Jazan — our new smart self-powering refinery

By exploring new cutting-edge technologies for by-product recycling and waste power re-capture, the Jazan complex aims to achieve improved productivity while operating with lower emissions.

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'Going to Tehran’ has been strongly recommended by Iranian scholar Dr. Seyed Mohammad Marandi. Like all works that state facts without regard for prejudice and illusions, it has been ignored by the usual, melanin challenged suspects… till now. Here is a review: invent-the-future.org/2026/06/goin...

Going to Tehran: the book that predicted this mess in Iran - Invent the Future

In 2013, two former US national security officials – Flynt Leverett and Hillary Mann Leverett – published a book called Going to Tehran. In it they argued, on the basis of insider experience, that the...

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Every time I see a teacher suggest that a child uses an LLM for exam prep, I think about the potential lawsuits for bad advice, negligence etc. It won’t be long

John Schwartz@jswatz.bsky.social · 2w ago

Dr. AI will kill you. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/22/w...

In which, I highlight the excellent essay by @olivia.science 'Entryism' - monroelab.com/2026/07/22/o...

On Entryism

AI mania, as described in the essay by Nikhil Kurseh, ‘AI Mania Is Eviscerating Global Decision Making’ is still very much with us, like a zombie, shambling about aimlessly in search of a meal. Eve…

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In theory, any school trip now should include a risk assessment for “children will be filmed by meta glasses”. Which should mean school trips are impossible, or that children in protective care can’t go. Think on that.

The Guardian@theguardian.com · 2w ago

Meta’s smartglasses mean any child can be covertly filmed. In the age of AI, how do we tackle that risk?

Whenever a prominent 'anti AI' person follows me on social media (particularly a pink skin man from the US or UK) I am immediately suspicious. The Zitron contradiction provides an example of why.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 2w ago

oh "despite also marketing AI in his day job does a very good job" you say? *taps sign*

There are more openly anti AI women than men, so if you see manels (panels of all men) or events where there are very few or no women involved on the academic speaking side (not in the organisation/teaching), it's safe to conclude that there is something very strange afoot to say the least. 1/n

Cryptogyny

On the systematic obfuscation of women's contributions.

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To this, I will add, as another example, the allegedly leftist publication Jacobin, the very heart of entryism regarding 'AI' and many other things: vdgasjournal.com/2025/07/24/a...

A Castle Made of Legos – On Jacobin and AI Propaganda

In the age of live streamed genocide, many things that once seemed urgent, or at least, worth a few moments of your time, have receded to the background; chores to be completed as illusions are bur…

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Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 3w ago

OK, it's honestly very distressing and worrying and I have ADHD, so I wrote it all down to get it out of my head olivia.science/entryism/ Enjoy, I guess...

This is the sort of sharpness we need to actually critique and resist.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 3w ago

OK, it's honestly very distressing and worrying and I have ADHD, so I wrote it all down to get it out of my head olivia.science/entryism/ Enjoy, I guess...

This is 💯 entryism. He wrote a piece seemingly critical of AI, got caught & admitted to chatGPT use, but also gaslights us it's a search engine & it's useful for checking links — why not just click them? We can't be anti AI if we don't agree we see it. They did it with climate change, tobacco etc.

Holden Thorp@holdenthorp.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hi, this is Holden emerging from my Bluesky hiatus to tell everyone that when checking the links in the piece, I used ChatGPT as my search engine (does anyone use Google anymore?). The piece was written by me and edited by humans. So all the links were checked by me and again by our copyeditors.

But some things need to be repeated... "... claims that machines can think are nonsense"

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · last yr.

I feel I repeat myself, but it bears repeating sadly, that it's not that the critique of machines is somehow only possible with computer & cognitive science degrees (they can help tho, but they can also make you impervious to further analyses) BUT 10/n

Microsoft, as an organization, has mastered the, well, 'art' of massaging executive egos. This is one of the sources of its power and why C-suite denizens, Uni admins are many others roll over. Note the phrase, 'frontier firm' tailored for the biz class: www.microsoft.com/en-us/workla...

Journey to the Frontier Firm

Practical guidance for transforming your organization with AI.

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Instead of saying 'AI' did this or 'AI' wants that (not only anthropomorphic but a diversion) I suggest we always name companies, products, customers uses and infrastructure. What, precisely is Microsoft, Google, Amazon selling? Who is buying and why? What are the angles?

The same 'logic' is used in UFO circles (and a similar sort of chaotic thinking). The 'U', as we know, stands for 'unidentified but into the breach flow confidently asserted fictions. So it is with 'debates' about so-called 'AI'. Indeed, the 'AI chat space may be a bit worse.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 3w ago

It bothers me when people say "AI is vague therefore X" when the X is anything but saying "ok we're defining it". Not that we have to define it, but we can avoid arguments from ignorance. 1/

Whenever a famous evil person dies, 'nice' people emerge, as if from a suburban cul de sac void of mindlessness, to insist we be nice to the dead. Such people are useless in a fight, such as the war we're in. Ignore them. Pour a glass of something strong over the prostrate form of a foe.

Let's stop calling them 'tech lords', that sounds like a group of high intelligences that observe and control from an orbital palace. They are unwashed ass megalomaniacs whose rise to prominence and power indicts the gangster system (also known as capitalism) that elevated them.

What do I mean by 'command and control' in the context of computation? An answer, in this essay: monroelab.com/2025/02/23/c...

Command and Control: Capitalism and Computation

Capitalism, a system as inescapable as breathless news items about Trump, Musk and decay, came into its own during the age of steam power, telegraphs and colonialism (first edition, we’re wit…

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Dwayne Monroe@cloudquistador.eurosky.social · 4w ago

Some of us predicted, years ago, that data centers would, sooner or later, become targets because they are part of command and control circuits. The day has arrived: thecradle.co/articles-id/...

Some of us predicted, years ago, that data centers would, sooner or later, become targets because they are part of command and control circuits. The day has arrived: thecradle.co/articles-id/...

Data centers enter the battlefield

AI infrastructure is turning West Asia into a frontline of great power rivalry.

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And the end result will be societies with a technological infrastructure that very few will understand or be able to maintain and a dead cultural scene.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 4w ago

We're in a culture that seems to value production of pseudotechnology and pseudoscience. I think not doing this, stopping industry from continuing all their evil, requires us to acknowledge that.

Rest of World@restofworld.org · 4w ago

For $7 an hour, virtual assistants in the Philippines are using AI to write LinkedIn posts and comments on behalf of Western executives, fueling a "thought leadership" content mill https://restofworld.org/2026/virtual-assistant-linkedin-engagement/?utm_campaign=row-social

"executives with no understanding of the industry" seems to be an endemic problem across industries: higher education, medicine, you name it, a bunch of suits with MBAs and unearned arrogance are destroying everything around us, and for some reason, we're supposed to accept that they know best

Greg Iwinski@garyjackson.bsky.social · 4w ago

TV writers were right in 2023 and are being proven more right every day — there was a stable television model that made everyone lots of money and put out good shows. Then execs with no understanding of the industry confused the production model and the distribution model, and they blew it all up.

A material, indeed Marxist analysis of the Platner malady and the conditions that produced it: www.youtube.com/watch?v=hwVT...

MARX WAS RIGHT: Graham Platner Proves Entryism is DOOMED

YouTube video by NonCompete

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which is to say that the USA's Leftist pundits have either never heard of entryism or are for it, which may ultimately be the same thing in effect

Wiggling@intense.wiggling.me · 4w ago

Oh, they're just going to double down and not learn shit from this. Emma, today: "I don't really care if, say, like Bernie Sanders or AOC go home and they're a secret Nazi, but they go out and they vote for the right things." Either incredibly stupid and/or a terrible person.