“Generative AI can seem astonishingly real, but like the spoon in The Matrix, it’s just an illusion.” Léonie Watson (@tink.uk), beyond tellerrand Düsseldorf 2025. beyondtellerrand.com/events/dusse... #btconf #mondayMixtape

“Potentially Useful | Hating AI in 2026” https://www.eamoncaddigan.net/posts/ai-in-2026/ > We can point out all of the harms being done by the technology right now, and we can speak to the additional harms that will be done if things continue like this, but our concerns are spurned or ignored.

Potentially Useful | Hating AI in 2026

Being anti-AI feels like being anti-war

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What are you doing Saturday, October 17. It's a good day for creative coding. Learn more and register at ccfest.rocks/register/ #virtualCCFest

This looks amazing! I'd do it myself if I could, but other nature / art / data vis nerds should definitely take a look.

Jer Thorp@jerthorp.bsky.social · 4d ago

Friends! Can I ask you a favour? My 🐦 + 📊 course starts next week. I'm super excited but registration is worryingly low. Can you share this with your weirdo nature + art + code friends? jerthorp.me/learning

"We know what to do: incubate open-access A.I. models, regulate technologies before they go rogue, hold the people who allow them to go rogue accountable if they do and protect the most vulnerable when we, the people, sometimes get it wrong." - @tressiemcphd.bsky.social

Opinion | Panic Won’t Fix the Looming A.I. Threat. Politics Will. (Gift Article)

The threats from A.I. are real — and they’re ones we know how to deal with.

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Paul M. Barrett reviews two new books on Silicon Valley's ideological bent — Gil Durán's The Nerd Reich and Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff's Muskism — and asks whether people are now willing to do what is necessary to resist technofascism.

Thinking About the ‘Tech Fascists’ and What to Do About Them

Paul Barrett reviews Gil Durán’s The Nerd Reich (Avid Reader Press, 2026) and Quinn Slobodian and Ben Tarnoff’s Muskism (HarperCollins, 2026).

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I'm looking forward to starting @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social's new book, End Times Fascism.

Verso Books@versobooks.bsky.social · 4d ago

What are you reading this weekend?

I received a panicked message from a family member this week asking if "AI" will really cause the extinction of the human race. I did my best to dispel these fears in simple terms, but my anger at the industry leaked through. Perhaps I should have sent them this very accessible article instead.

Karen Gregory@karengregory.bsky.social · 6d ago

It seems like the AI discourse has started to actually scare people this past week (at least five people have told me 'AI will kill us', so well done PR folks.) I think this is a very good piece to share w/ your family & friends. Thanks @shannonvallor.bsky.social www.noemamag.com/the-danger-o...

Really important to understand that AI has not become *more* AI, *real* AI, or *good* AI since the late 70s. It's still a parlour trick. The parlour has just got a lot bigger and the trick a lot more tricksy.

Large Heydon Collider@heydonworks.com · 2mo ago

Was doing some research and... wow... 1978.

Notice how those “apolitical” people ALWAYS end up siding with the oppressors

An excellent, timely podcast by @bcmerchant.bsky.social with @naomiaklein.bsky.social and @astra.bsky.social about end times fascism and the current "AI" doomerism. youtube.com/watch?v=rR5U...

Is the AI Industry Run by 'End Times Fascists'?

YouTube video by Blood in the Machine

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This is a great thread that highlights what we need to do about "AI".

Evan Greer@evangreer.bsky.social · last wk.

I really want people to think more like organizers. I'm seeing endless debate, and more than a little conspiracy theorizing, about the motivations behind the big companies' warnings about the danger of AI. And almost no discussion about how we seize this moment to demand the policies we want.

Since it can be hard to believe that political and corporate elites would actively give up on our shared future on this singular planet, we made a short film so folks can hear from the end timers and judge for themselves. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Naomi Klein and Astra Taylor: the future according to end times fascism

In a new video, Klein and Taylor outline a ominous evolution taking shape on the far right – and how to stay loyal to this planet and each other

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It costs roughly £200K to show an ad to every adult in the UK on Insta, Facebook, X & Google. With £72m in crypto donations, Reform now has enough money to repeat this every week until 2029. Dodgy ads already shaped Brexit, we can't afford to let it happen again. We need to scale up our fight.

lol there are a lot of people talking about AI who, frankly, shouldn't so here are people to listen to and then some: @timnitgebru.blacksky.app @alexhanna.bsky.social @rajiinio.bsky.social @ruha9.bsky.social @emilymbender.bsky.social @karenhao.bsky.social @dairinstitute.bsky.social

These Women Tried to Warn Us About AI

Rumman Chowdhury, Timnit Gebru, Safiya Noble, Seeta Peña Gangadharan, and Joy Buolamwini open up about their artificial intelligence fears

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📝💝 but what a privilege it is to read your code kayserifserif.place/posts/2026/h...

This looks amazing!

Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella)@kanarinka.bsky.social · 3w ago

Join our open, free learning community 📣 Technofascism, Feminism and Democracy 📣 to explore: the rise of global authoritarianism; Big Tech, AI, & the billionaire class; how feminist & grassroots movements are proposing alternative democratic futures. technofascism.dataplusfeminism.mit.edu

Very much this. Holding space for refusal of this tech is a key resistance strategy. That means advocating for that option in e.g. school policies (if we can't get a full ban) but also simply being visible in our own refusal, so that others see it as possible.

jess m. ☕🍂@jametc.bsky.social · 3w ago

Please be vocal about not using AI. We have to normalize it. No "I'm not going to say that because it should be assumed. I'm not going to give them this". We don't have time for that shit ideological shit right now. NOW is the time to capitalize on waning favorability. Ppl want human made

New on the MAIHT3k newsletter -- how to move away from the untenable, uncomfortable middle ground and towards firm "AI" resistance. buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch... w/ @deccamuldowney.bsky.social

Six Problems With Talking About the “Ethical” or “Responsible” Use of “AI”

How to move away from the untenable, uncomfortable middle ground By Emily M. Bender and Decca Muldowney A dancing ledge, as viewed from above. Image: Will...

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"…when I hear a tech person say that something's 'just a tool', I can't help but read it as an unwillingness to take responsibility, as an industry, for what we put into the world and for what we do to ourselves." An excellent read by @iris-meredith.bsky.social. deadsimpletech.com/blog/no-such...

There's no such thing as Just a Tool | deadSimpleTech

Heidegger thinks about tools like so: a tool is something (a thing that has being in the Heideggerian sense, not necessarily an object) that represents an extension of human capabilities in some way. ...

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A shocking number of publications and professional accounts I enjoy fail to add alt text to their media on Bluesky. I remember the backlash for asking for inclusion on early Twitter which makes me hesitant to do it again here.

Yes… Ha ha ha… Yes!

Nintendo Life@nintendolife.com · 4mo ago

We've Finally Got A Look At Alien: Isolation 2, And It's Confirmed For Switch 2.

Wikimedia Foundation just fired a long time lead developer of MediaWiki as well as its entire community team for unionizing. If you’re a donor, email donate@wikimedia.org to protest this move. medium.com/@jakeorlowit...

Big Tech’s Anti-Labor Playbook Has Come for Wikipedia

TLDR: In ten days last month, the Wikimedia Foundation fired the longtime lead developer of MediaWiki and disbanded the team whose entire…

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AI companies are now getting accommodations that disabled people spent decades fighting for. Jonathan Zong and Frank Elavsky argue this reflects a broader pattern, where accessibility gains become politically possible only once industry needs the same changes.

The Web Is Being Made Accessible for AI, Not People

Jonathan Zong and Frank Elavsky critique how AI-driven infrastructure changes obscure accessibility and reveal whose needs society chooses to prioritize.

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Open-Source needs your help! The NHS are looking to make their code private 😭 @edent.tel wrote a blog post here: shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/05... please sign here is you disagree with this change, making things open makes them better: keepthingsopen.com

NHS Goes To War Against Open Source

The NHS is preparing to close nearly all of its Open Source repositories. Throughout my time working for the UK Government - in GDS, NHSX, i.AI, and others - I championed Open Source. I spoke to doze...

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Happy International Worker's Day everyone. Let's all smash the machinery hurtful to commonality together.

This was a really great read. Highly recommended! gbbns.co/journal/acce... The EAA has made it difficult to ignore #a11y issues. But the fix hasn't been what it needs to be. The solution is treating frontend as a speciality again. AI still can't replace human knowledge, and can break things faster.

Adrian Roselli, pH0@aardrian.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“The Accessibility Problem Isn't Design. It's Engineering.” gbbns.co/journal/acce... Looking at EAA as a compliance concern, with LLMs as the accelerant going the wrong direction.

Just phenomenal.

Niels Leenheer@html5test.com · 6mo ago

I still can’t believe this is all CSS and a couple of divs in the browser. And that it runs so smooth on my phone. I just love the top view - including that transition. And the way those fireballs just come hurdling towards you.

Looking forward to this year's #virtualCCFest!