'Generative AI is the first tool to threaten the continued existence of writing.': https://spitevillage.micro.blog/2026/07/14/generative-ai-is-the-first.html

'Generative AI is the first tool to threaten the continued existence of writing.'

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Durable Content Credentials: creating trust in content in the age of AI: https://spitevillage.micro.blog/2026/06/25/durable-content-credentials-creating-trust.html Durable Content Credentials enhance trust and accuracy in digital content by verifying its creation and editing history through secu...

Durable Content Credentials: creating trust in content in the age of AI

Durable Content Credentials enhance trust and accuracy in digital content by verifying its creation and editing history through secure metadata, invisible watermarking, and fingerprinting.

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"I was talking to a fundraiser who said they used AI and they doubled their annual appeal revenues from $50K to $100K. Well, is your 50k in additional funds worth the $300K's worth of environmental and other forms of damage and trauma to communities? spitevillage.micro.blog/2026/06/16/i...

'The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is.': https://spitevillage.micro.blog/2026/06/03/the-internet-you-grew-up.html

'The internet you grew up on isn't dying. A commercial veneer glued on top of it is.'

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The internet is being rebuilt for machines - Rebecca Bellan: https://spitevillage.micro.blog/2026/06/03/the-internet-is-being-rebuilt.html

The internet is being rebuilt for machines - Rebecca Bellan

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AI is a political project: Karen Hao: https://spitevillage.micro.blog/2026/05/29/ai-is-a-political-project.html Karen Hao discusses the dangers of AI as a political project that aims to strip individuals of their agency and ownership over their lives and resources.

AI is a political project: Karen Hao

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Karen Hao's AI Resist List: https://spitevillage.micro.blog/2026/05/21/karen-haos-ai-resist-list.html A new project called The AI Resist List documents global resistance movements against AI empires, highlighting diverse actions and advocating for alternative futures.

“Ban it” is generally the worst option for new technology as it buries the actions and consequences rather than stopping them Other options exist and the structures exist to hold them: government, schools and families.

Love this personal account of Fiona’s relationship with RSS over the years, which also has some handy practical elements to it too. Falling back in love with the humble RSS feed, Fiona MacNeill

Falling back in love with the humble RSS feed | Fiona MacNeill | Macknowlogist

A quick reflection on RSS feeds and the merits of RSS curation

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"I was duped by the machine. The rabbits were a hallucination, created within a datacentre somewhere, a mirage made from thousands of litres of water in the desert of our dying planet." www.katiematherwrites.com/the-gulp/ant...

Anthropomorphism will kill us all — Katie Mather Writes

In 2025, a night vision video of some rabbits bouncing on a garden trampoline was shared online, and I went nuts. What an adorable thing to see on the internet, what a beautiful way to break up the mo...

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Resist Surveillance. Syndicate: https://spitevillage.micro.blog/2026/05/15/resist-surveillance-syndicate.html I made a mini zine about why it’s time for an RSS revival (I know, I know, it never went away).

Tracey Emin on AI: https://spitevillage.micro.blog/2026/05/12/tracey-emin-on-ai.html Tracey Emin responds to a questions about the threat AI poses to artists.

Tracey Emin on AI

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"openai.com" was once the personal homepage of a guy named glenn (2001), and "tiktok.com" was the quaint shared homepage of a couple as their relationship progressed from dating to married with a baby (2000). THREAD!!!

this graduation speech moment is notable, and her amazed shock at having failed to read the room feels instructive. when you're inside the bubble, you think everybody else is. but everybody isn't.

Dark Forest Operating System: the new private internet: https://spitevillage.micro.blog/2026/05/11/dark-forest-operating-system-the.html DFOS is an infrastructure designed for private internets, integrating group chats, members, money, and private feeds into a single operating system.

The Luddite Lab Resource Hub, a new resource for fighting AI at work: https://spitevillage.micro.blog/2026/05/06/the-luddite-lab-resource-hub.html A new Luddite Lab Resource Hub has been launched to help workers resist mandated AI and automation in the workplace.

If I hear “harness the power of Ai” one more time, I’m going to take up horse riding and ride a stallion through the meeting room and shout “harness THIS, mofos!”

'Somewhere right now, two strangers’ cursors are touching': https://spitevillage.micro.blog/2026/05/05/somewhere-right-now-two-strangers.html

Mind mental health expert on Google’s AI Overviews: https://spitevillage.micro.blog/2026/04/30/mind-mental-health-expert-on.html

Reading Machines: 'A publishing platform for non-teleological reading.': https://spitevillage.micro.blog/2026/04/30/reading-machines-a-publishing-platform.html

'89% of unbranded prompts (which do not mention a specific brand) are fulfilled by third-party sources': https://spitevillage.micro.blog/2026/04/29/of-unbranded-prompts-which-do.html

Data centres, sustainability and Microsoft removing the 'AI button': https://spitevillage.micro.blog/2026/04/28/data-centres-sustainability-and-microsoft.html

Who is buying Palantir's new chore coat?!: https://spitevillage.micro.blog/2026/04/28/who-is-buying-palantirs-new.html

AI impersonations: A new Clause feature is adding journalists' names to things they did not write. I've seen this too - Claude wrote a report for me and attributed to a real person (TFL's head of data, no less) spitevillage.micro.blog/2026/04/24/i...

Not once in the 80s, 90s or 00s do I recall a politician urging the public to embrace email, mobile phones, texting, two factor authentication, online banking, air fryers, or to replace all their cassette collection with a CD collection. So forgive me if I smell a rat.

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Liz Kendall urges UK public to embrace AI as government makes first £500m fund investment

"We are now flooded with tools that promise automation and end up producing more repair work.": https://spitevillage.micro.blog/2026/04/24/we-are-now-flooded-with.html

"We are now flooded with tools that promise automation and end up producing more repair work."

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'It's not too late to fix it', Tim Berners-Lee: https://spitevillage.micro.blog/2026/04/24/its-not-too-late-to.html