Nuclear fusion is the new crypto 💵⚛️ (derogatory)

I see. I'll check out the report so I understand the argument better

I'm afraid "current failures of LLMs" are more deeply rooted than that, a situation which won't be transformed by agentic AI (which is essentially 'LLMs in a loop')

You really think AI is a productive technology?

#TakeBackTech but not tech like AI, what we need is an alternative technopolitics and the collective development of convivial tools for the common good

sloplear implants

event graphic: "Resisting Big Tech Empires: The fight for the future Saturday 25th, London Cory Doctorow, multi-award-winning novelist and campaigner Anita Gurumurthy, IT for Change, India Sofia Scasserra, Our World is Not for Sale, Argentina James Meadway, Macrodose podcast Khem Rogaly, Common Wealth Cecilia Rikap, digital sovereignty researcher, UCL Dan McQuillan, author of Resisting AI Nick Srnicek, author of Silicon Empires and Platform Capitalism Rosa Curling, Foxglove Nafeez Ahmed, author of Alt Reich Sophia Goodfriend, journalist on AI and war Rebel Tech Alliance"

Looking forward to debating the contradictions of AI at 'Resisting Big Tech Empires' (Sat 25th). What's happening when $$$ is poured into extractive but failing tech? How is AI a diagnostic for the nihilistic turn in geopolitics? What can we do about it? www.globaljustice.org.uk/event/resist...

Er, why is there even a 'SXSW London'? Do we need another culture-slathered overdose of tech-washing? This kind of glammed up accelerationism has had its day, and we're inhabiting its sorry aftermath. Enough already 🤮☣️

The Rebel Riot X Cacerolazo - Bella Ciao cover (Burmese Punk Version) YouTube video by The Rebel Riot Band

Ever find it hard to get up to speed on a Friday morning? Here's a Burmese punk version of Bella Ciao for you 🏴🔥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddm5...

event graphic: "Resisting Big Tech Empires: The fight for the future Saturday 25th, London Cory Doctorow, multi-award-winning novelist and campaigner Anita Gurumurthy, IT for Change, India Sofia Scasserra, Our World is Not for Sale, Argentina James Meadway, Macrodose podcast Khem Rogaly, Common Wealth Cecilia Rikap, digital sovereignty researcher, UCL Dan McQuillan, author of Resisting AI Nick Srnicek, author of Silicon Empires and Platform Capitalism Rosa Curling, Foxglove Nafeez Ahmed, author of Alt Reich Sophia Goodfriend, journalist on AI and war Rebel Tech Alliance"

Looking forward to debating the contradictions of AI at 'Resisting Big Tech Empires' (Sat 25th). What's happening when $$$ is poured into extractive but failing tech? How is AI a diagnostic for the nihilistic turn in geopolitics? What can we do about it? www.globaljustice.org.uk/event/resist...

screenshot of Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) page https://www.ippr.org/media-office/government-risks-techlash-unless-it-shows-who-benefits-from-ai-ippr-warns Text reads: "Government risks ‘techlash’ unless it shows who benefits from AI, IPPR warns AI could deepen inequality, concentrate power and disrupt jobs without intervention Ministers urgently need to spread the benefits as industry grows Think tank calls for sovereign AI fund to share economic gains with the public The UK government risks being boxed in by AI backlash if they don’t share the benefits of the technology with the public, according to a new report from IPPR."

IPPR recommends: "Deploying AI engineers to schools, hospitals ... to experiment with where AI can improve outcomes"
- why not ask people already working there about outcomes? I'm betting 'fix the leaking roof' and 'stop making cuts' would come out ahead of 'more AI please')

Header image from Alistair's website showing his DoxBox trustbot from 2019, accompanied by a figure dressed as a puppet in a kimono.

Deeply saddened to hear of the passing of the artist Alistair Gentry. A true gent and a creative fighter for the marginalised. See examples of his work here alistairgentry.net and donate to help with funeral costs here www.justgiving.com/crowdfunding... RIP comrade ✊

Screenshot of an FT article. Headline: AI chatbots misdiagnose in over 80% of early medical cases, study finds image: man at a desk with an open laptop and a phone showing an active chatbot text: Consumer AI chatbots falter when used to make medical diagnoses, particularly when faced with incomplete information, according to new research highlighting the risks of relying on them as digital doctors. The study finds that leading large language models struggle to suggest a range of possible diagnoses when patient data is limited, frequently narrowing too quickly to a single answer. The results point to a broader limitation in AI: while chatbots can identify likely conditions once a case is fully specified, they are less reliable at the earlier, more uncertain stages of clinical reasoning. The findings highlight the dangers of relying on the technology alone to pinpoint health problems, particularly in cases where the data users input may be vague or patchy. “These models are great at naming a final diagnosis once the data is complete, but they struggle at the open-ended start of a case, when there isn’t much information,” said Arya Rao, the study’s lead author and a researcher at the Massachusetts-based Mass General Brigham healthcare system

"So whatever problem AI attempts to solve becomes what philosopher Henri Bergson would call a ‘ready-made problem’ – a problem that is expressed as a function of things prior to itself that have already been turned into abstractions". ('Resisting AI', p43)

image: A truly horrible genAI graphic showing a laptop imposed over a dystopic city with windmills and tower blocks. text: The Faculty of Humanities and the cordially invites you to a 4IR Distinguished Seminar titled: AI, Decomputing and the Interregnum This lecture explores AI’s contradiction: a failing technology drawing massive investment, diagnosing crises like neoliberal breakdown, patriarchal subjectivity, and energy politics. It amplifies problems through scaling and accelerationism, serving as technopolitics of the interregnum to maintain hegemonic control. Yet, it signals alternatives via decomputing—a movement tackling technology’s politics and subjectivity. Proposing degrowth, deautomatisation, and convivial tools centering interdependence and situatedness, it re-socialises energy/water resources against data centres’ demands, ad teams link: https://teams.microsoft.com/meet/35663973297546?p=8SNjajfNuytAYxBaTN time; 1th April 2026 at 16:00 Johannesburg time

ICYMI I'll be reprising 'AI, Decomputing and the Interregnum' for the Uni of Johannesburg this afternoon. Yes I'm aware their comms team trolled me with a truly horrible genAI graphic😷. The talk is on Teams, link in the flyer at drive.google.com/file/d/1RYOY...

A graphic image showing a prosthesis maintenance day at a hackerspace. Image Credit: The.lemonaut.ukr / Wikimedia Commons

This week-long summer study session looks right on point: 'Low-Tech, Luddism and Liberation: reclaiming technology for the collective good' www.nsuweb.org/circle-9-deg...
Also family-friendly & includes documentary viewings, poetry readings, hiking excursions and music nights.

Graphic: black text on tan background, overlaid on a red square. central banner reads "STOP FORCING AI INTO FUCKING EVERYTHING" circular text around banner reads "NOBODY ASKED FOR IT. EVERYONE HATES IT"

Watch the trailer here www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9DA...

I jumped in too early!

Very unimpressed by pop neurodiversity influencers and their AI apologia.

More bullshit claiming that anti-AI stances are classist and ableist and racist.

Meanwhile, AI is built on exploited black labor, kills disabled people every day, disposesses the working class, and drinks all our water.

It will also be far right, as it is in Ireland already.

‘You know who’s in control’ - How the fuel protests brought the country to a standstill The seeds of this week’s disruption were sown in meetings in late March and fomented in online forums and WhatsApp groups

#TheComingFossilistInsurrection will go very differently than our antifossilist movement did. A short 🧵

"Over the course of 3 days, protesters had brought much of #Ireland to a standstill. NOT 1 protester had been arrested nor a vehicle removed."

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I think liberal reformism has paved the way for technofascism

I didn't do a deep dive but at least two of them trace back to Chris Summerfield's lab - he's an AI believer csummerfield.github.io/personal_web... and research director for the UK AI Safety Institute 😬

Similar situation during the 1826 uprising that followed. Good details on that here: History - Weavers Uprising share.google/evmNJ380imPt...

The luddites worked at home, with their families, where they had the freedom to set their own schedules, or in small shops with their peers. One of the main things luddites were fighting against was the *creation* of sweatshop conditions, which was only enabled by mass mechanization + factorization!

It's why we talk about genAI as a labor problem. 99% of all problems that genAI "solves" is just "hire more people and pay them a liveable wage."

Serious question; is this article a paid promotion?

So many continuities between AI and the Major/Blair private finance initiative (PFI); outsource vital public infrastructure to corporations who provide a shoddy substitute and continue to charge you through the nose forever. ¡Ya basta!

Screenshot of Guardian article Headline reads "ICE agents reveal daily arrest quotas and surveillance app in rare court testimony. Under oath, officers said they were told to make eight arrests a day and given special tech to help choose ‘targets’" Photo shows paramilitary ICE agents outside their base in Portland.

"The enrolment of AI in the management of these various crises produces ‘states of exception’ – forms of exclusion that render people vulnerable in an absolute sense".
'Resisting AI' p72 (bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai)

AI Assistance Reduces Persistence and Hurts Independent Performance People often optimize for long-term goals in collaboration: A mentor or companion doesn't just answer questions, but also scaffolds learning, tracks progress, and prioritizes the other person's growth...

link to preprint: arxiv.org/abs/2604.04721