Monday Resistance Update #2 - Say Yes - Do No A roundup of some resistance relevant things I've noticed through the week, a long way from comprehensive. Articles, papers, podcasts, news etc. If anything...

Second of my Monday Resistance Updates, a very incomplete guide to stuff that's happened around AI resistance this past week.

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What a sensible reply. Thanks for engaging though.

I'm not a child, I don't need a leader to tell me there's a cliff. I want a leader who lays out a policy plan which I can vote for if I believe it to be positive and plausible.

Not really leadership that, more managerial apologism.

Victory on the opt out aside I'm caught by the Creative Content Exchange bit - is the UK gov starting a Temu for junk training data?

The facial recognition grocery fight

Facia AI “noted that it could send personalized follow-up emails or promotions to customers who browsed through a shop without buying anything, and could collect data including a customer’s facial features, visit history and shopping preferences.”

It's just the seed of an idea at the moment but I'm thinking of putting together a little anthology of fiction and poetry that's anti-AI (or AI Critical, Luddite, whatever term you like). It wouldn't be anything big but maybe a way to help share some peoples work and create something nice. Imagine it would be a free digital download with a few hard copies if there was interest. So, in principle, would anyone be interested in contributing? Word counts and more specific guidelines to follow but just testing the waters really...

Little side project in the works...

Monday Resistance Update - Say Yes - Do No Going to try to make this a habit, just sharing things I've discovered through the week. Articles, papers, podcasts, news etc. If anything comes up that you...

Going to try and make a habit of this - the Monday Resistance Update over at Say Yes, Do No. A far from comprehensive guide to stuff I've seen/read/heard recently around AI resistance...

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Alright you guys it seems like my beloved neighbourhood of Al Karradah in Baghdad has been targeted. It's on TV!

It'll be shit.

Well, except politics.

For most involved I'd imagine it is, in which case the derision is really deserved. For those whose morals go beyond that I think the career over principle thing generally leads to pretty damning choices. It's an odd subculture really, the logics of self justification wouldn't fly many other places.

Out of those three groups there's only one without any real power and fairly good reasons for discontent. 'History will judge' seems a bit of a cop out when the political and media classes could easily be judging now, if the spirit took them (they certainly judge a lot of other stuff).

though. Wagons circle and blame is allocated downwards. Same with politicians.

Fair enough. Do think that the absence of self reflection in the media class (not saying anyone in particular) has certainly added to the issue though. Social media has been a glib answer, as has demonizing different demographics in one way or another. Very rarely does self-critique seem to appear

Levels of trust and respect for media figures and journalists are low everywhere though, far beyond social media. I'd even say the default position is distrust these days, social media didn't do that even if it added to it.

Why do so many people seemingly have so little respect for him?

First off it's the immoral necessities of the dirty world of politics to put in the nonce-sympathiser-general and then it's 'how could anyone stay a year or two beyond the usual stint'?

Crufts is still on TV, a lesson to posh people everywhere - if you want to keep the profile make it cute, have dogs do the rowing.

Beatings will continue until morale improves.

I love Labour campaigning tactics. You want something better? You fool, you absolute idiot, shut up and vote for us.

This... isn't politics, it's managed decline. Amazingly people have actually organised politically and done good things before.

Jesus that have me such a flashback. So many hours lost to that game, was great.

Bob Mortimer exists, he took all the goodness that was supposed to go around all of them as they aged I think.

The Kurds are a proud, savvy and enduring people. Them saying no is a fair reflection of that. Starmer saying no on the other hand is a proper insult. If even humanity's most servile and spineless politician is rejecting you then you're really done.

Different Kurds. But the lesson travels well.

The Kurds said no and rightfully so. They'd gain nothing by being US and Israeli cannon fodder.

“the thinker of tender thoughts” by shel silverstein [an illustration depicting a boy growing into a man. as he grows, his hair grows out as flowers. people laugh at him for it and he becomes sad. he starts trimming off the flowers, but as he reaches the last one he stops. he is then depicted with a smile and a flower in his buttonhole on his jacket.]

“the thinker of tender thoughts”
by shel silverstein

No you can't. Don't be absurd. Messi is the same generation as me, I don't take credit for winning the Ballon D'or.

It's mad that no world religion has considered that penguins may actually be God's chosen and favourite creation.