Will you be in NYC on April 30th? Don't miss a live taping of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000! Register at www.eventbrite.com/e/mystery-ai...

I'm excited to get back home and continue doing work with @dairinstitute.bsky.social (and am also looking forward to getting back to my garage and building a lil home lab out of old hardware)

OMW back from #TakeBackTech and am newly inspired by the range of creative and highly active orgs and people who are fighting AI, tech fascism, and data centers in their towns. I do not regret to inform you, following Femi Taiwo, that we will win.

@mediajustice.bsky.social @conmijente.bsky.social

The Huniki Federation: Many Models for Many People Empowering small, community-rooted organizations around the world building task-specific models serving their needs.

vai @dairinstitute.bsky.social

www.dair-institute.org/projects/the...

Sacrifice your job for the glorious AI future How tech CEOs use the threat of job loss to distract from how AI is really used against workers

Perplexity’s CEO is just the latest tech leader to tell the public their jobs will be sacrificed on the altar of the glorious AI future.

It’s a compelling narrative, but it distracts us from the real impact of AI: not to take the human out of the loop, but to take away their power and cut their pay

Today!

Catch the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 livestream at noon PT for a special "All Hell" episode:

twitch.tv/dair_institute

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Tune into the next livestream of Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000:

@emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social will be bringing you a very special round-up of the most recent Fresh "AI" Hell!

Watch live:
Monday, April 20, noon PT,
twitch.tv/dair_institute

Join us for this virtual event on Friday.
Register at X and read more below for details👇🏼
www.eventbrite.com/e/refugees-a...

Refugees and AI Centering the lived experiences of refugees and their power building work in fighting against surveillance technologies.

📅 This Friday, April 17
⏱️ 9AM PT / 6PM CEST
Join @dairinstitute.bsky.social for a conversation on border & surveillance tech covering
• Our latest projects on refugees & AI
• A panel with Respond Crisis Translation
• A workshop to imagine alternative tech futures
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/refugees-a...

The Refugees, Migrants and AI research program from @dairinstitute.bsky.social connects personal narrative with political analysis to reveal how identity, policy, and technology intersect in contested socio-political spaces, such as borders.
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"Too often, conversations about AI and surveillance are framed in abstract terms, as though these systems simply appear out of nowhere. But refugees and migrants are often among the first to experience their violence" @adiod.bsky.social @dairinstitute.bsky.social
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The Liebox That Wears Our Words A call to hold the line against Claudeswallop.

This got a bit more polemical than I expected it to when I started out

Today!

Join the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 livestream to hear @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social chat with very special guest Carmen Maria Machado

noon PT,
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On the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000:

@emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social will be speaking to author Carmen Maria Machado about the use of LLMs in writing, from language arts classes to the publishing industry.

Listen live:
Monday, April 13, noon PT,
twitch.tv/dair_institute

Join us this Saturday👇🏼

Coming up this weekend! Come make art with us ✨

Imagining Possible Futures. Portland. Saturday April 11, 1pm--3pm. 3639 N Mississippi Ave Portland, OR

🔇🔇🔇 Are you in the Portland area? Looking to exercise your imaginative muscles and take a break from doom scrolling?

Join our in person Possible Futures workshop with Data & Society Research Institute.

⏰ This Saturday April 11, 1pm-3pm.

☘️ Register at www.eventbrite.com/e/dair-data-...

Sign up and join us for the launch of our project. ⬇️

As a person that works on digital tools that resist capitalist and imperialist intentions and efforts, this is a must watch.

Refugees and AI Centering the lived experiences of refugees and their power building work in fighting against surveillance technologies.

🔇🔇🔇 On Friday April 17th (9am PDT/5pm CET/7pm EAT), we'll have a virtual event introducing our Refugees, Migrants and AI research program which centers the lived experiences of refugees and migrants and puts power back into their hands🧵

☘️☘️☘️ Register at www.eventbrite.com/e/refugees-a...

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 LIVE! The Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 pod is coming to New York for our first LIVE show! We’ll be at Starr Bar in Brooklyn on April 30.

Join @emilymbender.bsky.social and I in New York for Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000’s first LIVE show! We’re doing a live taping at the Starr Bar in Brooklyn on Thursday, April 30. Space is limited, so get your tickets. All profit goes to @dairinstitute.bsky.social.

www.eventbrite.com/e/mystery-ai...

Reclaiming our Humanity in the Age of AI YouTube video by SXSW

1. Read “Empire of AI” by @karenhao.bsky.social
2. Watch this talk between Karen and @timnitgebru.blacksky.app
3. Follow @dairinstitute.bsky.social, Karen and Timnit for a sober, critical analysis of the “AI” field.

“’Human in the loop’ is necessary, but the process itself makes the loop stultifying, and encourages the human to take themselves out of the loop. That process is straight up dangerous. The temptation to let it rip is always there, and I didn't even have a boss pressuring.“

#genai+writing

DAIR | Blog Home Explore our blog for the latest updates on our projects, team insights, and vision.

look, i am an artist and tech geek on the African continent so I do not include any genAI or "general purpose ai" (lol). we always get the shorter end of the stick here. i do believe that low resource Machine Learning will be needed.

See @dairinstitute.bsky.social
www.dair-institute.org/blog/

NEW: Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 - Data Centers Go Nuclear

In which @mwoluchem.bsky.social and @livgar.bsky.social join @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social to get into data center infrastructure build out and resistance in Pennsylvania.

www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/epis...

Friends, I'll be joining a panel just now. Join us 👇🏽

Today!

Catch the Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 livestream with special guest Niamh McIntyre

Noon, PT

www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

After Intense Lobbying, Carney Allows Gas-Powered Data Centres in Alberta Energy firm pushed federal officials to scale back clean-electricity rules tied to AI sector by Taylor C. Noakes Updated 11:46, Mar. 27, 2026 | Published 6:30, Mar. 27, 2026

he Alberta electricity company Capital Power, which is developing a new, large artificial intelligence data centre in the province powered by natural gas, lobbied the federal Mark Carney government dozens of times in 2025 to eliminate clean-energy regulations, DeSmog has learned. These regulations were subsequently dropped from a fossil fuel accord that the prime minister signed with the Government of Alberta this past November, allowing new, large data centres fuelled by gas turbines to proceed. “We’ve got a new paradigm that allows us to look at growth capital” for Canadian gas-powered AI projects, Capital Power chief executive officer Avik Dey said in reaction to the Carney government announcing it would suspend the regulations.

The term “data centre” appears at least twenty-five times in notes from Capital Power’s interactions with the federal government, while the term “emissions” appears seventeen times, and “clean-energy regulations” and “net zero” appear each at least fourteen times.

The AI boom is itself driving a massive development of gas-power generation: over 1,000 gigawatts worldwide, a quarter of which is in the United States. Though AI data centres can be powered by any form of electricity, the gas industry has marketed gas power as cheap, efficient, and reliable.

What a stunning demonstration of how data centre development is directly and materially boosting fossil fuels. After ferocious lobbying the Carney government caved and killed off environmental rules to allow fossil gas power plants to be built for data centres:

thewalrus.ca/after-intens...

This was the best non fiction I read last year, by far

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Thought gig work couldn’t get more horrifying? Your employer might secretly be the US military. On the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Niamh McIntyre joins @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social to discuss her latest investigation.

Mon, Mar 30, noon PT

www.twitch.tv/dair_institute