WTAF

Gen AI is developed and ran by eugenicist freaks and Epstein class creeps (and, yes, Anthropic is deeply enmeshed in Palantir and Peter Thiel's fuckery)

Boycott. I cannot see how it is controversial.

"I've got an idea!" On pluralism and resisting deskilling A ramble around plural knowledges, data and AI, inspired by the wisdom from friends and colleagues in Nairobi and watching The Pitt. Plus! a random picture of an elephant

Taking slow media to a new level, I've just sent a new edition of my newsletter, only 364 days since the last one buttondown.com/justenoughin...

Jesus, the privilege...

I don't think calling out the danger of a company that is already aiding the mechanised slaughter of civilians in Iran, Lebanon and Palestine is pathetic.

Why is every BBC news bulletin running the gas/electricity decoupling end with a white guy explaining how we need to produce more North Sea oil and gas "or else we will just have to import it from abroad" while studiously omitting the fact that North Sea oil and gas is sold on the global market?

It’s a free country (until we normalise technofascists like Palantir and hand them control of our lives)

I refuse to obey in advance

I don’t think they do - they don’t have mine. I will do all of these things but I also commit to punching technofascists in the face

My question: who gave this eugenicist, Nazi-curious, women-hating freak the permission to decide for all of us which is which?

And how shall we disabuse him of this entitlement?

Eugenicist creeps and Epstein class freaks, for one

‘Technofascism’: Critics accuse Palantir of pushing AI war doctrine Palantir CEO Alexander Karp's book The Technological Republic advocates for Western 'hard power ... built on software'.

Ima go ahead and say that we didn’t punch anywhere near enough Nazis in 2016

www.aljazeera.com/amp/news/202...

Quarter of a million people could lose job by middle of 2027 as UK ‘flirts with recession’, analysis says Twin reports from top accounting firms underline scale of economic threat as Iran war shatters business confidence

A quarter of a million jobs loss and ANOTHER FUCKING RECESSION.

This one is caused by Israel and Trump. Remember that. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

An awful lot of people in big tech have never been punched in the face. The best time to rectify that was 20 years ago. The next best time is now

More than 500 arrests at Palestine Action demonstration Event organisers said it would show the

Not saying the Epstein contact book isn’t a problem but please don’t forget that this government is continuing to arrest those who protest peacefully against a genocide

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Trump’s antipathy for Pope may have roots in childhood Protestant church Manhattan church led by Norman Vincent Peale was known for opposing presidency of JFK – and Catholics in general

Can we fucked STOP with this???

Why are even supposedly sensible outlets trying to sane wash this syphilitic toddler?

He says and does things because he is an entitled, moronic narcissist.

Stop trying to infer ideology from idiocy.

www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

Why Britain’s far-right celebrates a saint revered in Palestine Hundreds of far-right “Britain First” supporters marched in the streets of Manchester to celebrate Saint George.

(Because they are card carrying morons)

aje.news/atd4yf

I have to say I am quite stunned at how many people I had assumed to be emotionally intelligent and morally perspect, who use Claude daily despite it assisting the mechanised slaughter of Iranian and Lebanese civilians and amassing huge power in the hands of the US and Israeli militaries

With the news that Anthropic is now partnering with Peter Thiel, here’s my non-exhaustive list of why you really shouldn’t dabble in this shit

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

Yup foundersfund.com/company/pers...

Identity verification on Claude | Claude Help Center

Hi, one for the "I switched to Claude" virtuous, here.

Anthropic will start requiring its Claude users to verify identify via their image and personal details. That data will be processed by Persona.

Persona is funded by Peter Thiel. support.claude.com/en/articles/...

These firms are ran by the same people who brought us (unexhaustively): The Metaverse, NFTs, trips to Mars, robot butlers, self-driving cars, Google glass, memecoin, VR meetings etc etc

Where is the credulity credit coming from? Dodgy AF

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.

Data centre delays threaten to choke AI expansion Almost 40% of such builds in US risk hold-ups, including projects tied to Microsoft and OpenAI

This is perhaps the biggest lie told by the griftiest industry in history: we are investing hundreds of billions in infrastructure and compute that will never exist.

So where is the money going? Regulators surely now have to doubt if it’s even real

giftarticle.ft.com/giftarticle/...

Opinion | Don’t Use A.I. to Do This

Since I can’t say it better than Colson Whitehead, I won’t attempt to:

“Why is it that the most vocal cheerleaders of generative A.I. are always the hackiest motherfuckers around?”

www.nytimes.com/2026/04/15/o...

OpenAI, Oracle, SoftBank To Invest $400bn In Five AI Data Centres OpenAI, Oracle and SoftBank give first details on five 'Stargate' AI data centre projects across US, as analysts call AI bubble into question

I want you to listen to this: Last year companies committed to spend significantly more constructing data centres than they did on building family homes.

www.silicon.co.uk/cloud/ai/ope...

Hi this is evidence of premeditated war crimes and crimes against humanity and it is legally (to say nothing of morally or how history will just our actions) incumbent on everyone to do all they can to ensure our governments stop enabling this

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

Not saying things like war and AI and inflation aren't really important, but...

Our civilisation-sustaining habitat is at risk of collapse, and every kilogram of carbon we choose to add to the atmosphere makes that collapse more likely

www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Critical Atlantic current significantly more likely to collapse than thought Scientists say finding is ‘very concerning’ as collapse would be catastrophic for Europe, Africa and the Americas

Not that things such as war and AI aren't extremely important etc but:

Habitable northern hemisphere ecosystem support as we know it may soon collapse, and every gram of CO2 we add to the atmosphere makes that more likely to happen www.theguardian.com/environment/...

If you paid even a penny in federal income tax last year, you paid more than:

Tesla
Southwest
Disney
Live Nation
HP
United
PayPal
CVS Health
Palantir
Citigroup
PG&E
3M

That's right. They paid $0 in federal income tax.

It's time for big corporations to pay their fair share.

$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds Exclusive: Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms set to make extra $234bn by end of 2026

#BREAKING: $30 million an hour.

That’s how much additional profit the largest fossil fuels companies made from production in March.

With oil at $100/bbl they could stand to profit an extra $234 billion this year

Oil and gas firms are having a SUPERB war
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Middle East War Could Cost $58B in Energy Asset Repairs: Rystad Report Rystad Energy estimates Middle East war damage to energy infrastructure at up to $58B, with $50B for oil & gas facilities. Global investment...

I am not normally on the side of the oil and gas producers, but they would be legally within their rights to claim compensation for this from the US and Israel www.globalbankingandfinance.com/middle-east-...