danmcquillan

Author of 'Resisting AI - An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence' https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai

Researching technopolitics.

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2026-10-30 07:26:43 UTC

One way or other, AI will implode leaving a financial black hole and 'they' (companies, investors, govts) will try to get us to pay the price, like 2008. Last time we were caught out; the more AI resistance there is this time, the more we'll be ready to say "screw you, no way".

2026-10-29 11:41:08 UTC

A couple of London activities for next week's 'Stop Dirty Data Centres' European days of action: a panel/assembly https://luma.com/ekh7k48b and a data centre walk https://luma.com/a6pwc56f
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2026-10-09 07:57:00 UTC

Announcing our critical philosophy of AI seminars for 2026-2027: ‘Yet Another Machine For Producing Gods’
https://cpct.uk/2026-2027/ Each week pits a philosophical text and a technical document against each other to interrogate presuppositions and provoke radical reflections.
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2026-08-24 10:04:47 UTC

Great denunciation of Thiel et al., but many such critiques of fascism miss the element of mass psychology that carries them to power. Tech is key here, not just for concentrating wealth, but because machinic social relations make us more susceptible to fascist solutionism.
https://techwontsave.us/episode/342_tech_fascism_has_come_for_american_democracy_w_gil_duran
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2026-08-23 08:13:44 UTC

The collective noun for a swarm of North Sea jellyfish is 'sortirdunucleaire'.
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2026-08-20 07:59:43 UTC

Attempts to govern AI fail because it's diagnostic of deeper changes in the order of things https://zenodo.org/records/19457404. Decomputing aims instead to decouple critical services from technocratic collapse. Next week I'll post the preprint 'Beyond AI: Infrastructuring the Common Good'.

2026-08-19 09:55:40 UTC

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2026-08-08 15:47:38 UTC

They've built a screwing-things-up-at-scale-machine which baits us with imitation conversations and still all they can offer by way of explanation is 'hints of AGI' hogwash. None of these companies can be trusted to talk straight or clean up the mess.
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2026-08-08 07:47:02 UTC

Dumping Big Tech isn't just a matter of personal politics or even of tech sovereignty (which is a con anway) it's a matter of survival. Big Tech is the latest flag bearer for civilisation-ending extractivism and all the delusions about progress that keep us addicted to it.

2026-08-04 07:27:27 UTC

Hyperscalers: "We're investing more than $1 trillion in AI capital investment".
Smug AI adopter: "I'm completely in charge, I just use it for brainstorming ideas".
AI isn't a consumer toy, it's a push for systemic transformation that amps up alienation and climate harm.☣️

2026-07-31 15:57:55 UTC

AlphaFold was always bait-and-switch; now Google confirms it. A hyper-narrow bioinformatrics model with actual science bolted on whose guesses can be experimentally checked was never a licence for socially-applied slop at scale, but it's done its job. Effort transferred to LLMs.
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2026-07-28 16:01:38 UTC

Looking forward to a book titled 'Destructively Scan This Book!' in homage to Abbie Hoffman's Steal This Book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steal_This_Book
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2026-07-27 11:22:54 UTC

Where is the university ethics committee that has stepped up to the plate and said "There's no ethical way to use Generative AI"?

2026-06-16 10:40:12 UTC

As media opinion increasingly tries to discredit data centre opposition for being reactionary populism, it's important for campaigns to squash any possible far right infiltration by explicitly declaring themselves as anti-racist and anti-fascist.
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2026-06-15 06:11:03 UTC

Very late notice, but I'll be doing an informal talk and discussion for SPINE (Speculative Inquiry into Ethics) tomorrow on 'AI, Decomputing and its Discontents'. Open registration https://events.teams.microsoft.com/event/efc27df6-736c-42b3-8290-3da2ffbea766@550beeb3-6a3d-4646-a111-f89d0177792e
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2026-05-22 11:31:05 UTC

This seems like an important initiative. 'Archaeologists Resisting Far-Right Appropriation' https://archaeologistsrfa.wordpress.com/
(h/t today's 'Teaching Anti-Fascism' workshop at https://ilcs.sas.ac.uk/news-events/events/teaching-anti-fascism-today-developing-shaping-practices)
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2026-05-20 06:27:15 UTC

Virtual Assembly of the Critical AI Network, 27th-29th May, online. 27 amazing talks + 3 keynotes + plenary discussions. AI/Education, AI/Law+Politics, AI/Environment. Registration & network sign-up: https://cpct.uk/2026/05/09/programme-how-do-we-break-something-that-is-already-broken-virtual-assembly-of-the-critical-ai-network-cpct-27-29-may-2026-online/ Full programme: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vR01V0d5BCO_8k8EPHkIFIxIYRtEX5nHINtB_H3BGYTX3KhzZv7cBF1bZPYSfFzt9K4FMpLRO6xu0wV/pubhtml
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2026-05-18 12:45:52 UTC

Dear Wes Streeting, thank you for trying to force GPs in the UK to use these systems.
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2026-05-07 13:33:36 UTC

I have a 4th position on AI (not sci-fi, not productive, not normal, but diagnostic of systemic collapse). More in 'AI, Decomputing and the Interregnum' - paper https://zenodo.org/records/19457404, video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh0U2o5Ysms
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2026-05-01 06:53:09 UTC

The video is out from my Rogers Chair lecture at Western University in March:
'AI is a Morbid Symptom of the Interregnum' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh0U2o5Ysms
(yes I did use an exploded view of a Gaggia espresso machine as a slide to accompany 'convivial tools')
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2026-04-30 06:23:45 UTC

Thanks to Mél Hogan for this wide ranging conversation about AI in which we cover simulation, shame, system collapse and even some hopeful ways forward.
https://shows.acast.com/the-data-fix/episodes/simulation-with-dan-mcquillan
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2026-04-29 07:15:51 UTC

'AI, Decomputing and the Interregnum' https://zenodo.org/records/19457404
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2026-04-17 09:33:12 UTC

Ever find it hard to get up to speed on a Friday morning? Here's a Burmese punk version of Bella Ciao for you 🏴🔥 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ddm5yNcuHPg

2026-04-06 06:58:37 UTC

Thesis: LLMs enact for everyone a version of what some disabled people have called 'technoableism' - a redemptive forcing to the norm via technical means, even though the underlying idea of 'normal' is an exclusionary, socially-constructed and based ultimately on 'productivity'

2026-04-02 12:45:14 UTC

Boycott Palantir. Boycott AI. Divert all AI investment into democratic planning for more doctors, nurses, care workers and teachers.
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2026-03-25 07:18:22 UTC

I'll be badmouthing AI as part of theis panel on Sunday alongside @nprofile…2v39, @nprofile…5876 , @nprofile…8f3n, @nprofile…69u2 and director Valerie Veatch. Register at https://notaidoc.com/literacy
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2026-03-22 08:07:00 UTC

We don't need sovereign hyperscale data centres because we don't want them or the shoddy tech that depends on them. What we do need is a democratic control of our energy and water resources that orients towards sustainability. Goodbye Thames Water, and take Anthropic with you!

2026-02-16 22:17:50 UTC

https://www.instagram.com/p/DEek40YOoRC/
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2026-02-04 15:06:15 UTC

Today in oxymoronic mission statements: 'Harnessing the Power of AI for Justice' https://www.techandjustice.bsg.ox.ac.uk/

2026-02-03 22:38:51 UTC

Switching from Big Tech to Brit Tech just puts the toxic cocktail of AI in the hands of local oligarchs. AI sovereignty is a solutionist narrative that hides the structural splits in our social & technical arrangements. Resist AI, refuse authoritarianism, reclaim the common good.

2026-02-02 07:10:13 UTC

Belatedly sharing this longer 'Resisting AI' interview with McMaster Uni which ranges across the politics of AI, the failure of the usual remedies, forms of self-organised resistance, moves towards decomputing, and a focus on the role of universities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NvamIMgpio
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2026-01-28 08:54:02 UTC

There's a lot of talk of AI being anti-human, or at the very least anti-Humanities, but this is missing the point. The AI assemblage is fine with both people and pedagogies as long as they are docile. What AI is anti, and what it undermines, is any trendency to refuse or revolt.

2026-01-23 17:59:34 UTC

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@nprofile…n84n I broadly agree - not so much with the rules of chess analogy but with the broader point about undermining any challenge to power. I just don't see how that was converted into an investment pitch for the $$$ spent on developing diffusion models. LLMs can at least make (false!) claims about productive efficiencies and flaunt the idea of AGI.

2026-01-23 12:19:18 UTC

Question: what do AI companies claim that image models are for?
(As opposed to the slop, porn and fascist aesthetics they are actually used for...)

2026-01-14 08:48:44 UTC

While AI narratives present it as heralding some kind of endpoint, whether superintelligence or a more transcendent Singularity, it's more accurate to interpret it as a technology of interregnum; one that both reflects & amplifies destabilisation and authoritarian restructuring.

2026-01-11 07:32:30 UTC

All the noise about alignment from the advocates of 'AI Safety' is completely specious because AI already aligns with the hierarchical dualisms that shape our society at the deepest levels, especially misogyny, racism and a contempt for nature.

2025-12-19 07:56:00 UTC

Automatised metapolitics, coming soon to a uni near you.
'Texas universities deploy AI tools to review and rewrite how some courses discuss race and gender' https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/texas-universities-ai-course-audits/

2025-12-13 13:41:32 UTC

Amazon Prime pulls AI-powered recaps after errors https://www.theverge.com/news/842978/amazon-prime-video-ai-fallout-recap but the NHS continues to pilot an AI discharge summary tool based on Palantir's system (referred to in these minutes as the FDP - Federated Data Platform) https://www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/federated-data-platform-check-and-challenge-group-minutes-and-action-notes-19-september-2025/ 😷💻☠️

2025-12-09 19:40:23 UTC

One of the lessons the Luddites learned the hard way, and the critical AI movement could avoid relearning, is that when it comes to the harmful social impacts of tech the state is NOT a neutral arbiter between private capital and the common people.
💻🔨
Recommended text 👇 'Writings of the Luddites' edited by Kevin Binfield
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2025-12-03 10:50:11 UTC

I wonder if the European Commission's insistence on calling data centres 'AI factories' is a deliberate attempt to encourage Luddism and machine breaking? 🔨
(Think of the alternative social benefits that could be delivered with €2.6 billion...).
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2025-12-03 07:01:03 UTC

In conversation with Andrés Saenz de Sicilia of The Philosopher journal as part of their 'AI and the Digital' series, covering reform, resistance, fascist resonances, (dis)passionate applications, system contamination and path dependency.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXEA05STn1k

2025-12-02 22:41:27 UTC

If you think generative AI should be integrated into the classroom then you also think management consultancies should determine the future for higher education. Both are ethics-free forms of machinic optimisation based on reductive abstractions that strip out important context and relationships.

2025-12-01 12:50:29 UTC

'Health minister says UK should cash in on NHS patient data - Zubir Ahmed says new central service for medical datasets should be leveraged for ‘benefit of Treasury coffers'' https://www.ft.com/content/0531e76b-a800-450f-8a10-ac5ada1b2695 - the State emulating social media's surveillance-to-monetisation pipeline.
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2025-11-21 14:47:11 UTC

The calls to action from the parents:
1. Ban AI tools into the classroom, protect students and teachers from de-skilling
2. Resist not only direct financial relationships or contracts with AI providers, but any training they might offer.
https://neighborhoodview.org/2025/11/13/digital-future-or-risk-to-critical-thinking-skills-5-takeaways-as-malden-drafts-ai-strategy-for-schools/ ✊

2025-11-20 18:42:45 UTC

"Dr McQuillan said the dangers of relying on education to counter the malign use of AI were obvious in the problems being encountered by the education sector [due to AI]" https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/11/19/ai-likely-to-be-used-to-organise-and-undermine-next-general-election-committee-hears/

2025-11-20 17:14:32 UTC

TFW your publisher sends you an email encouraging you to opt-in to licensing your work to AI developers, and when the book in question is titled 'Resisting AI: An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence'🤦‍♂️

2025-11-20 07:51:52 UTC

My talk for yesterday's AI Policy Lab event: 'From AI Policy To Decomputing' https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDOU-Yznbrw
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2025-10-30 07:54:28 UTC

On Monday, I'll be talking with Andrés Saenz de Sicilia of The Philosopher magazine about why it's more important than ever to resist AI and how we can develop a convivial technopolitics. Register for free at https://www.thephilosopher1923.org/events/ai-and-the-digital%3A-resisting-ai-
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2025-10-21 13:39:02 UTC

'Altman spelled out OpenAI’s “audacious long-term goal”: to build... a staggering 250 gigawatts of capacity by 2033' https://fortune.com/2025/09/25/i-met-sam-altman-in-texas-hes-turning-the-race-for-ai-into-a-gigawatt-arms-race/ - AI’s increasingly brazen energy demands revitalise burning as much energy as possible in the service of nationalist expansionism.
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2025-10-16 21:50:12 UTC

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2025-10-08 20:21:05 UTC

I got into a bit of argy-bargy on the Burning Platforms podcast, but tried to hold the line on the need to resist AI across the board: "Bursting Bubbles with Dan McQuillan" https://burningplatforms.podbean.com/e/bursting-bubbles-with-dan-mcquiggan/

2025-10-07 20:10:31 UTC

As one of the Brits sold down the river by a Labour government after being brutally beaten, tortured and disappeared by Italian police in Genoa in 2001, I am entirely unsurprised by this vindictive servility. Solidarity to the Flotilla detainees ✊
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2025-06-19 11:04:49 UTC

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@nprofile…d6h6 I spent a short amount of time around a group of Googlers years ago, when they were doing some pro bono help with a community tech hack event in Sarajevo; they had an intense group-think vibe, a shared mantra ('how do we make this project scale?') and a tightly-parameterised emotional range (always positive, enthisastic but not too much).

2025-06-19 10:41:59 UTC

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@nprofile…d6h6 probably depends on what happens to their brain while at Google

2025-06-10 09:33:20 UTC

Tomorrow, in-person and online: 'The role of the university is to resist AI'. Registration via https://gold-ac-uk.zoom.us/meeting/register/_i7utl7wRR2tlWMea4j6fQ#/registration
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2025-06-09 16:33:33 UTC

The Anti-Dystopian's Guide to GenAI for students & educators - What is GenAI, Why is it Bad, and How Can Higher Education Resist It?' https://alinautrata.substack.com/p/the-anti-dystopians-guide-to-genai This guide from Alina Utrata is 🔥🔥🔥

2025-06-05 13:31:23 UTC

Call for Papers - The Politics of AI: Governance, Resistance, Alternatives https://www.criticalinfralab.net/preview/?id=1164
We invite proposals for our symposium that offer critical perspectives on AI & environment, AI & society, and the political economy of AI. Please share widely!

2025-06-02 16:13:39 UTC

'll be giving an Illich-informed talk on Wed 11th June 16:00 UK time where I'll be proposing that the role of the university is to resist AI. There'll be plenty of time for discussion! Registration via https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vR-fEiqCp9p7SbhnRkIMnYC3dghQ5HobilrRugycVYWxNk2aw7CK624zqCbzZsYPZqVgvI_MIqlU8SN/pub (scroll down) - more details https://danmcquillan.org/cpct_abstract.html
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2025-05-29 10:02:51 UTC

[--now with URL--]
'Knit, code, resist - Feminist performative practices of non-fascist living with AI and law. Exploring relations between coding as women’s knitted secret coded messages in the resistance movements during World War II, and everyday resistance to contemporary forms of surveillance through knitted anti-surveillance knitwear". https://matildaarvidsson.com/knit-code-resist/
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2025-05-29 09:28:10 UTC

'Knit, code, resist - Feminist performative practices of non-fascist living with AI and law. Exploring relations between coding as women’s knitted secret coded messages in the resistance movements during World War II, and everyday resistance to contemporary forms of surveillance through knitted anti-surveillance knitwear".
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2025-05-25 15:23:48 UTC

UK Fraud Bill #DWPdoesDOGE
- covert mass surveillance of bank accounts
- DWP can automatically withdraw £
- banks not allowed to inform customers
- 75% of cases are false positives
- DWP algos are biased
- open door to automated injustice at scale
https://archive.ph/y3zQZ
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2025-05-23 11:29:48 UTC

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@nprofile…q54u damn I didn't know that

2025-05-23 06:33:06 UTC

https://danmcquillan.org/cpct_abstract.html
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2025-05-20 17:24:54 UTC

Interesting stuff. "The new Foundation 'Expectation Fail' has just started their first call for projects against Tech Fascism. 10 "scores against tech fascism" can get 1500-7000 EUR each to work on this sadly very current topic". Details here: https://lnkd.in/eRmx58vK
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2025-05-19 07:19:49 UTC

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@nprofile…e5sk
- Why can't AI actually replace workers?
- Why won't AI save healthcare or education?
- Why is AI bad at productive things but good at destructive things?
FYI I had the chance to debate with Anthropic reps a couple of weeks ago and created this set of "Questions for Anthropic (or any other LLM-pusher)" https://danmcquillan.org/questions_for_anthropic.html

2025-05-16 10:59:18 UTC

Terrifying. "Louis Mosley, the head of Palantir UK, met Keir Starmer that day. “You could see in his eyes that he gets it - the will is there”". Also admits they recruit sociopaths if they're 'brilliant'. NB. Mosley is the grandson of Oswald Mosley. https://www.politicshome.com/news/article/palantir-boss-interview-keir-starmer-gets-ai

2025-05-13 07:20:01 UTC

"UK minister asks Big Tech to help create ‘prison outside prison’ for criminals" https://archive.ph/dJvNH#selection-1584.0-1584.1
- UK minister making it unintentionally clear that big tech is already carceral by making it impossible for any of us to satisfy our needs without surveillance & control
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2025-05-05 13:25:10 UTC

'Questions for Anthropic (or any other LLM-pusher)'. Sharing the questions I prepared for a panel about Claude in education, in case they're useful to anyone else resisting the narrative of AI inevitability https://danmcquillan.org/questions_for_anthropic.html
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2025-04-23 15:11:04 UTC

Sneak peak of my slides for tomorrow's talk on ‘Responsible AI Means Decomputing’
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1IHwiHOs-cEF6210YKMz0dcZ6B8UeHnqjT_wZFGGJvBo/edit?usp=sharing
[4pm UK time online https://edin.ac/40zUOao]
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2025-04-23 14:12:47 UTC

Happening tomorrow.
📅 Thu 24 Apr
⏰ 4 – 5pm
📍 Online via Zoom
🎟 https://edin.ac/40zUOao
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2025-04-17 08:30:38 UTC

Just a reminder that the corporation which proudly promotes its barely-concealed white supremacy on giant posters in the USA is the same company awarded £330m to run the NHS Federated Data Platform #PalantirOut
https://x.com/PalantirTech/status/1911766217129406544
https://www.england.nhs.uk/digitaltechnology/nhs-federated-data-platform/fdp-faqs/
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2025-04-16 11:11:43 UTC

The nonsense about 'agentic AI' is a diversion from the fact that AI has always been about removing agency from the rest of us.

2025-04-15 08:49:03 UTC

The Unstitching Datafication series starts tomorrow with Gavin Mueller's talk on 'Luddite Futures', and closes in July with mine on 'Decomputing as Resistance'. Eight great sessions on deconstructing and resisting today's tech supremacism https://www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/de/unstitching-datafication/
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2025-04-10 08:56:58 UTC

This sack of shit has taken the critique from 'Resisting AI' and turned it into a sales pitch: 'fascistic solutionism' ☑️ , 'constituent power' ☑️, 'states of exception' ☑️, necropolitics ☑️ -
"ICE director envisions Amazon-like mass deportation system: ‘Prime, but with human beings’ "
https://michiganadvance.com/2025/04/09/ice-director-envisions-amazon-like-mass-deportation-system-prime-but-with-human-beings/

2025-04-09 12:54:05 UTC

Going to be chatting 'decomputing' at an online BRAID seminar. All welcome!
📅 Thu 24 Apr
⏰ 4 – 5pm
📍 Online via Zoom
🎟 https://edin.ac/40zUOao
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2025-04-09 06:27:31 UTC

Data centre power consumption shouldn't be measured in megawatt hours but in future-power-cut-hours

2025-04-02 12:34:26 UTC

Radical chat about the necropolitics of AI + great ambient, dub & techno tracks. Big thanks to Philip Di Salvo for hosting our conversation on Radio Raheem. https://www.radioraheem.it/overnight/overnight-77-the-necropolitics-of-ai/
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2025-03-30 11:20:13 UTC

Non-critical embrace of LLM 'reasoning' models is the scholasticism of idiots.

2025-03-27 15:29:32 UTC

Happy to be quoted in 'Is AI Worth It? A Growing Number of Artiﬁcial Intelligence Skeptics Is Raising Doubts About a Utopian Future' https://archive.ph/gjmCY. The mag is delivered to SF's most exclusive neighborhoods - hope some VC chokes on their Chai Latte while reading it.
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2025-03-24 07:05:42 UTC

anti-fascism and AI... ('Resisting AI' p133 https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai)
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2025-03-20 10:39:14 UTC

Australian government: 'AI worse than humans in every way at summarising information'. https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/09/03/ai-worse-summarising-information-humans-government-trial/
UK government: 'Great, we'll use it to match medical conditions for Employment and Support Allowance claims!': https://www.gov.uk/algorithmic-transparency-records/dwp-employment-and-support-allowance-online-medical-matching#detailed-description
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2025-03-19 11:45:47 UTC

There's no point in wasting any more time on talk about 'governing AI'. AI (neural networks and above) are socially toxic and should be abolished. AI hype has, however, re-upped the real & urgent need for the social governance of tech, and for a technopolitics of social change.

2025-03-18 14:16:59 UTC

Bring on the AI? "It’s not hard to see how AI’s powers of discrimination and its facility for creating states of exception align with this kind of political project, one where the end goal of social exclusion is some form of eugenics" 'Resisting AI' p98
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2025-03-17 11:34:06 UTC

AI weaponisation is dangerous not because AI is all-powerful but exactly because AI is a bit crap. It's doesn't deliver for socially useful production but it's great for violent destruction where collateral damage (false positives/confabulation) is seen as a bonus.

2025-02-28 12:11:51 UTC

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@nprofile…d6h6 mind you, 1936 seems pretty close to 'spirit of the times' https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/pointed-ads-trolling-elon-musk-appear-at-london-bus-stop-390196/

2025-02-19 19:54:40 UTC

People in public services or NGOs who are relentlessly pro-AI in the face of empirical evidence to the contrary remind me of MAHA (Make America Healthy Again) types - convinced they've found the magic cure to heal everything and won't hear any 'downer' arguments to the contrary.

2025-02-19 09:22:13 UTC

The problem is that this isn't confined to LinkedIn-slop. Musk's DOGE minions are doing exactly the same thing inside federal agencies. AI won't give a useful answer to a factual question, but it'll still give an answer no matter how conspiratorial or delusional the question is.
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2025-02-18 22:09:12 UTC

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@nprofile…89hy
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2025-02-18 11:36:47 UTC

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@nprofile…d6h6 fist bump 🤜 🤛 on the 'i fucking told you so'

2025-02-11 15:27:43 UTC

If you needed any proof that 'public interest AI' is yet another Trojan Horse for big tech and liberal technocracy, it's this announcement.
https://fortune.com/2025/02/10/france-tech-companies-and-philanthropies-back-400-million-foundation-to-support-public-interest-ai/

2025-02-09 15:39:27 UTC

Diversifying and Decolonising the University Episode 20: Resisting AI, Part 2 with Dan McQuillan. Now the positive pathway. "Less statistical inference More mutual care". #feminism, #ClimateChange, #TechnoFascism, #AI #generativeAI #Decolonise https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/diversifyingherts/episodes/Episode-20-Resisting-AI--Part-2-with-Dan-McQuillan-e2ufc9q
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2025-02-09 15:32:49 UTC

Diversifying and Decolonising the University Episode 20: Resisting AI, Part 1 with Dan McQuillan. #ResistingAI #AI #Decolonise #Education #NeoColonialism https://creators.spotify.com/pod/show/diversifyingherts/episodes/Episode-19-Resisting-AI--Part-1-with-Dan-McQuillan-e2u6pdm
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2025-02-08 10:23:00 UTC

People need to learn to apply this to AI.
"My dear, when people show you who they are, why don’t you believe them? Why must you be shown 29 times before you can see who they really are? Why can’t you get it the first time?" - Maya Angelou

2025-02-07 15:54:04 UTC

Very much looking forward to being in conversation with Seeta Peña Gangadharan about ideas of refusal and resistance. "Time for Refusal? The politics of resistance against AI".
All welcome!
- Thursday 27th Feb at Goldsmiths, room RHB 2014, https://www.gold.ac.uk/find-us/, https://www.gold.ac.uk/campus-map/rhb-room-finder/?room=CHESTERMAN
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2025-02-04 23:04:56 UTC

When I wrote 'Resisting AI - An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence' my publisher was told by distributors in the USA they wouldn't carry it because of the 'antifa' in the title. Seems ironic, given the takeover of their country by actual technofascism.

2025-02-02 08:21:18 UTC

'CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research across all science and medicine journals. Banned terms must be scrubbed' https://insidemedicine.substack.com/p/breaking-news-cdc-orders-mass-retraction

2025-01-30 14:54:15 UTC

Don't talk to me about tech-literacy unless you're going to talk about fascism-literacy at the same time.

2025-01-30 09:53:06 UTC

Hey ChatGPT: How should elderly people stay warm when there are power cuts due to data centres overloading the electricity grid?
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2025-01-24 15:24:23 UTC

I warned 'AI will create a thousand Post Office scandals' https://www.computerweekly.com/opinion/AI-will-create-a-thousand-Post-Office-scandals and the UK gov want to prove it. The Fraud, Error and Recovery Bill is a 'Robodebt' scandal in the making, and the Data (Use and Access) Bill will give AI's ADM mistakes incontestable authority.

2025-01-20 07:46:19 UTC

Today the Nerd Reich (as Gil Duran names it) comes to power in Trump's wake. In 'Resisting AI - An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence' https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai I wrote about forms of resistance to technofascistic solutionism. Other worlds are still possible ✊
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