Post #1779097 · Elektrine

@lina unplug trmp by @Pe from germany. english version. video: https://pekrieger.de/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/unplugtrump-text-en.mp4 https://pekrieger.de/unplugtrump

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@kirk@social.coop 2026-04-29 19:05

@lina not quite but a personal fave, I feel it could soundtrack a Luddite rebellion "We've often been told to keep up with the times For our skills are not needed, they've streamlined the job And with sliderule and stopwatch our pride they have robbed" Worker's Song - Dropkick Murphys https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Clj8htWcFho

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@gavin57@toot.wales 2026-04-29 19:05

@lina Armoured Saint has a song called ‘Bubble’ and a song called ‘End of the attention span’ on the same album. I’m going to assume it is big-tech related. 😉

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@maho@social.lol 2026-04-29 19:16

@lina The obvious choice would be Weird Al's 'Amish Paradise'.

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@julianlawson@beige.party 2026-04-29 19:16

@lina Citizens of Tomorrow by Tokyo Police Club (from 2007)

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@fskornia@glammr.us 2026-04-29 19:32

@lina 'Mr. Roboto' by Styx 'Little Boxes' by Pete Seeger (not quite anti-ai, but I feel the sentiment would be in there) 'John Henry' also by Pete Seeger

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@coppercrush@beige.party 2026-04-29 19:35

@lina Vicarious by Tool has aged very well 20 years later. As has their intense privacy and previous longtime refusal to put their music on spotify. Making me want to go back to more of their lyrics to see if there are more tech-critical themes. "Eye on the TV, 'cause tragedy thrills me Whatever flavor it happens to be like Killed by the husband, drowned by the ocean Shot by his own son, she used the poison in his tea Then kissed him goodbye, that's my kind of story It's no fun 'til someone dies Don't look at me like I am a monster Frown out your one face, but with the other Stare like a junkie into the TV Stare like a zombie while the mother holds her child Watches him die, hands to the sky, crying "Why, oh, why?" 'Cause I need to watch things die From a distance Vicariously, I live while the whole world dies You all need it too, don't lie"

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@harrysentonbury@social.linux.pizza 2026-04-29 19:46

@lina good idea! i just typed "fuck AI" into bandcamp. there is loads. heres a #punk one: https://roarcuss.bandcamp.com/track/fuck-ai another #deathcore one: https://arturkutuzov.bandcamp.com/track/fuck-ai-music

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@jpaulgibson@mastodon.ie 2026-04-29 20:01

@lina « Crowd Caffeine » by Sofia Isella

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@bangskij@climatejustice.social 2026-04-29 20:04

@lina Down in the P ark https://youtu.be/u4EMmvP8rWo?is=6aQSVdSMhbqqOlWB

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@bignose@social.chinwag.org 2026-04-29 20:25

We need a songbook to accompany @danmcquillan book https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai @lina

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@platypusparent@aus.social 2026-04-29 20:26

@lina I would like to nominate the term 'anti-human' to describe those that favour LLMs, those don't want preventative health measures or vaccines etc.. it neatly sums up a number of regressive controlling paradigms and beliefs.

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@ratcatcher@beige.party 2026-04-29 20:29

@lina https://lyricstranslate.com/en/steeleye-span-weaver-and-factory-maid-lyrics.html

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@E_net4@hachyderm.io 2026-04-29 20:31

@lina The offline album "Strategies Against Algorithms" by @stephan has a track that's basically a middle finger to AI-generated music. If you are willing, there is still time to send Stephan something made by you and receive a copy: https://strategies.schallundstille.de/

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@JackMexa4@mastodon.social 2026-04-29 20:53

@lina #AntiAISongs

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@varelse@mastodon.com.pl 2026-04-29 20:53

@lina "i used to worry one day they’d have feelings too but these days i’m more worried that that is not true" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TueUWPhnRJQ

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@DoomsdaysCW@kolektiva.social 2026-04-29 21:16

@lina "Deeper Understanding" by #KateBush ! Originally written in 1989 (and updated in 2011)! "As the people here grow colder / I turn to my computer / And spend my evenings with it / Like a friend..." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzqF_gBpS84

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@afreytes@mastodon.gamedev.place 2026-04-29 21:45

@lina I don't think Toop Toop was thinking of "AI" when they made this song. But my headcannon is that it is EXPRESSLY anti-"AI". Specially when it says: Got no more strength to keep up fight Shoot, shoot! Hanging out to hear the ring Toop, toop! And all I get is a machine! Shoot, shoot! (the machine?) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5cn1Lkdlmx0

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@krzyzanowskim@mastodon.social 2026-04-29 22:15

@lina

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@cistronic@mstdn.science 2026-04-29 22:58

@lina "Uprising" by Muse still does it for me: "Interchanging mind control Come, let the revolution take its toll (...) Rise up and take the power back It's time the fat cats had a heart attack You know that their time's coming to an end We have to unify and watch our flag ascend (so come on) They will not force us They will stop degrading us They will not control us We will be victorious" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8KQmps-Sog

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@felipeB@hachyderm.io 2026-04-29 23:01

@lina this trans-punk band from argentina https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LPALwlm_Ej8

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@sleet01@fosstodon.org 2026-04-29 23:20

@lina Thoroughly tongue-in-cheek, but Stan Rogers' "The White Collar Holler" is a song about longing to give up the "hard life" of computer programming: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOzI0KXxTqU

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@Whirl_up_sea@zirk.us 2026-04-30 00:14

@lina “This society's technology Is an aesthetic anthropophagy! To survive this cultural urology You have to study alcohology- Or take your newfangled this and your newfangled that And you can line them up and throw them overboard!” https://youtu.be/dfwmYqSSC-4?si=KNmYPemOXSjghS8E

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@janeadams@datavis.social 2026-04-30 00:32

@lina Rät by Penelope Scott

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@Gustodon@mas.to 2026-04-30 00:36

@lina Two albums to consider, Yoshimi Battles the Killer Robots by the Flaming Lips, and I Robot by The Alan Parsons Project.

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@Meznor@mstdn.social 2026-04-30 01:03

@lina weirdly I associate Kid A with something anti-technology (given the context of the album, electronic nature of it lol) https://youtu.be/MXNbfU0Ww_E also NIN Copy of A https://youtu.be/zirr0LcHdDw (both these songs are probably not specifically about anti-tech but that's how they make me feel)

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