Why the #AI backlash has turned violent · & why it's probably only going to get worse from here. @brianmerchant
👉🏻 https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/why-the-ai-backlash-has-turned-violent
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#AMRO26 · Becoming Unreadable. 13th – 16th May 2026 · Festival dedicated to Art, Hacktivism and Open Culture. @servus
👉🏻 https://radical-openness.org/index.php/en
👉🏻 https://radical-openness.org/index.php/en
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This citizen-run collaborative mapping proj. tracks & visualizes proposed data center projects & related development activity in the United States.
👉🏻 https://trackdatacenters.com/
👉🏻 https://trackdatacenters.com/
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A new report published Tues. finds that a significant share of employees are actively trying to sabotage their company’s AI rollout.
👉🏻 https://fortune.com/2026/04/08/gen-z-workers-sabotage-ai-rollout-backlash/
👉🏻 https://fortune.com/2026/04/08/gen-z-workers-sabotage-ai-rollout-backlash/
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collapse: data.models.worlds. What role does technology play in th intensifying state of crisis shaping our world?
👉🏻 https://we-make-money-not-art.com/collapse-data-models-worlds-what-role-does-technology-play-in-the-intensifying-state-of-crisis-shaping-our-world/
👉🏻 https://we-make-money-not-art.com/collapse-data-models-worlds-what-role-does-technology-play-in-the-intensifying-state-of-crisis-shaping-our-world/
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Parasite Art · as a Subversive Form of Resistance That Offers Direct Tactics in Times of Missing Emancipatory Alternatives.
👉🏻 https://revistas.ucp.pt/index.php/jsta/article/view/17911
👉🏻 https://revistas.ucp.pt/index.php/jsta/article/view/17911
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This article highlights forms of resistance that challenge corporate-state control over internet monopolies. @Escuderoandaluz
👉🏻 https://revistas.ucp.pt/index.php/jsta/article/view/17905
👉🏻 https://revistas.ucp.pt/index.php/jsta/article/view/17905
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"Refugees & #AI" · Centering the lived experiences of refugees & their power building work in fighting against surveillance technologies.
👉🏻 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/refugees-and-ai-tickets-1986369914887
👉🏻 https://www.eventbrite.com/e/refugees-and-ai-tickets-1986369914887
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Sydney councils fear new datacentres could cause blackouts, block housing & affect locals’ health. #AI
👉🏻 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/04/sydney-councils-fear-new-datacentres-could-cause-blackouts-block-housing-and-affect-locals-health
👉🏻 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/apr/04/sydney-councils-fear-new-datacentres-could-cause-blackouts-block-housing-and-affect-locals-health
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Hyperscale · The Ambition & Excess of Big Tech's Data Empires. How the data-center boom is pushing our planet past its breaking point. @parismarx
👉🏻 https://bookshop.org/p/books/hyperscale-the-ambition-and-excess-of-big-tech-s-data-empires-paris-marx/bef8c026f7d016e2?ean=9798217048526&next=t&next=t&affiliate=18331&ref=disconnect.blog
👉🏻 https://bookshop.org/p/books/hyperscale-the-ambition-and-excess-of-big-tech-s-data-empires-paris-marx/bef8c026f7d016e2?ean=9798217048526&next=t&next=t&affiliate=18331&ref=disconnect.blog
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April 2022 · Towards Democratic #Technologies: Six fragmented points of departure for a collaborative movement of engineers, artists & users. @daniploeger
👉🏻 https://cryptpad.fr/file/#/2/file/q-1k1sYpXSDpUGL2rY4ZFAGe/
👉🏻 https://cryptpad.fr/file/#/2/file/q-1k1sYpXSDpUGL2rY4ZFAGe/
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Don’t show me your AI. It is rude! · A curated list of approaches, projects, & initiatives addressing the challenges posed by Gen AI. @info_activism
👉🏻 https://www.tacticaltech.org/news/insights/Don%E2%80%99t-show-me-your-AI./
👉🏻 https://www.tacticaltech.org/news/insights/Don%E2%80%99t-show-me-your-AI./
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Raging Against the Machine · A Popular School Against AI will address the problems, possibilities, & politics that haunt our understanding of #AI.
👉🏻 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn9h4vhwpqdTT0-zMCmfdpV2OmQZDGLKO
👉🏻 https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLn9h4vhwpqdTT0-zMCmfdpV2OmQZDGLKO
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AI data centres can warm surrounding areas by up to 9.1 °C · Hundreds of millions of people live close enough to data centres used to power #AI ..
👉🏻 https://archive.is/20260329173023/https://www.newscientist.com/article/2521256-ai-data-centres-can-warm-surrounding-areas-by-up-to-9-1c/
👉🏻 https://archive.is/20260329173023/https://www.newscientist.com/article/2521256-ai-data-centres-can-warm-surrounding-areas-by-up-to-9-1c/
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#AI's #aesthetics of failure · On the demise of #Sora and our enduring revulsion to AI slop. @brianmerchant
👉🏻 https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ais-aesthetics-of-failure
👉🏻 https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/ais-aesthetics-of-failure
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Kentucky woman rejects $26M offer from a “major artificial intelligence company” to turn her farmland into a data center.
👉🏻 https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/24/kentucky-woman-rejects-26-million-offer-to-turn-her-farm-into-a-data-center/
👉🏻 https://techcrunch.com/2026/03/24/kentucky-woman-rejects-26-million-offer-to-turn-her-farm-into-a-data-center/
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@dresstokilt @tobadzistsini
Just to clarify, there’s a character limit on alt text, so it couldn’t fit the full text from the image there.
The full alt text is shared by @Aline_Fuller here: https://kolektiva.social/@Aline_Fuller/116295063165409755
Just to clarify, there’s a character limit on alt text, so it couldn’t fit the full text from the image there.
The full alt text is shared by @Aline_Fuller here: https://kolektiva.social/@Aline_Fuller/116295063165409755
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The Luddite Club of Oberlin College · Oberlin #Luddites Reject “Year of AI Exploration” Adopted by School. Image credit: @loriemerson@post.lurk.org
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Call for Projects · @Error417 is looking fr projects that reject the longing for a mythic “old internet” & confront the politics of net nostalgia head-on.
👉🏻 https://error417.expectation.fail/406/netstalgia-not-acceptable/open-call
👉🏻 https://error417.expectation.fail/406/netstalgia-not-acceptable/open-call
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This workshop examines machinations fostering & reshaping global power dynamics, embodied militarisation, AI, warfare, & resistance.
👉🏻 https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/MTLBX8/
👉🏻 https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/MTLBX8/
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"SLOW LLM" is a browser extension and DNS service that makes LLMs appear to run very slowly. It works with #ChatGPT and #Claude. @samlavigne
👉🏻 https://slowllm.lav.io/
👉🏻 https://slowllm.lav.io/
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The Case for #Palestine at the Venice Biennale · 'We are calling on participants in the Venice Biennale to demand that the #Biennale does not give cover to genocide.'
👉🏻 https://hyperallergic.com/the-case-for-boycotting-the-2026-venice-biennale/
👉🏻 https://hyperallergic.com/the-case-for-boycotting-the-2026-venice-biennale/
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The Ends of AI · Sycophancy and psychosis. "AI under fascist capitalism remakes the entire world into Epstein’s island." @mel_hogan
👉🏻 https://disjunctionsmag.com/articles/ends-of-ai/
👉🏻 https://disjunctionsmag.com/articles/ends-of-ai/
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@eibart
I’d genuinely appreciate help improving the alt-text rather than just being told it’s an affront. I’ve already gone ahead and edited the post, but if you have suggestions for a better description, I’m happy to update it.
I’d genuinely appreciate help improving the alt-text rather than just being told it’s an affront. I’ve already gone ahead and edited the post, but if you have suggestions for a better description, I’m happy to update it.
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After The Algorithm · Mar. 20-29. What does artificial «intelligence» mean for your job, your creativity, your community?
👉🏻 https://atafestival.io/
👉🏻 https://atafestival.io/
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Algorithmic Dehumanization: Lessons from the Use of AI in the Gaza War · Execution of necropolitical power over life and death. @berlinergazette
👉🏻 https://berlinergazette.de/algorithmic-dehumanization-lessons-from-the-use-of-ai-in-the-gaza-war/
👉🏻 https://berlinergazette.de/algorithmic-dehumanization-lessons-from-the-use-of-ai-in-the-gaza-war/
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Why we fear AI: On the Interpretation of Nightmares. Truly understanding th potential impacts of AI means confronting capitalism & class, power & exploitation ..
👉🏻 https://www.commonnotions.org/why-we-fear-ai
👉🏻 https://www.commonnotions.org/why-we-fear-ai
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An excellent CONTRIBUTING.md example with strict no-LLM policies. @algernon
👉🏻 https://git.madhouse-project.org/iocaine/iocaine/pulls/127/files
👉🏻 https://git.madhouse-project.org/iocaine/iocaine/pulls/127/files
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Google is considering building a datacenter in Nebraska that could require more than 3 times the amount of power the entire city of Lincoln uses at peak demand ..
👉🏻 https://flatwaterfreepress.org/google-proposes-nebraska-data-center-requiring-more-power-than-all-of-lincoln/
👉🏻 https://flatwaterfreepress.org/google-proposes-nebraska-data-center-requiring-more-power-than-all-of-lincoln/
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Call for participation! Luddite Camp 2026 · 14-16 Aug. A small weekend gathering for #Luddites, tech critics, & others who demand a human-centred way of living.
👉🏻 https://camp.perfectlives.eu/
👉🏻 https://camp.perfectlives.eu/
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Eyes on AI is a game that helps you understand how AI-powered surveillance impacts your life and community.
👉🏻 https://eyeson-ai.org/
👉🏻 https://eyeson-ai.org/
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"Death by GPS" · Examines how biases in #automation impact relationships between individuals, labor, & social structures, resulting in new forms of exploitation.
👉🏻 https://www.salvatore-vitale.com/#/project/death-by-gps
👉🏻 https://www.salvatore-vitale.com/#/project/death-by-gps
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AI has already been used to kill people .. OpenAI and Microsoft supplied Israel with AI models to track and kill people in Gaza which led to increased civilian deaths.
👉🏻 https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-ai-weapons-430f6f15aab420806163558732726ad9
👉🏻 https://apnews.com/article/israel-palestinians-ai-weapons-430f6f15aab420806163558732726ad9
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#US data centers face slew of problems amid grassroots protests against #AI · New constructions delayed or cancelled ..
👉🏻 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/24/datacenters-ai-construction
👉🏻 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2026/feb/24/datacenters-ai-construction
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Six protocols for permacomputational self-defense against laborious #computing · A tactical toolbox against “artificial intelligence”, using only paper & pen. @NbYr
👉🏻 https://wiki.rybn.org/doku.php?id=six_protocols_for_permacomputational_self-defense_against_laborious_computing
👉🏻 https://wiki.rybn.org/doku.php?id=six_protocols_for_permacomputational_self-defense_against_laborious_computing
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Qwen Stefani Against Techfascism · Instructions for Simple #Sabotage · A handbook of resistance. @mediengruppe_bitnik
👉🏻 https://wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.bitnik.org/q
👉🏻 https://wwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww.bitnik.org/q
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Open Source Data Center Atlas · Explore current and future projections of data center locations and supporting infrastructure.
👉🏻 https://im3.pnnl.gov/datacenter-atlas
👉🏻 https://im3.pnnl.gov/datacenter-atlas
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"too dirty to be trained" · Make your data too dirty for '#AI'. Can we opt out from being trained by becoming unqualified? @jwn
👉🏻 https://too-dirty-to-be-trained.net
👉🏻 https://too-dirty-to-be-trained.net
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"AI MUST DIE" · is a short zine that presents critical perspectives on the way that AI is talked about, governed, and owned in 2025.
👉🏻 https://www.aimustdie.info/
👉🏻 https://www.aimustdie.info/
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[..] The fall of the fiber optic control, power and paranoia is a #map that shows all the documented cuts made in the Internet’s undersea cables. @Escuderoandaluz
👉🏻 https://escuderoandaluz.com/2025/08/10/the-fall-of-the-fiber-optic-control-power-and-paranoia/
👉🏻 https://escuderoandaluz.com/2025/08/10/the-fall-of-the-fiber-optic-control-power-and-paranoia/
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'#HalluciGen' · This #article aims documents how to set up the content management system WordPress to feed #AI scrapers with nonsensical noise. @mplanitzer
👉🏻 https://carrier-bag.net/hallucigen-a-practical-implementation-to-defend-from-ai-scrapers/
👉🏻 https://carrier-bag.net/hallucigen-a-practical-implementation-to-defend-from-ai-scrapers/
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#Rojava Center for Democratic Technologies · A fluid group of #artists and engineers working in the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. @daniploeger
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Practising critical responses to disrupted futures · Critical Signals explores practical & visionary responses to an era of collapses ..
👉🏻 https://criticalsignals.nz/
👉🏻 https://criticalsignals.nz/
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The weaponization of Waymo .. How protestors turned torched Waymos into icons of the anti-ICE demonstrations. @brianmerchant
👉🏻 https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-weaponization-of-waymo
👉🏻 https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-weaponization-of-waymo
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Fuck Starlink 🖕🛰️ Our environment, our climate & our sky are common goods. They are too precious to be privatized ..
👉🏻 https://fuckstarlink.org/
👉🏻 https://fuckstarlink.org/
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The deadliest poison known to AI · iocaine does not try to slow crawlers. iocaine is purely about generating garbage.
👉🏻 https://git.madhouse-project.org/algernon/iocaine
👉🏻 https://git.madhouse-project.org/algernon/iocaine
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