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Had the best time at #cablesofresistance this weekend in Berlin!

Hosted a zine making workshop inspired by @papertrail’s ongoing Cloud Factories research into landscapes designated as hyperscaler sites, bumped into long-time fellow lurkers (👋 @Seda ) and caught up with plenty of new and old friends.

I'm surprised not to see technical solutions be centered at the anti-techsolutionist conference. #cablesofresistance

Due to the unexpected international attention to the #cablesofresistance conference @alineblankertz and I will give our talk about socialisation of digital platforms in English.

We will talk about why (European) alternatives, open source and regulation are not enough to address Big Tech and why we think that socialisation is a central pillar for transformative movements and how that could practically better the lives of people.

https://programm.infraunited.org/cableresist26/talk/37MJS8/

Cables Of Hope - socialising digital platforms instead of reforming the status quo Cables of Resistance - movement conference against Big Tech

Digital platforms are the powerful manifestation of capitalist digitisation. They manage and commercialise every aspect of our lives, whilst evading democratic control. This talk aims to make the socialisation of these platforms a central component of a transformative movement connecting people's needs and digital tools.

#CablesOfResistance ist für mich das, was der #Aktivcongress immer sein wollte: eine aktivierende, strömungsübergreifende Konferenz für diverse Menschen, die etwas für den Erhalt der Demokratie tun wollen angesichts der neofeudalen Angriffe der Techbro-Milliardäre.

Was ich auch sehr schätze, ist der solidarische Umgang miteinander und die Abwesenheit von Gurus. Ich bin sehr froh, an diesem Wochenende hier in Berlin zu sein.

#cableresist #cableresist26 #aktivcongrez #aktivkongress #gafam #bigfive #FAAMG #bigtech #bitsundbäume

RE: https://mastodon.social/@JulianOliver/116379909931495767

Pushback against “#AI” is growing, alongside practical strategies for resistance.

Similar ideas can be found in the “Sabot in the Age of AI” list by @asrg: https://algorithmic-sabotage.gitlab.io/asrg/sabot-in-the-age-of-ai/

J'ai bricolé un truc !

#linogravure #linocut #fuckAI

Darren Blanchard went a few seconds over his three minute time limit and found himself in handcuffs.

https://www.404media.co/farmer-arrested-for-speaking-too-long-at-datacenter-town-hall-vows-to-fight/

Farmer Arrested for Speaking Too Long at Datacenter Town Hall Vows to Fight

Darren Blanchard went a few seconds over his three minute time limit and found himself in handcuffs.

404 Media
“why won’t the AI haters admit claude mythos is good?” when it turns out the exploits it found are utterly overblown (ie the firefox exploit that only works on a custom build with the sandbox disabled amongst many other non-exploitable bugs), were found at extreme expense, and required a ton of human staff to verify (just like with existing non-LLM techniques), why won’t you admit this is a grift? why won’t you admit you’ve been falling for the same grift since 2019?

Almost a year ago, I was described in the FT as "a Cassandra with a wry grin and twinkling eye", and was entertained because Cassandra (famously) was right.

It's actually not fun, though, to watch the world do things you've been warning against:

https://www.newstatesman.com/technology/2026/04/the-silent-coup

The silent coup

On 20 April 2025, an official in the British government emailed their colleagues a story from that day’s Financial Times. The headline read: “UAE set to use AI to write laws in world first”. The offic

New Statesman

OK here goes. You get the first look at this madness.

https://scienceispoetry.net/noodles

Go easy on it. I did my best to thread & rate limit while LLM bots this very moment are lost deep inside. They never stop. It's a siege.

Link it in your sites and AI crawlers will get caught when they hit it, veering off into the maze of babble.

Going to come out & say I channeled my inner GeoCities 180% in a nostalgic grief walk back to a happier & weedier www, so that parts for us that still remember

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