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.
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.
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/
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/
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
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
Livio Liechti
Tara Tarakiyee
Malte Engeler
Christian Peach
Kurtis Clark
Luna
404 Media
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Prof. Emily M. Bender(she/her)
Julian Oliver