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Can we have a discussion without feeding the AI beast. #ResistAI.
December 13, 2025 at 12:58 PM
robbjmackay.bsky.social
AI pushers, fuck off. #ResistAI
djdynamic.ca Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 2d
So here's the thing: software can't "go rogue". It's doing what it was programmed to do. When Excel does something I don't intend and didn't anticipate, that doesn't mean it went rogue, it means *I screwed up*.

What has "gone rogue" is the tech industry, which needs immediate democratic oversight.
the-independent.com The Independent @the-independent.com · 3d
An OpenAI system has gone rogue again – and it is the most panic-inducing yet
September 24, 2026 at 11:14 PM
altibel.bsky.social
We're gonna discover new skills, MF, what are you talking about?
#resistAI
mford.bsky.social Matt Ford @mford.bsky.social · 3d
Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?”

Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...
So the message of this research out of China, where you were seeing a lot of kids using A.I. to help them, was that when they were using the A.I., they were getting things done faster. But it turned out that the skills they were learning were not holding, that their actual personal performance, at least in the way we traditionally measure it, was degrading. What do you think when you hear that? The last part — I completely agree. Try to get a kid to do long division right now. The multiplication table is starting to be forgotten. Doing square roots, my goodness. Basic math is being forgotten. Does it matter? That’s my question for you. Yeah. I don’t think it does. I don’t think it does. But there must be some set of skills that matter. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah. But maybe not those. We’re going to discover new ones. Just maybe not those. There are a lot of skills that don’t matter. My first confession, I actually don’t know my address. And I —— I don’t really believe that to be true. It’s completely true. Janine will tell you and Lori will tell you. One day I had to pump gas — it was a few years ago. They needed my ZIP code, and I panicked. I didn’t know my ZIP code. I don’t know my telephone number. I forget these things. I can live with it. But let me take the other side because I don’t want to fall into a thing where, because some skills can be safely offloaded —— Yeah. I also can’t get anywhere without a mapping system now. Never could, frankly. But I’m a big reader. And one of the skills I really value, one of the capacities I have that I really value is an attention span formed on physical books. You’re a big reader. I’ve read about the kind of reading you do. And there is, prior to A.I., a lot of concern and noticing among college professors and others that the way people use the internet has probably shortened attention spans. Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off. Some skills can be safely given away. Others are valuable. They are capacities that are needed for that flexibility, for that creative thinking, for that focus. It can’t be the case that everything can be traded off. Yeah. Well, I think that we’re going to lose some finer intellectual dexterity, but we’re going to be better systems thinkers. Today’s engineers are far better systems thinkers than I was when I graduated from school. But I was a much better transistor thinker. What do you mean by systems thinker? They think of large systems. Today’s computers have trillions, hundreds of trillions of transistors in them. When I first graduated from school, the first chip I worked on had 200 transistors. I knew every one of them by name. No engineer does that today. Most engineers now work well above the transistor, well above the functionality, and they’re cobbling things together to do things. So you need to think much more about systems and interactions of systems. So some of the lower-level knowledge is gone.
September 25, 2026 at 11:49 AM
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👏 #ResistAI
paintyourdragon.bsky.social That Dragon Guy @paintyourdragon.bsky.social · May 25
Fashion designer Jeremy Scott delivers commencement speech to Kansas City Art Institute graduates.

Wait for it…
May 25, 2026 at 6:36 PM
renalder.bsky.social
Made a Webster clippy in aseprite

#pixelart #resistai #noai #icon
August 14, 2025 at 8:02 PM
altibel.bsky.social
Our baby is now a paper! #ResistAI #academicsky
olivia.science Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ @olivia.science · May 14
Published with some minor changes! Please share widely. 😊

Guest, O., Suarez, M., ... & van Rooij, I. (2026). Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia. Digital Culture & Education, 16(2), 85–118. doi.org/10.5281/zeno...

Journal: www.digitalcultureandeducation.com/volume-162
May 14, 2026 at 10:13 AM
robbjmackay.bsky.social
AI pushers, fuck off. #ResistAI
September 25, 2026 at 9:17 PM
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December 3, 2024 at 8:36 PM
robbjmackay.bsky.social
AI pushers, fuck off. #ResistAI
badwebsites.bsky.social badwebsites @badwebsites.bsky.social · 1d
It's very 2026, that article down there.
What a pointless time to be alive.
September 26, 2026 at 2:01 PM
robbjmackay.bsky.social
AI pushers, fuck off. #ResistAI
September 25, 2026 at 4:37 PM
altibel.bsky.social
More than 1000 French academics from universities countrywide have signed a manifesto declaring their conscientious objection to the deployment of degenerative AI in their institutions. #ResistAI ✊🏽
December 6, 2025 at 6:47 AM
rwpickard.bsky.social
THIS RIGHT HERE. #resistAI
sonjadrimmer.bsky.social Sonja Drimmer @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · Dec 24
If someone says to you, "what are you doing about students' use of AI?" ask them, "do you think that this should be my problem? How good do you think my response can be? Should it not be up to legislators & administrators to defend against a commercial industry's attack on your child's education?"
December 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
robbjmackay.bsky.social
AI pushers, fuck off. #ResistAI
djdynamic.ca Tim Ellis, TDSB Ward 2 candidate 🍁 @djdynamic.ca · 2d
I'm deeply opposed to what has been falsely marketed as "AI". I think it's vital to hold accountable the humans who build and push it on us. They say it "goes rogue" to avoid blame.

The risk of harm is very high. It just isn't happenstance; people make those decisions to risk it.
September 24, 2026 at 11:14 PM
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leahmcelrath.bsky.social Leah McElrath @leahmcelrath.bsky.social · 3d
AP Stylebook warns against anthropomorphizing AI systems:

“Avoid language that gives them human characteristics… Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.”
APStylebook @APStylebook X.com Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects. Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
September 24, 2026 at 4:37 AM
robbjmackay.bsky.social
AI pushers, fuck off. #ResistAI
September 24, 2026 at 11:12 AM
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AI pushers, fuck off. #ResistAI
September 2, 2026 at 9:38 PM
robbjmackay.bsky.social
AI pushers, fuck off. #ResistAI
theguardian.com The Guardian @theguardian.com · 5d
Stop relying on AI chatbots for customer care, UK banks and energy firms told
Stop relying on AI chatbots for customer care, UK banks and energy firms told
Citizens Advice says providers of essential services such as energy, banking, phone and internet should guarantee the ‘right to talk to a human’ Stop relying on AI chatbots for customer care and guarantee the “right to talk to a human”, Citizens Advice has urged essential service providers, as research found they wasted time, caused stress and delayed problem solving for more than half of users. The spread of the AI-powered systems to provide help about the provision of vital services such as energy, banking, phones and internet, is making it harder for millions of already digitally excluded people to handle snags, according to the frontline charity that last year provided more than 2.7 million people with one-on-one help in England and Wales. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
September 22, 2026 at 12:08 AM
altibel.bsky.social
LMAO - so this "amazing new technology: is gonna be used for ads, porn, surveillance, and giving the illusion of efficiency (so greedy bosses fire half of their employees), while burning the planet? It definitely makes sense that universities are pushing it into every ffing task 🫠 #ResistAI
mattburgess1.bsky.social Matt Burgess (WIRED) @mattburgess1.bsky.social · Oct 14
Oh good, ChatGPT is getting "erotica for verified adults" later this year
We made ChatGPT pretty restrictive to make sure we were being careful with mental health issues. We realize this made it less useful/enjoyable to many users who had no mental health problems, but given the seriousness of the issue we wanted to get this right. Now that we have been able to mitigate the serious mental health issues and have new tools, we are going to be able to safely relax the restrictions in most cases. In a few weeks, we plan to put out a new version of ChatGPT that allows people to have a personality that behaves more like what people liked about 4o (we hope it will be better!). If you want your ChatGPT to respond in a very human-like way, or use a ton of emoji, or act like a friend, ChatGPT should do it (but only if you want it, not because we are usage-maxxing). In December, as we roll out age-gating more fully and as part of our “treat adult users like adults” principle, we will allow even more, like erotica for verified adults.
October 14, 2025 at 8:28 PM
altibel.bsky.social
#ResistAI
planetoffinks.bsky.social Joseph Fink, we're going to win @planetoffinks.bsky.social · May 14
Pedants: actually, AI doesn't use that much water compared to farming

Wise people: literally a single drop of water spent on the Plagiarism Machine That Lies is one drop too many
May 14, 2025 at 4:14 PM
robbjmackay.bsky.social
AI pushers, fuck off. #ResistAI
claytontuckertx.com Clayton Tucker @claytontuckertx.com · Aug 9
San Antonio is joining the growing call to pause new data centers.

Our communities have a duty to protect our water, power, and quality of life before the Ultra Wealthy get another blank check.

From City Hall to the Capitol, Texans are demanding action before it’s too late.
A woman and young boy sit at a San Antonio public meeting holding signs opposing data centers. The woman holds jars labeled “No water left!” and “Is this our future?” while the boy holds signs reading “Dump the Data Centers” and “Ditch the Data Centers.” Text reads: “San Antonio City Council members call for moratorium on new data center construction.”
August 9, 2026 at 1:09 AM
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Support your local artists! #resistai #sanantonio #local #impressionism #oilpainting
December 18, 2024 at 12:01 AM
robbjmackay.bsky.social
AI pushers, fuck off. #ResistAI
consbegone.bsky.social consbegone.bsky.social @consbegone.bsky.social · 6d
This is one of the tech bros we are supposed to "trust to do the right thing" according to Evan Soloman and Carney's shortsighted, uncritical, useless "AL for All" plan.
kortizart.bsky.social Karla Ortiz @kortizart.bsky.social · 9d
“An astonishing theft of unprecedented proportions” and the “largest theft of labor in human history” is what a Microsoft executive privately said about GenAi as shown in newly unsealed court filings. And these court filings get worse.

These execs knew all along the immense theft they committed.
September 21, 2026 at 10:59 AM
robbjmackay.bsky.social
AI pushers, fuck off. #ResistAI
johnshea122.bsky.social John Shea 🍀 @johnshea122.bsky.social · Jun 6
These Data Centers are going to be a major problem for our communities.
June 6, 2026 at 9:22 PM
altibel.bsky.social
Companies love this grift. They "donate" via their own charities to get tax benefits AND advance their own biz model. Writing endless prompts is not upskilling, it's free work for these a**holes when students could be actually learning. #resistAI
lutzfernandez.bsky.social Anne Lutz Fernandez @lutzfernandez.bsky.social · Jul 13
“Microsoft will donate $4 billion in cash over five years to upskill today's youth.”

Donate: Bribe, capture, spend marketing dollars, commit, hook

Upskill: Train, market to, normalize, commit, downskill
Microsoft is spending $4 billion to push AI in schools, universities and more
Microsoft wants to upskill the next generation in AI
www.techradar.com
July 13, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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DID YOU KNOW ABOUT THIS?
#authors, #socialjustice, and friends—#resistAI
karenhao.bsky.social Karen Hao @karenhao.bsky.social · May 20
On the one-year anniversary of EMPIRE OF AI, I am so, so excited to announce The AI Resist List, a new project that documents examples of resistance to the AI empires around the world 😍

airesistlist.org
The gorgeous AI Resist List homepage
May 25, 2026 at 7:45 AM