Make yourself a stat that counts towards the bursting of the genAI bubble (while also protecting your cognitive capacities and pragmatic sensibilities):
#refuseresist
#refuseresist
How to remove AI from your life - Which?
AI is becoming increasingly tricky to avoid, but you may not want or use the features it offers. Find out how to switch off or limit AI on Android, Apple devices, and Windows computers
www.which.co.uk
October 10, 2026 at 3:22 PM
Make yourself a stat that counts towards the bursting of the genAI bubble (while also protecting your cognitive capacities and pragmatic sensibilities):
#refuseresist
#refuseresist
Another study finding cognitive decline. The evidence is slowly mounting. And this is not the only reason to #RefuseResist
This is one study, and so its results are to be taken with caution. But at the very least it underlines the negative cognitive potential we're dealing with. And so, until much more is known, even if only pragmatically speaking we should #refuseresist
October 10, 2026 at 9:12 AM
Another study finding cognitive decline. The evidence is slowly mounting. And this is not the only reason to #RefuseResist
This is one study, and so its results are to be taken with caution. But at the very least it underlines the negative cognitive potential we're dealing with. And so, until much more is known, even if only pragmatically speaking we should #refuseresist
October 10, 2026 at 8:13 AM
This is one study, and so its results are to be taken with caution. But at the very least it underlines the negative cognitive potential we're dealing with. And so, until much more is known, even if only pragmatically speaking we should #refuseresist
This absolutely stinks. "AI" is being put to increasingly stupid uses, where stupidity is defined as that which characterizes actions that are bad for human well-being (including cognitive) and/or the human ecosystem (planet earth qua habitat).
#refuseresist
#refuseresist
The tokenization of academic labour with AI is accelerating. Will we end up thinking of our papers and publications in terms of how many tokens they contribute to science? HT Sunil Manghani who has a fantastic post on this over on linkedin lnkd.in/p/ecU9Zi6S
October 9, 2026 at 1:51 PM
This absolutely stinks. "AI" is being put to increasingly stupid uses, where stupidity is defined as that which characterizes actions that are bad for human well-being (including cognitive) and/or the human ecosystem (planet earth qua habitat).
#refuseresist
#refuseresist
Capitalism long ago produced the capacity for not only absorbing criticism but transforming it into a self-propagating aspect of itself. genAI does this with ease. I rec'ed AI-critical doc Ghost in the Machine yday, but the fact it too used AIslop in guise of critique was also unwise
#refuseresist
#refuseresist
I asked ChatGPT to create a cover for a course catalogue of a "university for people who have given up thinking due to AI over-reliance". To be fair, this is a pretty good take -- and more subtle than I expected... #aislop #criticalthinking #deskillling #chatGPT #philsky
October 8, 2026 at 10:34 AM
Capitalism long ago produced the capacity for not only absorbing criticism but transforming it into a self-propagating aspect of itself. genAI does this with ease. I rec'ed AI-critical doc Ghost in the Machine yday, but the fact it too used AIslop in guise of critique was also unwise
#refuseresist
#refuseresist
"Slop-as-evidence" rears its head again. The only societally and individually intelligent act to be carried out regarding the entire range of publicly available genAIs is to unplug them.
#refuseresist #AIslop
#refuseresist #AIslop
Well done Jennifer Whitmore!
Oireachtas Committee testimony created solely from AI should most definitely not be accepted as expert opinion.
📽️@jen_whitmore_td & @social-democrats.bsky.social on insta:
www.instagram.com/reel/DeCetuV...
#IrishPol
Oireachtas Committee testimony created solely from AI should most definitely not be accepted as expert opinion.
📽️@jen_whitmore_td & @social-democrats.bsky.social on insta:
www.instagram.com/reel/DeCetuV...
#IrishPol
October 4, 2026 at 1:51 PM
"Slop-as-evidence" rears its head again. The only societally and individually intelligent act to be carried out regarding the entire range of publicly available genAIs is to unplug them.
#refuseresist #AIslop
#refuseresist #AIslop
Support local designers... or open photoshop or illustrator (or, better still, GIMP or other open source ware) and use your own imagination to put together your own design!
#AIslop #refuseresist
IMG credit: Evan Bork @ Dank Digital
#AIslop #refuseresist
IMG credit: Evan Bork @ Dank Digital
September 25, 2026 at 9:25 AM
Support local designers... or open photoshop or illustrator (or, better still, GIMP or other open source ware) and use your own imagination to put together your own design!
#AIslop #refuseresist
IMG credit: Evan Bork @ Dank Digital
#AIslop #refuseresist
IMG credit: Evan Bork @ Dank Digital
September 24, 2026 at 9:42 AM
"LLMs are a product that destroys its supply chain."
It is a cash- and power-grab by the AI firms, since the logical consequence of its functioning is a "doom loop" that will pollute the internet and information network to a level that risks making it, on balance, worse than useless.
#refuseresist
It is a cash- and power-grab by the AI firms, since the logical consequence of its functioning is a "doom loop" that will pollute the internet and information network to a level that risks making it, on balance, worse than useless.
#refuseresist
two different paragraphs, two different sections but encourage you to click and read the unsealed (pink) of both of them together. And stop and think about the impact and harm to news media and civil society. /8
September 18, 2026 at 7:21 AM
"LLMs are a product that destroys its supply chain."
It is a cash- and power-grab by the AI firms, since the logical consequence of its functioning is a "doom loop" that will pollute the internet and information network to a level that risks making it, on balance, worse than useless.
#refuseresist
It is a cash- and power-grab by the AI firms, since the logical consequence of its functioning is a "doom loop" that will pollute the internet and information network to a level that risks making it, on balance, worse than useless.
#refuseresist
“We relied too much on AI rather than our own [deteriorating by the very fact of relying on AI] critical thinking”
#refuseresist
#refuseresist
September 2, 2026 at 8:22 AM
“We relied too much on AI rather than our own [deteriorating by the very fact of relying on AI] critical thinking”
#refuseresist
#refuseresist
"If the human brain were so intelligent that we could use genAI responsibly, we would be so intelligent that we could never have unleashed it upon ourselves in the first place."
Me
#refuseresist
Me
#refuseresist
"If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t."
Emerson M. Pugh
Emerson M. Pugh
September 1, 2026 at 9:55 PM
"If the human brain were so intelligent that we could use genAI responsibly, we would be so intelligent that we could never have unleashed it upon ourselves in the first place."
Me
#refuseresist
Me
#refuseresist
"What does this tell us about the future of writing."
That it will be a dispute between those who care about universally enriching human experience and those who don't. Much like every period of history. Choose your side!
#refuseresist #aislop
That it will be a dispute between those who care about universally enriching human experience and those who don't. Much like every period of history. Choose your side!
#refuseresist #aislop
Can AI manufacture books that are good enough that some readers will welcome them and not care that they emerged from a data center?
I asked AI to write a novel. It’s not so bad.
What does this tell us about the future of writing?
www.motherjones.com
August 12, 2026 at 8:54 PM
"What does this tell us about the future of writing."
That it will be a dispute between those who care about universally enriching human experience and those who don't. Much like every period of history. Choose your side!
#refuseresist #aislop
That it will be a dispute between those who care about universally enriching human experience and those who don't. Much like every period of history. Choose your side!
#refuseresist #aislop
"So I just make my own curriculum, and sometimes I'll just use, like, ChatGPT."
Homeschool Parents Are Planning Lessons With ChatGPT, Which Will Churn Out Anti-Evolution Curriculums With No Pushback
Homeschooling was already a fraught practice, even before parents began turning to ChatGPT to plan out their lessons.
trib.al
August 11, 2026 at 2:08 PM
A U.S. government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
July 30, 2026 at 5:00 PM
None of these actions were or are "inevitable." By continuing to refuse, in every way possible, to adopt genAI tech, what we make more inevitable is the bursting of the bubble and pulling of the plug on what will thereby become an ever more wasteful enterprise.
#refuseresist #pulltheplug
#refuseresist #pulltheplug
No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions.
Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
AI labs buy, scan, shred millions of rare books
If you have retreated to physical books because the internet is too full of AI slop, bad news — now they’re shredding the books to feed their AI slop machines.
www.news.com.au
July 30, 2026 at 8:51 AM
None of these actions were or are "inevitable." By continuing to refuse, in every way possible, to adopt genAI tech, what we make more inevitable is the bursting of the bubble and pulling of the plug on what will thereby become an ever more wasteful enterprise.
#refuseresist #pulltheplug
#refuseresist #pulltheplug
If Thekla has no fans, myself, RefuseResist, Brother Dave Jones and Andy are all dead. #AEWDynamite
July 23, 2026 at 4:48 AM
If Thekla has no fans, myself, RefuseResist, Brother Dave Jones and Andy are all dead. #AEWDynamite
“We cannot afford to have a society in which a significant fraction of our best young minds think that cheating is OK [...] That leads to a declining society, to a failed society … We cannot choose to become idiots.”
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
#refuseresist #pulltheplug #AImindslopping
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
#refuseresist #pulltheplug #AImindslopping
![Screenshot of data graph from article. Text heading:
"ECON 1170 Midterm & Final Scores
After Serrano made the final in-person, 18 students dropped the class and nine students did not take the exam. The scores of the remaining 59 students are displayed here.
Midterm Score [vs] Final Exam Score"
Graph shows massive disparity between midterm scores (based on work done at home), the average of which is 96, and subsequent in-class final exam scores, the mean of which is 48.6.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:wwf3cqh3bolnpooqayufkmlh/bafkreih6kgsdgjxs52zyi3lbvhnrplvjhbxkcyonxhlj4xvxzl3ioljt7q)
July 8, 2026 at 1:18 PM
“We cannot afford to have a society in which a significant fraction of our best young minds think that cheating is OK [...] That leads to a declining society, to a failed society … We cannot choose to become idiots.”
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
#refuseresist #pulltheplug #AImindslopping
www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...
#refuseresist #pulltheplug #AImindslopping
The only upside, for a crusty old metaller like me, to the endless stream of knowledge undermining, artistic beauty perverting, privacy violating, humanity mocking examples of genAI usage is that I regularly have Death's stomping tune Pull the Plug running round my head.
#AIslop #refuseresist
#AIslop #refuseresist
July 4, 2026 at 12:42 PM
The only upside, for a crusty old metaller like me, to the endless stream of knowledge undermining, artistic beauty perverting, privacy violating, humanity mocking examples of genAI usage is that I regularly have Death's stomping tune Pull the Plug running round my head.
#AIslop #refuseresist
#AIslop #refuseresist
The wife of a Methodist pastor stood up and suggested people brush up on the OSS sabotage manual
![Jill Warren, the wife of a Methodist pastor, suggested residents brush up on the OSS’ Simple Sabotage Field Manual. “Simply slow things down bureaucratically," she said. “Make sure we block where we can. Use very slow agendas and response times and do, within your power, the work that you are entitled to do. For those who aren’t familiar with it, please look up the Simple Sabotage Field Manual and use it in your own lives of action as well [...] they may not care about us, but we care about us and we’re here and we’ll continue to be here and support the work that you’re doing on our behalf.”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:3azj6pjvrivovesty32zkkpq/bafkreigt7kkyfsvypeggnfmzx3vevecfsgll2fz3ta25t6n4t5woadfryq)
June 22, 2026 at 3:51 PM
June 20, 2026 at 8:45 AM
The Thomas House in Dublin announcing they will no longer accept AI generated posters or flyers. The Thomas House is beside, as they say here, Ireland's biggest Art College, namely NCAD.
This is the way... to keep humans creative.
#AIslop #refuseresist
This is the way... to keep humans creative.
#AIslop #refuseresist
June 19, 2026 at 1:49 PM
The Thomas House in Dublin announcing they will no longer accept AI generated posters or flyers. The Thomas House is beside, as they say here, Ireland's biggest Art College, namely NCAD.
This is the way... to keep humans creative.
#AIslop #refuseresist
This is the way... to keep humans creative.
#AIslop #refuseresist
👆 The Hitler-praising "final solution" video Sutcliffe posted the other day? Also a mixture of “AI slop and the most vile, antisemitic language” (Irish Times Security Correspondent Conor Lally). Let them have it.
#refuseresist
#refuseresist
Sutcliffe said he posted the video by accident.
He offered a similar excuse last year after posting a picture of a ballot paper defaced with hate speech.
Today he declined to comment further, saying he had to "go train Conor McGregor" for his next fight"
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...
He offered a similar excuse last year after posting a picture of a ballot paper defaced with hate speech.
Today he declined to comment further, saying he had to "go train Conor McGregor" for his next fight"
www.irishtimes.com/ireland/dubl...
Dublin city councillor posts anti-Semitic video calling for a ‘real final solution’
Philip Sutcliffe says he ‘probably shared something I shouldn’t have’ after being questioned on video featuring Hitler
www.irishtimes.com
May 20, 2026 at 9:32 AM
👆 The Hitler-praising "final solution" video Sutcliffe posted the other day? Also a mixture of “AI slop and the most vile, antisemitic language” (Irish Times Security Correspondent Conor Lally). Let them have it.
#refuseresist
#refuseresist
Tommy Robinson played the video by this AI-generated rapper at the Unite the Kingdom rally last week
For fascism, genAI is the perfect tool precisely because it is inherently deceptive. The genAI aesthetic is now seemingly ubiquitous in far right online spaces. And now irl spaces too
#refuseresist
For fascism, genAI is the perfect tool precisely because it is inherently deceptive. The genAI aesthetic is now seemingly ubiquitous in far right online spaces. And now irl spaces too
#refuseresist
AI rapper Danny Bones spreads right-wing agenda ahead of UK election
AI-generated rapper Danny Bones is part of a broader trend of synthesized political music, which often peaks in popularity around election time in European countries.
cybernews.com
May 19, 2026 at 11:18 PM
Tommy Robinson played the video by this AI-generated rapper at the Unite the Kingdom rally last week
For fascism, genAI is the perfect tool precisely because it is inherently deceptive. The genAI aesthetic is now seemingly ubiquitous in far right online spaces. And now irl spaces too
#refuseresist
For fascism, genAI is the perfect tool precisely because it is inherently deceptive. The genAI aesthetic is now seemingly ubiquitous in far right online spaces. And now irl spaces too
#refuseresist
Racists are running this country at all levels. Complicit men and women in the “opposition party” are allowing this to happen. The American system is irreparably broken and evil.
#BlackLivesMatter #RefuseResist
#BlackLivesMatter #RefuseResist
May 9, 2026 at 1:35 PM
Racists are running this country at all levels. Complicit men and women in the “opposition party” are allowing this to happen. The American system is irreparably broken and evil.
#BlackLivesMatter #RefuseResist
#BlackLivesMatter #RefuseResist